#obligatory disclaimer that this is intended as a joke and if it personally offends you please just keep scrolling

[thepiedsniper]

Getting people into Dr Who:

People who make them start with Classic Dr Who: you are the kind of person who sends someone a twenty minute YouTube clip and forces them to watch it immediately, in front of you.

People who start by showing them "Rose" (start of 9/reboot): you probably started watching Dr Who in 2005 and it rewrote your brain chemistry.

People who start with "The Christmas Invasion" (start of 10): you started/someone else started you here and you have decided to perpetuate the cycle of violence for others, or 10 is your favourite Doctor and you said "fuck it" to the context 9's season provides (why??).

People who start with "Blink": was this just your favourite episode or do you genuinely believe this is a good episode to introduce people to Dr Who? The episode doesn't even feature the main characters all that much. I would posit that this episode is only really enjoyable if you have enough context going in, and otherwise it just kind of ruins the experience you'd otherwise get from an organic, linear progression. It's like starting Avatar: the Last Airbender with "The Ember Island Players." I don't trust you.

Any other mid-season episode: much the same as above, but this seems to be less common so you're probably a special kind of freak (and good for you, I guess).

People who start with 11: you are either too young to remember 9/11, or you are just Basic (no shame).

People who start with 12: you hate fun (shame).

People who start with 13: you're probably so young that if I met you irl I'd call you "kiddo", but you're alright.