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00:00 Doctor Who is by its very nature a weird show. A face-changing alien flying through space in a phone box?
00:06 That's weird. The show has given its fans plenty of nutty moments over the years, for better or for worse.
00:12 But which ones stand out as the strangest of the strange? With that being said,
00:17 I'm Crispy with Who Culture and welcome to 10 Biggest WTF Doctor Who Moments.
00:22 Number 10, Rory Punches Hitler, Let's Kill Hitler.
00:27 You know it's going to be a crazy video when Let's Kill Hitler is only number 10. After the
00:32 blockbuster revelation that River Song was Amy and Rory's daughter, the sixth series of New Who returned after an agonizing three-month wait, with an absolutely
00:39 wild trip back to 1938. During a convoluted series of events involving their friend Mel
00:45 regenerating into their brainwashed assassin's daughter, the Pons come face-to-face with one of history's biggest
00:50 monsters when the TARDIS crashes into his office in Berlin. A short while later, Rory, who was kind of developing into this action hero
00:56 in series 6, ends up socking the dictator right in the mush after he begins firing a gun. And thus, one of the most jiffable
01:03 moments in Doctor Who was born. A tea time adventure show including Adolf Hitler at all is pretty bold,
01:08 but going as far to show him on screen with a weapon and then have one of the main characters knock him out?
01:13 That is a new level of bonkers, and we're totally here for it.
01:17 Oh, and bonus points for the subsequent "Shut up Hitler" and Rory locking him in the cupboard. I mean, chef's kiss.
01:23 Number 9 - Davros gets emotional. The Witch's Familiar. From his introduction in
01:28 1975, Davros has always been presented as a nasty piece of work,
01:32 attempting to conquer the universe with his own twisted set of ideals. The creator of the Daleks is one of the ultimate big bads in
01:38 all of Doctor Who, which is why the episode's decision to humanize him was so controversial. In The Witch's Familiar,
01:44 the Twelfth Doctor ends up chatting with Daddy Davros, and the two share a
01:48 surprisingly heartfelt moment. Davros reveals that he is dying and appears to express regret at the life that he had lived. He even sheds a
01:55 few tears, an unthinkable concept for such a dastardly villain. Audiences were stunned,
01:59 and so was the Doctor, who repeatedly expresses confusion at what the hell he is witnessing.
02:04 But this all turned out to be a giant ruse to siphon some of the Doctor's regeneration energy.
02:09 But there was a point where it looked like one of the most evil beings in all of Who was actually showing some kind of remorse.
02:15 Some people loved the twist on the character and hoped that Davros was being genuine, while others thought it went against everything he stood for.
02:21 Regardless of your stance, it was totally unexpected to see him get all weepy.
02:25 Number 8 - Cardboard Companion - The Mind Robber. The entirety of 1968's The Mind Robber is a peculiar affair,
02:33 consisting of the Second Doctor wandering around the land of fiction, a realm where nothing is as it seems. Here, the Doctor and his companions
02:40 encounter all kind of weirdness, from creaky clockwork soldiers shambling about the place, to a 17th century Englishman seemingly pulled out of time.
02:48 Totally normal stuff. Possibly the strangest moment in the serial is a sequence where Jamie is
02:53 unexpectedly turned into a cardboard cutout, with his face going missing. The Doctor is then forced to reassemble Jamie's face using a nearby selection of eyes,
03:01 noses, and mouths, but unfortunately, he gets it wrong, and when Jamie returns to his fleshy form,
03:06 he has a completely different appearance. This plot point came about via a last-minute rewrite after actor Fraser Hines
03:12 contracted chickenpox, forcing the role to be temporarily recast. The Doctor's baffled response to this discount
03:18 Jamie is pure gold, resulting in one of the most delightfully odd Doctor Who moments ever.
03:23 Number 7 - Gorillas Can Flush - The God Complex.
03:26 Returning to series 6, The God Complex is a cracking episode about a hotel with room containing
03:32 everyone's darkest fears. In the episode's cold open, Lucy Haywood is confronted by her phobia. Clearly
03:38 she was terrified of that cabaret advert where the gorilla played the drums, because her room appeared to contain that very same gorilla, albeit a
03:44 little bit more low-budget. And as if the laughably fake-looking outfit wasn't strange enough,
03:48 we see the gorilla first emerge from the bathroom holding a roll of toilet paper.
03:53 I'm sorry, what? Is Lucy scared of gorillas in general, or gorillas in toilets? Who trained that gorilla to use an indoor toilet?
04:00 Why did it take the toilet paper out of the bathroom?
04:03 I mean, we could just go on here. The other fears in this episode - laughing puppets, sad clowns, weeping angels, even overly stern parents -
04:10 are all portrayed effectively, which makes this bloke in a cheap eight suit even weirder.
04:14 And the fact that it appears to have just taken a dump doesn't exactly make it more threatening.
04:19 But hey, I mean, when you gotta go, you gotta go.
04:22 Number 6 - Death Montage - Heaven Sent.
04:26 After watching Clara die in the previous episode, the Doctor finds himself in a mysterious location with no idea how he got there.
04:32 He's also being pursued by some sort of cloaked monster that can kill you with a single touch. So far, so bizarre.
04:38 Throughout Heaven Sent, the Doctor finds out that he's in a confession dial, a Time Lord device to trap prisoners in a never-ending hell.
04:45 He eventually figures a way out of the dial, but only after dying a lot. Like, really a lot.
04:50 Watching the Doctor dragging his dying body through the castle before frazzling his head and killing himself over and over again is heart-racing stuff.
04:58 The scale and scope of what's going on is mind-boggling, and speaks volume to the legendary tenacity that makes the Doctor such a great hero.
05:06 Heaven Sent is just such a "What the f***?" episode in general.
05:09 Not in a bad way, not in a weird way like many entries on this list.
05:12 But because of how far it pushed the Doctor and the show itself to territory, it really ventures.
05:18 Number 5 - Not-So-Creepy Crawlies - The Web Planet
05:22 Most early sci-fi looks hokey by modern standards, and Doctor Who is no exception.
05:27 Case in point, The Web Planet.
05:29 The first Doctor serial from 1965 transports the Doctor and his buddies to a distant land, where they end up getting caught between various different creepy crawly species.
05:37 The serial was written by Bill Strutton, who was inspired by a childhood memory where he was bitten by a bull ant.
05:42 Although, in Strutton's mind, those ants were probably not a bunch of extras in rather unconvincing suits.
05:48 Indeed, the costuming for the ant-like Zarby and the Butterfly Fellas have aged like a bowl of leftover fish fingers and custard in the sun.
05:55 It was a different time with a much lower budget, of course, but it's undeniably jarring to go back and watch this footage today.
06:01 There's even a moment where one of the Zarby actors, who couldn't see properly out of the suit, bumps into the camera.
06:06 I mean, that's one way to get yourself noticed.
06:08 Number 4 - Space Pig - Aliens of London
06:12 Aliens of London kicks off with a huge spaceship crashing into the Thames.
06:16 And, of course, the Ninth Doctor has to investigate.
06:18 After sneaking into a unit facility where the alien body is being housed, he soon finds out that the creature isn't only alive, but it isn't an alien at all.
06:26 The pilot of the craft was actually a regular old Earth pig modified by extraterrestrial tech.
06:31 That's weird enough as it is, but things get even weirder when the little oinkus starts running on its hind legs while the Doctor chases after it.
06:38 I mean, look at his little legs go. It's quite adorable, isn't it?
06:42 Sadly, though, things don't end well for our astro pig when it's gunned down by a unit soldier.
06:47 Wait, did Doctor Who make me emotional about a pig in a space suit?
06:50 Number 3 - Ood on the Loo - Pond Life
06:53 Between series 6 and 7 of No Who, the BBC put out five minisodes of Pond Life.
06:59 A series of shorts depicting what the Doctor and the Ponds were getting up to in between the main episodes.
07:03 Highlights of these shorts include the Doctor running away from some tyrants while holding a surfboard,
07:08 the Doctor bursting in while Amy and Rory are in bed,
07:10 and this gem in the third episode.
07:12 Rory, in his dressing gown, is off to do his own business.
07:15 However, when he opens the door to his bathroom, he finds a bloody Ood just sat there on his toilet,
07:20 asking if he can be of any assistance.
07:22 The timing is perfect, as is Rory's reaction and the music that accompanies this skit.
07:27 All of this without mentioning the sight of the pig-denticled alien casually popping up on the loo as if it's the most normal thing in the world.
07:34 Pond Life was a proper treat.
07:36 Number 2 - The Matrix - The Deadly Assassin
07:40 Sadly, not a crossover between Tom Baker and Keanu Reeves.
07:43 This serial from 1976 sees the Fourth Doctor take on the Master in a battle that will determine the fate of Gallifrey.
07:49 Here, the Doctor enters the Matrix, which is essentially a supercomputer containing all manner of Time Lord knowledge.
07:55 When the Doctor is loaded into it, things get super wacky super quickly.
07:59 Our hero turns up in a quarry - where else? - where he falls down a hill for no decent reason.
08:04 He then ends up on an operating table while a man with a ridiculously oversized syringe stands over him.
08:09 Then, a bloke and a horse turn up, and there's also a creepy clown thrown in for good measure.
08:13 Basically, what we're trying to say is that everything goes mental and it's wonderful.
08:18 The whole sequence is like something out of a piece of surrealist cinema.
08:21 It's completely unhinged, but it probably did a good job of putting an entire generation of children off psychedelic drugs.
08:27 Number 1 - A Bit of a Love Life - Love and Monsters
08:31 It couldn't be anything else, could it?
08:33 It's obviously been said countless times by now, but Love and Monsters is a bloody weird episode of Doctor Who.
08:39 The first half of the episode involving Elton's everyday life and Linda's search for the Doctor is actually quite good,
08:45 but the absolute apex of what the f*** comes right at the end when Elton talks about his relationship with Ursula.
08:51 You know, Ursula, the woman the Doctor saved by forcing her to live this horrible life as a paving slab because of Elton being too selfish to let her die?
08:59 After the Doctor brings her back, Ursula joins her dearest Elton for a recording of his video diary.
09:04 In it, he talks about their situation and utters the immortal line, "We've even got a bit of a love life."
09:10 Nope, just nope.
09:12 Now that RTD is showrunner again, maybe he'll revisit the Ursula situation and free her from this pavement slab purgatory.
09:18 Or, more likely, she'll be trapped there forever, but hey, maybe we don't dwell on that thought, okay?
09:24 And that is our list! Please let us know your thoughts in the comments below and if we missed anything.
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09:37 I've been Crispy for Who Culture and in the words of the 10th Doctor, I mean the 14th Doctor, allons-y!
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