Space & Time: Doctor: "we'd end up with two Amy Ponds, and then what would you do?" Rory looks at both Amy's, raises his finger in a "well, I have some ideas" way, and gets slapped by prime Amy. (And earlier in the minisode there was the whole thing about the short skirt and the glass floor...)
The one for me was in a good man goes to war where Vasta says to Jenny I don’t know why you put up with me. Then she whips out her tongue to take out a guard and Jenny just gives her a look. I rewatched the episode last year and I was just pointing at the screen like “oh ohhhh!!!” 😂
You, actually, missed the second reference to The Graduate (and Mrs. Robinson) in season 6!! It's called back to again later in the season, during the episode "Let's Kill Hitler". After she regenerates, River likewise says to the Doctor "Hello, Benjamin...". If you didn't know, Benjamin Braddock is the name of Dustin Hoffman's character in The Graduate that Mrs. Robinson is "trying to seduce". When River makes that reference, they even do a recreation of the iconic shot of Benjamin framed by Mrs. Robinson's leg! Though, the Doctor apparently was too distracted to get River's reference at that exact moment, 'cause he merely responds by whispering to Amy/Rory "Who's Benjamin...?" 🤣 (So, from River's point of view, she actually did compare herself to Mrs. Robinson before the Doctor did!!)
@@DrWhoFanJ yes, technically they are in series 6. But everybody understand it from the context and nobody thought about Patrick Troughton last season. I suggest let's be cultured individuals and not scold people about whole season/series difference if necessary context is already there.
@ Or let’s not refer to things by the wrong names even when sufficient context is provided to correct it because otherwise people won’t learn the distinction and will use the wrong terminology when there isn’t such context and we get stuck with unnecessarily-confusing sentences for no reason. An error is still an error, even when there is enough information elsewhere to correct it.
The hint about the Doctor and the Master being gay? Yeah, they've been like that since Pertwee and Delgado.There's a sword fight at one point that is clearly a euphemism for sex. So the beard thing is apt.
The Master "Beard" comment actually went over my head as a result of being "too adult to get it!" - I'd not encountered that relatively modern usage of the word until several years later! Suddenly it made a lot more more sense!
I was today years old (that’s 37) when I realised the dancing thing was not about dancing. However the Master’s beard joke made me snort with laughter at the time and again tonight.
Considering the twelfth doctor alludes that he and the master were once a couple he would know if Lucy Saxon was his "beard". Then again he also says "We're the most civilized civilization in the universe. We're billions of years beyond your petty human obsession with gender and its associated stereotypes."
@@LadyKattrina84 then again, aside from gender and sex, sexuality seems to also be able change with regenerations (some Doctors such as Ten for example feel Ace for example). As for the "most civilised": Gallifreyans might not need a 'beard' in their own society, but he was trying to blend in amongst us humans and in our society Saxon probably had less struggles getting to his position appearing as a cis-het guy.
There was exactly one item in this video that came out when I was a kid. Just post a video calling me old, next time. 😅 Just kidding, fun video, and some of these I didn't get originally, despite being a nominal adult.
4:14 I also just noticed cuz after rewatching it just now that professor peach says " why didn't they ask- heavens!" I never noticed that one before! Obviously heavens is supposed to be Evans but was clearly a reference.😂
No one is mentioning Love & Monsters…. And the bit of a “love life” they still have after her face becomes a tile…? And given that was an episode that was created from a child’s monster drawn in real life… extra cheeky 😂😂😂
I was expecting "ginger beer" to get a mention in Agatha Christie part. When the Doctor gets poisoned he rushes to the kitchen yelling "ginger beer" to a young man who is visibly taken aback. Gingerbeer is a Cockney rhyming slang for "queer", and it was heavily implied that said young man was going out with Lord and Lady's son. A detail which even adults can miss, and kids certainly wouldn't understand.
Those young kids and some adults may not have gotten the reference but I did it was very obvious and so did my daughter what the Mrs Robinson reference was about.
I guess I'm old. I got a lot of those right away. 😎But to go along with point #3 and the sonic screwdriver going from horizontal to vertical, they also did this in the minisode "Pond Life". The Doctor is saying how he met Mata Hari in a Paris Hotel room, and we see him roasting a snack in the fireplace. He turns around to look at her and the stick goes from horizontal to vertical. Much less subtle there.
I remember when my kids watched The Doctor Falls, they didn't understand the joke between Missy and the Master's attraction for each other. I would have told them the truth but instead, I just told them that the Master was looking down at his untied shoelaces. 😄
RE: Last Christmas/Alien...Wasn't "Alien" in and of itself inspired by a Tom Baker serial? I want to say Ark In Space, but I'm not sure. References within references.
If Moffatt’s involved there’s at least one innuendo “Give a shout if you find trouble” “You’ll find I’m quite the screamer. There’s a spoiler for you!”
I first saw Doctor Who as a high school teen in the '70s on PBS.... Yep, I'm old... And, I never thought of it as a "kids/family" show, just British Sci-Fi...
Missed? Possibly you're being Doctor-centric, but I know several adults who had to explain Simm and Gomez's interaction: --Is it wrong that I'm... --Very. They danced, too. Do you suppose that's how Time Lords...?
9:15 I didn't get it in the scene that you mentioned, but I did recently get the similar joke (and cracked up at it) that was made in Day of the Doctor. "Compensating?"
I wasn't a kid for any of this (except the Sunmakers, but I didn't get to see that until I was an adult). The thing I find most memorable about the Beard gag is that I made that joke months before the Doctor did. On one of the message boards (can't remember if it was Outpost Gallifrey then or Gallifrey Base), people were talking about whether the Simm Master would have a beard. When The Sound of Drums finally aired, and it was revealed the Master had a wife, I posted "I guess the Simm Master does have a Beard". So, when the Doctor himself made the same joke, I nearly doubled over with laughter.
I wasn't born yet during Sunmakers, but I was during the Romana era and grew up watching Peter Davison, Collin Baker, and McCoy as they aired. I got all of the New Who ones except for the UK political stuff and UK TV stuff given that I do not live in the UK.
Peter Capaldi pulling the spoon out in Robot of Sherwood was actually a reference to Alan Rickman's portrayal of the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves where he remarks that he wants to cut out Robins heart with a spoon because its dull to Guy of Gisborn.
@y_fam_goeglyd Joe DiMagio was a baseball player. My 2nd favorite Yankees of all time behind his successor IN centerfield Mickey Mantle. Joe was a character. After he played he married Marylne Monroe. When she died in 1962 he sent flowers to her grave every week for the next 27 years.
I have seen the crimson horror multiple times and didn’t really notice what Matt did with the sonic cause the plot is that good but I do understand the reference it was making now that I have actually noticed probably
Ellie I was 39 when doctor who returned in 2005 yet it's only watching this video regarding the Agatha Christie episode that I too was thinking of the game cluedo, and also the doctor dances I didn't realise what it really meant until I watched this video just now ! 😂😂
This makes me wish Doctor Who was on the air when I was a kid. I was too young for the original series to surprise me and too old to not get the bawdy jokes of the relaunch!
"Only the most precocious of children would've had the working knowledge of Agatha Christie..." Oh nooo, not me making a list of the book title references at the time. xD Tbf, Christie's mysteries was one of my special interests as a teen and one of my earliest vacation memories is of my mum watching Suchet as Poirot on the hotel tv. Perhaps a more unusual overlap of interests, but that's the bizarre joy of humanity :D
Yeah I thought a few in the list were a bit of a stretch, and possibly just one way of looking at things. (Not necessarily the writer's intended way). Though lists like this are fun to play along with.
It very much is. Steven Moffat himself was the one who revealed it. (And Alex Kingston had been told the entire plan when she was first hired for Series 5, as they needed her to agree to be available at the required times for it to work.)
They also referenced the Graduate / Mrs Robinson again in Let's Kill Hitler, right after River/Mel regenerates and she poses for the Doctor, she calls him "Benjamin."
The beard reference could also be a pull from the original concept to suggest that his wife was a disguise, more so than just the Master being LGBTQAI+. There were a lot of dynamics going on in that relationship for which, that expression could cover all of them, including the potential yearning over 10. As for the 12th Doctor's gag about the face huggers, that was "hanging a lantern", or at least similar concept to the trope (not sure if it has its own trope name), acknowledging the intentional use of the source material for the concept of these aliens and moving on. If it had not been there, the audience would have been far more incensed about it, even if they didn't realize why. It's like the "Star Trek: Enterprise" episode that took directly from the film "Enemy Mine". If somehow Trip had recognized the parallels and commented on it, far fewer fans would have complained about it being a bad rip-off. It's not something generally needed in subtle nods, but direct obvious pulls, it helps soften the blow.
Not sure if I can remember recognising the Dream Crabs/Kantrofarri as a Facehugger homage as a kid. But those guys are creepy. Another great concept from the mind of Steven Moffat, who I'd argue was the best showrunner of the revived era.
Same. As I said in a comment above, I got all of them except the UK political/cultural ones when they aired. There are times when I wish each of these Who Culture episodes had a NuWho and a Classic Who version. I'd love to see this done for the Doctor Who I watched as a kid.
I just learned that when it comes to Doctor Who hidden references, I am extremely naive. #10 - I've never seen the other Capaldi show, so that doesn't count for me. #9 - Didn't get the "dancing" until a bit after that aired. #8 - I know nothing about Agatha Christie other than the Margaret Rutherford films. I also thought of the movie/game "Clue". #7 - Knew nothing about babes or Blair. #6 - Never noticed 12's finger til this video. #5 - Learned of the Robert Holmes tax stuff in DWMonthly long ago. #4 - Never have seen any of the Alien films. #3 - I did notice 11's sonic bit upon initial viewing! So that's one! #2 - Never thought about the beard bit til this video. #1 - Amy & Rory's bang - no. Mrs. Robinson I didn't connect even though I'd seen the film. Naive or not? Naive, Sweeties.
Definitely didn't have any issues getting any of the Modern Who stuff, as I was in my 30s when it came back in 2005. But some of the Classic Who stuff, yeah...
