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* In {{wi|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 {{wi|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 {{wi|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 {{wi|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. | * In one episode of ''Orphan Black'', a picture of the TARDIS is seen in the background. | ||
* In ''{{iw|youngjustice|Insecurity}}'', a March 2012 episode of ''{{iw|youngjustice|Young Justice}}'', a [[police box]], clearly looking like [[the Doctor's TARDIS]], is seen as one of the ends of a {{iw|youngjustice|Zeta-Beam}} conduit. A character enters the box and teleports to {{iw|youngjustice|the Cave}}, the main setting for the heroes of the series. The design of the police box is comparatively detailed. It looks like the TARDIS as seen in ''[[The War Machines (TV story)|The War Machines]]'', because it bears an "out of order" sign. It's unclear how [[Warner Bros.]] would have been able to use the police box design legally. The appearance was not clearly parodic nor was it even historically accurate. The scene was set in America and the DC universe had never previously established the existence of British police boxes in the United States. | |||
* In the English dub for the 2011 anime ''Steins;Gate'', Makise Kurisu, while in a conference discussing the possibility of time travel, mentions that while the idea of travelling through time in a little blue box may be charming, it (time travel) is completely impossible. | |||
* In 2016 animated Disney show {{wi|Milo Murphy's Law}} the main character is a fan of a show called ''Dr. Zone's Files'' which depicts an oddly dressed time-travelling alien and is said to be running for 50 years, going through various incarnations. In the 2017 feature-length special "Missing Milo", part of the plot concerns the [[Missing episode|recovery of ''Dr. Zone''{{'}}s missing black-and-white pilot episode]] from 1965. | |||
* In Cartoon Network's {{wi|Regular Show}}, the 2015 Halloween Special, "Terror Tales of the Park V", has the character Pops dressed up as the Fourth Doctor. In the 2016 short "Robot Rap Battle", bronze robots resembling eyeless, legged Daleks are among the audience members attending the titular event. | |||
* The 2017 {{wi|DuckTales (2017 TV series)|2017 ''DuckTales'' reboot}}, having cast [[David Tennant]] as the voice of [[Scrooge McDuck]], dropped many allusions to time-travel, the intentionality of which was confirmed by showrunner (and noted Whovian) Francisco Angones on Twitter. Among them is Scrooge's ownership of a time machine disguised as a grandfather clock (like [[the Master]]'s [[[the Master's TARDIS|TARDIS]]) and his ironic distaste for time-travelers in the 2018 Christmas special ''Last Christmas'', whose title is, of course, shared with [[Last Christmas (TV story)|an earlier ''Doctor Who'' Christmas special]]. The series also cast [[Catherine Tate]] (who played a [[Donna Noble|one of the companions]] of Tennant's Doctor) as the villainous Magica De Spell, a decision which the filmmakers later confirmed was partially spurred by the knowledge that Tennant and Tate verifiably had "great chemistry" together. | |||
* The favourite television series of Hugo the Duck from 2017 Netflix show {{wi|Julie's Greenroom}} is ''Doctor Who''. In addition, Hugo only speaks Duck, which another character can understand because he learned it at a performing arts school. | |||
* In ''Detentionaire'', the cloning room Lee and Biffy found is similar to the genius room. | |||
* The 2017 episode of {{wi|The Thundermans}} entitled ''{{iw|thethundermans|Save the Past Dance}}'' features a time machine known as the {{iw|thethundermans|Time Share}}, which possesses a button that allows it to blend into whatever time period it visits in a manner reminiscent to the TARDIS [[chameleon circuit]]. | |||
* Several references to ''Doctor Who'' were made in the 2019 miniseries ''Good Omens'', which starred [[David Tennant]] alongside [[Michael Sheen]] (with [[Derek Jacobi]] also putting in a cameo): | |||
** the name of [[Gallifrey]] is briefly glimpsed among the planets where Crowley (Tennant) considers taking refuge to escape the end of the world; | |||
** a brief exchange sees Adam Young and his friends chatting about how odd it is that aliens in so-called "real" U.F.O. encounters only ever talk about cosmic harmony, which leads into Brian remarking that aliens would be more likely to say “[[Dalek|Exterminate]]” (a word the child pronounces in a clear impression of a Dalek voice); | |||
** in his first scene, the character of Newton Pulsifer is wearing a necktie patterned after [[the Doctor's scarf|the Fourth Doctor's notorious scarf]], which, according to costume designer Claire Anderson, is meant to be a hint that the character is himself a ''Doctor Who'' fan; | |||
** Adam's father's car's license plate can briefly be seen to read "SID RAT" — a backwards-spelling of [[TARDIS]], also notoriously used in ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'' as the name of the [[War Lord]]s' [[SIDRAT|own time machines]]. | |||
* In the {{wi|Cobra Kai}} episode "Pulpo", Demitri talks to Eli about the [[Series 11 (Doctor Who)|new series]] of ''Doctor Who'', how [[Steven Moffat]] isn't the showrunner anymore and that the [[Thirteenth Doctor|new Doctor]] is "badass". | |||
* Near the conclusion of the {{iw|arrow|Finish Line|2017 finale of ''The Flash''}}, {{iw|arrow|Cisco Ramone}} makes a request over a walkie-talkie to "reverse the polarity of the neutron flow". | |||
* In the {{wi|Lucifer (TV series)|Lucifer}} episode "The One with the Baby Carrot", Lucifer (played by [[Tom Ellis]]) is called "Doctor Who" by a comedian due to his British accent. | |||
* In the {{wi|Rick & Morty}} episode "The Rickchurian Mortycide", when a character says that Rick isn't a god, he responds "you don't know what I am, or what I can do! I'm ''Doctor Who'' in this motherf*cker!" | |||
* In the {{wi|Bob's Burgers}} episode ''Tweentrepreneurs'', Mr. Frond mentions that he once had a thriving {{w|Etsy}} store that sold hand-knitted ''Doctor Who'' scarves, until he received a cease and desist letter. | |||
* The {{wi|Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race}} episode "Hello and Dubai" features a robot heavily resembling a Dalek, called the "Tennis Menace". It shoots tennis balls at players and shouts "PARTICIPATE!". | |||
* In the 2019 continuation of the 1996 TV show ''The Demon Headmaster'' (which both featured [[Terrence Hardiman]]), the Prime Minister said "Exterminate" when he saw the robot Tyler had created. | |||
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