While putting together
my (somewhat GIFtastic) response to Doctor Who’s “The Snowmen,” I stumbled across this sublimely silly photograph of the Third Doctor:
RoboYeti says "I will hug him and pet him..."
I hope this makes your day as much as it made mine. I honestly can’t look at it without grinning.
This photograph was found alongside an explanation of the phrase “yeti on the loo” by Frank Collins in
his in-depth look at classic Doctor Who‘s Season 5. Reportedly, Jon Pertwee himself said that a yeti on the loo is more terrifying than a yeti in Outer Space. I’m not entirely sure about that. I’d be incredibly disturbed to discover YETIS IN SPACE. And what if you discover a Yeti on the loo in a spaceship? Terror! You’re trapped in a technologically advanced tin can with a Yeti! This is not acceptable!
Anyway, I’m sure his “yeti on the loo” concept made Jon Pertwee feel better about the Doctor’s time grounded on Earth, especially since he didn’t get to play in the TARDIS and screw with the space-time continuum like all the other kids. At least at first.
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