10 Times Doctor Who Knew EXACTLY What You Were Thinking

[@HalldorOrnGunason]

I was expecting to see Clara's "It's smaller on the outside" and Capaldi's "turn” in The Husbands of River Song as twists on the "It's bigger on the inside" trope. Two of my absolute favorite moments in the show.

[@MotherShipMedia]

I just made the same comment ... Bill's "Is this a knock-through?" as well ...

[@SamanthaS92]

“It’s smaller on the outside*”

[@WhoCulture]

We've discussed doing a second video on this subject because there are plenty of other great entry ideas (yours being one of them). If enough people watch this first one then we'll do another!

[@niremgucin]

donna also says it's smaller on the outside in the christmas special with a wedding dress on

[@Jim_The_Fish]

@@niremgucinand so does Journey Blue in Into the Dalek. Capaldi responds, “yeah, it’s a bit more exciting when you go the other way.”

[@12thMandalorian]

The amount of cardio the Doctor does means he must easily hit 10k steps about 5 minutes into each episode

[@WhoCulture]

The Doctor’s FitBit would explode

[@carolinemcgovern4488]

@@WhoCulture I would love for a future companion to be wearing some sort of FitBit or smart watch just so we can have this running gag (Russel if you're watching, feel free to steal this)

[@UltimateMayhemVX]

Would the Doctor's two hearts affect it? It seems like it could be a thing where to fitbit may not be able to pick up their pulse

[@drewidlifestyle7883]

Probably however for what it’s worth you get more steps walking than running

[@HariSeldon913]

Preparation for a guest appearance by Tom Cruise. 😺

[@chaotic-disaster-crow]

The two "are you my mummy?" references made by Doctors who were not the version of the Doctor who faced the gas-mask zombies, and had no companions around who knew what that was a reference to. Ten, after putting on a gas mask once in The Poison Sky, and Twelve, when facing an actual mummy on Mummy on the Orient Express. Which is obviously meant as an inside joke to fans but also I love to think of it as being the Doctor making a joke to himself that he knows only he will understand. Inside joke with himself.

[@lauren3359]

i cried soo much when rory died for the last time.He will always be one of my favourite companions.

[@bobbybobstar1496]

You never seen him die you plank

[@samgourhan207]

Could jack Harkness be put down by an angel?

[@Zaymont720]

​@bobbybobstar1496, but he does die and so does Amy? They die to the Doctor as he could never see them again after they got send back.

[@moharassmi8729]

Idk why but all the angels do is send you back through time. The doctor can time travel so he could just grab them from there like what the doctor did for himself in the episode “blink”

[@cmwinchell]

@@moharassmi8729 from what I've seen it looks like when an angel sends you back it also creates a fixed point in time. Including the Doctor saying "You are creating a fixed time. I will never be able to see you again." That includes later in their lives. To further prove that the angel's create a fixed point in time: In Blink the Doctor couldn't go through time and save everyone the angels sent back. The only reason he and Martha could leave is due to the fact that The Doctor had to make it to Lake Silencio because his death there is a fixed point in time.

[@tylermarble1561]

I love when the 12th doctor tries talking to the wooden door in Heaven Sent. It cracks me up

[@JoshuaAnthonyYT]

it WORKED too

[@adambarnes49]

I love that most of these are basically just running gags in the show

[@YourQueerGreatAuntie]

The first line spoken by the Doctor in the reboot is "Run!".

[@geoffroi-le-Hook]

and one of the first lines in 1963 is 'Doctor who?'

[@DrWhoFanJ]

@@geoffroi-le-HookHardly. It’s not even said until the second episode!

[@Noivern87]

"With all the subtlety of a burning house." "With all the subtlety of an Abzorbaloff running down the street." Well, now I know that an Abzorbaloff running down the street is the same as a house going up in flames.

[@dhelor]

I mean, the amount of friction generated would probably cause an explosion.

[@tobiojo-xw7hh]

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[@alyzu4755]

There was another corridor joke in "Heaven Sent", if I remember correctly. Twelve ran into a locked door and said something along the lines of "I've run out of corridor. There's a life summed up". 😊

[@Piixxi]

“Yes, we know who you are” even the Darleks say it to the ex prime minister 🤣

[@TenRosesInTheTardis]

Yes. We know how funny it is. 😉🤣🤣

[@Quicklightning]

Daleks*

[@djm-3995]

Darleks? They sound like real Darlings😄

[@jonathankessler8626]

i am a fan of both old and Dr who and I just remembered how hard I laughed the first time I saw Tom Baker say ' oh look rocks' lol I love that line mabry one of my favorite of all time it's so great cause yeah lots of rocks in Dr who

[@brandonnorris5177]

I thought they would have mentioned the fact that Tom Baker mentioned that they would revisit a few old faces and Tennant is now the doctor agean

[@krab1791]

The fact that the Doctor’s sonic is a “screwdriver” comes out in the 50th Anniversary Special when John Hurt’s Doctor says “What are you going to do, assemble a cabinet out of them?” When 10 and 11 point their sonic screwdrivers at the Queen’s men

[@ashkid8707]

"Oh, you redecorated, (pause) I don't like it"

[@hailtotheboomstick]

Capaldi’s (over) reaction to jokingly seeing the inside of the tardis for the first time in the husbands of river song. “Sorry I’ve always wanted to see that done properly”

[@lycos94]

That one scene in Morbius where Matt Smith's character is asked to describe his pain level on a scale of 1-10 and he says 11

[@silentshadow3894]

I think the enragement from 12 specifically about the sonic still not having a wood setting makes even more sense when you think about it more. The war, 10th, and 11th doctors figured out that if they started the calculation to make a setting for it a while ago it would be done for 11 so they got their setting. So there must have been some malfunction moving on to 12s sonic that caused that setting not to transfer. Imagine going through the trouble of figuring out the work around the work around to get something on your computer that you have been wanting for forever then loosing it when your computer breaks and you have to get a new one.

[@SillySnowFox]

The door wasn't locked, they never finished the calculation.

[@silentshadow3894]

@@SillySnowFox pretty sure they finished we’re about to unlock the door when they found out it was never locked

[@Terahnee]

Yes, but we never actually saw it work so no actual confirmation that the calculation worked either.@@silentshadow3894

[@9nikola]

The calculation wasn't to unlock the door, but to disintegrate it. To disintegrate the door, the sonic screwdriver would have to know the exact molecular structure of that specific door and calculate exactly how to sonic it, which took centuries. That calculation was only for that specific door's specific structure, so the result wouldn't help with other wood.

[@bestintheworld568]

The most hilarious thing about that…three versions of one of the most intelligent beings in the known universe took ages to figure out that their sonic screwdrivers were analyzing a wooden door over all that time…only for Clara to open it and inform them that they’re idiots for not checking if it was locked or not.

[@MrGreensweightHist]

If we look back to "An Unearthly Child" we find that the first one to ask, "Doctor who?" is the Doctor himself. His granddaughter is going to school under the name Susan Foreman. When her teachers meet the Doctor Ian calls him "Dr. Foreman" and the doctor, confused, replies, "Doctor who?'

[@jackkemp7256]

Man, that’s crazy

Missy saying her name is "Doctor Who" and then explaining why in _World Enough and Time_ is definitely a better self-aware moment for that line than Eleven's self-indulgent shiver in _The Bells of Saint John._

[@Concreteowl]

The 10th Doctor always says Allons-y which means "let's go". So when the 11th Doctor notes the 10th always says "I don't want to go" he is acknowledging it's a bluff. He is scared and says "let's go" as a way to charge against the fear.

[@richardcharlwood9997]

Since it was the last words of Tennant’s Doctor before regenerating, Moffat did not want to usurp the former show runner, so made sure that in the 50th, his last words were the same.

[@hollymatton474]

Great video Who Culture! I always enjoy it when they have to add in lines to episodes to cover if the weather is interfering with filming! Fear Her isn't everyone's favourite episode but I do love how they had to add a line in for the tenth doctor explaining how the isolus was drawing in heat and reducing the temperature of the area, to cover up the fact that the episode was supposed to be set in the summer of the 2012 olympics, but was actually being filmed in freezing cold January! 😂 Thanks Ellie and Who Culture! 😊😊

[@GraceLapointe11]

Yes, great example! I can see David and Billie's breath in one scene in Fear Her. Obviously filmed in the winter!

[@dalektorgo2973]

5:58 Flight of The Navigator!!! Loved that movie as a kid. Also, fun fact, early role for Sarah Jessica Parker.

[@ChrisMentzer]

Great list!

[@Eselta_]

My favorite of the "doctor who" trope, is Jodie Whitaker saying "alright, Doctor-whoever-I-am-going-to-be". Such a sweet send off for a sweet natured doctor.

[@BobPsomiadis]

The scene in Heaven Sent .The doctor looked defeated ,virtually lost his willpower and told himself it's easier to lose than win .He thought he was a failure and useless ,then Clara appear to briefly speak to him ,to get off his arse and win .

[@LukanSpellweaver]

There's no setting for wood because doors are notoriously cross.

[@mauricehayden8835]

Another thing he always says, ‘you redecorated, I don’t like it’

[@cardinalhamneggs5253]

05:00 Actually, I don’t think he can. Three of his past selves specifically added a Wood setting in _The Day of the Doctor_ and it was never used because the door was already unlocked.

[@Beamer1969]

they didn't add a wood setting. they calculated how to shatter that specific door and it took 400 years

[@weatherwitchandfelinefamiliars]

Thoroughly enjoyed this entertaining list, thank you 💖

[@valmid5069]

Its great to that our fav Whovian channel is very strong!

[@GabePuratekuta]

Unlike some of the other WhatCulture channels.

[@Enivri]

With Rory when he sees the doctor alive again after his supposed death at Lake Silencio. He nonchalantly says to him “not dead then” as if it was a regular Tuesday to die.

[@robyngwendolynshiloh5277]

When 10 says "are you my mummy?" In the sontaran stratagem

[@DittoGTI]

And 12 says it on Mummy on the Orient Express

[@Isaac_Clarke]

One to add in a future video and that is also brought up in The Day of The Doctor as well is Clara remarking 11 can never walk past a fez

[@stoagymahalo5268]

my 2 favorite always was thinking each gen is smart enough to come up with doctor upside down captured by someone with a low grade trap and the others where he'll ALWAYS grab hands just for every so often they grab the wrong ones.

[@bazzer124]

Running, always running. Isn't that the first word the first Doctor (#9) said in the first episode of the first series - "Run!" to Rose? Cheers....

[@sekhmetsaes]

I would have added the "DALEKS CAN FLY????" moment from 9's run, but well done!

[@zerosdomain7837]

I hope Tennant actually says "I'm ready to go now" this time

[@Paradox-es3bl]

Unless he's a drastically different Doctor that I basically hate, I very much don't. I'd honestly watch another 10 seasons with 10.

[@zerosdomain7837]

@Paradox-es3bl I'd love such more with Tennant however when he does go I admit if he is basically nothing to do with the doctor we already knew then it wouldn't work. But I'd accept this as his swan song and him saying good ye once and for all

[@johannahyde-parker8422]

don't even start

[@zerosdomain7837]

​@johannahyde-parker8422 I'm not...I'm finishing...and so is he...in less than a week

[@DittoGTI]

He said Allons-y

[@ltrtg13]

Ah, but can the sonic screwdriver build a wardrobe? Like River Song and the War Doctor claim.

[@ZonalJump97]

Yeah, you gotta get the screws and fasteners in somehow

[@danthemeegs8751]

Probably!

[@9nikola]

Not out of wood :p

[@DittoGTI]

No, no wood setting

[@marcamusprime9513]

This is a great video, and I really enjoyed watching

[@10thdoctor15]

This isn't when the show knew what we were thinking, these are just times when the show referenced itself.

[@annemaryheliasz8614]

I would say that the scene when the show knew what we were thinking was when the 12th Doctor appeared around the Daleks with a cup of tea and said something like "You're wondering how I got the tea. I'm the Doctor, just accept it" (not literal quoting, it's how I remembered it)

[@DittoGTI]

Also with Top Gear, theres a mention of it regenerating all the time at the start of S28 (we dont talk about S23 and onwards though) and the Stig is said to be a Vashta Nerada in one of the news segments

[@CannonRanger1]

End Of Time . "Worst. Rescue. Ever!"

[@KinoGeno]

For the record, the people thinking "Doctor Who" is the character's name is not completely unfounded. That was how the character was originally credited in the original run of the show.

[@ScaryBaldMan]

10 mouthing the words "it's bigger on the inside" as Martha was saying it.

[@ThunderhawkVeronicaLazerwolf]

Whoa, dude, whoa!! Time Heist , with Capaldi, is one of my all time favorites! Not underrated in this house!!

[@MrCuddy2977]

Capaldi and Coleman weren’t the first people to have issues because of their respective heights. There’s a similar difference between Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny: apparently, that difference give the guy holding the boom mic, nightmares!

[@Artinatordraws]

9:14 run! It’s the attack eyebrows.

[@TigerofRobare]

I think there's an episode where the Tardis lands in a quarry on Earth and at first they think it's an alien planet before they see the people working.

[@Lordoftheapes79]

Let's be honest. Eccleson told us everything we needed to know about New Who with his very first word. "Run."

[@geoffroi-le-Hook]

'Doctor Whoever-you-are' -- Tegan

[@raybearoz]

Okay... My take on Tennants last line... I think it was Steven Moffat having a joke at trivia nerds as well... cause if you asked the question... "What was David Tennants last line as the Doctor?"... it's still correct if you count "Day of the Doctor"... the answer hasn't changed :)

[@sariarosegold]

that was probably true at the time, but, as of right now, his last line is "WHAT?" until next season.

[@tylermarble1561]

the shots fired with 11 got me so hard

[@cillianwatters5619]

The slitheen wearing a rubber suit of a human is a reference to classic who with humans wearing rubber suits of aliens

[@10thdoctor15]

The 10th Doctor often said 'allons-y', 'brilliant' and other catchphrases, but saying "I don't want to go" in his last scene doesn't count as "he always says that".

[@medafan53]

Occasionally the show pokes fun of the fact that the Doctor's companions skew to the younger side, but of course they do! Older ones wouldn't be able to run as well!

[@benelby3480]

0:15 I did that when I realised it was the meme off once upon a time in Hollywood

[@static-san]

And of course, the opening manifesto that Amy said during her season included an obvious reference to all that running!

[@aninkytheorist1133]

We can't forget the never-ending habit the Daleks have of seemingly being wiped out for good only to casually appear from basically nowhere while looking like they're thinking: "Just another day on the job that we never get paid to do... Oh, hello Doctor, fancy seeing you here! Are you ready for another day of brutally wiping us Daleks out for the 97th time this month?"

[@mjvdg4194]

A lot of Clara’s moments of subversion would fit this; like her not questioning the Tardis translation for like 5 episodes

[@aspen5923]

very brave of ellie not to say "an awful lot of running to do"

[@igorschmidlapp6987]

The unaired pilot had the Doctor say the line: Ian: But, Dr. Foreman... (remember, he was Susan Foreman's grandfather) Doctor: Doctor who? In the first broadcast episode, Ian says it: Barbara: He's a doctor... Ian: But, Doctor who?

[@grailingmills4756]

The sonic does have a setting for wood he just doesn't remember the events of day of the doctor

[@MrTimelord77]

I want to see a version of The Doctor where he takes on a human name similar to the actor in the role to save time and annoy past companions.

[@Ked7]

Wouldn’t that ruin the name?

[@MrTimelord77]

@@Ked7 The Doctor wouldn't use it all the time. At best it would be used in place of John Smith.

[@burf90]

It's a given that every new companion remarks that the TARDIS is bigger on the inside, so my two favorite quips are Bill looking around in apparent wonder before asking where the bathroom is and David Tennant replying to a new companion with a shocked long drawn out "Is it?"

[@Log726]

Carla’s Vertical struggles 😭😭

[@bobbybobert9177]

I was waiting for them the mention “are you my mummy” that’s one of my doctor who inside jokes

[@williambrown9166]

Now that I think about it, and amazed I haven't until now...could the original creator of the Sonic Screwdriver's weakness grown up on DC Comics? The original Green Lantern, Alan Scott, has the same weakness in his power ring. Just as silly a weakness as it is for the sonic, though not as silly as the color yellow.

[@Ked7]

Probably

[@tomwood9401]

They even used a quarry in Sarah Jane Adventures Death of the Doctor where the eleventh Doctor and Clyde switch places in the Unit base and whatever the name of the planet that the atracsea had trapped the Doctor on

[@josephpatti2835]

# 10 could have shown Martha and Ten laughing in Utopia when they go further in time than ever

[@BlenderB-123]

2:15 wait tell they find out about Owen Harper

[@10thdoctor15]

10 didn't always say "I don't want to go". Having said it just once before is not always.

[@o.k.productions5202]

I wonder if the screwdriver still not working on wood is intentional because the doctor enjoys the adventures that the screwdriver doesn’t just work more in hindsight than those where it does. Granted they do still complain about it in the moment. I can’t remember if it came up in 13th run, but considering she built that one from scratch rather than reconstructing the old one with the same specifications like the War Doctor’s through to 11’s were, it could have worked on wood.

[@thedoctor1263]

Why do you never show said clips

[@SonnyBoyHere]

pretty sure it does wood though. day of the doctor, War Doctor scans a wooden door to do be able to disintigrate it, its still running in 10s screwdriver. and 11 said its done, then clara just opens the door... but i guess that doctor who wants you to forget that

[@RaggedyDoctor11]

I’M IN THE THUMBNAIL WOOOOO

[@ShadowWingTronix]

The Brigadier did finally get to kill a monster with a special bullet in his last Classic Who appearance. I don't know if that was intentional but I love that's how he said goodbye to the show until that one special we don't discuss.

[@Gerilyn2003]

It was intentional (Zygons).

[@iamliberator1101]

Agree that the master would have fitted better as the timeless child. As for the purple 'wormhole' from when the timeless child could be a giant purple quality street?

[@GeorgeRussell-pv5ny]

I know this is 4 months late but hear me out. During 'Day Of The Doctor', the three Doctors got "Stuck" in a "Locked" room. War scanned the door, starting the calculation. It carried on with 10 and finished with 11...SO WOULDNT IT NOW WORK ON WOOD IF THE CALCULATION WAS A SUCCESS!?

[@jackkemp7256]

“Everyone knows Jim the Fish!”

[@yanniskarpasea]

Rory was also erased from time. 😂

[@igorschmidlapp6987]

The Golden Age Green Lantern (Alan Scott)'s ring didn't work on wood, and the Silver Age Green Lantern (Hal Jordan)'s ring didn't work on anything yellow. This led Howard on "Big Bang Theory" to say that he could beat any GL with a No. 2 pencil... So, I can beat the Doctor with a chopstick? ;-P

[@coolcaleb33YT]

Rock Qauarery’s are something doctor who and power rangers have in common

[@frankharr9466]

Well, when you have a trope.

[@jaxkthereaper6569]

Says the sonic screwdriver will never work on wood while showing the one time they actually figured out how to make it work on wood....

[@igorschmidlapp6987]

The notoriously short Humphrey Bogart used to stand on a box to fit in some shots with his taller leading ladies... i hear that Tom Cruise sometimes gets an assist...

[@soylent_purple]

Can't believe you didn't feature ”You've redecorated ? I don't like it.” -”Oh, yeah, you never do !” 😅

[@fredschmitt456]

Nice hint to "the thick of it"

[@adambarnes49]

Pretty sure that tom baker adlibbed that line and the producer hated it but it was too late too remove it

[@spacegarnaal]

Hah, Eerie Indiana. A show that was wonderful, but too short and is forgotten by many. Nice inclusion there

[@waterinmyotter6245]

One thing that always bugged me about Rory was how he remembered being a centurion, despite that being a different version of Rory.

[@georgetudor1466]

What bugs me more is the fact that in a good man goes to war, Amy says that the people of earth know him as the last centurion, when they wouldn’t since that was in an aborted timeline

[@PhantasmPiper]

One item the fez hat obsession

[@jackcooper3806]

Maddest thing is David tenant married the women who played his daughter lol 😂

[@Stillthatguy_1]

I think the skeleton looks more like the doctor than rory

[@jeremybrooks7637]

It weird his enemies have never used wood

[@Daikon_Micucci]

7:58 Power Rangers and quarries

[@zaarthwren]

I never thought about it till just now but the hotel in the god complex has all the makings of a Backrooms level

[@Thewhiteknight980]

Yeah it’s like level 13

[@zaarthwren]

@@Thewhiteknight980 ha lol rotl that made make a mess on the floor you caught off guard and I was drinking sparkling water when I read this now my nose is burning and my bed tv tray and floor is what

[@MotherShipMedia]

"It's smaller on the outside" - Clara and related ... "Is this a knock-through?" - Bill Both subverting and nodding to the "bigger on the inside trope" - I also recall one modern Doctor (Matt Smith?) having a companion that doesn't say it immediately, and he prods them to say it, with a reaction similar to the "Doctor Who" mentioned. Nut that has to be the most frequent case of the show giving fans what they expect and/or subverting it ...

[@Tim.Stotelmeyer]

That companion was Rory.

[@MotherShipMedia]

@@Tim.Stotelmeyer Thank you!

[@Mike_Ka-Chowski]

Doctor who 🤝 Kamen Rider 🤝 Star Trek Quarries

[@bellag3293]

As far as running goes, what about Ten running to Rose 😢😭

[@Greatscottwii2]

Yay Eerie Indiana ^-^