Doctor Who: The Giggle Breakdown - 38 Easter Eggs & References!
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- The most fan service-y special yet. Here’s our breakdown of Doctor Who's final 60th anniversary episode - The Giggle!
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BEST EPISODE IN AGES, RIVER SONG GOT MENTIONED
ive not heard any mention any where aobut the similarities between the bigeneration here and torchwoods finale whice saw the american detective at the end come back to life and repair himself like jack. basically people with jacks powers, and now two doctors. This at the time was when RTD also collab'ed with america possibly as a spin of seiries for the US.
I too exclaimed "YES" when her name dropped. Since we may never see her again, River Song getting mentioned is certainly a criteria I take into account when considering if an episode is good or not. The Caretaker episode in series 8 was just ok, but River Song got mentioned in the same story as otters, so I love it lol.
Did Donna saying “Sweetie” during the fight with Sue and the babies not give you River Song flashback? Did me. And then there was Mel sating all the doctors are fantastic. Quick 9th Doctor flashback there.
Hmmm... wonder who wrote THAT comment!?
@@johna5635 Which comment? My comment?
You missed the Mole Easter egg! When 9 regenerated into 10 he commented that he’s got a mole on his right shoulder blade “love the mole” - 14 said this line during the lunch with the nobles which is a nice nod to one of David’s first lines in Doctor Who
Dammit, you beat me to it by 20 minutes!!
Yes, that's what I immediately thought of
Came here to say exactly this!
I thought it was a reference to the wombles
It took a week for me to realise, but when I did, I had to stop everything I was doing and come see if anyone else had spotted it. If no one had, I'd probably have sent Russell a DM ...
Merry Christmas!
Also noticed the salt thing The Doctor did seems to be a real thing now, after the toymaker got folded up into his box, Kate said to make sure to encase it in salt.
the salt thing is based on myths from some cultures and likely stems from the Bible, a variant of it (sand) was used to great effect in the comic book version of Preacher, where the title character used his "Voice of God" ability to compel a character to count every grain of sand on a beach!!!!
Aside from salt being a real-world fabled protection against evil, in Who salt goes back to (at least) the Image of the Fendahl in 1977.
@@chrisrichardson111 yes but in the context included in these specials, both admitted it was just a myth and he regrets doing it and what it could end up effecting, now it’s suddenly a thing UNIT does as matter of fact.
@stryker_t Looks like you have found an RTD shaped plot hole. The Doctor said he "invoked a superstition" in WBY. In universe, the superstition supposedly has its origins in salt's ability to kill Fendahleen.
So, why would UNIT think it was effective when it only worked on Fendahleen and why did the Doctor forget it wasn't a superstition but a defense against a specific threat?
Although, if it is only the supposed reason for the superstition it might work on other things and knowing what those things are is UNIT'S business.
@@chrisrichardson111Didn't he mention about the salt thing in UNIT's HQ scene? Kate certainly would have heard that and would take it in good faith from the Doctor's words that such superstition might have power in regards to the Toymaster.
As he was regenerating, when Mel says "every one of you is fantastic", the notes echo Ecclestone's regeneration theme. Same progression/notes. Nice little touch there too. :)
Personally, I wish the shop next to Mr Emporium was a Magpie's Electrics store. And that's where John Logie Baird could've got his electrical from.
I wanted to ess Aziraohale's book shop.
That’s a great idea - it’s somewhat surprising we haven’t seen Magpie’s branding anywhere lately!
The Master's Tooth Easter Egg is an even deeper cut than going back to The Last of The Timelords. The entire sequence was itself a reenactment of the conclusion of Flash Gordan where "someone" picks up Ming The Merciless's ring just before the end credits.
I was just thinking that too (I'd actually recently rewatched Flash Gordon randomly!)
Shooting moles was a reference to something Bernard Cribbins actually did. RTD said somewhere that he recalled a phone conversation where Cribbins' wife said he couldn't come to the phone straight away because he's "hanging out the window shooting moles", and RTD could hear the gunshots in the background.
Also, the "GRADES" shop is actually a real hairdressers at that location, so maybe the reference to Michael Grade was unintentional.
A real hairdressers? How do you know it didn't travel over from The Whoniverse into our reality? Never existed before... Now it's in our history 😉
I like this a lot more knowing it's a reference to something actually Cribbins did
Grades referring to the different grades of a hair clippers for short hair (something Ellie might not be familiar with) makes a lot more sense than a dig at an actual person.
I absolutely loved the giggle by far the best episode in years. It did feel like we were missing a big Easter egg though. The lack of any mention of Martha seemed strange especially given the fact that Donna spent more time with Martha than she did with Rose
Um. no.
The Toymaker was clearly picking the companions that died / came to a bad end.
"Well, that's alright, then". He was being nasty.
Martha survived and went on to work for UNIT, became a freelance alien fighter with Mickey Smith, etc. - she didn't come to a bad end, so it wouldn't have been mean and nasty to mention her.
@@techniqueswithtoddUm no what? It’s his opinion
@@klaxoncow I meant in the episode in general not just that scene with the toymaker. I thought she might have gotten a mention during the conversation with 14 & 15 when they talked about rose and Sarah Jane Smith. It just seemed strange to me that she got no mention at all
@klaxoncow They all survived in their own way. Just not how they expected to. Amy lived a long and happy life in the past. Clara is now essentially immortal until she returns to the Trap Street. Presumably after having lived for far more years than she would have had she never met The Doctor. And Bill is now a Cosmic entity running around the universe with Heather.
But as for Martha - Donna already knew Martha's story. So nothing there for her to question "is all that true."
And, as for not getting a mention later in the TARDIS alongside Adric, River and Sarah Jane. This was an anniversary special. Adric was the first main character to die (sorry, I don't give Katrina companion status - you have to be in more than one serial for that). River was The Doctor's wife. And Sarah Jane is almost universally regarded as the audience's favorite companion of the entire 60 year run.
In other words, the three biggest gut punches for the audience to be reminded of. The deaths of Adric and River. And the real world death of Elisabeth Sladen.
In the 2nd game scene where the Doctor and the Toymaker split cards, whenever the Toymaker split his deck to reveal a king, if you look closely, you can see that it has the face of Matt Smith. Really great Easter egg to a Doctor that should’ve been there.
I thought the king's face looked like the original Toymaker/actor.
Ellie, these Who/Trek Cultures are always great treats!!! THANK YOU!!!! I think you missed one very deep one: When 14 says he "loves the moles," he is calling back to his first "Children in Need" special where, newly regenerated for less than two minutes, he tells Rose that he feels a mole on his back and he says "I love the mole." Double-bank shot for RTD!!!
The Toymaker saying "I accept your challenge" to The Doctor. I feel like that _has_ to be a reference to Neil's role as Barney Stinson in How I Met Your Mother. "Challenge accepted".
I desperately wanted the doctor to say challenge accepted.
And how Barney had a playbook, just how the Toymaker plays games
Thank you for mentioning where the lady who picked up the tooth was standing. It's been bothering the hell out of me that NOBODY seems to have mentioned that yet. Is it a tiny thing that shouldn't cause me to get irritated over? No, but I have OCD and it hasn't left my brain.
What I can't get over is the fact that going all the way back to The Last of The Timelords when the scene was "first" done, no one mentioned that the entire scene itself is an homage to Flash Gordon and Ming the Merciless's ring at the end of the film. When I watched Last of the Timelords as a new release episode, my initial reaction to seeing The Master's ring being picked up at the end was Flash by Queen from the motion picture soundtrack.
After watching Flash Gordon, you'll never watch those scenes from Doctor Who again without hearing Freddie Mercury belt out in your head "Flash Ah-Ah". Every single time.
Another one:
"I challenge you to a game" reminds me a lot of "i challenge you to a duel" in the Christmas invasion. I love that the way he takes care of the villain in his last episode as the doctor mirrors the way he takes care of the villain in his first episode as the doctor.
What about the Easter egg towards 9th doctor when Mel says “doesn’t matter who because every single one of you is fantastic”
I thought that too
His regeneration song was playing during that line so it definitely was.
I can't believe you left out the fact that the 14th doctor wasn't wearing any underwear at the end. During the bi-generation, the two doctors split up the clothing, and the 15th got the underwear.
Both wear a white shirt though, so there's precedent for some articles of clothing bi-generating alongside the Doctor.
@@MichaelHeide Tennant is wearing an undershirt (it looks the same at a distance but up close you can see it has a different collar and looks like a jersey knit rather than plain cotton) and waistcoat with trousers and bare feet, Gatwa gets the socks and shoes, underpants, shirt and tie.
@@MichaelHeide One is an undershirt. Notice the sleeves and collars are different.
Bare feet. Does this mean he will die?
Bold of you to assume The Doctor only wears one pair of underwear.
I love the moles is a callback to 10's 1st minisode when he notices the mole on his back, I love the moles. When regenerating Tennant says It Feels Different this time just as his father-in-law said during his regeneration scene
your second thing: yes, she said that.
@@CaritasGothKaraoke oh , she did , I missed that , how'd I miss that , well I watch while I work , so that's probably why, but she definitely missed the i love the mole thing, i know i was paying attention then lol
After watching the doctor who special. The Doctor mentions the toymaker as someone whose universe is a world where reality is a game and everyone’s a toy. Which reminds me of a line from the 11th Doctor when he says in an emotional speech about “where I walked through universes where the laws of physics were devised by the mind of a mad man!” That was from Speech to Akhaten in The Rings of Akhaten which might have been a passing mention of the toymaker.
One thing I like to think of as a reference to torchwood is the setting of soho also being a setting in torchwood in the 1950s (look we don’t get a lot of references to torchwood so I’ll take what I can get)
Interesting that the 14th said, "Feels different this time", considering that Pete Davidson is David Tennant's father-in-law. There was even a nod to the 9th Doctor during that same scene as when Mel says, "When every single one of you is fantastic," the 9th Doctor's regeneration song plays. It was also a throwback to one of the 9th's final lines.
Omg. Look at Ellie's hands. Is she the one who picked up the gold tooth??😂😂😂😂😂
Really glad I wasn’t the only one who picked up on the “Grades” Easter egg. Also, not really an Easter egg, but I found it kind of odd that the Doctor was fine with Donna and Mel being beside him when he regenerates. He normally shoots regeneration energy out of his hands, which is VERY dangerous!😱😂
“The devastation of Logopolis” was more like The Flux - a chunk of the universe getting destroyed, such as Traken, the planet Nyssa came from (and her father, whose body was taken by the Master). The “trial” was probably referring to the final 2nd Doctor episode but it could just as easily be the 6th Doctor; whereas the stranding on Earth was absolutely the suffering of the 3rd Doctor, and his first few seasons kept showing how he missed being able to travel, and he ran experiments to get his memory back of how to operate the TARDIS.
As much as I agree that I love wilf living on. I think a funeral scene showing the doctor stopping and dealing with the grief at the funeral showing that he is starting to heal I think would have been a really great scene.
maybe later on when they get reabsorbed back into each other and become the next next doctor.
If they do more specials with 14 that could be a starting point and be a B plot throughout the adventure.
@@dragonrana88 RTD obviously planned a "14/Donna/NuRose Adventures" spinoff (he gave them their own TARDIS, which they've already used, per NuRose).
Another interesting note for the Rose petals, and indeed the significance in the name Rose, a comic I believe all the way back in the 60s established that Rose is the english translation of the Galifreyan name Arkytior, which the same comic claims is the original name of Susan Foreman, which adds another layer to the meaningfulness of the name.
When The Doctor didn't correct Mel on being the first Red Head... I think he was letting her have that win since their onscreen time was so short
I think Mofatt did a better job explaining how all these stories that don't make sense together are all canon. When 11 tells Amy the reason she can remember both her life without her parents and her life with her parents is because time is being rewritten all around us all the time. It was a little more elegant than there just being this God character that can change things
Also, The Toymaker says "I've played against the Guardians of Time and Space and shrank them into voodoo dolls". Pretty sure this is a reference to the Black and White Guardians from Seasons 16 and 20.
I didn't notice until my second viewing, but the Galvanic Beam gun looks very similar to a film camera. Thought it interesting especially when some of the episode is about the invention of television.
it really doesn’t.
In regards to The Doctor offering an opportunity to The Master to travel together. 3 said something similar to Delgado's Master when The Doctor was exiled on Earth.
Great list overall!!!❤❤
Just to be clear, Wombles are not moles in any shape size or form, they are Wombles, a species unto themselves. :)
As a kid I always thought Wombles were supposed to be small, maybe somewhere between a mole and a badger, then there was something on TV with Bernard Cribbins and full-sized adults in a suit Wombles. Freaked my teeny tiny self out hahaha
@@OldManFerdiad The TV series was stop motion, narrated byBernard Cribbins. Mike Batt made a few records and when they were on Top of the Pops they were people in costumes. There was a live action movie as well. IIRC Bonnie Langford was in it.
(I think I might be a Womble nerd, I read all the books as well)
I always assumed they were a pecuilar breed of hedgehog, native to parkland in South West London. :)
I got another one for ya.
The moles.
So they talk about Wilf and learn that he's off shooting the moles, and the doctor says that it's alright because he gave the moles a forcefield, and that he loves them. Donna goes, "You love the moles?" "I love them!"
This could very well be a nod to the Children in Need special in 2005. Rose Tyler just witnessed the doctor regenerate for the first time, from 9th to 10th, and the 10th, after setting course for the planet Barcelona, asks how does he look, before declaring, "No! No, no, no, don't tell me!" and begins to examine himself. He discovered he has hair, sideburns, that he's thinner than before but that he'll get used to it, and then his voice lowers slightly as he said, "I... have got... a mole... I can feel it, right between the shoulder blades... That's alright! Love the mole!"
He still loves the moles!!!
Good catch.
Glad to see your doing better Ellie. Really liking the videos and it's good to see that you're gaining more subscribers as well.
I want River Song to come back so much ... besides loving the character, Ellie's reaction video would be off the hook :)
The dance number was definitely a nod towards jobu tupaki's entrance in EEAAO. Also, Rose wanting googly eyes in The Star Beast!
Ooh yeah killing the unit soldiers in such novel and trivial ways. Love that film.
Mel's character is much better than originally.
Atleast she got to evolve the character
I'm looking forward to seeing more of her.
The scene with The Toymaker cutting cards, I'm sure the pause on the King playing card is Matt Smith, not only as a previous Dr, but also as he played the King in Netflix's the crown
The way that Mells have gone back to earth, catching a ride on other spaceships, to me is clearly a reference to the hitchhiker guide to the galaxy!! I was expecting the easter eggs video for you to mention it and you didn't catch this one 😮
because it wasn’t one. It sounded more like an interstellar Uber/Lyft type rideshare.
"I got a lift from a teaser." Ford Prefect
A small Easter Egg I noticed during the 14th's regen. There was musical nods/hints to Vale Decem, 10th's regen theme in the background!
The king when the toymaker cut the cards was looked like him from the his first appearance. And (it may have been changed since airing) the close captions during the game catch, listed the 10 as the character’s name and not 14.
So the person responsible for cutting Doctor Who twice got a barber shop named after them in the episode, that's brilliant 😂
That said give the kind of life Glitz lived in I think it's a miracle that he lived to be 101. I would have though he'd died a lot earlier than that after he managed to upset on too many galactic governments.
But wasn't that the point of what Mel said? She stayed behind to help make him 'better' and apparently managed just that.
James Purefoy (The Following, Monk's Last Case) would make a superb Master. Just throwing that into the Universe
If we can't get John Simms back as The Master, I'll definitely take James Purefoy.
@@Terahnee Purefoy's a scary and charismatic actor which makes him perfect
Yes, he'd be great. I want the next Master to be a return to the suave and menacing Delgado mould rather than the unhinged Simm/Dhawan portrayal. (Nothing wrong with that, just think it's been done now.)
HOW DID I MISS THE SHIRLEY YOU CAN'T BE SERIOUS OMG
@rabb1tdotcom feeling that... and more. How do you imagine I fare with references to lines from bill and ben the flowerpot men, dixon of dock green, some mothers do 'ave 'em, hawaii five-o, listen with mother, the professionals, the clangers, noah and nellie, chigley, etc etc
Wow great stuff thx. I like how there was a lot of fan service but most of it was easter eggs. It’s nice that Mel got to shine as the big return in the episode.
25: It was established in that prior episode that, in the event of a world ending threat, the Doctor instantly becomes world president.
Thank you. I ❤️❤️ your Easter egg videos!
Someone may have already commented, but wasn't the puppet show specifically to show Donna what had happened after the Doctor left her? That's probably why there were no earlier companions mentioned in that scene.
Yep that’s right!
Maybe Doctor Who will wait a few doctors to "announce" the death of Bernard Cribbins as Wilf. You know, like how 11 got the call that the brig died.
And 15 mentioning the passing of Sarah Jane.
Happy to hear/ see your voice back to normal Ellie! I didn’t catch the reference to the company that owned Rose’s store! Here I thought I was the only one that thought there was something to the number 47 reference! I should’ve known WhoCulture would pick up on it too! Haha
I know hes not liked by a lot of fans, but I got a real sad pang of nostalgia when Adric was mentioned! I really liked him and he is the first tv character I remember crying over their loss 😢
Adric was the first main character to die on screen in the franchise history. Plenty of other characters had died. Including Katrina (1st Doctor "companion" but she was only in two serials - can you really count her as a "main" character when she died before audiences really had a chance to get to know her? She doesn't even have her own Wikipedia entry - the only 1st Doctor "companion" not to have one).
And, I get your reaction to Adric's death. I think that a lot of modern era fans who also grew up watching Classic Who, especially fans that have an aptitude for science and math, saw Adric as a POV character that brought them into the TARDIS. If one teenager can travel with The Doctor on the basis of being a science/math wiz, then any of us could.
@@KyleWitten Exactly! As a kid, I felt I could relate to Adric in a way I hadn't with other characters.
14:34 Another point worth mentioning is that while this scene is referencing a similar thing from Ten’s era, that original version could also be a reference to the cliffhanger at the end of the movie Flash Gordon from the 80s.
RTD confirmed that back in Season 3 that the shot was a reference to Flash Gordon. He's since stated that he didn't now if HE would be the one to bring The Master back, he just wanted to leave a plot thread for someone in the future.
Thanks Ellie, and glad you are feeling better. Great 60th Stories (Except for THAT moment), and great coverage by the channel. I've really enjoyed watching each episodes & then your follow up videos. We here are very ready now for what the 15th Doctor gets up to!
Yay Ellie, glad you are feeling better.
So many hidden goodies. Love this
Thank you for pointing out the angle of picking up the tooth. There’s no place for the owner of that hand to be standing!
Maybe it's one of the crew climbing back up the building.
Where did you get your Christmas Doctor Who jumper?? I need it! 😍
Wilf lives!
A Zingo is what you get a lift off. Duh.
Very fun. I'm interested to see what y'all have in store between now and the Christmas special.
You're forgetting the reference to Donna Noble's as the doctor's sister when he calls her his best friend but calls her daughter and calls her husband his brother-in-law and her mother the wicked step mother I've been saying since the episode in which Donna appeared and they were on that spaceship that she was more like his sister especially when she came to his clone daughter I guess it would call it you know Jenny it's also that scene is also kind of a reference to that too.
Great stuff! Small point (4:10) RTD might know that this wasn't true, but the _character_ Mel wouldn't have known this. She never met Turlough or Liz Shaw... and the latter had auburn, not red, hair.
The “moles” mention during the family lunch, I think is even deeper than we think.
Jasper Carrott’s “the mole” ends with him saying “…Blue flashing lights…” was that the police arriving or maybe a certain ‘police box’ arriving?
Who knows…er…Who knows…
I do believe that the zingo is just the Seventh Doctor. We should know that in the Big Finish audios the Doctor and Ace found Mel in trouble because of some "debt" she had from her life with Sabalom Glitz. They fixed the problem, and then they travelled together for a while, ending presumably back in our times for Mel.
I know, it's been a while since The Giggle came out, but, as I was rewatching AGAIN this episode, I couldn't not notice that The Toymaker played by NPH says "I accept your challenge". Reminded me straight away of one of the best roles of NPH, Barney Stintson and his multiple "Challenge Accepted"... I'm quite surprised this reference didn't came out more often...
When Tennant says "we could...Celestial" its of course a references to the toymaker's full title being "The Celestial Toymaker" but the way Tennant says it sounds spookily like the way he says it as the demon Crowley in Good Omens.
Honestly, Tennants final lines (both times) seriously makes you wonder if RTD just planned to come back as showtimes one day and planed this whole series of events. Obviously he didn’t but he’s able to tie a little bow tie so easily in his writinf
16:27 And we got a story about a species that only communicates using wind. That by the way already confirmed the Doctor could be female way before Whittaker.
One fantastic Easter egg that I caught after my 4th rewatching is the great Murray Gold slipping in The Doctor Triumphant when he enters and surveys the 15th's Tardis. I teared up a bit when my ear tracked it.
Good vid. I think you might have missed at least 2 and maybe 4 EEs. 1. The sparkling tooth is almost certainly an allusion to the sparkling teeth of Tony Curtis’s character in the 1965 Blake Edwards film “The Great Race.” 2. The ball-battle on that platform jutting out high over London, and the way the Toymaker teeters on its edge when he misses the ball, sure reminded me a lot of the duel between the 10th Doctor and the head Sycorax dude in 2005’s “The Christmas Invasion,” which was DT’s first appearance as the Doctor and also saw him, toward the end, sharing a festive meal with a companion - Rose Tyler - and her family, a nice bookend. 3. This one is an obscure one, I admit, but several of the Toymaker’s scenes had the feeling of a carnival sideshow, with him as the barker. Neil Patrick Harris’s most iconic stage role was as Lee Harvey Oswald/The Balladeer in the 2004 Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim’s “Assassins,” which was loosely set in a sideshow shooting gallery, where Harris’s character was more or less the barker. 4. Even more obscure, I admit, but stay with me, Harris’s archly over-the-top German accent could be a nod to the performance by Kenneth Mars as the comically Nazi playwright of “Springtime for Hitler” in Mel Brooks’s first feature film, 1967’s “The Producers.”
Always waiting patiently for your breakdowns Ellie 😂😂 so ready for this!
The goggles that the Toymaker was wearing... yes they were not lab goggles, but it still looked soooo much like a nod to when Neil Patrick Harris was playing Dr. Horrible.
A Galvanic beam and a grand show of villaineous masterplan is exactly what Dr. Horrible would have done
another thing i noticed is that it might not necessarily be a reference but NPH as toy maker says "i accept your challenge" to the doctors before the game of catch, which could be a slight nod to his other character Barney Stinson which he played in how i met your mother where one of his most notable catchphrases was "challenge accepted"
I'm glad you mentioned the Wombles. It allows me to slip in this fun fact (nothing to do with Dr Who, unless RTD also happens to be a Mike Batt fan. That could be a secret easter egg).
The singer of the Wombles theme song was the one and only Mike Batt who, after cashing in on the Wombles songs, went on to write and sing some of yhe greatest songs I've had the pleasure of listening to. For example:
The Road To Agadir and Railway Hotel.
List your own favourites below. 👍
The laugh or arpeggio you hear associated with Neil Patrick Harris's Toymaker is the same as the mocking laugh associated with Doctor Horrible in the Web series of the same name. NPH played Doctor Horrible, btw.😊
Ellie, your acknowledgement other Redheads in the Doctors life, the 8th’s Doctor, Dr.Grace was skipped. (😘) The Doctor has asked if he is now “Ginger”.
My Mom was ‘red’ - my beard was red, now grey (54 years)
…and with Mel, Donna, and our new UNIT Science, three Ginger Women helping save the reality of Earth, Ellie, you must have been proud too.
Wanna know something weird? I was at a restaurant a couple of days ago and the waitress was the spitting image of Ellie. It was very weird as I’d just seen an episode of what culture where she mentions she used to be a waitress 😛 A boring fact you now also know 😂
🤔 I totally believe it, Ellie could be a time traveler as well
Spoilers!
Who culture not what culture
@@kadosho02that would make her a teleporter not a time traveler
@@tshelby5212 WhatCulture is the parent of WhoCulture, TrekCulture, etc.
The bit where 14 is speaking to the Toymaker and says "celestials" is almost identical to a moment in Good Omens where Crowley says the same thing with almost exactly the same hand gesture!
Yay! Thanks for all your work Ellie
Ooooh I've so been waiting for your the giggle video 😊
A request, if I may; I do miss Bernard Cribbins (I'm pretty sure I speak for many when I say we all do), and in discussing his life, and past achievements, I was wondering if it might be possible to take a look at the (non-cannon, or at least semi-cannon, since they were based on two stories from the Hartnell era) two American Doctor Who (or is that Dr. Who?) movies from 1965, and 1966, respectfully, as the second one (Dalek Invasion Earth 2150) starred Mr. Cribbins...
I'd love them to do an indepth video on those classic variant!
According to the novelisation of The Day Of The Doctor, the Cushing films do exist in the Whoniverse, and, specifically, are American films based on the memoirs of one of The Doctor's early companions. There was supposed to be movie posters up on the wall in the Black Archive, but the scenes weren't filmed supposedly due to rights issues.
@@DaddyStoat That's very cool! Thank you for sharing that!
To the "President of Earth (or the world)" stuff, some people think, that Kate looked to the Doctor for permission because he is against weapons, like in the Christmas Invasion. But it was THE DOCTOR, who came up with the idea to shoot the satelite down, the Doctor himself asked, if it can be shot down. So why would Kate need his permission, if not for the obvious reason - all other leaders were influenced by the Giggle and the Doctor held the highest rank as the President of Earth anyway.
Bonnie Langford actually commented on the computer thing in an interview, saying that we never saw Mel behind a computer in her original run, even though she's supposed to be a programmer, so it was nice to see that finally happen.
Small little thing that might not mean much but when Donna says the line “My names Donna and you’re a gonna” is not the first time Catherine Tate used a similar rhyme in a Doctor Who context. Her, John Barrowman, and David Tennant, did a song called “The Ballad of Russell and Julie” and in it she said, “The Doctor needs a brand new mate. Don’t linger, go ginger I’m gonna bring back Catherine Tate. I wanna, you’re gonna, rewrite the Doctor with the fabulous Donna”
When i watch the episode and hear the 14th and 15th Doctors talking about the things they did and talking about they're friends they lost, i feelt happy and sad about hearing River, Adric and Sarah Jane
What's even nicer is that it came up from the 15th Doctor. 15, who is the 14th's future as we know (they aren't split twins, 14th still has to regenerate properly into 15th one day to close the loop), informs 14th about the passing of Sarah Jane. The future incarnation clearly at peace with the fact broke the news to the younger incarnation, starting the self healing process already.
I still can't get over how much Jemma Redgrave looks like an older version of the actress who played Kate in Downtime.
After the last reference, when The Doctor said "I love the Moles", I instantly thought that was a reference to "Born Again" and the mole between his shoulder blades.
Wow! If anybody was going to catch the "Don't call me Shirley" line it should have been me. Airplane! is my #1 favorite film of all time. I missed it in The Giggle. Guess I need to give it another watch.
Neil's role in HIMYM, Barney, usually said "Challenge accepted". The Toymaker said at least 2 times in The Giggle: "I accept your challenge". It must be a reference there :)
Wilf was mentioned as having a garden in The Star Beast. He has probably taking up gardening, and is defending his garden from the moles.
He probably isn’t shooting to kill them, just to scare them away. Unfortunately, Fourteen gave them shields, so they have nothing to be afraid of!
Am I the only person who finds Ncuti's "push!" evocative of a human giving birth?
I've handheld through a couple of those, and that was my first thought!
Loved the breakdown, and the episode was great -- RTD2 has clearly matured as a writer!
The analysis is beautiful.
Did you catch Donna’s “Hello Sweetie”? Right before she smashed the puppet.
I heard "hello stookie" though more river song references are always a good thing
Has anyone else noticed that this is another visit to 1925 for the Tardis, the first one being Black Orchid, without in either no one mentioned the appearance of the Police Box, as the P.P.C.B. was loosely based on the design from 1936 except made out of wood instead of concrete.
I think you missed that the Korean satellite is called KOSAT 5. As in Satellite 5? Could this be a precursor to the Satellite we see twice in Series 1?
You missed that at the end of the dance number, the Toymaker drops out of the scene with a honk honk which sounds suspiciously similar to the one used by his clown minions in the original Celestial Toymaker serial. Was quite chuffed when I noticed that one
Depending on how they spelt it, "Zyngo" could be an anagram of Zygon. Did Mel get confused and accidentally bring back an invasion?
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The music playing when the Doctor and Donna are being taken to UNIT HQ sounds like a variation of the Shepherds Boy. And the music playing when they step into the building sounds like a variation of UNIT Rocks from series 4.
also UNIT's new HQ is basically Stark/Avengers tower. And Toymaker's epic Spice Up Your Life bit is also a fun nod to both NPH's penchant for musical numbers & lip sync battle
My mind was just blown away. The Wombles have been a thing?! I only know SovietWomble, but it didn't know he got that actually from a show xD
there's a couple that were missed in this video: The first when Donna was facing off against the dolls, she said "Hello Sweetie" referencing River's Iconic line, the second before the Bi-Generation, Mel told the Doctor "Every one of you is Fantastic" Which is a nod to Christopher Ecclestone's Iconic Catchphrase.
Not sure 21 is actually an Easter egg... The actual hairdresser's on the street where it was filmed is called Grade's... Could be a lucky accident and they decided to keep it in for that purpose though 🤷♀️
given the nature of the business, would have been so sweet if it was named 'Grade's Cuts' but the implication is more than enough for me
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15:20 I heard Anthony Ainsley’s laughter and yes I did hear John Simm’s laughter. I couldn’t make out the female laughter so I assumed Missy as well. Im going to clip it and put headphones on so I can REALLY study it.