Emily will love that one
Lets' start the ball rolling:
The Doctor yelling to a maniac holding Nyssa on a roof that he had the wrong girl - obviously wanting the maniac to kill Nyssa (Black Orchid).
Guy Crayford not realizing that his eye is unharmed under his eye patch in The Android Invasion.
The Doctor's secret plan in The Invasion of Time- let your enemy invade and occupy you as a strategy to defeat them. Spend too much time in France, Monsieur Doctor?
Ooh, good idea! This one's gonna run and run...
The Doctor yelling to a maniac holding Nyssa on a roof that he had the wrong girl - obviously wanting the maniac to kill Nyssa (Black Orchid).
That's not fair! The Doctor was obviously just hoping that the nutcase would let the wrong girl go.
The Doctor's secret plan in The Invasion of Time- let your enemy invade and occupy you as a strategy to defeat them. Spend too much time in France, Monsieur Doctor?
Miaow!
(Mind you, that IS reminding me of a joke about the Palestinians listening to their Soviet military advisors: 'Lure the enemy onto your territory and then wait for the winter snows...')
Just off the top of my head:
The opening credits for 'Rose'. An utterly surreal - almost out-of-body, totally out-of-this-world - experience I'd waited (almost) sixteen years for.
The opening credits for 'Eleventh Hour'. There are CLOUDS in the Vortex? Since WHEN!
A cartoon Graham Norton appearing over the glorious climax of Time of Angels to tell us what's next on TV. Americans may find this sort of thing perfectly normal. I DON'T.
The 'No second chances' Doctor deciding to kill himself in order to give the Sontarans currently genociding Earth a second chance. What the ****?
The Tenth Doctor getting so upset at an extra getting exterminated by a Dalek he starts beating his chest Tarzan-style and demanding they kill him too. Um...
Most of Hartnell's behaviour in his first year. Has he SOMEHOW NOT REALISED he's our world-saving hero?!
All of Colin's tenure.
The Tenth Doctor growing himself a FIGHTIN' HAAAND! Bizarre in the RIGHT way.
The villain in Shada - dastardly villain or Liberace tribute act?
Professor Kerensky's death - heartbreaking demise or your dad at a disco?
Judi:The villain in Shada - dastardly villain or Liberace tribute act?
To be fair--the old Adam West Batman series DID guest-star Liberace as a villain(and to make it even more bizarre--he played a pair of twins(the evil one was blackmailing the good one because he used a player piano in a big concert).
The cliffhanger for Dragonfire episode 1...
Seventh Doctor performing for the Gods of Ragnarok
Seventh Doctor consigning the most feared evil in the galaxy to prison with a game of chess.
Nyssas "Snakedance" outfit
Martin CLunes' final outfit in the same serial
The Doctor, having dispatched an entire lighthouse full of people deciding to comment on how lovely Leela's eyes look.
The crazy German medic in "Warriors Of The Deep" doing karate on the Merkl.
2nd Doc dressing like a hippy to hide in Atlantis.
11th Doctor stripping for charity.
The entire episode of "The God Complex"
this WILL be continued...
Kandy Man
Dorium's severed (and still alive) blue head in a box
The headless monks
The cliffhanger for Dragonfire episode 1...
Weirdly enough (or maybe naturally enough, given a lifetime of Who cliffhangers and a penchant for over-literalism) I found it perfectly normal at the time that the Doctor should dangle himself off a cliff for no readily apparent reason...
Seventh Doctor performing for the Gods of Ragnarok
I'd say that was just enbarrassing.
Seventh Doctor consigning the most feared evil in the galaxy to prison with a game of chess.
Consigning the most feared evil in the galaxy to prison with a game of chess had a rightness about it. The pawns acting together, not so much.
The Doctor, having dispatched an entire lighthouse full of people deciding to comment on how lovely Leela's eyes look.
•••• that fiendish Doctor! Imagine having the barefaced evil to examine the eyes of his BLINDED Companion...
(You've now had BOTH your permitted Fang Rock references for the year, and it's only 13th January...)
Dorium's severed (and still alive) blue head in a box
I could take THAT. The thought of said head having wi-fi, however...
The Doctor's wedding. I mean, the DOCTOR'S WEDDING! Alright, it's made SLIGHTLY less bizarre by the fact it's actually a miniaturised Doctor inside a robot Doctor in an alternative about-to-get-wiped-out timeline, but all the same...
The Doctor being a grandfather. Alright, so we've had plenty of time to get used to this particular piece of weirdness, what with it being the very first fact anyone ever learnt about the Doc, but it still hits me occasionally. A GRANDFATHER, for heaven's sake.
Hartnell explaining to his Companions that it's their duty to themselves to scarper, leaving the Thals to die. Hasn't really got the hang of BEING THE DOCTOR, has he. At least with the caveman/rock incident you can pretend to yourself that he really was gonna get the savage to draw a map with said rock...(Well, you can if you're Daniel O'Mahony, the rest of us find it harder to be quite that naive.)
The Fifth Doctor's anti-human bigotry in Warriors Of The Cheap, which allowed many humans to be slaughtered. This was WAY out of character, the Silurians were out to slaughter the human race. Was this any different from say, the Daleks, doing it?
I blame Eric Saward for this. Season 21 was when they began to let him off his leash and increase the violence on Who
To be fair, the Doc HAS endured several centuries of humans being total and utter gits so it's amazing he doesn't have outbursts like that more often. And there can be something SERIOUSLY ADORABLE about the Doc regarding us as stupid apes *nostalgic sigh*. But of course it has to be done by a better writer and a better Doctor than supplied by WotD.
I'm not sure about that, it was too out of character for me.
What was? Him calling us stupid apes?
After having seen Grange Hill character Jessica Samuels who I was convinced was a boy in a skirt and pantyhose until they showed a shot of her lower half, are there any examples of girls or women who looked to you like boys/men?
Well, certainly not Vicki/Polly/Sarah when they were pretending to be boys...
A bizarre moment that never actually happened:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10201930068278521&l=df9a9e951b
Once Emily sees THAT all heck may just break loose on this board. I hope your will is in order...
I'm...not gonna kill anyone.
I'm just wondering why the Doctor didn't use a SIEVE on that primordial slime he encountered in City of Death.
There must have been SOME way of separating out the slime who'd do THIS and build death camps and suchlike from the REST of us, who'd grow up...almost sane.
I don't know Emily--I think it improves both of them!!!!
I mean it gets C.B. out of the clown suit that everyone here seems to hate so much. It even makes it look like Eccy is finally putting some effort into the role.
It's a win/win all around.
I mean it gets C.B. out of the clown suit that everyone here seems to hate so much.
True. Colin Baker sans suit is approximately several million times better than Colin Baker plus suit. (Though he's STILL not gonna make my Top Ten Doctors...)
It even makes it look like Eccy is finally putting some effort into the role.
THAT is your definition of 'effort'?
SERIOUSLY?????????
Oh JEP- that was priceless!
If we're talking Nu Who the worst effect was the train travelling to area 51 in The Wedding Of River Song . I expected the Looney Tunes logo and music to appear in that scene.
Hey! What was wrong with that train?!
I expected the Looney Tunes logo and music to appear in that scene.
Bu-dee, bu-dee! That's all folks!
**once again smiles at the thought of Emily being totally baffled at this reference**
So glad to provide you lot with such endless amusement *shakes head in befuddlement*
So Emily is really Hugh Grant?
I-I'm afraid I'm so charmingly befuddled!
So Emily is really Hugh Grant?
Hmmmm.... I'm sure whilst she may have done some things she's not proud of in her life, I'm pretty certain that banging an ugly hooker in a dark alley in Beverly Hills isn't one of them....
So glad to provide you lot with such endless amusement
Well, I keep telling you to expand your entertainment horizons beyond Doctor Who, Emily. There is lots more out there.
I'm sure whilst she may have done some things she's not proud of in her life, I'm pretty certain that banging an ugly hooker in a dark alley in Beverly Hills isn't one of them....
I'm also FAIRLY unlikely to have turned down the chance to be the Doctor...
Well, I keep telling you to expand your entertainment horizons beyond Doctor Who, Emily.
Are you CRAZY? Only three more months to go till CAPALDI CAPALDI CAPALDI!!
umm.
The extremely non-threatening "monster" in Frontier in Space. Lumey, those Ogrons worship some odd things.
Sarah Jane screaming whilst "falling down" a gentle slope.
Extras desperately trying to get noticed in Horns of Nimon. The Nimon tottering around on high heels. Soldeed is forgiveable as its so high-camp it's funny ("Lord Ni-mon..."). The space pilots flinging themselves about with gusto in the opposite way to the one they're supposed to. "Weakling scum!".
Tom's "I've gone mad" performance when he's got the Key to Time.
Tom bursting out of a paper-bag in the Master's TARDIS.
K9 with laryngitus, saying "ahh". Attempts to give him the kiss of life.
Tom confronted by a gigantic green ******* waving around in Creature from the Pit.
The *****-headed seers in Underworld. Leela going all lovey.
Almost anything to do with Skagra in Shada. Nearly all of it in silver.
The woman who gets shot in Nightmare of Eden, who clutches her chest thirty seconds late whilst looking for her spot to fall onto.
The rather obvious other effect of being strung up in hadron power lines. Hadron...that's an anagram...
Deciding that the obvious thing to do when faced with a whopping great monster is not to run away but to try out some kung-fu on it.
The gossiping Cybermen in Earthshock.
"Impulse laser..?" in Arc of Infinity. Like I'd say "Colt automatic..?" after being shot with one...rather than "argh!"
Body-popping musical androids in Timelash. Paul Darrow was having us on. Tinsel-time.
Ace's utterly surreal and bizarre "seduction" bit in Frenric?
But possibly the most darn weird thing was McCoy's "cliffhanger" in Dragonfire.
Soldeed is forgiveable as its so high-camp it's funny ("Lord Ni-mon...").
Soldeed isn't forgivable. Soldeed is WORSHIPFUL.
Tom's "I've gone mad" performance when he's got the Key to Time.
Leela going all lovey.
But these were SUPPOSED to be bizarre. Everyone's best-loving Doctor suddenly going nuts, everyone's favourite savage suddenly going gooey. ALL Who is basically supposed to be bizarre ('travelling around time and space in a bigger-on-the-inside-police-phone-box' isn't gonna be winning any sanity prizes any time soon) but Old Who only remembers this on rare occasions. Luckily, there are all those ACCIDENTAL moments you're pretty good at pointing out...
Tom bursting out of a paper-bag in the Master's TARDIS.
Blimey. When did THAT happen?!
K9 with laryngitus, saying "ahh". Attempts to give him the kiss of life.
Oh, yeah. Forgot to mention the moments when they're TRYING to be hilariously bizarre...and falling embarrassingly flat.
"Impulse laser..?" in Arc of Infinity. Like I'd say "Colt automatic..?" after being shot with one...rather than "argh!"
I THINK it was before rather than after he was shot...?
Also, I've always found that scene pretty successful at conveying how utterly peaceful Gallifrey IS. We HUMANS wouldn't react like that, but a society where you've all lived through several thousand years of ordered calm...(Give or take the Vardans, the Sontarans, Omega, the Master, the War Lord's people, etc etc...)
Ace's utterly surreal and bizarre "seduction" bit in Frenric?
To be fair, they had to rewrite that in a hurry when a blatantly freezing day put paid to the planned dialogue about the hot sweaty weather making Ace's clothes stick to her.
But hey, why be fair when you can point and GAWP at that hilariously mind-boggling...look, I can't even bring myself to call it a "seduction" scene, even in inverted commas...
But possibly the most darn weird thing was McCoy's "cliffhanger" in Dragonfire.
The one thing weirder than THAT was Moffat deciding to repeat it several hundred times in Name of the Doctor...
The line 'No complications' in Day of the Daleks.
In a critical plot point of The Sensorites, Susan tells the Secretly Evil Sensorite Underling that she can't tell them apart without their sashes. Instead of giving her a lecture on space-racism, SESU decides she's absolutely right, and concocts a scheme to pretend to be the Chief Sensorite by stealing his sash. Which works. Y'know, like that time John Boehner took control of the government by borrowing Obama's tie.
The line 'No complications' in Day of the Daleks.
Where was that?
In a critical plot point of The Sensorites, Susan tells the Secretly Evil Sensorite Underling that she can't tell them apart without their sashes. Instead of giving her a lecture on space-racism, SESU decides she's absolutely right, and concocts a scheme to pretend to be the Chief Sensorite by stealing his sash.
On the plus side, it implies that Sensorite society is more exciting than one might otherwise assume. There'll be an awful lot of husband- and wife-swapping going on if they can only recognise each other by their sashes, and only a few people at the top actually HAVE sashes..
It's a line that's always struck me as bizarre--not the line itself but the delivery. I thought it was just me, but it was mentioned in the DVD documentary (I forgot who, but one of the big names in fandom said he wanted to start a fanzine called 'No Complications'), and someone else was so struck by it that they made a Youtube clip of it, conveniently for you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LTOpfJAcGA
He says his first line in big, slow, dumb Ogron style, and then it's as if he says, 'screw that' and says, 'No complications' hilariously straight.
Sorry, but you won't be able to watch this scene without distraction from now on.
HOW could I have not noticed that, HOW!
No apologies necessary.
This wonderful story will be EVEN MORE FUN in future...
Delta and the Bannermen. In the TV story - the alien played by a puppet that turns into a human baby with green make-up on. And the novelisation - God, I wish the Doctor had stuck to just peering over that shelf...
Hey! Our Hero has saved Earth about a billion times. If he WANTS to pee over a shelf, I say we LET him!
Okay, the obivious question from those of us who never read the novelization is...
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat??????????
Why did the author include a peeing scene?????????
Don't blame the author, blame the proof-reader.
The author wanted the Doctor to PEER over a shelf, but there was an...unfortunate accident...
To be fair, he was in quite a relaxed mood at the time as he'd snuck a look at the book's spine and learned that he only had to deal with a single solitary Bannerman.
At least THAT was a more JUSTIFIABLE accident than the peeing. Had the BBC budget ONLY stretched to Gavrok, would the Bannerman threat REALLY have diminished in any way? Who remembers a single Bannerman except Gavrok?
"Hadron" is clearly a typo.
"Impulse laser..?" in Arc of Infinity. Like I'd say "Colt automatic..?" after being shot with one...rather than "argh!"
I THINK it was before rather than after he was shot...?
It was.
Courtesy of Tumblr:
* an entire fake season of the show had to be made up to make a single companion’s timeline possible
* the last story of the entire run involves the master turning into a cat furry
* a companion nearly gets eaten by a giant clam
* there is an entire season where every villain is the master but in different ludicrous disguises. one time he summons satan
* one time the production team forgot colin baker tied to a pole in the woods
* tom baker’s scarf was supposed to be normal scarf-length, but the person who bought the yarn had no idea how much yarn you need to make a scarf and bought way too much, and the person who was hired to make the scarf wasn’t told to stop. so she just. didn’t
* the fifth doctor had a robot companion who had to be abruptly written off the show after the only person who knew how to operate the robot died
* there is a serial where people are eaten by inflatable furniture and people complained to the bbc that it was too violent
* an alien exiled to a boys’ boarding school on earth was convinced to kill the doctor by a man with a bird shellacked to his scalp. he failed so badly at killing the doctor that he became a companion instead
* UNLIMITED RICE PUDDING
* There is a sequence where the villain rises from the throne on which he has been imprisoned for thousands of years, and you can clearly see a stagehand holding his cushion in place.
* Tom Baker proposed at one point that the Doctor’s new companion should be a talking cabbage, which would sit on his shoulder and be operated by a string.
* There is an entire story where they didn’t have the budget for sets, so they just built miniatures and did the whole thing in front of a blue screen from Part Two on.
* One of the actors got chicken pox during the filming of one of the 60s stories, so they wrote in a sequence where his face gets removed by aliens and the Doctor puts it back on wrong so he looks like a different actor that week.
* Honestly, the ways they covered for actors taking vacations during the era when the show filmed fifty-two weeks a year could be a whole post in and of itself. The Doctor spent an entire episode “sulking” so that William Hartnell could take a week off.
* At one point, they tried to demonstrate a man’s dramatic transformation into a slithering grub monster by wrapping his hand in bubble wrap and spray-painting it green.
* Likewise, a Dalek time machine was represented by a plasma globe from Spencer’s Gifts.
one time the production team forgot colin baker tied to a pole in the woods
Emily will love that one
*and the time he mentions in The Colin Baker Years about the dog and "It wasn't just Fullers Earth that i smeared on my face..."
I ABSOLUTELY love that one, though I doubt they accidentally 'forgot' him...
DID Harry 'nearly get eaten by a giant clam'? He accidentally stepped on/in one. I'm sure that, even without the Doctor'a assistance, even The Imbecile would have stepped out long before any actual eating took place.
Which episode did Hartnell spend sulking?
Seasons one through three+?
I suspect it's The Meddling Monk when he's throwing his food out of the cell.
Getting back to John E. Porteous all these years later:
The Liberace story on Batman has Bruce Wayne (Batman) and Dick Grayson (Robin) go on holiday for most of the first episode with the focus being on Commissioner Gordon and Police Chief O'Hara pooing themselves over having to solve a case on their own.
Dr Kevorkian's death when Marcus and the Mummies kill him
There was no character with that name in Pyramids Of Mars.
I meant Dr Warlock. I was reading Kevorkian's article on Wikipedia in another tab. I'm also drugged up on painkillers right now.
Excuses, excuses...
On a scale from 1 to 10, with 1 being "beastly, rude and horrible" and 10 being "funny", you are about a 3 with that post.
Yeah, the correct thing to do would probably be say 'Sorry to hear that, how are you, Judi?'
(Clara should probably have supplied ALL of us with those helpful cue-cards.)
Anyway, hope you're OK Judi and that you get well and get off 'em before the evil pharmaceutical companies get you addicted.
Emily: compression fracture in my spine.
Eek. Sorry. That sounds...not good.
To be fair to Tim, it's not the first time Natalie has used illnesses as an excuse to write inappropriate stuff.
That being said, I think WHAT she said was far from the worst thing she's written (literally a name....)
beastly, rude and horrible!?
Someone really needs to chill.
And, to be honest with you, Natalie, you've cried "wolf" one too many times for me to take anything you say at face value anymore.
And, to be honest with you, Tim, you sometimes make Andre the Aspie look like Mister Rogers with your abrasive and acerbic remarks.
OK, I know we've had SEVEN AND A HALF MONTHS of no Who with plenty more in sight (not in sight. Whatever.) but we've got to stop picking over petty subjects like our miserable selves and get back to dissecting our Doctor, WORSHIP HER! Or Kroll. Or Turn Left: An Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to Doctor Who Road Signs. You know, something ON TOPIC.
quote:Jesse Pepperell:
The Master: Are you my hunting dog, Midge?
Sweet baby Jesus, the Graham Williams years weren't great but this was as bad as it got, surely?
I was reading through the thread when I suddenly came to Emily's "Hey! Our Hero has saved Earth about a billion times. If he WANTS to pee over a shelf, I say we LET him!" and couldn't stop laughing at that and the ensuing comments.
While the "pee" misprint is amusing, I don't think it holds a candle to the one in the New Adventure The Left-Handed Hummingbird:
"They tried ringing up the universities to get a visitor's ass."