What Ace said: I don’t much like clowns.
What the Doctor heard :Let’s go to a creepy circus with a bunch of creepy clowns.
What Ace said: My mum pretty much ruined my childhood. If I ever see her again I’d probably be scarred for life.
What the Doctor heard: Let’s go to 1940’s Earth so I can meet my mum when she was a baby and become even more mentally scarred than before.
What Ace said: I caught fire to this building when I was little and I never want to go there again.
What the Doctor heard: Let’s travel back to the 1800s to visit the building I burned down as a kid.
What Ace said: Gee, Doc. You seem to have a knack of scarring me with childhood terrors that I’ve specifically told you I never wanted to revisit. You kind of suck.
What the Doctor heard: Cool, Dad. Luv u.