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A 1999 Doctor Who parody, produced by The BBC for Red Nose Day.
The Ninth Doctor (Rowan Atkinson) fights the Master (Jonathan Pryce) on an abandoned alien planet. He's engaged to his companion Emma (Julia Sawalha). When the Doctor is captured by Daleks, he's killed a few times over and rapidly cycles through being Richard E. Grant, Jim Broadbent, Hugh Grant and finally Joanna Lumley, who decides she'd actually rather shag the Master than fight him.
It's notably written by Steven Moffat, a full decade before he became in charge of Doctor Who proper. The occasional reference to the parody pops up in his episodes nowadays.
- Adorkable: The Eleventh Doctor is a parody of this while the Twelfth Doctor does it beautifully (helps that he's played by Hugh Grant).
- Bizarre Alien Senses: Or a lack of them. Only the Daleks don't have noses.
- Department of Redundancy Department:
- The fatal death. When is death not fatal? It's a glorious homage to "The Deadly Assassin."
- The Master will have the deadly vengeance of deadly revenge.
- Expy: The Ninth Doctor is clearly the White Sheep of the Blackadder family.
- Farts on Fire: The Tersurons communicated by farting. Then they discovered fire...
- Fridge Logic: In-Universe. Why are there chairs on a Dalek spaceship? The Daleks will explain later.
- Gambit Pileup: All based on who bribed the architect first.
- Gender Bender: The Thirteenth Doctor.
- Ham-to-Ham Combat: It wouldn't be the Doctor and the Master otherwise would it?
- Heel Face Turn: After the Twelfth Doctor dies, both the Master and the Daleks renounce evil and commit themselves to good as a way to honour their fallen foe.
- Hotter and Sexier: As Emma notes, the Tenth and Twelfth Doctors.
- Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: The Daleks' beams hit everything but the Master.
- Incompatible Orientation: The phrase "You're not the man I feel in love with anymore" has never been so accurate.
- Insistent Terminology: They're not breasts. They're Dalek bumps.
- Large Ham: The Tenth Doctor.
- Mr. Fanservice: The Tenth and Twelfth Doctors.
- Ms. Fanservice: The Thirteenth Doctor.
- Repeating So the Audience Can Hear: Unfortunately, it lets the Daleks hear as well.
- Running Gag: There is one but we'll explain later.
- The Slow Path: It took the Master 312 years to climb out the sewers. All three times.
- Villain Team-Up: The Master and the Daleks.
- Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Discussed. Given that exterminating the Doctor is by far the most sensible thing to do, why do the Daleks always change their mind at the last moment? The Doctor will explain later.