Expelliwhozit?

[bunsen_h]

When you're fighting off an incursion of Technowitches...

... and Shakespeare has come up blank on a rhyme for "like a tinker's cuss", and you've got all the literature of time and space to find a phrase to give him...

"Expelliarmus"?!  "Good old JK!"?

I don't think so.

"Abracapocus".  Good old Chuck Jones.

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[beable]

It was Martha who grabbed the rhyme though, not the Doctor.

[bunsen_h]

Ah yes, the Doctor blanked, Martha came up with the answer. Sort of like F\r\o\d\o\Merry finding the clue for getting into Moria where Gandalf wasn't seeing it. Only not quite.

I have this mental image of the climactic moment of that show. Shakespeare is tossing off his impromptu "spell", the Technowitches are flailing and wailing, the dimensional thingy is churning. Will stumbles to a halt for lack of a good rhyme for the phenomenally awkward preceding line. Martha yells out, "Expelliarmus!" Will boggles slightly, but uses it, for lack of anything better. There's a momentary hush.

The Technowitches look at each other. "Expelliarmus?!"

They shrug. Everything explodes as the dimensional thing rips wide open. All die. Oh, the embarrassment.