FAKE NEWS! The Doctor went to Scotland deliberately to fight Zygons, the Loch Ness Monster, and Nicola Sturgeon. (I may be lying about that last bit.)

Which is Ironic considering how many Doctors are Scottish. Correct me if I’m wrong but I believe of New Who 3 of the 6 doctors we’ve met are Scottish.

3? There's only McCoy, Tennant, and Capaldi, and Tennant played his incarnation as English.

@@PenneySounds I was only counting New Who, aka Eccleston to present. (Sadly I have not watched all of Classic Who. Cries in BBC won’t share Dr. Who with America) And my math may be off. I could have sworn I’d heard before that Eccleston was Scottish but google tells me he’s English. Either way tho, the fact that 1/3 of the New Who Dr. Who actors are Scottish and they are still running with the gag of the Doctor never intentionally going to Scotland is hilarious to me.

It's like the running jokes about Cardiff.

Can't believe I never noticed that

Wow the doctor really need a better navigation system XD

Hm.

@@alexthekitsune8740 To paraphrase a later episode, the Tardis might not take him where he WANTS, but it always takes him where he NEEDS to go... ...or Aberdeen.

@@FlippytheMasterofPie oh on that I know. It’s like a negotiation with the tardis but TARDIS: Can we go to Aberdeen

Better than that, he does a variation of his natural accent so that it comes across as put on in a subtle way. He also still follows the speech pattern of the doctor and once in the episode he even slips ever so slightly back into an English accent ie his “normal accent” on the show at the end of a phrase. I’ve just rewatched the episode and it honestly stupefied me how much it feels like he is “putting on an accent” throughout especially when he inadvertently “drops it” when things get serious. Note the quotes are meant to be how it feels since he obviously isn’t losing an accent ha. Tremendous actor.

A running gag can still be continuity if it's consistent

Same thing really.

There's continuity in Sarah and Clata bringing it up again

Same difference

@@JojoTheVulture aaaaaand there you are with a Jojo reference

Why did I read that with an accent?

@@HQ4575 The only reasonable explanation is that you were Scottish in a past life.

@@HQ4575 same…then again i have deep Scottish blood from multiple ancestors 🤣

If that what the long reputation for face cutting is about? "He's human, it's ok! Sorry buddy, had to be sure, you know the procedure"

Nessie was probably a stowaway on the Tardis.

Explain

@@victorsardaneta8727 it's palm cards that the doctor has when he needs to seem sympathetic and apologise, he'll just look for one that suits the situation and use it. It's a call back to when he accidentally dropped Sara Jane "home" at Aberdeen rather than where she actually lived, so he keeps a palm card as a call back to it and for (I'm assuming) if he ever see Sara Jane again so he can properly apologise.

@@victorsardaneta8727 Sarah Jane Smith ( a companion from Classic Who) was from Croyden, and was dropped off in Aberdeen. This may or may not have happened again or before, as The Doctor now, as shown on the 2:13 timestamp, has a flashcard for "It was my fault, I should have known you didn't live in Aberdeen."

Moffat did create a blink-and-you'll-miss-it monster though so I guess it explains why he would be good at doing those

I actually paused to see what those cards said, those are hilarious.

It's a reference to a 4th doctor episode where his thumbs are threatened to be cut off.

Almost "If you two could put your weight on the door and stop it opening too suddenly. Don't want to lose my arm. I'm rather attached to it. It's so handy."

wich one doctor? you have 3 of them.

Could it be a very obscure Douglas Adams reference

He’s less attached to it during the Christmas Invasion.

Perhaps that's who the empty chair at the support group was for.

The Doctor : You know, since we're talking with mouths, not really an opportunity that comes along very often, I just want to say, you know, you have never been very reliable. Idris : And you have? The Doctor : You didn't always take me where I wanted to go. Idris : No, but I always took you where you needed to go. The Doctor : You did! - The Doctor's Wife, S6E4

And David gets to use his native accent during this scene too, it's so great

When this first aired I thought, "Oh he does a pretty good Scottish accent!" And then I found out he was actually Scottish and concluded he did a pretty good English accent! 🤣 But please, don't anyone let him do an American accent.

His American accent is painful.

you nailed just why they went there…it’s their subtle tribute to her.

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No, he studied “magetics” at GCSE (as he was pretending to be human) but he failed whereas he also took Geography and supposedly passed that one when talking about the distance covering half the Earth - right?

As an Aberdonian with family in Croydon, can confirm, its a bit of a trip between the 2

@@lukeboulter8735 My trip to El Paso from Dallas is longer and still leaves me in Texas! Country's are so weird.

Had to look it up! We just got back from a wonderful 2 week self-guided trip to the London area, drove all around southwest England for 6 days too. Bath, Lyme Regis, etc. I remember signs for Croydon but couldn't remember why it was funny. What's that, 9+ hour drive?

That's the funny thing. A lot of viewers outside the UK don't get the joke because they don't know where those places are or how far apart they are. Then viewers in the UK say they're really far apart because they're on opposite ends of the country. But only someone from the UK would see those places as being really far apart, because their country is tiny. Anybody from the US or Canada or Australia won't find Aberdeen and Croydon to be very far apart at all. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bc2mp8edudWpp5c.html

@@PenneySounds I mean, we understand that it’s the wrong location, just not that it’s the other side of Great Britain off the top of our heads. Same as if I said “my flight ended up in Tacoma instead of Tampa” to a non-American. But even in a place the size of the US, 500 miles isn’t nothing. I used to have family who lived about that far away, and that was the extreme end of where I’d be willing to drive solo. (Now they’re over 1,200 miles away, which takes three days to drive. That’s a long trip no matter which country you’re in!)

Hmmmmm 🤔🤔🤔

True lol

The production crew didn't want to get stabbed

@@leonrussell9607 yeh I know but if you gonna film it in Cardiff at least don’t make it that obvious. My head canon would be that the doctor was wrong and it is Cardiff but in the next episode she says it’s in Glasgow

Just like when Jackie Tyler took a random daytrip to Queen's Arcade in Cardiff City Centre the day the Autons attacked. They tried to pass it off as London despite quite clearly displaying the arcade's signage, and paper over it by popping a London Underground sign in the corner of the shot 😂

@@leonrussell9607 why would they get stabbed?

Oh no don't let River see this comment

and Clara IIRC

Don’t forget River.

Assuming she wasn't mistaken about the location like the Doctor was...

It's more that she proved the TARDIS can only land in Croydon if that's not where you're trying to go

I can’t help to find it funny you referring to an entire country as “that area”.

I've actually seen a number of places here in Canada named after it.

The US Army has an Aberdeen used souly for target practice and tech checks... "Aberdeen Proving Grounds." Fun times.

@@Deridus it’s not a good thing, the place was home to a huge amount of human experimentation and is a hazmat nightmare!

Same

*damp

A sort of Cardiffey England

We sort of already got a payoff when the Tardis got a voice and referred to the companions as 'strays'. I think the Tardis does it on purpose!

@@agsystems8220 she certainly isn't a fan of most of them. I'm amazed that Rose needed to use a tow truck to open the time vortex cover, as the TARDIS would presumably have been quite happy to irradiate her...

It’s even funnier when you realize that it was actually filmed in Cardiff

That's not his real accent. David Tennant is Scottish, but he thought just speaking with his normal accent would be cheating. So he's actually using a different Scottish accent in that episode.

@@MythicFox He definitely hams the accent up to 11 in that episode.

@@MythicFox I'm refering to his real Scottish accent. Which yes he does use in the scene provide. Yes he spends most of the episode after this speaking like normal doctor who, but as soon as he said, "are we in Scotland?" he said it like a scotsman's would, not a brit. As I said in the comment. Read better.

Scotsmen are Brits

@@PenneySounds yes we are from the british isles, but we dont generally consider or refer to ourselves as Brits

But also has more excuses for when it doesn't

New Who has series, not seasons. Series 13 only has six episodes, and you can’t have the ninth of six!

Without looking it up, I think it was in part 2 of the stolen earth

"Journey's End" "Now then, you lot. Sarah, hold that down. Mickey, you hold that. Because you know why this Tardis always is always rattling about the place? Rose? That, there. It's designed to have six pilots, and I have to do it single handed. Martha, keep that level. But not any more. Jack, there you go. Steady that. Now we can fly this thing. No, Jackie. No, no. Not you. Don't touch anything. Just stand back. Like it's meant to be flown. We've got the Torchwood Rift looped around the Tardis by Mister Smith, and we're going to fly Planet Earth back home. Right then. Off we go!"

River Song said something like "you always fly it with the brakes on"

@@simonheffer yeah, thats why it makes the "Tardis sound"

@@astordilem6494 which can't be literally true unless the Master does the same with his TARDIS

that's no headcanon, that is canon

I lived in Glasgow 7 years and never saw a police box, not sure why you think they’re so common

The TARDIS has a faulty navigation system, which is why the doctor was able to steal it from the Time Lords originally. It's been fixed and broken again throughout the years though

@@SuperSucc69 I think it was also mentioned that the Doctor just sucks at driving it too, though.

The TARDIS does it cause she thinks it’s funny

MARTHA: Blimey. Do you have to pass a test to fly this thing? DOCTOR: Yes, and I failed it.

The tardis flies itself, it goes where the doc is needed. Other people can fly the tardis because they aren't needed.

"Under The Lake"

@@PenneySounds Thanks!

She almost did: DOCTOR: I don't know. There's a connection between all these things, I just... Argh, I just can't see it yet. ARAMU: Between what things? DOCTOR: A missing submarine, a dead naval officer off the coast of Madagascar, birds going haywire in Peru, and active alien tech in Hong Kong. There's also a talking cat in Ontario, but I've ruled him out for now. What? ARAMU: You just said...alien.

He came to BC once, in the real world: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qtSEjcuTu57Zcmg.html

@@PenneySounds The cat (who no like vegetals) from the meme with the woman yelling at him is from Ontario.

Good God, don't go to Croyden. You can't have done anything THAT bad, don't punish yourself

Why did Sarah Jane need to be left in Scotland?

@@PenneySounds Don't know, maybe the first Sarah Jane adventure was there, we just haven't seen it, or heard it. Big Finish, waiting.

@@kurtsnyder4752 That would be a good solo role for Sadie Miller

@@PenneySounds Just Googled her. The Doctor people are like a family, even generational(or is that REgenerational?) with the offsprings getting into the act(literally). Even with 7's daughter marrying 10!

@@kurtsnyder4752 Not waiting any more. We got that very thing just last month!

Sort of happened in "The Eaters of Light"

the BBC being "politically neutral" as usual.

It's been like 2 weeks. We've still got a year to wait for more.

What?

@@PenneySounds - they are going to Crotin, they should have gone to Crotin. Bugs Bunny talks about going to Walla Walls Washington or making wrong turns at Albuquerque. They just pop up when talking about places they want to go to or passed through.

"Running oot and about..."