You know, I was going to write an entire Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe-style entry for Esophagus Violator but really, there’s no way in hell I’m topping that. Well-played, Marc. Well-played.

How is asking someone to buy a bridge in Brooklyn related to them being gullible?

(A) Cultural idioms don’t always necessarily make sense. It’s a reference to gullibility in part because that’s how everyone uses the phrase. But moreover,
(B) The person offering to sell the bridge does not own the bridge, and hence cannot sell it. A person would only accept the offer to buy the bridge if they were gullible enough to believe the seller owned it in the first place.
(C) Also, there were con men who did sell deeds to the Brooklyn Bridge, hence why it’s usually the Brooklyn Bridge instead of something else that the prospective seller could not possibly own.

Justin Mohareb, thanks but I still don’t get it. How is asking someone to buy a bridge in Brooklyn related to them being gullible? I’m not from the US so I’m not getting this at all.

I really don’t get people slagging off Donna – and for that matter, Faiza – for being some kind of Mary-Sue, when we have unlikeable blonde chav-girl suddenly being named the Doctor’s one true love and the saviour of the universe multiple times, etc. But then again, I also can’t understand why a member of a race dedicated to controlling time would take over one measly planet and spend all of his reign dancing to Scissor Sisters…apparently even the villains have to be dumbed down now. Whatever happened to the old routine of having the arch-villain conducting an invisible concerto while his master plan came into action?

He was violated by a radioactive esophagus.

Hell, the original Excalibur only had 2 British characters in its roster.