timey-wimey adj.
denoting a (complex) time-travel situation or story, esp. one characterised by time paradoxes
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Time Travel
Doctor Who
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2007
Steven Moffat
People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly…timey-wimey…stuff.
Blink (Doctor Who episode) (transcript) -
2008
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Mark Morris
The Doctor emerged from the TARDIS, holding his timey-wimey detector…. He made some minor adjustments to a row of rotating wheels of numbers.
Ghosts of India (Doctor Who) vii. 132 -
2013
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Ryan North
I already tried to fix it but it doesn’t do the timey wimey thing anymore!
Adventure Time (vol. 2) (unpaged) -
2014
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Watching my mother’s development during this period was fascinating, as if she was rooted temporally in both the shared timey-wimey, wibbly-wobbly fabric of time and space as the rest of us but also exploding forward in growth, so that every year she spent in school and working for her self after her divorce, it was also about five more years of experience for her, lurching forward through all her growth stages. She was like Doctor Who.
My Heart is a Drunken Compass ii. 9 -
2015 Outside the Box in Starburst (#417) Oct. 24/2
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Expect more timey-wimey shenanigans when the episode…screens on BBC One.
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2017
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She had a timey-wimey out-of-order adventure with the Doctor.
Companion’s Companion (Doctor Who) 27 -
2022 Guardian (What’s On section) 28 May–3 June
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Interstellar…. It’s brain-frying, existential stuff—particularly in the ending—but through a series of stupendous, timey-wimey set-pieces, the simple if cosmic power of love prevails.
Research requirements
antedating 2007
Earliest cite
in the Doctor Who episode "Blink"
Research History
Suggested by Simon Koppel.
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