Cultural references to the Doctor Who universe/2010s

Cultural references to the Doctor Who universe by decade

Occasionally, elements of the Doctor Who universe are referenced in the broader popular culture. This page exists to throw a spotlight on some of these casual references made in television, comics, films and other media which happened during the 2010s.

Television

• In the last episode of season two of The Librarians, the Librarian talks about time travel and a cloth is lifted away by Cassandra Cillian to show the TARDIS as a broken down artefact in a room full of time travelling artefact such as the Delorean from Back to the Future.
• In an episode of the Disney Channel series, I Didn't Do It, a guest actor appears dressed as Matt Smith at a kids' party in order to best the super hero costume wearing regular...with a sonic screwdriver in his hand.
• In House, Season 7 Episode 11, Dr. Taub mentions that he is awake at night watching TV at 3am because that's when Classic Doctor Who is playing on the BBC.
• In one episode of Liv & Maddie, Liv tries to get into the Brain Olympics by showing people that she's smart and references time travel. "He doesn't believe in time travel and he's like Doctor who?"
• In one episode of Orphan Black, a picture of the TARDIS is seen in the background.

Audio

Bleak Expectations

• In Bleak Expectations, series 4 episode 6, Harry Biscuit's childhood asthma comes back when they travel back in time, sounding just like the TARDIS. This is one of a number of references to fictional time travel in this episode, such as "88 camomiles per hour".

Prose

• In The Serpent's Shadow, the British character Sadie tried to create a Shabti out of a Thermos, which resulted in it flying around, yelling "Exterminate". In another part of this series, a challenge posed to Sadie is completed by stalling a huntress with tales of "fearsome" jelly babies, similar to the Fourth Doctor.

Comics

Adventure Time

• In one issue, after Jake failed to fix a broken time machine, he stated it didn't do "the timey wimey thing" anymore.

Out-of-universe references

• An episode of The Big Bang Theory had a copy of Doctor Who Magazine Special Edition: The 2017 Yearbook on Sheldon's table.
• The 13 May 2010 episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is titled "Doctor Who."
• In the 20 August 2010 episode of Eureka on SyFy ("Stoned") Zane, while searching through government files mentions TARDIS blueprints as something he might be searching for.
• The 2017 sitcom One Day At A Time references Doctor Who in its second series. In the episode Locked Down, teenage daughter Elena and her friend Syd are preparing to attend Comic Con, dressed as the Fourth Doctor and the TARDIS respectively. The episodes includes jokes about Doctor Who, and the TARDIS costume is later used as a hiding place by another character.