in last of the time lords when the doctor t-poses, glows, and floats his way over to the master and the master is yelling "NO... NOO" đđđ i can't take that scene seriously
Agreed. Thatâs way worse than the burger to me; I think we were meant to uncomfortably laugh at the masterâs over the top eating scenes. I personally see no touch of self-awareness in the scene youâre talking about. Itâs weirdly earnest, and I know they had to pivot tone to get to the scenes that follow but it just doesnât flow well.
That scene in TLotTL is 100% earnest for sure.
But The End Of Time really confuses me when it comes to what is meant to be taken seriously and what isn't. The Master's Skeletor actions and the execution of his plan to replace everyone with himself all seem so ridiculously silly they couldn't possibly have been meant entirely earnestly. And yet... they're *massive* plot beats.
This sort of blend of camp and genuine threat is pretty common for Doctor Who. For example, one of NuWho's earliest antagonists was a 'bitchy trampoline' - who nonetheless orchestrated the deaths of a lot of people.
Tonal smooshery is part of the Doctor Who brand.
I agree on the whole, but it isn't so common in the arc-oriented episodes like finales. Especially during the RTD era when he would nearly always treat the threat of the Doctor's main foes very seriously. Just surprising to see silliness take centre stage in such an occasion as Tennant's final story.
I think it's a little of both. With the Master, he may be silly and goofy with his plans, but that doesn't mean that in-universe he isn't a *ridiculous fucking threat*. His whimsy is a cataclysmic force of nature.
So it makes sense for characters to treat it seriously, even if it's *objectively* ridiculous.
I think a good comparison is Moriarty in BBC Sherlock, or even Sheogorath from the Elder Scrolls. Ridiculousness and gravity can be bedfellows.
I feel like his plan in TEoT was genuinely threatening, but what bothered me was the 1000x speed-up, maraca sounding head shaking that everyone did to turn into the master, it was such a weird choice from the special effects department.
A little regeneration or even a basic face morph with an alien glow wouldâve worked perfectly.
"I forgive you," he says, in front of the Master's battered housewife and the woman who just spent a year saving his Dobby-looking ass while her family were imprisoned and tortured
As opposed to when the Angel bots lifted up Ten in Voyage of the Damned and flew him through the spaceship Titanic, that was actually pretty ballin'. :)
"I had a whole year to tune myself into the psychic network, integrate myself with it's matrixes" might be up there for one of the shows worst lines haha
While talking about "Space Jesus" moments, how about the episode immediately afterwards where he gets lifted up by the Host near the end of Voyage of the Damned?
Everyone talks about Love and Monsters like it's the worst episode of the Tennant years but I feel like that's ignoring the various crimes committed in LotTL.
That one scene in New Earth where the cat nurse is supposed to be falling down an elevator shaft. I KNOW the visual effects weren't as great and accessible back then, but... that's a gif of a cat lady falling, with sped up elevator shaft stock footage running behind it, all with a shaking effect applied. Not to mention the sheer VELOCITY that's reached in such a short time.
Oh god yes that shot looks so goofy, same with the shot of the patient touching a nurse and they get visually infected.
Graphics were rough on that episodeâŠ
I feel like everyone needs to be reminded that Doctor Whoâs early series budget was already not great, and 2005-2006 wasnât exactly the pinnacle for realistic special effects anyway.
Is it fucked up if I say the whole moons and egg debacle in kill the moon; it was sooo serious but I was left laughing my arse of at every turn especially with how the Doctor and Claraâs relationship was falling apart and this was the episode shit hit the fan all the while being told the moon is about to hatch. Definitely one of the more unintentionally comedic episodes of the lot.
(creature swims away)
Doctor: "Now, I know what you're thinking. What about the tides and gravitational pull and whatnot? Luckily, past-me helped humanity build an *artificial* moon for when this happens. Should be taking position right about... now."
(giant Death Star like structure thrusts into place where the moon was)
There, I fixed it.
Yeah, it's a deeply flawed episode by most measures, but I kind of enjoy it just for the sheer ridiculousness of the whole thing. It feels like a Comic Relief Doctor Who sketch that got stretched out to 45 minutes!
It is 100% tongue in cheek. The doctor spraying the viruses with the disinfectant and saying "Don't try this at home" is essentially a fourth wall break and taking the piss
Kill The Moon had already a goofy premise even for DW standards, but then the creature pooped out a replacement moon and all stakes just deflated for me
The Masterâs resurrection in The End of Time. A little strange, but I was okay with it⊠until he popped up as a genie, smoky vortex and all. And then he gets superpowers because Lucy Saxon cut it off? HuhâŠ?
Everything about the Wire. Hungry! HUNGRY!
I actually don't mind it, until it cuts back to him later in a birdcage wearing a tiny suit like wtf?! Who made that for him?? đ And then hearing David's voice coming out of it is so silly. He could hardly talk when he was a grandad but he's talking fine when he's a tiny baby thing??
Whenever Tennant is carried by the robots in Voyage of the Damned I can keep it together up until they lift one arm into the Superman pose. Regardless of the not particularly up-to-date effects or the fact there is neither sound nor any visual indication of how the hell these things are able to fly in the first place, that is just outright unnecessary. Not even Murray Gold's score during that scene can save it, and it could've been so wonderful!
>Ryan and that girl sucking their thumbs at each other in slow motion as sad music plays. Truly deranged.
LoL, I thought that was awesome. One of the most 'Who' moments in Chibnall's run - goofy and serious in equal measure.
>Also Tennant carrying the Olympic torch.
This notsomuch...
That forest ep where the missing sister was behind a bush outside her own house cos of how stupidly written it was
The impossible astronaut cliffhanger in slow motion
Its amy slow motion going "IIMM SAAVVIINNGG YYOOUURR LIIFFEE" with matt smith yelling no like darth vader followed by her shooting a literal child. All that put together with the fact the doctor has no idea what shes on about makes it so funny, he should think amy just randomly shot a child (a child they were looking to help btw)
>That forest ep where the missing sister was behind a bush outside her own house cos of how stupidly written it was
I figured the trees found her and transported her there. Not that she'd been living in the bush the entire time. xD
Yeah, I'm not sure what the other guy was meaning when they said he has no funny lines. His character is clearly having fun being flamboyantly demeaning and mocking almost the entire time. It's why it's so effective when he takes on such a sombre tone after the Doctor turns the tables at the end.
I'm reminded of Yzma from Disney's Emperor's New Groove:
"I'll turn him into a flea: a harmless little flea. And then I'll put that flea in a box. And then I'll put that box inside of another box. And then I'll mail that box to myself... and when it arrives... I'll **SMASH IT WITH A HAMMER!!!**"
I thought he was brilliant and often genuinely unsettling, but a few bits were also a bit campy! But creepy mixed with campy is a time-honoured Who tradition, after all!
What's also funny about that is the child is wearing the exact same outfit that Roger Delgado's Master often wore. So did he find an outfit he liked at the age of 8 and just kept buying the same thing over and over for centuries?
When I was a kid, I would go to Subway with my mom, and I would say âLook Mom, Iâm the Masterâ and proceed to violently chomp down my sandwich as fast as possible with an evil expression on my face.
In hindsight the burger scenes are pretty funny but I also thought it was quite a smart way to make people uncomfortable on Christmas day. Almost everyone watching that episode live would have been uncomfortably full of food by the time it aired.
âPizza. P-P-P-P-Pizzaâ. I donât think itâs meant to be serious but I donât know how funny itâs meant to come across as all the while Rose is just completely clueless to it
My favorite is when they're having dinner together, and he starts glitching basically saying "honey, babe, sugar." And stops glitching and smiles at her. That entire plastic Mickey gimmick was so good
A lot of Orphan 55. I always laugh when Benni proposes and then asks to be shot. I know that's dark but the juxtaposition of the two statements and his blunt delivery of the line is so unexpected, I just can't help but laugh
god that bit always makes me cackle. i rewatched that episode recently and it's just so damn funny. everyone else gets stuff that you can imagine is actually getting to their deepest fears or touching on big issues of theirs, like jefferson is haunted by his wife, ida has some type of daddy issues, danny has some type of guilt about lying, the doctor is the killer of his own kind, rose gets told she'll die in battle soon. and then it pans to toby and the literal devil is like this one is a virgin
not so much a line, and maybe it was meant to be funny, but that clip in TDF when the doctor is explaining how he hacked the cybermen, and it shows him falling and then like.. typing on the computer with such vigour. it reads like those dramas where someone trips and somehow falls down every flight of stairs ever. it is so funny to me
It wasn't meant to be serious, just a cute tribute. It had Her Maj evacuating the Palace in slippers and curlers while confused corgis romped downstairs around her ankles, for goodness sake! She did used to watch Who religiously, apparently, at least during RTD's run.
Obviously the scenario of a spaceship with a nuclear stormdrive crashing into central London was extremely serious, but the scenes with the Queen (and the moment when the Doctor looks at where the Titanic's heading, and - oh, of *course* it had to be Buckingham Palace!) are definitely done for laughs. Affectionate laughs, but laughs. The Christmas specials especially tended to have little touches like that, and Voyage of the Damned was one of the more pantomimey of the Xmas specials.
Lol I definitely donât think that was a serious scene; just formal which I understand why Doctor who is owned by the BBC who are in turn owned by the powers that be (unofficialđ) so theyâd never let RTD make a direct joke at the monarchies expense outside of the the Werewolf one which he slipped in.
There's a bit in The Husbands of River Song where Capaldi rants about the concept of monarchy, I think Russell merely wrote this in Voyage because it made him laugh.
13's death. All the dramatic music, slo-mo and horrified reactions from the companions... as the Doctor is lightly grazed by a hastily created energy beam. It's just such a dumb way to go out, and such a massive disservice to Jodie.
I genuinely donât understand why they didnât just have the forced regeneration and reversal be the reason for her end.
Itâs even more baffling that they had the process greatly injure The Master âŠ. but not The Doctor.
I donât think the master was killed I just think he was mildly injured also like the doctor but worse as he was closer to the thing he was using , I donât even think he was even woke up in time to get off that cyber planet thingđ€Ł
Oh my goodness, I remember watching that like âoh yes, almost forgot, we need to dispose of 13!â
Was thinking there would be some last minute revelation that required a poignant sacrifice from the Doctor.
But instead, she just kind of⊠gets shot⊠while sheâs walking away.
When the 10th doctor called Buckingham palace and warned them that the Titanic is about to crash into them, and then the queen and her corgis running down the hall just seems kinda ridiculous. No way she could have gotten someplace safe in time and even if there was a bunker underneath the palace, the impact crater alone would render it rather useless.
Kill the Moon when Clara slams the button... and it flashes in the boldest brightest text [ABORT]
Im sorry but the fact anyone is seriously still convinced its some fictional conspiracy what that episode is *really* about is so funny to me and that moment really just encapsulates it (in a depressing sort of way). Same to the 'Not my ~~body~~ planet, not my choice'.
It was supposed to be about "a woman's right to choose"... but the analogy was so clumsy it ends up with the exact opposite of the intended message.
It's not really Clara's choice to stop the moon from being killed because the people with their actual lives and wellbeing at stake made their choice and they chose to kill the moon. Clara gets to fly off in the TARDIS and never deal with the consequences.
But never mind because it turns out saving the moon's life had no consequences, everything just works out. So it's totally okay to force people to keep unwanted pregnancies actually 'cause when people are denied access to abortions, life just turns out sunshine and roses. :) /s
the awful drawings in fear her
the doctor turning into a drawing
the scribble monsters' introduction
the attempt to put earth in her drawing which is in the earth which is in her drawing which is in earth...
Jackie believing the "ghost" was her dad. Her facial expression just didn't make the scene (to me anyways) look as serious as it was most likely meant to be. Even with that "see Im right" look.
Always thought the end of Extremis is pretty funny when Capaldiâs like âIM BLIIIIINDâ and from what I remember they sorta do a quick zoom as the title music begins to aggressively vroom in as per usual. I think itâs a mixture of capaldis super intense delivery and how left field it is, and the fact that itâs fairly devoid of dramatic tension.
omg yes! me and my friends think that line is so fucking funny, itâs so over dramatic for no reason. like even my friends who donât watch who think itâs funny, why did they write it like that (or at all)
It seems that the entirety of "The Voyage of the Damned" was supposed to be funny then; there's almost enough comments on that episode to recreate scene by scene.
I'd just call Voyage of the Damned on the upper end of the Doctor Who kitsch/camp scale, which I think is different to being a comedy. There's a lot of camp episodes and especially villains in Who that aren't taken lightly at all.
I think he's good when he's doing the young upstart fake-smiles politician vibes, and "DINNERTIME" kinda scared me, but EOT!Simm is just so cheesy and unsubtle
"Sonic wave! It's the spaceship it's hit the atmosphere!"
Every time I watch Christmas Invasion, I lose it when Llewellyn just pops up, shouts his line, and cuts away. So wonderfully hammy.
Don't forget the conclusion to this heartbreaking deeply personal story being she gets covered with barbecue sauce and eaten by a dinosaur.
Torchwood was honestly batshit
Still not as bad as the bouncer jerking off to the CCTV in the womens bathroom when the guy orgasms to death. That scene was a real trip and made watching with the parents an experience.
I'm still amused that the alien from the Torchwood episode with the mindreading amulet is from the same species as one that briefly shows up in SJA to give Sarah-Jane a trinket, and the franchise never acknowledges that one of their criminals had already visited earth.
To be fair I can't imagine there being much crossover in audience, the only people who would watch both are the hardcore fans and for them it's a subtle nod and wink so as not to make regular viewers feel left out (Hey kids, if you want the whole story, you'll have to watch the show where everyone is having sex with everyone else and then drugging anyone who finds out!)
That scene actually unnerved me. It was unexpected body horror, and it still creeps me out a little if I watch it today. The actorâs performance helps sell it as he gradually begins to struggle with normal speech due to the rapid final transformation happening under the skin.
I get you. I think for me it's knowing captain darlings (shamefully I'm too lazy to Google his actual name) acting career that throws it off completely.
The end of that one episode in season 1 where the Doctor and Rose are leaving in the TARDIS and Mickey tries to run after them and just...*barrels* straight through the disappearing TARDIS only to smash face first into the wall.
I remember seeing that scene for the first time as a kid - me and my siblings just about *died* laughing.
Was it supposed to be serious though?
Mickey was the definition of butt monkey in DW for quite some time, until his sudden character growth in Cybermen two-parter
Probably an unpopular opinion: I couldn't take the speech he gave at the end of The Doctor's Daughter seriously. Idk what it was, it felt like an SNL skit making fun of Shakespeare or something, its so randomly deep and emotional I find it very funny lol
Two women in Wales negotiating on behalf of the human race to give away parts of the planet to the Silurians. Can you be a bit more British exceptionalist please
The first time I watched that episode that face scene terfied me I screamed pretty loud out of genuine fear but after seeing that scene some more I'm used to it and ya it does just kinda look like a Snapchat filter
Humour is subjective. It's simply the fact of how it goes from being quite a sad conversation between her and Donna and then out of the blue repetition of ice-cream. I agree with the face too though haha.
I always thought she was saying "I screamed" which to me makes sense in context (and also made it super sad) because they did ask who screamed when running into the room, but if it has been ice-cream this entire time that's so dumb lol
I took it as her echo degrading to the point of a single signal repeating over and over until it finally flickers out. To me it feels seamlessly connected to the conversation previously.
11 saying, "I am the doctor and you are the daleks!" The scene leading up to that is great but it's the last part that takes me out of it. The kick doesn't help.
in last of the time lords when the doctor t-poses, glows, and floats his way over to the master and the master is yelling "NO... NOO" đđđ i can't take that scene seriously
Agreed. Thatâs way worse than the burger to me; I think we were meant to uncomfortably laugh at the masterâs over the top eating scenes. I personally see no touch of self-awareness in the scene youâre talking about. Itâs weirdly earnest, and I know they had to pivot tone to get to the scenes that follow but it just doesnât flow well.
That scene in TLotTL is 100% earnest for sure. But The End Of Time really confuses me when it comes to what is meant to be taken seriously and what isn't. The Master's Skeletor actions and the execution of his plan to replace everyone with himself all seem so ridiculously silly they couldn't possibly have been meant entirely earnestly. And yet... they're *massive* plot beats.
This sort of blend of camp and genuine threat is pretty common for Doctor Who. For example, one of NuWho's earliest antagonists was a 'bitchy trampoline' - who nonetheless orchestrated the deaths of a lot of people. Tonal smooshery is part of the Doctor Who brand.
I agree on the whole, but it isn't so common in the arc-oriented episodes like finales. Especially during the RTD era when he would nearly always treat the threat of the Doctor's main foes very seriously. Just surprising to see silliness take centre stage in such an occasion as Tennant's final story.
I think it's a little of both. With the Master, he may be silly and goofy with his plans, but that doesn't mean that in-universe he isn't a *ridiculous fucking threat*. His whimsy is a cataclysmic force of nature. So it makes sense for characters to treat it seriously, even if it's *objectively* ridiculous. I think a good comparison is Moriarty in BBC Sherlock, or even Sheogorath from the Elder Scrolls. Ridiculousness and gravity can be bedfellows.
Aren't there plenty of villains out there that are both goofy and terrifying? Plenty of cartoon examples come to mind...
Bill Cipher, for one
Remember, this is the same guy who accidentally destroyed a quarter of the universe in Logopolis. And then held the remaining three quarters hostage
I feel like his plan in TEoT was genuinely threatening, but what bothered me was the 1000x speed-up, maraca sounding head shaking that everyone did to turn into the master, it was such a weird choice from the special effects department. A little regeneration or even a basic face morph with an alien glow wouldâve worked perfectly.
"I forgive you," he says, in front of the Master's battered housewife and the woman who just spent a year saving his Dobby-looking ass while her family were imprisoned and tortured
As opposed to when the Angel bots lifted up Ten in Voyage of the Damned and flew him through the spaceship Titanic, that was actually pretty ballin'. :)
Itâs even better without the music-
[For context ](https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGJ9xp6HY/)
Murray Gold did so much legwork! Glad heâs coming back with RTD.
It was so Messianic I expected the extras to break into "Jesus Christ: Superstar"
T pose magic is incredibly powerful
"I had a whole year to tune myself into the psychic network, integrate myself with it's matrixes" might be up there for one of the shows worst lines haha
Doctor Who's 'Alright, I've hacked into the mainframe and disabled their algorithms'
Floating Jesus Doctor is the cringiest thing in NuWho, and that includes the farting aliens from S1.
Do you mean the Slythein? Sure, they had a fart joke. Once the costumes were off, they were hunters.
One of the recurring themes/conventions of Who is that being silly and/or camp doesn't mean that something isn't also deadly and/or terrifying.
It says something when it's the 2nd least Deus ex machina out of the first 4 finales. The least Deus is Doomsday.
what if we kissed đł at the breach between two parallel universes
I had never thought that literally half of those series finales the doctor is beaten and only wins cause of bullshit that just happened.
While talking about "Space Jesus" moments, how about the episode immediately afterwards where he gets lifted up by the Host near the end of Voyage of the Damned?
Everyone talks about Love and Monsters like it's the worst episode of the Tennant years but I feel like that's ignoring the various crimes committed in LotTL.
Also in Voyage of the Damned when the Doctor is carried by the Angel robot things. Itâs so silly I love it
LMAO yes, every darn time, even watching it as a kid
That one scene in New Earth where the cat nurse is supposed to be falling down an elevator shaft. I KNOW the visual effects weren't as great and accessible back then, but... that's a gif of a cat lady falling, with sped up elevator shaft stock footage running behind it, all with a shaking effect applied. Not to mention the sheer VELOCITY that's reached in such a short time.
Oh god yes that shot looks so goofy, same with the shot of the patient touching a nurse and they get visually infected. Graphics were rough on that episodeâŠ
I feel like everyone needs to be reminded that Doctor Whoâs early series budget was already not great, and 2005-2006 wasnât exactly the pinnacle for realistic special effects anyway.
I lose it every time at that scene đ still love that episode, though
Went from 0 to 100m/s real quick
Is it fucked up if I say the whole moons and egg debacle in kill the moon; it was sooo serious but I was left laughing my arse of at every turn especially with how the Doctor and Claraâs relationship was falling apart and this was the episode shit hit the fan all the while being told the moon is about to hatch. Definitely one of the more unintentionally comedic episodes of the lot.
One of the hardest laughs Iâve had with this show was when that girl exclaimed, âoh my gosh it laid an egg!â Just lmao
(creature swims away) Doctor: "Now, I know what you're thinking. What about the tides and gravitational pull and whatnot? Luckily, past-me helped humanity build an *artificial* moon for when this happens. Should be taking position right about... now." (giant Death Star like structure thrusts into place where the moon was) There, I fixed it.
Yeah legitimately. It literally hatched and then immediately laid an egg the exact same size as the one it just hatched from
Yeah, it's a deeply flawed episode by most measures, but I kind of enjoy it just for the sheer ridiculousness of the whole thing. It feels like a Comic Relief Doctor Who sketch that got stretched out to 45 minutes!
I mean, some of it is serious, but the reveal is dripping in humour, Capaldi is revelling in the comedy of saying "the moon's an egg."
It is 100% tongue in cheek. The doctor spraying the viruses with the disinfectant and saying "Don't try this at home" is essentially a fourth wall break and taking the piss
Kill The Moon had already a goofy premise even for DW standards, but then the creature pooped out a replacement moon and all stakes just deflated for me
Not to mention a new moon was immediately laid so it was a pregnant baby
Maybe it's like fish eggs, where a space creature has to come by and fertilize them later.
Some species are born pregnant. Aphids, for example.
"But the moon isn't made of rock and stone, is it? It's made of eggshell!"
Rock and Stone to the Bone!
The Masterâs resurrection in The End of Time. A little strange, but I was okay with it⊠until he popped up as a genie, smoky vortex and all. And then he gets superpowers because Lucy Saxon cut it off? HuhâŠ? Everything about the Wire. Hungry! HUNGRY!
Feeeed Meee!
Every time Maureen Lipman pops up on Corrie I'm like oh there's that Doctor Who tv lady đ€Ł
This oneâs tasty! Iâll have lashings of him. Delicious!
When the Master shriveled Ten into that dwarf CGI thing⊠just come on now
I actually don't mind it, until it cuts back to him later in a birdcage wearing a tiny suit like wtf?! Who made that for him?? đ And then hearing David's voice coming out of it is so silly. He could hardly talk when he was a grandad but he's talking fine when he's a tiny baby thing??
the Master commissioned the suit for him, of course
I don't think that'd be out of character at all either.
What about when he lived in that little tent with a dog bowl next to it
>Who made that for him?? You just know the Master would have found commissioning that suit funny as hell
THE MASTER HAS GIVEN DOBBY A SOCK!
Whenever Tennant is carried by the robots in Voyage of the Damned I can keep it together up until they lift one arm into the Superman pose. Regardless of the not particularly up-to-date effects or the fact there is neither sound nor any visual indication of how the hell these things are able to fly in the first place, that is just outright unnecessary. Not even Murray Gold's score during that scene can save it, and it could've been so wonderful!
Voyage of the Dammed is just.. I can't. It's too much.
>Whenever Tennant is carried by the robots in Voyage of the Damned I love that episode, but that "carried away by angels" thing is just weird.
When the Statue of Liberty shows up grimacing with evil intent.
I believe that's referred to as "pulling a Ghostbusters 2"
As if no one in New York was looking at it!
Ryan and that girl sucking their thumbs at each other in slow motion as sad music plays. Truly deranged. Also Tennant carrying the Olympic torch.
oh god i forgot about that in orphan 55
Just Orphan 55 in general.
I wish I just completely forget Orphan 55.
BENNNNNNIIII
I can digest a lot of Doctor Who cringiness, but that olympic torch scene is so hard for me to take seriously
The commentator made it so, so much worse. > THE OLYMPIC DREAM IS.. DEAD!
>Ryan and that girl sucking their thumbs at each other in slow motion as sad music plays. Truly deranged. LoL, I thought that was awesome. One of the most 'Who' moments in Chibnall's run - goofy and serious in equal measure. >Also Tennant carrying the Olympic torch. This notsomuch...
That forest ep where the missing sister was behind a bush outside her own house cos of how stupidly written it was The impossible astronaut cliffhanger in slow motion
Its amy slow motion going "IIMM SAAVVIINNGG YYOOUURR LIIFFEE" with matt smith yelling no like darth vader followed by her shooting a literal child. All that put together with the fact the doctor has no idea what shes on about makes it so funny, he should think amy just randomly shot a child (a child they were looking to help btw)
I know right?! It was so out of the blue
>That forest ep where the missing sister was behind a bush outside her own house cos of how stupidly written it was I figured the trees found her and transported her there. Not that she'd been living in the bush the entire time. xD
>The impossible astronaut cliffhanger in slow motion I don't know why but I get weirdly emotional at this one lol
To be fair kids are usually in the last place you look
God that forest episode was fucking horrendous
Baines in Family of Blood has literally nothing funny to say, but his face makes everything he says unserious.
I guarantee you that face and performance (but mostly the face) is why he was cast as Viserys Targaryen.
Indeed, mother of mine
Holy shit, how did I never make that connection?!
There are actually two GoT actors in that episode!
Holy shit, same đČ
I was today years old when I learned Baines and Viserys were the same actor, holy smokes.
Well shit.
**SHUTUPSTOPTALKINGCEASEANDDESISTTHERE'SAGOODGIRL!**
Yeah, I'm not sure what the other guy was meaning when they said he has no funny lines. His character is clearly having fun being flamboyantly demeaning and mocking almost the entire time. It's why it's so effective when he takes on such a sombre tone after the Doctor turns the tables at the end.
He's my pick for best guest performance in the show, he is *so* compelling
LOVE this bit
"We'll blast them into dust, then fuse the dust into glass, then shatter them all over again!" That's cartoon villainy.
I'm reminded of Yzma from Disney's Emperor's New Groove: "I'll turn him into a flea: a harmless little flea. And then I'll put that flea in a box. And then I'll put that box inside of another box. And then I'll mail that box to myself... and when it arrives... I'll **SMASH IT WITH A HAMMER!!!**"
I dunno what youâre on but I thought the actor did a genuinely creepy job
I thought he was brilliant and often genuinely unsettling, but a few bits were also a bit campy! But creepy mixed with campy is a time-honoured Who tradition, after all!
The one that makes me laugh the hardest (typed as spoken): "Cumnao Docktorr, thersagoodboii.." Makes me snicker every time haha
I loved it tbh. Really sold the idea of being an alien in a human body.
I think the family does a great job at leaning into the uncanny valley. Despite looking normal there's always something off about them.
It's basically this: https://media.moddb.com/cache/images/members/5/4361/4360870/thumb\_620x2000/zuqwgy86xsa41\_1.jpg
The Master as a child staring into the Untempered Schism takes way too long zooming into his eyes lol
What's also funny about that is the child is wearing the exact same outfit that Roger Delgado's Master often wore. So did he find an outfit he liked at the age of 8 and just kept buying the same thing over and over for centuries?
He's wearing something more akin to the Time Lord robes from The War Games than Delgado's outfit.
That's basically what every version of the doctor does. 11 lived hundreds of years and only changed his outfit a couple times.
The Master was supposed to have gone insane from that, and he just⊠widens his eyes a little.
he's transfixed, what you have him do? a backflip? would be sick tbh but
I think that child actor passed away.
When I was a kid, I would go to Subway with my mom, and I would say âLook Mom, Iâm the Masterâ and proceed to violently chomp down my sandwich as fast as possible with an evil expression on my face.
BENI! BENI! BENI!
Save my Beni!!!
Which one of you killed my Beni?!
In hindsight the burger scenes are pretty funny but I also thought it was quite a smart way to make people uncomfortable on Christmas day. Almost everyone watching that episode live would have been uncomfortably full of food by the time it aired.
Micky getting absorbed by a wheely bin. Low budget and crap CGI but always makes me laugh
âPizza. P-P-P-P-Pizzaâ. I donât think itâs meant to be serious but I donât know how funny itâs meant to come across as all the while Rose is just completely clueless to it
My favorite is when they're having dinner together, and he starts glitching basically saying "honey, babe, sugar." And stops glitching and smiles at her. That entire plastic Mickey gimmick was so good
A lot of Orphan 55. I always laugh when Benni proposes and then asks to be shot. I know that's dark but the juxtaposition of the two statements and his blunt delivery of the line is so unexpected, I just can't help but laugh
When the devil calls a guy a virgin
god that bit always makes me cackle. i rewatched that episode recently and it's just so damn funny. everyone else gets stuff that you can imagine is actually getting to their deepest fears or touching on big issues of theirs, like jefferson is haunted by his wife, ida has some type of daddy issues, danny has some type of guilt about lying, the doctor is the killer of his own kind, rose gets told she'll die in battle soon. and then it pans to toby and the literal devil is like this one is a virgin
[the most unintentionally funny moment in Doctor Who.](https://youtu.be/R8oHKAUmMdM)
SHE TRIIIIED TO KILL HIM WITH A FORK-LIIIIFT!
Olé!
I was not expecting an MST reference to be here, thank you
not so much a line, and maybe it was meant to be funny, but that clip in TDF when the doctor is explaining how he hacked the cybermen, and it shows him falling and then like.. typing on the computer with such vigour. it reads like those dramas where someone trips and somehow falls down every flight of stairs ever. it is so funny to me
When 12 is firing on all cylinders, HE IS FIRING ON ALL CYLINDERS DAMMIT
that part in voyage of the damned where the Queen thanks the Doctor for saving her đ itâs played as such a serious scene but god is it funny
It wasn't meant to be serious, just a cute tribute. It had Her Maj evacuating the Palace in slippers and curlers while confused corgis romped downstairs around her ankles, for goodness sake! She did used to watch Who religiously, apparently, at least during RTD's run. Obviously the scenario of a spaceship with a nuclear stormdrive crashing into central London was extremely serious, but the scenes with the Queen (and the moment when the Doctor looks at where the Titanic's heading, and - oh, of *course* it had to be Buckingham Palace!) are definitely done for laughs. Affectionate laughs, but laughs. The Christmas specials especially tended to have little touches like that, and Voyage of the Damned was one of the more pantomimey of the Xmas specials.
Yeah the queen was just there for the Xmas episode in a non serious way. Especially as we usually have a royal speech on xmas day.
If Chris was still the doctor, he'd have let it crash
"Parasite in Chief in her Idiot Hat"
Based
Lol I definitely donât think that was a serious scene; just formal which I understand why Doctor who is owned by the BBC who are in turn owned by the powers that be (unofficialđ) so theyâd never let RTD make a direct joke at the monarchies expense outside of the the Werewolf one which he slipped in.
There's a bit in The Husbands of River Song where Capaldi rants about the concept of monarchy, I think Russell merely wrote this in Voyage because it made him laugh.
The ninth doctor saying kys to a dalek
Bob? Not you too, Bob!
13's death. All the dramatic music, slo-mo and horrified reactions from the companions... as the Doctor is lightly grazed by a hastily created energy beam. It's just such a dumb way to go out, and such a massive disservice to Jodie.
I genuinely donât understand why they didnât just have the forced regeneration and reversal be the reason for her end. Itâs even more baffling that they had the process greatly injure The Master âŠ. but not The Doctor.
I donât think the master was killed I just think he was mildly injured also like the doctor but worse as he was closer to the thing he was using , I donât even think he was even woke up in time to get off that cyber planet thingđ€Ł
Oh my goodness, I remember watching that like âoh yes, almost forgot, we need to dispose of 13!â Was thinking there would be some last minute revelation that required a poignant sacrifice from the Doctor. But instead, she just kind of⊠gets shot⊠while sheâs walking away.
Still better than the 7th Doctor's death.
Completely agree. That was the most âoh shit we were supposed to make her regenerateâ moment Iâve ever seen
The entire Chibby era was a massive disservice to Jodie so itâs par for the course.
YOU ARE SUPERIOR IN ONLY ONE RESPECT. YOU ARE BETTER AT DYING. Hilarious and terrifying all at once.
Nobody mentioned the absorbaloff running?! When the footage is sped up to make it look like a bigger threat?
Answers based on the absorbaloff episode are disqualified for being too easy.
I chose to not acknowledge that episode besides Rose busting in ready to beat that dude's ass.
Whereâs my Bennayyyyy!
When the 10th doctor called Buckingham palace and warned them that the Titanic is about to crash into them, and then the queen and her corgis running down the hall just seems kinda ridiculous. No way she could have gotten someplace safe in time and even if there was a bunker underneath the palace, the impact crater alone would render it rather useless.
Kill the Moon when Clara slams the button... and it flashes in the boldest brightest text [ABORT] Im sorry but the fact anyone is seriously still convinced its some fictional conspiracy what that episode is *really* about is so funny to me and that moment really just encapsulates it (in a depressing sort of way). Same to the 'Not my ~~body~~ planet, not my choice'.
It was supposed to be about "a woman's right to choose"... but the analogy was so clumsy it ends up with the exact opposite of the intended message. It's not really Clara's choice to stop the moon from being killed because the people with their actual lives and wellbeing at stake made their choice and they chose to kill the moon. Clara gets to fly off in the TARDIS and never deal with the consequences. But never mind because it turns out saving the moon's life had no consequences, everything just works out. So it's totally okay to force people to keep unwanted pregnancies actually 'cause when people are denied access to abortions, life just turns out sunshine and roses. :) /s
the awful drawings in fear her the doctor turning into a drawing the scribble monsters' introduction the attempt to put earth in her drawing which is in the earth which is in her drawing which is in earth...
Jackie believing the "ghost" was her dad. Her facial expression just didn't make the scene (to me anyways) look as serious as it was most likely meant to be. Even with that "see Im right" look.
Always thought the end of Extremis is pretty funny when Capaldiâs like âIM BLIIIIINDâ and from what I remember they sorta do a quick zoom as the title music begins to aggressively vroom in as per usual. I think itâs a mixture of capaldis super intense delivery and how left field it is, and the fact that itâs fairly devoid of dramatic tension.
omg yes! me and my friends think that line is so fucking funny, itâs so over dramatic for no reason. like even my friends who donât watch who think itâs funny, why did they write it like that (or at all)
This thread is full of examples of things that were supposed to be funny.
It seems that the entirety of "The Voyage of the Damned" was supposed to be funny then; there's almost enough comments on that episode to recreate scene by scene.
I'd just call Voyage of the Damned on the upper end of the Doctor Who kitsch/camp scale, which I think is different to being a comedy. There's a lot of camp episodes and especially villains in Who that aren't taken lightly at all.
"Benny!!!"
Almost everything John Simmsâ Master does or says. Having not yet seen his comeback in S10, Iâve found him *impossible* to take seriously
I think he's good when he's doing the young upstart fake-smiles politician vibes, and "DINNERTIME" kinda scared me, but EOT!Simm is just so cheesy and unsubtle
"Sonic wave! It's the spaceship it's hit the atmosphere!" Every time I watch Christmas Invasion, I lose it when Llewellyn just pops up, shouts his line, and cuts away. So wonderfully hammy.
If Torchwood counts, then its the Cyberwoman for me. Absolutely heartbreaking plot on paper, but then there's the slutty halloween cyberman costume...
Don't forget the conclusion to this heartbreaking deeply personal story being she gets covered with barbecue sauce and eaten by a dinosaur. Torchwood was honestly batshit
Still not as bad as the bouncer jerking off to the CCTV in the womens bathroom when the guy orgasms to death. That scene was a real trip and made watching with the parents an experience.
I'm still amused that the alien from the Torchwood episode with the mindreading amulet is from the same species as one that briefly shows up in SJA to give Sarah-Jane a trinket, and the franchise never acknowledges that one of their criminals had already visited earth.
To be fair I can't imagine there being much crossover in audience, the only people who would watch both are the hardcore fans and for them it's a subtle nod and wink so as not to make regular viewers feel left out (Hey kids, if you want the whole story, you'll have to watch the show where everyone is having sex with everyone else and then drugging anyone who finds out!)
Who told you that **any** of NuWho was supposed to be taken seriously? :P
Captain Darling turning into an Ood
That scene actually unnerved me. It was unexpected body horror, and it still creeps me out a little if I watch it today. The actorâs performance helps sell it as he gradually begins to struggle with normal speech due to the rapid final transformation happening under the skin.
I get you. I think for me it's knowing captain darlings (shamefully I'm too lazy to Google his actual name) acting career that throws it off completely.
HOW DARE YOU DARLING!
Oh my God, I can't believe I never realised that's the same actor as Captain Darling before.
The British soldiers in Empress of Mars turned into bouncy balls was both terrifying and hilarious
Tennant standing in the rain looking like a drowned cat trying to look sad and profound.
I donât think thatâs supposed to be serious
The forklift confrontation between Astrid and Capricorn.
The end of that one episode in season 1 where the Doctor and Rose are leaving in the TARDIS and Mickey tries to run after them and just...*barrels* straight through the disappearing TARDIS only to smash face first into the wall. I remember seeing that scene for the first time as a kid - me and my siblings just about *died* laughing.
Was it supposed to be serious though? Mickey was the definition of butt monkey in DW for quite some time, until his sudden character growth in Cybermen two-parter
The purple dude from Flux going "There is a war between time and space and time will not lose" is such pure gibberish it gets a huge laugh from me
Too much Voyage of the Damned slander in this thread
Just rewatched it two days ago, it's a *ridiculous* episode at the very least.
Probably an unpopular opinion: I couldn't take the speech he gave at the end of The Doctor's Daughter seriously. Idk what it was, it felt like an SNL skit making fun of Shakespeare or something, its so randomly deep and emotional I find it very funny lol
Two women in Wales negotiating on behalf of the human race to give away parts of the planet to the Silurians. Can you be a bit more British exceptionalist please
Thirteen's regeneration where she just eats ice cream with a poorly done hand glow. It looked hilarious.
"The Moon is an Egg"
Miss Evangelistas death in Silence in the Library when she starts to repeat ice-cream over and over.
Humor is really subjective because I found her death the most heartbreaking.
Idk why youâd think thats funny. Her face in the library database on the other handâŠ
The first time I watched that episode that face scene terfied me I screamed pretty loud out of genuine fear but after seeing that scene some more I'm used to it and ya it does just kinda look like a Snapchat filter
Humour is subjective. It's simply the fact of how it goes from being quite a sad conversation between her and Donna and then out of the blue repetition of ice-cream. I agree with the face too though haha.
I always thought she was saying "I screamed" which to me makes sense in context (and also made it super sad) because they did ask who screamed when running into the room, but if it has been ice-cream this entire time that's so dumb lol
I took it as her echo degrading to the point of a single signal repeating over and over until it finally flickers out. To me it feels seamlessly connected to the conversation previously.
"I can't. It's wood." "IT DOESN'T DO WOOD?!"
Seeing him devour stuff in seconds and talk about how hungry he is makes me hungry too.
The Statue of Liberty teleporting across New York and no-one ever mentions it again
11 saying, "I am the doctor and you are the daleks!" The scene leading up to that is great but it's the last part that takes me out of it. The kick doesn't help.
11 does do this thing sometimes where he sounds like he's drunk when he yells, and it always takes me out of it
Cyberwoman. Great story. But then the BARBECUE SAUCE????
Surprised to not see the Mark Gatiss vampire flesh scorpion on here
the rasputin scene. my grandma and i were pissing ourselves. donât know if it was meant to be serious per sĂ©, as obviously a serious thing was happening but at the same time they MADE it funny with the song choice, but still
Any line Missy said was comedic gold!