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Henry Gordon Jago
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Now my charms are all o'erthrown,
And what strength I have's mine own,
Which is most faint. Now 'tis true,
I must be here confin'd by you,
Or sent to Naples. Let me not,
Since I have my dukedom got, 
And pardon'd the deceiver, dwell
In this bare island by your spell,
But release me from my bands
With the help of your good

"Am I gonna get paid for this?"
"No"
"Ya know if this was "Dutch Masters", I would have gotten cigars."

Good to see Classic Betty (blonde, not fat, totally self-absorbed) in this episodes. Highlights: calling her own daughter a whore ("I earned it. On what street-corner?") and somehow managing to drop Henry's name to the police officer WHILE HENRY IS STANDING IN THE ROOM WITH THEM.

Why fired? Taking drugs? So was the entire office. Banging the dead boss' daughter? Obviously consensual (They were both having thank-God-I'm-alive sex) and obviously Gleason  can't complain.

Very nice on the 50th Anniversary to see the return of a beloved character: Sylvester McCoy in a blonde wig.

And Alternate Dimension Gigli received four Oscars.

Yes, the character needs a slow protracted decline leading to death. A suicide or any other quick death, he can (metaphorically) walk away from and (literally) leave other people to clean up the mess.

By the way, who was the genius at BBC America who decided to put iRobot commercials on DURING A CYBERMAN EPISODE? I thought the invasion had started. I think Don Draper would agree that the proper response to an ad campaign is NOT running from the room screaming.

"Three million Cybermen ….to be back up musicians  for my wife… and she doesn't have to pay any of them!"

But for those of us playing the home game, where were the Sixth Doctor references?

I thought the whole amusement park setting was set up with no payoff, I was expecting at the start of the episode a climatic battle on a roller coaster or SOMETHING!

If this episode did nothing else, it proved that twenty years hence, Matt Smith will be making a decent living playing over the top bad guys and deserves to inherit the mantle of Irons and Rickman.

"I have Straxnesia!"

"Something", of course, contains Emerson's greatest work "Essay on Stuff 'n Shit 'n Y'know"

No, next week would be the 6th Doctor, which seems to be invoked by the title "Nightmare in Silver" as "The Nightmare Fair" was supposed to be the first story of Season 24 until the show went on hiatus and they fired Colin Baker. The umbrella will be in the season finale which seems to invoke the Seventh Doctor by

"Can I have my prophylactic back, Dame Diana?"

See "The Talons of Weng-Chiang", (but don't look too closely at those giant rats, as they tend to be laughable in close up)

At least SOMEBODY  was in a catsuit!

Nice sly reference to Gatiss' other job: "The Adventure of the Red Leech" is one of Sherlock Holmes' untold stories (later retold by many authors other than Doyle).

Earl Hamner, Jr. himself was the one with the harsh review of "A Piano In The House" in "The Twilight Zone Companion" saying "I had no idea what a critic sounded like."