Every time the Doctor uses the Psychic Paper | Doctor Who
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
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Much like the sonic screwdriver, the Doctor would be nowhere without their trusty Psychic Paper. It takes quite the genius - or lack of imagination - to be able to see through it.
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"...It shorted out. Finally a lie too big."
One of the best lines in the entire series. lol
this implies that not even the doctor believes he is mature and responsible, which is true
What time was that in the video
@@thecontrollerwolf1585 1:10
@@lukusblack6442 ah, so I just didn't hear it the first time around, thanks.
@@derpmanaveragegamer7791 yup. The "catch" is what he wanted them to believe ;) so the doctor cannot believe he was "responsible adult" ;) hence wavy lines
Love that the psychic paper can fool a bus's card reader - BUT NOT A GUY WHO'S JUST SOUL-CRUSHINGLY BORING.
@DoctorpooandtheTURDIS You are soul -- crushingly boring? Sorry to hear it. Ncuti is a breath of fresh air!
@@WhoDoctor-u2eI believe this is in reference to the foreman in Flatline, not Rogue
3:08
15:51 used as a bus pass
@user-ms1pg2ok4i nucti is easily the most boring uninspired doctor
Honestly, after watching through Classic Who on iPlayer and seeing the Doctor get thrown into jail or going “c’mon trust me!” dozens of times, I am more and more grateful for the psychic paper’s existence.
"Saves a lot of time" The 9th is certainly talking from experience!
It was good until they butchered its use.
Nope. Watching now seeing the Doctor shrieking while running away from villains, I see that New Who is garbage.
The classic doctors somehow didn’t need the psychic paper.
This is so good
"Yeah, it's shorted out. Finally, a lie too big." The fact that Eleven thought anyone would assume on meeting him that he's a "mature and responsible adult" is hilarious.
I just have to say, I find it funny whenever the Doctor looks at the Psychic Paper to see what he says. Either before or after showing it to someone.
Or he responds to what the others say
@@novawolf_gaming yeah but he keeps checking as if he thinks he'll be able to see it too
@@adt4864 Its funny for sure
I love whenever the Doctor flashes the Psychic Paper without actually fully consciously thinking about what it's going to say, and does a double-take at what the other person says is on it.
The Doctor doesn't control what's on it. Psychic Paper shows what the target wants to see. The Doctor usually prompts them though. Like if they say they work for the police, then the recipient will expect to see a badge or ID.
i never knew it was psychic paper i always just thought the characters were so baffled the doctor would show them a blank piece of paper that they just never stopped him
Hahahaha
Knowing Steven Moffat, that may have absolutely been the beginning of this gag before evolving into psychic paper
@@dingus4260 but the paper started during Russel T. Davies' era.
@@seth8395 oh, then I’m an idiot. Disregard!
My first contact with Doctor Who was throughout the Matt Smith era, Psychic Paper didn't really get an explanation to its use (If memory serves me right) So when i saw him use it, this was my exact thought. That this guy has enough boldness in him to show a blank piece of paper and it caught people off guard so much that they went along with it
The psychic paper has become such a staple of the show that I was shocked to learn it wasn't in Classic Who at all. At this point it's almost as iconic as the sonic screwdriver.
The paper is such a natural evolution and streamlining of the doctor who formula that I’m genuinely surprised that it wasn’t thought up during classic. The doctor doesn’t have to waste time trying to earn the trust of every person he meets like he did during classic, most people can just be tricked by the wave of a paper so they can trust the doctor by default and the plot can move at a faster pace.
And also it’s a literal get out of jail free card and that’s always helpful
Oh my god watching the classic stories now, and that storyline has gotten OLD. Legit every time they land they’re always arrested or mistrusted for the first half of the serial. Like it gets tiresome.
It's also a great gimmick since sometimes the Doctor isn't even certain what's going to show up on it & injects a bit of comedy as the Doctor has to play along with whatever ends up being the resulting reaction.
It's also a great tool of quick character establishment because what they see on the paper and how they react to it actually informs us on their personality. I really love how this and the sonic screwdriver essentially exist to gracefully jump over plot hurdle.
@@ashleybrooke2087 True that, and ontop not being such a strong mcguiver device, that it's a guarantee to get him out of the situation, let alone that it always works, while at the same time being quite believable when it doesn't
@@bdletoast09 That too. It's a very clever prop in that regard. It's actually more dynamic to the story than the sonic screwdriver, which tends to be more of a plot device.
"Finally, a lie too big." I die of laughter each time at that line
19:27 "Is it?" love how the psychic paper sometimes surprises the Doctor lol :)
1:43 Twelve doesnt seem to understand the horror and annoyance a mystery shopper is on service workers
I’ll be honest I have no idea what a mystery shopper is and I think it’s funnier if I don’t look it up and instead rely on other comments to tell me what it is.
@@Bliffenstimmers they are someone who goes into a business and secretly evaluates the employees and reports back to their boss
@@Bliffenstimmerssnitch-for-hire, basically.
13:22 I love the little detail of Caecillius not understanding the Spartacus joke because of Pompeii burning 6 years before the Gladiator war. Quality writing.
is that 12th actor?
@@DanielLenrdyes
@@DanielLenrd IIRC, he makes a call-back when he regenerates into that form.
@@derkylos yeah, it's part of his journey to becoming "a good man" again. He eventually understands that he has that face to remind him that he can always do something, can always save someone, even if it doesn't seem like it.
Actually Spartacus' rebellion was over 100 years before the destruction of Pompeii
"Sorry, what exactly is your job?"
"I'm an undercover constable from Scotland Yard."
“I’m the Doctor.”
“Doctor What?”
“…If you like.”
13:15 12th travels back in time and dresses up for fun, realises 10 is coming and has to act the part.
I miss Capaldi's look of incredulity whenever someone annoys or simply disappoints his Twelfth Doctor like he's the exhausted babysitter for the entire galaxy.
Exhausted babysitter of the entire galaxy is best description of Twelve I’ve ever seen
The best part is that makes Clara the exhausted babysitter of the exhausted babysitter. Beautiful.
"It takes a real lack of imagination to beat the paper"
The next scene: Shakespeare beats it.
I guess both too much & too little imagination can do it
No, he was being channeled through a psychic link
@@kendrixhavlik3051Both of them seemed sceptical and bored, I think it's just more that they had no expectations and so there was nothing to display.
11th doctor using the physic paper, ling about being a universal mature babysitter.
The kid: Thats just scuigily lines.
That doctor: finnaly a lie to big.
A universally mature adult. Yeah that is a lie too big.
The way you wrote 'Squiggly' took me out
@@Poisonator I'm dyslexic. :,)
"There's a bounty on your head, £20!"
"£20? That's it-?" Said the doctor in almost an insulted tone, the guards looking confused by his comment
It shorted out. Finally a lie too big - still my all time fav line.
"I'm not a passenger. I'm your worst nightmare."
"A mystery shopper? Oh, great."
"Really? That's your worst...? Okay, I am mystery shopper..."
oh my god
Hilarious lol
I love that at least half of the people see the paper, and their immediate response is “oh dear, an inspection” 😂😂
“I’m so sorry, Your Holiness, I didn’t realize.” Matt Smith says “No worries, you were just doing your job” and makes vague blessing gestures. 😂😂😂😂
"who's hot doctor?" love that scene!😂
I love the subtle burn of us as audience members, that none of us are creative enough for the psychic paper to work
Well no, it doesn't work on geniuses either. It didn't work on Shakespeare for Christ's sake.
@klauds6375 Sounds like copium 🤔
Maybe it doesn't work for different fans for different reasons
People don’t give Nine enough credit since he was the first incarnation to use the psychic paper.
Edit: the same way people don’t give Eight enough credit for being the first incarnation to kiss a companion onscreen (TV movie in 1996) or for being the first incarnation to have a column-shaped time rotor on his Tardis console (which eventually became the norm from 2005 onwards).
Didn’t 7 use it in battlefield to get he and ace on to a unit base?
It feels like such a timeless thing too.
It feels like the perfect low-tech, low-budget prop to get the Doctor into situations where people are far more willing to work with them. It very much feels like a refined version of some one-off thing that a writer from decades ago wrote into a story because they couldn't be arsed to write in a way for the Doctor to be working with a certain party.
@@benlevy9091Nope. He used his and Liz Shaw's old UNIT passes.
15:51 used as a bus pass
I would have sworn Tom Baker (Four) used the psychic paper but Google says I'm wrong.
I like that they randomly have it not work to keep it fresh
13:47 I love that both of these guys were The Doctor xD
12’s face is a reminder of Donna and ten “you can’t just let them die come on doctor just one please save one”
No way Danese from Mineplex
I love how it works only half of the time
For some reason this video filled me with joy, it is always fun to see Psychic Paper being swung around ☺
2:00 I never watched jodie's run because of the widely negative reception, but stuff like this is why I hope she gets a second chance with better writing someday.
She's getting some audio adventures with Big Finish, so hopefully they have better writing there!
She got her second chance and it ended up worse than the first sadge
Would The Doctor trust the word of a critic?
Yep, tbh Judy was the best part of 13th era, she actually tried to make the horrible writing somewhat work with her acting
"That says 'Grandmistress'."
[smacks it against the mirror] "Oh, catch up."
Can't help it since you just regenerated in less than a day
love how it works like 40% of the time
1:12 The young actor here who played the young Kazran Sardick (Laurence Belcher) also played Charles Xavier as a child in _X-Men: First Class_ (2011).
He met little Chuck
@@Babbling_Wizardand Chuck was the name of one of Kazran Sardick’s footmen.
It's interesting that Pyschic Paper was invented in New Who. Mostly used to get to the action quicker and tell stories that don't involve having to escape capture.
And with all the glitches it's easy to write around
"Another government inspection... why is there so much swearing" - Proof that the Doctor's real name is Malcolm Tucker!
That thumbnail looked like the 15th Doctor wanted to casually present his psychic paper and the 10th Doctor felt compelled to push through to present his own psychic paper
10:50 “why is there all this swearing” is my favourite one
He was once Malcolm Tucker, so the swearing makes sense.
“He’s blue.”
“Yeah.”
“Okay.”
Stupendous performance 😂😂😂
That it hasn't been explained in over a decade is hilarious, because new fans will just see them shove a blank piece of paper in someone's face and have it work.
6:12 the music transitions perfectly between clips
Has anyone noticed that 12’s psychic paper looks different from the others
New wallet paper probs same.
“We’re here to. Address stress” one of my favourite capaldi lines with the deliverance too
I like how it only works about 60% of the time or less but the doctor still expects it to work every time
Let me just say, I'm kind of glad the doctor is the only time lord left.
Him being such a kind goofball and all, "we're" lucky he's not just another monster, but instead of robots and aliens, just an average looking guy (relatively).
I love the running joke that inspectors have universal access to everywhere 😂😂😂
Arthur’s acting in the Vampires of Venice scene always kills me. So perfect, not a word spoken but he nails it.
"Finally, a lie too big."
Ive got no one else I cant tell this about so I gotta just put it here I guess. I sat next to Ncuti Gatwa in an airport lounge for like 30 mins and it was the most surreal thing I have ever been through. I still dont know how but yeah... so thats pretty cool ig.
"I'm the doctor"
"Doctor what?"
"If you'd like"
😂
Lol 7:41 the doctor hit the physcic paper like a malfunction tv
1:16 “eat crisps and talk about girls” love Matt smith
The music not being just makes the doctor sound crazy
It hurts me so much to wait for more doctor who, It’s getting very painful to have to keep watching old episodes, I know so many of them word for word
10:32 Ummm…. Better not tell Clara that.
I'm thinking here:
if Sutekh traveled all the time with the TARDIS, doesn't that mean that when the 14th and 15th Doctor after the intervention of the Toymaker and the separation of the TARDIS, did Sutekh split up too?
THIS is a great question, why is no one talking about this?
I _think_ it's accepted so far that when Fourteen finally does properly regenerate into Fifteen (maybe after regeneration sickness, as well), he's pulled back into the bi-generation. Family hops aside, Fourteen isn't doing anything. And having the possibility of two of _Fifteen specifically_ running into each other is more of an issue than multi-Doctor in general, so it wouldn't make sense for him to wait any longer than he has to. His dialogue while shooing Fourteen and Donna out of his TARDIS implies he hasn't yet seen the universe as Fifteen yet, as well.
Sutekh likely was not split
I would imagine he just decided to hop onto the tardis that was actually going to be traveling
But on the other hand, it would be interesting if Sutekh somehow killed his other self by accident, by bringing death to Death
"Every time the Doctor uses the Psychic Paper"? So at 3:08 that confirms Clara Oswald is ALSO the Doctor (whatever the paper works or not). I KNEW it. :)
Her face even appeared in the opening credits once (instead of Peter Capaldi's eyebrows)
That corrections officer from Flatline must be a really special case - so unimaginative that the psychic paper doesn't work on him, quite a feat, given that it works on the Judoon, and they're renowned for being incredibly dense and having small brains.
I hope i'm not the only one who likes the psychic paper more than the sonic screwdriver
My favorite uses of the paper are when it screws up in a funny way. Like adding hot and mistress
When the name isn’t enough the psychic paper just might do the trick, no guarantees though
I've been meaning to look for this.
I love the original psychic paper wallet, but personally the newest version looks like a cosplay replica / eBay version of it. Looks like it's suffering the same treatment as Thirteen's sonic screwdriver.
I also wonder why it was temporarily switched out with the smaller wallet for a handful of episodes.
I really wish there was a few scenes of the dr not trusting the paper and warming up to it before actually fully trusting it
0:52 the doctor played David Tennant
"Saves a lot of time" exactly why RTD wrote the thing into existence
The psychic paper hasn’t been explained in the show in over a decade
it's slightly psychic
9 did
Which is HILARIOUS
And I hope they never do, these sorts of things feel dull when you know the how of it.
@@pug8714 yeah in 2005
I love how "the paper is slightly psychic" echoes in the room and you can still hear the footsteps of the host
“It says you’re hot?" Also at 13:29 I feel like it’s just twelve having fun
Great to see you uploading compilations!
A practical device. I could do with one of these for certain situations. Great compilation.
A slick thumbnail and a very nicely put together compilation
It's a shame you could only get official psychic paper with Sonic Screwdriver toys from RTD era merchandise.
1:25 Finally a lie too big 😂
13:24
Doctor: "I am... Spartacus!"
Donna: "and so am I!"
XDDDD I can't even-
Honestly, I think the stand out use is the Oyster Card element. You don't need to top it up or anything. 😹😹😹
I love how Rose started with being unimpressed by the psychic Paper to jumping for joy for it.
I love that in the 60th anniversary it “outed” him as non cis to someone with a trans kid, like the universe knew he’d be accepting
Little did y'all know, the 4th Doctor had psychic paper, too. I cosplayed as him at Anglicon (Seattle) that had Sylvester and Peter D, and I had my psychic paper & billfold.
Love how people from Pompeii are like “ah, yes, a laminated paper in a wallet.”
I could guarantee there are more than just these moments. In fact... perhaps I shall dig them up. If I can muster the energy...
I always wondered how can people read the psychic paper from such distance
They can probably read it from a distance or a glance _because_ it's psychic.
That's a slick looking thumbnail!
Cant believe it works on the bus
Christopher ecclestone was by far the best doctor, not because of him but the series was just really eerie and great
its funnny that you can kinda tell why it didn't work, like unclear expectations it always worked better if he told them who he was and what he did or they assumed before they looked at it
"Of course, brother and sister. You look very similar." "Nah, I wish I were that ginger..."
I need Psychic Paper in my life
10:47 Nice reference to The Thick of It :)
What?
"Ham and cheese toastie and a pumpkin latte?"
James McCrimmon okay is that a reference to Jamie McCrimmon
Yes
I didn't know Capaldi had a role in the show before he was the 12th doctor!
2:34 The panic on 15's face here.
Im sorry but flirting with the doctor at 2:45 SENT ME
I can’t believe that this wasn’t in any classic who episodes or the TV movie
The pyschic paper was created as a sort of get out of jail free card as often in Classic Who the Doctor and their companions would often find themselves captured or imprisoned so this was a way of making that a less frequent occurrence.
Classic who had much more runtime per story, so the Doctor would often use his wits or a disguise to mask his identity. New who doesn’t have enough time for that, so RTD invented the psychic paper.
This is so good
"Finally a lie too big" 😂
That thumbnail is going to make the fanfic authors go nuts
Really great thumbnail guys good job :D