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00:00So we've done two videos now covering different times Doctor Who has appeared in other TV shows
00:06and both of those videos will be linked in the description below but we thought
00:10we've looked at TV shows but we haven't really looked at movies so with that in mind I'm Ellie
00:16with Who Culture here with 10 times Doctor Who appeared in movies. Number 10 a Sean the Sheep
00:22movie Farmageddon. Sean the Sheep's TV show was no stranger to Doctor Who references like the
00:29hilarious sight of a sheep cosplaying as a Dalek in series 2's Party Animals. So Aardman Animation
00:36decided to continue with these shoutouts when Sean made the leap to the big screen in 2019's
00:42Farmageddon. The sequel to 2015's Sean the Sheep movie Farmageddon includes several Doctor
00:49Who easter eggs from the alien creature Lula picking up a sonic screwdriver to a man dressed
00:54as the fourth Doctor exiting a portable toilet. A sheep also disguises itself as a Dalek while
01:00attempting to sneak into the Farmageddon theme park, bleating exterminate to the rather confused
01:06farmer. And incidentally the prolific Doctor Who writer and canine co-creator Bob Baker actually
01:12wrote the Wallace and Gromit shorts, the wrong trousers, a matter of loaf and death and a close
01:18shave the latter of which introduced us to Sean. So these two British legends have quite the shared
01:25history. Number 9 Looney Tunes Back in Action. Right before Russell T Davis and Robert Sherman
01:31brilliantly reintroduced the Daleks in the 2005 revival, they made their appearance on the Hollywood
01:37stage in 2003's live action animation hybrid Looney Tunes Back in Action, which is a brilliant film
01:46and a film that I watched many a time growing up. Appearing during a scene where Marvin the Martian
01:53unleashes a group of illegal aliens that are being held in Area 52, the Daleks scream their signature
01:59catchphrase while attempting to obliterate bugs and the gang. These Dalek props are actually the same
02:04ones used in the 1960s Peter Cushing Doctor Who movies, which is why they look authentic but also
02:10oddly outdated compared to their surroundings. Now according to an online rumour, it was actually
02:16actor Steve Martin, who plays the film's villain, who insisted that the Daleks make an appearance
02:21in this scene due to the fact that he is a massive Whovian. Don't actually know if that's true though,
02:27I would take that with a pinch of salt. I mean it would be cool if he is. Not sure
02:31though.
02:32Number 8 Cars 2. A much more subtle reference now, one found in the finale of Pixar's Cars 2.
02:39Here British spy cars Holly Shiftwell and Finn McMissile are captured and tied up inside Big Ben.
02:46To escape, Holly determines that she must change the direction of the clock, or turn back time
02:51as she puts it. And while she's struggling to do this, she also states, if I can just reverse
02:57the polarity. Reverse the polarity, as Who fans will know, is one of the most famous phrases
03:03in the show, spoken by many doctors across the classic and modern eras, though it's most
03:08associated with John Pertwee's third incarnation. Now considering the timey-wimey context of this
03:14scene in Cars 2, there is no way that this is anything but a nod to Doctor Who. And now
03:20that
03:21Disney has a direct link to Doctor Who, it's kind of fun to look back on in retrospect.
03:27Number 7. The Theory of Everything. The late Stephen Hawking was a big Doctor Who fan,
03:33and he was even interviewed as part of Doctor Who Live The Next Doctor, the 2013 show that
03:39introduced Peter Capaldi as Matt Smith's successor. Fittingly then, 2014's biopic, The Theory of
03:45Everything, which chronicles Hawking's incredible life, includes a couple of Doctor Who nods. The
03:50first of these occurs immediately after the scene when Stephen's theory is approved. Celebrating
03:55with his friend, Stephen is toasted as an esteemed and formidable Doctor, only for someone to interject
04:01with the quip, Who? Then, when Stephen's condition worsens later in the film, there's a scene where
04:05he rolls around in his wheelchair, with a paper bag on his head, using his voice synthesizer to repeat
04:11exterminate, as his nurse Elaine looks on and laughs. I think this really goes to show how Doctor Who can
04:18appeal to everyone, from young children to one of the greatest minds in the world.
04:23Number 6. The Lego Batman Movie. Batman plus Doctor Who. I mean, it doesn't get much cooler than that,
04:30does it? In 2017's excellent The Lego Batman Movie, the Daleks have taken a break from annoying the
04:35Doctor and have ventured over to Gotham City, where they team up with the Joker and attempt to destroy
04:41the Dark Knight himself. The Daleks appear several times throughout the movie, usually squawking
04:46Exterminate, alongside other recognisable villains pulled from the Lego Multiverse, including Lord
04:51Voldemort, Sauron and King Kong. There's also a Doctor Who nod in 2019's The Lego Movie 2, the second part,
04:59where Rex Dangervest uses a TARDIS to build his own time machine.
05:03Now, it can sometimes feel like Doctor Who is this small underdog franchise, but the fact that the
05:08Daleks appear alongside some of the most renowned villains in pop culture, and in a freaking Batman
05:16movie, no less, it really does demonstrate how massive this show actually is. Number 5. Big Hero 6.
05:24Apparently, Cars 2 isn't the only Disney animation with a Doctor Who shoutout. In the underrated Big Hero 6,
05:31lead character Hero has the exact sort of messy bedroom you'd expect a 14-year-old to have,
05:36and on one of his toileted shelves rests a model of a white Dalek, nestled between a bunch of other
05:42action figures. Now, it does seem to be one of the chunky New Paradigm Daleks from Series 5's
05:47Victory of the Daleks, a redesign that didn't go down massively well with fans, but apparently someone
05:54at Disney felt differently about them. Number 4. Iron Sky
05:57Over the years, Doctor Who has explored countless alternate histories and parallel worlds,
06:03most of them with rather grim consequences for humanity. The 2012 action flick Iron Sky did
06:09something similar, cranking up the crazy and telling a story about a group of Nazis who survived World
06:14War II and fled to the moon. Over the decades, these Nazis built a fleet of ships and used them
06:19to attack Earth in 2018. Somehow, things get even more insane when you realise that time travel might
06:25also exist within the Iron Sky universe, as evidenced by the easy-to-miss sight of a TARDIS,
06:31which can be seen in the background of Earth's own fleet. Commenting on the TARDIS' cameo,
06:36one of Iron Sky's writers took to Reddit a couple of months after the film was released,
06:42contrasting the film's space Nazis concept with the Doctor Who episode Let's Kill Hitler. He said,
06:48When Let's Kill Hitler came out, I was scared to death Moffat might outdo us with space Nazis only
06:53a few months before Iron Sky comes out. I'm still incredibly happy he didn't, but kind of
06:58disappointed at the same time. Was that Stephen Moffat accused of playing it safe? Well, I never
07:04thought I'd see the day. Number 3. Bad Taste
07:07Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson is a big Doctor Who fan, and was even courted to helm an
07:12episode in the Peter Capaldi era. Unsurprisingly then, he's occasionally slipped Doctor Who
07:17easter eggs into his own movies, as was the case with his 1987 feature debut Bad Taste,
07:24the film that put him on the map and helped him progress into the Hollywood big leagues.
07:28In the film, Jackson plays a character called Derek, who wears a multicoloured scarf that was
07:32intended as an homage to the one worn by Tom Baker's fourth Doctor. There's also a line of
07:37dialogue speculating that the aliens in the film might have arrived in a telephone box,
07:41which is a cheeky wink towards the TARDIS. Now, later in his career, Jackson did get to work
07:47Dr Sylvester McCoy when making his Hobbit trilogy. And as for this Doctor Who episode that he
07:53supposedly wants to direct? Well, in 2018 he did mention that he is still up for it, so maybe one
08:00day. Number 2. Bumblebee
08:02It wasn't really a high bar to clear, thanks to the lacklustre efforts of Michael Bay, Shia LaBeouf,
08:08and Mark Wahlberg. But 2018's Bumblebee spin-off is easily the best Transformers movie ever made.
08:15And because Doctor Who makes everything better, Bumblebee gets some extra brownie points for this
08:20blink-and-you'll-miss-it reference. When lead characters Charlie and Memo enter Memo's bedroom
08:25midway through the film, we see that his walls are adorned with various pop culture posters
08:30befitting of the movie's 1980s setting, like Indiana Jones and The Thing. But when Memo sits on the bed
08:36beside Charlie, we see what is obviously the greatest poster of the lot, a fuzzy-haired Tom
08:42Baker wearing that unmistakable multicoloured scarf. He isn't on screen for very long and he's blurred
08:48out half the time, but it's definitely him. Now, a random note here, but in the 1977 serial Robots
08:54of Death, the fourth Doctor quits, I'm rather fond of Bumblebees. Now, obviously he's not referring
09:00to a Transformer here, but it's still a fun coincidence that he then appears in a Bumblebee movie
09:05more than 40 years later.
09:07Number one, Encanto. Disney's Encanto is one of the most beloved movies in recent times,
09:13and if you don't have at least one family member who can't stop singing about that Bruno
09:18fella, well then you're in the minority. In fact, I've had that song stuck in my head
09:22ever since I read this title on this article, so thank you very much for that, Dani.
09:26Early on, the Madrigal clan hosts a ceremony for young Antonio, who gains the ability to communicate
09:31with animals. He opens his own magical door, steps inside and is greeted by a lush jungle
09:36habitat, bursting with lights, flora and a wide array of animal life. Amazed that such a huge
09:42environment can fit inside a seemingly normal-sized room, one of the kids behind Antonio exclaims,
09:47it's bigger on the inside as she walks through the door. Now, of course, Doctor Who fans will
09:52recognise that phrase as something that's said quite a lot when characters first step into
09:57the TARDIS. And as he explained on Twitter, Encanto director Jared Bush is a massive Doctor Who fan,
10:04and so this line was indeed an intentional nod. A tip of the fez, if you will.
10:09And that concludes our list. If you think we missed any, then do let us know in the comments below.
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10:31In the words of Riversong herself, goodbye, sweeties.
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