Doctor Who Has No Idea What You’re Doing Here
You don’t have to watch the above video to marvel (or be aghast) at its contents. Some driven, possibly insane individual has assembled a chronological clip-fest of every single Doctor Who scene in which someone says “What are you doing here?” (or some variation thereof). That’s 45 years of episodes and movies and specials to go through, and it should be no surprise the clip is 8 minutes long. The AV Club sums it up better than I ever could:
Whoever made this compilation has achieved a kind of apotheosis of nerdosity, of the kind where it’s clear that so much loving, obsessive effort has gone into something so completely ephemeral that it’s achieved a transcendence of its own. Of course, I might be saying that because after watching the whole thing I’m now a little disoriented … what am I doing here?
You’re watching 8 minutes of one line repeated hundreds of times on Doctor Who, that’s what you’re doing. God help us all.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.