Drunktor Who: A Doctor Who Podcast

The 20th Deja Brew podcast leads off with ‘The Poison Sky’ where an early adopter of the man-o-sphere sees the errors of his ways and blows himself up real good in order to prevent an invasion of Sontarans... of his own making tho so F that guy! ‘The Doctor’s Daughter’ follows with said daughter/clone of the Doctor being introduced and never mentioned/referenced again much to the chagrin of co-host Steve... whilst co-host John secretly/openly cackles at Steve’s chagrin-ery. Last up ‘The Unicorn And The Wasp’ finds the Doctor and Donna cos-playing a live action game of Clue. I correctly guessed Agatha Christie in the 1920’s with an alien Wasp! Twenty-three skidoo!

We rejoin our rewatch mini-series already in progress with our 18th Deja Brew episode. Whilst jumping back into old nu-Who series 4, we start off with ‘Voyage Of The Damned’ where the Doctor goes on an adventure of Poseidon proportions after meeting Astrid, a woman he just can’t get outta his head. Next up is ‘Partners In Crime’ where the Doctor and Donna Noble reunite to mate... erm... be mates! After said friend-zoning intentionally occurs, Rose shows up yet again to friend-block the new duo. Seriously Rose, let the man move on with his lives!

‘The Witch And The Waterfall’ is the fourth episode of our ‘War On Sobriety’ mini-series where inst we continue to take a magnifying glass to the ‘Doctor Who’ spin-off: ‘The War Between The Land And The Sea’. Whilst punctuation and run-on sentences continue to be tortured for these podcast descriptions, totally normal bloke Barclay goes on the run with Salt, Salt discovers Barclay tastes of salt, and they finally have their ‘Shape of Water’ moment. Off screen of course because nobody wants to see that. Well maybe purported ichthyophiliac Troy McClure would. Allegedly.

On February 22nd in the year of Time Lord 2016, yet another podcast hosted by two middle aged white guys (unimaginatively named Steve and John) talking about Doctor Who was vomited onto the internets. This one was way different: in that our third friend Al Cohol was officially made a co-host. (He normally likes to keep things on the down low... but is usually a part of most podcasts... right?) To celebrate our 10th podcastaversary, please to enjoy our ‘proof of concept’ recording where we used Star Trek in place of Doctor Who so as not to ‘burn’ any usable material. Whilst listening to us be far too inebriated for our current comfort, feel free to judge John on how snippy he becomes with Steve, and have a shot every time Steve says he drank too much beer. Hold on. Our (non-existent) attorneys say not to do that. Actually, they said ‘For the love of all that’s holy and otherwise, do not advise anyone to do that!’. Whatever Poindexter. Mazel tav!

We begin a new mini-series we’re calling ‘The War On Sobriety’ where we cover the Doctor Whojacent mini-series ‘The War Between The Land And The Sea’. First up is episode one titled ‘Aqua Homo’ in which we are introduced to totally normal bloke Barclay. Unfortunately Barclay is treading water since he’s in way over his head... and paygrade... when he is called in as an ‘expert’ to bear witness to Earth’s prior inhabitants resurfacing from... well... the sea. Whilst these Sea Devils (or Homospondyls if you’re woke) just want us to stop pooping in their habitat, Barclay ends up humanity’s ambassador just cuz he’s a nice and totally normal bloke. And that’s why I’m an asshat. Nobody expects much from an asshat.

In this latest podcast episode, we take a slow walk down memory lane by watching the first half of 6 episodes where the 3rd incarnation of the Doctor takes a boat trip with then companion Jo Grant to check in on the super-duper-evil yet super-duper-well-guarded-prisoner (ha!) the Master on a remote (?) island prison where we hope they eventually encounter our titular foes: “The Sea Devils”. Whilst we see said devilry going down, not much happens. Or to paraphrase Ian Malcolm: “Are we going to see any Sea Devils in this Sea Devil story?”

Deja Brew 16 celebrates the re-discussion of the two part series 3 story comprising “Human Nature” and “The Family of Blood” where Martha puts up with a whole bunch of crap whilst the Doctor cosplays being a love-struck human in love. Though sadly for Martha said human is not Martha. Sad face. Meanwhilst the B plot finds an alien family tortured for all eternity by the Doctor. I mean they had it coming with all the killings and stuff but our hero is supposed to be above such petty shite. Oh wait. I forgot which Doctor this is. Carry on...

Join us with our 14th Deja Brew podcast. This time we’re rewatching Nu-Who’s Series 3 two-part 4th and 5th episodes where the Doctor takes Martha to Depression era New York City because... depressions are fun? “Daleks In Manhattan” delivers exactly what the title promises whilst “Evolution Of The Daleks” also delivers on its titular goodness! All that plus a one-eyed-human-Dalek-hybrid that just invites penis comparisons. Happily your co-hosts RSVPed on that invite.

We conclude Drunktor Spooktober’s classic-era-folk-horror-themed-spooky-mini-series with the four part 1989 story “The Curse of Fenric” where the Seventh Doctor and Ace find themselves in England during WWII battling the titular Fenric, militaries of various flavours, and, of course, vampires. As one does. Whilst the Doctor forges a permission slip to do whatever the hell he wants, Ace faces her baby-mommy issues, and Fenric is busy doing said cursing. Golly gee... not that kind of cursing, assholes!

Welcome to the first episode of our folk horror themed mini-series that we’re calling “Drunktor Spooktober” (my preferred spelling was going to be “Spwhoktober” but I knew Steve wouldn’t let me get away with that... sad face) where we watch (hopefully) scary Doctor Who stories from the classic era. This episode we watch a 1971 story, “The Daemons” where the Third Doctor encounters forces totally of the non-demonic variety. Seriously. Whilst the writers bend over backwards not to offend any deity followers, the Doctor gets pissy with just about everybody, Jo gets demeaned by just about everybody, and the Master gets everybody prepped to commit some good old fashioned violence. Like the Medieval witch burning kind. Good times.

We watch the 7th Doctor serial "Time and the Rani" where the newly regenerated Doctor gets hoodwinked into helping the newly red-headed Rani with her sciencing. Whilst said fooling is going down, the temporarily befuddled Doctor puts on a fashion show for the Rani (who is wearing ‘Mel’ drag), actual Mel proves her companion cred with some truly awesome screaming, and the Rani tries to ctrl-alt-delete the universe with a forced reboot. If she only read the universe’s control manual she would know that is not recommended. Wait? Am I the only one who reads all that stuff? JK! Nobody does that shiz...

Welcome to our 15th intervention where we hash out all things season 2... series 15?... perhaps series 41 if you’re being totally pedantic. In addition to those Doctor Who discussions being discussed, friend-of-the-show-Tim presents a match-the-companion-to-the-alcoholic-beverage exercise to your hosts whilst said hosts rank the 19 episodes of Ncuti’s woefully short reign from least awesome to most awesome. Spoilers: Steve’s ranking is wrong and John’s (mine!) is correct. To the writer of the episode’s description go the spoils. Shakespeare said that!

We watch “Wish World” (Series 15, Episode 7) where the Doctor and current companion Miss Belinda Chandra become... married-couple-with-a-child Mr. and Mrs. John Smith?!? Whilst we try to figure just WTF is actually going TF on, recently past companion Ruby shows up on the 'Smith's' doorstep casting doubt on their progeny, distantly past companion Mel shows up to cast doubt on broken coffee mugs, and UNIT shows up to cast doubt on hetero-normality. All this and our lead is about to die on this season’s penultimate episode. Oh dear... what ever will happen...