Doctor Who: The Biggest (Unintentional) Laughs of Series 7
Doctor Who is scary. Children learn to hide behind a sofa by watching this show. Episodes like Blink, Night Terrors, and The Girl in the Fireplace gave adults nightmares. But sometimes, the scary goes wrong. The drama accidentally turns into comedy. There are episodes where things that are supposed to be serious are ludicrous, when creepiness becomes hilarious, when we sit and wonder why the characters dont get the joke. Sometimes this is called narm: when something is supposed to be serious but, for whatever reason, comes off as ridiculous. Its the moments that leave you saying seriously? to your TV. If you want to see a textbook definition of narm, watch anything from the first two seasons of Torchwood. But dont, really, because theres a fine line between narm and straight awfulness. Just go to tvtropes. There were several of these narmy moments in Series Seven, some of which were scares that went wrong, and some of which just made no sense once you noticed them. So before we all forget what happened completely, lets have a looked at eight of the most unintentionally funny moments of season seven: