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Evil Dan has hijacked this page. Pray for your salvation. And your soup.

Information technology appears the Physician themself has got too full of memes, they deserve a page of their own.

General

  • The theme melody.
  • Vworp Vworp Explanation The sound the TARDIS makes when it lands or takes off, according to a audio consequence in a Medico Who Magazine comic when it start started back in 1979. This has stuck as the "official" transcription of the sound. According to River Song, the noise is from the brakes existence left on.
    • Also known every bit a wheezing, groaning noise. Caption The phrase Terrance Dicks would invariably apply to describe the same sound consequence in his Doctor Who books, from the mid-1970'due south onwards.
  • Knock, knock.
    • Who's there?
      • Doctor.
      • Doctor who?
      • Correct. note Alternatively, "No no, only 'The Doctor'."
  • "EX-TER-MIN-ATE!" Explanation What Daleks scream before they impale people. Arguably the single virtually well-known meme of the series. The Daleks first appeared in 1963. They gained the catchphrase in 1965. Apparently, they shout it so much because it's how they reload.
    • EX-PLAIN! EX-Apparently!
    • Likewise, there's as well "DELETE!" Explanation What New Series Cybermen say before they kill people.
  • These memes are stored behind the sofa. Explanation Information technology was (and is) a meme for decades that Doctor Who was so terrifying children could just watch it while hiding behind the sofa.
  • Yes, but do they have gravitas? Explanation A frequent fan demand is that the Doc and/or the serial have gravitas.
  • X is a Time Lord and Y is their TARDIS. Explanation It's become an unavoidable meme around This Very Wiki'southward Wild Mass Guessing sections to make the guess that a sure character with potentially qualifying traits is a Fourth dimension Lord. Some guesses become equally specific as this guy is the Md and/or that guy is the Master.
  • Oh, I run across you've redecorated — I don't like it. Explanation Variant of similar lines said past the Second, Tenth and Eleventh Doctors referring to the redressing of locations they've previously visited (and in the case of the Tenth Doctor, his hereafter self having changed the desktop theme within his TARDIS) at dissimilar points in different episodes. Also hilariously used by Clara to the Twelfth Doctor regarding his selection of console room "theme".
  • Bigger on the Inside
    • Smaller on the Exterior
  • "Gallifrey? Is that in Ireland?"
  • Scongo. Caption An imaginary villain created by Medico Who Facebook grouping TARDISposting. Universally regarded equally the best villain in the history of television set.

Classic Series

  • "Look at the size of that matter!"
    • "Yep Jamie, information technology is a big one." Explanation A dialogue exchange betwixt Jamie and the 2d Medico in "The Faceless Ones", referring to an airliner. Ordinarily used in Who fandom to draw attention to any moment of Ho Yay or general sexual innuendo.
  • The Brigadier is always on the phone.
  • The ihasatardis Livejournal community gave u.s.a. Terrifying Pertwee. Warning! Uncanny Valley in effect!
  • "Contrary the Polarity of the neutron flow!" Explanation Said precisely once by the Third Dr. in "The Sea Devils" (and again in an ceremony reunion special specifically for the joke of him saying it), adopted by the fans as the standard line of Technobabble the Md uses.
  • "Would you like a jelly baby?" Explanation The Fourth Physician always carried a bag of jelly babies with him and had a tendency to offering them to everyone, even if they were trying to kill him. The 8th Doctor homaged this in the 1996 movie and the Master did as well in "The Sound of Drums".
  • ...of Rassilon! Explanation Nearly every Time Lord artifact was named "The X of Rassilon".
    • "The Rassilon Patent Trouser Press?!" Caption The Eighth Doctor, via Large Stop, went on a lengthy rant about the ridiculousness of the Of Rassilon naming scheme, which capped off with this.
  • NOPE Caption Refers to a scene in Doctor Who S13 E3 "Pyramids of Mars" where upon entering a room with one of Sutekh's robots in it, the Quaternary Doctor and Sarah Jane plow effectually and get out the room in perfect unison, and without saying a discussion. Reportedly a Throw Information technology In by Tom Baker and Elisabeth Sladen.
  • No, not the mind probe! Explanation The most famous instance of Narm in the unabridged series, courtesy of the Castellan in "The V Doctors". The actor just could not say the line without the bizarre inflection. Word of God has information technology that Terrance Dicks included the line to reference a more obscure utilize of the same line in the earlier "Borderland in Space", in order to make fun of information technology. In then doing, he surpassed the original.
  • A pleasant, open up face up. Explanation A phrase ordinarily used by Terrance Dicks to describe the 5th Physician in the novelizations.
  • "My dreeeeeeams of CONQUEST!" Explanation Soldeed from "The Horns of Nimon" is probably the most hammy villain in the series' history. Always.
    • "Yous MEDDLESOME HUSSY!"
    • "HOW MANY NIMONS Take You lot SEEN TODAY?"
  • The Dr. is gonna bosom a cap in yo ass. Explanation A YouTube montage of classic-Who clips of the Physician using guns and lethal weaponry, used to rebut any message-board claim that the Doc is and always has been a pacifist. Made more hilarious is that the montage is set to the Geto Boys' "All the same", aka That Gangsta Rap Song from Office Space.
  • NUZZING IN ZE VORLD CAN SHTOP ME NOW!!!! Caption Professor Zaroff from "The Underwater Menace" rivals even Soldeed for his hamminess; the line in question comes from the end of Office Iii.
  • WAKING OR SLEEPING, YOU CAN NEVER ESCAPE ME, TURLOUGH! Caption The Black Guardian's threat to his unwilling amanuensis Turlough, who he recruited to kill the Dr..
  • "I shall kill you all now! Only first, I accept some important tasks to perform..." Explanation A specially strange line from Styre in The Sontaran Experiment, which gained traction as substantially summing upward the villains of any archetype Who serial during a cliffhanger, despite the line coming near the finish of Experiment.
  • "Now I'll never know if I was right."
    • Annihilation else to practise with Adric, actually.
  • Seventies Porn Colin Explanation A seventies publicity photoset showing Colin Bakery shirtless and sporting a Porn Stache, which caused much hilarity/lust when rediscovered by fangirls. (Annotation that Baker was Not, at any time, actually involved in pornography.)
  • "Why don't you like me?" Caption A music video (as well equally several imitators) of the Sixth Doctor'south TV run set to Mika's "Grace Kelly", perhaps the single most appropriate description of how Colin Baker's run was received.
  • Creeper 8 Caption A confront of a comic-drawn Eighth Medico staring with an emphatic smile at a boy named Billy Wilkins in Doctor Who and the Nightmare Game . It comes off unintentionally equally leering similar a stalker with a Slasher Smile, and joins the ranks of Terrifying Pertwee in terms of scare gene.
  • "As far every bit I can tell, a massive electric daze, he died instantly." Explanation In the infamous Max Headroom Pirating Incident, these are the first words heard when the testify comes back.
  • "The memory cheats." Caption A catchphrase of eighties producer John Nathan-Turner, suggesting that anybody who considered his stories not every bit adept as earlier ones was suffering from Nostalgia Filter.
  • EXCELLENT! Caption The very emotional response of the unemotional Cyberleader portrayed past David Banks.
  • Promos for a stream of Classic Who run on Twitch gave rise to several memes thanks to the conversation:
    • London 1965 Caption A office of Ian'southward line "In London 1965!" in "The Hunt", which a prune of it was used for the First Doctor promo of the Twitch archetype Doctor Who marathon. Information technology would play twice in betwixt each episode from the First Doctor era. The chat room felt this line stuck out more than any other line in the promo.
    • HE KNOWS Explanation Used every time the First Doctor said the line "I know. Believe me, I know." during the promo for his era.
    • The one with the feh-white hair. Explanation A flubbed line from "The Sensorites".
    • No, Jamie, No! Explanation The Physician shouting at Jamie equally he'south leaving the TARDIS in "The Mind Robber". This was quoted a lot in the Twitch chat room since it played in the Second Dr. promo.
    • IKEEEEAAAA! Explanation A misinterpretation of "Kiai", shouted by the 3rd Doctor in "The Sea Devils" at the beginning of his and the Master'south Sword Fight. Used to describe whatsoever martial arts scene in the 3rd Doctor'south promo and thereafter.
    • Salami...Sandwich... Explanation A scene from "The Masque of Mandragora" that gave great please to the chat room when information technology was put into an updated trailer for the Fourth Doctor; there was even a running tally of how many salami sandwiches the Doctor had asked for by the end of the promo'southward run.
    • ACE! ACE? AND Boom! BOOM! Caption Ii pieces from dialogue placed in the 7th Doc promo, the first from "Dragonfire" when Ace introduces herself to Mel, the 2d from "Battlefield" every bit she recounts an anecdote to a guest character in the story. The second piece was used whenever an explosion was shown.
    • You lot Tin'T MEND ____ CAN You! Explanation A line from "Kinda" used in the Fifth Doctor promo. Quickly became quoted endlessly with differing variations in the chat.
    • Heathrow 1981. Caption A line from "The Visitation" also used in the 5th Doctor promo, similar to "London 1965" in its idiosyncratic delivery.
    • Some other Mistake Styre! Explanation A line pulled from "The Sontaran Experiment" for the 4th Medico's first promo, quoted directly whenever Sontarans were involved in the plot to mock them equally chronic mistake makers, and undergoing permutations whenever anyone on screen bungled something.
    • CARROT JUICE?! Caption A line from "Terror of the Vervoids", Mel'southward introduction scene, for the Sixth Doctor's promo.
    • Nosotros SKIPPED Half-dozen! Explanation Post-obit the finale of the marathon, a compilation of all the promos played, which, for some reason, skipped over the 6th Medico, prompting this response from the conversation.
  • "Madam! What year is this?!" Explanation The Third Doc'southward hammy demand in Dimensions in Time.
    • "Two-k-and-thirteen!!" Caption The respond to the Third Doctor's question.
    • Big Ron won. Explanation Dimensions in Time had a telephone poll between its kickoff and second parts to determine which EastEnders grapheme, Mandy or Big Ron, would assist the Doctor in the resolution to the cliffhanger. Once the footage of the unaired Big Ron version surfaced, fans latched onto him equally a Memetic Badass, to the signal that a Twitter watch-along of the special used the phrase as the hashtag.
    • The techno theme melody. Explanation Dimensions in Time infamously used a fast-paced electronic/trip the light fantastic remix of the theme music provided past Cybertech.
  • "There is logic in what he says." Caption A line from the Cyberleader in Set on of the Cybermen. Oft used in response to an absence of logic.
    • "Is this the human condition known every bit madness, Leader?" "It is." Explanation A similar commutation between the Cyberleader and another Cyberman in Silver Nemesis.
  • The animation in The Web Of Fright. Explanation A 2021 Blu-Ray release of The Web Of Fearfulness featured the missing episode reanimated using CGI, which unfortunately had very static faces and extremely foreign, puppet-like movements. The blitheness rapidly became notorious, along with Who YouTubers such equally Josh Snares posting videos of themselves imitating the blitheness to demonstrate merely how strange the movements were.
  • "You make your incompetence sound like an achievement!" Explanation A Dalek line in The Daleks Master Plan, used in response to, well, incompetence.
    • "Y'all know, you're a classic example of the inverse ratio between the size of the mouth and the size of the brain." Explanation A similar line from the 4th Md in The Robots of Death.
  • "The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common: they don't alter their views to fit the facts, they change the facts to fit their views." Explanation The Fourth Physician says this during The Face of Evil, and the line has been used in response to concepts such as Confirmation Bias.

New Series

  • "Hullo. I'yard the Doctor. Basically, run." Explanation The Doctor says this and variations to many people. Also a fairly comprehensive summary of the postal service-2005 revival.
  • Fantastic! Caption The Ninth Doctor'due south Catchphrase.
  • Information technology'due south "Eccleston", non "Ecclestone". Explanation A common and oftentimes infuriating misreading of Christopher Eccleston'due south last name, referencing the famous "It'south 'Leviosa', not 'Levio-sar'" line with Hermione correcting Ron over the pronunciation of a spell in Harry Potter and the Philosopher'south Rock, from some other series that is a staple of British pop culture.
  • Exercise Not skip Nine. Explanation The Ninth Doctor, the first Doctor since the prove returned in 2005, isn't as pop as the 10th Dr. and simply existed for a single season, but his era contains many plot points which continue into the 10th Doctor's era and also contains a couple of fan-favourite episodes.
    • After "The Name of the Doctor" it became: We all skipped Nine! Explanation, major spoilers The "War Doctor", played by John Hurt, isn't "counted" as a Doctor, and had his being revealed in 2013, several years after the Christopher Eccleston era, equally a "secret" incarnation betwixt the Eighth and Ninth Doctors who fought in the Time War. Every bit a issue, the "ninth" Doctor was arguably "skipped" over by the narratives.
  • Bad Wolf Explanation The Arc Words for series 1/season 27. Used again in the terminate of series four/season 30.
  • Moisturize me. Explanation Cassandra's Catchphrase.
  • "Excuse me, do you mind non farting while I'm saving the world?" Caption This line from "Aliens of London" has become a popular response online to fart jokes in movies and TV.
  • "Go far THE Church!" Explanation This line from "Begetter'due south Day" has been used oftentimes in Doctor Who edits, with Eccleston running onscreen whenever a church is mentioned.
  • "Are y'all my mummy?" Explanation The repeated line the Monster of the Calendar week in "The Empty Child"/"The Dr. Dances" says. Began equally pure terror, concluded as a Heartwarming Moment. Referenced (by the Doctor!) in "The Poison Sky" and "Mummy on the Orient Express".
  • Bananas are good. Caption The Doctor mentions the benefits of bananas (Potassium-rich) several times in "The Empty Child"/"The Doctor Dances". Used again in "The Girl in the Fireplace".
  • "Harriet Jones, Prime number Minister." "Yeah, we know who yous are." Explanation The reaction whenever Harriet Jones introduces herself every bit "Harriet Jones, Prime Minister". Began as a joke, ended equally a Tear Jerker.
  • Notwithstanding not ginger. Caption The Tenth and Eleventh Doctors complained nigh their hair colours after regenerating. This line is from the Eleventh Doc in "The End of Time". With the announcement of Jodie Whittaker as the Thirteenth Doctor, sporting a blonde hairdo, fans began to poke humour at this.
  • How volition you add together to this page FROM Across THE GRAVE? Caption A line from The Teaser of "Ascension of the Cybermen", when Lumic orders one of his creations to kill Dr. Kendrick to keep him from going to the international council that would need to approve Lumic's projection.
  • I'g then... Hungry! Explanation The Wire from "The Idiot'due south Lantern" says this before eating people and leaving them as The Faceless.
  • "What? WHAT? WHAT?!???!?" Explanation Series 2 and iii, aka seasons 28 and 29, ended on a cliffhanger of something seemingly impossible happening and the Doctor having this reaction, both times being a lead-in for the Christmas special: for serial 2, it's Donna appearing in the TARDIS (seguing into "The Runaway Bride"), and for serial iii, it's the Titanic crashing into the TARDIS (setting upwardly "Voyage of the Damned").
  • The Judoon Song Explanation A remix of the Judoon's monosyllabic and catchy speech communication patterns in "Smith and Jones".
  • Vote Saxon Explanation A background detail in many episodes of series 3/flavour 29. Becomes vital when it is revealed Harold Saxon is the Primary'southward pseudonym.
  • Never stop crying, Emo John Smith. Explanation When the Tenth Doctor becomes John Smith in "Human Nature"/"The Family unit of Blood", he cries more than usual. Although it'south been somewhat blown out of proportion, as John Smith only really cries in one scene from "The Family of Blood".
  • "People assume time is a direct progression from cause to effect, but really, from a nonlinear, non-subjective point of view, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey… stuff." Explanation The Doctor attempts to explicate complex time travel in "Glimmer", but falls victim to Buffy Speak. Gets quoted anytime someone tries to explain Doc Who'due south fourth dimension travel, especially in episodes by Steven Moffat, who wrote "Blink" and has go famous for complicated uses of time travel in the series.
    • The Angels Have The Phone Box. Explanation A line in the Physician's Easter Egg that he'south put on 17 DVDs every bit a message to Emerge Sparrow, and popular among the people attempting to understand them. Larry Nightingale states that he has the phrase on a T-shirt.
    • "Don't blink. Don't even blink. Blink and you're expressionless. They are fast, faster than you can believe. Don't turn your back, don't turn away, and don't glimmer... good luck." Explanation The Doctor'south alert to 2 people about to exist attacked past the Weeping Angels.
  • The Principal gives two thumbs up! Explanation In "The Sound of Drums", in the memorably funny scene where the Master gasses his Cabinet ministers to death, a dying MP exclaims, "Yous'RE INSANE!!" to him, and the Master replies this way.
    • Rat-tat-tat-tat, Rat-tat-tat-tat... Explanation The drum beats (later on revealed to be the heartbeat of a Fourth dimension Lord) that constantly plague the Master, used as office of his global hypnotism network and a sign of his control of the planet. Try getting it out of your head after the fact.
  • The Master'south gassing of the Chiffonier Ministers is one whole meme. "It's a gas mask." Caption The Primary comes prepared.
    • "Yeah, but why are you wearing it?"
    • "Well, because of the gas."
    • "I'm sorry?"
    • "Because of the gas!"
    • "What gas?"
    • "This gas." PSSSHHHH
    • "You're Insane!"
    • [thumbs upward]
  • The Master Can't Decide. Explanation The Master has an affection for Scissor Sisters songs.
    • HERE! Come! THE DRUMS!!! Explanation ...too equally Rogue Traders songs.
  • "Look at me, I'm wearing a vegetable!" Explanation The Tenth Doctor says this to the Fifth Doctor in "Time Crash".
  • The Man Who Never Would Explanation This line from "The Doctor'south Daughter" has go a signal of contention amid classic and even some mod fans, who like to point out the many times the Medico has.
  • "Yo dog, I heard you like 'The Doctor's Girl', so we put the Doc's daughter in the Doctor's girl." Explanation This variation of the "yo domestic dog" meme concerns how David Tennant (the 10th Doctor) and Georgia Moffett (Jenny, the Tenth Doctor's girl) are married and take a daughter together. Georgia is the girl of Peter Davison, the Fifth Doctor.
  • "Hey! Who turned out the lights?" Explanation A repeated line said by ane of the people killed past the Vashta Nerada in "Silence in the Library"/"Forest of the Dead", caught in a loop in a communication device.
  • Spoilers! Explanation River'south response to the Doctor asking questions about his hereafter.
    • Hello, Sweetie! Explanation River'south usual greeting to the Doctor.
  • "THE Devastation! OF REALITY! ITSELF!!!" Explanation Davros yells this at the end of his explanation for his plans to end the entire multiverse in "Journey's Cease".
  • BARROWMAN!! *shakes fist* Caption David Tennant'southward standard exclamation toward John Barrowman ane-upping him at something on a Doctor Who-themed episode of Never Mind the Buzzcocks.
  • From "The Waters of Mars": "The Time Lord Victorious" and "The laws of fourth dimension are mine and they will obey me!" Caption The Doctor decides that with the Time Lords gone the laws of Fourth dimension are his now, and he doesn't accept to obey the concept of "fixed points in time".
    • I've gone also far. Explanation The Medico realises messing with the laws of time wasn't a good idea when Adelaide kills herself to ensure time works out the fashion it should.
  • From "The Cease of Fourth dimension": There'southward a lot of photos with John Simm'due south head pasted on yay... Explanation (spoilers) The Master possesses every person on the planet, superimposing his own image on theirs. Cue scenes with dozens of John Simm.
    • DINNER TIIIIIIME!!! Explanation The very Narmy line the Primary bellows right earlier pouncing on two unsuspecting people and devouring them.
    • The Master acquired the recession. Explanation When this episode aired, the US was knee-deep in an economic recession. For actuality's sake, a soundbyte of Barack Obama speaking is interspersed with a lookalike seen only from the back, who says he has a solution to the recession. When the Chief possesses him, he goes "Economic solution... oh- DELETED!"
    • "God bless the cactuses!" "That'south 'cacti'." "That's racist!" Explanation A scene from "The End of Fourth dimension", where Wilfred and the Doctor are rescued by light-green, prickly-faced aliens.
    • Worst! Rescue! EVER! Explanation The Medico is even so stuck in the bondage chair as the "cactuses" rescue him.
  • Steve, The Primary Clone. Caption "Steve" has become a Fan Nickname for the Master Clone wearing the pinkish dress.
    • Steve's a pretty princess! Explanation A Running Gag that compares "Steve" to a pretty princess due to him wearing said pink dress. Fanart sometimes depicts him wearing a tiara equally well.
    • Steve, no! Steve, why? Explanation A gag in the fandom is to have "Steve" flirt with someone else, ofttimes another clone, and for The Master to get annoyed past his clone's antics.
      • I would similar to court Steve.
  • "Medico Who and the Proclaimers" Explanation One of the last things David Tennant did on set earlier leaving was engage in a music video with all the cast and coiffure from his final story and his favourite band, The Proclaimers, playing their breakout striking "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" as part of a wrap party celebration with Russell T Davies, who also left the show when he did. It'south as well notable that some scenes of monsters from the show dancing in that video have been turned into exploitable gifs all themselves, specially Ood Sigma breakdancing.
  • Fish Fingers and Custard Explanation During his post-regeneration confusion in "The Eleventh Hour", the Eleventh Doctor tries to find what food he likes, fish fingers and custard being i of his experiments.
  • "I am definitely a madman with a box." Explanation Again from the Eleventh Md in "The Eleventh Hr", this time dispelling any confusion about whether he is a madman.
  • Mighty Morphin Dalek Rangers. Explanation Refers to the brightly-coloured new Dalek designs that debuted in "Victory of the Daleks", which were highly unpopular with most fans.
  • Gallifrey Base has "Who the hell is Rory?" It became scarily appropriate later the episode "Cold Claret" aired.
  • Bowties are Cool. Explanation The Eleventh Doctor defends his pick of wearing apparel.
    • It'south a fez. I wear a fez now. Fezzes are absurd. Explanation The Physician wears a fez due to Timey-Wimey Ball reasons, so decides he likes information technology. Then River and Amy join forces to destroy it.
    • Matt Smith tin brand annihilation cool!
  • Goddamit Steve! Explanation Steve is the Fan Nickname of the Silent in "Day of the Moon" who unknowingly tells the human race in postal service-hypnotic proffer to kill the Silence.
    • "Why am I watching this? How does it wait different than any other video of the Moon landing?" Explanation Comments on clips of the above scene reference the fact that humans don't see "Steve" merely only remember the hypnotic proposition. So why is the prune so pop? Oh, wait, I get it!
  • Oh my God, they killed Rory, you bastards! Explanation During his entire tenure every bit a companion, Rory died Ix TIMES.
  • WHERE! IS! MY! Wife! Explanation From Rory's confrontation with the Cybermen in "A Good Homo Goes to State of war".
  • Astonishing Chuck-Norris-mode compilation of Rory's deeds here ◊. Warning, major spoilers upward to series 6/season 32's midseason finale.
  • Photoshopping the Eyepatch Lady onto everything possible (album covers, other walls, historical events) has get a meme over on Gallifrey Base, with some images toeing the Memetic Molester line.
  • Stormageddon, Night Lord of All, taught Voldemort everything he knows ◊. And he still failed. Spiral him. Caption Craig Owens' infant son, Alfie, from "Endmost Fourth dimension", prefers to go by "Stormageddon, Dark Lord of All", according to the Eleventh Doctor, who speaks babe. This has led to Alfie condign a Memetic Badass. Combine information technology with Rory and you get "Stormageddon once met Rory Williams. It was called THE TIME WAR."
  • Eggs. Explanation A Dalek from "Asylum of the Daleks" stutters its call for extermination to Rory, who misunderstands it.
  • Soufflés. Explanation Oswin, from "Asylum of the Daleks", has apparently survived a year on the Asylum planet through burnt soufflés.
  • _________ on a Spaceship. Caption From the episode title "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship".
  • The Gunslinger from "A Boondocks Chosen Mercy" looks like Kryten from Red Dwarf.
  • On December 21st 2012, the Doctor saved the Earth. Explanation Stems from the long-past 2012 doomsday/apocalypse phenomenon.
  • I don't know where I am. Caption People's minds trapped in a wi-fi network, in "The Bells of Saint John".
  • LORD Upward IN OF THIS TIME Bowwow ◊ Caption A popular misreading of an epitome macro reading "Lord of fourth dimension upward in this bitch" caused by cryptic word placements leading people to call up the words are meant to be read as 3 rows instead of two columns.
  • Fucking Daleks Explanation Peter Capaldi was announced equally the Twelfth Medico. His best known role prior to this was equally the foul-mouthed Malcolm Tucker on The Thick of It.
    • "Nosotros fucking time travelled, yeah!?" Explanation I episode of The Thick of It has Malcolm Tucker shouting this in exasperation to somebody else. Fans have jokingly taken this as his "admission" to existence the Doctor.
    • Capaldi's Eyebrows Explanation, spoilers Taken from Capaldi's surprising cameo in "The Day of the Md".
    • Fuckity hi!
      • Fuckity farewell!
    • Rewriting unabridged lines of the Ninth-through-Eleventh Doctors to resemble that of the dialogue in The Thick of It (read: i Cluster F-Bomb after another).
  • CAPALDI INTENSIFIES! Explanation The brief shot featuring a portion of Capaldi's face looking stern in "The Solar day of the Doc".
  • Sneeze hard plenty and you'll plow into Capaldi. Caption The 11th Dr. inverse into the twelfth Doctor so quickly and so all of a sudden that many people say the 11th Doctor sneezed and turned into the twelfth.
  • Kidneys! Caption 12th Md's first words.
  • Lots of planets have a Scotland. Explanation Reaction to the twelfth Doctor speaking in Peter Capaldi'south natural Scottish accent. Inspired past the 9th Doctor's response to why he sounds like he'southward from the Due north. Made more hilarious is that in Series ten his companion at the time draws attention to his Scottish accent and he actually responds with a like line.
    • Lots of planets take a Yorkshire. Caption The aforementioned matter happened with the Thirteenth Doctor, who speaks in Jodie Whittaker's natural Yorkshire accent.
  • This ... is my spoon! Caption In "Robot of Sherwood", Robin Hood challenges the twelfth Doctor to a duel. 12's weapon of choice is a spoon.
  • The fact that the moon is actually an egg in "Kill the Moon".
  • "Is [due north] a lot?" "Depends on the context. [n amount of 10], aye. [due north amount of y], no." Caption An paradigm macro of Clara and 12 taken out of context, used to humorously compare situations where the same number is involved.
  • Pudding brains. Explanation 12's nickname for humans.
  • Danny Pink didn't Splink. Explanation Jon Pertwee narrated a PSA for safe road-crossing using the (rather nonsensical) acronym SPLINK, which would take come in handy when Danny died afterwards beingness ran over by a car. Some fan videos would later edit the scene to go far appear that the Third Doctor was responsible.
  • Shut up! Explanation 12 doesn't have an obvious catchphrase like "Allons-y!" or "Geronimo!", so the fandom decided to settle for "Close up!"
  • The Principal's Dalek Plan. caption Appeared minutes later the second Season 9 trailer revealed that Missy and the Daleks would appear in the aforementioned story. As well a play on the title of the First Doctor story "The Daleks' Principal Plan".
  • Like... a hybrid? Explanation The story arc of serial nine involves the foretelling of a hybrid made of "two great warrior races". The extremely dramatic manner in which Peter Capaldi delivers the aforementioned Arc Words has led to fans on Tumblr joking that the Doctor volition freak out over extremely mundane hybrids like satsumas, hybrid cars or even a potable with more 1 flavour.
  • Justin Chatwin's redeeming himself for Dragonball Development. Explanation Chatwin made a guest advent in the Christmas Episode "The Render of Doctor Mysterio" every bit Grant/The Ghost; in America at least, the guy'south most well-known role is as Goku in the disastrous 2009 live-action film accommodation of Dragon Ball. Thus, when people heard that he would be actualization in the Doctor Who Christmas special and ended up being impressed past the previews, they immediately started joking that this is Chatwin's way of apologizing for his interest in Dragonball Evolution.
  • The BBC is soooo upward to date... Explanation The Beeb'due south tendency to archive bonus Doctor Who fabric (Confidential, etc.) online several years after the opportune stories aired.
  • Don't forget to click beneath to subscribe to the official Doctor Who YouTube Aqueduct. Explanation Said at the stop of various videos by Peter Capaldi, ordinarily in an abrupt way.
  • "WELCOME TO THE SISTERHOOD!" / "Is my time to come going to be all girl?!" "We can only promise." Caption Lines taken from "The Physician Falls", which hilariously foreshadow the reveal of actress Jodie Whittaker as the Thirteenth Physician, the first female person Physician in the bear witness's run.
  • Nevertheless, she regenerated. Explanation Refers to Usa Senator Mitch McConnell's infamous "nevertheless, she persisted" line that became co-opted into a rallying weep by the left wing.
  • "Meet this face? Take a skilful... long... look at it. This is the confront that didn't listen to a word you just said! " Caption Highly exploitable line taken from "The Doctor Falls", where the Harold Saxon incarnation of the Master hurls a mighty insult at the Doctor. It has since taken off every bit a video reply/GIF/reaction face picture that serves every bit a superb forum weapon.
  • Thirteen didn't last very long... Explanation The Thirteenth Doctor seemingly plummets to her decease barely a minute subsequently regenerating.
    • She set the TARDIS on fire and fell to her death, minutes later on regenerating. She'due south definitely the Doctor!
  • The Doctor is finally from Yorkshire. Explanation Some fans accept focused on the Thirteenth Doctor having a Yorkshire emphasis, with many maxim this is the real boundary being crossed as opposed to her being the commencement female Medico.
  • The swearing meme popularized past Twelve returns, with people ascribing Xiii vulgar lines from some of Whittaker's other roles (mostly Broadchurch and Attack the Cake).
    • "Whatever the fuck they are, they're not fucking aliens!" Explanation A highly exploitable line from Set on the Cake.
  • Non the most heartbreaking "I don't wanna get" anymore. Caption The Tenth Medico'south last words were bumped down a spot afterward the release of Avengers: Infinity War, in which Peter Parker says the same line every bit he dies in a scene that left very few eyes dry.
  • The Doctor has go the Flash. Caption The first Serial 11 teaser trailer has the Doctor commit wacky shenanigans with her new companions. She ends upwards stealing Ryan's food, adds more pizza for Yasmin and replaces Graham's newspaper with an erstwhile Beano comic, all with magical effects and Bullet Time. This has caused many to think that she has the power of the Speedforce with her.
  • "RYYAN SINCLAIR! Don't yous DAAAAAAAARE!" Explanation Started with a YouTube Poop video that highlighted how funny Grace'south delivery was when saying the line during the bodily episode. Can be found here.
    • Largely thanks to the above video, Graham'southward "You're doin' it mate!" from the same scene has also become a meme.
  • Tim Shaw Explanation The Md (and her companions)'s mockname for Tzim-Sha.
  • Scronch. Explanation Jodie Whittaker's numerous and often hilarious facial expressions, nearly of which involve scrunching her confront, have chop-chop get a regular meme amid parts of the fandom.
  • The climax to "It Takes You Abroad" went viral after the episode aired due to the fact that the episode ends with a frog, which is either astonishing or terrible depending on who yous talk to due to the... interesting puppet, being the physical form of a sentient universe and talking to the Dr. who is in love with it. The frog so proceeds to forcepush her out of its plane. Needless to say, reactions were very varied.
  • BENNI!!!! Caption "Orphan 55" featured an elderly couple, one of whom was chosen Benni. His wife'south frequent and oft hammy expression of his proper name caused a surge of memes and remixes mocking this.
  • The Chibnall Masterplan. Explanation After the reveal of a previously unknown incarnation of the Physician in "Fugitive of the Judoon", fans have speculated on how this may fit with the Master's claim that Time Lord lodge was congenital on the prevarication of the Timeless Child, with some linking the plots to the "Cartmel Masterplan", an abandoned story arc in which the Doc would exist revealed to be a reincarnation of the Other, one of the founders of Time Lord society. Jossed when it was revealed that the Doctor ''is'' the Timeless Child, hailing from some sort of alternate dimension, capable of seemingly space regenerations, and had their mind wiped to exist raised equally a Time Lord, placing the unknown incarnation (and others, including the Doctors from Doctor Who S13 E5 "The Brain of Morbius") earlier Hartnell's Doctor.
    • Schrödinger's Gallifrey. Explanation Gallifrey has been destroyed in the RTD era, it came back in the Moffat era, and got destroyed again in the Chibnall era. Fans are wondering if Gallifrey will return after Chibnall'south divergence (incidentally, his confirmed successor simply then happens to exist RTD).
      • "Gallifrey Falls No More"? More like, "No, Gallifrey Falls More!" Explanation Reference to the events of "The Day of the Medico" (50th Anniversary Special) existence overturned
  • Brusque Dalek/Funko Pop Dalek. Explanation A screencap of a visually distorted Dalek from "Revolution of the Daleks" that makes it seem comically squashed vertically, with some seeing it as strangely cute. Fans also noticed its resemblance to a previously released Funko Pop effigy.
  • What the Flux? Explanation One time the series 13 subtitle was known, fans were curious of what "The Flux" was. Besides, it sounds like WTF!?
  • Plasterer from Liverpool. Explanation In pre-serial promotion for Series 13, John Bishop mentioned that he got in trouble with executives for "spoiling" that his grapheme, Dan, was from Liverpool and worked as a plasterer. Fans latched onto this for how ridiculous this is.
  • Whobacca. Caption Karvanista looks like a Wookiee.
  • Evil Dan Explanation A series of Youtube Poops where Dan'southward dialogue and scenes are remixed to take him be a full general nuisance, from stealing Halloween sweets to massacring the entire Sontaran regular army, set to the music of the Master.
    • "Nobody needs soup more than than me." Explanation One of Evil Dan'due south judgement-mixed catchphrases.
    • "What's the point of being alive?" Explanation An alteration of Dan's "What'due south the bespeak of beingness live if it's non to make others happy?", often used as a Pre-Asskicking One-Liner.
  • "I wanted to ride a equus caballus." Explanation Many memes came most milking Commander Skaak'south love of horses.
  • Fourteenth Doc clips Explanation In a similar way to how the fandom reacted to Capaldi's casting by making memes out of The Thick of Information technology and putting clips from that bear witness to Ninth to Eleventh Md footage, the reactions to the casting of Ncuti Gatwa every bit the Fourteenth Doctor saw the fandom splicing clips of Gatwa's nearly famous previous office as the sassy Eric Effiong in Sex Education into past episodes, which includes the "Was your hands you detty squealer" meme from the latter show.

Expanded Universe

  • KKLAK! Explanation From the cover ◊ of the Target novelisation of "Invasion of the Dinosaurs", titled Md Who and the Dinosaur Invasion
  • "All hail Frobisher! All hail the big talking bird!" Explanation From the Large Stop sound story "The Holy Terror": A oversupply start chanting this phrase over and over when the Sixth Doctor's companion Frobisher (who looks like a talking penguin) inadvertently becomes their emperor.
  • Ceruleans are dirty plant-touchers. Explanation On Gallifrey, the ruling Time Lords are divided into several "chapters". Three of these capacity were established in Classic Who, while iii more than were added in the novels. In particular, at that place was very little information given nigh the Ceruleans. When the author was asked what they actually did, he replied that he had imagined they were kind of similar the Green Party in British politics. Since Time Lords rarely go outside, and those who do are those who exit to go out into the wild and carelessness the Fourth dimension Lord society, this quickly developed into a perception that Ceruleans are tree-hugging plant-lovers in a social club with an aversion to dirt.
  • Looms. Explanation Since being rendered infertile past some curse or some other, Gallifreyans reproduce with breeding engines known as Looms. These, understandably, became a big joke in the fandom, with entire discord servers existence dedicated to them.
  • Kinkshaming the sound fauna. Caption The sound creature from Scherzo called 8 "daddy" and nosotros've never let it hear the end of it.
  • Briggleston. Explanation Nicholas Briggs' impression of Christopher Eccleston'southward Ninth Doctor in various audiobooks came off as and so charmingly goofy that portions of the fanbase nicknamed him this.
    • "Hello, I'thousand the Doc. Hey, what's goin' on round here?"
  • The Primary'south little red auto. Explanation The Chief drives a goofy-looking three-wheeled auto in one of the cutscenes for the Destiny of the Doctors game, presumably as a jab at the Third Doctor's car, Bessie.
    • "Get a move on, wearisome omnibus!" Caption A specially cheesy line he says while driving the car.
    • Jokes about the Primary's automobile being involved in the revival'due south Series eight finale episodes. Caption Since Danny Pink abruptly gets hit past a car and dies, pop edits of the scene include this version of the Master existence the one driving that automobile while spouting his goofy lines.
    • The Master roasts the Doctor. Explanation The opening movie includes the Main going through the incarnations of the Doctor in reverse order, insulting each and every one of them. Fans latched onto how accurate his roasts were, and took to editing the scene to include post-revival Doctors or fan-created unofficial incarnations.
    • "The destiny of the Doctors is in your hands! Don't brand me laugh!" Explanation The final line of the opening movie, delivered supremely hammily by Anthony Ainley, earlier a magnificent evil laugh.
  • Squatting Cyberman. Explanation The cover art for the Big Finish release Return of the Cybermen inexplicably features a Cyberman that appears to either be squatting or getting out of an unseen chair.
  • "Haha! You're a NERRRRRD!" Explanation The final story of the Ninth Doctor Adventures: Ravagers boxset has the Ninth Doctor hammily deliver this line when he learns that his companion for the boxset knew about time travel from quondam science fiction shows.
  • Jacob Dudman. Caption Dudman'south uncanny impressions of the 10th, Eleventh and 12th Doctors, combined with him being the go-to for Big Finish Productions where the original Doc histrion is unavailable, fabricated Dudman something of a Memetic Badass.
  • "Die, hideous animate being, die!" Explanation An extremely out of character panel from an early on 2d Doctor tie-in comic, which features him screaming this line as he shoots a giant insect. With a gun.
  • "Coming soon from Large Finish Productions..." Caption Big Terminate developed a reputation of liking to make nonsensical spinoff boxsets after a short flow of producing boxsets based on characters and concepts that had only appeared in one episode.
    • "The War [X]"
    • "Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without ane of Mrs Baddeley's plum puddings!" Caption A line in The Chimes of Midnight that became remembered for being constantly repeated over and over once again.
  • The 10th Md is in everything. Explanation The Thirteenth Doctor era also saw a resurgence of the Tenth Doctor'due south presence in the Expanded Universe, forth with David Tennant reprising the role for nearly audio-based appearances.
    • The Tenth Doctor and the Thirteenth Doctor joining forces. Explanation A surprisingly common story premise, particularly in the Titan comics and the video game The Edge of Reality.

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