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One version of Doctor Know, like many, was actually called Doctor Know-It-All but often referred to as simply Doctor Know. A powerful and knowledgeable “sorcerer supreme”, he had a number of titles including Grand Mayoral Authority of Knowheresville. He spent some time in Oz, becoming known as the “Veritable Virtuoso of Macrology”. He also once claimed without further context that “the Beanie Babies wiki call[ed him] God” when rattling off a list of his titles.
Description
Physical appearance
This version of the Doctor was a dark-skinned man with curly hair, wearing an oversized scarf, a purple overcoat with a stick of broccoli hanging out of one of the breast pockets, trousers which “seemed to belong to a pair of pajamas”. He also wore a pair of large glasses. (PROSE: Open Sourcing) Jenny Over-There later thought of Doctor Know as wearing outfits having something in common with Doctor Omega's and Professor Helvetius's. (PROSE: A Series of Queer Events)
Personality
Doctor Know was a whimsical and eccentric individual, prone to rattling off boastful titles and to shirking his duties. (PROSE: Good Crieff - The Tribulations of the Scottish Division)
Biography
Early activities
Prior to joining the M.F.S. Scottish Division, Doctor Know accrued the title of Grand Mayoral Authority of Knowhereseville and “Veritable Virtuoso of Macrology” in Oz, as bestowed upon him by Ozma herself. He also served as “co-writer of the Necronomicon, editor of Necronomics for Dummies”, and “writer of the video essay ‘The King in Yellow is a Bad Play and Here's Why’”. (PROSE: Good Crieff - The Tribulations of the Scottish Division)
Joining the M.F.S.
A version of Doctor Know-It-All was one of the applicants to join the Multidimensional Finders Service when the Man in Grey conducted job interviews. As the Great Higher-Ups had demanded characters free of copyright, he was initially reluctant to accept him due to his resemblance to “the time-traveller guy”. However, he blackmailed the Man in Grey with photographs of the Man in Black, another being who was surprisingly similar to the Man in Grey, a connection the Man in Grey was apparently keen to keep secret from the Higher-Ups. Doctor Know ended up as one of the finalists, being sent to Scotland to set up the new branch of the M.F.S. alongside Talbot Molossus, the Hydrant and 0000-8888888. (PROSE: Open Sourcing)
In the Scottish Division
After the M.F.S. Scottish Division got settled in its new headquarters in Crieff, Doctor Know installed his eldritch computer in the building. Problematically, no one but him knew how to use it and he was often absent from the office, preferring to spend his time at the coffee shop down the road to the irritation of team leader Talbot Molossus. On one occasion, after Talbot and Tetra tried and failed to use the computer themselves, the Hydrant managed to drag a reluctant Doctor back to the office, where he successfully used his computer to find the current caller's keys, but then immediately made to leave again to go have a sandwich. (PROSE: Good Crieff - The Tribulations of the Scottish Division)
Behind the scenes
Although primarily a version of the open-source character Doctor Know, Callum Phillpott's Doctor Know-It-All is also conflated with the preexisting public-domain Oz character of Professor Nowitall, responsible for the enlargement of the Woggle-Bug, as revealed in Good Crieff - The Tribulations of the Scottish Division when he mentions that Ozma once referred to him as “the Veritable Virtuoso of Macrology”.
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