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There’s a rumour that Steve Martin refused the invite to try out for the role of the Eighth Doctor since he was an American. He was such a big fan that he didn’t want to ruin the show.
This isn't a film reference admittedly, but a couple of years ago in the bbc series Call The Midwife, there was an episode which showed the characters watching the first episode of doctor who being aired. Then a few years later in the doctor who episode The Tsuranga Conundrum, Ryan and Graham had a conversation about watching Call The Midwife whilst they helped to deliver a characters baby. I really liked this and also found it quite funny. Happy New year Who Culture! 😊🎉
NCIS and Big Bang Theory were similar. NCIS had an episode where DiNozzo recognized the episode of Big Bang Theory playing in a hotel room during an investigation. Big Bang Theory had an episode where Penny flirts with Mark Harmon for a minor scene in an episode of NCIS that gets cut out
It wasn’t quite the first episode; it was _The Aztecs_ (1964), the show’s sixth story. The main thing that bugs me about that scene (even now!) is that they’re clearly watching the second episode of the story (as the cliffhanger reprise is the first thing we see after the titles), yet Sister Monica Joan is discussing the events of the previous episode as if they only just happened a few minutes ago.
Now that Disney is involved in Doctor Who, I want an attraction built in Disney world for it! *edit* Now that I think about it, universal studios would probably be the better choice for an attraction. I just go to WDW more because we have a time share with them(although I am slowly talking my other half into going to do the Harry Potter park)!
@@danthemeegs8751 it’ll be in the UK pavilion in EPCOT! Lol, I think there was the Doctor Who experience in Cardiff a few years ago, but I agree there should be something in the real UK!
@@Phantomick Yep, it was in Cardiff, and actually it was really good. My wife, who thinks DW is silly and rubbish, nearly sh!t herself when the first weeping angel appeared. She then spent rest of the day saying how good it was.
It’s interesting that the Daleks have become arguably the most famous aspect of Dr Who. They have become known in their own right and are now probably one of the greatest villains of all time.
Its even more interesting when you realize they were intended to be a one off villain. You can never tell when you create something how powerful it can become.
What about ‘Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure’, where Bill and Ted use a telephone box shaped time machine?! This has got to be one of the most well known and iconic nods to Doctor Who in a film.
It’s not a movie but I love there’s a Dalak in Rugrats. Also the creator loved Who so much that that’s the reason Tommy uses a screwdriver to do everything 😊
I do believe I remember that reference, it was in the episode where Tommy and Chuckie get lost in a toy store overnight. in one scene you can see two Daleks on a toy shelf behind Tommy
Number 7 it's worth mentioning that the actor who plays Brian (Harry Lloyd) in Theory of Everything also playing Baines in the 'Family of blood' episode of Doctor who. He (I believe) was also the one who says 'Who' after Doctor.
The daleks in back in action actually were a bit of a legal issue. WB thought they still had the rights to them from the cushing movies and didn't realise it had expired so had to pay the terry nation estate after the film came out.
bbc gave permission, TNE did not know so when the plans for 2005 reboot were started TNE said no to the daleks, the Steve Martin rumor is based on this and trying to get the TNE to relent
Stephen Hawking loved British science fiction in general. He even had a part in the radio adaptation of Eoin Colfer's And Another Thing, the Hitchhiker Guide's sequel, as the Guide Mark II.
A more loose connection, Hawking appears on a Pink Floyd song, ‘Keep Talking’ and guitarist of Pink Floyd David Gilmour has been known to insert phrases from the theme song into his solos. Tenuous and not movie related, but still fun.
Would I rather have had Bernard and not Tom Baker but no Wilf? Hmm... imagine what would've happened if DW turned right not left Maybe we need a beetle on someone's back... actually on second thoughts, that might not be the best idea
There's a line in one of the songs from Roald Dahl's Matilda the musical, the Bruce song where it goes "Or maybe your largeness is A bit like a TARDIS Considerably roomier inside"
Tim Minchin, who wrote the music/lyrics, is a big Doctor Who fan. He has previously posted a photo of himself in a TARDIS onesie online; and he even played the Doctor Who theme when hosting the BBC Comedy Prom back in 2011. 👍🏼
I like to think that the Big hero 6 nod was Hiro keeping the model so it could gain value. Because few people liked that redesign and few would have bought merchandise depicting them, they may skyrocket in value later.
In your “ The Theory of Everything “clip, I saw Harry Lloyd. I didn’t know who he was till I saw this and verified I was right, but I did immediately recognize him as Baines from “The Family of Blood “ and “Human Nature “.
The Dalek's appearance in the Loony Tunes movie almost led to the Daleks not returning to Doctor Who in the revied show. The estate of Terry Nation, who owned the copy right to the Daleks were not happy with the Daleks appearing in the movie without their permission.
The issue with the Daleks is that although the Terry Nation estate owns the rights to the Dalek name and their characterization, the BBC owns the rights to the look of the Daleks, so as long as they aren't called Daleks, the BBC can license them out, like in the Lego Batman movie, where they're called "British robots".
I love the fact that The Doctor is canon to the Marvel Universe. He's appeared in multiple issues and The Master appeared in an issue of X-Factor. Theres also a game called "Destroy All Humans" which includes multiple Doctor References. Great video! I learned a lot :)
John Byrne kept slipping in references to the Doctor in Marvel since he worked on Power Man & Iron Fist. They meet an “odd fellow” whose shop disappears at the end of the story. Later, in F4, Reed Richards drops the occasional reference, and in one issue did while noting he knew a young woman’s grandfather, “Prof. Jones” while they were at a dig on Moon/Mars-? His spin off from X-Men, Alpha Flight’s first arch nemesis was “The Master of the World”, a Cro-Magnon man elevated to a high intellect cyborg by a crashed spaceship. Black body suit and rubbish beard were obvious nods to Koschei and the first DW serial.
Doctor Who has ties to Transformers as well. He meets Deaths Head (Transformers uk) and reduces him in size to be more human scale and then abandons him on top of the Baxter building (Fantastic 4) so in a way Marvel, Transformers and Doctor Who are all interconnected . And given that Star Trek TNG have met both the Doctor ant the X-men you can add them to the mix as well
@@robertespley248 Symbiote Spidey (pre-Venom) met Bumblebee in TF #3 v1. And there’s a couple GI Joe crossovers, plus IDW had their big crossover that included Rom, Micronauts, and MASK, all previously published by Marvel. It’s the comic equivalent of the St Elsewhere Snowglobe Theory!
Not really a Doctor Who reference, but J. Michael Straczykski is also a huge Doctor Who fan (he put his hat in for show runner when Chibnal left). He co-wrote Sense8 with the Wachowski's and that show starred Freema Agyeman (Martha Jones) in it's ensemble cast.
There was a lesser known Christmas movie from Hallmark where the Prince (of course in Christmas Hallmark movies, there's always a prince somewhere in the mixture) was called 'Doctor Who' by another character because he had an English accent. The guy said 'Let's see if Doctor Who can sink a shot' while playing pool. I always loved that line, but it is a very very lesser known film.
What about Bill And Ted travelling through time in a Phone Box to pass their school report.... that was a Doctor Who reference! Their daughters did the same thing in the recent sequel.
Very first movie Easter egg I ever found was while watching Paper Towns. It isn't entirely recognizable, but in one frame, there was a noticeably blurred out TARDIS in the background. I was so excited to find it. My brother, on the other hand, was not amused.
Not sure if anyone pointed it out yet, but in that scene in Bumblebee, you can also see a Cyberman figure on the shelf above the TV, next to The Thing poster
Not so much a movie reffrence but a movie credits reffrence, In World War Z Peter Capaldi plays a Scientist for the World Health Organization, in the credits he is listed as W.H.O Doctor, he also did this role before he was anounced officaly as the 12th Doctor. A sort of hint to his casting.
Not a movie, but TV show. Michelle Gomez is a new character in Doom Patrol who has a time machine. On one of the episodes, one of the other characters referred to her as Doctor Who.
How about Matilda the musical, in the song Bruce (when he is eating the cake) "Or maybe your largeness is a bit like the TARDIS, considerably roomier inside"
2:52 "Reverse the polarity" is a normal description of the flow of electrons in electricity that affect magnetism and electronics. Not necessarily a reference to Doctor Who. She just wanted to reverse the time clock so the gears didn't crush them by reversing the electric flow of the electric generator/motor, though it is amusing to think it is a nod to Doctor Who.
I got two. In the episode "The Suite Smell of Excess" of the Disney Channel series The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, the title characters travelled to a parallel universe via a phone box called the the P.U. (Parallel Universaliser). And In one episode of American Dad!, set on a spacecraft, a Dalek and several sonic screwdrivers can be seen in the background.
The first thing I noticed and appreciated in this presentation is that the narrator does not speak at a frenetic pace as some other TH-cam presenters . Every word can be heard and we are not left breathless wondering when the speaker is going to take a breath .Also the background music here is not intrusive . Well done. Perfect
A little surprised you didn't mention The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot during the Bad Taste segment since it has a subplot of Sylvester McCoy working on The Hobbit and Peter Jackson even makes an appearance.
My favourite film got a remake last Christmas. The Amazing Mr Blunden - Originally made in the 70's but a modern adaptation was realised and written by Mark Gatiss (whom also starred in it because of course he did). There's a scene where they come across the painting of the ghost they'd seen earlier on and a character says that it's actually his great great grandfather except in this version, the character says "That is actually Mr Blunden's great great great grandfather...The original, you might say!"
Not contesting that Who may have been the first to use the phrasing "reverse the polarity", but since then has been utilized so prolifically in all forms of sci-fi (especially Star Trek) that it's just a trope of the genre as a whole now rather than a direct reference.
Tbh, I don't think I actually remember it ever being said in Star Trek xD I'm sure it probably has, I just don't actually remember any times it has or could have but hey
@@mastere6115 To be fair, as far as Star Trek goes its probably the same as how the exact phrase "Beam me up Scotty" was never used, but over the decades Trek has used lots of technobabble where "reversing" and "polarity" were key components.
Doesn't lessen the Doctor Who influence by being successful. The references in ST:TNG were often proven to be intentional (and the Doctor's actors were actually listed on a screen in one episode), and many US sci-fi writers have admitted to watching Doctor Who.
It's worth nothing that "reversing polarity" has also actual electrical meaning with nothing to do with sci-fi. Electrical devices with "polarity", i.e. positive and negative electrical inputs, supplied the opposite way is reverse polarity. I never saw Cars 2 and I'm just taking this at face value, but what that scene appears to be is that the mechanism about to crush the cars is being driven by a DC motor, which will turn the opposite direction if you in fact reverse its polarity. Unless there was more to that dialog (e.g. "... of the neutron flow"), I'm willing to bet that wasn't actually a reference to Doctor Who or sci-fi at all. Literally electrically speaking reversing the polarity in the real world meaning of that term.
Have you done a piece on times that Doctor Who has appeared in comic books - other than his own, that is. I know Alan Moore's Top Ten has a few nods along its run.
I wish I could remember which Star Trek novel the Tardis appeared as a table top hologram, with the fourth doctor poking his head out and asking, "Is this Heathrow?"
With that nod to Dr Who in the Stephan Hawking part, one of the actors at that dinner table, the one facing the camera in fact, played a character in the David Tennant series. I think the episode was "The Family of Blood"
The Steven hawking one There was a character at the end of the table had that same smirk he made in the doctor who episodes were the doctor loses his memory and thinks he’s a school teacher. The boy at the end of the table was the main villain in that episode
Last week a musical movie adaptation of the West End version of Matilda was released on Netflix and it has a great direct reference to Doctor Who, in the famous scene with Bruce and the massive chocolate cake the kids sing "Maybe your largeness is a bit like a TARDIS, considerably roomier inside"
That last scene reminded me of when Peter Capaldi's Doctor said "My entire understanding of physical space has been transformed! Three-dimensional Euclidean geometry has been torn up, thrown in the air and snogged to death! My grasp of the universal constants of physical reality has been changed forever. Sorry. I've always wanted to see that done properly.”
If Peter Jackson is such a big Doctor Who fan, then IMHO there's no way the appearance of the Uruk-Hai in his movies weren't a tip of the hat to/inspired by the Ogrons.
There is no doubt on the "if". Peter has said so numerous times, and put money where his mouth is when buying old Doctor Who props. Whether they did directly influence the Urak-Hai is another matter, but I will concede there are definite simlarities.
Given that the Uruk-Hai are based on the Isengard Orcs (which were said to be more intelligent, able to communicate properly/effectively, and potentially were the result of humans and orcs breeding) it's more likely that it's the other way around - Ogrons being inspired by Isengard Orcs. Although the fact that the name blatantly suggests that Ogrons are some kind of *Ogre* it's probably just a case of 'great minds.'
That was a coincidence. They were originally supposed to travel in a van, but then _Back to the Future_ came out. They changed it, oblivious to the fact that they were making the same mistake twice.
8:00 The connection between Doctor Who and Transformers goes all the way back to the 1980's thanks to the Marvel multiverse. A character called Death's Head debuted in Marvel UK's Transformers (killing Bumblebee in his first story) before meeting the seventh Doctor a few times before the Doctor strands him on top of the Fantastic Four building in the main Marvel 616 comics universe. In one issue of Marvel UK's Transformer comic there is a Decepticon called Octus who transforms into a Dalek. And 1986's The Transformers the Movie is the best Transformers film. Plus more Marvel references are a organisation called W.H.O. aka the Weird Happenings Organisation which is a British Military organisation set up by the twins Alistaire and Alysande Stuart named for Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart.
WhatCulture, a show written by DanTheMeegs, and hosted with her signature winsome pinache by Ellie Littlechild 💖 on New Year's Eve Eve?? Yes, please 😊!!!
Craig of the Creek there is a scene with Craig's brother in his room talking about a creek council if I remember right. But on his brother's headboard we see a small Tardis on display. I think there might also be a Doctor Who reference in Steven Universe other than the Gems being able to regenerate.
Sylvester McCoy's Doctor appeared in the Marvel, Deaths Head comics that were a spinoff of the Transformer comics. It was when Deaths Heas was traveling between universes. It placed Doctor Who into the 1980s Marvel multiverse, which includes Transformers, G.I. Joe, Spiderman and more.
Wouldn't be surprised if that was the 4th Doctor in the Shaun The Sheep movie and not just someone dressed as him, port-a-loo or not. Pretty sure it was the paradigm Daleks in Lego Batman aswell going by their colour schemes.
Sydney White (2007) has Amanda Bynes playing a sorority girl shunned by the sorority and finding better friends with "7 dorks" that like the Doctor Who theme song.
A) Too obvious/well known B) The writers are on record saying that it wasn’t a Doctor Who reference (I’m paraphrasing, but they hadn’t heard of the show at the time, due to it being primarily a British thing)
My little niece is obsessed with Encanto, and the first time we watched it, my responded to that line with "como la TARDIS!" Mind you, my mom is not a geek, but I guess she has picked up enough geek cred from all the scifi my brother and I watch lol
Saving the day by reversing the polarity has become just a general scifi trope. I could go on with a very long list of times it’s shown up in movies and tv shows. I’m not sure if that comes from the 3rd doctor’s catchphrase or not, but it definitely is a thing
Really? I think Doctor Who has a much bigger credit for this phrase than you are allowing. Jon Pertwee was struggling to remember the constant technobabble in the scripts for Doctor Who until The Sea Devils where he was given the line "reverse the polarity of the neutron flow" - which he found very easy to roll of his tongue. So much so he asked the producers to use this line (or variants of it) as much as possible. Both the show runners and Jon Pertwee repeated this story in interviews throughout the 70s, 80s & 90s. Yes, from this point other shows did occasionally reference it, but that is in homage to Doctor Who. So to assert it is "just" a general sci-fi trope requires surely a little more justification?
@@schubertuk you misunderstood what I was saying. She was crediting it in just one film and I’m saying it’s way bigger than that and has become a scifi trope. I was just saying I personally can’t say that it was started from Dr. Who, but it sounds like that is probably the case :)
Lol! That was good! Issue 564 of the Doctor Who magazine lists 20 times Doctor Who has appeared/mentioned in other TV series/Films such as NCIS and My Little Pony! It also has The Lego Movie and Bumblebee appearances! 🤔
The weirdest place I've seen a Doctor Who reference is the 2014 "Postman Pat" movie, where not only David Tennant appears but a Dalek as well. The Dalek was seen in a flashback as one of the robot postman prototypes.
Fun fact: Peter Jackson and Ian Mcelan also stared in ‘The 5ish Doctors’. Also WHY HASNT ANYONE GOT HIM TO MAKE AN EPISODE YET! Strike while he’s still up for it!
In The Theory of Everything, the actor who says "Who?" is Harry Lloyd, who stars in back to back episodes of Doctor Who (he plays "Son of Mine" in episodes "Human Nature" and "Family of Blood")! So double reference!
from the clip at 8:24 i got a feeling of Season 8 Ep 9 "Flatline" at 9:14 in the episode when Clara and Rigsy walks in the home with the Sails of the boat to the right and the poster to the left
Also you missed a lot about Peter Jackson. No mention of the Dr Who short with Peter Capaldi. No mention of his cameo in "The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot" alongside Ian McKellen.
EDIT: Better late than never. Almost two years later, we did it! th-cam.com/video/M5AgYoo2k1g/w-d-xo.html
Let us know if there are any good entries that we didn’t include here, and we might use your comments to make a second video!
26 years before I quit being a fan of doctor who granted I still love the classic who oddly I like Jodie but I prefer her in the Attack The Block
Watch Ready Player One, go to the scene with the giant Iron Giant, and around that scene, you can see the Iconic TARDIS.
@@Thinkmotion_ when, the scene where they’re inside the workshop?
@@Thinkmotion_ Holly cow!!! I never new that!!!!!!!!
I see it!!!!!
How about... Peter Capaldi using a Phone Box in "Paddington"?!! 'Slight' reference!
Great shout!
Lmao, that was awesome
Don't beg it
Plot twist: he was the doctor spying on the talking bear, would make more sense if he called himself John smith
@@bobbybobstar1496 ?
There’s a rumour that Steve Martin refused the invite to try out for the role of the Eighth Doctor since he was an American. He was such a big fan that he didn’t want to ruin the show.
Several Americans were on the short list for the Eighth Doctor, including Harrison Ford, who didn't want to do television.
I like the Tardis being in the background of Ready Player One.
Yes, in the workshop where we first see the Iron Giant.
I’m surprised that reference wasn’t in this vid
I think it's a little less meaningful to have a reference in a movie that references *_every_* movie and TV show.
This isn't a film reference admittedly, but a couple of years ago in the bbc series Call The Midwife, there was an episode which showed the characters watching the first episode of doctor who being aired. Then a few years later in the doctor who episode The Tsuranga Conundrum, Ryan and Graham had a conversation about watching Call The Midwife whilst they helped to deliver a characters baby. I really liked this and also found it quite funny. Happy New year Who Culture! 😊🎉
NCIS and Big Bang Theory were similar.
NCIS had an episode where DiNozzo recognized the episode of Big Bang Theory playing in a hotel room during an investigation.
Big Bang Theory had an episode where Penny flirts with Mark Harmon for a minor scene in an episode of NCIS that gets cut out
It wasn’t quite the first episode; it was _The Aztecs_ (1964), the show’s sixth story.
The main thing that bugs me about that scene (even now!) is that they’re clearly watching the second episode of the story (as the cliffhanger reprise is the first thing we see after the titles), yet Sister Monica Joan is discussing the events of the previous episode as if they only just happened a few minutes ago.
Now that Disney is involved in Doctor Who, I want an attraction built in Disney world for it!
*edit* Now that I think about it, universal studios would probably be the better choice for an attraction. I just go to WDW more because we have a time share with them(although I am slowly talking my other half into going to do the Harry Potter park)!
Like the Doctor Who experience but bigger!
If there is some sort of Doctor Who theme park/exhibition, then it better be in the UK else I’ll be ANNOYED
@@danthemeegs8751 it’ll be in the UK pavilion in EPCOT! Lol, I think there was the Doctor Who experience in Cardiff a few years ago, but I agree there should be something in the real UK!
That would be the best thing in the entire world
@@Phantomick Yep, it was in Cardiff, and actually it was really good. My wife, who thinks DW is silly and rubbish, nearly sh!t herself when the first weeping angel appeared. She then spent rest of the day saying how good it was.
It’s interesting that the Daleks have become arguably the most famous aspect of Dr Who. They have become known in their own right and are now probably one of the greatest villains of all time.
The Terry Nation estate must've been paid all the big bucks for those appearances.
Its even more interesting when you realize they were intended to be a one off villain. You can never tell when you create something how powerful it can become.
@@GabePuratekuta Yea, he always get his share from those.
I'm a huge Dr who can bit I actually hate the dalecs and the cyber men because they are used so often that they've just gotten boring for me
@@leobeboop4944Not very fond of the Daleks myself, but my least favorite villains are the Weeping Angels! Pure Cringe.
brian, stephens friend in the theory of everything, actually played "son of mine" in human nature and the family of blood in doctor who series 3
Felicity Jones was also in that film, and she was in the DW episode with Agatha Christie and the giant bees from my nightmares.
I was just about to say that
4:00 In the given picture of him in the video, he still looks like he is on the hunt
@@GrumblyRabbit84 That looks like they changed the face of him, it looks photoshopped so I was super confused
As a library clerk I will often sign off with "Libraries are BIGGER on the Inside." Which they are. In fact, any good book is bigger on the inside.
do you ever worry about stepping into the wrong shadow at your library?
What about ‘Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure’, where Bill and Ted use a telephone box shaped time machine?! This has got to be one of the most well known and iconic nods to Doctor Who in a film.
Rufus is also clearly meant to be a Doctor analog. I agree, this is a big one to miss
It’s not a movie but I love there’s a Dalak in Rugrats. Also the creator loved Who so much that that’s the reason Tommy uses a screwdriver to do everything 😊
I do believe I remember that reference, it was in the episode where Tommy and Chuckie get lost in a toy store overnight. in one scene you can see two Daleks on a toy shelf behind Tommy
Oh my god. I grew up with Rugrats and Who. Mind. Blown.
Number 7 it's worth mentioning that the actor who plays Brian (Harry Lloyd) in Theory of Everything also playing Baines in the 'Family of blood' episode of Doctor who. He (I believe) was also the one who says 'Who' after Doctor.
I came here to say this 👍🏻
The daleks in back in action actually were a bit of a legal issue. WB thought they still had the rights to them from the cushing movies and didn't realise it had expired so had to pay the terry nation estate after the film came out.
bbc gave permission, TNE did not know so when the plans for 2005 reboot were started TNE said no to the daleks, the Steve Martin rumor is based on this and trying to get the TNE to relent
Stephen Hawking loved British science fiction in general. He even had a part in the radio adaptation of Eoin Colfer's And Another Thing, the Hitchhiker Guide's sequel, as the Guide Mark II.
A more loose connection, Hawking appears on a Pink Floyd song, ‘Keep Talking’ and guitarist of Pink Floyd David Gilmour has been known to insert phrases from the theme song into his solos. Tenuous and not movie related, but still fun.
@@chrisandersen5635 And to go full circle, David Gilmour was a friend of Douglas Adams'...
He was also in an episode of Star Trek TNG as himself.
@@patriciapike6795 And said "we're working on that" while looking at the warp core.
Im so happy that Doctor Who is more and more identified, these days :) In Tv or movies, love the series :)
Your English is better than my Finnish (Suomi?)
I found out a fun little fact a few days ago, that Bernard cribbens had been interviewed for the part of the 4th doctor before tom baker
Would I rather have had Bernard and not Tom Baker but no Wilf? Hmm... imagine what would've happened if DW turned right not left
Maybe we need a beetle on someone's back... actually on second thoughts, that might not be the best idea
There's a line in one of the songs from Roald Dahl's Matilda the musical, the Bruce song where it goes
"Or maybe your largeness is
A bit like a TARDIS
Considerably roomier inside"
Yes, i noticed that
Tim Minchin, who wrote the music/lyrics, is a big Doctor Who fan. He has previously posted a photo of himself in a TARDIS onesie online; and he even played the Doctor Who theme when hosting the BBC Comedy Prom back in 2011. 👍🏼
I like to think that the Big hero 6 nod was Hiro keeping the model so it could gain value. Because few people liked that redesign and few would have bought merchandise depicting them, they may skyrocket in value later.
In your “ The Theory of Everything “clip, I saw Harry Lloyd. I didn’t know who he was till I saw this and verified I was right, but I did immediately recognize him as Baines from “The Family of Blood “ and “Human Nature “.
I think they also edited the clip to add his smirk from those Who eps as well.
Same here...
COME TO GIVE ME A CANING SIR, WOULD YOU LIKE THAT SIR WOULD YOU SIR?!
The Dalek's appearance in the Loony Tunes movie almost led to the Daleks not returning to Doctor Who in the revied show. The estate of Terry Nation, who owned the copy right to the Daleks were not happy with the Daleks appearing in the movie without their permission.
The issue with the Daleks is that although the Terry Nation estate owns the rights to the Dalek name and their characterization, the BBC owns the rights to the look of the Daleks, so as long as they aren't called Daleks, the BBC can license them out, like in the Lego Batman movie, where they're called "British robots".
Canal studios own that particular copy rights. But Nation estate are rigid in getting their money’s
I love the fact that The Doctor is canon to the Marvel Universe. He's appeared in multiple issues and The Master appeared in an issue of X-Factor.
Theres also a game called "Destroy All Humans" which includes multiple Doctor References.
Great video! I learned a lot :)
John Byrne kept slipping in references to the Doctor in Marvel since he worked on Power Man & Iron Fist. They meet an “odd fellow” whose shop disappears at the end of the story. Later, in F4, Reed Richards drops the occasional reference, and in one issue did while noting he knew a young woman’s grandfather, “Prof. Jones” while they were at a dig on Moon/Mars-?
His spin off from X-Men, Alpha Flight’s first arch nemesis was “The Master of the World”, a Cro-Magnon man elevated to a high intellect cyborg by a crashed spaceship. Black body suit and rubbish beard were obvious nods to Koschei and the first DW serial.
The Doctor Who universe even has it's own Marvel multiverse designation: Earth-5556.
A Dalek appears in Gambit and Bishop #3
Doctor Who has ties to Transformers as well. He meets Deaths Head (Transformers uk) and reduces him in size to be more human scale and then abandons him on top of the Baxter building (Fantastic 4) so in a way Marvel, Transformers and Doctor Who are all interconnected . And given that Star Trek TNG have met both the Doctor ant the X-men you can add them to the mix as well
@@robertespley248 Symbiote Spidey (pre-Venom) met Bumblebee in TF #3 v1. And there’s a couple GI Joe crossovers, plus IDW had their big crossover that included Rom, Micronauts, and MASK, all previously published by Marvel. It’s the comic equivalent of the St Elsewhere Snowglobe Theory!
Not really a Doctor Who reference, but J. Michael Straczykski is also a huge Doctor Who fan (he put his hat in for show runner when Chibnal left).
He co-wrote Sense8 with the Wachowski's and that show starred Freema Agyeman (Martha Jones) in it's ensemble cast.
Sylvester McCoy was in Sense8 as well, as the Old Man of Hoy.
@@twinsuns957
So was "Martha Jones" - Freema Agyeman
There was a lesser known Christmas movie from Hallmark where the Prince (of course in Christmas Hallmark movies, there's always a prince somewhere in the mixture) was called 'Doctor Who' by another character because he had an English accent. The guy said 'Let's see if Doctor Who can sink a shot' while playing pool. I always loved that line, but it is a very very lesser known film.
What about Bill And Ted travelling through time in a Phone Box to pass their school report.... that was a Doctor Who reference! Their daughters did the same thing in the recent sequel.
Very first movie Easter egg I ever found was while watching Paper Towns. It isn't entirely recognizable, but in one frame, there was a noticeably blurred out TARDIS in the background. I was so excited to find it. My brother, on the other hand, was not amused.
I owe a tenner to rose now because of you
Not sure if anyone pointed it out yet, but in that scene in Bumblebee, you can also see a Cyberman figure on the shelf above the TV, next to The Thing poster
Not so much a movie reffrence but a movie credits reffrence, In World War Z Peter Capaldi plays a Scientist for the World Health Organization, in the credits he is listed as W.H.O Doctor, he also did this role before he was anounced officaly as the 12th Doctor. A sort of hint to his casting.
Speaking of magical doors, did you forget the Tardis door in Monster's Inc.?
Wait what!!??
Not a movie, but TV show. Michelle Gomez is a new character in Doom Patrol who has a time machine. On one of the episodes, one of the other characters referred to her as Doctor Who.
glad im not the only one who caught that!
I’ll have to watch that, loved the first two seasons!
How about Matilda the musical, in the song Bruce (when he is eating the cake)
"Or maybe your largeness is a bit like the TARDIS, considerably roomier inside"
2:52 "Reverse the polarity" is a normal description of the flow of electrons in electricity that affect magnetism and electronics. Not necessarily a reference to Doctor Who. She just wanted to reverse the time clock so the gears didn't crush them by reversing the electric flow of the electric generator/motor, though it is amusing to think it is a nod to Doctor Who.
Look at the motor. It is blue, with square openings, and has a black plate with white lettering on it on the side. Like a TARDIS.
I love how Stephen hawking loves Dr. Who, a person making theories about time and space loves dr. Who, its just perfect
I got two. In the episode "The Suite Smell of Excess" of the Disney Channel series The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, the title characters travelled to a parallel universe via a phone box called the the P.U. (Parallel Universaliser). And In one episode of American Dad!, set on a spacecraft, a Dalek and several sonic screwdrivers can be seen in the background.
The first thing I noticed and appreciated in this presentation is that the narrator does not speak at a frenetic pace as some other TH-cam presenters . Every word can be heard and we are not left breathless wondering when the speaker is going to take a breath .Also the background music here is not intrusive . Well done. Perfect
A little surprised you didn't mention The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot during the Bad Taste segment since it has a subplot of Sylvester McCoy working on The Hobbit and Peter Jackson even makes an appearance.
I love Encanto and I feel that line had something to do with it 😂💖😍
You see a Matt Smith Police Box exterior in Ready Player One.
My favourite film got a remake last Christmas. The Amazing Mr Blunden - Originally made in the 70's but a modern adaptation was realised and written by Mark Gatiss (whom also starred in it because of course he did).
There's a scene where they come across the painting of the ghost they'd seen earlier on and a character says that it's actually his great great grandfather except in this version, the character says "That is actually Mr Blunden's great great great grandfather...The original, you might say!"
Not contesting that Who may have been the first to use the phrasing "reverse the polarity", but since then has been utilized so prolifically in all forms of sci-fi (especially Star Trek) that it's just a trope of the genre as a whole now rather than a direct reference.
Tbh, I don't think I actually remember it ever being said in Star Trek xD I'm sure it probably has, I just don't actually remember any times it has or could have but hey
@@mastere6115 To be fair, as far as Star Trek goes its probably the same as how the exact phrase "Beam me up Scotty" was never used, but over the decades Trek has used lots of technobabble where "reversing" and "polarity" were key components.
Doesn't lessen the Doctor Who influence by being successful. The references in ST:TNG were often proven to be intentional (and the Doctor's actors were actually listed on a screen in one episode), and many US sci-fi writers have admitted to watching Doctor Who.
It's worth nothing that "reversing polarity" has also actual electrical meaning with nothing to do with sci-fi. Electrical devices with "polarity", i.e. positive and negative electrical inputs, supplied the opposite way is reverse polarity. I never saw Cars 2 and I'm just taking this at face value, but what that scene appears to be is that the mechanism about to crush the cars is being driven by a DC motor, which will turn the opposite direction if you in fact reverse its polarity. Unless there was more to that dialog (e.g. "... of the neutron flow"), I'm willing to bet that wasn't actually a reference to Doctor Who or sci-fi at all. Literally electrically speaking reversing the polarity in the real world meaning of that term.
@@mastere6115 I’m rewatching DS9, and O’Brien uses the phrase in Captive Pursuit. I’m sure there’s others.
Peter capaldi being chased in the background 7:15 😂
Where is this footage from?
Glad you guys knew about Back in Action! It's a very fun movie, but it got overshadowed by Space Jam.
Have you ever done a video on "Famous stars you didn't realise were big Dr Who fans?!" That could be fun!
Well we know Vin Diesel is a huge nerd. maybe he fits in that camp as well.
Have you done a piece on times that Doctor Who has appeared in comic books - other than his own, that is. I know Alan Moore's Top Ten has a few nods along its run.
We haven’t, but that’s a good idea!
I wish I could remember which Star Trek novel the Tardis appeared as a table top hologram, with the fourth doctor poking his head out and asking, "Is this Heathrow?"
With that nod to Dr Who in the Stephan Hawking part, one of the actors at that dinner table, the one facing the camera in fact, played a character in the David Tennant series. I think the episode was "The Family of Blood"
Thank you , always so happy to see you and gear your beautiful voice.
The Steven hawking one
There was a character at the end of the table had that same smirk he made in the doctor who episodes were the doctor loses his memory and thinks he’s a school teacher. The boy at the end of the table was the main villain in that episode
Last week a musical movie adaptation of the West End version of Matilda was released on Netflix and it has a great direct reference to Doctor Who, in the famous scene with Bruce and the massive chocolate cake the kids sing "Maybe your largeness is a bit like a TARDIS, considerably roomier inside"
That last scene reminded me of when Peter Capaldi's Doctor said "My entire understanding of physical space has been transformed! Three-dimensional Euclidean geometry has been torn up, thrown in the air and snogged to death! My grasp of the universal constants of physical reality has been changed forever.
Sorry. I've always wanted to see that done properly.”
4:03 love how the guy that said “who” was in a couple doctor who episodes
4:00 son of mine's face not moving creeped the hell out of me til I realized what the edit is supposed to emphasize, oof
Well spotted!
If Peter Jackson is such a big Doctor Who fan, then IMHO there's no way the appearance of the Uruk-Hai in his movies weren't a tip of the hat to/inspired by the Ogrons.
There is no doubt on the "if". Peter has said so numerous times, and put money where his mouth is when buying old Doctor Who props.
Whether they did directly influence the Urak-Hai is another matter, but I will concede there are definite simlarities.
Given that the Uruk-Hai are based on the Isengard Orcs (which were said to be more intelligent, able to communicate properly/effectively, and potentially were the result of humans and orcs breeding) it's more likely that it's the other way around - Ogrons being inspired by Isengard Orcs.
Although the fact that the name blatantly suggests that Ogrons are some kind of *Ogre* it's probably just a case of 'great minds.'
And let's not forget the late Ian Marter under the nom de guerre Ian Don wrote the Book adaptations of "Splash, Down and Out in Beverly, Tough Guys".
I now want to see what a Cars version of Doctor Who would look like now...
*I literally did a Pointing Leonardo DiCaprio impression when those kids from Encanto referenced our fav sci fic tv show*
Couldn't the Bill and Ted movies be a reference to Doctor Who since they travel through time in a phonebooth?
That was a coincidence. They were originally supposed to travel in a van, but then _Back to the Future_ came out. They changed it, oblivious to the fact that they were making the same mistake twice.
8:40 he also has a cyberman on his shelf, I barely noticed it
You can see the Tardis in Ready Player One during the scene at the aech garage scene
8:00 The connection between Doctor Who and Transformers goes all the way back to the 1980's thanks to the Marvel multiverse. A character called Death's Head debuted in Marvel UK's Transformers (killing Bumblebee in his first story) before meeting the seventh Doctor a few times before the Doctor strands him on top of the Fantastic Four building in the main Marvel 616 comics universe.
In one issue of Marvel UK's Transformer comic there is a Decepticon called Octus who transforms into a Dalek.
And 1986's The Transformers the Movie is the best Transformers film.
Plus more Marvel references are a organisation called W.H.O. aka the Weird Happenings Organisation which is a British Military organisation set up by the twins Alistaire and Alysande Stuart named for Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart.
WhatCulture, a show written by DanTheMeegs, and hosted with her signature winsome pinache by Ellie Littlechild 💖 on New Year's Eve Eve?? Yes, please 😊!!!
It’s New Year’s Eve now, closer to 2023! 👀
05:13 You are SUCH a fan girl!!!! LOLOL I love it!!!
Craig of the Creek there is a scene with Craig's brother in his room talking about a creek council if I remember right. But on his brother's headboard we see a small Tardis on display. I think there might also be a Doctor Who reference in Steven Universe other than the Gems being able to regenerate.
One of my favorite things to say is “Spoilers! Sweetie!”. I say it all the time when someone is about to tell me something I don’t want to hear. LOL.
Ellie also says it a LOT
@@WhoCulture so I’m not alone in that. LOL.
Buzz lightyear anyone? The Time Machine definitely looked like a Tardis console
Sylvester McCoy's Doctor appeared in the Marvel, Deaths Head comics that were a spinoff of the Transformer comics. It was when Deaths Heas was traveling between universes. It placed Doctor Who into the 1980s Marvel multiverse, which includes Transformers, G.I. Joe, Spiderman and more.
Wouldn't be surprised if that was the 4th Doctor in the Shaun The Sheep movie and not just someone dressed as him, port-a-loo or not. Pretty sure it was the paradigm Daleks in Lego Batman aswell going by their colour schemes.
Sydney White (2007) has Amanda Bynes playing a sorority girl shunned by the sorority and finding better friends with "7 dorks" that like the Doctor Who theme song.
I remember Disney XD showed doctor who some years ago and it was just David’s era and that’s what got me into DW
"Looney Tunes: Back In Action is a brilliant film" is a sentence I never thought I'd hear another person say and has made my night
What, no love for Bill and Ted?!? Banging around time in a phone booth... Hello!!!!!!!!
A) Too obvious/well known
B) The writers are on record saying that it wasn’t a Doctor Who reference (I’m paraphrasing, but they hadn’t heard of the show at the time, due to it being primarily a British thing)
I liked the Daleks in John Barrowman's version of Aladdin when he did the musical XD
"John Barrowman's version of Aladdin"?!! what?!! When?!!?
My little niece is obsessed with Encanto, and the first time we watched it, my responded to that line with "como la TARDIS!" Mind you, my mom is not a geek, but I guess she has picked up enough geek cred from all the scifi my brother and I watch lol
If you make another TV Show one, you can just use 90% of the CW's Arrowverse
We rewatched Mel Brook's Spaceballs over the panini times and saw references to doctor who that I didn't understand when I was younger.
Really? I don't remember one in the movie at all.
@@GabePuratekuta I'd have to rewatch to give you specifics but it was when they were referencing a bunch of shows at the same time
The first bit with Shaun the sheep is amazing…😂 that’s how you do a funny crossover 🔥
Saving the day by reversing the polarity has become just a general scifi trope. I could go on with a very long list of times it’s shown up in movies and tv shows. I’m not sure if that comes from the 3rd doctor’s catchphrase or not, but it definitely is a thing
Really? I think Doctor Who has a much bigger credit for this phrase than you are allowing. Jon Pertwee was struggling to remember the constant technobabble in the scripts for Doctor Who until The Sea Devils where he was given the line "reverse the polarity of the neutron flow" - which he found very easy to roll of his tongue. So much so he asked the producers to use this line (or variants of it) as much as possible. Both the show runners and Jon Pertwee repeated this story in interviews throughout the 70s, 80s & 90s. Yes, from this point other shows did occasionally reference it, but that is in homage to Doctor Who. So to assert it is "just" a general sci-fi trope requires surely a little more justification?
@@schubertuk you misunderstood what I was saying. She was crediting it in just one film and I’m saying it’s way bigger than that and has become a scifi trope. I was just saying I personally can’t say that it was started from Dr. Who, but it sounds like that is probably the case :)
Carry On Screaming has a Doctor Who reference. It wouldn't mean anything, except John Pertwee was in the movie.
I live in Glasgow where they filmed doctor who
Bill & Ted also use a Phone Booth to travel through time !
One that is, notably NOT larger on the inside.
@@ericreese7792 Except that they somehow fit nine people inside it. 😄
Looney Tunes back in action uses some very fun Dalek props, they were an interesting research project of mine!
Lol!
That was good!
Issue 564 of the Doctor Who magazine lists 20 times Doctor Who has appeared/mentioned in other TV series/Films such as NCIS and My Little Pony!
It also has The Lego Movie and Bumblebee appearances!
🤔
At 4:00 the person at the end of the table ( who's actor plays son of mine in human nature) has been face swapped with him from the doctor who episode
Good spot!
The weirdest place I've seen a Doctor Who reference is the 2014 "Postman Pat" movie, where not only David Tennant appears but a Dalek as well. The Dalek was seen in a flashback as one of the robot postman prototypes.
Fun fact: Peter Jackson and Ian Mcelan also stared in ‘The 5ish Doctors’.
Also WHY HASNT ANYONE GOT HIM TO MAKE AN EPISODE YET! Strike while he’s still up for it!
IRON SKY?! 😯
Instant like! ❤️
4:01 on the clip of the theory of everything we see one of the family of blood actor Harry Lloyd
Dammit, I JUST stopped talking about Bruno. Now it's stuck again.
Being all wibbly-wobbly and timey-wimey it is inevitable that the Doctor is gonna be used as pop culture references in other features. Cheers....
At 04:00 it looks like the face of Jeremy Baines in the Human Nature episode.
This boy has a very reassuring head.
In The Theory of Everything, the actor who says "Who?" is Harry Lloyd, who stars in back to back episodes of Doctor Who (he plays "Son of Mine" in episodes "Human Nature" and "Family of Blood")! So double reference!
The first time I watched Encanto I made that reference before the character in the background had said it. Lol
from the clip at 8:24 i got a feeling of Season 8 Ep 9 "Flatline" at 9:14 in the episode when Clara and Rigsy walks in the home with the Sails of the boat to the right and the poster to the left
I had that Tom Baker poster in the 80's. ☺️
Who's telling you Doctor Who is an underdog franchise? It's part of the big three of scifi
looking at the first Hawking scene shown, at the table is the actor who played the son in 'Family of Blood'.
Your makeup looks awesome today, Ellie!!
Theres another one in cars2 in that clip:turn left because she talks about turning back time
Also you missed a lot about Peter Jackson. No mention of the Dr Who short with Peter Capaldi. No mention of his cameo in "The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot" alongside Ian McKellen.
5:00 i like how theres 3 diffrent time machine and i can reconize them all
Could we please find a way for Dr.Who to be in the Marvel Universe. The Dr. Would make it so much better
Get Joss Whedon to write and direct; then we could have Doctor Strange, Dr. Horrible, AND Doctor Who.
Who is already part of the Marvel multiverse. So it's a bit higher possibility that there could be a cameo in MCU.