Doctor Who is a long-running British sci-fi show. Matt Groening claims to be a fan of Doctor Who. Each time The Doctor appears he is in his fourth incarnation who was portrayed in the real show by Tom Baker.
References to Doctor Who in The Simpsons
Episodes
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| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Homer Goes to College"
| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|As Homer meets Benjamin, Doug and Gary for the first time they greet him with the words: "Intruder alert! Intruder alert! Get the humanoid!" This was the phrase the evil Dalek robots in "Dr. Who" used to utter.
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| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming"
| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|A caricature-like version of the Doctor appears as a representative of television.
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| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Bart the Fink"
| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Comic Book Guy states that he is watching a marathon of Doctor Who episodes.
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| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Mayored to the Mob"
| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Tom Baker appears in costume at Bi-Mon-Sci-Fi-Con, along with the TARDIS.
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| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Treehouse of Horror X"
| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Comic Book Guy, under the guise of The Collector, has the Doctor concealed in plastic, along with many other "geek" show characters. He introduces the Doctor as "Doctor Who", the character's common nickname.
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| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Springfield Up"
| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Homer mistakes Declan Desmond for the Doctor, when stating "Check with me in 8 years, Doctor Who, I'll be kicking your ass with a golden boot!".
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| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Holidays of Future Passed"
| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|The robot policemen are very similar to the Daleks.
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| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Them, Robot"
| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|The robots smash through the glass room and surround Mr. Burns and Homer in similar fashion to the Cybermen in the Doctor Who episode "Rise of the Cybermen".
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| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Love Is a Many-Splintered Thing"
| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|The TARDIS appears in the movie Love, Indubitably. Alfred Hitchcock then comes out of it.
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| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Diggs"
| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Two of the names on Diggs' arm cast are the TARDIS and Dalek #7.
Comics
Books
Games
References to The Simpsons in Doctor Who
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"Fear Her"
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After figuring out a way to get an alien to stop inhabiting a young girl, the Doctor exclaims "Everything's coming up Doctor!"
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4
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"Planet of the Ood"
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One of the Ood's programming functions is 'classic comedy'. An Ood Operations worker says "Ood, you've dropped something.", to which the Ood replies "D'oh!".
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2009 Specials
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"The End of Time"
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After the Doctor is rescued, he is strapped to a wheelchair. As he's pleading with his rescuers (the Vinvocci) to unstrap him, they wheel him down a flight of stairs. Halfway down, he shouts "Worst! Rescue! EVER!" very much in the manner of Comic Book Guy and his catchphrase.
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Doctor Who magazine comedy comic strips
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Party Animals
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In a spoof comic story, Bart Simpson makes a cameo in a crowd scene.
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Books
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Vampire Science
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Sam Jones says Lisa Simpson is her role model. She also says D'oh!
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Audio CD
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The Cuddlesome
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The Doctor is confronted with killer toys. Some of the toys can be heard saying "Ay Carumba!" and "Eat My Shorts!".
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