You all know what time it is… out of context No Place, otherwise known as when we actually got an entire audio of fake-marriage trope for Ten and Donna. Big Finish I love you 😭
Cameraman: “How did you guys meet?”
Donna: “Well, it was love at first sight, wasn’t it?”
The Doctor: “A house, yes! Doors, windows, roof, stairs… um… uh… s…scatter cushions?”
Donna: “Did you just… boop me on the nose?”
The Doctor: “Yeah! Boop!”
Donna: “Aw, that’s my boy! And I’m just gonna boop you back, you skinny little thing! Boop!”
The Doctor: “D’aww, ‘boop!’“ laughs
The Doctor, seriously: “Funny thing, Gazarian lizard queens do that before they eat their husbands alive.”
Donna: “I’m gonna go check on Mum.”
The Doctor: “Nuh-uh, not before you pay the love toll!”
Donna: “…Oh, honey of course! Silly me!”
The Doctor: “How’s it going? …Darling.”
Donna: “Not so bad… Chipmunk.”
Justin: “Do you believe in ghosts? The supernatural, aliens? Demons?”
The Doctor: “No—Well, you’ve met the mother in law.”
Sylvia: gritting her teeth “Milk and sugar, Doctor?”
The Doctor: “Don’t touch it!”
Also the Doctor: licks it
The Doctor: “Donna and I—the two of us, we’re a team. But we’ve had a little bit of trouble recently so we’ve come here and, well, some things have just got to be saved.”
Justin: “So this renovation project is a way of saving your marriage?”
The Doctor: “Yes—Wait, what?”
The Doctor: “Donna and I—absolutely married. Very happily. Always, uh, popping off down the farmer’s market, picking up some organic… j… jaffa cakes?”
Wilf, to Justin: “Yeah, it’d take more than a few bumps to scare the Doctor.”
The Doctor: clears throat
Wilf: “Which!” Nervous laughter “Is the nickname I call my grandson… Because he’s a doctor… and I’m proud of him.”
The Doctor: “We’ve been digging. Well—my position is more managerial.”
Donna: “Mind if I come in?”
Justin: “…You already sat on my bed.”
The Doctor: “We’re all holding hands! Donna, Wilf, Sylvia—Sylvia!”
Sylvia: “Oh, sorry!” Holds hand
And even after they don’t have to be fake married anymore:
The Doctor: “Hello missus bumpsysquish!”
Donna: “Heyyy Spaceman!” :)
The Doctor: “I used fuel. Well—rocket fuel.
Well—Venutian rocket fuel.”
Donna: “Stop showing off pookie!”
The Doctor: “Yes snugglepuff!” :D
Basically Donna and the Doctor went from “pet name (ironic)” to “pet name (affectionate)” during the course of this audio and I think that’s beautiful
(Also this isn’t necessarily a good ooc quote but it fucking melted my heart and I need to put it here)
Donna: “Don’t change the subject, that’s what he (the Doctor) does.”
Donna, sarcastically: “Love of my life.”
Donna: “Actually… I guess he is, really.”
