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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
00:17but love.
00:19Number 10. Chocolate! In The Vanquishers. And you're welcome, for that lovely performance right there.
00:25Doctor Who Flux, the 13th series of the revival, got mixed reviews following its less-than-stellar final episode, The
00:32Vanquishers.
00:33The Doctor splits herself into three different copies, presumably to keep up with the utterly absurd number of side characters
00:39in this story.
00:40One 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
00:52bit of chocolate.
00:52During an inspection of a corner shop, one Sontaran leader gorges himself on the sweet stuff until the good guys
00:58catch 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
01:11snack.
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
01:35played 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
01:53sleigh 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
02:18might 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 Nymon's.
02:31It 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
02:42extreme.
02:42If he were in a pantomime, the director would take him to one side and tell him to turn it
02:46down a bit.
02:47Graham Crowden, the actor who played Soul Deed, sadly passed away in 2010 at 87 years of age.
02:54And we should all take this moment to pay tribute to the man and thank him for gifting us this
02:57wonderfully 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 Sim 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.
04:00Number 6, 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.
04:23Smith 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.
04:53Number 5, The Candyman in The Happiness Patrol
04:55Whatever 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 seventh 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,
05:17yep, that's her name,
05:18and her robot henchman, The Candyman.
05:21He's a robot made of sweets, like Bertie Bassett meets the Terminator.
05:26Now there's an episode idea.
05:28To give the gassed-up writers their dues, it's actually not an awful idea.
05:31The whole point of The Happiness Patrol is to show that Force Joy is actually far deadlier than Lament,
05:37so a killer machine made of tasty treats fits that idea perfectly.
05:40But to take that credit immediately away from them,
05:42the execution here is obviously naff.
05:45The costume, the voice, the fact that he's a robot made of sweets.
05:48However, 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.
05:56Number 4. Angelica Scent in Voyage of the Damned
06:00Doctor Who is as big a Christmas tradition for some as a turkey dinner.
06:04The 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.
06:15After the starship Titanic is hit by an asteroid field and set on a collision course for Earth,
06:20the surviving passengers begin to lose hope as their efforts to escape fail spectacularly.
06:25There's only one solution, an action hero montage featuring the Doctor as John McClane.
06:30After 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, looking like it came straight out of some sort
06:46of parody. But at the same time, it somehow manages to be incredibly badass. And it did give
06:52us the Alonzi Alonzo moment, so we can't get too manned about it.
06:56Number 3. Killer Christmas Tree in The Christmas Invasion
06:59At the other end of Tenant's time with the TARDIS, the newly regenerated Tenth Doctor is unconscious
07:05in bed in Jackie Tyler's flat. Rose 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 and slowly moves towards the
07:14terrified humans. Not 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? How on earth are we meant to be scared of
07:23that?
07:24That's like having a monster that's a kitten with a laser gun, or 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, so let's give RTD some leeway.
07:36He just got a little carried away. Although, 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, but clearly John Pertwee's third Doctor didn't get that memo.
07:55Whenever this incarnation found himself in a tight spot, his mantra was punch first, ask questions later.
08:00Using Venusian Aikido against his foes, this basically came down to making a loud hi-ya noise,
08:06and then chopping away like one of those rock'em-sock'em robots.
08:09Hi-ya!
08:11Ya-ho-ho-ho!
08:12The sight of Pertwee beating up a sea devil or a Sontaran is bloody hilarious, but also kinda cool.
08:18Imagine 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, but you know what? You'd have to respect it.
08:29Venusian Aikido also gave us these glorious behind-the-scenes clips of Peter Capaldi
08:34demonstrating some of Pertwee's moves, which will absolutely put a smile on your face.
08:39Number 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,
08:57the 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, you 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, but who cares?
09:19Just look at this dancing.
09:21It's cringy as all hell, but 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, but it was a big-hearted crowd-pleaser of an episode,
09:33with many moments, including this one, that Whovians will never, ever forget.
09:37And that concludes our list.
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09:53I've been Ellie with Who culture, and in the words of Riversong herself,
09:56goodbye, sweeties.
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