Gagan.

So, I tried pausing the garglemesh of text at the beginning of the episode, and as well as listing all of the characters - Deep-Ando, Gagan Rassmussen, Daiki Nagata, Osamu Chopra, 474 and Clara Oswald - it also has "Leverrier" a few times. Which refers to

More like Doctor Who Does The Last Broadcast.

This should be illustrated by him running around a studio audience and then doing the Carlton dance.

Why would sleep-dust evolve though? Does sleepdust have sex in my eye every night and I just don't realise it?

"Also, if dust-Rassmunssen's plan is to spread the signal, why do that in a horror movie warning about the specific threat of the signal? And why tell the viewer about it at the end? None of this makes any sense in-universe."

I… still don't know if I liked this one. I'd like to think that Mark Gatiss didn't literally just discover that found-footage is a genre in 2015, but that's kind of what it looked like - like someone wrote "found footage" in the middle of a sheet of paper and then tried to work through all the ways you could mess…

Well yes, that; but there've been a hell of a lot of similar things that have filtered through to my side of the pond over the years.

I agree with the broad thrust of this - and I am kind of hoping that the show WILL make this point, that even at its worst, PC is better than racism at its "best".

Right, but it probably isn't, actually.

I remember something in one of Douglas Adams' books, with the protagonists basically saying "we'll always lose, because we don't care enough".

All I know is my heart says maybe.

It's kind of weird to find out that PC Principal vs Leslie might actually have been Going Somewhere all this time.

We're already sending Mr Garrison to the White House. I think that ship has sailed.

Generally speaking, political satire that decides it's going to be conservative or liberal is going to be shit, because satire is supposed to poke fun at hypocrisy and pomposity. If someone decides that they won't satirise "their side", then they'll be guilty of exactly that. And of course it also walls off a lot of…

Yeah, that's the mantra. Call it "criticism" and everyone has to respect it.

"And that horrible act of child abuse became one of our most beloved running gags." - Homer, "Behind The Laughter".

Well, it IS a very old tradition, iirc - as in, pre-slavery. Morris dancers do it too: http://i4.mirror.co.uk/inco…

Well, part of that isn't true - there's an episode where we see him putting flesh-tone make-up ON to cover the black. So, Krusty the Clown style, that actually IS his real skin. Which… is weirder and cooler.

"Why label it abuse when it's obviously a gag to cartoonishly personify the frustration of parents dealing with 'problem' children?"