"Entirely Due to My Influence, of Course"

Years ago, my mom told me that the fourth Doctor was like my dad. I watched one episode, but it was a later one, when the show's producer wasn't very good, and also just not the best episode, and I didn't really see much resemblance, except for the crazy-looking face a messy curls. A month or two later, we got "The Ark in Space", and that was when I really began to see the similarity. The first line that ever made me wonder about my dad was "You're improving, Harry! Your mind is beginning to work... It's entirely due to my influence, of course. you mustn't take any credit." There was and still is only one person I know who could say and has said that, and that person is my dad. He's said it to me, and last night he said something similar to my mom. I had almost forgotten about this proof of him being the Doctor, but then last night we watched "The Masque of Mandragora", and I realized that the conversation the Doctor and Sarah have in the TARDIS was all-too familiar to me from my life and not just the show. Sarah had asked the Doctor something about how the TARDIS could be so big, and he gave her a weird, useless answer that didn't explain. When she didn't understand, he said something like, "You humans have such small brains. I don't know why I like you so much," and Sarah quickly replied, "Because you have such good taste!" Then he says, "Yes, that's true. I do have very good taste," or something similar. Now, I've had almost exactly that same conversation with the Doctor, except, of course, since he refuses to admit who he is to me, it was "some people" or something like that, instead of "you humans", but he was talking about me as one of those people. I often wonder how he can be so rude and hold such a high opinion of himself at the same time. It's very insulting sometimes when he does it to you, but after a while, you get used to it, and just laugh it off as one of his strange little things, and it's funny when he does it to someone else. They tend to get rather annoyed, and then he has no idea why they insult him back! :)