10 Times Doctor Who Gave Fans EXACTLY What They Wanted

6. "Would You Like A Jelly Baby?"

Doctor Who The Almost People jelly baby
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Possibly more than any other show on television, Doctor Who has a habit of reusing catchphrases, quips, and other iconic lines.

Every single time this happens, you just know the writer was sat there with a proud smirk on their face, thinking, "Oh yeah... the fans will love this," because, let's be honest, we're quite easy to please as a fanbase - just mention jelly babies or fezzes, and we'll immediately start whooping and cheering.

Some of our favourite examples of repeat quips include the Fourth Doctor offering Davros a jelly baby, the Twelfth Doctor poking fun at the Third Doctor's "reverse the polarity" quip in The Girl Who Died, ganger Eleven spouting out several iconic catchphrases in The Almost People (bonus points for the jelly baby line in this scene, which is actually Tom Baker's voice dubbed over Smith's), the Cyber-Planner exclaiming "Allons-y!" in Nightmare in Silver, and the Thirteenth Doctor's "Geronimo!" upon rope-swinging between ships in Legend of the Sea Devils.

Is this shamelessly pandering to the fans? Yes. Are we totally okay with it? Also yes.

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Danny has been with WhatCulture for over ten years, and is currently Doctor Who Editor and WhoCulture Channel Manager, overseeing all of WhatCulture's Whoniverse coverage. In 2022, he took charge of WhoCulture and has grown it into the biggest Doctor Who channel on YouTube, and one of the biggest Doctor Who communities on the web full-stop. He has been writing and video editing since his early teens, and first got a taste for content creation after making his own Doctor Who trailers, off the back of a burning obsession with the Matt Smith era of the show. Like many his age, he first got into Doctor Who with the 2005 revival, but has since gone back and fallen in love with the classic years too. If you need someone to recite every Doctor Who episode in order, or to give you a random factoid about the making of Gridlock, Danny is the person to ask!