Quotes
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"Go to your room! Go to your room! I mean it. I'm very very angry with you. I'm very very cross! Go to your room! I'm really glad that worked. Those would have been terrible last words." ~ The Ninth Doctor"The London Blitz is great for self-cleaners. Pompeii's nice if you want to make a vacation of it though. But you gotta set your alarm for Volcano Day." ~ Captain Jack Harkness
"I'll tell you what's happening. You forgot to set your alarm clock. It's Volcano Day." ~ The Ninth Doctor
Mr. Lloyd: The police are on their way. I pay for the food on this table. The sweat on my brow, that food is. The sweat on my brow. Anything else you'd like? I've got a whole house here. Anything else you'd like to help yourself to?
Nancy: Yeah. I'd like some wire cutters, please. Something that can cut through barbed wire. Oh and a torch. Don't look like that, Mr. Lloyd. I know you got plenty of tools in here. I been watching this house for ages. And I'd like another look 'round your kitchen cupboards. I was in an 'urry the first time. I want to see if there's anything I missed.
Mr. Lloyd: The food on this table—
Nancy: Is an awful lot of food, isn't it, Mr. Lloyd? A lot more than on anyone else's table. Half this street thinks your missus must be messing about with Mr. Haverstock, the butcher. But she's not, is she? You are. Wire cutters. Torch. Food. And I'd like to use the bathroom before I leave, please. Oh look. There's the sweat on your brow.
"It's afraid. Terribly afraid and powerful. It doesn't know it yet, but it will do. It's got the power of a god and I just sent it to its room." ~ The Ninth Doctor
"When he's stressed he likes to insult species. Cuts himself shaving, does half an hour on life forms he's cleverer than." ~ Rose Tyler
Captain Jack: "Who looks at a screwdriver and thinks 'Oooh, this could be a little more sonic'?"
The Doctor: "What? you never been bored? Never had a long night? Never had a lot of cabinets to put up?"
"Relax, he's a 51st Century guy. He's just a bit more flexible when it comes to dancing. Well, by his time, you lot of spread out through half the galaxy. So many species, so little time." ~ The Ninth Doctor
"Okay, so he's vanished into thin air. Why is it always the great looking ones who do that?" ~ The Ninth Doctor
"I've travelled with a lot of people, but you're setting new records for jeopardy-friendly." ~ The Ninth Doctor
The 9th Doctor: We were talking about dancing.
Captain Jack: It didn't look like talking.
Rose: Didn't feel like dancing.
Nancy: Mad, you are.
Rose: We have a time travel machine. seriously!
Nancy: It's not that. All right, you've got a time travel machine. I believe you. Believe anything, me. But what future?
Rose: Nancy, this isn't the end. I know how it looks, but it's not the end of the world or anything
Nancy: How can you say that?? Look at it.
"He's going to keep asking, Nancy. He's never going to stop. Tell him. Nancy, the future of the human race is in your hands. Trust me. And tell him." ~ The Ninth Doctor
"Software patch. Gonna email the upgrade. You want moves, Rose? I'll give you moves. Everybody lives, Rose! Just this once! Everybody lives!" ~ The Ninth Doctor
"History says there was an explosion here. Who am I to argue with history?" ~ The Ninth Doctor
"Close the door, will you? Your ship's about to blow up. There's gonna be a draft." ~ The Ninth Doctor
The 9th Doctor: Rose, I've just remembered.
Rose: What?
The 9th Doctor: I can dance. I can dance!
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Trivia
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This is the second - and last - time, that the cliffhanger from the previous episode was resolved before the main title sequence. The first was in World War Three, earlier in series one. This practise would fall out of favour amongst the BBC Wales production staff. Since 2005, all "part two" pre-titles sequences have been comprised entirely of a "part one" recap, or of a recap plus a seemingly unrelated teaser.
When Nancy approaches the crashed ship and cuts the barbed-wire fence, the score features the brisk string motif that would become the featured motif in the theme to Torchwood.
Several of Jamie's abilities were left unexplained in the finale of the episode, including his ability to make a door close by pointing at it.
Because the episode ran short, Steven Moffat quickly wrote the scene in which Nancy returns to warn the orphans, during which the Empty Child possesses the typewriter.
River Song would nick Jack's squareness gun from the TARDIS and use it in "Silence in the Library"
The word dancing is frequently used in this episode as a metaphor for sex. Moffat would again use the same metaphor in "The Girl in the Fireplace" in series two.
"The Doctor Dances" — along with his script for the preceding episode "The Empty Child" — landed writer (and future showrunner) Steven Moffat a Hugo Award.
The Bad Wolf reference in the episode is subtle: although you can barely see it, the bomb that Jack catches in the tractor beam has "Schlechter Wolf" written on its side. Schlechter Wolf means Bad Wolf in German.
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Trailer
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