Doctor Who: 11 Funniest Moments From The Eleventh Doctor

4. The Doctor, The Widow and The Wardrobe

2011 Specials. 25 December 2011. When Madge Arwell discovers The Doctor in a field wearing a spacesuit with the helmet on back-to-front and helps him find the TARDIS, The Doctor tells her to make a wish if there's ever anything he can do for her. Three years later, Madge receives a telegram advising her that her husband has been killed at war. She takes her children Lily and Cyril to Uncle Digby's house on Christmas Eve where they're greeted by The Doctor. Unbolting the door from the inside, he tells them "one of the doors has developed a fault", before pulling it off its hinges, but explains that "the back door is still, broadly speaking, operational". He offers to take their cases, then immediately commences a guided tour of the house. "Would you mind carrying them for me? I need to show you round". The Doctor agrees that he isn't the caretaker and explains, "Usually called the Doctor, or the Caretaker or Get Off This Planet, though, strictly speaking, that probably isn't a name". There's more nonsensical commentary on a truly whistle-stop tour and every time he shows the children something, his own eyes light up and he acknowledges their speechless delight with "I know!". Among the wonders he reveals are sitting room furniture that dances around of its own accord (he explains the room is a "bit pointless without a television") and kitchen taps for hot water, cold water and lemonade. He apologises for the staircase, saying "it seems to have broken down - we'll have to walk up", before revealing Cyril's and Lily's bedroom, which he describes as "...a masterpiece - the ultimate bedroom! A sciencey wiencey workbench; a jungle; a maze; a window disguised as a mirror; a mirror disguised as a window; selection of torches for midnight feasts and secret reading; Zen garden; mysterious cupboard; zone of tranquility; rubber wall; dream tank; exact model of the rest of the house - not quite to scale, apologies; dolls with comical expressions; the Magna Carta; a foot spa; Cluedo; a yellow fort..." and his pièce de résistance: "Hammocks!... I know". The whole sequence is a perfect example of expert comic timing, or expert editing, or both.