I like that the “time can be rewritten” and “not one line” moffatisms have a historical basis in the show and can be traced back to the first season back in 1964 when the first doctor tells Barbara “you can’t rewrite history! Not one line!” when she tries to change Aztec society to have less human sacrifice
@@qwertyuio404 Cruel or cowardly isn't a Moffatism either it's a quote from Malcolm Hulke and Terrance Dicks from a rather famous 1970s Doctor Who book. The full quote has yet to be said on the show shockingly.
My headcanon for the "browser history joke" is that the doctor is a PROLIFIC user of wikipedia, as in both reading the articles to laugh at how much the stupid humans get wrong, and editing/properly sourcing the articles. He doesn't want people reading his browser history because theyd see him going on 10+ hour wikipedia deep dives to correct a claim about the tensile strength of hemp rope or something.
“Curse of Fatal Death” should definitely have been included in this compilation, especially since it was also written by Moffat and includes a number of Moffatisms like “Never cruel, never cowardly.”
I think 'never cruel or cowardly' is actually something that Terrence Dicks wrote in 'the making of doctor who' when describing the doctors character, and moffat liked it so he borrowed it
CoFD has a surprising amount of really fantastic Doctor Who writing that wouldn't be out of place in the actual show. Must've been a dream come true for Moffat when he got to write TEC and eventually 6 whole seasons.
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@@glowstoneunknownyou mean "the empty child"? You know, there are a shitload of episodes Moffat wrote between it and the six whole seasons, including part 2 of empty child, the highly acclaimed "blink", and the library two parter, right? 😁
Obviously, yes, I know about his other guestwriter episodes. I'm just saying that TEC was his first time writing for canon DW, which would have been an incredible dream come true for him, and he eventually got to be showrunner, which would have been even more incredible than getting to guest write.
Still early in the video, but I think you forgot the "delete your internet history" line from The Eleventh hour. That always felt like the start of the browser history gag to me.
I realize now this probably isn't a definitive collection, just a long compilation. Otherwise, you gotta add the timey wimey bit from Time Crash, that's the best one
@NotMe-vx4vl he changed it to a bunk bed during a season 6 episode the doctors wife after having to delete the ponds room to escape the pocket universe if I remember right, their wedding night was the end of season 5 therefor they had the bunk beds for consummating the marriage. Don't try to out autism me
@@somerandomguy2073 I think Bill was the only companion to get a properly happy ending; Amy and Rory were stuck in the past, away from everything and everyone they ever knew, and Clara's death is an irrefutable _fact._
@@Jackson-ub1uvYes but Amy and Rory lived together peacefully in New York and Clara has gotten plenty of time before dying for good, meanwhile Bill got a very painful death before having her happy ending.
@@Jackson-ub1uvI can't agree. Amy and Rory lived happily until they died of old age in the 80s (and they still had regular contact with River, because she specifically travelled to them at the end of the episode); Clara could live for 56,000,000,000 years travelling in a TARDIS with her companion until she decides she's ready to die; and Bill could also live for 56,000,000,000 years, travelling with her girlfriend through the universe, until she's ready to become human again and return to her previous life (as stated at the end of the episode). Frankly, as a normal person myself, I'd say they all won. Amy and Rory had the best-case scenario any of us can hope for, and the other two were more lucky than any of us. None of them had tragic endings; they all unequivocally won at life (and death).
@@barghest94 The Curse of the Black Spot - a medic ship that’s been tailing a pirate vessel and haunting the crew with what looks like a siren but is actually a hologram The Girl Who Waited- tthe hospital in the girl who waited that injects medicine that’s fatal to humans Smile - The human colony ai which is supposed to protect the colonists starts killing people because it sees sadness as a fatal flaw Boom - Villenguard hospital transport which kills people if they are injured at all in the battlefield It’s not every season but it comes up a few times
@@TheEvilCheesecakeit seems all you have to say in this comment section is how much you hate the video and your general contempt for the people who do. The great thing about UA-cam is if you start watching a video and it turns out you don’t like it, you can turn it off.
@TheEvilCheesecake guess it would be too reminiscent of common sense to avoid videos you detest. You realize your very presence here undermines any argument you may make against the witticism of Mofffat, seeing as how you yourself seem to be completely lacking of it.
@@TheEvilCheesecake Legally no, nobody is obligated to care about your opinion lol. If you're referring to free speech, that applies to the government not censoring speech in the US. Individuals can tell you to shut up and private businesses (like Google) can delete your opinion from their site if it vioilates their terms of service.
Also very moffaty is when monsters repeat a very vague sentence like "we did not have the parts" in the girl in a fireplace or "these are our forests" in forest of the dead with the doctor trying to figure out what that means usually tied to a shocking reveal. There could be more examples of that i´m not sure
I’ve also noticed “It’s a roller coaster”. The Time of the Doctor: “It's a roller coaster this phone call.” Into the Dalek: “Oh, it's a roller coaster with you, isn't it?” The Caretaker: “Oh, it's a roller coaster with you tonight, isn't it?”
16:00 There’s actually another chin one in Capaldi’s era. In the Husbands of River Song, River says “Do you know who you remind me of” and the Doctor responds “Yes, perhaps a chap with a big…” and motions towards his chin.
Love the video, and the Moffatisms! I always noticed his repetition of jokes about the sonic screwdriver and assembling cabinets, or putting up shelves and the like, laughed when a similar joke popped up in Rogue, which also had a joke about the psychic paper accidentally flirting on behalf of someone like in The Empty Child (Stealth Moff script!? 'Course not but felt in step with him at times!)
@@Foxy02016suppose that means "building cabinets" is a metaphor for screwing around... which in context with the sonic screwdriver creates a multilayered pun!
Another one I really love is "Everybody knows that everybody dies", "Everything ends and it's always sad, but everything begins again and it's always happy", "Every Christmas is Last Christmas", "Everywhere's a beach eventually"
"Doctor Who?" as an actual question and the whole ordeal surrounding the Doctor's name is probably one of the most prominent Moffatisms ever. I really liked it when it popped up here and there in his stories from the RTD era, it was so very mysterious. But then the focus around it later on was a bit too exaggerated I think.
I like to think the doctor has had so many companions they NEED the nicknames in their head to keep them apart. Maybe the first 60 people were distinct enough but after a point you've met too many humans.
All of them _do_ die, with River being an unconfirmed exception. Amy and Rory die of old age, Clara gets killed by the Raven, and the simple fact that Bill was a part of the Testimony means that she does eventually die as well.
@@dr.feelgoodmalusphillips2475 I mean, Bill, Amy, Rory, and Clara _do_ die when they're supposed to. Being zapped by an Angel isn't lethal on its own, Clara's death was a fixed event _that we see first-hand,_ and Bill gets unconverted by Heather and eventually ends up back on Earth as a human where she _also_ dies of natural causes. Of the four, Bill is the _only_ one who's tragic fate gets reversed.
@@Jackson-ub1uv But they still don't actually die... Literally Linda a supporting character gets killed point blank with no shenanigans of her getting saved as a fixed point, consciousness or whatever. Stevie boy was and is afraid of killing characters outright.
@@dr.feelgoodmalusphillips2475 Again, they _do_ all die; there's no getting them back as they were, and the only thing that remains are the memories stored in the Testimony. Speaking of the Testimony, I love that it exists as it shows that there _are_ kind and compassionate people in the universe who are on par with the Doctor. The existence of the Testimony is not a bad thing, either morally or in terms of writing.
I loved them from the outset and still do. XD I feel like people say they don't like Moffat as much after what happened with Sherlock and they just want to say his era was bad cause Sherlock went down hill. The reality is his time on Doctor who was one of the strongest in the show's history.
The whole “Doctor Who?” thing isn’t a Moffatism, it’s been around for a very long time. I think it started after the first regeneration, but it might have started with the First Doctor. The “Who” has just been more emphasized in Modern Who.
I just noticed that Tennant was the first to say timey wimey and then he says "I have no idea where he picks these things up" about 11 lmao
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It was really obvious from his facial expression when he said that in the day of the doctor, although years had passed since I had watched Blink the first (and probably second) time, and I had forgotten about the line, I just knew it was 10 who first said it 😁
I don't understand the 'Moffat hate'. He made the best, most magical parts of the doctor in new-who, and the comedy and the sadness. His stories are my favourites, and Matt Smith really shone with his writing. He'll always be my favourite
@@TheEvilCheesecake The Best Doctors were Tom Baker, David Tennant, and Matt Smith, which puts me squarely in the pro-Moffat category. And I'm old enough to remember Tom Baker before he was on reruns.
@@TheEvilCheesecake you know you are wrong, right? most of the best episodes of RTD era was written by the moff moffat wrote heaven sent, found a way to bring gallifrey back in a way that doesnt destroy what RTD did, gave us the 12th doctor, who is one of the best doctor's character arc on the tv. U CAN like or dislike whatever you want, but saying that liking his writting is "bad taste" or something "young" is not just dishonest...is stupid.
That's because they aren't that frequent and are broken up by everything else. Only 35 minutes is an episode and a half of Moffat's two doctor half reboot series run.
Did you really miss episodes with many-repeated lines, often at the end of part 1 of a two parter, like “Are you my Mummy?”, “Donna Noble has left the library, Donna Noble has been saved”, “hey! Who turned out the lights?”, “don’t blink”, “Doctor who?” repeated by Dorian, etc.
I love Steven Moffat’s dialogue and to each their own but I really enjoy his unique way of writing. It made parts of the show feel so special to me, and I don’t understand why having recurring motifs makes them inherently bad.
No im not ready my moffat bingo list is already so long - if I watch this I’ll realise even more and it’ll become so large it’ll become sentient and create a bootstrap paradox in my house and create a tshirt of itself.
Moffat does do isms. Rewatched Coupling recently. He re-uses jokes within the same season and most plots are basically 'Susan gets mad over something she invented, bullies Steve until he simps and then Susan gives him sex rather than admit she was the one at fault".
The browser history thing is the funniest to me. The Doctor is almost certainly not looking up pr0n in their spare time, I imagine being centuries old it would get a bit boring after a while, but what else could they possibly mean? I like to think it's just a load of very poor quality Sherlock fan-fiction clogging up their browser history
i got tired of there not being timestamps so here you go. i hope y'all don't mind but i editorialized as well. 0:00 fancied me 0:22 [noun]s are [adjective] a la bowties are cool (seems weird to not just haveit be bowties are cool and callbacks to that until you realize just how much moffat uses this pattern) 1:42 browser history 1:58 never be cruel, never be cowardly (which moffat maybe took from a 1970s behind the scenes book by terrance dicks and malcolm hulke. the phrasing we're familiar with is different but it is basically the same) 2:38 timey-wimey (includes wibbly wobbly, spacey-wacey, space-shippy-thing, and the god awful humany-wumany) 4:06 nicknames such as impossible astornaut, impossible girl, etc. (again, seems broad until you get into the thick of it) 6:33 the [person] who [verb]ed a la the girl who waited, the woman who kills the doctor, etc (again, vague and probably should be considered a nickname until you hear it 50 times in a row) 8:54 doctor who? 12:51 borderline bodyshaming the actors (i'm sure spread out over 7 years, it feels less like harrassment but like. he kinda did this too much) 16:35 handcuffs (the nerd in me won't be able to sleep if i don't mention the fourth doctor did have handcuffs in his pockets for a time but moffat definitely made it it's own thing) 16:52 machine that goes ding/ping (includes "goes ding when there's stuff" and "can do [increasingly silly thing] from [random measurement]) 17:26 rory dying (shockingly not the rest of the video) 20:02 digital duplicates 21:39 the doctor isn't the doctor (basically war doctor stuff and 12 having doubts) 23:05 everybody lives 23:31 not one line 23:41 the long way round 24:48 clara watches awkwardly as the doctor is kissed (yes, really) 25:46 the word sexy 26:20 human puppets 27:37 series arcs about the doctor dying 28:20 jokes about scotland 30:59 impermanent death 34:28 time can be rewritten
Raggedy man still gets me to this day its such a small yet endearing nickname for the doctor, yet its gets across how deep his connection was with Amy Pond was
I'll always love "it's cooler" "it is, isn't it?" that's right up there with "things? Hello! What kind of things? Interesting things? I love things, ask anyone" for funniest doctor moments
You left out the “never cruel or cowardly” scene from _The Curse of Fatal Death._ Also, I feel like the entirety of Gallifrey is part of the “not actually dead” trope.
I would, if 11's +12's (more so 11) time aka Moffat wasn't my Childhood...Which It Was!!! So I Can't Change your Mind!!! Moffat's Time had the Best Tardis'!!! Also the Best Music!!! Murray Gold was Peak in Moffat!!
The way the 12th doctor says "he fancied me" makes me think he fancied him as well
It was a very pained "he fancied me..."
that's how you tell good acting from bad acting.
good acting lets you pick up emotions and pieces that aren't said.
Sussy baka
yeah it was a very heartbreaking line reading
Feels like Capaldi was like "fuck sake i aint a sword swallower.... fine, i'll say your shite. But im quitting this season."
You forgot "Male characters, especially the Doctor, being slapped by women at an increased rate than usual"
Yeah, that was a weird and uncomfortable era in that regard.
The author's barely disguised fetish
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That was started and continued by RTD
To be fair, that was started by Davies.
"My heart was maintained by the doctor"
"Doctor WHO??"
"...... Doctor CHAANNGGGG!!!"
I'm sure I saw that scene as a kid, forgot it, and remembered it as soon as I saw it again. Or maybe it was deja vu. Weird 😅
I spit my coffee watching that
I love that Rory’s many deaths are a Moffatism lol
I love that it’s a completely separate category from
They’re dead - until they’re not.
moffat did that with more than rory tho lol, don't forget clara
Rory was just like Kenny from South Park.
Death in general is a Moffatism.
Poor Rory, he certainly persevered
People kept making fun of 11's lack of eyebrows so 12 decided to over compensate.
I like that the “time can be rewritten” and “not one line” moffatisms have a historical basis in the show and can be traced back to the first season back in 1964 when the first doctor tells Barbara “you can’t rewrite history! Not one line!” when she tries to change Aztec society to have less human sacrifice
basically the same as the “oh you’ve redecorated! I don’t like it.” except even older
@@qwertyuio404 Cruel or cowardly isn't a Moffatism either it's a quote from Malcolm Hulke and Terrance Dicks from a rather famous 1970s Doctor Who book.
The full quote has yet to be said on the show shockingly.
I thought it was gonna be just 35 minutes of questionable sex jokes ngl
RTD did worse in this regard.
@@MarionBagginsNot even close. Moffat writes everything with just one hand.
@@somerandomguy2073 Did you forget a scene in Love and Monsters?!!!
@@MarionBaggins Moffat admitted he likes a good dommy mommy as they say, he is definitely worse
@@MarionBaggins Yeah, RTD's B.J. joke is nowhere near as bad as Moffat's endless slew of sex jokes and objectification of women.
They forgot to add characters gushing over the doctor "... Because he's the doctor, and he..."
To indulge in a moffatism myself, Moffatisms are fun.
I use Moffatisms now. Moffatisms are cool.
You fans deserve this show, and it deserves you.
Unnecessarily mean spirited@@TheEvilCheesecake
@@DavidEcclestonSmithbeing unnecessarily mean spirited is *not* cool
@@TheEvilCheesecakeyou’re showing them!!!! Realty check111
I love how a solid 5 minutes of this video is just them saying the name of the show.
My headcanon for the "browser history joke" is that the doctor is a PROLIFIC user of wikipedia, as in both reading the articles to laugh at how much the stupid humans get wrong, and editing/properly sourcing the articles.
He doesn't want people reading his browser history because theyd see him going on 10+ hour wikipedia deep dives to correct a claim about the tensile strength of hemp rope or something.
He also wouldn't want his past self to see it in case that explodes the universe or something
“Curse of Fatal Death” should definitely have been included in this compilation, especially since it was also written by Moffat and includes a number of Moffatisms like “Never cruel, never cowardly.”
I think 'never cruel or cowardly' is actually something that Terrence Dicks wrote in 'the making of doctor who' when describing the doctors character, and moffat liked it so he borrowed it
"Take care of the universe, I put a lot of work into it."
CoFD has a surprising amount of really fantastic Doctor Who writing that wouldn't be out of place in the actual show. Must've been a dream come true for Moffat when he got to write TEC and eventually 6 whole seasons.
@@glowstoneunknownyou mean "the empty child"? You know, there are a shitload of episodes Moffat wrote between it and the six whole seasons, including part 2 of empty child, the highly acclaimed "blink", and the library two parter, right? 😁
Obviously, yes, I know about his other guestwriter episodes. I'm just saying that TEC was his first time writing for canon DW, which would have been an incredible dream come true for him, and he eventually got to be showrunner, which would have been even more incredible than getting to guest write.
Still early in the video, but I think you forgot the "delete your internet history" line from The Eleventh hour. That always felt like the start of the browser history gag to me.
I realize now this probably isn't a definitive collection, just a long compilation. Otherwise, you gotta add the timey wimey bit from Time Crash, that's the best one
Final comment (I swear) (for now), I'm surprised to not see an "I'll explain later" segment, or any of the bits from the episode Boom
Lot missing from the eleventh hour for some reason
@@nickmustay”I’ll explain later” was actually a thing in classic as well. So, that’s less of a Moffatism and more of a “Whoism”
@@Gojirawars03 great point
it occurs to me that its implied heavily that river is conceived on the ponds wedding night meaning river song was conceived in a bunk bed
He changed it to a regular bed
@NotMe-vx4vl he changed it to a bunk bed during a season 6 episode the doctors wife after having to delete the ponds room to escape the pocket universe if I remember right, their wedding night was the end of season 5 therefor they had the bunk beds for consummating the marriage. Don't try to out autism me
The biggest moffatism is probably just killing off charcaters (both occasional and main ones) in the most heartbreaking way possible
Then ressurecting them and giving them a happy ending*
@@somerandomguy2073except when he doesn't 😔
@@somerandomguy2073 I think Bill was the only companion to get a properly happy ending; Amy and Rory were stuck in the past, away from everything and everyone they ever knew, and Clara's death is an irrefutable _fact._
@@Jackson-ub1uvYes but Amy and Rory lived together peacefully in New York and Clara has gotten plenty of time before dying for good, meanwhile Bill got a very painful death before having her happy ending.
@@Jackson-ub1uvI can't agree. Amy and Rory lived happily until they died of old age in the 80s (and they still had regular contact with River, because she specifically travelled to them at the end of the episode); Clara could live for 56,000,000,000 years travelling in a TARDIS with her companion until she decides she's ready to die; and Bill could also live for 56,000,000,000 years, travelling with her girlfriend through the universe, until she's ready to become human again and return to her previous life (as stated at the end of the episode). Frankly, as a normal person myself, I'd say they all won. Amy and Rory had the best-case scenario any of us can hope for, and the other two were more lucky than any of us. None of them had tragic endings; they all unequivocally won at life (and death).
Don’t forget “the villain is a hospital system that works fine most of the time but not for humans”
LVOID?!?!?
I can't think of any episode that fits this other than Empty Child.
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The Curse of the Black Spot - a medic ship that’s been tailing a pirate vessel and haunting the crew with what looks like a siren but is actually a hologram
The Girl Who Waited- tthe hospital in the girl who waited that injects medicine that’s fatal to humans
Smile - The human colony ai which is supposed to protect the colonists starts killing people because it sees sadness as a fatal flaw
Boom - Villenguard hospital transport which kills people if they are injured at all in the battlefield
It’s not every season but it comes up a few times
Man, I am a sucker for moffatisms, past, present and future. But my favourite will always be Homeisms where Robert Homes never fails.
Except for the space pirates, the Krotons or the power of kroll (but hey, no-one bats 1000% right?)
Holmes* like Sherlock
Holmeisms are the Best in the Classic!!!
"And delete your browser history"
"Blimey Jeff... Get a girlfriend!"
I've always loved Moffat's dialogue style a lot. It's very witty, sharp, quirky, and intelligent.
It certainly thinks it's those things, which must be why you find it appealing.
@@TheEvilCheesecakeit seems all you have to say in this comment section is how much you hate the video and your general contempt for the people who do. The great thing about UA-cam is if you start watching a video and it turns out you don’t like it, you can turn it off.
@@AJB9806 i have my opinion and you are legally required to respect it. Criticism is not permitted.
@TheEvilCheesecake guess it would be too reminiscent of common sense to avoid videos you detest. You realize your very presence here undermines any argument you may make against the witticism of Mofffat, seeing as how you yourself seem to be completely lacking of it.
@@TheEvilCheesecake Legally no, nobody is obligated to care about your opinion lol. If you're referring to free speech, that applies to the government not censoring speech in the US. Individuals can tell you to shut up and private businesses (like Google) can delete your opinion from their site if it vioilates their terms of service.
Also very moffaty is when monsters repeat a very vague sentence like "we did not have the parts" in the girl in a fireplace or "these are our forests" in forest of the dead with the doctor trying to figure out what that means usually tied to a shocking reveal. There could be more examples of that i´m not sure
ooh yeah and like in the doctor's wife when the tardis says, "the only water in the forest is the river" to rory
I’ve also noticed “It’s a roller coaster”.
The Time of the Doctor: “It's a roller coaster this phone call.”
Into the Dalek: “Oh, it's a roller coaster with you, isn't it?”
The Caretaker: “Oh, it's a roller coaster with you tonight, isn't it?”
"Don't you ever get tired of being called the Doctor?, Doctor WHO?" Doctor proceeds to have the biggest grin on his face
16:00 There’s actually another chin one in Capaldi’s era. In the Husbands of River Song, River says “Do you know who you remind me of” and the Doctor responds “Yes, perhaps a chap with a big…” and motions towards his chin.
the moffat who writes
Moffats are cool
Opening the Tardis with a snap of a finger! beautiful, simple yet magical
Love the video, and the Moffatisms! I always noticed his repetition of jokes about the sonic screwdriver and assembling cabinets, or putting up shelves and the like, laughed when a similar joke popped up in Rogue, which also had a joke about the psychic paper accidentally flirting on behalf of someone like in The Empty Child (Stealth Moff script!? 'Course not but felt in step with him at times!)
“Putting up shelves” is also a euphemism for having sex which explains why River (and Rogue) often would say this
@@Foxy02016suppose that means "building cabinets" is a metaphor for screwing around... which in context with the sonic screwdriver creates a multilayered pun!
Empty Child was written by Moffats mother in laws grandchilds dad, fun fact
Ruby in Boom was also dead until she wasn't :D
and in Rogue
@@tenhayz1889 I don't think Rogue was written by Moffat though.
The Doctor talking to a dinosaur and saying "BIG SEXY WOMEN" is one of my favorite Capaldi moments
There is also a never be cruel or cowardly way back in Moffat's comic relief the curse of fatal death
The Daleks all yelling Doctor Who is one of my favourite moments.
I LMAO when I first saw that scene!
Another one I really love is "Everybody knows that everybody dies", "Everything ends and it's always sad, but everything begins again and it's always happy", "Every Christmas is Last Christmas", "Everywhere's a beach eventually"
I absolutely love "the long way round"
I can't with "The girl who died" immediately followed by "The woman who lived" why are they so perfectly places one behind the other
My favourite is rory going 'oh my god were dead. AGAIN' Moffat knew it was a Moffatism
i don't think steven moffat understands the gooning implications of the many browser history jokes
"Doctor Who?" as an actual question and the whole ordeal surrounding the Doctor's name is probably one of the most prominent Moffatisms ever. I really liked it when it popped up here and there in his stories from the RTD era, it was so very mysterious. But then the focus around it later on was a bit too exaggerated I think.
I like to think the doctor has had so many companions they NEED the nicknames in their head to keep them apart. Maybe the first 60 people were distinct enough but after a point you've met too many humans.
thank you for cutting away from the "mystery wrapped in an enigma" line in nightmare in silver so i didn't have to listen to it again
In a skirt that’s just a little too tight. 😂😂
*one-handed writing intensifies*
Creepy weepy.
creepy weepy, pervy wervy…
Not an admirer of Wnston Churchill, then?
Doctor Who: let a character die permanently and rest in peace and angst, or draw 25
Moffat, sweating: 👀
All of them _do_ die, with River being an unconfirmed exception. Amy and Rory die of old age, Clara gets killed by the Raven, and the simple fact that Bill was a part of the Testimony means that she does eventually die as well.
@@Jackson-ub1uv I think you fail to understand them being killed in the moment they're supposed to be killed not dying of old age and bullshit.
@@dr.feelgoodmalusphillips2475 I mean, Bill, Amy, Rory, and Clara _do_ die when they're supposed to. Being zapped by an Angel isn't lethal on its own, Clara's death was a fixed event _that we see first-hand,_ and Bill gets unconverted by Heather and eventually ends up back on Earth as a human where she _also_ dies of natural causes. Of the four, Bill is the _only_ one who's tragic fate gets reversed.
@@Jackson-ub1uv But they still don't actually die... Literally Linda a supporting character gets killed point blank with no shenanigans of her getting saved as a fixed point, consciousness or whatever. Stevie boy was and is afraid of killing characters outright.
@@dr.feelgoodmalusphillips2475 Again, they _do_ all die; there's no getting them back as they were, and the only thing that remains are the memories stored in the Testimony.
Speaking of the Testimony, I love that it exists as it shows that there _are_ kind and compassionate people in the universe who are on par with the Doctor. The existence of the Testimony is not a bad thing, either morally or in terms of writing.
I actually kinda love them in retrospect 😂.
I loved them from the outset and still do. XD I feel like people say they don't like Moffat as much after what happened with Sherlock and they just want to say his era was bad cause Sherlock went down hill. The reality is his time on Doctor who was one of the strongest in the show's history.
The whole “Doctor Who?” thing isn’t a Moffatism, it’s been around for a very long time. I think it started after the first regeneration, but it might have started with the First Doctor. The “Who” has just been more emphasized in Modern Who.
it started with the first doctor in an unearthly child; ian calls him "doctor foreman" and the first doctor asks "doctor who?"
I just noticed that Tennant was the first to say timey wimey and then he says "I have no idea where he picks these things up" about 11 lmao
It was really obvious from his facial expression when he said that in the day of the doctor, although years had passed since I had watched Blink the first (and probably second) time, and I had forgotten about the line, I just knew it was 10 who first said it 😁
I don't understand the 'Moffat hate'. He made the best, most magical parts of the doctor in new-who, and the comedy and the sadness. His stories are my favourites, and Matt Smith really shone with his writing. He'll always be my favourite
Well none of us have taste when we're young so we forgive you.
it's because he loves convoluted storylines that have no payoff and because he has a fetish for stronk independant womin
@@TheEvilCheesecake
The Best Doctors were Tom Baker, David Tennant, and Matt Smith, which puts me squarely in the pro-Moffat category. And I'm old enough to remember Tom Baker before he was on reruns.
@@TheEvilCheesecake you know you are wrong, right?
most of the best episodes of RTD era was written by the moff
moffat wrote heaven sent, found a way to bring gallifrey back in a way that doesnt destroy what RTD did, gave us the 12th doctor, who is one of the best doctor's character arc on the tv.
U CAN like or dislike whatever you want, but saying that liking his writting is "bad taste" or something "young" is not just dishonest...is stupid.
@@FelipeA81 no i honestly think you have bad taste. The show is schlock and Moffat is the schlockiest of them all.
Going through a moffat episode is more repetitive than stuck in the cycle of a confession dial
It doesn’t feel overused until you see them all in a row like this
That's because they aren't that frequent and are broken up by everything else. Only 35 minutes is an episode and a half of Moffat's two doctor half reboot series run.
Matt Smith was announcing that it is Morbin' Time long before Morbius came out
It’s doctoring time
Did you really miss episodes with many-repeated lines, often at the end of part 1 of a two parter, like “Are you my Mummy?”, “Donna Noble has left the library, Donna Noble has been saved”, “hey! Who turned out the lights?”, “don’t blink”, “Doctor who?” repeated by Dorian, etc.
I love Steven Moffat’s dialogue and to each their own but I really enjoy his unique way of writing. It made parts of the show feel so special to me, and I don’t understand why having recurring motifs makes them inherently bad.
The effort put into this video is insane
"What kind of bowtie is that?"
"A cool one."
One of my favorites is “every christmas is last christmas”
6:55 that transition between clips lol
That was so Cool!!!
No im not ready my moffat bingo list is already so long - if I watch this I’ll realise even more and it’ll become so large it’ll become sentient and create a bootstrap paradox in my house and create a tshirt of itself.
Just because we thought of a moffat fun drinking game you created a paradox calling back the toymaker from the nothingness
' Never cruel or cowardly' was Terrance Dicks. 1972 'The Making of Doctor Who'.
i held it together right up until "nose.. i've had worse. chin? BLIMEY"
Moffat does do isms.
Rewatched Coupling recently. He re-uses jokes within the same season and most plots are basically 'Susan gets mad over something she invented, bullies Steve until he simps and then Susan gives him sex rather than admit she was the one at fault".
Its kind of insane how rory dies 3 times in one episode
[Noun] are [adjective] is savage and I love it
1:47 how is the doctor chill about osgood looking at his browser history but not anyone else
when i think about bananas, i think of "Banana phone!" it's a catchy jingle
Some of the greatest writing in all of Who history.
The browser history thing is the funniest to me. The Doctor is almost certainly not looking up pr0n in their spare time, I imagine being centuries old it would get a bit boring after a while, but what else could they possibly mean? I like to think it's just a load of very poor quality Sherlock fan-fiction clogging up their browser history
18:45 scariest moment in Doctor who.
As a kid I was just like what the actual fuck and cuz I was watching Live I thought it happened.
im just so happy the doctor is happy when anyone says doctor who
SAME!!!
So the doctor doesn't know about incognito mode I guess.
Incognito mode is a lie
@@nymphrodellsalavinguess he doesnt use firefox then smh my head
Of course, all the history is him looking up how popular he is
@@nymphrodellsalavinno it isn’t people just misunderstand what it does, it just stops your browser from saving what you search into your history.
Still makes me laugh that 11 and Amys final scene they're both wearing wigs 😂
i love how the 1st person to actually have an answer for the question "doctor who?" was Missy and her cardiologist
i got tired of there not being timestamps so here you go. i hope y'all don't mind but i editorialized as well.
0:00 fancied me
0:22 [noun]s are [adjective] a la bowties are cool (seems weird to not just haveit be bowties are cool and callbacks to that until you realize just how much moffat uses this pattern)
1:42 browser history
1:58 never be cruel, never be cowardly (which moffat maybe took from a 1970s behind the scenes book by terrance dicks and malcolm hulke. the phrasing we're familiar with is different but it is basically the same)
2:38 timey-wimey (includes wibbly wobbly, spacey-wacey, space-shippy-thing, and the god awful humany-wumany)
4:06 nicknames such as impossible astornaut, impossible girl, etc. (again, seems broad until you get into the thick of it)
6:33 the [person] who [verb]ed a la the girl who waited, the woman who kills the doctor, etc (again, vague and probably should be considered a nickname until you hear it 50 times in a row)
8:54 doctor who?
12:51 borderline bodyshaming the actors (i'm sure spread out over 7 years, it feels less like harrassment but like. he kinda did this too much)
16:35 handcuffs (the nerd in me won't be able to sleep if i don't mention the fourth doctor did have handcuffs in his pockets for a time but moffat definitely made it it's own thing)
16:52 machine that goes ding/ping (includes "goes ding when there's stuff" and "can do [increasingly silly thing] from [random measurement])
17:26 rory dying (shockingly not the rest of the video)
20:02 digital duplicates
21:39 the doctor isn't the doctor (basically war doctor stuff and 12 having doubts)
23:05 everybody lives
23:31 not one line
23:41 the long way round
24:48 clara watches awkwardly as the doctor is kissed (yes, really)
25:46 the word sexy
26:20 human puppets
27:37 series arcs about the doctor dying
28:20 jokes about scotland
30:59 impermanent death
34:28 time can be rewritten
The ,,Rory dying (shockingly not the rest of the video)" comment had me more than the actual video.😂
Raggedy man still gets me to this day
its such a small yet endearing nickname for the doctor, yet its gets across how deep his connection was with Amy Pond was
While some of them were wild I honestly love Moffat's goofy quirks
Moffat: *writes a sentence with a noun and a verb*
Everybody: Classic Moffat!
"Bowties are cool"
- most iconic line in history
1:19 two elevens? I'm in heaven!
Nice pfp
@@almightykellus2585 thanks :>
They tried way to often to replicate the "[Nouns] are [adjective]" gag during Whittakers era, it really hurt watching them fail doing so
“Got some Cowboys in here”
i love how rory dying is a moffatism
I can't believe entire series arcs are a Moffatism but it is so true
The Doctor Who trope is really charming when he doesnt repeat it 5 times in a row
"Oh, I’m WAY worse than Scottish…"
I love how a solid 2 minutes and 36 seconds were Rory dying.
Id also argue that "shut up!" Is a moffatism as well
Should have added the bid when Clara was in the Tardis’ library, opened that big book and said “oh so that’s who!”
There was at least one more 'long way round' from The Girl in The Fireplace. Thanks for the video!
you missed a ding machine, the dead planet episode when David is on the bus and they go through a portal. he had a ding machine then...it blew up.
I surprised by the amount of things that I associate with The Doctor are all Moffatisms
12:06 It's incredible how you can _tell_ that this Cyberman, despite all reason and logic, is _afraid._
There’s lots more moffatisms than this :), but this is a good summary
I'll always love "it's cooler" "it is, isn't it?" that's right up there with "things? Hello! What kind of things? Interesting things? I love things, ask anyone" for funniest doctor moments
"You can't change history! NOT one word. Believe me, Barbara, I know. I know!"
You left out the “never cruel or cowardly” scene from _The Curse of Fatal Death._
Also, I feel like the entirety of Gallifrey is part of the “not actually dead” trope.
the way the 12th said he fancied me bro was down bad
The 12th doctor saying "don't look at my browser history" has me concerned
As soon as the "Girl who Waited" montage started I knew you were gonna include the episode title. And then, 6:57 😆
11th was the best doctor, and had the best personality and tardis. Cant change my mind
I would, if 11's +12's (more so 11) time aka Moffat wasn't my Childhood...Which It Was!!! So I Can't Change your Mind!!! Moffat's Time had the Best Tardis'!!! Also the Best Music!!! Murray Gold was Peak in Moffat!!
the part where everyone just says the name of the show over and over again makes me laugh
Roy: “There’s a gravestone here with someone with the same name as me?”
Amy: “what?😊”
Roy: *fucking dies*
You forgot in Deep Breath when 12 says "I'm not sure... but I'll probably blame the English."
Rory dying just becomes comical at some point, but when they REALLY died by the angel, i feel lile everyone is like "naaaah i don't buy it"
I honestly love all of these except for the browser history joke.
"the girl who died"
next frame...
"The woman who lived'
peak English joke.
3:48 doctor 11 ‘It’s all timey wimmy ‘ doctor 10 ‘ no idea where he picks that up from😅’