Quotes
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"I said I'd feed you. I didn't say who to." ~ Dr. Simeon
The 11th Doctor: Maybe it's snow that fell before. Maybe it remembers how to make snowmen.
Clara: What, snow that can remember? That's silly.
The 11th Doctor: What's wrong with silly?
Clara: Nothing. Still talking to you, ain't I?
"I think winter is coming. Such a winter as this world has never known. The last winter of humankind." ~ Dr. Simeon
The 11th Doctor: This snow is new. Possibly alien. When you find something brand new in the world, something you've never seen before, what's the next thing you look for?
Strax: A grenade.
"Thank you, Strax. And if ever I'm in need of advice from a psychotic potato dwarf, you'll certainly be the first to know." ~ The Eleventh Doctor
The 11th Doctor: Sontaran. Clone warrior race. Factory produced, whole legions at a time. Two genders is a bit further than he can count.
Strax: Sir, do not discuss my reproductive cycle in front of enemy girls. It's embarrassing.
"The Doctor is not kind. The Doctor doesn't help people. Not anyone, not ever. He stands above this world and doesn't interfere in the affairs of its inhabitants. He is not your salvation, nor your protector. Do you understand what I am saying to you? He was different once, a long time ago. Kind, yes. A hero, even. A saver of worlds. But he suffered losses which hurt him. Now he prefers isolation to the possibility of pain's return." ~ Vastra
Great Intelligence: We are the Intelligence.
The 11th Doctor: Ooo. Talking snow. I love new things.
Great Intelligence: You are not of this world.
The 11th Doctor: Takes one to snow one.
Strax: Madame Vastra wondered if you were needing any grenades?
The 11th Doctor: Grenades?
Strax: She might have said help.
The 11th Doctor: Don't be clever, Strax. It doesn't suit you.
Strax: Sorry, sir.
The 11th Doctor: I'm the clever one, you're the potato one.
Strax: Yes, sir.
Strax: Sir, one pulver grenade would blow these snowmen to smithereens.
The 11th Doctor: They're made of snow, Strax. They're already smithereens.
"That's the way to do it!" ~ Ice Governess
Clara: After you, I'm wearing a dress. Eyes front, soldier!
The 11th Doctor: My eyes are always front!
Clara: Mine aren't.
The 11th Doctor: So. Barmaid or governess, which is it?
Clara: That thing is after us, and you want a chat?
The 11th Doctor: Well, we can't chat after we've been horribly killed, can we?
Clara: How did we get up so high so quick?
The 11th Doctor: Clever staircase. It's taller on the inside.
Clara: Blimey, you really know how to sulk, don't you?
The 11th Doctor: I'm not sulking.
Clara: You live in a box!
Jenny: Well, we can't be in much danger from a disembodied Intelligence that thinks it can invade the world with snowmen.
Vastra: Or that the London Underground is a key strategic weakness.
The 11th Doctor: The Great Intelligence. Rings a bell.
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Trivia
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The episode features a first-ever special effect for the series: a single camera shot following a character from the outside of the TARDIS, through the doors, and into the console room. A similar shot had been accomplished for the 1993 documentary Thirty Years in the TARDIS and the fan production Devious, but this was the first time it had been done in the series proper, according to the behind-the-scenes featurette uploaded to the BBC's Doctor Who website after broadcast.
In an interview published in DWM 455, published before the broadcast, actor Dan Starkey revealed that a scene was filmed showing what happened to Vastra, Jenny and Strax two days after the events of A Good Man Goes to War. Starkey says he wasn't sure if it was "a preview online, a DVD extra or what." (Ultimately, this ended up being the prequel, The Battle of Demons Run: Two Days Later.) The same article recalls that in DWM 438, an e-mail by Starkey was printed in which be accurately predicted the story line that would see Strax living in London in the 19th century as Vastra's butler.
The Doctor shows the Great Intelligence a lunchbox with a map of the London Underground, circa 1967. In The Web of Fear, which was filmed in 1967 and 1968, The Great Intelligence lures the Doctor to a trap in the London Underground.
The Doctor is shown living in 1890s London, which would place him in violation of the banishment handed down by Queen Victoria in Tooth and Claw.
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