10 Most Bizarre Doctor Who Moments

1. The Slab Who Loved Me (Love & Monsters)

Doctor Who Ursula Blake Love & Monsters
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Much like Thanos, this infamous moment from Series 2's Love & Monsters is frankly inevitable when discussing the most bizarre moments in Doctor Who.

Even before this point, the episode was a strange one, relegating the Tenth Doctor and Rose to cameo roles and instead following a group of citizens who meet up in a basement to talk about the Doctor, until they're picked off one-by-one by a green, slimy alien (Peter Kay, in a role he regrets) that stores faces in its fat rolls.

Though some fans enjoy the episode's risky approach to a Doctor Who story, most consider it a total misfire, capped off with one of the most ludicrous, tasteless, needless scenes in the show's long history.

Here, we have Ursula Blake - one of those aforementioned citizens - being "saved" by the Doctor, which results in her head being melded to a concrete slab. The visual alone is bizarre enough, but the icing on the crappy cake is a cringe-worthy oral sex joke that was trying to be charming, but actually comes off as downright horrifying.

Just think about the logistics for a second. Or rather, don't. It'll ruin your whole day.

Even without that joke, the scene is completely misjudged. Instead of granting Ursula the sweet release of death, the Doctor pulls her back from the brink and traps her within a piece of stone? A piece of stone that will crumble away over time, resulting in an excruciating death after decades of existential agony?

Yeah. Like we said... inevitable.

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