Doctor Who: The Biggest (Unintentional) Laughs of Series 7

doctor who laughs Doctor Who is scary. Children learn to hide behind a sofa by watching this show. Episodes like €œBlink,€ €œNight Terrors,€ and €œThe 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 don€™t get the joke. Sometimes this is called €œnarm€: when something is supposed to be serious but, for whatever reason, comes off as ridiculous. It€™s the moments that leave you saying €œseriously?€ to your TV. If you want to see a textbook definition of narm, watch anything from the first two seasons of Torchwood. But don€™t, really, because there€™s 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, let€™s have a looked at eight of the most unintentionally funny moments of season seven:

8. The Western Episode And The Town That Doesn€™t Make Any Sense

town makes no sense Do most Westerns have large contingents of women and children and a black priest in a white town in freaking Texas? No. You know why? Because in the €œold west,€ the only women around were the rare wife and prostitutes, and men left their families in towns a safe distance from scary stuff. And there is no way in hell you are going to get a black preacher with a white congregation in Texas within a few years of the Civil War. It€™s one of several anachronistic racial and sexual portrayals of America in Doctor Who€”remember the black guy who was head of Nixon€™s Secret Service detail? This one may only be funny for Americans, but whatever, it gets the lowest slot.
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Rebecca Kulik lives in Iowa, reads an obsence amount, watches way too much television, and occasionally studies for her BA in History. Come by her personal pop culture blog at tyrannyofthepetticoat.wordpress.com and her reading blog at journalofimaginarypeople.wordpress.com.