Doctor Who: The Ood Cast

"To be honest, a lot of things have made me cry over the past few days but this was a different kind of cry."

Reviews: Message from the Doctor
Air Date: 25th March 2020
Song: Doctor in a Cupboard based on Michael in the Bathroom from Be More Chill
Sketches: Hide & Strax by Chris Mead
Haiku: Even in hiding/ she's saving us from ourselves/ darkness never wins
Additional notes: Even though this is our shortest episode ever (and still approximately four times longer than the thing it's reviewing) this also features the BIGGEST GUEST STAR we've ever had on The Ood Cast. So thank you to Dan Starkey (taking a break from nursing and destroying his enemies in battle).

"Eat a spider & then sit through Vengence of Varos."

At the Ood Cast, you won't be flabbergasted to hear that we hate to see lovely old British institutions taking a hammering from people who really couldn't do any better themselves.

That's right, we're talking about the BBC!

Haterz back off!

Sure, it's not perfect but it's still one of the UK's best features. Along with cream teas, the NHS and Bill Bailey.

So for this episood, we chose to sit the mics next to a speaker grille and record a solid 25 minutes of Radio 4. Because we're highbrow and that.

Also, Goaty. Gotyay? Goatee? Gotye. Because it's slightly more melodic than other cult YouTube sensation 'Gangnam Style' and Laura's Korean is limited to 'hello', 'thank-you' and 'you cannot buy a monkey at this market'*
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"I think he looked rather jolly ... with his cheek tusks. I'm calling them chusks."

The surface of the cube is cold to the touch. Cold but with something surging behind it, like a heart beat.

Like a storm.

You run your fingers along its hard edges, trying to discern something of its function in its form but come up blank. Your mind can't wrap itself around the concept of it. Too advanced, too alien.

You turn to leave and that's when it hums to life, glyphs picked out in a pulsating blue flicker across its dark surface. And that's when you understand, that's when you hear - a history of Earth in five waves of a sonic screwdriver, real lions at Nelson's column, the bonobo tariff, four, mad chattering voices uniting in praise...

You turn and run but already you know it's too late; can already feel the hairs rising on your neck as the bolt of electricity arcs across the void and connects with your heart. And as you slip into the darkness beyond your last thought hangs for a moment in the fading theatre of your subconscious ...

That podcast was totally worth it.

Sigma is joined by Angus Dunican to review the latest episode of Doctor Who, Knock Knock. Plus there's the usual songs, poetry and comment from the other Oods.

“When I saw my wife, I was so aroused I vomited up a fruit salad!”

Reviews: The Rings of Akhaten
Air Date: 11th April 2013
Additional notes: During this week the Sigmas have escaped London and travelled to all three countries in Great Britain. Lots of planets have a north...