Me and Cap’n Jack Down By the Schoolyard
By all accounts, Doctor Who is a hit, and kids are no doubt running around the playgrounds of Britain (and hopefully Canada) unzipping their heads, pestering their teachers as to their parentage and complimenting each other’s bottoms.
It all has me musing about the possible pop culture implications of the new series. With this in mind I present the following expressions/catch phrases, locked and loaded for daily conversation:
10. My boyfriend’s gone all “wheelie bin” (acting strange)
9. I’ve been promoted to Floor 500 (escorted from the building with a file box under my arm)
8. The stiffs are getting lively (l’ll leave that to your imagination)
7. I bring you the gift of bodily salivas (sorry, forgot your birthday)
6. My plus one (ambiguous term used to describe ambiguous relationship)
5. Moisturize me, moisturize me! (an unflattering remark directed at aging drag queens)
4. Bad Wolf (somebody who messes with your mind)
3. Show me some Spock (snippy comment directed at tech support guy)
2. Fan-tastic (said with the proper Eccleston inflection)
1. Are you my mummy? (a new way for little brothers to annoy their sisters!!)
Posted by Scott on Wednesday, June 1 at 6:47 pm
3 Comments...
The interesting thing about these type of sayings is what Terrance Dicks told Paul Cornell on the Horror of Fang Rock DVD feature. In the series it was the fans that really chose the classic lines for the most part. It wasn’t something preplanned by the producers to get over with the fans. In the new series some of the lines are pointedly prepackaged to be “classic” like ‘Fantastic’ or ‘Lots of planets have a north’ which could mean that in point of fact that they really aren’t classic as such though they get to the same place in the end. Reminds me of the bit in one of Douglas Adams Hitch-Hiker’s books where a publishing company goes back in time to get a great poet to endorse their product and he ends up going into the future and doing chat shows etc. and it turns out he doesn’t actually have time to write the great poems he’s known for so the advertisers give him copies of the poems from the future that he then writes out in longhand on tea-leafs. The poems are still the same but the intent behind them has totally changed so are they still as great? It’s up to you to decide.
Posted by Ryan on 06/02 at 12:04 AM
Sure, we live in more self aware age, both behind the camera and “behind the couch”, but if something has charm I couldn’t give a rats arse what the intention was, it belongs to the public now. Give me a Hartnell fluff or some hip, knowing RTD dialogue—if it works, it works.
Posted by Scott on 06/02 at 02:37 AM
I have one that you didn’t mention. “I’m trying to resonate concrete.”
Posted by AtheneBelle on 06/09 at 07:51 PM
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