It was one of those things that trends for no apparent reason. Well, it trended because it was funny; it’s just it came out of nowhere. Anyway, there it was, stuck near the top of my feed: those three little words you could append to classic movies in order to change their meaning, or (to put it another way) #ruinafilmbyaddingupyourbum.
There’s a bunch of them: Lord of the Rings Up Your Bum. The Third Man Up Your Bum. You’ll have your own favourites. Run Lola Run Up Your Bum, Carry On Regardless Up Your Bum, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Up Your Bum and yes, I amĀ reading from my DVD shelf now. Tell me you wouldn’t have done the same. I need to stop, though, because I tend to italicise film titles and it didn’t work for this particular gag, and it’s making me uncomfortable.
Anyway, it turns out it works for Doctor Who stories as well. So I have gone through the lot and picked out my own particular favourites, presented here in no particular order. I tried to prioritise the ones that actually made some sort of joke, so stuff like…I don’t know, The Aztecs Up Your Bum is not here, simply because it’s a bit obvious. But this isn’t intended to be exhaustive, so do tell me about the ones I missed. That’s what the comments box is for – well, that and the hate mail.
Allons-y!
Listen Up Your Bum
Invasion of the Dinosaurs Up Your Bum
Dark Water Up Your Bum
The Doctor Dances Up Your Bum
Flesh and Stone Up Your Bum
Hide Up Your Bum
Kerblam! Up Your Bum
Survival Up Your Bum
The Tenth Planet Up Your Bum
Inferno Up Your Bum
The Woman Who Lived Up Your Bum
It Takes You Away Up Your Bum
Full Circle Up Your Bum
Rise of the Cybermen Up Your Bum
The Big Bang Up Your Bum
Fury From The Deep Up Your Bum
State of Decay Up Your Bum
The Sontaran Experiment Up Your Bum
Face The Raven Up Your Bum
The Crimson Horror Up Your Bum
What no Children of Earth Up your Bum ? Funny stuff and I thought we would have gotten more that one Jack reference – Boom Town Up Your Bum ? Amusing as always
Children of Earth is Torchwood, and thus disqualified. Boom Town might have worked but I was frankly exhausted from all the arse jokes.