YMMV / Doctor Who S6 E2 "The Mind Robber"

• Best Known for the Fanservice: The shot of Zoe in a tight catsuit clinging to the TARDIS console, with heavy Male Gaze focus on her... pronounced butt, is one of the most memorable scenes in the serial.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The entire serial can be considered one for Doctor Who in general. The concept of the characters ending up in a universe populated by fictional characters is bizarre, even by Doctor Who standards, and despite a theory that "Gulliver" is actually one of the Time Lords who shows up in "The War Games", the actual events of this serial are never mentioned again, with the following serial starting off with the characters acting as though the TARDIS had not recently exploded.
• Bizarro Episode: The TARDIS materialises outside reality and then explodes, and the characters find themselves randomly interacting with fictional characters. A strong contender for most surreal Doctor Who story ever.
• Fight Scene Failure: Even Wendy Padbury thinks the Zoe-Karkus fight was poor, mostly because there was no way to do retakes or editing.
• Genius Bonus: Viewers with a detailed knowledge of Gulliver's Travels will recognize Lemuel by his first few lines of dialogue, as he quotes directly from the book.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: The Master of the Land of Fiction used to write a magazine serial called ''The Adventures of Captain Jack Harkaway'', a name which will sound oddly familiar to fans of the modern series.
• Padding: The first episode was hastily assembled to extend a four-episode story to five episodes. It lacks a credited writer, as it was written in-house by the show's script editor, Derrick Sherwin.
• Sacred Cow: While such a leftfield surrealist take on a show like Doctor Who would usually be met with anywhere from apathy to outright mockery, this exact approach led it to be widely considered one of the Second Doctor's best and most creative serials by the fanbase. It being one of the few serials to eschew the "Monsters Besiege A Base" model that dominated the whole era most definitely helps.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: There are several nice moments; one particular high point comes with the use of stop-motion animation to depict Medusa's snakes.

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