( TV: The Day of the Doctor)Īfter hearing Rose Tyler say it, the Ninth Doctor was equally dismissive of the phrase. The Tenth Doctor, embarrassed, claimed he ' no idea where he gets that from'. When the Eleventh Doctor used it in front of the War Doctor, he ridiculed his successors, asking why they insisted on talking like children. ( COMIC: The Heralds of Destruction) Another account suggested that the Fifth Doctor first heard it from River Song, who assured the Doctor that it would 'grow on ' in time. ( TV: Time Crash) According to one account, the phrase was coined by Jo Grant, a companion of the Third Doctor. Though it was seemingly his tenth incarnation who coined it, the Fifth Doctor was familiar enough with the expression to complete the phrase when the Tenth Doctor started it.

Though he quickly admitted that the sentence had 'got away from ', the term was soon thereafter applied to an invention of his, the timey-wimey detector. 'A big ball of wibbly wobbly, timey wimey stuff' was how the Tenth Doctor described time to Sally Sparrow through a DVD Easter egg.

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