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00:00Doctor Who is by its very nature a weird show. A face-changing alien flying through space in a
00:06phone box? That's weird. The show has given its fans plenty of nutty moments over the years,
00:11for better or for worse. But which ones stand out as the strangest of the strange? With that being
00:17said, I'm Crispy with WhoCulture and welcome to 10 Biggest WTF Doctor Who Moments.
00:23Number 10. Rory Punches Hitler, Let's Kill Hitler.
00:27You know it's going to be a crazy video when Let's Kill Hitler is only number 10.
00:31After the blockbuster revelation that River Song was Amy and Rory's daughter,
00:35the sixth series of New Who returned after an agonizing three-month wait with an absolutely
00:39wild trip back to 1938. During a convoluted series of events involving their friend Mel
00:45regenerating into their brainwashed assassin's daughter, the Ponds come face to face with one
00:49of history's biggest monsters when the TARDIS crashes into his office in Berlin. A short while
00:53later, Rory, who was kind of developing into this action hero in series 6, ends up socking the
00:58dictator right in the mush after he begins firing a gun. And thus, one of the most jiffable moments
01:04in Doctor Who was born. A T-time adventure show including Adolf Hitler at all is pretty bold,
01:09but going as far to show him on screen with a weapon and then have one of the main characters
01:13knock him out? That is a new level of bonkers, and we're totally here for it.
01:17Oh, and bonus points for the subsequent SHUT UP HITLER and Rory locking him in the cupboard. I mean,
01:22chef's kiss.
01:23Number 9. Davros gets emotional. The Witch's Familiar.
01:27From his introduction in 1975, Davros has always been presented as a nasty piece of work,
01:32attempting to conquer the universe with his own twisted set of ideals. The creator of the Daleks
01:37is one of the ultimate big bads in all of Doctor Who, which is why the episode's decision to humanize
01:42him was so controversial. In The Witch's Familiar, the 12th Doctor ends up chatting with Daddy Davros,
01:47and the two share a surprisingly heartfelt moment. Davros reveals that he is dying,
01:51and appears to express regret at the life that he had lived. He even sheds a few tears,
01:55an unthinkable concept for such a dastardly villain. Audiences were stunned, and so was the Doctor,
02:01who repeatedly expresses confusion at what the hell he is witnessing. But this all turned out
02:05to be a giant ruse to siphon some of the Doctor's regeneration energy. But there was a point where it
02:10looked like one of the most evil beings in all of Who was actually showing some kind of remorse.
02:15Some people loved the twist on the character and hoped that Davros was being genuine, while others
02:19thought it went against everything he stood for. Regardless of your stance, it was totally
02:23unexpected to see him get all weepy. Number 8, Cardboard Companion, The Mind Robber.
02:29The entirety of 1968's The Mind Robber is a peculiar affair, consisting of the second Doctor wandering
02:35around the land of fiction. A realm where nothing is as it seems. Here, the Doctor and his companions
02:40encounter all kind of weirdness, from creaky clockwork soldiers shambling about the place,
02:45to a 17th century Englishman seemingly pulled out of time. Totally normal stuff. Possibly the
02:50strangest moment in the serial is a sequence where Jamie is unexpectedly turned into a cardboard cutout,
02:55with his face going missing. The Doctor is then forced to reassemble Jamie's face using a nearby
03:00selection of eyes, noses, and mouths, but unfortunately, he gets it wrong, and when Jamie returns to his fleshy
03:06form, he has a completely different appearance. This plot point came about via a last-minute rewrite
03:11after actor Fraser Hines contracted chickenpox, forcing the role to be temporarily recast. The
03:16Doctor's baffled response to this discount Jamie is pure gold, resulting in one of the most delightfully
03:21odd Doctor Who moments ever. Number 7, Gorillas Can Flush, The God Complex.
03:27Returning to Series 6, The God Complex is a cracking episode about a hotel with room containing
03:32everyone's darkest fears. In the episode's cold open, Lucy Heywood is confronted by her phobia.
03:37Clearly she was terrified of that Cabri advert where the gorilla played the drums, because her room
03:42appeared to contain that very same gorilla, albeit a little bit more low budget. And as if the laughably
03:47fake looking outfit wasn't strange enough, we see the gorilla first emerge from the bathroom,
03:51holding a roll of toilet paper. I'm sorry, what? Is Lucy scared of gorillas in general, or gorillas in
03:57toilets? Who trained that gorilla to use an indoor toilet? Why did it take the toilet paper out of the
04:02bathroom? I mean, we could just go on here. The other fears in this episode, laughing puppets,
04:07sad clowns, weeping angels, even overly stern parents are all portrayed effectively, which makes
04:12this bloke in a cheap eight suit even weirder. And the fact that it appears to have just taken a dump
04:16doesn't exactly make it more threatening. But hey, I mean, when you gotta go, you gotta go.
04:22Number 6, Death Montage, Heaven Sent. After watching Clara die in the previous episode,
04:28the Doctor finds himself in a mysterious location with no idea how he got there. He's also being
04:33pursued by some sort of cloaked monster that can kill you with a single touch. So far, so bizarre.
04:38Throughout Heaven Sent, the Doctor finds out that he's in a confession dial, a Time Lord device to
04:42trap prisoners in a never-ending hell. He eventually figures a way out of the dial, but only after dying
04:48a lot. Like, really a lot. Watching the Doctor dragging his dying body through the castle before
04:54frazzling his head and killing himself over and over again is heart-racing stuff. The scale and scope
04:59of what's going on is mind-boggling and speaks volume to the legendary tenacity that makes the
05:04Doctor such a great hero. Heaven Sent is just such a what the f*** episode in general. Not in a bad way,
05:10not in a weird way like many entries on this list, but because of how far it pushed the Doctor and the
05:15show itself to territory, it rarely ventures. Number 5, Not So Creepy Crawlies, The Web Planet.
05:22Most early sci-fi looks hokey by modern standards, and Doctor Who is no exception. Case in point,
05:28The Web Planet. The first Doctor serial from 1965 transport the Doctor and his buddies to a distant
05:33land, where they end up getting caught between various different creepy-crawly species. The serial
05:38was written by Bill Strutton, who was inspired by a childhood memory where he was bitten by a bull ant.
05:42Although, in Strutton's mind, those ants were probably not a bunch of extras in rather unconvincing suits.
05:48Indeed, the costuming for the ant-like Zarby and the butterfly fellas have
05:51aged like a bowl of leftover fish fingers and custard in the sun. It was a different time with
05:56a much lower budget, of course, but it's undeniably jarring to go back and watch this footage today.
06:01There's even a moment where one of the Zarby actors, who couldn't see properly out of the
06:05suit, bumps into the camera. I mean, that's one way to get yourself noticed.
06:09Number 4, Space Pig, Aliens of London. Aliens of London kicks off with a huge spaceship crashing into
06:15the Thames. And of course, the 9th Doctor has to investigate. After sneaking into a unit facility
06:20where the alien body is being housed, he soon finds out that the creature isn't only alive,
06:24but it isn't an alien at all. The pilot of the craft was actually a regular old Earth
06:29Pig, modified by extraterrestrial tech. That's weird enough as it is, but things get even weirder
06:34when the little oinker starts running on its hind legs while the Doctor chases after it. I mean,
06:39look at his little legs go. It's quite adorable, isn't it? Sadly though, things don't end well for
06:44our Astro Pig when it's gunned down by a unit soldier. Wait, did Doctor Who make me emotional
06:49about a pig in a spacesuit? Number 3, Ood on the Loot, Pond Life. Between series 6 and 7 of New
06:56Who, the BBC put out 5 Minnesodes of Pond Life, a series of shorts depicting what the Doctor and the
07:01ponds were getting up to in between the main episodes. Highlights of these shorts include the Doctor
07:05running away from some tyrants while holding a surfboard, the Doctor bursting in while
07:09Amy and Rory are in bed, and this gem in the third episode. Rory, in his dressing gown,
07:14is off to do his own business. However, when he opens the door to his bathroom,
07:17he finds a bloody oo just sat there on his toilet, asking if he can be of any assistance.
07:22The timing is perfect, as is Rory's reaction and the music that accompanies this skit. All of this
07:27without mentioning the sight of the big tenticle alien casually popping up on the loo as if it's the
07:32most normal thing in the world. Pond Life was a proper treat. Number 2, The Matrix.
07:38The Deadly Assassin. Sadly, not a crossover between Tom Baker and Keanu Reeves. This serial
07:43from 1976 sees the fourth Doctor take on the Master in a battle that will determine the fate
07:48of Gallifrey. Here, the Doctor enters the Matrix, which is essentially a super computer containing
07:53all manner of Time Lord knowledge. When the Doctor is loaded into it, things get super wacky super
07:58quickly. Our hero turns up in a quarry, where else, where he falls down a hill for no decent reason.
08:04He then ends up on an operating table, while a man with a ridiculously oversized syringe stands over him.
08:09Then, a bloke and a horse turn up, and there's also a creepy clown thrown in for good measure.
08:13Basically, what we're trying to say is that everything goes mental, and it's wonderful. The
08:18whole sequence is like something out of a piece of surrealist cinema. It's completely unhinged,
08:22but it probably did a good job of putting an entire generation of children off psychedelic drugs.
08:28Number one, a bit of a love life, Love and Monsters. It couldn't be anything else, could it? It's
08:34obviously been said countless times by now, but Love and Monsters is a bloody weird episode of Doctor
08:39Who. The first half of the episode involving Elton's everyday life and Linda's search for the Doctor
08:43is actually quite good, but the absolute apex of what the f*** comes right at the end when Elton talks
08:49about his relationship with Ursula. You know, Ursula, the woman the Doctor saved by forcing her to live this
08:54horrible life as a paving slab because of Elton being too selfish to let her die? After the Doctor
09:00brings her back, Ursula joins her dearest Elton for a recording of his video diary. In it, he talks
09:05about their situation and utters the immortal line, we've even got a bit of a love life. Nope, just, nope.
09:12Now that RTD is showrunner again, maybe he'll revisit the Ursula situation and free her from this
09:17pavement slab purgatory. Or, more likely, she'll be trapped there forever, but hey, maybe we don't dwell on
09:23that thought, okay? And that is our list. Please let us know your thoughts in the comments below,
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