Apparently, Disney loves Doctor Who just as much as we do.
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00:00 So, we've done two videos now covering different times Doctor Who has appeared in other TV
00:06 shows, and both of those videos will be linked in the description below.
00:09 But we thought, we've looked at TV shows, but we haven't really looked at movies.
00:14 So with that in mind, I'm Ellie with WhoCulture, here with 10 times Doctor Who appeared in
00:19 movies.
00:20 Number 10, a Shaun the Sheep movie, Farmageddon.
00:24 Shaun the Sheep's TV show was no stranger to Doctor Who references, like the hilarious
00:29 sight of a sheep cosplaying as a Dalek in series 2's Party Animals.
00:34 So Aardman Animation decided to continue with these shoutouts when Shaun made the leap to
00:40 the big screen in 2019's Farmageddon.
00:43 The sequel to 2015's Shaun the Sheep movie, Farmageddon includes several Doctor Who easter
00:49 eggs, from the alien creature Lula picking up a sonic screwdriver, to a man dressed as
00:54 the fourth Doctor exiting a portable toilet.
00:57 A sheep also disguises itself as a Dalek while attempting to sneak into the Farmageddon theme
01:02 park, bleating exterminate to the rather confused farmer.
01:06 And incidentally, the prolific Doctor Who writer and K9 co-creator Bob Baker actually
01:12 wrote the Wallace and Gromit shorts, The Wrong Trousers, A Matter of Loaf and Death, and
01:18 A Close Shave, the latter of which introduced us to Shaun.
01:22 So these two British legends have quite the shared history.
01:25 9. Looney Tunes Back in Action
01:28 Right before Russell T. Davis and Robert Sherman brilliantly reintroduced the Daleks in the
01:33 2005 revival, they made their appearance on the Hollywood stage in 2003's live-action
01:41 animation hybrid Looney Tunes Back in Action, which is a brilliant film, and a film that
01:47 I watched many a time growing up.
01:50 Appearing during a scene where Marvin the Martian unleashes a group of illegal aliens
01:55 that are being held in Area 52, the Daleks scream their signature catchphrase while attempting
02:00 to obliterate Bugs and the gang.
02:02 These Dalek props are actually the same ones used in the 1960s Peter Cushing Doctor Who
02:07 movies, which is why they look authentic, but also oddly outdated compared to their surroundings.
02:13 According to an online rumour, it was actually actor Steve Martin, who plays the film's villain,
02:19 who insisted that the Daleks make an appearance in this scene, due to the fact that he is
02:24 a massive whovian.
02:25 Don't know if that's true, though. I'd take that with a pinch of salt. I mean, it
02:29 would be cool if he is. Not sure, though.
02:32 8. Cars 2
02:33 A much more subtle reference now, one found in the finale of Pixar's Cars 2. Here, British
02:40 spy cars Holly Shiftwell and Finn McMissile are captured and tied up inside Big Ben.
02:46 To escape, Holly determines that she must change the direction of the clock, or turn
02:50 back time, as she puts it. And while she's struggling to do this, she also states "if
02:55 I can just reverse the polarity".
02:58 Reverse the polarity, as Who fans will know, is one of the most famous phrases in the show,
03:04 spoken by many Doctors across the classic and modern eras, though it's most associated
03:09 with John Pertwee's third incarnation.
03:11 Now considering the timey-wimey context of this scene in Cars 2, there is no way that
03:17 this is anything but a nod to Doctor Who.
03:20 And now that Disney has a direct link to Doctor Who, it's kind of fun to look back on in
03:25 retrospect.
03:26 7. The Theory of Everything
03:29 The late Stephen Hawking was a big Doctor Who fan, and he was even interviewed as part
03:34 of Doctor Who Live! The Next Doctor, the 2013 show that introduced Peter Capaldi as Matt
03:40 Smith's successor.
03:41 Fittingly, then, 2014's biopic The Theory of Everything, which chronicles Hawking's
03:47 incredible life, includes a couple of Doctor Who nods.
03:50 The first of these occurs immediately after the scene when Stephen's theory is approved.
03:55 Celebrating with his friend, Stephen is toasted as an esteemed and formidable Doctor, only
03:59 for someone to interject with the quip "Who?"
04:01 Then, when Stephen's condition worsens later in the film, there's a scene where he rolls
04:06 around in his wheelchair, with a paper bag on his head, using his voice synthesizer to
04:10 repeat "exterminate" as his nurse Elaine looks on and laughs.
04:15 I think this really goes to show how Doctor Who can appeal to everyone, from young children
04:20 to one of the greatest minds in the world.
04:23 6. The Lego Batman Movie
04:26 Batman plus Doctor Who. I mean, it doesn't get much cooler than that, does it?
04:30 In 2017's excellent The Lego Batman Movie, the Daleks have taken a break from annoying
04:35 the Doctor and have ventured over to Gotham City, where they team up with the Joker and
04:40 attempt to destroy the Dark Knight himself.
04:42 The Daleks appear several times throughout the movie, usually squawking "exterminate"
04:47 alongside other recognisable villains pulled from the Lego multiverse, including Lord Voldemort,
04:52 Sauron and King Kong.
04:53 There's also a Doctor Who nod in 2019's The Lego Movie 2, the second part, where Rex Danger
05:00 Vest uses a TARDIS to build his own time machine.
05:03 It can sometimes feel like Doctor Who is this small underdog franchise, but the fact that
05:08 the Daleks appear alongside some of the most renowned villains in pop culture, and in a
05:15 freaking Batman movie no less, it really does demonstrate how massive this show actually
05:21 is.
05:22 5. Big Hero 6
05:23 Apparently Cars 2 isn't the only Disney animation with a Doctor Who shoutout.
05:29 In the underrated Big Hero 6, lead character Hero has the exact sort of messy bedroom you'd
05:34 expect a 14 year old to have, and on one of his toileted shelves rests a model of a white
05:39 Dalek nestled between a bunch of other action figures.
05:43 It does seem to be one of the chunky New Paradigm Daleks from Series 5's Victory of the Daleks,
05:48 a redesign that didn't go down massively well with fans, but apparently someone at Disney
05:54 felt differently about them.
05:56 4. Iron Sky
05:57 Over the years, Doctor Who has explored countless alternate histories and parallel worlds, most
06:03 of them with rather grim consequences for humanity.
06:06 The 2012 action flick Iron Sky did something similar, cranking up the crazy and telling
06:11 a story about a group of Nazis who survived World War 2 and fled to the moon.
06:15 Over the decades, these Nazis built a fleet of ships and used them to attack Earth in
06:20 2018.
06:21 Somehow, things get even more insane when you realise that time travel might also exist
06:26 within the Iron Sky universe, as evidenced by the easy to miss sight of a TARDIS, which
06:31 can be seen in the background of Earth's own fleet.
06:34 Commenting on the TARDIS' cameo, one of Iron Sky's writers took to Reddit a couple
06:39 of months after the film was released, contrasting the film's space Nazis concept with the
06:45 Doctor Who episode "Let's Kill Hitler".
06:47 He said, "When 'Let's Kill Hitler' came out, I was scared to death Moffat might outdo
06:51 us with space Nazis only a few months before 'Iron Sky' comes out.
06:56 I'm still incredibly happy he didn't, but kind of disappointed at the same time."
07:00 Was that Stephen Moffat accused of playing it safe?
07:02 I never thought I'd see the day.
07:05 3.
07:06 Bad Taste
07:07 Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson is a big Doctor Who fan, and was even courted
07:12 to helm an episode in the Peter Capaldi era.
07:15 Unsurprisingly, he's occasionally slipped Doctor Who easter eggs into his own movies,
07:20 as was the case with his 1987 feature debut Bad Taste, the film that put him on the map
07:25 and helped him progress into the Hollywood big leagues.
07:28 In the film, Jackson plays a character called Derek, who wears a multi-coloured scarf that
07:32 was intended as an homage to the one worn by Tom Baker's fourth Doctor.
07:36 There's also a line of dialogue speculating that the aliens in the film might have arrived
07:40 in a telephone box, which is a cheeky wink towards the TARDIS.
07:44 Later in his career, Jackson did get to work with 7th Doctor Sylvester McCoy when making
07:49 his Hobbit trilogy.
07:51 And as for this Doctor Who episode that he supposedly wants to direct?
07:55 Well in 2018 he did mention that he is still up for it, so maybe one day.
08:01 2.
08:02 Bumblebee
08:03 It wasn't really a high bar to clear, thanks to the lacklustre efforts of Michael Bay,
08:07 Shia LaBeouf and Mark Wahlberg, but 2018's Bumblebee spin-off is easily the best Transformers
08:14 movie ever made.
08:15 And because Doctor Who makes everything better, Bumblebee gets some extra brownie points for
08:20 this blink and you'll miss it reference.
08:22 When lead characters Charlie and Memo enter Memo's bedroom midway through the film, we
08:26 see that his walls are adorned with various pop culture posters befitting of the movie's
08:31 1980s setting, like Indiana Jones and The Thing.
08:35 But when Memo sits on the bed beside Charlie, we see what is obviously the greatest poster
08:39 of the lot, a fuzzy-haired Tom Baker wearing that unmistakable multicoloured scarf.
08:45 He isn't on screen for very long and he's blurred out half the time, but it's definitely
08:49 him.
08:50 I should note here, but in the 1977 serial Robots of Death, the fourth Doctor quits,
08:56 I'm rather fond of Bumblebees.
08:58 Now obviously he's not referring to a Transformer here, but it's still a fun coincidence that
09:03 he then appears in a Bumblebee movie more than 40 years later.
09:07 Encanto
09:08 Disney's Encanto is one of the most beloved movies in recent times, and if you don't
09:14 have at least one family member who can't stop singing about that Bruno fella, well
09:18 then you're in the minority.
09:20 In fact, I've had that song stuck in my head ever since I read this title on this
09:23 article, so thank you very much for that Danny.
09:25 Early on, the Madrigal clan hosts a ceremony for young Antonio, who gains the ability to
09:30 communicate with animals.
09:32 He opens his own magical door, steps inside and is greeted by a lush jungle habitat, bursting
09:37 with lights, flora and a wide array of animal life.
09:40 Amazed that such a huge environment can fit inside a seemingly normal-sized room, one
09:45 of the kids behind Antonio exclaims "it's bigger on the inside!" as she walks through
09:49 the door.
09:50 Now, of course, Doctor Who fans will recognise that phrase as something that's said quite
09:54 a lot when characters first step into the TARDIS.
09:58 And as he explained on Twitter, Encanto director Jared Bush is a massive Doctor Who fan, and
10:03 so this line was indeed an intentional nod.
10:07 A tip of the fez, if you will.
10:09 And that concludes our list.
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10:31 In the words of River Song herself, goodbye, sweeties.