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Post by jjpor on Jul 13, 2009 21:19:16 GMT
So, I was watching telly the other day, and an advert came on for car insurance (all the adverts on telly these days seem to be for accident lawyers, loan companies, or various forms of insurance; a sign of the times maybe). Anyway, there was something strange about it, but I couldn't quite put my finger on it. And then I saw it again tonight and knew exactly what it was. And my question is this:  Why the heck is that elephant dressed as Ten???  I mean, it's got the hairdo and everything... |
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Post by Stripes on Jul 13, 2009 21:22:45 GMT
LOL LOL LOL LOL
This made my day.
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Post by clocketpatch on Jul 13, 2009 21:24:57 GMT
His regeneration in the finale goes terribly, terribly wrong?
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Post by jjpor on Jul 13, 2009 21:31:57 GMT
Hey, he looks better than he does in that St Trinians pic...
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Post by clocketpatch on Jul 13, 2009 21:37:19 GMT
Hey, he looks better than he does in that St Trinians pic... Too true. |
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Post by Stripes on Jul 13, 2009 21:37:31 GMT
Hey, he looks better than he does in that St Trinians pic... He has his eyebrows. |
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Post by librarylover on Jul 14, 2009 1:10:49 GMT
I would like to make some clever comment, but I have no words.
I assume that the lack of pinstripes and the coat were their attempt for it to be a subtle homage?
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Post by magnusgreel on Jul 14, 2009 7:00:23 GMT
Never have I seen an elephant in a suit who looked more like David Tennant. The hair's a dead giveaway. RTD's penchant for anthropomorphic Earth animal aliens has run amok.
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Post by merrythemad on Jul 14, 2009 15:15:01 GMT
it's horrifying. it's hilarious. LL, remember the blue suit of doom has no pinstripes, it's just...shiny.
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Post by clocketpatch on Jul 14, 2009 21:42:05 GMT
No, the blue suit does have pinstripes, very shiny, nigh on invisible brown blue pinstripes, but they do exist!
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Post by jjpor on Jul 14, 2009 22:01:37 GMT
Never have I seen an elephant in a suit who looked more like David Tennant. The hair's a dead giveaway. RTD's penchant for anthropomorphic Earth animal aliens has run amok. Coming soon to a Xmas Special near you - the Elephoids of Elephos VI - perfidious pachyderm masters of disguise! Or something... Now, I'm going to have to scrutinise all of the Ten stories where he wears the blue suit, because I genuinely can't remember whether it has pinstripes or not, and for some reason, that's going to bother me... |
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Post by magnusgreel on Jul 14, 2009 22:29:52 GMT
I'm trying and failing to work a joke into all this about Carthaginian elephants and vinegar dissolving Alpine rocks. Well, maybe not everything in the world ties together after all. Anyway, I sense that Dumbo's 1980's yellow power-tie means something.
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Post by librarylover on Jul 14, 2009 22:35:11 GMT
it's horrifying. it's hilarious. LL, remember the blue suit of doom has no pinstripes, it's just...shiny. I don't think the blue suit has stripes either. I just meant that the pinstripes and the coat are SO well known that using them wouldn't have been at all subtle. I think you might need to be as obssessed with DW as, well, WE are to notice that this is clearly what Ten would look like if he were an elephant! ;D |
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Post by magnusgreel on Jul 15, 2009 0:44:48 GMT
Suddenly I am consumed with a desire to know how Ten would appear, if he were an armadillo. Wait.... no, it's gone now. Now I want some lasagna. I have to admit, my priorities have a tendency to shift.
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Post by jjpor on Jul 15, 2009 22:07:27 GMT
Yes, the yellow tie is clearly significant; it matches the background and everything. And I detect some strange sort of symbolism in the position of the right hand - is he offering us something? Or demanding that we hand something over? Food for thought, people! ;D
I personally now want to see what all ten Doctors would look like in randomly-selected animal forms. Four as a llama, for instance, or Two as a Galapagos marine iguana, say...
And LL, it grieves me to think that there may be millions of non-Doctor-Who-conversant television viewers out there who have seen this image and remained completely oblivious to its true meaning... ;D
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