'You Could've Lent Her Hers!'

I really enjoy the way the first Doctor acts like a lovely old grandfather. It always charmed me when I first watched him, and as I got older, I started noticing things about him that I hadn't before, particularly the fact that he's constantly stumbling over his words and things. Some of it is acting, but I really do believe that a lot of it isn't. One episode that I remember very well for it is The Keys of Marinus. He said so many lovely little things in that one! When they first start walking around the planet, someone asks if the sea could be frozen, and he says something like, 'No, not in these temperatures... Besisdes, it's far to warm.' I think 'far too warm' was mean to be Ian's line.:) Later, he's talking about proving Ian's innocence when he's framed for murder, and he says, 'I can't improve at this moment - I can't prove at this moment that Chesterton is innocent.' I really love that too. But the one that always makes me really laugh is when he's talking to Ian and Barbara, after Susan's gone back to the TARDIS to get more shoes after she lost hers, and Ian's barefoot because he gave her his boot because there was glass on the ground, and the Doctor says, 'If you'd been wearing your boots, you could've lent her hers!' What just makes the scene is that Ian and Barbara take his scolding very solemnly, but then suddenly realize what he's said, and smile at each other!
The thing is, my dad did the same thing recently! My brother had a cold, and said he'd got it from my dad, and I can't remember why, but there was something funny about it. I hadn't heard my brother say it, and my dad was laughing, so I asked him what was funny. Still laughing, he said something like, 'Him accusing me of giving him his cold!'

'If I'm right, and inevitably I am...'

One thing that makes me very sure about who my dad is, is how he always thinks he's right, and clever than everyone else. I've only ever known the Doctor to do it, and my dad's done it for as long as I can remember! A while back, after making a suggestion to my brother (which my brother didn't like), he said something like, 'Every time I say that, it shows how clever I am, and if you listen to me, you might learn to be just as clever.' And he meant it perfectly seriously! It really reminds me of The Ark in Space, when the Doctor says, 'You're improving, Harry! Your mind is beginning to work... Entirely due to my influence, of course. You mustn't take any credit.' And then another time when we disagreed on something, he said, 'I think it does, and that's the end of the matter.' and I couldn't count the times he's said things like, 'When have I ever guessed wrong about anything?' like he did in The Masque of Mandragora, which tends to leave me with Sarah's line, 'Lots of times.' It can be extremely hard to live with sometimes, but you get used to it after a while, and it gets to be funny a lot of the time.:)

By the way, I'm very sorry for not posting in so long. The time just went by so quickly, and I've been very busy and preoccupied with the show I'm doing with my drama group next week. I've got a lead role now, because I was the understudy for one, and it's taking a lot of work.:) I hope you understand.:)

Don't Show Your New Outfit to the Doctor

Recently, I found a lovely blue-and-white plaid, sleeveless ( I don't know if that can mean 'strapless', but it's got no sleeves from the shoulder down, but still a lot of material over the shoulders;)) romper on Ebay, with short legs that have an inseam of about 5 inches. It was at a nice price, so I bought it, and when it came, I found that it fit me perfectly, just a well as (or even better than) if it had bee made for me! I was very excited, and ran into the room where the Doctor was working on a computer, saying, 'Hey, Doctor, look!' He gave a very faint 'Hmm?' but hardly moved.
'Look what I bought!' I said, holding up my arms to let him see the romper properly. Finally, he turned around.
'It's too small,' he said plainly, and turned around again.
'No, it's not too small! It fits perfectly!' I said, a little annoyed. The Doctor turned back around.
'Oh,' he said flatly. 'Well then you're too bare for me.' ('Too bare for me' is a joke with us, because when my brother was very young, he saw my dad with no shirt on and said that, so the Doctor meant, 'It's skimpy.') I just said 'Humph!', half amused and half annoyed, and walked out of the room. The romper buttons all the way up the front, and has no holes or anything in it; it's not a halter, and a 5-inch inseam is perfectly reasonable. I don't know why he thought it was skimpy. The Doctor is just so rude sometimes! It really reminded me of the second scene in Pyramids of Mars, though, when Sarah comes in wearing that pretty dress, saying, 'Hey, Doctor! Doctor, look! Look what I found!' and the Doctor, with very little emotion, says, 'Hello, Vicki.' then Sarah asks, 'What?' and the Doctor realizes it's her, and says, 'Oh. Where did you get that dress?' very strangely. The tone he had was very similar to the one my Doctor (whichever time he's come from) did. I guess I should get used to him saying things like that. He obviously doesn't know how rude he's being. And, in Pyramids of Mars, he was thinking about how he was tired of working for UNIT, and I think he's having a similar problem now, with whatever work he's currently doing. It's meant to be computer programming, but I think it must be something to do with UNIT or something like that. He often says things that sound a lot like 'And it's about time I found something better to do than run around after the Brigadier!'

"Did I just put my hand in your face?"

The Doctor has a very strange way of always getting his arm (or something else odd) in my face. A couple weeks back, we went out to get a TV remote, and the plan was to go to Homebase (it's in the same shopping area) if we couldn't get the right one at the first shop (I can't remember what is was). We found it at the first shop, though, and on the way back to the car, he suddenly stopped and put his hand out right in my face pointing across the parking lot. It might have bashed me if I hadn't moved when I saw it coming.
"Do we still need to go to Homebase?" he asked - half to himself, I think. He realized we didn't, and then turned to see me quietly leaning away from his hand. (I'm fairly used to him absent-mindedly doing it, and I know it's useless to say, "Hey! Get your big hand out my face, Doctor!" so I just smile quietly to myself at his strangeness.) "Oh!" he said (but not with alarm or anything - just as if he was realizing something he'd forgot). "Did I just put my hand in your face?"
"Yes!" I said, half laughing and half annoyed. "And you almost hit me!"
"Oh. Sorry." He smiled fairly casually.
And the night before, I was talking to him, and he just stuck out his hand and rubbed (or maybe ruffling-ly patted) my head, from the front, so that his arm was in my face. I think my eyes kind of went big and gave a little jump of surprise and confusion. He said it was and 'affectionate pat' or something like that, but I'm not a dog, am I?:) Then I remembered that scene in The Hand of Fear, when the Doctor and Sarah are talking to the manager of the power station, and she's sitting on the table next to him, and as he starts talking, he grabs the top of her head and turns it toward the people their talking to! She looks a little like I must have look when my head was suddenly patted. So, I put the pat down to the fact that he's the Doctor, and he's a bit (a very big bit) unusual.
Then, last night, he had turned our old table upside down to take it apart (we've got a new one), and he asked for my help unscrewing the legs. I unscrewed the last one and then sat back while he did something with the detached legs. I didn't really know what he was doing, though, so I lent forward to look. Then, he picked up one of the legs and moved it over me, right over my head! I hadn't really been looking at the time, so I wasn't sure how close it got, but I had a strong suspicion that it had missed my head by about an inch! I looked up and the Doctor was staring at me.
"I missed your head by a hair's breadth!" he said. This time he did look almost alarmed.
"I know."
"Sorry." Well, he was back to casual. And although I can't find the exact episode right now, I know that there's been at least one time where the Doctor had almost bashed Sarah on the head. One of them may have been when he picks up the stick in Pyramids of Mars, when they're trying to find the deflection barrier. Being around the doctor can be dangerous, but it's also fun!:)

"He Talks to Himself Sometimes..."

I had a most interesting conversation with the Doctor the day before yesterday. It started because he had been talking to himself in the kitchen, while I stood next to him, and he was saying a bunch of strange things, including asking himself if he understood. I said I didn't get what he meant, and he said, "I'm just talking to myself, that's all." leaving me thinking, That's what I didn't get. He went on mumbling for a while about how there's nothing wrong with talking to yourself, and then thoughtfully said, "Although, it is unusual to ask yourself if you understand, I suppose." He seemed to change his mind, though, since, when I laughed, he said, "If you're going to talk to yourself, it makes perfect sense to ask yourself if you understand." I didn't really know what to say, so he went off to my brother to ask him if it makes sense. All my brother said was something like "I guess so..." so the Doctor came back to me, saying, "It would be horrible to talk to yourself and then find you didn't understand." He still didn't get it when I laughed. It's very strange the way he talks to himself about things that don't make sense. I guess it falls under the old 'Ark in Space' quote: "He talks to himself sometimes because he's the only one who understands what he's saying." I certainly don't understand!

And He Casually Crawls Out the Door...

We got a small table tennis table this Christmas, so adding that to the fact that our garage flooded with all the rain, 'The Room ' (our dining room that we don't use for eating and stuff) is slightly full at the moment. For some reason, there's an old footstool in there, too, which is usually under the table, but this morning I was sitting on it, so it was between the table and a chest of drawers, in the way of anyone trying to get out of the room from the other side of the table.:) The Doctor was on that side of the table, and wanted to get past. It was awkward for me to find my way out of that strange spot, and he had already tried to climb over me earlier, almost falling while holding two bowls of porridge, and then making the joke 'Never try to do a high-step over someone's knees [I had lifted them to try and make it easier for him, but it made it worse:P] while holding two bowls of porridge. You have two choices: drop the porridge, or fall on the porridge.' Then he said 'I probably would've done both at the same time.' Anyway, in avoidance of doing it again, he got down on his hands and knees, and crawled under the table! It was quite funny, but understandable, I guess. The really odd thing was, he didn't get up after he came out from under it! He crawled off to the door, and I began to wonder if he'd hurt his back or something, so as he was leaving the room, I asked why he was crawling, and he said, 'Because it's a nice way to travel.' or something as strange. Then, after a pause (although he carried on crawling), he said 'I'll be getting up soon... when I realize how un-progressive it is.' I finally realized he hadn't noticed he was doing anything strange! I guess it's part of the way he treats odd things so lightly. It reminded me of 'Terror of the Zygons', when Benton finds the Doctor and Sarah unconscious, and the Doctor wakes up and whispers 'It worked!' and Benton whispers back, 'What worked?' so the Doctor says something about a trick he learned from a Tibetan monk, and Benton answers with something else, still whispering. Then the Doctor says 'Why are you whispering?' as if benton was the one to start it!

'That Sounds Like Sarah.'

Recently, my mom and I were talking together, when we heard a loud bump and the Doctor saying 'Ow!' in the next room. My mom called 'Are you alright?' and his reply came, 'Yes; I just bashed my head on the ceiling.' as though he had stubbed his toe or something! It was so calm, for a moment I didn't even realize he was saying something odd!:) He can be so casual about important or unusual things! It's like what he said to me when I hurt myself on the tumble dryer, or in 'The Sontaran Experiment', when Harry says they should look for Sarah, and they hear her scream, and the Doctor calmly says, 'That sounds like Sarah.' I like that line even more after finding out it was scripted as 'Oh, dear!' and Tom Baker changed it.;) I wonder why he doesn't take these moments like other people would? Maybe to him it's not important, because he's busy thinking about some alien invasion or something, and bumping his head on the ceiling and stuff doesn't matter when lives are at stake. It's not important, I guess. It all adds to the fun!:)

"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! :)

"He's just thinking... I think."

Yesterday morning, the Doctor did the strangest thing to me. You see, I'm writing a book, and I asked him for a little help with one bit that was giving me trouble. I asked him for ideas, and he lay back on the couch, took off his glasses, and closed his eyes. I thought he was asleep, and asked if he was trying to think of an idea, or sleeping. He sat up, and said he was awake, and that I had disturbed his thoughts, so I stayed quiet. Five minutes later, he hadn't moved. Don't worry, I thought to myself, he's just thinking. Then, he started breathing very slowly and deeply, like when someone's asleep. I think, I added to myself. I was beginning to think of "The Masque of Mandragora", when the Doctor is thinking, and the Prince (or something like that - it's an episode I've seen only a few times, and that was a while ago) comes in to ask if he should go ahead with the masque. The Doctor is sitting on a chair next to Sarah, trying to find a solution to the problem, with his eyes closed and his head flopped, and the Prince comes in and stops half-way through his sentence, thinking he's asleep, and Sarah says, "Oh, don't worry. He's just thinking." But then the Doctor snores and she adds, "I think." Then the Doctor jumps up with his finger in the air, saying something like, "That's it!" Then he runs out of the room before the Prince can talk, thanking him for the costume he was holding and telling him "it'll do perfectly."
I was just about to laugh and say, "Doctor! Wake up! I thought you were meant to be thinking," when, all of a sudden, he sits straight up, and shouts, "I've got it!"
So you see why I am so convinced that he must be the Doctor. I mean, who could do something so similar without being him?

Does ANYONE understand what he's talking about?

Sometimes the Doctor does the strangest things while he's talking. Once, he explained to my brother (very slowly, with pauses between all the actions he named) how he was making his burger, and made the motions of making the burgers with his hands (such as putting them together and opening them out for cutting the bun, and flicking his fingers for putting on pepper). It was so strange it made me laugh, and I said, "I like the actions!" At first, he didn't know what I meant, but then he realized, and, meaning every word, said, "It helps me to understand what I'm saying." This reminds me a lot of "The Ark In Space", when the Doctor starts talking to himself, and Sarah explains to Vira, "He talks to himself sometimes because he's the only one who understand what he's talking about", which, by the way, the Doctor I know also does very frequently.
Sometimes, though, I'm not sure even the Doctor understands what he's talking about.For instance, we were driving in the car, and I said something like, "It sure is dark!" Then he said, "No, it's not dark, it's just less light." That really makes me think of "Pyramids Of Mars", when Sarah tries to show the Doctor the door, but it isn't there, and she says, "It's vanished!" to which he calmly replies, "Nonsense! It can't have vanished! It's just disappeared. That's all!" And according to my dad, he once answered a phone call at work, saying, "Good morning - I mean, good afternoon. What question do I have for you today?" Somehow, I don't think this is the normal way to answer work calls. He even said the same "Good morning - good afternoon" thing to me once when he came home! I'm not sure when, but I remember the Doctor of the '70s TV shows saying something that was similarly complete gobbledygook. It's things like this that really prove to me that he's the Doctor. I mean, who else could say things this ridiculous and still be perfectly normal-looking when he has to? (Well, half of the time he has to...)

Do Not Disturb

I've noticed lately the Doctor never seems to pay attention to anything but what he's currently doing. He says it's because he can only concentrate on one thing at a time. Also, when I ask if I can help, he often says "Yes", but when I ask how, he says, "Leave me alone", like he did to Sarah in "The Invasion Of The Dinosaurs". It's rather strange, the things he says sometimes. For instance, he was working on something, and came in and said "Hello." He didn't look up from his work, but growled, "Don't hello me", in that "I'm busy. Go away" tone. I was in a very mischievous mood, so I broke into an evil grin, giggled naughtily, and said, "Hi!" Now, I expected him to say "I said, "Don't hello me"! I'm busy!" but instead, he calmly replied, "That's better." But what's really funny about it, is that he meant it! He had no idea why I laughed!

"You Went Down To The Cellar to See If Johnny Was Still There."

Two nights ago, I was absolutely shocked at what the Doctor said to me. We had been discussing how my room doesn't suit me (we moved house a few months ago), and I said that if we changed the color of the doors it would look nice, but it still wouldn't be "me". Then I said, "And even after my work, it still just..."
"It looks like a cheap B&B room," he said. I was so shocked, I didn't know what to say. I know the Doctor can be rude sometimes, but my father just told me that my weeks of work to make my room look nice made it look like a cheap B&B room! After a few seconds, still stunned, I disbelievingly answered, "What?"
"They all do," he said calmly. "Every room in this house." At first, this meant to me that he thought all my work had made no difference, and my room still looks as strange as all the others, so I asked, "Even after all my work?"
"What? Oh, no, no!" he said, I had made a mistake. "We're talking about before you worked on it!" Then, I realized that he hadn't been listening when I said "after all my work", and I took a minute to convince him that I had actually said it. Then he realized why I had been so shocked, and we started laughing.
When he doesn't hear me talking like that, it makes me think of "Planet of the Spiders", when Sarah's telling the Doctor an important story, involving her and Mike Yates going down to a cellar, to see what someone was doing, and meeting a man called Tommy on the way. Then she realizes the Doctors not listening, and the Doctor says, "Of course I'm listening! You went down to the cellar to see if Tommy was still there." My Doctor does this kind of thing a lot, so "You went down to the cellar to see if Tommy was still there" has become a joke with us. (Afterwards in "Planet of the Spiders", Sarah mentions a spider, and the Doctor becomes interested and tells her to explain again. This is something that often happens when I talk to the Doctor as well.) But once, he repeated what he thought I had said (which was very confused), and when I laughed, he smiled and said, "Oh, "Went down to the cellar to see if Johnny was still there", hmm?" I roared with laughter at him saying "Johnny"! It was like him proving the point - he obviously hadn't even been listening when we watched the show!