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And it's not safe for work. There is a 2012 episode of Doctor Who.

Now that's the math-smith era, of Doctor Who. Now, that's the Math Smith era, Doctor Who, called...

Not our Doctor Who.

Not our Doctor Who.

Tom Baker is Our Doctor Who.

Tom Baker is Our Doctor Who, but this is Middle Child's Doctor Who, Matt Smith.

And there's an episode in that series called The Power of Three,

in which an alien invasion comes in the form of millions of apparently inert little black boxes.

I remember this episode.

Yeah.

At first, people are shocked by them and a little fearful.

What are they?

Where do they come from?

Then, when they just sit there and a little fearful. What are they? Where do they come from? Then,

when they just sit there and they don't do anything, people are briefly fascinated about where they might have come from, but even that soon fades. And soon, nobody cares. They're just little black

boxes lying all over the place. And they sort of fade into the background noise of everyday life, just a nuisance to be

cleared away or put in a drawer or closet.

And there they sit perfectly camouflaged by their sheer, boring, plainness until they suddenly

...