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** The Eleventh Doctor has a meme now. Memes are cool.
** As of series 5, the Angels have started becoming this.
* [[Genius Bonus]]: The word "TARDIS" is a play on the Latin word "tardus", meaning "slow".
** A more obscure example, overlapping with [[Historical In-Joke]] is the "Bad Wolf" arc: the first time Rose is referred to as the "bad wolf" is in 1869, a time during which she was mistaken for a prostitute because of her makeup. At the time, "she-wolf" was slang for "prostitute".
* [[Growing the Beard]]: Being that the series has a few decades of history, it's a bit inevitable that there have been a lot of times when the show's quality gets lower a few times and then back up later. The most notable are the Second Doctor compared to the first, the Sixth Doctor's second season (Season 23, Trial of a Time Lord), Seventh Doctor's second (Season 25), and Tenth Doctor's, you guessed it, second season (Series 3/Season 29).
** Some fans would argue that the new series in general was a beard growth compared to the eighties and nineties, and others see it as the point where the show was [[Ruined FOREVER]].
** The Second Doctor was a noticeable improvement on the First, making stories more action-orientated, and spreading his influence to every other Doctor after that.
*** And The First Doctor's second serial, ''The Daleks'', is seen as where the show really took off. As opposed to the rather dull first serial involving Cave Men.
* [[Harsher in Hindsight]]:
** The little girl in "Day of the Moon" being forgotten about only to {{spoiler|find herself sick and dying in New York}} could be bad enough, until you realise {{spoiler|this is a young River Song ''and'' the baby Amy was pregnant with. It also leads into the attempted murder of the Doctor}}.
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** The scene of Rory sadly playing with the dream!cot in [[Doctor Who/Recap/S31/E07 Amy's Choice|Amy's Choice]] is made even more heartbreaking by what happens in series 6.
** In early episodes, it's shown that the Doctor's worst fear is worlds burning down. See Doctor, there's this certain time war that you'll stop...
* [[Hell Is That Noise]]: The attack prayer of the Headless Monks.
* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: In "World War Three", Jackie banters about [[Doctor Who/Recap/S28/E02 Tooth and Claw|how the Doctor and Rose should be knighted]] and wonders [[Doctor Who/Recap/S31/E01 The Eleventh Hour|whether or not the Doctor even eats normal food]].
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** Not to mention the fans who bash David Tennant and/or Matt Smith solely because of the now-infamous line "I don't want to go."
** The Sixth Doctor trying to strangle Peri, which they themselves don't get over until ''The Mysterious Planet''.
* [[Nightmare Retardant]]: The cheaper costumes of the classic era. Sometimes pops up every now and then in the new series.
* [[Paranoia Fuel]]:
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** The Doctor gets himself and Amy ejected from a giant mouth by making the animal vomit. They go out screaming, with their mouths open.
** The [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Headless]] Monks. All that remains of their heads is ''a tied-off stump''.
* [[Theme Pairing]]: There's a portion of the fandom that ships Adric/Nyssa because they look cute together as [[Conveniently an Orphan|Orphaned]] [[Human Alien]] [[Teen Genius]]es traveling through time and space together.
* [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks]]: Fan reaction to almost any regeneration and companion addition, sometimes initial, sometimes permanent.
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