You forget 60s Daleks, these bastards were sassy. “You make your incompetence sound like an achievement”. One of the best Dalek quotes ever.

Dalek Caan’s Manic laughing.

Why am I suddenly picturing a Dalek doing the Homer Simpson Evil laugh complete with the Dalek choking because it's not used to laughing?

Dalek Time Strategist also made a habit of laughing at the Doctor when it's voice changed to be more like the Time Controllers. In Memnos and The Hybrid's Choice, he laughs more naturally when he wins against the Doctor. Memnos especially, when he knows he's on the verge of winning, he's taunting and laughing to get a rise out of the War Doctor in a similar way to how Davros does. It's really fascinating. Maybe at that point in the War the Strategist had become more emotive and said to hell with 'acting like a Dalek'. Time Sensitive Daleks are a can of worms unto themselves.

The Time Strategist needs to make an appearance!

The only other one I can think off is the dalek in Gallifrey time war soldier obscura where a dalek who looked into the obscura became insane and started to giggle while singing 3 blind mice like a lunatic with Irving braxiatel saying it’s lost it’s mind

The choking noises they make when they laugh makes me imagine that it physically hurts them to laugh.

What I think on how the recon scout dalek was able to laugh because it was using Lins emotions while controlling her. Also after the police scene it’s says to lin you are a useful soldier you hear its voice like it’s impressed.

Another option, the human factor Daleks from the classic era, while we didn't hear them laugh, it was pretty likely they knew how or could figure it out with greater ease than normal Daleks

The idea of them laughing is just so... disturbing. Because you know whatever is making them laugh is likely really messed up.

Shoutout to the Partners in Time music

The DTS laugh in Restoration of the Daleks is so messed up. It finds the situation hilarious, and it wants to laugh, but it’s like its body just can’t quite make it happen. Worst of all, it’s not even like the DTS is insane like Caan was; it’s very, very sane. It’s fascinating and monstrous and terrifying.

Mario & Luigi Partners in Time music has given me such a wave of nostalgia.

No Daleks are very serious chaps

I always think of Joe Vevers’: “COMMENCE LAUGHING HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA” The thing about laughter is that it’s an involuntary physiological response, it’s very hard to imagine even if a Dalek had the capacity for a sense of humour for it to laugh. Given that it’s generally shown that the machines make the voice, I’m kinda reminded of Baymax trying to make an explosion noise and just imagine the vocal system going nuts to create the nearest thing to the noise.

i knew i recognized the background music, M&L partners in time Vim factory

I really hope that RTD cannonises the time strategist whenever he brings back the Daleks

So if Daleks can laugh when will we see Daleks making memes?

I still remember Joe Vevers’ Dalek laugh though 😂

I think it helps to know that they have electrodes tapped directly into their brains that translate thoughts into speech. They LITERALLY think like machines to a degree. Plus, I always imagined a Dalek being granted more autonomy & personality is seen as more of a privilege or a reward in the Dalek Hierarchy.

Nice edit of a Genesis dalek with a blue eye lense. Also in Jubilee there were cackling daleks in the dalek movie trailer in the prologue though they weren't actual daleks.

Commence laughing! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Its the Metaltron, and I have the novelization for the episode.

Hey Dalek! Knock knock. Dalek "who is there?" Doctor Dalek "Doctor Who...??! EXTERMINATE EXTERMINATE"

I personally think all Daleks are capable of it, they just don't need to in the grand scheme of things. I think the Daleks are more interesting when they can feel similar emotions to humans but in a completely Dalek way, like how the Recon Scout's laugh isn't recognisable as a laugh to us at all, or how Daleks do have a sense of fun and enjoyment, but in the case of Dalek Sec it comes from belittling all those they see as inferior, or how they get enjoyment in making a human or other species suffer

The humanised Daleks in THE EVIL OF THE DALEKS.

Apparently yes

I think there are two more factors at play, human influence and access to a casing. The Jubilee dalek had long been a prisoner of humans, so had Metaltron who was also afflicted with aspects of Rose Tyler’s humanity and the Recon scout was talking vicariously through a human. Mad Caan and the Recon scout were also apart from their casings or inhabiting one that was severely damaged or poor quality and we know from Moffat era stories that the casings play a role in regulating emotions. Once the recon scout is back in a casing it seems to lose some of its particular sadism and behaves more like any other dalek, only to regain it again after the casing is destroyed. I don’t remember if the high priest in ‘The Elite’ laughs (his casing was also damaged) but he also shows an understanding of irony, remarking before his assassination that his killer had learnt from him. Since he was building a fascist human society he was also exposed to the regular influence of humans.

Partners in Time music! 😎

Am I the only one who thinks Caan's laughter sounds like Chucky from the "Child's Play" films?

When I write Daleks for my fanfic storylines, I constantly find I give them too much emotion, but...maybe, I can sneak some in. Sorry, I do keep bringing up my project, it's just how things have worked out. I'm nearly done with it, and as its reaching its final stages, I found this channel. I haven't had them laugh, but I have had them express emotions such as depression over failing the Dalek cause, Though heres a thing I came up with years ago that might be worth a thought. How would two co-ruling emoerors sound? To the point where when something goes wrong, they have different reactions that affect their empire. One goes off to think on how to fix it while the other becomes timid and withdrawn or something, leaving the supreme daleks to pick up the pieces. Just some thoughts I am having.

They can't but like with anything, certain situations can break the mold. Now it's when writers forget those rules that idiot inconsistencies happen.

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I also wonder whether laughter may be strategic for some Daleks. Perhaps it's possible that Daleks will utilise humour or irony as a means of wearing down the morale of their enemies?

Isn't it kinda weird that super powerful aliens from a whole nother planet speak English? I mean, you would think they would have They're own language.

I think we need a Dalek to just go full on dad jokes just to piss off the fanbase, I want a McDonald's Dalek

Is it me or do crazy Daleks act more human than "sane" Daleks? It might just be a coincidence but I like the idea that the human experience is so foreign to Dalek sensibilities that we come off as insane. It could be an unexplored dimension in their xenophobia

Brilliant 😂 I remember suggesting this idea some time ago in a comment so I don't know if it lead to this but brill video anyways Particularly struck me while reading the target book the laughing part after the dalek was free I think I'm more for giving Daleks more complex characteristics, if in subtle ways. When they do things you don't expect them too it can be unsettling and intriguing, gives them more depth

Make a video about the Peter Cushing daleks films🙏

In dark eyes 4, the time controller doesn't laugh but states he's amused by the doctors anger Here in the trailer also kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oamZoMinzbObZI0.htmlsi=y0gZPMqmn6ti64lF

Can you please make a video about why the Dalek emperor was never seen again in Classic Who after the 60s? In Classic Who, why did not the writers/ eric saward have an episode with both Davros and the emperor?

They CAN laugh, but they can't meme. (Just bc if you TRY to make a meme, it is bound to fail. This isn't a Dalek exclusive difficulty) 😆

Glad they don't laugh, they'd sound too much like the Smash robots.

Generally I liked your snappy, direct visual-only approach to clip accompaniment for these but I think for the videos like this that are specifically about music, sound effects or vocal performance not including some audio of what you're talking about really hurts the analysis- it forces the viewer to go on just their interpretation of the general idea of your assessment of the audio in question, especially if it's from a source they haven't watched/listened to or don't remember. It just makes the whole thing a bit critically inaccessible. Obviously there might be issues with KZfaq's copyright system but using the clips in context is much more defensible as fair use commentary than your pure clip uploads, and those seem to do okay.

To follow up the question, do they even gain anything from doing it? They don't feel anything but hate so are they just mocking other races by doing it?

Yes. *clicks off video*