Rick and Morty's Doctor Who Parody Is Its Harshest Pop-Culture Callout
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There have been no shortages of pop-culture callouts throughout the Rick and Morty series, from movie parodies to the mockery of entire genres and franchises, though none of them have been harsher than Rick and Morty’s parody of Doctor Who.
Doctor Who is a live-action series fit for viewers of all ages that follows a character named the Doctor, also known as the last survivor of an extraterrestrial species known as the Time Lords. Time Lords have unlimited access to the timestream by way of a TARDIS, a time-traveling ship disguised as a small police box that is famously bigger on the inside. Throughout the Doctor’s adventures, they have collected a number of human companions (who have mostly been female) and show them every corner of the cosmos throughout all points of time as the Doctor gets a thrill from seeing the universe from the eyes of a human and proving to their companions that they, too, have the power to be more than just regular people–but cosmic heroes.
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In Rick and Morty #16 by Kyle Starks and CJ Cannon, the series takes a shot at Doctor Who after Rick, Morty, and Summer encounter a character who is incredibly reminiscent of the Doctor named Peacock Jones who is traveling with a female barbarian companion upon his introduction. By the end of the issue, the barbarian companion is bested by a group of Cybermen-parody characters known as Robobros and Summer takes her place as Peacock Jones’ companion. However, in Rick and Morty #19, it is revealed that Peacock Jones isn’t interested in showing his companions the wonders of space and time for its own sake, but
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