The Magician's Apprentice (Doctor Who) episode is a blue-and-silver model as first seen in 1963. Clara, upon deducing the Doctor's location and intent, says "Do not go gentle into that good night", the first line of the titular poem by Dylan Thomas. When the Doctor spies Clara and Missy, he plays the opening notes to Roy Orbison's "Oh, Pretty Woman". The Doctor's playing electric guitar and teaching medieval people the term "dude" echoes the movies "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" and "Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey", films featuring two rocker teens who travel back in time – in a telephone call box – and teach
Do Not Ask What Good We Do bargain died before coming to a vote. Michael Crowley for "The New York Times" described the book as an "engaging and often funny chronicle of the year in the House of Representatives following the Tea Party-powered 2010 elections." Jim Cullen of "History News Network" noted that the book was written "in the vein of [a] Bob Woodward instant, insider history", but adds that, since the subject of the book is the gridlock in Congress where nothing ends up happening, the book becomes a "competent if not especially riveting reading" because of the subject itself. Do Not Ask What Good We