10 Doctor Who Moments You Didn't Get As A Kid (But Do As An Adult)

You could probably fill multiple lists like this purely with moments from Series 5 and Series 6. Steven Moffat's history as a comedy writer was all over his era (especially when River Song was around), though some jokes were a lot more subtle than others.

Take The Big Bang, for example. On paper, it's a perfectly innocent title for a Doctor Who series finale in which the Doctor reboots the universe with a second big bang. But in reality, it's a crude joke!

The punchline wouldn't come until a year later, during A Good Man Goes to War. As the Doctor leads his army to take control of Demon's Run and save Amy and her baby, he and Madame Vastra realise that young Melody Pond was conceived inside the TARDIS, mid-flight, on the night of Amy and Rory's wedding.

A wedding that just so happened to take place in the episode The Big Bang, a title that now takes on a whole other meaning.

Another Ponds-era joke that almost certainly went misunderstood by younger viewers was the Doctor's labelling of Amy, Rory, and River as, "the legs, the nose, and Mrs Robinson" in The Impossible Astronaut.

This is a reference to the 1967 movie The Graduate, in which the character Mrs Robinson has an affair with a younger man. The Graduate is hardly a movie that eight-year-old kids would've been familiar with when The Impossible Astronaut aired in 2011, but looking back, you can see how that joke applies to the Doctor and River's relationship.

Although, given that the Doctor is by far the older of the two, does that technically make him the "Mrs Robinson" in this situation? Food for thought.