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This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.


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.


Does this apply to superpowers, like when Simon loses his spiral power in Gurren Lagann, or when Aang can't enter the avatar state in Avatar The Last Airbender? —Document N

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