19. Auton Mickey Can't Say "Pizza" Without Stuttering...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0BFGO65jaw ...because that won't raise any suspicions at all, clearly! It's no wonder the Nestene Consciousness has failed to conquer the Earth so many times. It can't even say "pizza" without turning the word into a conspicuously stuttered "puh-puh-puh-pizza". Because drawing attention to its undercover Auton with such astonishingly outlandish behaviour is a sure-fire way of convincing Rose nothing is out of the ordinary. Having said that, Rose was far too thick to notice anything was wrong with Mickey. This case of wooden acting came in the very first episode of the revived Doctor Who in 2005 and was widely seized upon as one of the few things that was rubbish in a mostly great story. Speaking of rubbish...
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Mike has lived in the UK, Japan and the USA. Currently, he is based in Iowa with his wife and 2 young children. After working for many years as a writer and editor for a large corporation, he is now a freelancer. He has been fortunate enough to contribute to many books on Doctor Who over the last 20 years and is now concentrating on original sci-fi & fantasy short stories, with recent sales including Flame Tree, Uffda, and The Martian Wave. Also, look for his contribution on Blake's 7 to "You and Who Else", a charity anthology to be released later this year.
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