This scene alone contains three of the best lines from the Eleventh Doctor. "Sorry. Christmas Eve on a rooftop, saw a chimney, my whole brain just went, what the hell!" "Big flashy lightey things got me written all over them, well not actually but give me time, and a crayon." "Did you know in 900 year of time and space I never met anybody who wasn't important before."
Yeah, those lines taken together sum up 11 pretty well. Often silly, bouncing around all over the place, but able to instantly transition into something serious and heartfelt.
''Who says you're not important'' - 9th Doctor ''There's no such thing as an ordinary human'' - 10th Doctor ''In 900 years of space and time, I've never met anyone who wasn't important'' - 11th Doctor ''Those people down there, they're NEVER small to me'' - Twelfth Doctor
Okay year later after seeing this comment I still have to respond to it. 10th Doctor never said as "His opinion" that "You're not even remotely important". He poked fun at the humans selfless thinking of "I am just an old man you can leave me" He was in such a conflicting point of "Yes there is a difference between us but still he deserves to live more than I do, and he thinks that he isn't worthy of anything." Not once has Doctor ever meant that Humans aren't important, even if one can judge so from the words of 10th Doctor. He respected the guy and deemed him very very important, he was just throwing bittersweet words towards selflesness of the guy's thinking that he wouldn't be important.
Every year since this special aired, the Christmas stocking stuffers and gifts from Santa have ended up labelled as from 'Jeff', instead. It's become a bit of a tradition, and I've got a distinct feeling that it could go down the line.
In the late 60's there was a small elf doll that we would put atop the tree. He was a small floppy red elf doll that you could fit into any branch configuration. As a toddler I misunderstood "elf" and thought it was "Jeff". Jeff became his name. Every year when others would put a star on top the tree we would put Jeff up there sitting nestled aside the top branch. Every year a new tree, but the same Jeff. For me as a child a tree without Jeff would have been almost as out of place as a nativity without Jesus. Jeff was still sitting atop the Christmas tree at my mothers house in 2019. I'm 55 now.
"Ice clouds, love that. Who's she?" LOL, Doctor is funny sometimes, but then there are those times where he's all over the place hopping from one subject to the next like some manic little rabbit!
"In 900 years of time and space I've never met anyone who wasn't important before" I see he learnt from the last time he called someone unimportant... She turned out to be the most important woman! No seriously, that's her title! "The Most Important Woman" aka Donna Noble!
Laurence Winch-Furness That would've been great. I grew to love Donna Noble, after thinking that her character was somewhat irritating & bad - tempered.
Loved this episode. It was quirky at first, but then it became a depressing love story. But it was so magical the entire time. I'm sure every Who fan took this episode into their hearts.
This episode is extremely underrated. It has the best cinematography of the whole show, Toby Haynes made a very good job. It has an incredible script that combines moffat's style with dickens' style. Moreover, it can also be understood by those who have never seen doctor who. Basically, It's like a great movie.
I always took it as The Doctor saying something in the heat of the moment then regretting it later. He may have said Donna and Wilf weren't important at the time but looking back he knows he didn't mean it. Also if you remember Ten pointed out a couple of times that rudeness was one of the many aspects to his personality. (Christmas Invasion/Tooth and Claw)
I think when the Doctor he said "In 900 years of time and space I've never met anyone who wasn't important before" what he meant was "There's no such thing as someone who isn't important."
When he turns and says “I’ve never met anyone who wasn’t important before”, he already hates this man. This guy who thinks some people simply have no importance
"Here's what brought me! Big flashy lighty thing! Big flashy lighty things have me written all over them. Well not yet. But give me time. And a crayon!"
I am a horrible Doctor who fan because I don't watch.... I try and try and try. It's never available so I buy the DVDs. My experience with DW is still limited but I read a lot and even try to focus on classic who a bit more than revival. I love Tom Baker The reason I say this is cause this was my first time watching Matt Smith. Really first impression of him. Now I love Tennant, he truly was an inspiration and even ignoring everything he did as the Doctor he is a great actor but when this happened. When I saw this moment I knew right off the bat I love 11. Perfect 1st impression! "My brain just went 'what the hell'!" The moment I saw this I felt something I never felt before; I loved 9 and 10 but I don't love 11.... I Am 11. He's like a giddy child at heart(s). I'm watching this and I'm thinking that if I was to play the Doctor (I won't and can't, wrong side of the Atlantic but hey I can dream) this is how I would've played him. I never got that impression with 9 or 10. Not what I've seen of them. That's a different feeling. It makes me smile.
Emily McKinnon we still mildly low tech only use our Netflix for mail order movies not streaming; however we are opening up to the option recently due to our recent lets be nice and say frustrations with xfinity on demand.
Christian Schmude I think you're a great Whovian because you keep finding ways to actually watch the program. A real fan finds ways to make connections with the thing that they love. You're doing it, so pat yourself on the head. I had the same experience watching Tom Baker for the very first time - I'd never seen any other Doctor, and I had no idea that there would be a way for me to watch the show until Tom Baker, God bless him, hit public television. I wanted to play the part right then and there (wrong side of the Atlantic, too, but why not dream? Or make a fan film?)
That's my doctor... Matt, you'll be sorely missed come next season. Good thing the next Doctor will probably be awesome too, as all the ones who came before.
Dickens would've loved this. Then his ghost would appear to Stephen Moffat asking for royalties to be sent to his estate. :) I have to wonder what season 8's Christmas special will be like.
I have never seen ANYTHING from Doctor Who (I was just here because I wanted to see the context from the "in 900 years of time and space" quote) but that was a riot and this is phenomenal! Is the entire show like this?
I don't know if the whole show is, Doctor who is many different shows in a trenchcoat really, if you want a taste this episode is completely standalone, it's called A Christmas Carol and it's the series 5 Christmas special, generally it's what I show non-fans to see if they want to get into the show
I swear, the reason the 12th Doctor was so wrinkled and cranky was because this Doctor never slept. Not once. His entire 1000-year existence was just one long, crazy run-on-sentence where he bounced around like a pin-ball launched out of a cannon. From the moment he crashed 10's tardis into Amelia's back yard, to when he riffed his regeneration energy at the Daleks from the Christmas clock-tower, he was like a five-year-old staying up past his bedtime having had 10 cups of coffee too many.
I didn't realize it until the end, but there were so many tiny references to his old companions in this special. "No one important" Reference to Donna who said that all the time. And when 11 says "Better broken heart than no heart" when asked about the last moment with his loved one. Was about Rose, also the last statement when Amy asks his if he's alright, he says "Everything's got to end sometime, or else nothing would ever get started." Probably also about Rose. Just think about it, all the Blondes he's kissed....even still his heart aches for her.
I’ve waited a long time ( basically 9 years) to say isomorphic and it’s definition to my family so thanks to the chase I finally Got my Doctor who knowledge out.
+Daniel Appleton Bing Crosby was a wild rascal in his early career of the 1930s. No Kill-joy then. He was old-fashioned strict with his first family, he was born around the turn of the century after all, much more relaxed with his second one in the 1960s. Frank and Bing were friends, Sinatra was inspired to be like him.
The Doctor as a character is what's known as a paladin, which is the epitome of lawful good. Seeing as the Doctor (especially the tenth) is so far lawful good, he'd really only be adamant on killing things that are absolutely evil. He would criticize those who use guns because they could kill those of non-evil alignments or those who were barely evil. Yet, when the Doctor does find something truly evil (the Master: Chaotic evil Daleks: Lawful evil), he uses anything to kill them: even guns.
"D'you know, in 900 years of time and space I haven't met anyone who wasn't important." I nearly cried.
You are important
In other way of saying, if we are important, we would have met the doctor sooner or later at some point in our life.
@@laisensei6984 yes, but we're not dead yet so there's still a chance we could be important.
Or maybe we only become important after we meet the doctor 🤔💭
@@mr.marshal9 I think it's more like he finds all life of every race is important.
"Give me time. And a crayon." Possibly my favorite quote ever.
for me its a bit later on in the episode and him breaking the psychic paper with a lie too big :)
I was gonna say is he a marine.
Get it, because marines like crayons.
He has infinite time, he just needs a lot of crayons
Right up there with "I haven't memorised every room in the universe, I had yesterday off" in let's kill hitler
This scene alone contains three of the best lines from the Eleventh Doctor.
"Sorry. Christmas Eve on a rooftop, saw a chimney, my whole brain just went, what the hell!"
"Big flashy lightey things got me written all over them, well not actually but give me time, and a crayon."
"Did you know in 900 year of time and space I never met anybody who wasn't important before."
Yeah, those lines taken together sum up 11 pretty well. Often silly, bouncing around all over the place, but able to instantly transition into something serious and heartfelt.
11th doctor is such a mood
Every single line in this 2 minute long video was so quotable . Doctor Who has the best dialogue of any tv series.
+Zanian19 i just saw a chimney and said what the hell.
It's Christmas Eve
I saw a chimney
My whole brain just went what the hell
"Big flashy lighty things have got me written all over them, well not really but give me time, and a crayon"
Of course the Doctor personally met Santa
ryutheslayer123 I think that's just the psichic paper, but then again, he IS the doctor
if it was psycic paper WE would have seen a blank page
Unless I'm wrong, it's actually a reference to a Second Doctor story (comic, not televised) where he did in fact meet Father Christmas.
But if he's real
Why was it that him being on Clara's rooftop made them know that it was a dream?
"Do you believe in Santa Claus"
With Albert Einstein and Frank Sinatra, in 1952. Because getting those three together is easy if you’re the doctor.
''Who says you're not important'' - 9th Doctor
''There's no such thing as an ordinary human'' - 10th Doctor
''In 900 years of space and time, I've never met anyone who wasn't important'' - 11th Doctor
''Those people down there, they're NEVER small to me'' - Twelfth Doctor
+daleksvscybermen "your not important" -12th Doctor
+daleksvscybermen ''you're not remoteley important''- tenth doctor
Okay year later after seeing this comment I still have to respond to it. 10th Doctor never said as "His opinion" that "You're not even remotely important". He poked fun at the humans selfless thinking of "I am just an old man you can leave me" He was in such a conflicting point of "Yes there is a difference between us but still he deserves to live more than I do, and he thinks that he isn't worthy of anything." Not once has Doctor ever meant that Humans aren't important, even if one can judge so from the words of 10th Doctor. He respected the guy and deemed him very very important, he was just throwing bittersweet words towards selflesness of the guy's thinking that he wouldn't be important.
daleksvscybermen Ik but like what about in the waters of mars when referring to the rest of the crew as ‘little people’
Exactly,not remotely important but me i can do so much more-10th Doctor
Every year since this special aired, the Christmas stocking stuffers and gifts from Santa have ended up labelled as from 'Jeff', instead. It's become a bit of a tradition, and I've got a distinct feeling that it could go down the line.
In the late 60's there was a small elf doll that we would put atop the tree. He was a small floppy red elf doll that you could fit into any branch configuration. As a toddler I misunderstood "elf" and thought it was "Jeff".
Jeff became his name. Every year when others would put a star on top the tree we would put Jeff up there sitting nestled aside the top branch.
Every year a new tree, but the same Jeff. For me as a child a tree without Jeff would have been almost as out of place as a nativity without Jesus.
Jeff was still sitting atop the Christmas tree at my mothers house in 2019. I'm 55 now.
"Ah. Yes. Blimey... Sorry. Christmas Eve on a rooftop, saw a chimney, my whole brain just went... WHAT THE HELL?!"
Lol
I can say with 100% certainty that if I was in The Doctor’s situation, I would’ve done the exact same thing.
DJ Shy you and me both
If I’m indestructible, I’d cannonball my way down
Yay someone actually commented this.
This is the most offbeat outrageous Christmas special I have ever seen. And I loved it, enjoyed every second of it.
+Daniel Appleton I agree, but the new seasons Christmas special was great.
I saw that one through dailymotion. You will love it.
It's my favorite of the Doctor Who Christmas Specials. And I do cry every time I watch it and don't mind doing so.
'Santa Clause. Or as I call him, Jeff'.
yeah, the Doctor and Santa Clause go way back. He lent him his laptop one time when the sun had gone wibbly.
Imagine if in Last Christmas Twelve said "Hey Jeff" when he saw Santa Claus.
"ah,sorry. Christmas eve on a rooftop, saw a chimney, then my whole brain just went 'what the hell?'." XD
I know.
Best line eve in Doctor who
+farrah christmas I, too, thought that was hilarious.
"Ice clouds, love that. Who's she?"
LOL, Doctor is funny sometimes, but then there are those times where he's all over the place hopping from one subject to the next like some manic little rabbit!
"Excuse me, I'm making perfect sense, you're just not keeping up."
The manic little rabbit he is
I just saw a science show on ice clouds. Once the ice gets too heavy to remain suspended, it comes down... as hail!
This scene is the perfect introduction to eleven's character. It just sums him up.
"In 900 years of time and space I've never met anyone who wasn't important before"
I see he learnt from the last time he called someone unimportant... She turned out to be the most important woman! No seriously, that's her title! "The Most Important Woman" aka Donna Noble!
Manuel Sacha The Runaway Bride... Whilst scanning her because she'd just been kidnapped by an alien. He was proven wrong not long later.
Should've referenced Donna, said something like 'I once met someone who wasn't important. At least I thought so. Then she saved the universe'
Laurence Winch-Furness That would've been great. I grew to love Donna Noble, after thinking that her character was somewhat irritating & bad - tempered.
***** Whenever he says someone's not important they end up REALLY important... Remember that next time he says that...
Skystarry75 that and he possibly learnt that from his conversation with Adelaide in The Waters Of Mars!
I love how you can hear the TARDIS on the roof before the doctor falls down the chimney
Up on the housetop VROO SHOO SHROO.
Down through the chimney with Doctor Who.
+Alex-Zander Browne XD that's brilliant
I also like how when the assistant says you can't just let it crashed her and screwed replies says "Says who?"
+2:06 and there it is, my friends, one of the most amazing DW lines ever.
I love how Matt's hair stays perfect even after coming down a chimney 😂
my whole brain just went "what the hell!!" BEST MOMENT IN DOCTOR WHO EVER X'D I cant breathe
Up on the housetop VROO SHOO SHROO.
Down through the chimney with Doctor Who.
I assume you’re going to completely forgot that you left this comment here Rachel but can HMU with what episode this is? 😂
Rest in peace Michael Gambon, an excellent actor who will undoubtedly be missed
Loved this episode. It was quirky at first, but then it became a depressing love story. But it was so magical the entire time. I'm sure every Who fan took this episode into their hearts.
I know I did.
This episode is extremely underrated. It has the best cinematography of the whole show, Toby Haynes made a very good job. It has an incredible script that combines moffat's style with dickens' style. Moreover, it can also be understood by those who have never seen doctor who. Basically, It's like a great movie.
The Doctor sits down at the piano looking thing, and says "Give me some time...and a crayon." at 1:47 it sounds funny if you play it a few times.
Alex Pickett I love that line 😂
I always took it as The Doctor saying something in the heat of the moment then regretting it later. He may have said Donna and Wilf weren't important at the time but looking back he knows he didn't mean it. Also if you remember Ten pointed out a couple of times that rudeness was one of the many aspects to his personality. (Christmas Invasion/Tooth and Claw)
This is my all time favorite Doctor Who Christmas Special. I love A Christmas Carol and I love Doctor Who put them together and you have Magic.
+ecwdown and don't forget Dumbelly-dore
Big flashy lighty things have my name written all over them
Not actually but give me time...And a crayon.
Lol, classic 11th Doctor
The Doctor is here to save Dumbledore...
Dumbly dumby...
This episode was my introduction to the Eleventh Doctor and MY GOD I fell in love with him the instant he came out the chimney!
I love this episode. Definitely my favorite Christmas special.
Mine too! Always moves me to tears even though I know what's coming. Helps not to overwatch it.
I think Dumbledore has gone to the dark side
he always was on the dark side. he raised Harry for slaughter
BEST EPISODE EVER!!! Has to be my all time favourite I keep going back to watching this episode every now and again. :)
Rest in peace Sir Micheal and thank you for this great doctor who Christmas special this was my favourite ❤
Matt Smith was quite good, wasn't he? I love how he acts so light and breezy, and then turns on a time to deadly serious.
The Doctor coming down the chimney was perfect! One of my favorite 11th Doctor gags!
This got to be my all time favourite christmas special !!
1:33 I guess that's why he still makes a Christmas list every year.
"I don't have a christmas list."
"I DOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Reasons why I still love the Eleventh Doctor: the sporadic nonsense that IS the Eleventh Doctor.
I think when the Doctor he said "In 900 years of time and space I've never met anyone who wasn't important before" what he meant was "There's no such thing as someone who isn't important."
thanks captain obvious
@@brandondallaire You're welcome.
It's scenes like this that reminds us why we are supposed to love Matt Smith.
i wonder if the doctor will call santa jeff in the next episode
He doesn't believe in santa
Talk about a plothole
He said that for the kids
That last line is so heartwarming
this is such a great episode and my absolute favorite Doctor Who Christmas Special
When he turns and says “I’ve never met anyone who wasn’t important before”, he already hates this man. This guy who thinks some people simply have no importance
"Here's what brought me! Big flashy lighty thing! Big flashy lighty things have me written all over them. Well not yet. But give me time. And a crayon!"
0:09 DUMBLEDORE!
Just realised that this is the only episode of the new series that I somehow missed O.o. It's going to be a fun night
The best Doctor Who Christmas Special ever!
Such an underrated episode :)
I think one of my favorite things about the Doctor is how he makes an entrance.
This has to be one of my favourite moments in DW! One of many.
I am a horrible Doctor who fan because I don't watch.... I try and try and try. It's never available so I buy the DVDs. My experience with DW is still limited but I read a lot and even try to focus on classic who a bit more than revival. I love Tom Baker
The reason I say this is cause this was my first time watching Matt Smith. Really first impression of him. Now I love Tennant, he truly was an inspiration and even ignoring everything he did as the Doctor he is a great actor but when this happened. When I saw this moment I knew right off the bat I love 11. Perfect 1st impression! "My brain just went 'what the hell'!" The moment I saw this I felt something I never felt before; I loved 9 and 10 but I don't love 11.... I Am 11. He's like a giddy child at heart(s). I'm watching this and I'm thinking that if I was to play the Doctor (I won't and can't, wrong side of the Atlantic but hey I can dream) this is how I would've played him. I never got that impression with 9 or 10. Not what I've seen of them. That's a different feeling. It makes me smile.
If you get Netflix, they have Classic Doctor Who and the new Doctor Who as well as Torchwood
Emily McKinnon we still mildly low tech only use our Netflix for mail order movies not streaming; however we are opening up to the option recently due to our recent lets be nice and say frustrations with xfinity on demand.
Christian Schmude I think you're a great Whovian because you keep finding ways to actually watch the program. A real fan finds ways to make connections with the thing that they love. You're doing it, so pat yourself on the head. I had the same experience watching Tom Baker for the very first time - I'd never seen any other Doctor, and I had no idea that there would be a way for me to watch the show until Tom Baker, God bless him, hit public television. I wanted to play the part right then and there (wrong side of the Atlantic, too, but why not dream? Or make a fan film?)
Lots of planets have a wrong side of the Pond.
Love it when the Doctor reminds Dumbledor he's not the only important man in history
That's my doctor... Matt, you'll be sorely missed come next season.
Good thing the next Doctor will probably be awesome too, as all the ones who came before.
He seems like the type to yell at a young wizard asking if he put his name in the Goblet of Fire yet somehow ask calmly.
Still it was a good Christmas special... Merry Christmas!
Matt! I miss you! Come back!
RIP Michael Gambon.
this is my favorite episode
0:56 same tbh 😂
For anybody wondering if you are looking for the “nobody important” thing it’s at 2:04
D-d-d-d-d-dumbledore?
R Taylor i know right? the last time i saw him in anything without the beard was the Sleepy Hollow movie and even then it was weird
ruroken77 May I suggest you look up a film called Layer Cake. Starring with a pre-Bond era Daniel Craig...
The Doctor vs Dumbledore xD!
I SERIOUSLY, to this day, still love Matt's fidgety hand movements with his 11th portrayal.
"Keep the faith. Stay out of the naughtiness." cute nod and cute quote.
"Stay off the naughty list."
...Jus sayin :P
Dickens would've loved this. Then his ghost would appear to Stephen Moffat asking for royalties to be sent to his estate. :)
I have to wonder what season 8's Christmas special will be like.
One of my favs...
That last line is my favorite from any series.
his hair improved so much after series 5 , even the style of tweed jacket improved
To me this is doctor who as it's best, cinematography, writing, acting, everything is perfect in this episode
best Christmas special ever
I have never seen ANYTHING from Doctor Who (I was just here because I wanted to see the context from the "in 900 years of time and space" quote) but that was a riot and this is phenomenal! Is the entire show like this?
I don't know if the whole show is, Doctor who is many different shows in a trenchcoat really, if you want a taste this episode is completely standalone, it's called A Christmas Carol and it's the series 5 Christmas special, generally it's what I show non-fans to see if they want to get into the show
I swear, the reason the 12th Doctor was so wrinkled and cranky was because this Doctor never slept. Not once. His entire 1000-year existence was just one long, crazy run-on-sentence where he bounced around like a pin-ball launched out of a cannon. From the moment he crashed 10's tardis into Amelia's back yard, to when he riffed his regeneration energy at the Daleks from the Christmas clock-tower, he was like a five-year-old staying up past his bedtime having had 10 cups of coffee too many.
I love how he ignored all the adults in the room and went straight to shake the kids' hands
I didn't realize it until the end, but there were so many tiny references to his old companions in this special. "No one important" Reference to Donna who said that all the time. And when 11 says "Better broken heart than no heart" when asked about the last moment with his loved one. Was about Rose, also the last statement when Amy asks his if he's alright, he says "Everything's got to end sometime, or else nothing would ever get started." Probably also about Rose. Just think about it, all the Blondes he's kissed....even still his heart aches for her.
he's learnt after saying donna wasnt important how much that bit him on the posterior :)
"Nobody important" well, that's one way to immediately get on the doctor's nerves
My favourite episode
The line about never having met anybody who wasn’t important is so comforting to me and always has been
A tremendous scene-stealing performance right here by Matt Smith. I'll really miss him as the Doctor.
This was my first New Who episode, and when I saw it I knew they had a hit.
I want to rewatch this episode. Noticed that the way he speaks in this continuous stream here reminds me of Sherlock (BBC)
“Give me time and a crayon!”
Damn it, Dubledore! When the _USS Enterprise_ NCC-1701-D needs to land, you let it land!
Heh. Love that last line.
My whole brain just went what the hell?! love that!!!
I was sobbing nonstop in this episode sigh
My whole brain went like, Wot the hell! so I decided to watch this. :D
I’ve waited a long time ( basically 9 years) to say isomorphic and it’s definition to my family so thanks to the chase I finally Got my Doctor who knowledge out.
The Doctor and Frank Sinatra, didn't he ever hang out with Bing?
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
+Daniel Appleton Bing Crosby was a wild rascal in his early career of the 1930s. No Kill-joy then. He was old-fashioned strict with his first family, he was born around the turn of the century after all, much more relaxed with his second one in the 1960s. Frank and Bing were friends, Sinatra was inspired to be like him.
In 900 years I've never met anyone who wasn't important before
"Did you know in 900 years of time and space, I've never met anyone who wasn't important, before?" You're a beautiful individual
1:00 Greatest quote of the scene IMO
900 years of time and space and I have never met anybody who's not important before :) love that quote
He just keeps talking.
Oh i loved this episode
Eleven isn't quite my favorite version of the Doctor altogether, but he is easily my favorite one to spend a Christmas special with.
I love this episode when this man is wicked as also the doctor
I want to see them recording this with bloopers XD
The Doctor as a character is what's known as a paladin, which is the epitome of lawful good. Seeing as the Doctor (especially the tenth) is so far lawful good, he'd really only be adamant on killing things that are absolutely evil. He would criticize those who use guns because they could kill those of non-evil alignments or those who were barely evil. Yet, when the Doctor does find something truly evil (the Master: Chaotic evil Daleks: Lawful evil), he uses anything to kill them: even guns.
"My whole brain just went: what the hell?"
That was the moment, when I truly fell in love with eleven
I love how he just shakes the kids' hands
It is the dark timeline version of Dumbledore.
"Santa Claus, well but I always call him Jeff." Lol.