History NoodleIncident / DoctorWho

* Apparently, the Doctor has used the sentence "I've got to get to that cockerel before all hell breaks loose," twice. Of course, we've only seen the one in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E5TheRebelFlesh The Rebel Flesh]]".

** If the series had continued on, this would have been part of then-writer Andrew Cartmel's "master plam" to introduce more mystery to the Doctor's character, which is explained in depth in his final Virgin New Adventures novel, ''The House of Lungbarrow''. Apparently, the Doctor [[spoiler: was or is a decendant of The Other, one of Gallifrey's founders, who worked with Rassilon and a not-yet insane Omega to construct the Hand of Omega]]. This is foreshadowing of WhatCouldHaveBeen on the TV series, where Seven was going to skate further into becoming TheChessmaster.

* [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E13TheNameOfTheDoctor The Name of The Doctor]], apparently, there was [[spoiler: a regeneration of the Doctor who did something so reprehensible, he gave up the name of the Doctor, and every regeneration since has been trying to forget him.]]

** If the series had continued on, this would have been part of then-writer Andrew Cartmel's "master plam" to introduce more mystery to the Doctor's character, which is explained in depth in his final Virgin New Adventures novel, ''The House of Lungbarrow''. Apparently, the Doctor [[spoiler: was or is a decendant of [[spoiler: The Other, one of Gallifrey's founders, who worked with Rassilon and a not-yet insane Omega to construct the Hand of Omega]].

* PlayedForDrama in the two-parter "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS2E8TheImpossiblePlanet The Impossible Planet]]/"[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS2E9TheSatanPit The Satan Pit]]", in which something claiming to be the devil keeps taunting the chief of security about an incident which it claims his wife never forgave him for.

* From "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS1E11BoomTown Boom Town]]": "I told you we should have turned left!" (A phrase which takes on a deeper meaning a couple of series later, quite possibly on purpose, given the trend for significant words and phrases throughout the new series.)

* An early example is from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E3TheEdgeofDestruction The Edge of Destruction]]". Susan recognises a photograph on the screen as Quinnis, a planet in the fourth universe where they nearly lost the TARDIS. As revealed in the [[BigFinishDoctorWho Big Finish]] story "Quinnis", [[spoiler:it was almost carried away by a flood when the Doctor was posing as a rainmaker]].

* In one episode, it's mentioned that the Brigadier once somehow earned the gratitude of a woman named Doris; during the seventh Doctor's run, it's revealed "she finally caught him" and they are now married. (A comic explains this.)

''Series/DoctorWho'' is full of {{Noodle Incident}}s, what with the main character being an InexplicablyAwesome alien who even his close friends only know by a nickname.

** This one is self-explanatory, however, as there is a Real Life Police Box at Earl's Court.

* In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E06TheBellsOfSaintJohn]]", The Doctor apparently caused some sort of incident for the people working for [[spoiler: The Great Intelligence]], when he jumps the TARDIS forward by a few hours. Apparently, scouring the city for blue police boxes led to ''something'' occurring at Earl's Court.

* In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E06TheBellsOfSaintJohns]]", The Doctor apparently caused some sort of incident for the people working for [[spoiler: The Great Intelligence]], when he jumps the TARDIS forward by a few hours. Apparently, scouring the city for blue police boxes led to ''something'' occurring at Earl's Court.

* "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E06TheVampiresOfVenice The Vampires of Venice]]:

* In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E16TheWatersOfMars The Waters of Mars]]", Ed did something for which Adelaide "never could forgive" him. RussellTDavies says in the background interviews that he likes hinting at this mystery that will never be solved.

:: This particular incident is made even more tantalizing when you know what the [[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E3PyramidsOfMars last Egyptian God]] the Doctor met was like.

* An early example isfrom "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E3TheEdgeofDestruction The Edge of Destruction]]". Susan recognises a photograph on the screen as Quinnis, a planet in the fourth universe where they nearly lost the TARDIS. As revealed in the [[BigFinishDoctorWho Big Finish]] story "Quinnis", [[spoiler:it was almost carried away by a flood when the Doctor was posing as a rainmaker]].

* PlayedForDrama in the two-parter "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS2E8TheImpossiblePlanet The Impossible Planet]]/"[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS2E9TheSatanPit The Satan Pit]], in which something claiming to be the devil keeps taunting the chief of security about an incident which it claims his wife never forgave him for.

* From "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E02DinosaursOnASpaceship Dinosaurs on a Spaceship]]":
-->"An Egyptian goddess? Loose on the Orient Express? In space? Don't worry, Your Majesty, we're on our way!"

* "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E2TheShakespeareCode The Shakespeare Code]]" ends with one, when Queen Elizabeth shows up, recognizes the Doctor, declares that he is her "sworn enemy", and has arrows fired at him. As the Doctor hadn't met her (yet) he had no idea what was going to happen. The End of time Part 1 clarifies this a bit. Apparently [[spoiler: he married her]].

* ''Series/DoctorWho'' is full of these, what with the main character being an InexplicablyAwesome alien who even his close friends only know by a nickname. We don't know how he and the Master went from school chums to frenemies, or what led him to steal the TARDIS (other than general wanderlust). There were "pressing reasons at the time", apparently, but good luck getting him to admit what they were. The Steven Moffat era has made Noodle Incidents a RunningGag.
** In The Big Bang, the Eleventh Doctor has to [[spoiler: unlive his whole life as the universe prepares to restart itself, thereby erasing him from existence]]. He sees Amy and his earlier self entering the TARDIS, Amy agape about "Space Florida" and its "automatic sand".
** In "The Five Doctors" , the Second Doctor, reminiscing with [[TheBrigadier Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart]], refers to an unseen adventure the two shared with the Terrible Zodin and something 'that used to hop like kangaroos'. Although only referred to once again in the series itself (in "Attack of the Cybermen"), FanFic and the ExpandedUniverse have frequently played with what Zodin could be, with everything from an evil MonsterOfTheWeek to a terrible meal the Doctor once had being suggested.
** The Time War that destroyed Gallifrey and ([[JokerImmunity supposedly]]) the Daleks in the new series is also treated in this fashion; we're given lots of intriguing hints and abstract reveals as to what happened and who did what (with mentions of the Fall of Arcadia and the burning of the Cruciform -- neither of which were ever seen in the series -- and it being strongly implied, if not outright stated, that the Doctor himself was forced to destroy Gallifrey), but we've never seen what actually occurred.
*** In "The End of Time" we find out what happened to Gallifrey, and why The Doctor is the last Time Lord: [[spoiler:The Time Lords have changed in the war with the Daleks from the Police of Time and Space to the Masters of Time and Space. The Time Lords hatched a plan that would let them ascend to beings of pure energy and live on a different plane of existence, and then destroy reality. The "time lock" is there to stop any of them escaping whatever Eight or Nine did.]]
** It's also been outright stated a few times that we haven't seen anywhere near the number of actual places each companion goes with the Doctor in the episodes themselves. Mostly this is because nothing exciting happened those times (like one flashback from the beginning of "Army of Ghosts") but the Children in Need special with the Tenth Doctor convincing Rose he's actually the Doctor did have him referring to a time they ended up "hopping for our lives."
*** This is illustrated vividly in the 2012 episode ''The Power of Three'' in which Amy and Rory spend seven weeks travelling with the Doctor (though as far as their family and friends are concerned they only step away for a few minutes), including unexplained encounters with the Zygons and King Henry VIII.
*** ''The Doctor's Wife'' begins with the Doctor relating an adventure he had with Amy during a time Rory wasn't travelling in the TARDIS.
** "Silence in the Library" plays with this trope by invoking a little "future nostalgia": River Song mentions several escapades ("Right, picnic at Asgard. Have we done Asgard yet?") which are supposedly to have happened in the Doctor's future. One of these was shown in the following series, their adventure on the Byzantium in ''The Time Of Angels''/''Flesh And Stone''
*** River Song has provided numerous further examples. In one case, during the ''The Impossible Astronaut'', she mentions "Jim, the fish," [[spoiler: which becomes a bit of a Chekhov's Gun when the Doctor reappears later and she uses his ignorance of the incident to deduce that it's earlier in his timeline.]] One highly amusing account in "A Good Man Goes To War" involves her telling Rory that she had just returned from a birthday outing with the Doctor, which involved Stevie Wonder playing at a frost fair in 1814, London, "But you must never tell him."
** Similar to Zodin, there been several explanations outside the TV series about what the Perigosto Stick the Doctor mentions in "The Green Death" actually is, although I don't recall any about why you can't trust a Venusian Shanghorn with one.
** "Got to go, got a thing. Well, four things. Well, four things and a lizard."
*** Relatedly, the Doctor saying he's "rubbish at weddings," especially his own. And this is ''before'' the Queen Elizabeth I incident!
** In one Third Doctor episode, it's mentioned that the Brigadier once somehow earned the gratitude of a woman named Doris; during the seventh Doctor's run, it's revealed "she finally caught him" and they are now married. (A comic explains this.)
** The Sixth Doctor serial "Timelash" references an unbroadcast adventure the Third Doctor and Jo Grant had on the same planet.
** "I told you we should have turned left!" (A phrase which takes on a deeper meaning a couple of series later, quite possibly on purpose, given the trend for significant words and phrases throughout the new series.)
** There's also a humorous Sixth Doctor example:
--->'''Peri:''' You even managed to burn dinner last night!\\

** The Waters of Mars: Ed did something for which Adelaide "never could forgive" him. RussellTDavies says in the background interviews that he likes hinting at this mystery that will never be solved.
** The Vampires of Venice had an appropriately brief mention of one.
--->'''Doctor''': That's okay, 1580. Casanova doesn't get born for 145 years. Don't want to run into him. I owe him a chicken.
--->'''Rory''': You owe Casanova a chicken?
--->'''Doctor''': *briskly* Long story, we had a bet.
*** From the same episode,The Doctor jumps out of Rory's stag party cake, and when he spots Rory:
--->'''The Doctor''': That's a relief, I thought I burst out of the wrong cake. [{{beat}}] Again.
** The Doctor's laser spanner was stolen by Emmeline Pankhurst.
*** Cheeky woman!
** And how about the Seventh Doctor's worryingly-throwaway line about the Hand of Omega in "Remembrance Of The Daleks" - "...and didn't we have trouble with the prototype..."
** The Shakespeare Code ends with one, when Queen Elizabeth shows up, recognizes the Doctor, declares that he is her "sworn enemy", and has arrows fired at him. As the Doctor hadn't met her (yet) he had no idea what was going to happen. The End of time Part 1 clarifies this a bit. Apparently [[spoiler: he married her]].
*** Or, as clarified in "The Wedding of River Song", left her [[spoiler: waiting in a glade to elope with him.]]
**** Speaking of the Doctor's rather odd relationships with famous people, how about the two [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal founding fathers that fancied him?]] Or Marilyn Monroe?
** Space Florida, anyone?
** "An Egyptian goddess? Loose on the Orient Express? In space? Don't worry, Your Majesty, we're on our way!"
*** This particular incident is made even more tantalizing when you know what the [[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E3PyramidsOfMars last Egyptian God]] the Doctor met was like.
** Apparently, the Doctor has used the sentence "I've got to get to that cockerel before all hell breaks loose," twice. Of course, we've only seen one.
** The ''Night and the Doctor'' mini-episodes have ''two''. One involves the Doctor and River at a party, a cricket bat, the Queen of England being turned into a goldfish, a pet shop, and a rioting commonwealth. The other involved the Doctor rescuing a possessed orchestra on the moon with River's help, which apparently involved MarilynMonroe and a biplane.
** He also references various events in Earth's history, such as the "Twelfth British Empire", and "The Nineteenth Reich," and several future World Wars.
** Played for Drama in the two-parter The Impossible Planet / The Satan Pit, in which something claiming to be the devil keeps taunting the chief of security about an incident which it claims his wife never forgave him for.
** From ''A Town Called Mercy''; "Ooh! You know all the monkeys and dogs they sent into space in the '50s and '60s? You will never guess what happened to them."
* An early example from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E3TheEdgeofDestruction The Edge of Destruction]]," Susan recognises a photograph on the screen as Quinnis, a planet in the fourth universe where they nearly lost the TARDIS. As revealed in the [[BigFinishDoctorWho Big Finish]] story "Quinnis", [[spoiler:it was almost carried away by a flood when the Doctor was posing as a rainmaker]].

** From ''A Town Called Mercy''; "Ooh! You know all the monkeys and dogs they sent into space in the '50s and '60s? You will never guess what happened to them."

*** In "The End of Time" we find out what happened to Gallifrey, and why The Doctor is the last Time Lord: [[spoiler:The Time Lords have changed in the war with the Daleks from the Police of Time and Space to the Masters of Time and Space. The Time Lords hatched a plan that would let them ascend to beings of pure energy and live on a different plane of existence, and then destroy reality. In order to stop them, The Doctor time locked all Time Lords in the Time War.]]

**** Speaking of the Doctor's rather odd relationships with famous people, how about the three [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal founding fathers that fancied him?]] Or Marilyn Monroe?