I would've been stoked ten years ago. But after word started getting out about how awful he is to others, I'm less excited [didn't even know about the Amy Winehouse thing until a few years ago].
Twist, he’s taking inspiration from Harold and Kumar and having him play himself but still the doctors greatest enemy yet. For whatever reason the actor singer NPH wants to destroy the doctor
He's the Doctor's therapist who is secretly holding him captive in a "time loop" where the Doctor is a human video game designer who invented a game about the last remaining member of an alien species called "Timelords" that changes forms sometimes and he is in love with one of his love interests, the key to his ultimate escape, wherein they both find out that she had the power of a timelord the whole time.
Based on the picture, if it's a returning character, it's likely to be either The Toymaker or the Master of Fiction, both of whom would make sense based on the current reports coming from public filming.
I’ve drifted away from doctor who but they’re filming outside my bosses house at night and he keeps showing me pictures they’ve managed to sneak from their windows and I’m getting pretty excited.
Yeah, dude seems like an absolute douchebag. Not nearly as bad, but there's also the time he made a tweet making fun of Rachel Bloom (creator of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) at the Tonys pretending he didn't know her...when they had met several times as her husband wrote several episodes of How I Met Your Mother. They later reference this on Crazy Ex-Girlfiend, which is pretty funny.
I'm with you dude. Like, I know people were always making fun of her but to me now as a man nearing his 30s that is far and away the most tragic death in Hollywood that I've been alive for. To belittle her with such a grotesque depiction? I can't look at him the same way again.
I would have never thought about NPH being in Doctor Who but this is fantastic casting. Hopefully he’s the villain like it seems. He can walk that serious and silly line really well and just bleeds charisma. Hope he gets some scenes with Tennant.
You might give Capaldi's third season a try. I happened to like it a lot. (And if you never actually finished the second season I recommend it. If nothing else, the episode Heaven Sent is one of the best Who episodes of all time.)
I always found his Halloween Insta kind of creepy. It’s not as sleazy as the Amy Winehouse cake, which is just so gauche and crude, but the way he features his kids in his Instagram feed screams “influencer,” i.e., vanity.
Unless RTD is going to retcon the whole Timeless Children thing and fix the show back to before the Chibnall era, not even NPH and Tennant's combined power can make things right and get the show back on track in the long term.
Was the retcon bad? Yes. Is the best and only way to go forward to spend time retconning it? Definitely not. Just move on, or do something cool with the idea
Had no idea about the Amy Winehouse cake 11 years ago. Just knew him from around town, LA at the time, and really like his work. Still, eleven years have passed. Does he have a reputation as an ***hole otherwise?
Obviously Harris won't hurt but it's not acting ability that the show is missing, it's writing. Whittaker and Capaldi are both great actors but their seasons were shit. The writers let them down. If adding Doogie Howser is the most original idea they have I think this show is fucked.
Chibnall can't write his way out of a paper bag but Capaldi's seasons were great. Heaven Sent may well be one of the greatest DW episodes there has ever been.
Hey I don't have any friends I'm asking for me did they retcon the doctor's 50th anniversary so that gallifrey is now dead and not stuck in a Time slice
It feels like no time at all has passed since the 50th anniversary, I can’t believe they’re about to hit 60. Haven’t kept up to date with the last couple of seasons but I’ll definitely be catching up for this
Graham was a top-tier companion but aside from a few really good historicals (Alan Cumming as King James I/VI!), most of Thirteenth Doctor's run has been poorly written, a real waste of Jodie Whittaker's talent. It hurts to have to say it but it's true.
That's something I'd never expect he's pretty great in all his roles. Still hoping he voices Nightwing again, probably my favorite NW voice that happened only once
It happens now and then, sometimes in really random roles. Like the lead singer of Slipknot pitched in on an episode a few years ago. Or Eric Roberts once played The Master.
They should just make him the same character he plays in The Matrix: Resurrection and Doctor Who has to deal with whatever story in the middle of an AI Civil War.
Dr Who vs Dr Horrible!
🎶 AND I WON'T FEEEEEEEL...🎶
He's got a PhD in Horribleness
Vs Doctor Doogie Howser
Doctor Whorrible
Bad Wolf vs Bad Horse!
What a crazy random happenstance!
I would pay good money to see this
Kilgrave vs Count Olaf!
Vs Doogie Howser M.D.
https://nypost.com/2022/05/13/neil-patrick-harris-photo-of-amy-winehouse-corpse-cake-resurfaces/
Dr. Howser you mean.
Dr Who vs Dr Howser!
I've wished for a sequel for years. Almost certainly never happening with all the news about joss though :/
Dr Who-ribble FTFY.
This is something that would have made Tumblr explode back in 2012
I would've been stoked ten years ago. But after word started getting out about how awful he is to others, I'm less excited [didn't even know about the Amy Winehouse thing until a few years ago].
RTD claimed on his Insta post that Harris plays “the greatest enemy the Doctor has ever faced”.
Twist, he’s taking inspiration from Harold and Kumar and having him play himself but still the doctors greatest enemy yet. For whatever reason the actor singer NPH wants to destroy the doctor
What if he's the Valeyard 👀
Doctor Horrible confirmed.
Maybe he's playing Barney.
The greatest enemy the dr ever had should be an evil future version of himself or an evil past version from before the memory wipe.
He's the Doctor's therapist who is secretly holding him captive in a "time loop" where the Doctor is a human video game designer who invented a game about the last remaining member of an alien species called "Timelords" that changes forms sometimes and he is in love with one of his love interests, the key to his ultimate escape, wherein they both find out that she had the power of a timelord the whole time.
He's the Music Meister
The Greatest Enemy the Doctor has faced? So he is playing Chibnall then…
I still struggle to take him seriously as a villain. I adore NPH and think he's very talented, but I just don't buy him as a bad guy
His last role as antagonist was in Matrix resurrections. I think he did ok, until the very last scene where he reverted to his HIMYM persona.
I like that this is all being taken at face value. Not as a joke that he's some guy who cuts off the tardis in traffic
Based on the picture, if it's a returning character, it's likely to be either The Toymaker or the Master of Fiction, both of whom would make sense based on the current reports coming from public filming.
That photo screams Toymaker to me, but I also get Christmas-y vibes.
It’s quite Bill Hartnell too.
Well… After all these years my username and online persona actually came true…
Obligatory
I hope he doesn't try an English accent like he did in It's A Sin
Mrs Stinsfire?
I hope he sings
[удалено]
[удалено]
Doogie Who.
Youngest doctor vs oldest?
The Doctor is going to finally going to save River Song from The Matrix.
That or the Doctor's finally gonna restore Donna's memories about their adventures together.
Hopefully. But I hope it has nothing to do with the latest doctor.
Dr Who vs Barney Stinson.
"Hey, Doctor... have you met Ted?"
Dr who vs Dr hauzer
This special is going to be legen...wait for it
Hopeyourenotlactoseintolerantbecausethelastpartis.... Dary
It's going to be wibbly wobbly timey... wait for it
Suit up!
Dr. Whoogie Howser
playing his Harold and Kumar version of himself
So the Doctor will be protecting three orphans from Count Olaf?
Just imagine him as master! A successful, better singing doctor Horible!
I’ve drifted away from doctor who but they’re filming outside my bosses house at night and he keeps showing me pictures they’ve managed to sneak from their windows and I’m getting pretty excited.
Oh yeah, Ten, Donna and Wilf are going to be in... this is vaguely worded, but scenes that will air around the time of the 60th.
Surprise ! Surprise !
Who versus Horrible, may the best Doctor win.
........why?
Because he worked with RTD before on It's A Sin.
TBH if they ever had an American Doctor (they shouldn't) NPH would probably be one of the first guys to come to mind.
Bruce Campbell
"You know, I'm something of a doctor myself."
Doogie Howser MD in Doctor Who
After NPH’s “Amy Winehouse’s corpse” food platter he had made for a party only months after she died I can’t even bear to look at him
Wait what? How the fuck did I miss that
Yeah, dude seems like an absolute douchebag. Not nearly as bad, but there's also the time he made a tweet making fun of Rachel Bloom (creator of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) at the Tonys pretending he didn't know her...when they had met several times as her husband wrote several episodes of How I Met Your Mother. They later reference this on Crazy Ex-Girlfiend, which is pretty funny.
I'm with you dude. Like, I know people were always making fun of her but to me now as a man nearing his 30s that is far and away the most tragic death in Hollywood that I've been alive for. To belittle her with such a grotesque depiction? I can't look at him the same way again.
After a decade, an apology, and no further incidents, I no longer avoid watching things he’s in. But I still have a low opinion of him.
This was my first thought as well. He’s the worst.
I would have never thought about NPH being in Doctor Who but this is fantastic casting. Hopefully he’s the villain like it seems. He can walk that serious and silly line really well and just bleeds charisma. Hope he gets some scenes with Tennant.
You might give Capaldi's third season a try. I happened to like it a lot. (And if you never actually finished the second season I recommend it. If nothing else, the episode Heaven Sent is one of the best Who episodes of all time.)
I don’t know if I like this based off his stuff with the amy winehouse cake
Right?! I loved Amy so hearing this doesn’t make me excited he’s involved at all -_-
He also said he was horny for 16 year old Nick Jonas and put him on his list of sexiest men.
I always found his Halloween Insta kind of creepy. It’s not as sleazy as the Amy Winehouse cake, which is just so gauche and crude, but the way he features his kids in his Instagram feed screams “influencer,” i.e., vanity.
It feels like Doctor Who is FINALLY getting it's act together!
It's Dr. Howser, not Who.
He was a great villain in "Blood on the Blackboard: The Bart Simpson Story."
"Where do you want it skinner"
Please be Count Olof
No thank you.
To be who? Braniac 🤣
I can only assume he’s playing Davros, with a head like that.
I miss David Tennant.
He's back, too, with Donna and Wilf. The how, when and why, that's all up in the air.
David Tennant will be returning to the role of the Doctor in the 60th anniversary special(s) (which is what this news is about)
I don't know why but this seems...not good.
Not like the show has standards. NPH should add some class to the show
Why?
Why not?
This casting is grating.
Can’t really look at him the same after the Amy Winehouse stunt he pulled on Halloween…
Pearl clutching to the max
Unless RTD is going to retcon the whole Timeless Children thing and fix the show back to before the Chibnall era, not even NPH and Tennant's combined power can make things right and get the show back on track in the long term.
Was the retcon bad? Yes. Is the best and only way to go forward to spend time retconning it? Definitely not. Just move on, or do something cool with the idea
He gives me The Next Ellen Degeneres vibes so much. I feel like the corpse cake is just the top of the iceberg
There’s also him saying how attracted he was to Nick Jonas when Jonas was 16.
Dr. -wait for it - Who
He's a great actor.
Phony Neil came out when it was socially permissible and then paraded around like some hero for a decade
No Neil came out when he got wind that he was about to be outed.
NPH is a big, awesome, brilliant kid. He should be everywhere. He should be at your house right now.
He is the opposite of all of those things
This reads like a threat.
Had no idea about the Amy Winehouse cake 11 years ago. Just knew him from around town, LA at the time, and really like his work. Still, eleven years have passed. Does he have a reputation as an ***hole otherwise?
https://nypost.com/2022/05/13/neil-patrick-harris-photo-of-amy-winehouse-corpse-cake-resurfaces/
He actually is rn
🌈Excellent!🌈
Hope they undo the BS plot of the Timeless Child.
Nope still haven’t forgiven him for the Amy Winehouse thing
I know he's not a Brit, but by God he would be perfect as the new Doctor.
That would be legen… wait for it… dary!!
Gross
Without going into spoilers, I wonder if what they’re doing with these specials can backfire?
Beep the Meep can never backfire.
If you’re talking about
Doctor Who is still a thing?
Since 1963. It will never truly end
Obviously Harris won't hurt but it's not acting ability that the show is missing, it's writing. Whittaker and Capaldi are both great actors but their seasons were shit. The writers let them down. If adding Doogie Howser is the most original idea they have I think this show is fucked.
The 60th anniversary has a different showrunner and production company than the eras you’re talking about. Russell T Davies & Bad Wolf
Chibnall can't write his way out of a paper bag but Capaldi's seasons were great. Heaven Sent may well be one of the greatest DW episodes there has ever been.
Why? Bad move.
Get all the low budget guest stars you want doctor who, you killed your show, and no one is coming back.
Eugh why, he's so shit. It can't just be me who thinks so.
Doctor Doogie Howser
Not a big fan, but this is cool!
Not sure if I'm: A. Super excited. B. Horrified.
Suit up!
Can confirm. He was dining near me in a restaurant in Cardiff this evening!
RTD and the American stunt casting returns!
I think Harris can do very well in Dr Who. He is very good at being “over the top” in the exact way that Dr Who tends to be
Hey I don't have any friends I'm asking for me did they retcon the doctor's 50th anniversary so that gallifrey is now dead and not stuck in a Time slice
They did not. It did get destroyed again though.
wasn’t he in harold and kumar go to white castle?
The Brotor
Hmmm.
Epic
It feels like no time at all has passed since the 50th anniversary, I can’t believe they’re about to hit 60. Haven’t kept up to date with the last couple of seasons but I’ll definitely be catching up for this
Graham was a top-tier companion but aside from a few really good historicals (Alan Cumming as King James I/VI!), most of Thirteenth Doctor's run has been poorly written, a real waste of Jodie Whittaker's talent. It hurts to have to say it but it's true.
60th anniversary? I had no idea NPH was that old!
I don't care what character he plays, aslong as he says "bullet time" while doing little jazz hands
That's something I'd never expect he's pretty great in all his roles. Still hoping he voices Nightwing again, probably my favorite NW voice that happened only once
N P H !
MPH would never do that
Just add anyone who played a Doctor on a show. I’m going to pitch Quinn and Zoidberg. Maybe the guy from Northern Exposure too.
It's a surprise, yeah, but NPH was in Russell's rolodex and it's just another flex for the 60th.
dr. who meet doogie
I'm betting he's just going to be playing Neil Patrick Harris.
His name is Doogie Howser, MD. Everyone knows that. Why is this called Dr. Who when we know exactly who the doctor is?
As someone who has never watched a second of Dr Who and knows virtually nothing about it, this seems interesting. Has he been on the show before?
He has never been on the show before.
Oh man I wonder who he’s going to play
Doctor Whom
That’s crazy he’s 60!!
Ew
Hey daleks this fight is legend wait for it dairy!
Thought that American actors not permitted in DW
I mean Jack Harkness (John Barrowman) is a dual citizen with Scotland/US, iirc.
It happens now and then, sometimes in really random roles. Like the lead singer of Slipknot pitched in on an episode a few years ago. Or Eric Roberts once played The Master.
How I met you timelord
Doogie Howser M.D. worth going back to watch?
Is he playing Matt smiths little bro?
I’m assuming if he’s not a new character he’s playing pre-wheelie chair and laser eyeball in the middle of his head Davros
The running guess among fans is he's playing the Celestial Toymaker, a character from a mostly-lost First Doctor serial.
The 50th anniversary was a fun episode, I’m super shocked it’s been 10 years already tho.
They should just make him the same character he plays in The Matrix: Resurrection and Doctor Who has to deal with whatever story in the middle of an AI Civil War.
Ugh
Why’s his forehead the biggest part of his head
So the Dr. gets to meet Dr. Doogie? That's a team-up I didn't count on. Perhaps they should add Fred Savage as well - I hear he's available...
That’s a 5head move!
yo isn’t that the guy who voiced Spider-Man in the video games???
I hope he's playing Neil Patrick Harris from Harold and Kumar.
Wait for it ….
Damn, it's already been 10 years since the 50th?
I kind of hope he plays himself in Doctor Who like he did in Harold and Kumar.
This is gonna be Legen(wait for it)…….. dary!
Whogie Dowser, M.D.
He's replacing John Barrowman as Captain Jack Harkness, who else could fill those boots?
Couldn’t read it. They wanted me to agree to something.
Why? What’s his link to the show?