10 Doctor Who Easter Eggs Only Hardcore Fans Spotted

Cybermen in The Day of the Doctor, an Ood in Hell Bent, and the Bad Wolf in Gridlock?!
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[@IrisGalaxis]

I love the Capaldi Doctor's guitar amp being Magpie branded

[@JackRabbit20]

I just like that he plays the guitar a old man rocker is so fun

[@angbald]

Great video as always. I do want to say though that when the Master was playing the recorder he was in the doctor's body. So he had access to the all the doctor memories

[@bradecurrencyfarman2164]

Literally what I came to comment lolol

[@just_kos99]

From "The Stolen Earth": 1. Calufrax Minor -- in "The Pirate Planet" (4th Doctor), written by Douglas Adams, the Doctor sees what happens to "Calufrax." He doesn't call it "Minor" but he does describe it as a cold, icy little world. 2. In "The Trial of a Time Lord" (6th Doctor) -- the Earth is moved 2 light years by the Time Lords. The 10th Doctor mutters to himself, "I've only seen this one time before" or something like that, referring to the Earth being moved by the Time Lords. At least the Daleks were nice enough to put a shield around the Earth before they moved it. The Time Lords didn't, and about 95% of all life was destroyed. I told my sister that since she doesn't watch Classic Doctor Who, she missed these two connections!

[@christinewhoyt]

I'm honestly def gonna work tomorrow on my chapter so I can watch the classic but for that sleep time now.

[@andrewbowman4611]

The line about trying to move the Earth once before is actually a reference to The Dalek Invasion of Earth, in which the Daleks attempt to move the Earth. The Time Lords succeeded in moving the Earth, so the word 'tried' is the clue there.

[@bobbybobstar1496]

Imagine wasting all that time typing 90% bullshit ...clown

[@timrob12]

4:46 - And there is also producer Nikki Wilson voicing the computer in Sleep No More.

[@WhoCulture]

Good one!

[@aliservan7188]

"Tightly choreographed group dancing..." That destroyed me 🤣🤣🤣

[@kmw4359]

Sontar … HA! Ha ha ha 😂

[@sarahglover3286]

I think in Power of the Doctor the Master must have gained the Doctors memories, how else would he have known what outfits to pick out? That's how he knew the song on the recorder, he was the Doctor at the time! Also in Universe Verity was probably named because her Gran had told her parent (whichever side) that story about John Smith throughout their life and they loved the name!

[@timrob12]

Also, about the Master playing that tune on the recorder, I orginally thought they just put some audio from the Troughton era over it, but it was revealed that Sacha Dhawan actually went to the effort of practicing the tune, so my respect to him for putting in the effort.

[@GTArajgaming]

The master knew about the tune because he forced 13th to regenerate into him, that would have carried over ALL prior memories as if it were a "normal" regeneration

[@JadianRadiator]

1:20 This episode also foreshadowed the Doctor being the Timeless Child. Council says only the Timeless Child has ever escaped from that room. And the Doctor gets himself and Clara out stating he had also done so when he was a kid.

[@ZonunSanga-yc3lj]

Agree to disgaree

[@ChrisMentzer]

Nice list! I had noticed the Chaplet reference in that episode.

[@Just_a_Guy94]

I always love when WhoCulture uploads! It makes my day! Keep up the good work! 😃

[@peterbruin5154]

Not in-universe, but I love the xenomorph egg from Alien being on the background of Van Statten's collection in Dalek.

[@pobsdad]

Talking of secret crossovers, there's an episode of Red Dwarf where they show a TARDIS in the hanger.

[@westzed23]

​@@pobsdadI've missed that. Do you happen to know the episode of Red Dwarf with it in? There are a lot of episodes to go through.

[@pobsdad]

@@westzed23 Season 3. Marooned. Blink and you'll miss it, but I'm sure there are clips pointing it out.

[@westzed23]

@@pobsdad Thank you.🙂

[@myrddinemrys1332]

Medusa could also be a reference of turning flesh to stone, or in the case of the Cybermen, to metal.

[@GraceLapointe11]

I'm glad you included the Skye Boat Song. Also, the DW episode The War Games inspired Diana Gabaldon to write Outlander. IDK if that was the episode with the song originally. Maybe!

[@williammitchell4417]

The Irish Rovers made that song again famous in the 1970's

[@DrWhoFanJ]

_The War Games_ is 10 episodes, not one, and it was _The Web of Fear_ that had the _Skye Boat Song_ in it.

[@westzed23]

The Skye Boat Song is an amazing and haunting piece. Most Scots and the diaspora of Scotland know it very well. Played by the bagpipes or a choir singing it brings a feeling of Scotland in a lament.

[@hollymatton474]

Great video Who Culture! Found this one really interesting! I knew about the posters for bad wolf in Gridlock but I'd never noticed the paintings of the blonde girl and the wolf behind charlotte and doctor moon in Silence in the Library! Thanks Ellie and Who Culture! 😊😊

[@blaiddmawrdrwg917]

I do remember the 10th Doctor do that on the episode Fear her and he said ( fingers on lips )

[@Wolf359inc]

That reminds me… Who painted “Gallifrey Falls” (or whatever the painting is actually called)? It must have been painted after the events of the Time War, but the Doctor was, or so he believed, the only survivor. If it was not painted by them, then they must realise that there was at least one other Gallifreyan survivor of that conflict. Why did they not follow this up?

[@treefrog1018]

The fact that the Blink Easter Egg is searchable IRL is SO dang cool!

[@weatherwitchandfelinefamiliars]

Oh what a fabulous list! Loved the extra info too, I know the original painting as it was an album cover for The Pogues I owned! Really loved the connection 54 years apart too, I love how complex Doctor Who connections can be. I mean it's four years before I was born 😮😂❤

[@Soupedupman]

The Master was mixed with the Doctor when playing the recorder. I would guess that it was the Second Doctor's personality coming through while the battle was kind of going on inside.

[@vindurza]

Fun little detail when Missy is first revealed you can hear 4 little beats in a familiar rhythm

[@billgallop]

I’ll go one better with The Skye Boat Song being the theme to Outlander. The author of the original book series, Diana Gabaldon, took inspiration from having seen The War Games and named the character Jamie Fraser for Jamie McCrimmon played by Frazer Hines.

[@theecallie]

In Season 2 episode 11 "Fear Her" the 10th doctor is standing in a group of adults and they are all talking. He put his finger to his mouth. Maybe that is how he discovered he had the power to make people hush.

[@bazzer124]

I've never been one to look for Easter eggs, but still notice them from time to time. Picked up on the Sydney and Verity reference right away, which was a pleasant surprise and a perfect bit of backstory for the "human" Doctor. Cheers....

[@xgropo]

In case anyone is curious, The Raft of the Medusa is an oil painting of 1818-19 by Théodore Géricault (1791-1824). It current resides in the Louvre.

[@meegylufc]

My god I now want a real life Easter egg IN JULY

[@axlefoley6330]

How did the Master know the tune... Did we forget that he forced the Doctor into regenerating into him and as such actually makes him the 14th Doctor because he calls himself the Doctor and would have all the memories he had up until that point this also means that the Doctor has had the same face as a previous incarnation 3 times on TV the first is Tom Baker's the Curator, the 2nd being Jodie Whittaker after the Doctor reverts back to herself again and finally David Tennant when they regenerate and receive the same face as 10. This isn't the only time this channel hasn't really explored this while talking about the subject. Also now that you've pointed out the Cyberman painting in The Day of the Doctor, does anyone know why there is a bust of Albert Einstein right under it? If all of these things in this wing of the gallery have something to do with the Doctor? Could Einstein himself be a future incarnation of the Doctor? Doubtful but hey that would be fun.

[@LukanSpellweaver]

That wasn't the Master playing the recorder in the power of the doctor, it was the rengenerated Doctor, of course he'd have all the Doctor's memories.

[@dfilthy9104]

I've had The Complete David Tennant Years boxset since 2011 and I just learned about the Blink Easter Egg in the scene selection menu.

[@foolonthehill8410]

The cyberman painting was probably the original painting, but early forms of unit or Torchwood stole it and replaced it with a painting with humans lol

[@joanmcfarlane1199]

You mentioned about the Dr being able to stop people talking by him putting his finger on his lips, well David Tennant's Dr was the first to do this in fear her when the residents were all talking at once. Although he didn't make the sound you knew it was implied.

[@griffinmccue6189]

8:38-8:53 "Nae" just that. Sir Fletcher Gordon from _Outlander_ is played by Jamie McCrimmon himself, Frazer Hines.

[@frankharr9466]

No, Who was not the artist, Who was the Doctor. That is a good list. Thank you.

[@TCHorwood-xq7mw]

Lol

[@frankharr9466]

@@TCHorwood-xq7mw HA! Somebody got it! :)

[@SamuelBlack84]

I've always wondered if Harriet Jones mentioning the Mr. Copper Foundation was a reference to something else, or not

[@shark_attk2985]

While rewatching is saw Mike Skinner from The Streets in one of the episodes as a guard or something

[@MidgetMan44]

Didn’t the tenth doctor also use the shush technique in fear her ?

[@benjackson8731]

Something i noticed about John Smith's parents was their occupations. One to do with time and the other about health care....

[@jb888888888]

I can't cite the exact serial let alone scene but I'm 100% sure I remember the Fourth Doctor saying "shush" or similar in the middle of a monologue, quieting a companion or guest character. Probably more than once.

[@mikeknight.1]

BAD WOLF 1 is spare footage from BLUE THUNDER

[@user-vs7el9wm3d]

As to the Sky Boat Song: could both The Doctor and The Master identify with Bonnie Prince Charlie or The Rising of’45? Maybe an unfulfilled destiny? (The lad who was born to be King, as the song goes, perhaps?)

[@jandraelune1]

9:26 That helicopter is ' Blue Thunder ' in the movie by the same name. So another easter egg, tho not an attatchment to Dr Who that I know of. 9:43 Another not Dr Who easter egg is the model of a robot ' Robby the Robot ' from an old movie 'Forbidden Planet ', this robot has shown up in movies and series many times after by itself.

[@plantainsame2049]

Actually, the shush. Appeared in fear her though it wasn't mentioned

[@CallumStapp]

the painting might be the true original like the painting of the silence in season 6(under gallery painting)

[@unsungno1]

Wait - how could he play the 2nd Doctor's recorder? I thought it was destroyed in a matter/antimatter explosion in The Three Doctors - he even laments it's destruction, saying "Pity, it had a nice tone" or similar

[@bradecurrencyfarman2164]

The Master would assumingly have all of the Doctor's memories in Power of the doctor since he did regenerate into her, which would explain why he knows what song to play on the recorder

[@igorschmidlapp6987]

I like the glimpse into Ellie's soundproof survival bunker... ;-P

[@brianfretwell3886]

I'd say the Cyberman#s attitude to using human part was more Frankenstien than canabolism as thet didn't eat any humans literally.

[@gregrimmer-hollyman4564]

Here is one. In Doctor Who and the Daemons the Brigadier calls over the technical specialist sergeant to help the Doctor break through the heat barrier around the town. The sergeant is called….. Sgt Osgood. Any relation?

[@Icelandic_Sand]

Tbf, it was technically the Doctor regenerated into the Master that played the recorder in Power of the Doctor, so he very well could still have the memory of playing it as 2 considering he IS the doctor.

[@anhurtorrez]

Some of these not many would of noticed unless they either had those things, like the DvD, or know Kanji. Also for the Sush part if i remember right Tom Baker did that a few times, and Sylvester McCoy did it to Ace in The Silver Nemesis when she asked him about the secret he is holding. Which by the way the only time in the original even mentions anything about that.

[@Croftice1]

The tune that Sacha's "Mastor" (a blend of MASter and docTOR) is playing, implies, that he has (at least limited) access to the Doctor's memories, since he chose his attire from multiple Doctor regenerations (mostly 7th, but there still are others mixed in) and that he also uses the "recorder"(?) (isn't that an ordinary flute? Or is it a British thing?), that the 2nd regeneration used. Yes, he is the Master hijacking the Doctor's body, but it seems, that the hijack isn't just one sided. After all the Master forced the Doctor to regenerate into him, so underneath the physical appearance of the Master is still some stuff from the Doctor. It's a regeneration after all. All Doctor's regenerations are different personalities with their own quirks and stuff, but overall it's still the same individual with access to memories of the previous regenerations, if needed to. That's how 12th Doctor remembers stuff, that 11th did before, or 10th, or 9th, etc. That's how regeneration works, even a forced one.

[@Croftice1]

The place the 13th Doctor found herself in, speaking to the various incarnations of the Doctor (calling themselves the Gardians of the Edge) was the Edge of (their) Existence, as they explained to her, that each regeneration passes through to make room for the next one. That's quite rubbish, if you ask me, because no previous regeneration ceased to exist, so couldn't really, as they implied, pass through to make room for the next one. I mean 9th personality was still part of the 10th in the Christmas Invasion, wasn't it? Some regenerations still sport manners and quirks of their predecessors from times to times, so they can't be erased from existence. Maybe it was the thing with the forced regeneration, but the Guardians didn't seem to imply it's a special case now, it seemed, like a normal thing. Each regeneration should eventually pass through and make room for the next one. Anyway kinda unrelated, so back to topic on hand.

[@DrWhoFanJ]

A recorder and a flute are two different instruments. The easiest way to tell one from the other is that a flute goes horizontally from the mouth, while a recorder goes vertically. (That’s not to say you can just play one the other way and it changes; it’s simply that the way they are designed to be played has that difference!)

[@BenWillock]

I thought the Master literally became the Doctor, memories and all...?

[@Pille22]

The Tenth Doctor had the power of number 8 too. In one episode he said "Fingers on Lips!" and everybody in his near was compelled to do so. Really weird power. ^^

[@ericgjovaag7958]

I came here to see if anyone had already said it. If they hadn't, I would have. I'll just add, then, that the episode in question was "Fear Her".

[@plantainsame2049]

It's just cheap Hypnosis Hang out with the master long enough you're bound to pick something up

[@igorschmidlapp6987]

Ooh, the Ood... I'll say it every time... ;-P

[@davidclayton579]

Can't forget the ruby red slippers in the Black Archives as the Zygon male human is talking about the objects. Also one can see the clamps from Doomsday.

[@TheGoodSortOfWeird]

My headcannon is the shhhhhh is just that and the doctor overexplains it as a joke to himself

[@neilcoatham]

This would have been spotted before but the four knocks (the heartbeat of a timelord) the rhythm of the four knocks is the same as the opening of the theme tune of the show.

[@TrinityCodex]

ofcourse a real life painting is a reference to 2005 doctor who

[@treefrog1018]

Doctor 10 shushed people in Fear Her too

[@Jamesalec63]

Doctor Who and mysteriously odd plots that often retell a earlier story that has occurred more than an Odd singing at the Doctors weddings on multiple occasions things happen often the wrong way round, but easter eggs have be a part of thevtime lords time on tv since the 60s or you would think? I doubt back then easter eggs weren't called that but i maybe incorrect, and so i apocalypse. Love hidden messages in plane sight though sometimes there might be quite a few in one scene or an object or a reference to a date or a familiar face in a photograph or the doctor popping up in different ways throughput history waring different faces but never cross his own timelines probably, effectively changing history perhaps? Doctor Who history and related easter eggs sometimes will often over look his involvement in his friends lifes either accidentally or just forgetfulness or something he can't even see coming yet he says he remembers everything or is that a easter egg to from a different angle? Now Doctor Who is 60 might time for the good doctor to find some point to look backwards on those things and have sometimes celebrating those missing memories by reflecting and revising old memories and friends from those moments in time and space? Call it lost easter eggs or blink or you'll miss it? 11:49 pm

[@Arizonaguy1856]

DID THAT OOD HAVE ANY RELATION TO THE ONE IN FLUX???

[@colinmoore7460]

Remember that originally The Master was a master hypnotist?

[@CaptainJet99]

5:41 the 25th doctor?

[@ChazaMazza_]

is the scarecrow son of mine from the family of blood/ human nature or what is it?

[@milkydaddy6952]

In the bells of saint Johns theres a book written by amelia williamd

[@nitricoxidegod]

👍

[@goodguyben6716]

i would so love to have the raft of the medusa cyberman version as a background, pity i cant find it anywhere. if anyone knows where you can find it pls link

[@SamButler22]

Does that imply that Sally owns a copy of Season 3?

[@barakmiller2890]

Medusa a creature that turns men into stone or steel?!!!

[@brianartillery]

I did wonder, though, how The Master got The Doctor's recorder. Last time I saw it, it was used to initiate a Matter/Antimatter annihilation at the end of 'The Three Doctors'. Unless it was made of something like Neutronium, I doubt it would have survived.

[@jb888888888]

- Fourth Doctor kept it in the alternate control room, Sarah Jane found it there. - Fifth Doctor tried playing it when he was figuring out his new wardrobe, decided it wasn't for him.

[@brianartillery]

@@jb888888888 - How did The Doctor's fourth incarnation get it when it had been destroyed in a Matter/Antimatter annihilation event? It would not exist. Ceased to be, etc.

[@jb888888888]

@@brianartillery Wibbly wobbly, timey-wimey.

[@IAmAdamTaylor]

Did the Shush also make an appearance in Fear Her with the 10th Doctor when he shuts up the arguing neighbours? He says something like it only works once on each person or am I misremembering?

[@rhyaza]

Didn't the 10th Doctor shoosh everyone on the street in The Idiot's Lantern?

[@corvo6842]

Its not an easter egg its just something i noticed: The Doctor's Daughter is like the Metro game series and books as it largely takes place in tunnels with factions fighting each other in them. Highly recommended reading the books and plsyimg the games aswell

[@MrCuddy2977]

OK, the painting’s based on a real world one? If I didn’t know better, I’d assume they’ve lifted idea from Terry Pratchett’s Night Watch. The book’s cover is a Discworld version of a Rembrandt painting …

[@joannelively9934]

Looking very pretty today Ellie

[@AztechHydra]

Ok and now fifthteen has whistled the song hmm

[@Nicolas-lz6pg]

He said it's a song from Gallifrey so now it's clear how the Master knows it

[@chrisandersen5635]

Ellie Littlechild, you are fucking awesome and hilarious. And the rest of WhoCulture too. Thank you. I did not know about the Easter egg. I must dig out my season three set and have a look. Thanks. Fantastic.

[@DrWhoFanJ]

You’ll struggle as there isn’t one yet (and it will almost certainly be one of the last with how much of it is lost!).

[@TCHorwood-xq7mw]

I think OP means Series 3 (new Who), not Season 3 (classic Who)

[@DrWhoFanJ]

@@TCHorwood-xq7mw I know that’s what they meant, but it is not what they said, and I was informing them thusly.

[@aw-h3875]

@@DrWhoFanJ oh come on babe talk to me, don't be like that, you know I didn't mean it!

[@TheDidymusBrush]

How did you miss the fact that Outlander's main character is called Jamie Fraser as a tribute to Jamie McCrimmon AND Fraser Hines? That's another layer to that Power of the Doctor recorder moment.

[@edwardrhoades6957]

Jamie's actor was Fraser Hines, not Jones.

[@TheDidymusBrush]

@@edwardrhoades6957 Yeah sorry, that was autocorrect going mad! I've met Fraser as well! Lovely fella.

[@thekingofcookies4877]

that is a LOT of soundproof padding in that room, no one can hear screams of your victims from outside I bet.

[@user-kw1sk2ee1h]

Off topic but, I'm liking the music in this vid 😋

[@mikelmacrichard4772]

Surprised you didn't get the episode "Rose" the opening episode of the first series of the revived Doctor Who is continuation of original Spearhead from Space: Episode 1: Season 7 The Doctor is fighting the same the Nestene Consciousness.

[@Venemofthe888]

I dont think the cyber virus would have hit amy and rory since they were buried in America

[@ThetaSigma-vu1sk]

The storm was all over the world

[@SplotchTheCatThing]

5:40 no, no, it couldn't. Believe me. If the twenty-fifth Doctor uses a chameleon arch, she won't turn "human" so much as "pardine"

[@angelasquire6382]

25th doctor? Do you mean 15th doctor 5:38

[@y_fam_goeglyd]

She was talking about a possible future. It was a joke...

[@cbb6019]

The 10 th Doctor also 'sush' people with their fingers on lips in 'Fear Her' season two Martha's television is also a Magpie television

[@BeeWhistler]

I think you read too much into some of these. That last one may have just been someone thinking it would be funny to have a Cybermen version of the painting, no additional reference intended.

[@nevergetrickrolled9198]

I speak chinese so i saw the photo frount

[@Lady_Azkadelia]

I'm sorry to be that person. But Ellie is very cute.

[@dommoore6180]

Well the "shush" one is a load of rubbish

[@ThetaSigma-vu1sk]

Why?

[@dommoore6180]

@@ThetaSigma-vu1sk It's just stupid. It's a smug gag from a god awful episode of the show that's being used as an actual in universe "ability" which just makes it even more embarrassing.

[@shirley34]

Yeah I didn't pick up on any of them 😅

[@michaeltortorice9876]

I don't know if I spotted any of these. I tend to focus on the story. Or maybe I'm just in too bad a mood to recall. Whatever. Good eye, I guess. No, don't go looking at me like that. Never fear, the old Mike will be back eventually, and you'll get your fix of absolute nonsense again. Yay...? With thumbs?

[@mattthesilent777RED]

I'm pretty sure everything after Peter Capaldi's regeneration isn't canon, because the Thirteenth Doctor was Simon Farnaby, the Fourteenth Doctor was Martin Freeman, the Fifteenth Doctor was Mike Wozniak, and the Sixteenth Doctor is Jay Foreman

[@friendlyotaku9525]

What in the world are you talking about?

[@DrWhoFanJ]

@@friendlyotaku9525 They’ve been parrotting this deranged nonsense for years. They’re so determined to ignore all post-2017 DW that they’ve resorted to inventing a replacement for it all rather than simply leave the show for those of us actually capable of processing reality.

[@aw-h3875]

@@friendlyotaku9525 He's a stupid troll. Perhaps with issues

[@lilshorty7037]

Scott whatcock?

[@mattthesilent777RED]

If you accept Jodie Whittaker's Doctor and anything else after it, you betray the franchise

[@friendlyotaku9525]

People who accept are actual fans because she IS the Doctor! Facr

[@mattthesilent777RED]

@@friendlyotaku9525 If you accept her, you love it when shows are written bad enough to be cancelled

[@friendlyotaku9525]

@@mattthesilent777RED the show is still going strong so that ain't true. You're just being sexist

[@mattthesilent777RED]

@@friendlyotaku9525 Actually no... I'm not sexist, it's just coincidental, think about it, how many female Doctors had been written well before Jodie? Besides, in my Doctor Who, the 60th Anniversary Special has the Doctor meet parallel universe versions of himself, one being a fanmade incarnation, two being parallel universe versions of previous incarnations, and three being female of different age groups.

[@friendlyotaku9525]

@@mattthesilent777RED ...what in thr world are you talking about?

[@beardedmotu2007]

“Don’t BLINK … Good Luck 🍀… 🗿what year is it lol 🟦🔲🔲🔲🟦🟦🔲🔲🔲🟦 ⏳🧳Ellie 🎬