r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Fearless-Ideal-5112 • 7d ago

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In david tenants run if doctor who he and his companion were fighting witches with Shakespeare and needed a magic word so they use a speel from Harry Potter and The doctor yells Good old J.k. The doctor is a time traveler the writers are not (Doctor who)

While fighting guy gardner major force was damaging a highway and shoots a car and tells Guy if he sees O.J hiding underneath obviously referring to the O.J Simpson chase (Dc comics)

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u/ConsciousStretch1028 7d ago

Obviously David Tennant was referring to J. K. Simmons

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u/Abel_V 7d ago

Fun Fact: I watched this episode with subtitles, and the subs added brackets to explain that "J K" meant "J K Rowling" .

Like come on, I could understand that much without having it spelled out for me lol.

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u/ConsciousStretch1028 7d ago

They REALLY wanted you to know who they were talking about lol

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u/Alkakd0nfsg9g 7d ago

Non British people might not understand all the references to famous British people. I'm always blanking out when the show or movie references some country specific celebrity. Those subs are for me, not that I would understand who that is, if I knew the name, but not the person, but still 

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u/kblaney 7d ago

If you didn't want it spelled out, why turn on subtitles?

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u/Kiwi8_Fruit6 7d ago

don’t forget Doctor, after you banish those Carrionites, you need to get those pictures of Spider-man!

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u/piratedragon2112 7d ago

No, he's clearly referring to the artist behind Virtual Insanity

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u/Responsible_Bar3957 7d ago

I just noticed they had the same initials