Quotes
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"No, Amy, it's definitely not the fifth moon of Cindie Colesta. I think I can see a Ryman's." ~ The Elevent Doctor"Yes, quite right. Have some rent. That's probably quite a lot, isn't it? Looks like a lot. Is it a lot? I can never tell." ~ The Elevent Doctor
Craig: Has anyone ever told you that you're a bit weird?
The 11th Doctor: They never really stop.
The 11th Doctor: Now all I've got to do is pass as an ordinary human being. Simple. What could possibly go wrong?
Amy: Have you seen you?
The 11th Doctor: So you're just going to be snide. No helpful hints?
Amy: Hmm. Well, here's one. Bow tie, get rid.
"Annihilate? No, no violence. Do you understand me? Not while I'm around. Not today. Not ever. I'm the Doctor, the Oncoming Storm and you meant beat them in football match, didn't you?" ~ The Eleventh Doctor
"Well, perhaps that's you, then. Perhaps you'll just have to stay here, secure and a little bit miserable, till the day you drop. Better than trying and failing, eh?" ~ The Eleventh Doctor
"It's a big old world, Sophie. Work out what's really keeping you here, eh?" ~ The Eleventh Doctor
"That's a scanner. You used non-technological technology of Lammasteen!" ~ Craig
"No, I've got the plans. You cannot be upstairs, it's a one-storey building. There is no upstairs." ~ Amy
"No, I'm way too much for this ship. My hand touches that panel, the planet doesn't blow up, the whole solar system does. Worst choice ever, I promise you. Stop this." ~ The Eleventh Doctor
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Trivia
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This is the first time in the new series that the Doctor has definitively stated how many incarnations he has had — he tells Craig he is the eleventh.
The Doctor wears a football kit, playing for Craig's pub team, the King's Arms. He wears a jersey with 11 on it when playing a football match, both referencing him being the Eleventh Doctor and this being the eleventh episode of Series 5.
Matt Smith wanted to play football professionally having played for the youth teams of Northampton Town F.C., Nottingham Forest F.C. and Leicester City F.C. A serious back injury forced a career change after his drama teacher signed him up to play the 10th Juror in an adaptation of 12 Angry Men. Although he took part in the play, he declined going to a drama festival that his teacher had signed him up for. His drama teacher persisted, and eventually persuaded him to join the National Youth Theatre in London.
The 2010 FIFA World Cup England vs USA match kicked off just as The Lodger finished, on a rival channel (ITV), the timing noted by writer Roberts as a "happy accident"
The Lodger is also a comic strip story by Gareth Roberts. Roberts has confirmed this story is an adaptation of the basic premise of the other. However he has stated that they differ quite a lot in that the comic was written for different characters (the Tenth Doctor and Mickey Smith) and focused on the "domestic set-up" while the TV story involves "something at the top of the stairs". This isn't the first adaption on the TV series, PROSE: Human Nature being an earlier example.
The Doctor wears only a blue bath towel for one scene. Matt Smith appears similarly in the show Secret Diary of a Call Girl as one of Billie Piper's clients. An online stir was caused when many viewers claimed that Smith briefly 'flashed' the camera when his towel fell. However the BBC and Smith have denied he was completely naked for that scene.
In interviews given in April 2011, writer Neil Gaiman revealed that his Doctor Who script (The Doctor's Wife) was originally intended to be the 11th episode of this series. When this proved to be not possible (for technical and budgetary reasons) the Neil Gaiman story was pushed back to Series 6 Episode 4, and The Lodger was commissioned instead.
It was rumored that this episode will be the one that features the Blue Peter Competition TARDIS console. That would have been the case had The Doctor's Wife aired in this slot, like originally planned.
The Doctor's bow tie is blue for this episode, despite the 2010 setting. The Doctor wears a red tie in episodes of Series 5 grounded in the present and future (TV: The Eleventh Hour, The Beast Below, The Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone, The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood, The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang), but he wears a blue tie in those set in the past (Victory of the Daleks, The Vampires of Venice, Vincent and the Doctor). The only other exception in Series 5 is the episode Amy's Choice, where the Doctor wears a blue tie in the Upper Leadworth dream but a red tie in both the cold TARDIS dream and the epilogue concluding the two dream narratives.
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Trailer
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