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Pepperpot
Four Doctors Ninth Doctor

The Ninth Doctor plays with salt and pepper shakers. (COMIC: Four Doctors [+]Paul Cornell, Titan summer events (Titan Comics, 2015).)

A pepperpot was an object used to hold pepper.

Daleks were often compared to pepperpots in terms of appearance. A Venusian colonist called them "animated pepperpots". (COMIC: Invasion of the Daleks [+]David Whitaker and Terry Nation, The Dalek Book (Dalek annual, Souvenir Press, 1964).)

Vicki said that the Dalek casing on display in the Moroks' Space Museum on Xeros looked like "a giant pepperpot". (PROSE: The Space Museum [+]Glyn Jones, adapted from The Space Museum (Glyn Jones), Target novelisations (Target Books, 1987).)

On Vulcan, Kebble called them "big pepperpots". (TV: The Power of the Daleks [+]David Whitaker, Doctor Who season 4 (BBC1, 1966).)

The Second Doctor called them pepperpots on a jungle planet. (COMIC: Jungle Adventure [+]Roger Noel Cook, TV Comic Holiday Special stories (1967).) He also called them "metal pepperpots" while on another planet. (COMIC: Attack of the Daleks [+]TV Comic Annual stories (1968).)

In November 1963, Rachel Jensen called them "a bunch of tin-plated pepperpots". (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1, 1988).)

In 2012, Adam Mitchell described the Metaltron as a "great big pepperpot". (TV: Dalek [+]Robert Shearman, adapted from Jubilee (Robert Shearman), Doctor Who series 1 (BBC One, 2005).)

While killing Daleks in the 26th century, Abslom Daak said that he could keep on vapourising "those blasted pepperpots" until Judgement Day. (COMIC: Star Tigers [+]Steve Moore, DWM backup comic stories (Marvel Comics, 1980).)

On Kar-Charrat, Elgin described the Daleks as "nasty little pepperpots". (AUDIO: The Genocide Machine [+]Mike Tucker, Main Range (Big Finish Productions, 2000).)

In an alternate timeline, a fictionalised version of the Doctor who appeared in the film Daleks: The Ultimate Adventure said, "I am sending you mutated pepperpots straight back to Hell!" (AUDIO: Jubilee [+]Robert Shearman, Main Range (Big Finish Productions, 2003).)

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