The Top Five WTF Doctor Who Moments

Doctor Who is a strange kind of Television show. It's a show that combines science-fiction, history, humor, some elements of fantasy and even a few times, Westerns. It's a strange little show but it's a show that is one of the most beloved in British culture, surviving the dreaded cancellation only to make a glorious return in 2005 to be bigger than ever. But for the past 50 years of Doctor Who, The Doctor has come across some very strange and bizarre things, from aliens to monsters to locations that are pretty normal for The Doctor, but for us the viewers, they make us scratch our heads wondering "huh?" Some of these are moments that stick with us, but for others, you might call them "WTF moments." Considering there are over 800 episodes, with 97 of them lost due to BBC's lack of archiving most of these episodes, I've chosen a select few that just made me tilt my head and say "what the hell?" So know that I haven't seen every episode in existence and heard every audio series, so I'm only going by the moments I consider strange if seeing these moments for the first time.
If you've never seen "Doctor Who" before, be warned. In the words of a particular "Doctor Who" character:
"Spoilers, sweetie."

Nods:
-Time Crash - 2007
The reason I don't include this on the list is this was not an official episode, this was a charity special done for the Children In Need Donation Drive that BBC supported and created this special for the fans of the old and the new show. Seeing Tennant and Davison work off each other is an amusing sight to say the least.

-The Master with Dalek boobs - 1999
This one I'm also not counting to the list because this was another charity special done for a telethon for BBC and was written by Steven Moffat, well before the revived series. In this spoof, The Doctor Who (Rowan Atkinson) calls up The Master (Jonathan Pryce who is so good I'm surprised he wasn't actually cast as The Master for the revived series) to announce his retirement. hilarity ensues, Daleks come about and one of the funniest questions is asked in any science-fiction spoof ("Why do you Daleks have chairs on your ship anyway?" "We will explain later.")

-Harry Sullivan vs a Giant Clam - "Genesis of the Daleks" -1975
Even in the Doctor Who universe this gets points for being so jarringly silly when you consider that this giant clam was one of Davros' rejected experiments for his Daleks.

-Abzorbaloff - "Love and Monsters" - 2006
…I…just…A nine year-old kid came up with this?

-Vincent Van Gogh vs Giant Chicken Monster - "Vincent and the Doctor" - 2010
While this episode has one of the more bittersweet moments from Matt Smith's tenure as Doctor Who, the episode has one of the most bizarre creatures from Matt Smith's run. Yes, stranger than a Zygon even.

-The Doctor Marries Queen Elizabeth - "Day of the Doctor" - 2013
I'm not gonna give context, that should speak for itself. What the f*ck.

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5. The Sixth Doctor Strangles his Companion - "Twin Dilemma" - 1984
Poor Colin Baker, he's regarded as the Worst Doctor by the fans and it's not even his fault for the choices done to his character for his run. BBC really screwed up their priorities on how to present a darker version of the Doctor, forcing Colin to wear this ridiculous eye sore costume and act so full of himself that he became unrecognizable to the fans. But the moment that cemented his reputation was the first episode he had to himself and what does he do?
He strangles Perri.
The companion the Fifth Doctor willingly died to get the cure for the poison that she contracted down in the caves and how does he show his appreciation for he?
He attempts to kill her.
Well okay he mistakenly concluded that she was a clone, but for crying out loud, is this really a good way to introduce the new Doctor? I understand that the show was trying to show this was a new Doctor that would gradually show a heart of gold over the course of the show, but after those tense two minutes, nobody would look at the Doctor the same again afterwards and it perfectly marked the downfall of Doctor Who that led to it's cancellation in 1989.

4. The Tenth Doctor meets The Devil - "The Satan Pit" - 2008
No, this isn't a charity spoof, this legitimately happened. The Doctor and Rose came to another planet near a black hole where they found a group of archeologists teamed up together when their alien slaves started attacking them and one of their team members starts speaking through a possession. As if that strangeness wasn't enough, The Doctor is lowered down a hole where he come face-to-face with a big-horned, red-skinned, fire-breathing behemoth who claims to have come from before the Big Bang.
And remember, this really happened on the show.
So tune in next season when The Doctor punches out God.
And for the Christmas special, The Doctor goes back in time to Jesus' birth where baby Jesus has to do battle with an army of Daleks.
And for the season finale, The Doctor meets Muhammed….Ali.
Yeah I'm not that stupid, of course they wouldn't show Muhammed on TV.

3. Kandy Man - "The Happiness Patrol" - 1988
….was it any wonder why Doctor Who began to teeter off by 1989? I swear, this isn't even a charity special, this was a legit episode. Doctor Who and Ace fight off a giant man made out of candy…I'm not even sure context is needed.
It's a robot man made out of Kandy, what else can I say about that?

2. River Song is WHAT?!? - 2008-2011
Fair warning everyone, if you're not a Doctor Whovian, just stop reading cause this will fry your brain unless you watch the show and see this for yourself.
so in River's words:
"Spoilers."
From the beginning, fans knew there was something important about River she wasn't letting on about. When the Doctor first met her in "Silence In The Library," it was established that he had appeared too soon and she was from a point in time where she knows the Doctor, but how much was still a mystery for us all, even when she was killed, she refused to disclose that mystery to The Doctor, forcing him to upload her consciousness into a 51st Century library.
As time progressed over the course of the show, it became very clear that there was some romantic possibilities between the two.
It wasn't until Matt Smith's tenure as the Doctor did more begin to unveil about River Song, revelations that only served to make your jaw drop until it hit the floor. By the episode "A Good Man Goes to War," it's revealed that for most of the season, Amy Pond-Williams was imprisoned by an organization that was planning to turn her newborn daughter into a weapon to kill The Doctor. Thanks to The Doctor and a few friends he made over the years, he managed to rescue Amy, but failed to rescue her daughter, Melody Pond. But by the end of this episode, River song drops one hell of a bomb when she explains that on world known as the Gamma Forrest, the people have a different translation for Melody Pond.
That translation is River Song.
But we're not done yet. To add onto the twists, it turns out that The Doctor is killed, BY River Song, hence why she is doing jail time as we are introduced of her in the beginning.
But there's more!
When River Song tries to stop herself from killing The Doctor in "The Wedding of River Song," she creates an aborted timeline where time runs into one another, combining the past and the future. To reverse this and bring order to the universe, The Doctor and River Song get married AND The Doctor didn't actually die from that fixed point in time cause of little people in robots and-
I- WHA?!
Steven Moffat, what the f*ck dude?

1. The First Regeneration - "The Tenth Planet" - 1966
This one is more akin to the generation who saw this when Doctor Who first aired.
By today, the concept of regeneration is nothing new for the younger fans, but put yourself in the shoes of a kid growing up in the UK and this old man, played by the late William Hartnell, you've been watching and following in his adventures across time and space suddenly falls onto the floor and dies. It's shocking enough but before you get to wonder if this is the end of the show, the old man begins to glow, right before your eyes, he changes into a totally different man!
In your mind you're wondering "Huh? What?! Who is he?! What happened to the other guy?!"
They never explained by the next episode.
Well okay, the new guy, Patrick Troughton, just says "yes, it was wearing a bit thin" but he doesn't go into any more detail than that. Even though the viewers were glad the show was still on, people were still scratching their heads at what happened to the old man.
Well, the viewers finally got an answer: in 1974, eight years after the First Doctor, William Hartnell, turned into the Second Doctor, Patrick Troughton, and four years after Troughton turned into the Third Doctor, Jon Pertwee. The fans had to wait eight years to finally be told how this Doctor was able to change his face.
In the last episode of Jon Pertwee's run, "Planet of the Spiders," K'anpo Rimpoche, a Time Lord like The Doctor, or Cho-Je as he appears to Sarah Jane Smith and Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart after the Doctor dies from the space radiation to tell these people that his cells will regenerate and he will change into a new man.
"Oh is that all?"
I mean, we waited three years to know the full story on River Song, but we had to go through eight years and three Doctors to get a proper explanation to how the title character turned into another guy outside of "suit was wearing a bit thin."

And that's all I can think of that stood out in my mind. A new season of Doctor Who is on it's way this August premiering Peter Capaldi to play as the 12th Doctor in the show (if you skip of John Hurt's War Doctor that is, but then again, I don't consider him an official Doctor, I consider him a transformed version of the Eighth Doctor). Whatever Mr. Capaldi brings to the role, I'm eager to see what he brings to the role and what stories BBC will offer this season. For everyone else who could give less of a crap about Doctor Who, eh, your loss I suppose. At least I'll be having a smashing good time.
Unless David Tennant is involved...he's the anti-fun for me...