“Arachnids in the UK” – Teasers Explained

Clint Hassell reveals the answers to last week’s hints and teasers for Series 11, episode 4 “Arachnids in the UK.”

• 1. More LGBT representation!
  Robertson’s assistant, Frankie, told Robertson that she was his “niece’s wife.”
• 2. Something else got redesigned . . . AND IT IS #%&@ING AWESOME!
  “Arachnids in the UK,” debuted a new, hyperkinetic time vortex!
• 3. Those three still aren’t companions!
  At the start of “Arachnids in the UK,” the Doctor finally returned Yasmin, Graham, and Ryan to Sheffield. Though she seemed reticent to part with her new friends, she felt that they wanted to remain home. Had they not asked to continue traveling with her, at episode’s end, she would have left them in Sheffield.
• 4. In a manner of speaking, this episode takes place before most of “The Ghost Monument.”
  Despite having been on Desolation, and then in 1955, for at least three days, the Doctor returned Yaz, Graham, and Ryan to Sheffield only 30 minutes after they were accidentally teleported from the warehouse in “The Woman Who Fell to Earth.” This means that, while Yaz and Ryan were having tea with the Doctor, in “Arachnids in the UK,” they were also awakening aboard Epzo and Angstrom’s spaceships, in “The Ghost Monument.”
• 5. The Doctor used to have *is****.
  The Doctor claimed that she used to have sisters.
• 6. Amelia Earhart! Ed Sheeran! Edith Wharton!
  The Doctor said that Amelia Earhart was “a right laugh,” confused Jack Robertson for Ed Sheeran, and stated that “deal[ing] with the spider mother in the ballroom . . . sounds like the best novel Edith Wharton never wrote.”
• 7. “I have no more Kevins.”
  – Jack Robertson, after his bodyguard, Kevin, was carried away by a giant spider
• 8. Psychic paper!
  The Doctor used her psychic paper to pose as a “crisis investigator.”
• 9. Apparently, the Doctor and a companion are . . . dating?
  Suspicious as to why her daughter, Yasmin, was reticent to discuss her relationship with the Doctor, Najia asked the pair, “Are you two seeing each other?”
• 10. Yaz’s mum (Najia) is joke.
  In a running joke, the Doctor – – despite having been formally introduced to Najia – – continued to refer to her as “Yaz’s mum,” only for Najia to immediately yell out her name, “Najia!” as a reminder.
• 11. “Do you have any idea how annoying it is when my husband’s right?”
  – Najia, after it is revealed that the accumulated trash really is part of a conspiracy as Hakim theorized

Hidden teasers:

• The emboldened letters spelled “Team TARDIS,” a fan-coined term that is now canon!
• Ryan’s dad!
  Ryan’s dad left a note for Ryan on the O’Briens’ mat, stating that he’d like for Ryan and him to be a “proper family.”
• “What are we going to do – – s*a it into submission?”
  “What are we going to do – – spa it into submission?” – Yaz, after the Doctor asks her, Najia, and Ryan to take every available bottle of essential oils from the hotel spa to use against the giant spider mother