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* [[Classy Cat Burglar]]: The Unicorn, although she gets a lot less classy when she's exposed.
* [[Continuity Nod]]: See [[Lampshade Hanging]].
** Donna attempts at affecting a High English accent when meeting Lady Eddison... only to be told by the Doctor [[Doctor Who (TV)/NS/Recap/S2 E2 Tooth and Claw|not to do that]].
** We find out where The Doctor [[Doctor Who (TV)/NS/Recap/S3 E2 The Shakespeare Code|put the Carrionites]]: In a chest for all things that start with the letter C, which also included a Cyberman logo.
* [[Enemy Within]]
* [[Elephant in The Living Room]]: Agatha's just learned of her husband's affair, but doesn't want to admit to it(see [[Stiff Upper Lip]]).
* {{spoiler|[[Faith Heel Turn]]}}
* [[Flash Back Back Back]]: The interrogated suspects have flashbacks (complete with wavy line dissolve) while establishing their alibis, revealing that none of them are exactly truthful. Then played with when the Colonel has a flashback ''within'' a flashback. Then the Doctor has [[Noodle Incident|a flashback of his own]]....
* [[Foreshadowing]]: Possibly, {{spoiler|Agatha's memory loss for Donna's [[Victory -Guided Amnesia]].}}
** Within the episode: {{spoiler|The one interrogation flashback that matches up with the spoken account? It's by the guy who did it.}}
* [[Genre Blind]]:
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* [[Involuntary Shapeshifting]]
* [[I Want Grandkids]]: The Colonel comments that he and his wife are unlikely to have grandchildren, implying that he knows about [[Straight Gay|Roger]]'s sexual orientation.
* [[Lampshade Hanging]] via a [[Continuity Nod]]: Donna finds the idea of Agatha Christie being involved in a real murder mystery as ridiculous as the idea of finding [[A Christmas Carol|Dickens surrounded by ghosts at Christmas]]. The Doctor looks embarrassed, probably recalling the events of "[[Doctor Who (TV)/NS/Recap/S1 E3 The Unquiet Dead|The Unquiet Dead]]".
* [[Magic Pants]]: Apparently Vespiforms can transform their clothes too when they take on human form.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Professor Peach, and possibly Miss Redmond, are ''Cluedo'' (''Clue'' for our American readers) references. In fact the Cluedo-ness of the situation is lampshaded by Donna.
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{{quote| '''Agatha''': Actually, I was going to say you're completely innocent. Sorry. }}
* [[Never One Murder]]
* [[NOT!]]: The Unicorn, in the [[Older Than Radio|more antiquated version]].
{{quote| Ever so nice to meet you, I ''don't'' [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping|fink]].}}
* [[The Noun and The Noun]]
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* [[Pass the Popcorn]]: Donna seems to be doing this during the drawing-room reveal, though we can't see what it is she's eating. Some glances show that it may be green grapes.
* [[Green Rocks|Purple Rocks]]: The alien jewelery.
* [[Rummage Fail]]: At the very end, the Doctor digs through some of his junk in the TARDIS (of the starts-with-a-C variety); before he finds his copy of ''Death in the Clouds'', he pulls out the C logo off a Cyberman's chestplate, the head of a statue, [[Doctor Who (TV)/NS/Recap/S3 E2 The Shakespeare Code|a crystal ball full of Carrionites]] ([[And I Must Scream|still screaming]]) and a big jumble of cables.
* [[Running Gag]]: The one about the Doctor and Donna not being married and the one where the companion attempts an accent, and the Doctor tells her not to.
** Hilariously enough, the [[She Is Not My Girlfriend|protestations]] turn out to be unnecessary; Christie noticed Donna didn't have a wedding ring.
* [[Shoot the Dog]]: Or rather, Drown the Giant Wasp.
* [[Shout -Out]]: Rusty and Gareth Roberts had a bit of fun with the script. Gareth would pop a reference in, send the draft to Rusty, and it'd come back with another one, and so forth. All told, there are about 15 titles of [[Agatha Christie (Creator)|Agatha Christie]] novels directly referenced in dialogue. Such as...
** [[And Then There Were None]]
** N or M?
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** The Moving Finger
*** They also have The Man In The Brown Suit solving the mystery of The Body In The Library. The reveal scene has the Doctor doing The Moving Finger. The Doctor also has a copy of [[Death in The Clouds]] edited in the year 5 billion and then some, no less.
** And in a non-Christie [[Shout -Out]], Colonel Hugh's getting up from his wheelchair is from [[Tom Stoppard|The Real Inspector Hound]].
** At the beginning, [[Clue (Tabletop Game)|a guy with a colour-related name is murdered in the library with a lead pipe]]. Lampshaded by Donna, even. (See [[Meaningful Name]])
* [[Stealth Pun]]: At the end of the episode the Doctor pulls things filed under 'C' from (what else?) a sea-chest.
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