Well technically, the Doctor’s TITLE is “The Doctor”. But his name, what people call him? Is just “Doctor”, no definite article in front. So nyeh-nyeh, Willis! 😛
zoomer296
Doctor Who is acceptable! He’s called “Doctor Who” In the early classic episodes, Wotan called him “Doctor Who”, and Bessie’s (The third doctor’s car) license plate said “WHO 1”.
Yet_One_More_Idiot
Well WOTAN was a computer, makes sense he’d get the Doctor’s name wrong, how would he even know about the Doctor, anyway? 😛 And a car numberplate isn’t a designation of a person’s name, so that is an even flimsier bit of reasoning. 🙂
When was he called Doctor Who in early episodes? Aside from occasions when he would introduce himself as the Doctor, and other characters would ask “Doctor who?” (as in “Yes, but what’s your name?”) 🙂 If you could cite at least one definite example, that’d be great, then I could check it out on video. 🙂
Mandy
There was a book on Doctor Who once that addressed this very question. I wish I remembered the name of the book. What it said was his business card in the veeery early episodes was one with ?s on it that said Doctor Who. He was also called Doctor Who in a few episodes but they weren’t official episodes but rather made by fans.
There’s a few other occurrences. For specific examples, here you go.
WaytoomanyUIDs
They were official episodes, the versions you are thinking of are the ones the fans recreated them from the scripts because the Beeb trew out the tapes, remember.
You learn to read html and then examine the source code. But many people wimp out and get a decent browser that responds when the cursor goes over the comic. For those who can’t afford a device with a decent browser, Willis puts a clickable area to the right of the “Latest” link that will pop up the alt-text.
or right-click the comic and choose “View Image Info,” which I have to do cause the alt-text box and the actual text are the same colour on my computer for some reason and I can’t figure out how to change it ^<__<^;;
partinobodycular
“For those who can’t afford a device with a decent browser, Willis puts a clickable area to the right of the “Latest” link that will pop up the alt-text.”
I’ve clicked there by accident before – I never realized it was a feature. The first time it happened I thought my computer was possessed.
Eh, he’s used it since the 60s. (Using aliases such as Doctor Von Wer and Qui Quae Quod, German and Latin versions of ‘Who’) The outrage over calling him Doctor Who is mostly a weird form of gatekeeping which doesn’t even reflect the show itself.
To say nothing of the fact that the character was credited as “Doctor Who” or “Dr. Who” for decades and it only stopped because a pedantic fan the show hired pointed this out to them.
nobodybasically
Are you calling Peter Davison and David Tennant “pedantic fans”?
AgentKeen
Hey, just because you get to star in the show doesn’t make you any less pedantic or any less of a fan.
I was actually referring to Ian Levine, a wealthy record executive who nearly destroyed the program when he convinced an army of nerds that the show was on the brink of cancellation during a hiatus, in order to create a protest movement which would keep the showrunning regime in place which had granted Levine an unpaid internship as “Continuity Adviser”.
He often tries to claim credit for penning Attack of the Cybermen, an infamously pedantism-filled serial which was utterly impenetrable unless you literally did nothing but memorize Doctor Who trivia all day.
If I recall correctly, on top of doing all that, he was also the original “actually it’s the Doctor” guy. If nothing else, it’s the sort of thing he’d definitely try to claim credit for.
Outside of their performances, which I feel are best summed up as “half-asleep” and “makes Brian Blessed look subtle and nuanced”, I have no beef with Davison or Tennant.
Arian
Are you kidding? David Tennant can show you exactly what he’s thinking by moving one facial muscle. He’s the best actor of any of the people who have played the Doctor. 0.0
I lost a lot of love for Ten (and the RTD era in general) with End of Time. Ten’s whining about Regeneration and talk about how “It feels like dying” finally opened up my eyes that the Tenth Doctor is a whiney jerk.
Eleven and Twelve are so much better and (Prepare your torches and pitchforks) Steven Moffatt is a far better writer than Russell T. Davis ever was.
Adam Black
And Pink Floyd even had a character named Pink Floyd.
But seriously, which one is pink, I forget
It’s not cringy, I’ve seen it before, Walky is being extra self aware in the moment for cartoon hilarity but it’s not uncommon for students to get a college shock once their classes stop reviewing high school material.
“His name…..is DOCTOR WHO? Is he from a long line of “Whos”? Son of Bob and Margaret Whos? A proud tradition of Whos stretching all the way back into antiquity? A member of WHOVILLE, perhaps??”
236 thoughts on “Quizzes”
Ana Chronistic
“That’s THE Doctor!”
“…say, you wouldn’t happen to have any way to EXTERMINATE any witnesses, would you”
Ana Chronistic
*mutters under breath ‘dang it alt-text’*
Flipz
Heh, I had the same reaction to the alt-text. xD
Architex
Willis beat us to it, again.
Yet_One_More_Idiot
Well technically, the Doctor’s TITLE is “The Doctor”. But his name, what people call him? Is just “Doctor”, no definite article in front. So nyeh-nyeh, Willis! 😛
zoomer296
Doctor Who is acceptable! He’s called “Doctor Who” In the early classic episodes, Wotan called him “Doctor Who”, and Bessie’s (The third doctor’s car) license plate said “WHO 1”.
Yet_One_More_Idiot
Well WOTAN was a computer, makes sense he’d get the Doctor’s name wrong, how would he even know about the Doctor, anyway? 😛 And a car numberplate isn’t a designation of a person’s name, so that is an even flimsier bit of reasoning. 🙂
When was he called Doctor Who in early episodes? Aside from occasions when he would introduce himself as the Doctor, and other characters would ask “Doctor who?” (as in “Yes, but what’s your name?”) 🙂 If you could cite at least one definite example, that’d be great, then I could check it out on video. 🙂
Mandy
There was a book on Doctor Who once that addressed this very question. I wish I remembered the name of the book. What it said was his business card in the veeery early episodes was one with ?s on it that said Doctor Who. He was also called Doctor Who in a few episodes but they weren’t official episodes but rather made by fans.
There’s a few other occurrences. For specific examples, here you go.
WaytoomanyUIDs
They were official episodes, the versions you are thinking of are the ones the fans recreated them from the scripts because the Beeb trew out the tapes, remember.
David
How does one see the fabled alt-text?
Clif
You learn to read html and then examine the source code. But many people wimp out and get a decent browser that responds when the cursor goes over the comic. For those who can’t afford a device with a decent browser, Willis puts a clickable area to the right of the “Latest” link that will pop up the alt-text.
Dragon_Nataku
or right-click the comic and choose “View Image Info,” which I have to do cause the alt-text box and the actual text are the same colour on my computer for some reason and I can’t figure out how to change it ^<__<^;;
partinobodycular
“For those who can’t afford a device with a decent browser, Willis puts a clickable area to the right of the “Latest” link that will pop up the alt-text.”
I’ve clicked there by accident before – I never realized it was a feature. The first time it happened I thought my computer was possessed.
DarkVeghetta
Clearly the only reasonable assumption.
Sambo
Computers being possessed is a real issue!
Dean
Oh man, the Doctor hates it when people call him Doctor Who.
FinalOwen
Eh, he’s used it since the 60s. (Using aliases such as Doctor Von Wer and Qui Quae Quod, German and Latin versions of ‘Who’) The outrage over calling him Doctor Who is mostly a weird form of gatekeeping which doesn’t even reflect the show itself.
mister gray
where on earth did you get that great icon?
Wack'd
To say nothing of the fact that the character was credited as “Doctor Who” or “Dr. Who” for decades and it only stopped because a pedantic fan the show hired pointed this out to them.
nobodybasically
Are you calling Peter Davison and David Tennant “pedantic fans”?
AgentKeen
Hey, just because you get to star in the show doesn’t make you any less pedantic or any less of a fan.
Wack'd
I was actually referring to Ian Levine, a wealthy record executive who nearly destroyed the program when he convinced an army of nerds that the show was on the brink of cancellation during a hiatus, in order to create a protest movement which would keep the showrunning regime in place which had granted Levine an unpaid internship as “Continuity Adviser”.
He often tries to claim credit for penning Attack of the Cybermen, an infamously pedantism-filled serial which was utterly impenetrable unless you literally did nothing but memorize Doctor Who trivia all day.
If I recall correctly, on top of doing all that, he was also the original “actually it’s the Doctor” guy. If nothing else, it’s the sort of thing he’d definitely try to claim credit for.
Outside of their performances, which I feel are best summed up as “half-asleep” and “makes Brian Blessed look subtle and nuanced”, I have no beef with Davison or Tennant.
Arian
Are you kidding? David Tennant can show you exactly what he’s thinking by moving one facial muscle. He’s the best actor of any of the people who have played the Doctor. 0.0
Wack'd
All of those facial muscles represent the feeling “OH MY GOD I’M ON DOCTOR WHO YOU GUYS I CAN’T BELIEVE IT — OH SHIT SHOULD I BE ACTING RIGHT NOW”
Solenoid
You misspelled BRIAN BLESSED.
maarvarq
Outside of their performances, which I feel are best summed up as “half-asleep” and “makes Brian Blessed look subtle and nuanced”
I was very fond of Davison’s Doctor, whose approach struck me as gentle, and for the most part I liked Ten, but when I watch his , I think “yet still more restrained than his final season in Doctor Who”. @Arian, if “David Tennant can show you exactly what he’s thinking by moving one facial muscle”, then why towards the end did he insist on using all of them all the time (and SHOUTING)?
maarvarq
Crap, I always get href commands wrong on this site.
“Harry Potter performance” -http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Bartemius_Crouch_Jr.
SonicBlueRanger
I lost a lot of love for Ten (and the RTD era in general) with End of Time. Ten’s whining about Regeneration and talk about how “It feels like dying” finally opened up my eyes that the Tenth Doctor is a whiney jerk.
Eleven and Twelve are so much better and (Prepare your torches and pitchforks) Steven Moffatt is a far better writer than Russell T. Davis ever was.
Adam Black
And Pink Floyd even had a character named Pink Floyd.
But seriously, which one is pink, I forget
Kryss LaBryn
Pink isn’t well; he stayed back at the hotel.
Charlie Spencer
Okay, I get the alt-text reference, but what does it have to do with the comic?
Charlie Spencer
Oh, never mind; I got it on second reading.
Must be Monday.
Jack Stamper
Walky called Jason Doctor Who (2nd panel)
Doctor_Who
YOU get it together, you little twerp!
Willoughby Chase
Wow! Easy there Doc!
Keep the Malcolm Tucker under control until he’s needed for fuckety-fucks-sake.
Sambo
On point gravatars
otusasio451
WALKY. NO. BAD WALKY, BAD.
Yet_One_More_Idiot
WALKY. NO. WALKY. STAHP.
…Accept help when it is offered.
DarkoNeko
This is so very fun yet so very cringy.
I’m conflicted.
Gram91
The fact that Mike is a factor in all this makes me love it.
Deanatay
AND he’s trying to help!
By being evil. It’s his way.
John
It’s not cringy, I’ve seen it before, Walky is being extra self aware in the moment for cartoon hilarity but it’s not uncommon for students to get a college shock once their classes stop reviewing high school material.
Airyu
But Walky’s reaction is still cringe-worthy. I definitely hit this kind of a failing-wall in college, but I didn’t act like that about it.
Seerow
When Mike is the one who knows… yes be very scared.
MM
Yeah, he’s trying to be helpful. And I don’t think he’s even drunk. *shivers*
Shade
Mike is always helpful. He is not, however, nice.
Clif
In a nutshell.
Erisian
Strongly agree. Dunno about drunk but that was serious Mike trying to help.
Mike’s only useful when it’s optimally important.
Deanatay
Has anyone noticed that Mike’s been trying to help a lot, lately? First Joyce, now Walky. What’s his angle?
Either: He’s trying some new way of tormenting his friends, OR, he knows something we don’t know.
OR?
Dean
Next strip: Mike is researching the price of hiring a skywriter, and looking up Walky’s parents’ house on Google Maps.
Clif
And leaving the results out for Walky to find.
Mada
Well, I’m going to be reading all of Jason’s lines in Matt Smith’s voice now.
Doctor_Who
I already do. In Panel two, he even almost has the chin.
MM
If he grew out his hair more, he’d look like Mike, though. Which would be really confusing.
Lord Stoneheart
Obligatory Jason/Sal pic Slipshine ad looks like it could be Walky/Mike comment.
AgentKeen
Oh god, I’d seen it as Walky/Jason, but Walky/Mike is even more hilarious.
DarkoNeko
Walky/Jason is, after all, already featured on the left side on this page.
Historyman68
I could see Christopher Eckelson (sp?) playing Galasso.
Ana Chronistic
Eccleston was my first Doctor. Sucks about the “creative differences” and all, one season didn’t feel like nearly enough.
Willoughby Chase
I’m a Tom Baker fan, but Eccleston was definitely the better of the two.
The angst and the Northerness.
I’m looking forward to a woman Doctor.
Twilightomens
I am attracted to both of those characters
So
Um
Thanks for pointing that out
Clif
Recognizing your problem is the first step to a cure.
Willoughby Chase
It’s usually the first step to building ever bigger banks of denial.
Kryss LaBryn
Galasso will be played by Colm Feore. Fools!
Seriously it’s like Willis used him as a character model or something. He’s perfect.
Someone
He feels to straight laced to be the doctor. I give him Sean Connery’s James Bond voice.
Bit of an ass.
Sleeps with really hot chicks.
British.
He was even worked for an organization that fought super villains in another life and had a hot evil chick for an arch enemy! Who he had dated.
tim gueguen
Where you aware that Sean Connery has a son Jason when you posted that?
Someone
No, no I was not….but that is kinda awesome
Wack'd
He resembles Peter Davison a bit, to me.
AgentKeen
Y’know, I do manage to always hear the accent when I read his lines, but I can’t think of anyone specific that I’m hearing.
nothri
11th Doctor was the one with the bow tie, too.
nothri
“His name…..is DOCTOR WHO? Is he from a long line of “Whos”? Son of Bob and Margaret Whos? A proud tradition of Whos stretching all the way back into antiquity? A member of WHOVILLE, perhaps??”