|  This
is a special two-part Doctor Who mini-story, written
by Steven Moffat, exclusively as part of BBC One’s
2011 Red Nose Day telethon for the charity Comic
Relief.
This
mini-story is the second that has been produced for
Comic Relief - the first being "Doctor Who and
the Curse of Fatal Death" that was broadcast in
1999 - 12 years previously - and which was also written
by Steven Moffat.
This
is actually the fourth charity special, and is the third
since the program’s return in 2005. As well as "Doctor
Who and the Curse of Fatal Death" the other two
have been made for Children In Need. The first, with
an official title of only "Doctor Who: Children
in Need", aired in 2005. The second, "Time
Crash" (also written by Steven Moffat, and also
featuring a time loop and ontological paradox), aired
in 2007.
It
is a humorous scene in the TARDIS between two sets of
the Eleventh
Doctor and his companions Amy Pond and Rory
Williams.
The
situation where a TARDIS materialised within a TARDIS
in a recursive loop has occurred before. ¦A similar
space loop occured in the 1972 Third
Doctor story "The
Time Monster", when the Doctor's TARDIS was
inside The Master's
TARDIS,
and
The
Master's TARDIS was inside The Doctor's TARDIS. In
the 1981 Fourth
Doctor story "Logopolis" it
was The Master’s
TARDIS that had joined with The Doctor’s, while
in this mini-story The Doctor’s
TARDIS has materialised within itself.
The
Doctor, in attempting to explain ‘conceptual
space’ to Rory, used the analogy of the
curve of a banana, the mentioning of which being a running
joke began in the 2005 stories of the Ninth
Doctor.
The
line where Amy
says 'OK, kids. This is where it gets
complicated.' is similar to when she was released
from the Pandorica in the 2010 Eleventh Doctor story "The Pandorica Opens/The
Big Bang".
Rory
is heard to ask The Doctor if he has ever seen Amy
drive, to which The Doctor replies in the negative.
The Doctor
actually
did briefly see Amy drive in the 2010 story "Amy's Choice".
In that story, Amy drove herself and The Doctor into
a
house.
Rory states that Amy did the same thing when he let her
drive his car once.
Amy
indicates that she wore 'this skirt' during
her driving test, implying that the skirt belonged to
her prior to joining The Doctor. However, at the end
of "The Pandorica Opens/The
Big Bang", Amy is seen to enter the
TARDIS in her wedding dress.
Therefore,
either
they stopped by her house off-screen to pick up her belongings,
or some of her clothes remained on the TARDIS from her
former travels in Season
31 (New Series 5).
The
line where Amy
says 'I'm just repeating this too...and this...and
this.' is a reference to the Tenth
Doctor's recording in the 2007 story "Blink".
The
Doctor pulls the 'wibbley lever',
echoing the phrase 'wibbley-wobbly timey-wimey'
from "Blink", which is used to describe the
non-linear nature
of time
in the show.
This
story is the third to
feature only the main cast. The first being the 1963 First
Doctor story "The
Edge of Destruction" and the
second being the 2005, Children In
Need Special)
This
short scene,
held entirely within
the Console Room, is set between
the
end
of
the 2010 Christmas Special "A Christmas Carol"and
the first story of Season
Thirty Two (New Series 6) proper.
The
brief end titles gave the first announcement
that the first episode of the next full
story, due in Easter 2011, was "The Impossible Astronaut".
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