10 Dumbest Things That Have Ever Happened In Doctor Who

2. Sticking The Kandyman To The Floor With Lemonade

It's safe to say that out of all the things fans expected from Doctor Who's 25th anniversary season, a deranged variation on Bertie Bassett who drowned subversives in giant tubes of fondant sauce was not one of them. That surprise came courtesy of 1988's The Happiness Patrol. The story is regarded as the nadir of the McCoy years by many and, while it has its supporters, there is one particular sequence that just has the word 'BONKERS' running right through it like a stick of rock. To evade the evil Kandyman's liquorice-flavoured clutches, the Doctor drenches the floor in lemonade. The dramatic upshot? The delicious villain is glued to the spot. Even if a vat of R Whites was sloshed round his ankles, it'd need a good while to dry before having anywhere near that sort of effect, provided the Kandyman stood still as the chemistry took hold. Unless writer Graeme Curry endured a traumatic incident where a fruit pastille got welded somewhere it shouldn't, this scene is definitely the daftest in the show's timey-wimeyline...