the fourth funniest part of the five doctors is when the high council of gallifrey brings the master into their meeting room and he goes “hehehe, try and force me to do your bidding at your own risk 😈” and then they tell him that someone’s been kidnapping different incarnations of the doctor so could he pretty please maybe go on a rescue mission and he literally says “a universe without the doctor scarcely bears thinking of 🥺”.
then every single version of the doctor that he tries to rescue is just like “¡yeah right, sayonara bitch!” and leaves him for dead.
One: ready to whack shins if the kids start bickering again
Two: excited to see a taller, younger form he gets to take on eventually
Three: staring at the celery like it personally offended him (it probably did)
Five: mentally preparing for all the bullying he knows he's about to receive from his younger selves
Never forget that the Doctor's aunt, High Chancellor Flavia, was named Acting President by the Doctor, who wanted to run away from his own Lord President duties.
She adopted an intelligent cat as an advisor while Acting President. She named this Gallifreyan cat....the Doctor.
So notorious little shit of the family, Time Lord Renegade "the Doctor," ran away from Gallifrey, dumping all of his responsibilities on his aunt, and she responded by replacing him with a pet cat.
Imagine the end of The Five Doctors from the end of the average Gallifreyan's perspective.
It's like if The President of the USA was suddenly revealed to have died on a quest to dig up George Washington's tomb to become the immortal forever-president, then the Vice President shows up, reveals all of this to the world then says "Yeah, this drop out theatre kid that has saved the world for the 3rd time now is president now", then that theatre kid just vanishes off the face of the earth without so much as appearing in a photograph
It’ll soon be goodbye, then. Will it? Well, you’re off to Gallifrey to be President! I suppose your Time Lord subjects will find a TARDIS that really works, and get us both home? Who said anything about Gallifrey?