I agree. I was hoping before The Day of the Doctor aired that Billie Piper would be playing her Bad Wolf self, and I still think that that could have worked — if she was an immortal god-being who existed in all of time and space, she could easily have been involved in the Time War while simultaneously playing out the…

And War, of course. But I wouldn't exactly count his last words as the Doctor's greatest, either.

Which makes it all the more frustrating that when the Slitheen were brought back for the Doctor Who spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures in 2007, the fat jokes and the farting were back big-time. (I know, I know, TSJA is a kids show and should be judged by a different rubric… but that show did grow into something great…

It helped bring back the feeling of the original ACD stories, too — those are full of "off-screen" cases having just ended when Watson begins his present tale.