the new "catch phrase"...umm...

[Kitty Worrier]

I've been using Fantastic more because of Chris Eccleston. The other catch phrases do not compare.

Yeah... even though my heart will always be with David Tennant, I'm not a fan of "Allons-y!" much. Although it does fit with his character.

I do like his "I'm sorry, I'm so so sorry." though.

I always liked "Brilliant!" but I think that was more of an early on saying....

 

[Samurai8472]

Capaldi's

"Question. You take a broom. You replace the handle"

part


SOOOO Malcolm Tucker

 

[Captain Kathryn]

Didn't they use "Geronimo" again? Then again Tennant said "Fantastic" in The Christmas Invasion and it took him nearly a whole season before he said "Allons-y".

Yeah Allons-y came way late! And yeah they tend to use the former Doctor's catchphrase in the first episode to remind the companion that he IS still the same Doctor... sort of.

 

[Green Lantern]

I think it'd be cool if Capaldi had no catchphrase, does he really need one?

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

I kinda like "The question is..." It can be used in so many different circumstances, many of which naturally come up when you're the Doctor.

It reminds me a bit of Colin Baker, who didn't have a catch-phrase per-se but did do this recurring thing where Peri would say something and then he would repeat one of the words that she said multiple times with increasing incredulity. Example:
"Is that bad?"
"Bad? Bad?! BAD!?!"

Then again Tennant said "Fantastic" in The Christmas Invasion and it took him nearly a whole season before he said "Allons-y".

There is a deleted scene in The Christmas Invasion where immediately after he says "Fantastic" he goes off on a rant about how it no longer feels right. Allons-y didn't really become a regularly used catchphrase until season 4.

IIRC, the first use of "Allons-y" was at the end of Season 2 in "Army of Ghosts." But after that, I don't think he used it again until "Voyage of the Damned" over a year later. It didn't really become a catch-phrase until Season 4.

I've been using Fantastic more because of Chris Eccleston.

Oddly enough, I was using "Fantastic" quite a bit before Christopher Eccleston. (I was trying to say it like how David Warner said it in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II.) I stopped once Eccleston started hogging it.

 

[Captain Kathryn]

Well, there's this:

http://www.mtv.com/news/1905178/doctor-who-peter-capaldi-no-catchphrase/

I miss the corniness of Russel T. Davies.

Moffat did the "bowties are cool", "____ is cool" thing by accident, but I absolutely love it even if it wasn't intentional. You can justify anything by having Matt Smith saying it's now cool.

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

Yeah, honestly, "Bowties are cool" caught on a lot better than "Geronimo." I suppose it's because "Geronimo" felt like a forced catchphrase while "Bowties are cool" just kinda naturally defined the character.

Then there was Matt Smith's single episode catchphrase from "The Curse of the Black Spot": "Disregard all of my theories up until now." (Also would've worked really well in "The God Complex" & "Hide" but I don't think he used it there.)

 

[The Mirrorball Man]

I've always loved the "Oh you're beautiful" phrase, usually uttered in the presence of a deadly creature. It sounds so Doctor-ish.

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

^Yeah, especially in "Vincent & the Doctor." "Oh, you poor, murderous, marooned thing." (Or something like that.)

 

[Candlelight]

I believe he said "shut up!" quite a few times!

Spoiler: Season 8

He does that fairly often in the scripts, or at least in Moffat scripts.

 

[beneldon]

Catch phrases should come about naturally. Geronimo was just stupid because the writers figured 11 had to have one. It reminded me of the Jim Carrey film Bruce Almighty when Bruce would say, "B, E, A, utiful" almost as if the writers decided, okay, Jim's used "allrighty then" so we need a new one.

Other than "Shut-up" I also heard -and really liked - was Capaldi uttering an "ooooohhh" noise when he had an insight especially when he discovered his Scottishness.

 

[PorthosShadow]

"I’ve got a horrible feeling I’m going to have to kill you..."

Well, if one made this their catchphrase, there's a risk they might start sounding like Strax.

Or Liem Neeson

 

[The Mirrorball Man]

Catch phrases should come about naturally. Geronimo was just stupid because the writers figured 11 had to have one.

I don't see it that way. It's the Doctor who thought he had to have one. He probably thought it sounded cool, but everyone felt it was a little embarrassing. That's the eleventh Doctor in a nutshell.

 

[The Wormhole]

Geronimo was just stupid because the writers figured 11 had to have one.

It was Matt Smith who thought up Geronimo and inserted into episodes against Moffat's wishes until Moffat relented and began writing it in.

 

[I am not Spock]

'Insert thing here..is cool' and bow ties, and fezzes, caught on a lot more amongst fandom, than 'Geronimo' ever did

 

[Starkers]

Geronimo was just stupid because the writers figured 11 had to have one.

It was Matt Smith who thought up Geronimo and inserted into episodes against Moffat's wishes until Moffat relented and began writing it in.

Thats interesting, because I always assumed it was a Moffat line, mainly down to a certain joke that revolved around the word in an early episode of Coupling