Doctor Who "Under the Lake" Episode Discussion

learned:

* that opening narration was so Picard.

* why it always gotta be the black dude who gets it first?

* this is not an Alien ripoff. underwater, not space.

* the Doctor: i love how you crew use a hybrid sign-language/vocal method of language, it's so quiet.
Clara: remember, Doctor, use your politeness cards.
the Doctor: hey Clara, why don't you adopt this sign language for the rest of the episode? it'd be rude not to. when in Rome and everything.
the Doctor: did you see that?!
Clara: what? i mean *sign for what*
the Doctor: the company man flicked me off! that doesn't need a sound, that sign is universal.

* the Doctor: Clara, i think we've met the babe who can replace you when you go: O'Donnell.
Clara: you just like her cos she thinks you can do no wrong.
the Doctor: sure, she feeds my immense ego...and that body of hers doesn't hurt, either. but most of all, she's happy to be here. Clara? are you listening? get off the phone!
Clara: sorry, i'm trying to get on the next season of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here.

* Clara: what does the inscription say?
the Doctor: it's an earworm, like "You Oughta Know." it all makes sense now, the ghosts, i know what they were trying to say, it wasn't a warning about going down to the theatre, it's about going down on you in a theatre.

* Cass: the ghosts only come out at night.
the ghosts turn off the lights during the day.
Cass: they're ghosts, right? they can't pick up corporeal items.
the ghosts pick up a harpoon and shoot it at the Doctor.
Cass: what if they're friendly? like Casper?
the Doctor (straps on proton pack): okay, i've had enough of this fuckery.

* the Doctor: you're a scientist. this could be a new species. where's your sense of adventure?
the scientist: exactly, i'm a scientist, there is no afterlife, i'm not gonna die for nothing, get me the fuck off this underwater hellhole!