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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
00:55as 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
01:19shave, the latter of which introduced us to Sean. So these two British legends have quite
01:24the shared history.
01:25Number 9 Looney Tunes Back in Action
01:28Right before Russell T Davies and Robert Sherman brilliantly reintroduced the Daleks in the 2005
01:34revival, they made their appearance on the Hollywood stage in 2003's live action animation hybrid,
01:43Looney Tunes Back in Action, which is a brilliant film and a film that I watched many a time growing
01:50up. Appearing during a scene where Marvin the Martian unleashes a group of illegal aliens that
01:55are being held in Area 52, the Daleks scream their signature catchphrase while attempting to obliterate
02:01bugs and the gang. These Dalek props are actually the same ones used in the 1960s Peter Cushing
02:07Doctor Who movies, which is why they look authentic, but also oddly outdated compared to their surroundings.
02:12Now according to an online rumour, it was actually actor Steve Martin who plays the film's villain
02:19who insisted that the Daleks make an appearance in this scene due to the fact that he is a massive
02:24Whovian. Don't actually know if that's true though, I would take that with a pinch of salt. I mean it
02:29would be cool if he is, not sure though. Number 8 Cars 2
02:33A much more subtle reference now, one found in the finale of Pixar's Cars 2. Here British spy cars
02:41Holly Shiftwell and Finn McMissile are captured and tied up inside Big Ben. To escape, Holly determines
02:47that she must change the direction of the clock, or turn back time as she puts it. And while she's
02:53struggling to do this, she also states, if I can just reverse the polarity. Reverse the polarity,
02:59as Whov fans will know, is one of the most famous phrases in the show, spoken by many doctors
03:05across the classic and modern eras, though it's most associated with John Pertwee's third incarnation.
03:11Now considering the timey-wimey context of this scene in Cars 2, there is no way that this is
03:17anything but a nod to Doctor Who. And now that Disney has a direct link to Doctor Who, it's kind of
03:24fun to look back on in retrospect. Number 7 The Theory of Everything
03:29The late Stephen Hawking was a big Doctor Who fan, and he was even interviewed as part of Doctor Who
03:35Live The Next Doctor, the 2013 show that introduced Peter Capaldi as Matt Smith's successor.
03:42Fittingly then, 2014's biopic The Theory of Everything, which chronicles Hawking's incredible
03:48life, includes a couple of Doctor Who nods. The first of these occurs immediately after the scene,
03:53when Stephen's theory is approved. Celebrating with his friend, Stephen is toasted as an esteemed
03:58and formidable Doctor, only for someone to interject with the quip, who? Then, when Stephen's condition
04:03worsens later in the film, there's a scene where he rolls around in his wheelchair, with a paper bag
04:08on his head, using his voice synthesizer to repeat, exterminate, as his nurse Elaine looks on and laughs.
04:15I think this really goes to show how Doctor Who can appeal to everyone, from young children to one of
04:21the greatest minds in the world. Number 6 The Lego Batman Movie
04:26Batman plus Doctor Who
04:28I mean, it doesn't get much cooler than that, does it?
04:30In 2017's excellent The Lego Batman Movie, the Daleks have taken a break from annoying the Doctor and
04:36have ventured over to Gotham City, where they team up with the Joker and attempt to destroy the Dark
04:41Knight himself. The Daleks appear several times throughout the movie, usually squawking exterminate,
04:47alongside other recognisable villains pulled from the Lego multiverse, including Lord Voldemort,
04:52Sauron 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. Now, it can sometimes feel like
05:05Doctor Who is this small underdog franchise, but the fact that the Daleks appear alongside some of the
05:12most renowned villains in pop culture, and in a freaking Batman movie no less, it really does
05:18demonstrate how massive this show actually is. Number 5
05:22Big 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
05:56Iron 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
06:13War II and fled to the moon. Over the decades, these Nazis built a fleet of ships and used them to
06:19attack Earth in 2018. Somehow, things get even more insane when you realise that time travel might also
06:26exist within the Iron Sky universe, as evidenced by the easy-to-miss sight of a TARDIS, which can be
06:31seen in the background of Earth's own fleet. Commenting on the TARDIS's cameo, one of Iron
06:37Sky's writers took to Reddit a couple of months after the film was released, contrasting the
06:43film'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 a
06:53few months before Iron Sky comes out. I'm still incredibly happy he didn't, but kind of disappointed at the
06:59same time. Was that Steven Moffat accused of playing it safe? Well, I never thought I'd see
07:04the day.
07:053. Bad Taste
07:07Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson is a big Doctor Who fan, and was even courted to
07:12helm an episode in the Peter Capaldi era. Unsurprisingly then, he's occasionally slipped
07:17Doctor Who easter 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 multi-coloured scarf that
07:32was intended 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.
07:44Now, later in his career, Jackson did get to work with seventh Doctor Sylvester McCoy when
07:49making his Hobbit trilogy. And as for this Doctor Who episode that he supposedly wants to direct?
07:55Well, in 2018 he did mention that he is still up for it, so maybe one day.
08:012. Bumblebee
08:02It wasn't really a high bar to clear thanks to the lacklustre efforts of Michael Bay,
08:07Shia LaBeouf and Mark Wahlberg, but 2018's Bumblebee spin-off is easily the best Transformers
08:14movie ever made. And because Doctor Who makes everything better, Bumblebee gets some extra
08:19brownie points for this blink-and-you'll-miss-it reference. When lead characters Charlie and Memo
08:24enter Memo's bedroom midway through the film, we see that his walls are adorned with various
08:29pop culture posters befitting of the movie's 1980s setting, like Indiana Jones and The Thing.
08:35But when Memo sits on the bed beside Charlie, we see what is obviously the greatest poster of the
08:40lot. A fuzzy-haired Tom Baker wearing that unmistakable multi-coloured scarf. He isn't
08:45on-screen for very long, and he's blurred out half the time, but it's definitely him.
08:50Now, a random note here, but in the 1977 serial Robots of Death, the fourth Doctor quits,
08:56I'm rather fond of Bumblebees. Now, obviously he's not referring to a Transformer here,
09:01but it's still a fun coincidence that he then appears in a Bumblebee movie more than 40 years later.
09:07Number one, Encanto. Disney's Encanto is one of the most beloved movies in recent times,
09:14and if you don't have at least one family member who can't stop singing about that Bruno fella,
09:18well, then you're in the minority. In fact, I've had that song stuck in my head ever since I read
09:23this title on this article, so thank you very much for that, Dani. Early on, the Madrigal clan hosts
09:27a ceremony for young Antonio, who gains the ability to communicate with animals. He opens his own
09:33magical door, steps inside, and is greeted by a lush jungle habitat, bursting with lights,
09:38flora, and a wide array of animal life. Amazed that such a huge environment can fit inside a
09:43seemingly 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 the TARDIS.
09:57And as he explained on Twitter, Encanto director Jared Bush is a massive Doctor Who fan, and so
10:04this 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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10:30In the words of Riversong herself, goodbye, sweeties.
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