SPLAININ TO DO -"THE ORVILLE" & "DOCTOR WHO"

‘THE ORVILLE’
“NEW DIMENSIONS”

LaMarr: 

I think we could create a stable quantum bubble 

inside the shuttle 

and preserve three-dimensional space.

Dr. Finn: 

So the outside would be squashed 

but the inside wouldn't.

Mercer: 

More space inside than out. 

Like Doctor Who's phone booth.

Grayson: 

Or Oscar the Grouch's can.

LaMarr: 

Or Snoopy's doghouse, yeah.

I’m still not sure if ‘The Orville’ should be placed in the main Toobworld TV dimension or shuttled off to some alternate dimension, like Doofus Toobworld.  If I’m remembering it correctly, ‘The Orville’ takes place in the same time period as the original ‘Star Trek’ and ‘Babylon 5’.  That’s already far too crowded, considering the clash between their political systems and dominant alien species.  I may have to relegate B5 to another Toobworld as well.

But ‘Doctor Who’ does exist in the main Toobworld so if ‘The Orville’ was in the same dimension, why are they referring to the TARDIS as if it’s fictional?  (The question could be asked about Oscar as well, as he did once exist on Earth Prime-Time centuries before.  Just about every puppet which appeared to interact with humans independently was a living spirit encased in a puppet shell.  As for Snoopy?  The comic strip dimension, the Tooniverse, and Theatre World, maybe Skitlandia, but he doesn’t exist in the main Toobworld.)

I’ve brought this up many times before – that there once was a shadowy ops organization dedicated to keeping the public blissfully ignorant of certain events and people to prevent widespread panic.  And they did this through movies, TV shows, books, all produced to maintain the illusion that those people and events were fictional.  Agents from U.N.C.L.E., James Bond, the invasions by the Kanamids, the Visitors, the Invaders, the Cybermen, and a certain Time Lord from Gallifrey are believed to be fictional by the citizens of Toobworld.  And that way they could continue with their important work unimpeded by the interference of the populace… for the most part.  (Wouldn’t want to cut off the Doctor’s Companion supply, after all.)

So for the crew of the Orville, the Doctor, along with Snoopy and Oscar the Grouch, were fictional characters.  They probably knew the Doctor from ancient recordings of the Peter Cushing movies in which his character actually was named Doctor Who. Or they saw the TV series used to continue the myth of a fictional Doctor.  (And we have seen that the TV show hired actors who looked like the Doctor – Jon Pertwee, David Tennant, and Tom Baker among those actors.)

Allonsy!