At this rate, we're going to need a network TV crossover between Criminal Minds' Dr. Spencer Reid and Community's Abed Nadir.
Last night's season finale of CBS' crime drama series Criminal Minds gave more love to BBC TV series Doctor Who with a trip to a local science-fiction convention called Sci-Fi-Gate. During the opening teaser of the two-hour episode "Hit/Run," Reid (played by Matthew Gray Gubler) and fellow profiler Penelope Garcia (Kirsten Vangsness) are shown walking outside the convention, with Reid costumed as none other than Tom Baker's Fourth Doctor and Garcia wearing a fez and a bow tie in tribute to Matt Smith's Eleventh Doctor era. After being thanked by Garcia for accompanying her to the convention, Reid replies, "Of course, I've been knitting this scarf for weeks."
This wasn't the first time Reid has shown his love for Doctor Who. Back in February of 2011, he was involved in a discussion comparing Doctor Who with the 1989 time-travel comedy movie BIll & Ted's Excellent Adventure.
If you'd like to see the scene for yourself, you can check it out HERE thanks to YouTube user ssalexblake.
SQUEE! I Thought I was the only one who had a rabid fan(girl) person? moment when that showed up! I DREAM of GEEK crossovers!
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DeleteThere's another very sly reference that I almost missed. In one episode before this one, Kevin Lynch opens the door to Garcia's office while she is speaking to someone and he's wearing a Doctor Who scarf. Not the same one as Reid is, but the brown and red one.
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