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-{{first pic|Eeny rhyme.jpg|The [[Fourth Doctor]] uses the rhyme to choose his path. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Android Invasion (TV story)|The Android Invasion]]'')}}
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-'''Eeny, meeny, miny, moe''' was a traditional children's counting rhyme on [[Earth]], used to select a person to be "it" for games and similar purposes.
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+{{first pic|Eeny rhyme.jpg|The [[Fourth Doctor]] uses the rhyme to choose his path. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Android Invasion (TV story)}})}}
+"'''Eeny, meeny, miny, moe'''" was a traditional children's counting rhyme on [[Earth]], used to select a person to be "it" for games and similar purposes.
-A  21st century version was:
+== History ==
-:Eeny, meeny, miny, moe,
+The [[King of Hearts]] recited the rhyme:
-:Catch a tiger by his toe.
+<poem>Eeny, meeny, miny, moe,
-:If he hollers, let him go.
+Catch a n****r by his [[toe]].
-:Eeny, meeny, miny, moe. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Nightmare Man (TV story)|The Nightmare Man]]'')
+If he hollers, let him go.
+Eeny, meeny, miny, moe.</poem>
-The [[King of Hearts]] recited a version of the rhyme, which substituted the racial slur "nigger" for "tiger" in the second line, whilst deciding which of the seven chairs — six of which were deadly, while one remained safe — to choose. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Celestial Toymaker (TV story)|The Celestial Toymaker]]'')
+He did this whilst deciding which of the seven chairs — six of which were deadly, while one remained safe — to choose. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Celestial Toymaker (TV story)|namedep=The Hall of Dolls (2)}})
-The opening line was recited by the [[Third Doctor]] to decide which way to go while he and [[Jo Grant]] were making their way through the tunnel leading to the Royal Citadel on [[Peladon]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Peladon (TV story)|The Curse of Peladon]]'')
+The opening line was recited by the [[Third Doctor]] to decide which way to go while he and [[Jo Grant]] were making their way through the tunnel leading to the Royal Citadel on [[Peladon]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Curse of Peladon (TV story)}})
-The [[Fourth Doctor]] recited the opening line to choose the route he and [[Sarah Jane Smith]] should take through [[Devesham Woods|the wood]] in which they had landed. Sarah asked him what was "so special about eeny, meeny, miny, moe?", to which he replied that it could just have easily been "fum-fo-fee-fi". Sarah corrected this to "[[fee-fi-fo-fum]]". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Android Invasion (TV story)|The Android Invasion]]'')
+The [[Fourth Doctor]] recited the opening line to choose the route he and [[Sarah Jane Smith]] should take through [[Devesham Woods|the wood]] in which they had landed. Sarah asked him what was "so special about eeny, meeny, miny, moe?", to which he replied that it could just have easily been "fum-fo-fee-fi". Sarah corrected this to "[[fee-fi-fo-fum]]". ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Android Invasion (TV story)}})
-The [[Nightmare Man]] recited the original, less offensive, version of the rhyme, which included the word "tiger" in the second line, whilst deciding whether to invade [[Clyde Langer]] or [[Rani Chandra]]'s dreams first. Rani ended up getting the "moe". ([[SJA]]: ''[[The Nightmare Man (TV story)|The Nightmare Man]]'')
+The [[Seventh Doctor]] recited a version of the rhyme, where the toe belonged to a "[[Rutan]]" which "wriggles", to decide whether to go left or right. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Lucifer Rising (novel)}})
+The [[War Doctor]] used the rhyme to decide his way around a [[Dalek flying saucer|Dalek saucer]] during the [[Last Great Time War]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Engines of War (novel)}})
+The [[Nightmare Man]] recited a version of the rhyme, where the toe belonged to a "tiger", to decide whether to invade [[Clyde Langer]] or [[Rani Chandra]]'s dreams first. Rani ended up getting the "moe". ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Nightmare Man (TV story)}})
 == Behind the scenes ==
-The use of the "n-word" in the King of Hearts' recitation of the rhyme in "[[The Hall of Dolls]]" was actually still acceptable at the time of the original 1966 broadcast of ''The Celestial Toymaker''. Although the rhyme is still present on [[AudioGO|BBC Audio]]'s CD release of the story, to avoid offending modern audiences this section has been obscured by placing part of [[Peter Purves]]'s narration over the top.
+* The use of the "n-word" in the King of Hearts' recitation of the rhyme in "[[The Hall of Dolls]]" was still considered more or less acceptable in Britain at the time of the original [[1966 (releases)|1966]] broadcast of ''[[The Celestial Toymaker (TV story)|The Celestial Toymaker]]''.{{Note|On the other hand, in America the "n-word" had been widely acknowledged as a racial slur by this point, but it is impossible to know whether the authors were aware of this.}} Although the rhyme is still present on [[AudioGO|BBC Audio]]'s 2001 CD soundtrack release of the story, this section has been obscured by [[Peter Purves]]'s narration to correspond to modern views on the use of the "n-word". Due to its long history, it is now considered a racial slur.
+* In [[Gerry Davis]] and [[Alison Bingeman]]'s 1986 novelisation of ''[[The Celestial Toymaker (novelisation)|The Celestial Toymaker]]'', the King of Hearts recites only the opening line "Eeny, meeny, miney, mo".
+==Notes==
+{{Notelist}}
-{{wikipediainfo}}
 [[Category:Nursery rhymes]]
 [[Category:Poetry from the real world]]