Timestamps: 0:00 "Just this once" 1:07 "I speak ____" 2:55 "It's a rollercoaster" 3:32 "Slash" 5:04 Scraping stone sound effect 5:34 "If that were possible, which it isn't" 6:21 "He's the Doctor. He ____" 7:30 Bad Introductions 7:55 Sci-fi explanations for everyday phenomena 9:15 "having an emotion" 9:40 Sexual jokes 12:47 Doctor/Rory getting slapped or punched 14:37 Sentences/answers interpreted wrong 17:19 Making cabinets 17:38 The villain is malfunctioning/evil medical technology 20:23 Repeating phrases 24:49 Last minute thinking while being backed into a corner 26:52 "Duty of care" 28:02 Using Doctors' numbers as symbolism 29:37 A person is just their memories 32:44 Not realising who someone is 41:40 Flirty "mature" women 42:13 The Doctor is uncomfortable while being kissed 45:39 Jokes about current technology/social media 47:07 "developed a fault" 47:53 "What do they teach you?" 48:18 "Of course it's ____. It's ____" 48:41 There was no villain all along 49:15 "Imagine ____. It's nothing like that." 49:43 The Doctor's rules 54:42 Multiple versions of villains together 55:43 Adults who met the Doctor as a child 57:22 The Doctor is bad with ages 58:28 "In a heartbeat" 58:53 Meta jokes Moffatisms from the last video that I missed: 59:29 Browser history 59:56 Jokes about actors' appearances 1:02:07 Bowties are cool 1:02:12 "Never cruel or cowardly" 1:02:19 "Jokes about Scotland" 1:02:39 "wibbly wobbly" (and its variations)
You can really notice with the main writer/show-runner change that Moffat really likes it when everybody lives. The amount of ‘they die? - oh wait, they don’t!’ in his seasons is insane XD
Pop songs in places where it doesn’t make sense for there to be pop songs. (Toxic, Tainted Love, Voodoo Child, I can’t decide, Can’t get you out of my head)
You missed one of the "It's nothing like that" moments from the Space/Time special. Doctor: Imagine a banana or anything curved, actually don't because it's not curved. Or like a banana- forget the banana!
4:34 Maha Shivratri/Christmas party sounds super fun though. If you combine them right then you’re staying up all night watching movies and eating fruit along with the typical Christmas fare.
Moffat is great at his best but his little ticks and turns of phrase are very noticeable (and drive me up the wall sometimes). There's probably another hour's worth. "What age are you?" instead of the more common "How old are you?" (unless that's a Scottish thing?) [X] is [Y] for [Z] people; "[Sad is] happy for deep people," "[Hell is] just heaven for bad people," "I know traps, traps are my flirting," "Murdering a Dalek. I'm a Time Lady, it's our golf" etc. "What physically happened??" "I can't let you die without knowing you are loved by so many, and so much, and by no one more than me" - River Song, 'The Wedding of River Song'. "You're monsters. Here you are, hiding away at the end of time. Do you even know why? Because you are hated. You are hated by everybody. But by nobody more than me" - Clara Oswald, 'Hell Bent'. A variation of the Ninth Doctor's "Funny little human brains; how do you get around in those things?" turned up in Sherlock: "Dear God... What is it like in your funny little brains? It must be so boring." The endings of 'Blink' and 'The Day of the Doctor' are the same basic trick; dematerialising the TARDIS while the Weeping Angels surround it on all sides and are stuck looking at each other, and making Gallifrey disappear while the Dalek fleet surrounds it and they destroy themselves in their own crossfire. Although RTD wrote 'Smith and Jones', Moffat cribs some of its structure for 'The Eleventh Hour'; An escaped alien convict with shapeshifting abilities, hiding from the space police, until the Doctor tricks it into giving itself away by absorbing some aspect of him. They're only two series openers apart and no one ever talks about it.
The repeated phrase was at its worst in S07E06 (23:27) and in S08 (not in this video, but the recurrent question whenever people find themselves in “Heaven”) when it’s multiple different people repeating the same phrase when you can expect them to voice their confusion a thousand different ways (why is it always “I don’t know where I am”/“Where am I?” respectively and never “What happened to me?” or “What exactly is this place?”) but I think made a fair bit of sense in S05E01 21:31 as an administrative announcement of sorts and in S10E11 24:28 as a desperate call for help. Early RTD I think could be pretty bad on this front though where scifi interfaces often had a habit of having annoyingly repeated voicelines for very specific but obviously observable circumstances (S01E02 “sheets malfunctioning”; S02E12 “sphere activated”) ps holy dear god moffat is way too straight
Today. I finally got my friend to start the Moffat era TODAY! And she has instantly picked up on so many Moffatisms already. We'll be on Vampires of Venice. It's not like we've seen a whole lot. And yet. So yeah. Perfect day for me to seev this.
Today. I finally got my friend to start the Moffat era TODAY! And she has instantly picked up on so many Moffatisms already. We'll be on Vampires of Venice. It's not like we've seen a whole lot. And yet. So yeah. Perfect day for me to seev this.
Timestamps:
0:00 "Just this once"
1:07 "I speak ____"
2:55 "It's a rollercoaster"
3:32 "Slash"
5:04 Scraping stone sound effect
5:34 "If that were possible, which it isn't"
6:21 "He's the Doctor. He ____"
7:30 Bad Introductions
7:55 Sci-fi explanations for everyday phenomena
9:15 "having an emotion"
9:40 Sexual jokes
12:47 Doctor/Rory getting slapped or punched
14:37 Sentences/answers interpreted wrong
17:19 Making cabinets
17:38 The villain is malfunctioning/evil medical technology
20:23 Repeating phrases
24:49 Last minute thinking while being backed into a corner
26:52 "Duty of care"
28:02 Using Doctors' numbers as symbolism
29:37 A person is just their memories
32:44 Not realising who someone is
41:40 Flirty "mature" women
42:13 The Doctor is uncomfortable while being kissed
45:39 Jokes about current technology/social media
47:07 "developed a fault"
47:53 "What do they teach you?"
48:18 "Of course it's ____. It's ____"
48:41 There was no villain all along
49:15 "Imagine ____. It's nothing like that."
49:43 The Doctor's rules
54:42 Multiple versions of villains together
55:43 Adults who met the Doctor as a child
57:22 The Doctor is bad with ages
58:28 "In a heartbeat"
58:53 Meta jokes
Moffatisms from the last video that I missed:
59:29 Browser history
59:56 Jokes about actors' appearances
1:02:07 Bowties are cool
1:02:12 "Never cruel or cowardly"
1:02:19 "Jokes about Scotland"
1:02:39 "wibbly wobbly" (and its variations)
Just this once doesn't sound real anymore.
I didn't realize how often it popped up 😭
when a frase is said multiple times, it starts to sound like gibberish, wierd how the mind works
The assemble a cabinet joke started in The Doctor Dances! "Never had a long night? Never had a lot of cabinets to put up?"
You can really notice with the main writer/show-runner change that Moffat really likes it when everybody lives. The amount of ‘they die? - oh wait, they don’t!’ in his seasons is insane XD
The only casualties would really be Missy (character wise cuz she never got her redemption and may have regenerated into Q/Spy Master), Amy and Rory
I'm going to do some follow-ups with other showrunners eventually. Reply to this comment with suggestions of what I should include for "RTDisms".
Chips.
Pop songs in places where it doesn’t make sense for there to be pop songs. (Toxic, Tainted Love, Voodoo Child, I can’t decide, Can’t get you out of my head)
That crescendoing bell sound effect. The Age Of Steel is full of them
Watching the news. "Swanning in", "what are you gabbing on about?"
Harriot Jones, ______ Prime Minister...
Duty of care was just a thing between Capaldi and Clara
7:56 I like seeing this in Doctor Who, because that’s how myths start. And, in my opinion, Doctor Who is a mythology.
Absolutely
I feel as though Moffat forgot that Timelords are low-level psychic and can easily recognise themselves across regenerations
Yeah
wow, i've never noticed the stone scraping sound
i had but never how much it was used
You missed one of the "It's nothing like that" moments from the Space/Time special.
Doctor: Imagine a banana or anything curved, actually don't because it's not curved. Or like a banana- forget the banana!
4:34 Maha Shivratri/Christmas party sounds super fun though. If you combine them right then you’re staying up all night watching movies and eating fruit along with the typical Christmas fare.
If its only ever said by the same character its not a moffatism, its a character trait (i.e. "Duty of care")
I love moffatisms, still they are wonderful
Just this once, let's do a drinking game
I love how much 11 hates twitter, he's just like me fr fr
It sure did age well
Clearly he knew how bad it would get long before we did
the Doctor the first time one of his companions mentioned twitter: what, you mean the Nazi website?
One I actually quite like is the stone scraping sound, it's quite nostalgic for S5
I personally prefer to think that the doctor just lied when he says he can speak ______ just cuz he’s trying to prove a point, or troll.
Moffat loves repeating phrases that constantly overlap each other.
Sexual jokes: exists
Me: We're gonna be here a while...
Moffat is great at his best but his little ticks and turns of phrase are very noticeable (and drive me up the wall sometimes). There's probably another hour's worth.
"What age are you?" instead of the more common "How old are you?" (unless that's a Scottish thing?)
[X] is [Y] for [Z] people; "[Sad is] happy for deep people," "[Hell is] just heaven for bad people," "I know traps, traps are my flirting," "Murdering a Dalek. I'm a Time Lady, it's our golf" etc.
"What physically happened??"
"I can't let you die without knowing you are loved by so many, and so much, and by no one more than me" - River Song, 'The Wedding of River Song'.
"You're monsters. Here you are, hiding away at the end of time. Do you even know why? Because you are hated. You are hated by everybody. But by nobody more than me" - Clara Oswald, 'Hell Bent'.
A variation of the Ninth Doctor's "Funny little human brains; how do you get around in those things?" turned up in Sherlock: "Dear God... What is it like in your funny little brains? It must be so boring."
The endings of 'Blink' and 'The Day of the Doctor' are the same basic trick; dematerialising the TARDIS while the Weeping Angels surround it on all sides and are stuck looking at each other, and making Gallifrey disappear while the Dalek fleet surrounds it and they destroy themselves in their own crossfire.
Although RTD wrote 'Smith and Jones', Moffat cribs some of its structure for 'The Eleventh Hour'; An escaped alien convict with shapeshifting abilities, hiding from the space police, until the Doctor tricks it into giving itself away by absorbing some aspect of him. They're only two series openers apart and no one ever talks about it.
22:50 I saw your taskbar
Missed Moffatism: Creppy Poetry
An hour? Wow!
i love moffatisms
i never realised how many things are repeated lol
The repeated phrase was at its worst in S07E06 (23:27) and in S08 (not in this video, but the recurrent question whenever people find themselves in “Heaven”) when it’s multiple different people repeating the same phrase when you can expect them to voice their confusion a thousand different ways (why is it always “I don’t know where I am”/“Where am I?” respectively and never “What happened to me?” or “What exactly is this place?”) but I think made a fair bit of sense in S05E01 21:31 as an administrative announcement of sorts and in S10E11 24:28 as a desperate call for help. Early RTD I think could be pretty bad on this front though where scifi interfaces often had a habit of having annoyingly repeated voicelines for very specific but obviously observable circumstances (S01E02 “sheets malfunctioning”; S02E12 “sphere activated”)
ps holy dear god moffat is way too straight
Today. I finally got my friend to start the Moffat era TODAY! And she has instantly picked up on so many Moffatisms already. We'll be on Vampires of Venice. It's not like we've seen a whole lot. And yet.
So yeah. Perfect day for me to seev this.
Today. I finally got my friend to start the Moffat era TODAY! And she has instantly picked up on so many Moffatisms already. We'll be on Vampires of Venice. It's not like we've seen a whole lot. And yet.
So yeah. Perfect day for me to seev this.