Board Thread:Inclusion debates/@comment-4028641-20170222073756/@comment-4028641-20170223040741

Thefartydoctor wrote: I group the Daleks' appearance in this movie with Doctor Who Farted.

I see this as a cultural reference rather than a joke.

Here's a shocker -- I would say that Doctor Who Farted is only invalid because of how its presented in the episode.

If you took it out of the Family Guy episode, edited it into a six-panel comic and printed it in the back of a Titan magazine, there would be nothing stopping it from being valid.

But there's a huge difference between having a fictional episode of Doctor Who in an episode of Family Guy and having the Daleks appear, fully licensed, as characters from another universe for the majority of a movie.

We can easily say that the creators of Family Guy didn't want their story to be treated as valid, because it was presented as a fictional narrative within the TV Show -- much like the Extras sketch. But here we have a full narrative where the Daleks are featured as non-fictional entities. The cases are barely comparable.