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What is your fav cheesy or classy Who dialogue?

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Something I read in a recent Grange Hill thread in which Paul Jericho was cast as a sadistic PE teacher. Someone raised some pretty hammy dialogue he spoke as Castellan in the Five Doctors.

"No, not the mind probe!"

Does anyone else remember some pretty terrible or some really great dialogue from classic or nu Who.

Watching the fantastic Utopia the other night, I never noticed one of the poorest lines spoken by DT before.

As the Master is stealing the TARDIS, DT speaks the really emotive line

"I'm asking you really properly...."

Oh in that case, no problem, have your TARDIS back...LOL!
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    tingramretrotingramretro Posts: 10,974
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    'There is nothing you can do to prevent the catharsis of spurious morality'.

    The words themselves make sense, but 24 years on I still have no idea what the hell the Valeyard was actually on about...
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 282
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    BTW, "I've reversed the polarity of the neutron" flow is off limits!

    As is "When I say run, run...RUN!"
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    tingramretrotingramretro Posts: 10,974
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    How about 'you can't kill me-I'm a genius!'
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    davrosdodebirddavrosdodebird Posts: 8,692
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    'There is nothing you can do to prevent the catharsis of spurious morality'.

    The words themselves make sense, but 24 years on I still have no idea what the hell the Valeyard was actually on about...


    After googling "catharsis" and "spurious", here's my definition:

    There’s nothing you can do to prevent the rising of emotional tensions of plausible but false morality

    :confused::confused::confused:
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    davrosdodebirddavrosdodebird Posts: 8,692
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    Oh, and my favourite quote?

    'The waves of time wash us all clean'
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    Dai13371Dai13371 Posts: 8,071
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    Maffmoose wrote: »
    Something I read in a recent Grange Hill thread in which Paul Jericho was cast as a sadistic PE teacher. Someone raised some pretty hammy dialogue he spoke as Castellan in the Five Doctors.

    "No, not the mind probe!"

    Does anyone else remember some pretty terrible or some really great dialogue from classic or nu Who.

    Watching the fantastic Utopia the other night, I never noticed one of the poorest lines spoken by DT before.

    As the Master is stealing the TARDIS, DT speaks the really emotive line

    "I'm asking you really properly...."

    Oh in that case, no problem, have your TARDIS back...LOL!


    Don't be so harsh. This is obviously in homage to Cardinal Fang's

    "The... comfy chair?"
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    capt.shoegazercapt.shoegazer Posts: 567
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    Maffmoose wrote: »
    Something I read in a recent Grange Hill thread in which Paul Jericho was cast as a sadistic PE teacher. Someone raised some pretty hammy dialogue he spoke as Castellan in the Five Doctors.

    "No, not the mind probe!"

    Does anyone else remember some pretty terrible or some really great dialogue from classic or nu Who.

    Watching the fantastic Utopia the other night, I never noticed one of the poorest lines spoken by DT before.

    As the Master is stealing the TARDIS, DT speaks the really emotive line

    "I'm asking you really properly...."


    Oh in that case, no problem, have your TARDIS back...LOL!

    That is a very good call there!
    'Utopia' is pure Doctor Who gold for every single second of its running time but i must say that I have always found that line and the way he delivers it strangely jarring. Very poor sentence structure Doc Ten. For shame!

    Although one could certainly forgive him a lack of eloquence at such a fraught moment. End of the Universe? Cannibalistic humans knawing at my heels? My greatest nemesis having just comandeered my time machine? I think my skills of oratory might have taken a swan dive out the window as well :D
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 866
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    I'm going to throw in a recent one from The Beast Below, when Liz Ten, talking to the Demon He - I mean Hawthorne, asks about the Doctor "Did he do the thing?". That just sounds like a really odd, cheesy line to me. Even asking 'Did he do the water thing" or "the glass thing" would have made it better. Or maybe its just me.
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    Salford_WhoSalford_Who Posts: 4,186
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    My fave is Doc Ten in School Reunion

    "I'm no dinnerlady"
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 26
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    Woo, first ever post in the Doctor Who forum

    I LOVE the line in the Fires of Pompeii where the soothsayer goes, 'no man is allowed to enter the temple of the Sybil' and the doctor responds, 'oh that's alright then. Just us girls!'
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    HallamsteriscooHallamsteriscoo Posts: 21,667
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    Welcome to the forum Hey_Aqualung! :)

    Got loads and loads but I'm going to stick with quotes from The Eleventh Hour for now, so off the top of my head

    Beans are evil

    You're Scottish, fry something

    Jeff get a girlfriend

    When he said "Thank you dear" when he found his new sonic in the Tardis

    also, for some reason I really like it when he calls Amy "Pond"
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 282
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    Welcome to the forum Hey_Aqualung! :)

    Got loads and loads but I'm going to stick with quotes from The Eleventh Hour for now, so off the top of my head

    Beans are evil

    You're Scottish, fry something

    Jeff get a girlfriend

    When he said "Thank you dear" when he found his new sonic in the Tardis

    also, for some reason I really like it when he calls Amy "Pond"

    Good quotes all, but I prefer the parting comment!

    "Oh, and delete your history!"

    I pee'd myself!
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    HallamsteriscooHallamsteriscoo Posts: 21,667
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    Maffmoose wrote: »
    Good quotes all, but I prefer the parting comment!

    "Oh, and delete your history!"

    I pee'd myself!

    Oh yeah, that was another one! :D
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    capt.shoegazercapt.shoegazer Posts: 567
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    'Blimey Jeff...get a girlfriend!'
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    HallamsteriscooHallamsteriscoo Posts: 21,667
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    'Blimey Jeff...get a girlfriend!'

    Thank you, I had a funny feeling I'd typed it slightly wrong :)
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    capt.shoegazercapt.shoegazer Posts: 567
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    Thank you, I had a funny feeling I'd typed it slightly wrong :)

    Oh no, I apologise! I didn't see you had already posted it :o
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    HallamsteriscooHallamsteriscoo Posts: 21,667
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    Oh no, I apologise! I didn't see you had already posted it :o

    Lol, no worries! Nice to know that there are people out that that have my sense of humour if you liked the same quote! :D
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    johnnysaucepnjohnnysaucepn Posts: 6,775
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    I feel this thread is going to get swamped with the classy lines, at the expense of the cheesy ones!
    I'll drop in a classic: "Crush the lesser races! Conquer the galaxy! UNIMAGINABLE POWER! UNLIMITED RICE PUDDING! Etcetera! Etcetera!"
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 1,589
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    I feel this thread is going to get swamped with the classy lines, at the expense of the cheesy ones!
    I'll drop in a classic: "Crush the lesser races! Conquer the galaxy! UNIMAGINABLE POWER! UNLIMITED RICE PUDDING! Etcetera! Etcetera!"

    Ha ha. It's terribly cheesy but I love it!
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    capt.shoegazercapt.shoegazer Posts: 567
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    The one that always sends a terrible shudder of pure cringe down my spine is Martha in S4

    'Doctor...it's Martha and I'm bringing you back to earth'

    Probably a bit off topic as it is certainly not a favourite though there is something oddly compelling in the whole abominable and smug way she says it. It just sticks out like a very sore thumb and even among some of the fantastical nonsensical beautiful rubbish spoken in DW it sounds very unnatural. It almost sounds more suited for something you would find being uttered by Voiceover Man on cheesy American trailers and seems to have been put there purely to lead into the title sequence.

    Utterly utterly horrid!
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    johnnysaucepnjohnnysaucepn Posts: 6,775
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    DavidG_UK wrote: »
    Ha ha. It's terribly cheesy but I love it!

    I love it as a classy parody of typically cheesy lines.
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    tingramretrotingramretro Posts: 10,974
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    My all time favourite line, the cliffhanger from 'Fury from the Deep' part three:

    'Nuzzink in ze vorld can stop me noooow!!'

    Also, honurable mentions go to Dr Solon from 'The Brain of Morbius' with:

    'I can see that, you chicken brained biological disaster!'

    ...and to Dr Tryst from 'Nightmare of Eden' with:

    'ze professor and I vorked together for many years. Until he died. Then, ve stopped'.:D
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 6,709
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    I would like to 'nominate' a GOOD line from this series actually.
    In ep2 when Liz 10 says:

    "I'm the bloody Queen, mate"

    I love that line and especially the delivery - made me grin on each of the three times I have seen it. :D
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    capt.shoegazercapt.shoegazer Posts: 567
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    'ze professor and I vorked together for many years. Until he died. Then, ve stopped'.:D

    Pure poetry! :D
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    I absolutly hate.
    Jenny, the doctors daughter. Her presence is cheesy and annoyin enough

    But i truly hate her first line. "Hello dad" I just want to punch her! Thats it really
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