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00:00Doctor Who is by its very nature a weird show. A face-changing alien flying through space in a
00:05phone 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.
00:26You 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 Pons 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 tea-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. Oh, and bonus points
01:18for
01:18the subsequent SHUT UP HITLER and Rory locking him in the cupboard. I mean, chef's kiss.
01:24Number 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 and appears to
01:51express regret at the life that he had lived. He even sheds a few tears, an unthinkable concept
01:57for such a dastardly villain. Audiences were stunned and so was the Doctor, who repeatedly expresses
02:02confusion at what the hell he is witnessing. But this all turned out to be a giant ruse to siphon
02:07some
02:07of the Doctor's regeneration energy. But there was a point where it looked like one of the most evil
02:12beings in all of Who was actually showing some kind of remorse. Some people love the twist on the
02:16character and hope that Davros was being genuine, while others thought it went against everything
02:20he stood for. Regardless of your stance, it was totally unexpected to see him get all weepy.
02:26Number 8. Cardboard Companion, The Mind Robber
02:28The 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 kinds 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 strangest
02:51moment in the serial is a sequence where Jamie is unexpectedly turned into a cardboard cutout with
02:56his face going missing. The Doctor is then forced to reassemble Jamie's face using a nearby selection of
03:00eyes, noses and mouths, but unfortunately, he gets it wrong. And when Jamie returns to his fleshy form,
03:06he has a completely different appearance. This plot point came about via a last-minute rewrite after
03:11actor Fraser Hines contracted chickenpox, forcing the role to be temporarily recast. The Doctor's
03:17baffled 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
04:02the bathroom? 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 this bloke
04:13in a cheap eight suit even weirder. And the fact that it appears to have just taken a dump doesn't
04:17exactly make it more threatening. But hey, I mean, when you gotta go, you gotta go.
04:22Number six, 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
04:43trap 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 episode in general. Not in a bad
05:10way,
05:10not in a weird way like many entries on this list, but because of how far it pushed the doctor
05:14and 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 Zabi and the butterfly fellas have aged like a bowl of
05:53leftover fish fingers and custard in the sun. It was a different time with a much lower budget,
05:57of course, but it's undeniably jarring to go back and watch this footage today. There's even a moment
06:02where one of the Zabi actors, who couldn't see properly out of the suit, bums into the camera. I mean,
06:07that's one way to get yourself noticed. Number 4. Space Pig. Aliens of London. Aliens of London kicks
06:13off with a huge spaceship crashing into the Thames, and of course, the Ninth Doctor has to investigate.
06:18After sneaking into a unit facility where the alien body is being housed, Eesu finds out that the
06:23creature isn't only alive, but it isn't an alien at all. The pilot of the craft was actually a regular
06:28old earth pig, modified by extraterrestrial tech. That's weird enough as it is, but things get even
06:34weirder when the little oinker starts running on its hind legs while the Doctor chases after it.
06:38I mean, look at his little legs go. It's quite adorable, isn't it? Sadly though, things don't
06:44end well for our Astro Pig when it's gunned down by a unit soldier. Wait, did Doctor Who make me
06:48emotional about a pig in a space suit? Number 3. Ood on the Loot. Pond Life.
06:54Between series 6 and 7 of New Who, the BBC put out 5 Minnesodes of Pond Life. A series of
06:59shorts
06:59depicting what the Doctor and the ponds were getting up to in between the main episodes. Highlights of the
07:04shorts include the Doctor running away from some tyrants while holding a surfboard, the Doctor
07:08bursting in while Amy and Rory are in bed, and this gem in the third episode. Rory, in his dressing
07:13gown, is off to do his own business. However, when he opens the door to his bathroom, he finds a
07:18bloody
07:18oo just sat there on his toilet, asking if he can be of any assistance. The timing is perfect,
07:23as is Rory's reaction and the music that accompanies this skit. All of this without mentioning the sight of
07:29the big tenticle alien casually popping up on the loo as if it's the most normal thing in the world.
07:34Pond Life was a proper treat. Number 2. The Matrix. The Deadly Assassin.
07:40Sadly, not a crossover between Tom Baker and Keanu Reeves. This serial from 1976 sees the fourth
07:45Doctor take on the Master in a battle that will determine the fate of Gallifrey. Here, the Doctor
07:50enters the Matrix, which is essentially a supercomputer containing all manner of Time Lord knowledge.
07:55When the Doctor is loaded into it, things get super wacky super quickly. Our hero turns up in a quarry,
08:00where else, where he falls down a hill for no decent reason. He then ends up on an operating
08:05table while a man with a ridiculously oversized syringe stands over him. Then, a bloke and a horse
08:10turn up, and there's also a creepy clown thrown in for good measure. Basically, what we're trying to
08:15say is that everything goes mental and it's wonderful. The whole sequence is like something
08:19out of a piece of surrealist cinema. It's completely unhinged, but it probably did a good job of putting an
08:24entire generation of children off psychedelic drugs. Number 1. A bit of a love life, Love and Monsters.
08:31It couldn't be anything else, could it? It's obviously been said countless times by now,
08:36but Love and Monsters is a bloody weird episode of Doctor Who. The first half of the episode
08:40involving Elton's everyday life and Linda's search for the Doctor is actually quite good,
08:45but the absolute apex of what the f*** comes right at the end when Elton talks about his
08:49relationship with Ursula. You know, Ursula, the woman the Doctor saved by forcing her to live
08:54this horrible 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,
09:04he talks about their situation and utters the immortal line, we've even got a bit of a love life.
09:10Nope, just nope. Now that RTD is showrunner again, maybe he'll revisit the Ursula situation and free
09:16her from this pavement slab purgatory. Or, more likely, she'll be trapped there forever, but hey,
09:22maybe we don't dwell on that thought, okay? And that is our list. Please let us know your thoughts
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09:41Allons-y!
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