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In the North Island, the dance is usually known as the "hokey tokey", [19] [20] or the "hokey cokey" because hokey pokey is the usual term for honeycomb toffee. [21] In the South Island it's just The Hokey Pokey. The highlight of the video is the Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer break at 1:21 which a snowman plays on a cheap Casio keyboard using his carrot nose - genius! Richard E Grant and Tom Ward to Star in the Christmas Special". BBC. 6 August 2012 . Retrieved 31 December 2012.

a b "New Companion Makes Doctor Who A Different Show, Says Moffat". SFX. 30 May 2012 . Retrieved 2 September 2012.The song 'Petty Sessions' from Half Man Half Biscuit's 2008 album CSI:Ambleside is the Hokey Cokey with alternative satirical lyrics - the title being a pun on a form of magistrate's court for minor public nuisance offences in England and Wales which had been abolished in 2004.

In 2008, an Anglican cleric, Canon Matthew Damon, Provost of Wakefield Cathedral, West Yorkshire, claimed that the dance movements were a parody of the traditional Catholic Latin Mass. [11] Up until the reforms of Vatican II, the priest performed his movements facing the altar rather than the congregation, who could not hear the words very well, nor understand the Latin, nor clearly see his movements. At one point the priest would say " Hoc est corpus meum" Latin for "This is My body" (a phrase that has also been suggested as the origin of the similar-sounding stereotypical magician's phrase " hocus-pocus"). That theory led Scottish politician Michael Matheson in 2008 to urge police action "against individuals who use it [the song and dance] to taunt Catholics". Matheson's claim was deemed ridiculous by fans from both sides of the Old Firm (the rival Glasgow football teams Celtic and Rangers) and calls were made on fans' forums for both sides to join together to sing the song on 27 December 2008 at Ibrox Stadium. [12] Close relatives of Jimmy Kennedy and Al Tabor have publicly stated their recollections of the origin and meaning of the Hokey Cokey, and have denied its connection to the Mass. [13] [14] Those accounts differ, but they are all contradicted by the fact that the song existed and was published decades before its supposed composition in the 1940s. Cooper, Jon (25 December 2012). "Doctor Who review: The Snowmen Christmas special was full of nods to the past while also celebrating the present and also looking forward to the 50th anniversary future". Daily Mirror . Retrieved 26 December 2012. Goldstein, Jessica M. (23 October 2018). " 'Britney Spears wanted to be a star': An oral history of '...Baby One More Time' ". EW.com . Retrieved 24 July 2023. Prime Confirms Time For Doctor Who Christmas Special". Throng. 14 December 2012. Archived from the original on 7 February 2013 . Retrieved 26 March 2013.MacDonald, Stuart (2009-01-11). "Hokey Cokey no Catholic dig". The Times. London . Retrieved 2010-05-04. A competing authorship claim is made by or on behalf of British bandleader Gerry Hoey from around 1940, under the title "The Hoey Oka". [ citation needed] Jeffery, Morgan (19 December 2012). " 'Doctor Who' Steven Moffat on new TARDIS: 'It's quite a scary place' ". Digital Spy . Retrieved 27 December 2012.

Letter to the editor, "Hokey Cokey: no Catholic dig – Grandson of the writer defends song against claims that it is anti-Catholic, saying it is based on a phrase about ice cream", The Times (London, UK) Martinovic, Paul (1 September 2012). "Steven Moffat thanks press and fans for saving 'Doctor Who' surprise". Digital Spy . Retrieved 30 December 2012. The Doctor has retired from saving people and uses his allies Vastra, Jenny, and Strax to keep people away from him while he lives in the clouds above Earth. In 1892, barmaid Clara Oswin Oswald follows the Doctor and the two of them are surrounded by snowmen created from snow with psychic properties. The Doctor realises that Clara's thoughts are creating the snowmen and ends the threat by instructing her to think of them melting.

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In the episode " Chinga" (5×10) of the TV series The X-Files, the song is featured at multiple times during the episode. Writer Steven Moffat stated that he wanted an "epic" quality to the Christmas special. [14] The story would also show how the Doctor had responded to losing his previous companions Amy Pond and Rory Williams; Moffat said that "I think he's probably reached the point in his life where he's saying, 'Friendship for me is just postponed bereavement— I want to be on my own for a while'." [15] Moffat compared the withdrawn Doctor seen at the onset of the episode to the first appearances of the First Doctor ( William Hartnell) in 1963 and the Ninth Doctor ( Christopher Eccleston) in 2005. [14] He also attributed the idea of a retired Doctor to a plot proposed by Douglas Adams in the 1970s, but rejected by the production team at the time. [16] Continuing the theme introduced with the series' first five episodes, "The Snowmen" was promoted like a movie. A movie poster was released in the Radio Times, showing the Doctor and Clara ascending the ladder to the TARDIS. [17]