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00:00Doctor Who is by its very nature a weird show. A face-changing alien flying through space in a phone box?
00:06That's weird.
00:07The show has given its fans plenty of nutty moments over the years, for better or for worse.
00:13But which ones stand out as the strangest of the strange?
00:16With that being said, I'm Crispy with Who Culture 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,
00:39with an absolutely wild trip back to 1938.
00:42During a convoluted series of events involving their friend Mel
00:45regenerating into their brainwashed assassin's daughter,
00:47the Pons come face-to-face with one of history's biggest monsters
00:50when the TARDIS crashes into his office in Berlin.
00:53A short while later, Rory, who was kind of developing into this action hero in series 6,
00:57ends up socking the dictator right in the mush after he begins firing a gun.
01:01And thus, one of the most jiffable moments in Doctor Who was born.
01:05A teatime adventure show including Adolf Hitler at all is pretty bold,
01:09but going as far to show him on screen with a weapon
01:11and then have one of the main characters knock him out?
01:13That is a new level of bonkers and we're totally here for it.
01:17Oh, and bonus points for the subsequent
01:20and Rory locking him in the cupboard.
01:21I mean, chef's kiss.
01:27From his introduction in 1975,
01:29Davros has always been presented as a nasty piece of work,
01:32attempting to conquer the universe with his own twisted set of ideals.
01:36The creator of the Daleks is one of the ultimate big bads in all of Doctor Who,
01:39which is why the episode's decision to humanise him was so controversial.
01:43In The Witch's Familiar, the Twelfth Doctor ends up chatting with Daddy Davros
01:47and the two share a surprisingly heartfelt moment.
01:49Davros reveals that he is dying,
01:51and appears to express regret at the life that he had lived.
01:54He even sheds a few tears,
01:55an unthinkable concept for such a dastardly villain.
01:58Audiences were stunned,
02:00and so was the Doctor who repeatedly expresses confusion at what the hell he is witnessing.
02:04But this all turned out to be a giant ruse to siphon some of the Doctor's regeneration energy.
02:09But there was a point where it looked like one of the most evil beings in all of Who
02:13was actually showing some kind of remorse.
02:15Some people loved the twist on the character and hoped that Davros was being genuine,
02:19while others thought it went against everything he stood for.
02:21Regardless of your stance, it was totally unexpected to see him get all weepy.
02:26Number 8 – Cardboard Companion – The Mind Robber
02:29The entirety of 1968's The Mind Robber is a peculiar affair,
02:33consisting of the Second Doctor wandering around the land of fiction,
02:36a realm where nothing is as it seems.
02:38Here, the Doctor and his companions encounter all kinds of weirdness,
02:42from creaky clockwork soldiers shambling about the place,
02:45to a 17th century Englishman seemingly pulled out of time.
02:48Totally normal stuff.
02:49Possibly the strangest moment in the serial is a sequence where Jamie is
02:53unexpectedly turned into a cardboard cutout, with his face going missing.
02:57The Doctor is then forced to reassemble Jamie's face using a nearby selection of eyes,
03:01noses and mouths, but unfortunately, he gets it wrong,
03:04and when Jamie returns to his fleshy form, he has a completely different appearance.
03:08This plot point came about via a last-minute rewrite after actor Fraser Hines contracted
03:13chickenpox, forcing the role to be temporarily recast.
03:16The Doctor's baffled response to this discount Jamie is pure gold,
03:20resulting in one of the most delightfully odd Doctor Who moments ever.
03:23Number 7 – Gorillas Can Flush – The God Complex
03:27Returning to Series 6, The God Complex is a cracking episode about a hotel with room
03:32containing everyone's darkest fears.
03:34In the episode's cold open, Lucy Heywood is confronted by her phobia.
03:37Clearly she was terrified of that cabaret advert where the gorilla played the drums,
03:41because her room appeared to contain that very same gorilla, albeit a little bit more low-budget.
03:45And as if the laughably fake-looking outfit wasn't strange enough,
03:48we see the gorilla first emerge from the bathroom holding a roll of toilet paper.
03:53I'm sorry, what?
03:54Is Lucy scared of gorillas in general, or gorillas in toilets?
03:58Who trained that gorilla to use an indoor toilet?
04:00Why did it take the toilet paper out of the bathroom?
04:03I mean, we could just go on here.
04:04The other fears in this episode – laughing puppets, sad clowns, weeping angels,
04:09even overly stern parents – are all portrayed effectively,
04:11which makes this bloke in a cheap 8-suit even weirder.
04:14And the fact that it appears to have just taken a dump doesn't exactly make it more threatening.
04:19But hey, I mean, when you gotta go, you gotta go.
04:22Number 6 – Death Montage – Heaven Sent
04:26After watching Clara die in the previous episode,
04:28the Doctor finds himself in a mysterious location with no idea how he got there.
04:32He's also being pursued by some sort of cloaked monster that can kill you with a single touch.
04:37So far, so bizarre.
04:38Throughout Heaven Sent, the Doctor finds out that he's in a confession dial,
04:41a Time Lord device to trap prisoners in a never-ending hell.
04:44He eventually figures a way out of the dial, but only after dying a lot.
04:49Like, really a lot.
04:50Watching 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.
04:58The scale and scope of what's going on is mind-boggling,
05:01and speaks volume to the legendary tenacity that makes the Doctor such a great hero.
05:06Heaven Sent is just such a what-the-f**k episode in general.
05:09Not in a bad way, not in a weird way like many entries on this list.
05:12But because of how far it pushed the Doctor and the show itself to territory, it rarely ventures.
05:18Number 5 – Not-So-Creepy Crawlies – The Web Planet
05:22Most early sci-fi looks hokey by modern standards, and Doctor Who is no exception.
05:27Case in point, The Web Planet.
05:29The first Doctor cereal from 1965 transport the Doctor and his buddies to a distant land,
05:34where they end up getting caught between various different creepy crawly species.
05:37The cereal was written by Bill Strutton,
05:39who 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
05:46unconvincing 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.
05:55It was a different time with a much lower budget of course,
05:57but 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.
06:06I mean, that's one way to get yourself noticed.
06:09Number 4 – Space Pig – Aliens of London
06:12Aliens of London kicks off with a huge spaceship crashing into the Thames.
06:16And of course, the Ninth Doctor has to investigate.
06:18After sneaking into a unit facility where the alien body is being housed,
06:22he soon finds out that the creature isn't only alive, but it isn't an alien at all.
06:26The pilot of the craft was actually a regular old earth pig modified by extraterrestrial tech.
06:31That's weird enough as it is, but things get even weirder when the little oinker starts
06:36running on its hind legs while the Doctor chases after it.
06:38I mean, look at his little legs go.
06:40It's quite adorable, isn't it?
06:42Sadly though, things don't end well for our astro pig when it's gunned down by a unit soldier.
06:47Wait, did Doctor Who make me emotional about a pig in a space suit?
06:51Number 3 – Ood on the Loo – Pond Life
06:54Between series 6 and 7 of No Hood, the BBC put out 5 minisodes of Pond Life,
06:59a series of shorts depicting what the Doctor and the Ponds were getting up to
07:02in between the main episodes.
07:03Highlights of these shorts include the Doctor running away from some tyrants
07:06while holding a surfboard, the Doctor bursting in while Amy and Rory are in bed,
07:10and this gem in the third episode.
07:12Rory, in his dressing gown, is off to do his own business.
07:15However, when he opens the door to his bathroom,
07:17he finds a bloody Ood just sat there on his toilet,
07:20asking if he can be of any assistance.
07:22The timing is perfect, as is Rory's reaction and the music that accompanies this skit.
07:27All of this without mentioning the sight of the pig-denticled alien
07:30casually popping up on the loo as if it's the most normal thing in the world.
07:34Pond Life was a proper treat.
07:36Number 2 – The Matrix – The Deadly Assassin
07:40Sadly, not a crossover between Tom Baker and Keanu Reeves,
07:43this serial from 1976 sees the fourth Doctor take on the Master
07:46in a battle that will determine the fate of Gallifrey.
07:49Here, the Doctor enters the Matrix,
07:51which 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.
07:59Our hero turns up in a quarry, where else,
08:01where 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
08:08stands over him.
08:09Then, a bloke and a horse turn up,
08:11and 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.
08:18The whole sequence is like something out of a piece of surrealist cinema.
08:21It's completely unhinged, but it probably did a good job
08:24of putting an entire generation of children off psychedelic drugs.
08:28Number 1 – A Bit of a Love Life – Love and Monsters
08:32It couldn't be anything else, could it?
08:33It's obviously been said countless times by now,
08:36but Love and Monsters is a bloody weird episode of Doctor Who.
08:39The first half of the episode involving Elton's everyday life
08:42and Linda's search for the Doctor is actually quite good,
08:45but the absolute apex of what the f**k comes right at the end
08:48when Elton talks about his relationship with Ursula.
08:51You know, Ursula, the woman the Doctor saved
08:53by forcing her to live this horrible life as a paving slab
08:56because of Elton being too selfish to let her die?
08:59After the Doctor brings her back,
09:01Ursula joins her dearest Elton for a recording of his video diary.
09:04In it, he talks about their situation and utters the immortal line,
09:08we've even got a bit of a love life.
09:10Nope, just nope.
09:12Now that RTD is showrunner again,
09:14maybe he'll revisit the Ursula situation
09:16and free her from this pavement slab purgatory.
09:18Or, more likely, she'll be trapped there forever.
09:21But hey, maybe we don't dwell on that thought, okay?
09:24And that is our list!
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09:37I've been Crispy for WhoCulture and in the words of the 10th Doctor,
09:40I mean the 14th Doctor,
09:41Allons-y!