10 Dumb Doctor Who Moments You Can't Help But Love

3. Killer Christmas Tree (The Christmas Invasion)

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At the other end of Tennant's time with the TARDIS, the newly-regenerated Tenth Doctor is unconscious in bed in Jackie Tyler's flat.

Rose and Mickey arrive home to find a strange tree in their living room. The decoration only gets stranger when it starts to spin violently, and slowly moves towards the terrified humans. Not wanting to get cut up into festive, fleshy ribbons, they run for it.

Look, it's a nice idea, but a murderous Christmas tree? How on Earth are we meant to be scared of that? That's like having a monster that's a kitten with a laser gun, or a robot made out of sweets.

Still, you can't say that a spinning Christmas tree of death isn't an iconic visual. Also, this was the first NuWho Christmas special, so let's give RTD some leeway. He just got a little carried away.

Although, based on the other festive entries on this list, the writers clearly didn't get all the silliness out of their systems with this perilous pine.

 
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