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Phlebotinum Breakdown Discussion
Red Shoe: For what it's worth toaster that makes sausage

Vulpy: Who came up with the sausage-making-toaster? That's Made Of Win, right there.


Semiapies: I distinctly remember one episode where the Doctor gets the chameleon function to work, which turns the TARDIS into...a pipe organ.

Robert: Only on the outside, which is exactly what the chameleon circuit is designed to do. The Phlebotinum Breakdown happened before the show's first episode - when the Tardis got stuck as a police box.

Uhl:Pipe organ? I thought it was a fountain of some sort. (Original series)

Paul A: Definitely a (small) pipe organ - the Doctor even plays a tune on it. Unless you're thinking of a different episode, but I don't recall any occasion where a TARDIS appears as a fountain.

Ununnilium: Didn't the Master's TARDIS appear as a fountain once? Some kind of Roman architecture, anyway.

Paul A: It showed up as a column several times, but I don't remember it ever being a fountain.


Darmok: Removed "exploded nearly destroying the planet" from the Stargate list. While this did happen, it was a deliberate attack by the (then) current Big Bad, and not an example of Phlebotinum Breakdown.

Tonkarz: Also on Stargate, Teal'c wasn't technically trapped in a wormhole, he was trapped as information stored in the Gate's receiving circuits. The distinction is only semantic technobabble, so I won't alter the main article.