Eighth Doctor Adventures/Funny
- Mad Dogs and Englishmen, which feature a planet of poodle revolutionaries (leading to one of the most hilariously squicky Interspecies Romances ever), Time Lady Shirley Bassey, and Ray Harryhausen declaring war on George Lucas and invading his home with stop-motion figurines. Then there's this memorable exchange:
Poodle: You said this was a time ship? |
- Another of the fabulous Eighth Doctor Adventures, Unnatural History, has a rift in space-time making San Francisco even weirder, the Doctor being called "a backrub slut", Fitz being mugged by a unicorn in the middle of an alleyway for a bar of chocolate, and other gems.
- After the Doctor meets up with Fitz again:
‘What’s the surrealism report?’ |
- When Fitz explains why he's quitting smoking:
‘It’s the Law of Conservation of Niceness,’ he said. ‘It’s a fundamental principle of the universe, like Schrodinger’s cat or Heisenberg’s knickers.’ He twirled the chocolate bar in his fingers. ‘The Doctor’s always got to have someone around who can be fluffy and sympathetic. With your alter ego gone, for the safety of the cosmos, I have to make the supreme sacrifice. Give up smoking. And practise saying “Gosh wow!”’ |
- Another when talking to Sam about drugs:
‘The last time I dropped acid was back in 1968,' [the Doctor] said. |
- In Seeing I the Doctor needs information, so he uploads 6.02 x 10^23 data-umphs to the corporate network. The programs appear to have something of their creator's Cloudcuckoolander personality...
As they ran about they budded off subprocesses hither and yon. As they budded they mutated, with new subroutines turning up from nowhere. |
- Later he needs the INC people distracted so he can use one of their computers: he logs on, fires hundreds of employees, hires hundreds more, creates working parties and working parties to monitor them and orders sandwiches for everybody. Wonderful chaos ensues.
- In EarthWorld, context is for the weak:
‘So you’re just going to tell your darling husband that you’ve been lying to him all these years?’ shouted Anji. ‘That to stop him throwing you out on the streets you had another man’s children?’ |