10 Dumb Doctor Who Moments You Can't Help But Love

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The greatest silly moments in all of Doctor Who.

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00:00Doctor Who is full of cringey moments, and sometimes they're just that, cringey, and not in a good way.

00:06Other times, though, there are moments that are so silly and weird that you just have to respect them.

00:11And so, with that in mind, I'm Ellie with WhoCulture, here with 10 dumb Doctor Who moments you can't help but love.

00:19Number 10. Chocolate! In The Vanquishers. And you're welcome, for that lovely performance right there.

00:26Doctor Who Flux, the 13th series of the revival, got mixed reviews following its less-than-stellar final episode, The Vanquishers.

00:33The Doctor splits herself into three different copies, presumably to keep up with the utterly absurd number of side characters in this story.

00:41One version teams up with Dan and Yaz to take down the Sontarans, who have claimed Earth as their own.

00:46When confronting one of the Potato Men, the trio make a rather odd discovery about the species. They love a bit of chocolate.

00:52During an inspection of a corner shop, one Sontaran leader gorges himself on the sweet stuff until the good guys catch him.

00:59They offer to give them the recipe for chocolate in exchange for access to the Sontaran's psychic command centre.

01:05I mean, it's utterly absurd to see a member of the universe's mightiest warrior race so easily controlled by a snack.

01:12And it's also disgusting the way that Sontaran's tongue moves will haunt your nightmares forever.

01:17Still, you know what? It's actually kind of funny.

01:19Certainly one of the most memorable things about this episode, and that is saying quite a lot.

01:249. A One Shark Open Sleigh in A Christmas Carol

01:28Doctor Who's 2010 holiday special saw the Doctor attempt to change the past of Kazran Sardik, a grumpy old man played by Michael Gambon.

01:37Sardik controls a cloud belt, presumably with the Elder Wand, that has ensnared a large space liner,

01:43so the Doctor has to go all Scrooge on him to make him see the error of his ways.

01:47Anyway, one Christmas Eve in Sardik's past, the Doctor decides to take him and their newfound friend Abigail for a sleigh ride.

01:54Not just any sleigh ride, though, one that is powered by a flying shark.

01:58A small boy, an opera singer, and a young Prince Philip flying through the air on a shark-pulled sleigh.

02:04It's silly as all hell, but it's the exact kind of silly that makes this show so endearing.

02:098. Soul Deed's Speech in The Horns of Nymon

02:13Classic Doctor Who should come with a warning for vegetarians, because some of the acting is so hammy that they might not be allowed to watch it.

02:20The Absolute Ham Daddy is this brilliantly naff speech from the fourth Doctor serial The Horns of Nymon.

02:26It's set on two planets and features a minotaur-like species of aliens called Nymons.

02:30It also features a character called Soul Deed, and oh boy, he's a real hoot.

02:35In his final speech to Romana, he speaks like William Shatner on meth, stretching every word out to the oddest extreme.

02:42If he were in a pantomime, the director would take him to one side and tell him to turn it down a bit.

02:47Graham Crowden, the actor who played Soul Deed, sadly passed away in 2010 at 87 years of age.

02:53And we should all take this moment to pay tribute to the man and thank him for gifting us this wonderfully awful scene.

03:007. Dinner Time in The End of Time Part 1

03:03While it can be very silly at times, Doctor Who does also need to be scary for it to work.

03:09Unfortunately, the line between silly and scary sometimes gets a little blurred,

03:13including this scene from the Tenth Doctor's two-part finale, The End of Time.

03:18The Master is hiding out in a junkyard, recently returned to life by a group of his followers.

03:22He's hungry, ravenous in fact, and decides to chow down on a tasty-looking burger.

03:27However, he starts to enjoy the meal a little too much, which freaks out two bystanders.

03:32Oh, and he also eats the poor burger van lady because, well, he's a dick.

03:36This sequence concludes with John Simms screaming the gloriously cheesy line,

03:40DINNER TIME!

03:41before leaping into the air and pouncing on his next meal.

03:44This is Doctor Who melodrama at its very best,

03:47a ridiculous premise performed in a ridiculous manner,

03:50to the point where the threat of the Master is almost compromised.

03:54However, Sim had already built up such goodwill with this version of the character

03:57that the scene is also very easy to enjoy.

04:006. Bend It Like Eleven in The Lodger

04:03Not only is 11th Doctor Matt Smith annoyingly good at acting,

04:07he was also a skilled footballer in his youth.

04:10His grandfather used to play professionally, and Matt wanted to follow in his footsteps.

04:14He played for a number of prominent teams, including Nottingham Forest and Leicester City,

04:18until a back injury put an end to this dream.

04:20We'd feel sorrier for him if he wasn't so talented and handsome.

04:24Smith got the chance to put his footy chops to the test in Series 5's The Lodger,

04:28which features a ridiculous yet impossible-to-dislike scene all about the beautiful game.

04:33When finding out that a pub football team is down a player,

04:35the Doctor joins in, in an effort to appear more human.

04:38Turns out he's great at it, running rings around the other players,

04:40and scoring goals that would make Grandpa Smith proud.

04:43It is an incredibly cringey sequence, and it takes up way too much time in the episode,

04:48but it's nice to see a window into what Smith's footballing career might have actually looked like.

04:535. The Candyman In The Happiness Patrol

04:56Whatever Doctor Who's writers were taking in the 80s should be available on the NHS,

05:00because they were clearly having the best time throwing wacky nonsense at the wall to see what stuck.

05:05One idea that somehow made it to air was this completely bonkers villain

05:09from the 7th Doctor serial, The Happiness Patrol.

05:11Set on a planet where sadness is outlawed,

05:14The Happiness Patrol introduces us to maniacal ruler Helen A.,

05:18yep, that's her name,

05:18and her robot henchman, The Candyman.

05:21He's a robot made of sweets,

05:23like Bertie Bassett meets The Terminator.

05:26Now there's an episode idea.

05:28To give the gassed-up writers their dues,

05:30it's actually not an awful idea.

05:31The whole point of The Happiness Patrol

05:33is to show that Force Joy is actually far deadlier than Lament,

05:36so a killer machine made of tasty treats fits that idea perfectly.

05:40But to take that credit immediately away from them,

05:43the execution here is obviously naff.

05:45The costume, the voice,

05:46the fact that he's a robot made of sweets.

05:49However, we'd be lying if we said we didn't enjoy it.

05:51This is exactly the kind of so-bad-it's-good content Doctor Who is so brilliant at.

05:564. Angelica Scent In Voyage of the Damned

06:00Doctor Who is as big a Christmas tradition for some as a turkey dinner.

06:03The Who Christmas special was one of TV's most anticipated episodes every single year,

06:09even if the writers did tend to take them a bit less seriously than usual.

06:12Take this moment from the 2007 Yuletide broadcast.

06:16After the starship Titanic is hit by an asteroid field

06:18and set on a collision course for Earth,

06:20the surviving passengers begin to lose hope

06:22as their efforts to escape fail spectacularly.

06:25There's only one solution,

06:26an action hero montage featuring the Doctor as John McClane.

06:29After doing his best cool-guys-don't-look-at-explosions walk through some flames,

06:34the Doctor summons two of the angel-like heavenly hosts.

06:37They take him by the arms and fly him straight upwards,

06:39crashing through the floor of the ship's control room.

06:42It is an unbelievably over-the-top sequence,

06:45looking like it came straight out of some sort of parody.

06:47But at the same time, it somehow manages to be incredibly badass.

06:51And it did give us the Alonzi Alonzo moment,

06:54so we can't get too manned about it.

06:55Number 3. Killer Christmas Tree in The Christmas Invasion

06:59At the other end of Tenant's time with the TARDIS,

07:02the newly regenerated Tenth Doctor is unconscious in bed in Jackie Tyler's flat.

07:07Rose and Mickey arrive home to find a strange tree in their living room.

07:10The decoration only gets stranger when it starts to spin violently

07:13and slowly moves towards the terrified humans.

07:15Not wanting to get cut up into festive fleshy ribbons, they run for it.

07:19Look, it's a nice idea, but a murderous Christmas tree?

07:22How on earth are we meant to be scared of that?

07:24That's like having a monster that's a kitten with a laser gun,

07:26or a robot made out of sweets.

07:28Still, you can't say that a spinning Christmas tree of death isn't an iconic visual.

07:32Also, this was the first New Who Christmas special,

07:35so let's give RTD some leeway.

07:36He just got a little carried away.

07:38Although, based on the other festive entries on this list,

07:41the writers clearly didn't get all the silliness out of their systems with this perilous pine.

07:46Number 2. Venusian Aikido in Various Stories

07:49The Doctor is supposedly against violence,

07:52but clearly John Pertwee's third Doctor didn't get that memo.

07:55Whenever this incarnation found himself in a tight spot,

07:58his mantra was punch first, ask questions later.

08:01Using Venusian Aikido against his foes,

08:03this basically came down to making a loud hi-yah noise,

08:06and then chopping away like one of those rock'em sock'em robots.

08:09The sight of Pertwee beating up a sea devil or a Sontaran is bloody hilarious,

08:17but also kind of cool.

08:19Imagine Matt Smith deciding to batter the Minotaur from the God Complex,

08:22or Jodie Whittaker kicking the pating like a football.

08:25You'd have no idea what you were watching,

08:27but you know what? You'd have to respect it.

08:29Venusian Aikido also gave us these glorious behind-the-scenes clips

08:33of Peter Capaldi demonstrating some of Pertwee's moves,

08:36which will absolutely put a smile on your face.

08:38Number 1. Ra Ra Rasputin in The Power of the Doctor

08:42Jodie Whittaker's final regular episode as the Doctor will be remembered for two things.

08:47The appearance of David Tennant as the 14th Doctor,

08:49and Sasha Dewan's master giving the performance of a lifetime to the sounds of Boney M.

08:54After capturing the Doctor with a little help from the Daleks and the Cybermasters,

08:58the renegade Time Lord takes some time to celebrate his glorious achievement.

09:01Oh, and we should probably mention that he's been masquerading as Rasputin prior to this.

09:05While watching the episode for the first time,

09:07you could see where this was going.

09:09With the touch of a button, a sound system begins playing the hit song Rasputin

09:13as the master does a little victory dance.

09:15There are some other things important to the plot going on while this happens,

09:18but who cares?

09:19Just look at this dancing.

09:21It's cringy as all hell,

09:23but you know what?

09:24It's so much fun.

09:25In a way, it's Doctor Who at its best.

09:28The power of the Doctor didn't make much sense,

09:30but it was a big-hearted crowd-pleaser of an episode,

09:33with many moments, including this one,

09:35that Whovians will never, ever forget.

09:37And that concludes our list.

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