The greatest silly moments in all of Doctor Who.
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00:00 Doctor Who is full of cringey moments, and sometimes they're just that, cringey, and not in a good way.
00:06 Other times, though, there are moments that are so silly and weird that you just have to respect them.
00:11 And so, with that in mind, I'm Ellie with WhoCulture, here with 10 dumb Doctor Who moments you can't help but love.
00:18 Number 10. Chocolate! In The Vanquishers. And you're welcome for that lovely performance right there.
00:26 Doctor Who Flux, the 13th series of the revival, got mixed reviews following its less-than-stellar
00:31 final episode, The Vanquishers. The Doctor splits herself into three different copies,
00:36 presumably to keep up with the utterly absurd number of side characters in this story.
00:40 One version teams up with Dan and Yaz to take down the Son'tarans, who have claimed Earth as their own.
00:45 When confronting one of the Potato Men, the trio make a rather odd discovery about the species.
00:51 They love a bit of chocolate. During an inspection of a corner shop, one Son'taran leader gorges
00:56 himself on the sweet stuff until the good guys catch him. They offer to give them the recipe
01:00 for chocolate in exchange for access to the Son'taran's psychic command centre. I mean,
01:05 it's utterly absurd to see a member of the universe's mightiest warrior race so easily
01:10 controlled by a snack. And it's also disgusting the way that Son'taran's tongue moves will haunt
01:15 your nightmares forever. Still, you know what? It's actually kind of funny. Certainly one of
01:20 the most memorable things about this episode, and that is saying quite a lot.
01:24 Number 9. A one-shark-open sleigh in a Christmas Carol
01:28 Doctor Who's 2010 holiday special saw The Doctor attempt to change the past of Kazran Sardik,
01:34 a grumpy old man played by Michael Gambon. Sardik controls a cloud belt, presumably with the Elder
01:40 Wand, that has ensnared a large space liner, so The Doctor has to go all Scrooge on him to make
01:45 him see the error of his ways. Anyway, one Christmas Eve in Sardik's past, The Doctor decides
01:50 to take him and their newfound friend Abigail for a sleigh ride. Not just any sleigh ride, though.
01:55 One that is powered by a flying shark. A small boy, an opera singer, and a young Prince Philip
02:02 flying through the air on a shark-pulled sleigh. It's silly as all hell, but it's the exact kind
02:06 of silly that makes this show so endearing. Number 8. Sol-Deed's speech in The Horns of Nymon
02:13 Classic Doctor Who should come with a warning for vegetarians, because some of the acting is so
02:18 hammy that they might not be allowed to watch it. The Absolute Ham Daddy is this brilliantly naff
02:23 speech from the fourth Doctor serial, The Horns of Nymon. It's set on two planets and features a
02:28 minotaur-like species of aliens called Nymons. It also features a character called Sol-Deed,
02:33 and oh boy, he's a real hoot. In his final speech to Romana, he speaks like William Shatner on meth,
02:40 stretching every word out to the oddest extreme. If he were in a pantomime, the director would
02:44 take him to one side and tell him to turn it down a bit. Graham Crowden, the actor who played Sol-Deed,
02:49 sadly passed away in 2010 at 87 years of age, and we should all take this moment to pay tribute to
02:55 the man and thank him for gifting us this wonderfully awful scene. Number 7. Dinner
03:01 Time in The End of Time Part 1. While it can be very silly at times, Doctor Who does also need
03:07 to be scary for it to work. Unfortunately, the line between silly and scary sometimes gets a
03:12 little blurred, including this scene from the 10th Doctor's two-part finale, The End of Time.
03:18 The Master is hiding out in a junkyard, recently returned to life by a group of his followers. He's
03:23 hungry. Ravenous, in fact, and decides to chow down on a tasty-looking burger. However, he starts
03:28 to enjoy the meal a little too much, which freaks out two bystanders. Oh, and he also eats the poor
03:34 burger van lady because, well, he's a dick. This sequence concludes with John Simm screaming the
03:38 gloriously cheesy line "Dinner Time!" before leaping into the air and pouncing on his next meal.
03:44 This is Doctor Who melodrama at its very best. A ridiculous premise performed in a ridiculous manner,
03:50 to the point where the threat of the Master is almost compromised. However, Simm had already
03:55 built up such goodwill with this version of the character that the scene is also very easy to enjoy.
04:00 Number 6 - Bend It Like Eleven in The Lodger
04:04 Not only is 11th Doctor Matt Smith annoyingly good at acting, he was also a skilled footballer
04:09 in his youth. His grandfather used to play professionally, and Matt wanted to follow in
04:13 his footsteps. He played for a number of prominent teams, including Nottingham Forest and Leicester
04:17 City, until a back injury put an end to this dream. We'd feel sorrier for him if he wasn't
04:22 so talented and handsome. Smith got the chance to put his footy chops to the test in Series 5's The
04:27 Lodger, which features a ridiculous yet impossible to dislike scene all about the beautiful game.
04:33 When finding out that a pub football team is down a player, the Doctor joins in, in an effort to
04:37 appear more human. Turns out he's great at it, running rings around the other players and scoring
04:41 goals that would make Grandpa Smith proud. It is an incredibly cringey sequence, and it takes up way
04:46 too much time in the episode, but it's nice to see a window into what Smith's footballing career
04:51 might have actually looked like. Number 5 - The Candyman in The Happiness Patrol
04:56 Whatever Doctor Who's writers were taking in the 80s should be available on the NHS,
05:00 because they were clearly having the best time throwing wacky nonsense at the wall to see what
05:04 stuck. One idea that somehow made it to air was this completely bonkers villain from the
05:09 seventh Doctor serial, The Happiness Patrol. Set on a planet where sadness is outlawed,
05:14 The Happiness Patrol introduces us to maniacal ruler Helen A, yep that's her name, and her robot
05:19 henchman, The Candyman. He's a robot made of sweets, like Bertie Bassett meets the Terminator.
05:26 Now there's an episode idea. To give the gassed up writers their dues, it's actually not an awful
05:31 idea. The whole point of The Happiness Patrol is to show that forced joy is actually far
05:35 deadlier than lament, so a killer machine made of tasty treats fits that idea perfectly. But
05:40 to take that credit immediately away from them, the execution here is obviously naff. The costume,
05:46 the voice, the fact that he's a robot made of sweets. However, we'd be lying if we said we
05:50 didn't enjoy it. This is exactly the kind of "so bad it's good" content Doctor Who is so brilliant
05:55 at. Number 4, Angelica's Scent in Voyage of the Damned. Doctor Who is as big a Christmas tradition
06:02 for some as a turkey dinner. The Who Christmas special was one of TV's most anticipated episodes
06:07 every single year, even if the writers did tend to take them a bit less seriously than usual.
06:12 Take this moment from the 2007 Yuletide broadcast. After the Starship Titanic is hit by an asteroid
06:18 field and set on a collision course for Earth, the surviving passengers begin to lose hope as
06:22 their efforts to escape fail spectacularly. There's only one solution, an action hero
06:27 montage featuring the Doctor as John McClane. After doing his best "cool guys don't look at
06:32 explosions" walk through some flames, the Doctor summons two of the angel-like heavenly hosts.
06:36 They take him by the arms and fly him straight upwards, crashing through the floor of the ship's
06:41 control room. It is an unbelievably over-the-top sequence, looking like it came straight out of
06:46 some sort of parody, but at the same time it somehow manages to be incredibly badass,
06:51 and it did give us the Alonso Alonso moment, so we can't get too mad about it.
06:56 Number 3, Kill a Christmas Tree in The Christmas Invasion. At the other end of Tenants' Time with
07:01 the TARDIS, the newly regenerated Tenth Doctor is unconscious in bed in Jackie Tyler's flat.
07:06 Rose and Mickey arrive home to find a strange tree in their living room. The decoration only
07:11 gets stranger when it starts to spin violently and slowly moves towards the terrified humans,
07:15 not wanting to get cut up into festive fleshy ribbons, they run for it.
07:19 Look, it's a nice idea, but a murderous Christmas tree? How on earth are we meant to be scared of
07:23 that? That's like having a monster that's a kitten with a laser gun, or a robot made out of sweets.
07:28 Still, you can't say that a spinning Christmas tree of death isn't an iconic visual. Also,
07:32 this was the first New Who Christmas special, so let's give RTD some leeway,
07:36 he just got a little carried away. Although, based on the other festive entries on this list,
07:41 the writers clearly didn't get all the silliness out of their systems with this perilous pine.
07:45 2. Venusian Aikido in various stories
07:49 The Doctor is supposedly against violence, but clearly John Pertwee's third Doctor didn't get
07:54 that memo. Whenever this incarnation found himself in a tight spot, his mantra was "punch first,
07:59 ask questions later." Using Venusian Aikido against his foes, this basically came down
08:04 to making a loud "Haiya!" noise, and then chopping away like one of those Rock 'Em Sock 'Em robots.
08:12 The sight of Pertwee beating up a sea devil or a Sontaran is bloody hilarious,
08:17 but also kinda cool. Imagine Matt Smith deciding to batter the Minotaur from the God Complex,
08:22 or Jodie Whittaker kicking the pating like a football. You'd have no idea what you were
08:26 watching, but you know what? You'd have to respect it. Venusian Aikido also gave us these glorious
08:32 behind-the-scenes clips of Peter Capaldi demonstrating some of Pertwee's moves,
08:36 which will absolutely put a smile on your face.
08:39 1. Ra Ra Rasputin in The Power of the Doctor Jodie Whittaker's final regular episode as the
08:45 Doctor will be remembered for two things; the appearance of David Tennant as the 14th Doctor,
08:49 and Sasha Dewan's master giving the performance of a lifetime to the sounds of Boney M.
08:54 After capturing the Doctor with a little help from the Daleks and the Cybermasters,
08:57 the renegade Time Lord takes some time to celebrate his glorious achievement.
09:01 Oh, and we should probably mention that he's been masquerading as Rasputin prior to this.
09:05 While watching the episode for the first time, you could see where this was going.
09:09 With the touch of a button, a sound system begins playing the hit song Rasputin as the
09:13 Master does a little victory dance. There are some other things important to the plot going
09:17 on while this happens, but who cares? Just look at this dancing. It's cringey as all hell, but
09:23 you know what? It's so much fun. In a way, it's Doctor Who at its best. The Power of the Doctor
09:28 didn't make much sense, but it was a big-hearted crowd-pleaser of an episode, with many moments,
09:34 including this one, that Whovians will never, ever forget.
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