"Don't go thinking you've got an excuse. The human race might be clever, and bright, and brilliant -- it's also savage, and venal, and relentless. All the anger out there on the streets! The lies, the righteousness, that's human, that's you! That's who you are! Using your intelligence to be stupid. Poisoning the world! And hating each other, you've never needed any help with that! But today, something else is using your worst attributes. Playing with you. Like toys."
-- The Fourteenth Doctor, Doctor Who: "The Giggle"
Hello again, everyone! My partner in time Jesse Jackson and I are back with a new episode of Next Stop Everywhere: The Doctor Who Podcast! This time, we're joined by special guest DJ Nik to discuss "The Giggle", the third Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Special, featuring David Tennant as the Fourteenth Doctor, Catherine Tate as Donna Noble, Neil Patrick Harris as the Toymaker, and the introduction of Ncuti Gatwa as the Fifteenth Doctor!
In this episode, Jesse, Nik and I discuss things like Nik getting the Next Stop hat trick, "The Giggle" finally feeling like a 60th Anniversary Special, "The Giggle" being filled with satire and social commentary about the world becoming crazier and angrier, Neil Patrick Harris as Barney Stinson and Dr. Horrible, the return of Bonnie Langford as Melanie "Mel" Bush, the return of the Toymaker for the first time since 1966's "The Celestial Toymaker", the various attempts to bring the Toymaker back since then, Russell T Davies realizing that the Toymaker would make a much stronger antagonist than a two-foot tall puppet, "The Giggle" almost including a scene mentioning Wilf's passing, Neil Patrick Harris being an accomplished amateur magician, who was actually the first redhead to travel in the TARDIS as a companion, why this probably won't be the last time we see David Tennant as the Fourteenth Doctor, the Fourteenth Doctor facing yet another insurmountable threat in the Toymaker, the Toymaker's puppet show laying out the emotional toll the Doctor went through during the Steven Moffat and Chris Chibnall's era, the Fourteenth Doctor being symbolic of the human race going from one crisis to the next crisis to the next, the Fourteenth Doctor looking gaunt and burned out, Neil Patrick Harris taking over from Michael Gough as the Toymaker, some early speculation about who "The One Who Waits" could be, Russell T Davies' love of campy villain musical numbers, another homage to the end of Flash Gordon (1980) with someone with red nail polish picking up the Toymaker's gold tooth containing the Master, Kate Stewart showing her ugly side by getting all ableist on Shirley, UNIT probably getting more "W"s in the win column if they had their own spinoff series, future plans for David Tennant's Fourteenth Doctor probably being on hold until after Tennant films Good Omens Season 3, a potential UNIT spinoff series also being a potential series to bring back classic Doctor Who companions on a regular basis, the Fourteenth Doctor being able to sit down and spend time with a family, Ncuti Gatwa's debut as the Fifteenth Doctor, Jesse building a Spotify playlist for what's on the Fifteenth Doctor's jukebox, the Fifteenth Doctor trying to reassure the Fourteenth Doctor, our favorite quotes of the episode, new feedback from Sandi from Oregon, Dave Proctor, Holly Mac, and Aaron Case, Jesse having to bail on the episode early, the debut of "The Goblin Song" from "The Church on Ruby Road", and more!
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