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* "I'm a fan! The Tom Baker Doctor Who and Monty Python – that was my Sunday night growing up in Chicago, watching those shows... We could have called them the Daleks, but Zack had an improv, calling them British robots, which sounded funny! That's where that came from!" | * "I'm a fan! The Tom Baker Doctor Who and Monty Python – that was my Sunday night growing up in Chicago, watching those shows... We could have called them the Daleks, but Zack had an improv, calling them British robots, which sounded funny! That's where that came from!" | ||
* "It's funny, because we make that "British robots" joke about the Daleks, but the BBC gave us the license to be able to use the Daleks, but that’s just a funny joke that Zach (Galifianakis) did in the record and (The Joker) just has that kind of attitude, the American-centric attitude to that joke, which made me laugh, that the Joker would sort of feel that way... It may not be the most prevalent thing. I also like doing things that are sort of secret jokes that kids can get, "Oh no, those are the Daleks, of course." They know what they are." </div> | * "It's funny, because we make that "British robots" joke about the Daleks, but the BBC gave us the license to be able to use the Daleks, but that’s just a funny joke that Zach (Galifianakis) did in the record and (The Joker) just has that kind of attitude, the American-centric attitude to that joke, which made me laugh, that the Joker would sort of feel that way... It may not be the most prevalent thing. I also like doing things that are sort of secret jokes that kids can get, "Oh no, those are the Daleks, of course." They know what they are." | ||
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Latest revision as of 18:42, 10 May 2023
What matters is authorial intent. Did the authors intend for these to be Daleks?
Oh look, several quotes posted earlier in the thread that prove this to be the case:
SOTO wrote: Here's some actual quotes from the director, Chris McKay:
- "I'm a fan! The Tom Baker Doctor Who and Monty Python – that was my Sunday night growing up in Chicago, watching those shows... We could have called them the Daleks, but Zack had an improv, calling them British robots, which sounded funny! That's where that came from!"
- "It's funny, because we make that "British robots" joke about the Daleks, but the BBC gave us the license to be able to use the Daleks, but that’s just a funny joke that Zach (Galifianakis) did in the record and (The Joker) just has that kind of attitude, the American-centric attitude to that joke, which made me laugh, that the Joker would sort of feel that way... It may not be the most prevalent thing. I also like doing things that are sort of secret jokes that kids can get, "Oh no, those are the Daleks, of course." They know what they are."
