Surely this ought to exist?

[thisbluespirit]

Username: lost_spook
Era (if any): Classic Who (although really it could be any at all, I suppose!)
Characters/Pairings (if any): Third Doctor, UNIT (or anyone, really.)
Plot Bunny Summary: There's a Yeti on the loo in Tooting Bec
Any Other Notes: Maybe it's just me, but I can't remember seeing this in fic form anywhere as yet. Jon Pertwee's eternal example of how UNIT worked, for those who haven't heard it before. There ought to be crackfic. It seems polite for it to be Three, but as long as we find out why a giant, hairy robotic creature was sitting on the loo (and why in Tooting Bec), I am not particular which Doctor/characters. In fact, if everyone keeps finding a Yeti on the loo, it might be even funnier.

(Yes, I managed to listen to a bit of the commentary for Planet of the Spiders. There might be more.)

Comments

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Can you quote Jon? Because I've never heard this!

[mydarkreign.livejournal.com]

It was on the '93 30 Years Documentary at the start I believe, or at least that's where I remember hearing it (along with Katy Manning saying how she found the Cybermen really sexy!).

[thisbluespirit]

:lol: You're right, he definitely said it on that, although it's one of those Who quotes that most people seem to have heard - but it was Toyah Wilcox who found the Cybermen sexy (don't think there were any interview clips with Katy, although I'm not sure now). And no, I don't know why she was on it! Graham Gooch talked about recording Peter Davison cos of the cricket, too. :-)

[thisbluespirit]

It was definitely on More Than 30 Years in the TARDIS, but it's something he said in other places (or so it seems!), that DW is scarier close to home - if you find a Yeti on your loo in Tooting Bec, that's frightning.

Richard Franklin brought it up on the commentary and either Barry Letts or Nicholas Courtney and Elisabeth Sladen laughed about Jon saying it. :-)

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Ah...

[curuchamion.livejournal.com]

...you know, I'd been looking for a funny throwaway line about another alien disaster that needs investigating, for the flying dogs X-UNIT fic (probably. My UNIT fics are somewhat like a plate of four-dimensional spaghetti.) I think "There's a Yeti on the loo in Tooting Bec" may just have become my go-to. There is always going to be a Yeti on the loo in Tooting Bec from now on, if I need it to be. :D

[curuchamion.livejournal.com]

...oh, good grief, and now I Google-mapped (that is so a word, shush *g*) Tooting Bec. I'm going to be muttering happily over familiar names in the environs of London all day, aren't I?

BASINGSTOKE.

Battersea, Upper Norwood, Wimbledon Common. Clapham, Putney, Lambeth, Kew. Chiswick! Greenwich! Croydon! (Not to be confused with Corydon, which was the first capital of Indiana.) Epsom! Woking and Guildford and Reigate!

...I read way too much British detective fiction, don't I.

*/completely OT, unless there are Yeti on loos in all these places*

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

:D You have no idea how close I've come to going to Basingstoke just to know I had gone to Basingstoke. Then I decided that was silly.

I still want to make it to Penzance someday, though. But I hear there are actually tourist reasons to go there. (Besides the pirates, I mean.)

[thisbluespirit]

:lol: Basingstoke? ...Why?

Penzance is of course perfectly sensible. Cornwall is v pretty, so I hear. I've always stopped short in Devon, though.

[curuchamion.livejournal.com]

It's a terribly obscure Gilbert & Sullivan reference - in Ruddigore, Mad Margaret (good gosh, I can barely even remember the names, why am I explaining this? o_O) goes un-mad at one point and her husband helps her stay sane by saying "Basingstoke" (a word which "teems with hidden meaning", according to the opera) every time she shows signs of a relapse.

*needs a G&S icon*

[thisbluespirit]

Ah. Aha ha ha. That would explain it. :-)

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

Curu explained it very well, but I will add that when I got the idea for "Fallacy Somewhere," I resolved that the very first word of dialogue in the fic would be "Basingstoke!" And it is. :D

Here is a video of the Power of Basingstoke scene from "Ruddigore": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi4Q-Bhlfl0

[thisbluespirit]

There absolutely should be Yetis on the loo in all those places. Invasion of the Public Conveniences! ("I paid 20p, and when I got in there, there was some great hairy monster sitting in the cubicle and it didn't even pull the flush!)

I don't think you can read too much British crime fiction, personally. :-)

[curuchamion.livejournal.com]

'I don't think you can read too much British crime fiction, personally. :-)'

Possibly not. ;-) But I'm running out... I've read all the Holmes, all the Father Brown, 90% of the Christie (and I don't even like her, really - I was just EXCESSIVELY BORED and hadn't discovered fanfic yet), 95% of the Sayers, and probably some others I forget. Who am I missing, I wonder?

[thisbluespirit]

Ngaio Marsh? She is one of the best of the golden age crime writers. Even if technically she is from New Zealand. Have you tried Michael Innes? He varies, but some of his (like The Daffodil Affair are wonderfully bonkers.) Also Edmund Crispin, who also is a bit crazy (in a good way). And Margery Allingham? Although I am a bit less keen on some of those. Mind you, I like Agatha Christie. ;-)

(I know these things because I cannot resist a Penguin greenback in a second hand book shop. :-D)

I am also a sucker for historical crime fiction - although not as many, but def. Ellis Peters and Anne Perry.

[pedanther]

Josephine Tey.

[curuchamion.livejournal.com]

I think I read about five of hers in a row and then got slightly tired of her favorite tropes... might give them another try, as that was about six years ago.

[pedanther]

I've seen it happen, not in fic but in one of the spin-off novels, Millennial Rites.

I seem to recall reading somewhere that the saying was originally "in the loos at Tooting Bec", meaning the Tube station and drawing inspiration from the Yetis roaming the Underground in their second appearance. I can't produce a source for that, though.

[thisbluespirit]

I knew, given DW being DW, that it must have happened somewhere. But if there hasn't been a cracky fanfic involving Yetis in the loos, I feel it's still a valid suggestion. :-D

It's been a while since I've seen More Than 30 Years, but I do think on that occasion Jon says something like "There's nothing scarier than coming home to find a Yeti on the loo in Tooting Bec." which could go either way.

I don't mind whose loos. Just, you know, there should be yetiin-the-loo crackfic. Maybe multi-Era (Eleven Times The WC Was Inconveniently Engaged by a Yeti. Or something. ;-D)

[curuchamion.livejournal.com]

I keep seeing it as being On The Loo as in on top of the loo. Like, on the outside of a portaloo like King Kong or something.

(This entire conversation has me in absolute stitches, ftr... *g*)

[thisbluespirit]

You know, that could tie in with The One Doctor (one of my v fave Big Finish audios; highly recommend it, I do ;-D) in which the Doctor - Six - discovers a con-man imitating him travelling the universe in a portaloo. Hmmm... (Yes. I'm glancing back through the comm's archives. I don't know why.)

[daystarsearcher.livejournal.com]

This is where I should post it, right?

Anyhow, my knowledge of yetis is confined to The Five Doctors and a quick Googling, but here (http://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=44030) is my effort.

[thisbluespirit]

Hurrah! :-)

There isn't very much to know about Yetis, really.

Normally, the PotM fic goes to that post, but sinec it was my prompt, it works just as well either way. :-)