Doctor Who Flux: 14 Best Easter Eggs You Might've Missed

2. The Hollywood Handshake

Doctor Who The Vanquishers Hollywood handshake
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If, for some strange reason, you don't watch The Great British Bake Off, then this fun little moment will have flown right over your head.

During an early scene in The Vanquishers where Joseph Williamson explains his tunnels to the Doctor, she responds by thanking him for his work, before leaving him with a much-coveted Hollywood handshake.

A Hollywood handshake is essentially the highest form of praise that Bake Off judge Paul Hollywood can bestow upon the contestants, usually being reserved for moments of genuine excellence.

It's a great honour, often leaving the recipient - like good ol' Giuseppe in the most recent series - in tears.

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Danny has been with WhatCulture for over ten years, and is currently Doctor Who Editor and WhoCulture Channel Manager, overseeing all of WhatCulture's Whoniverse coverage. In 2022, he took charge of WhoCulture and has grown it into the biggest Doctor Who channel on YouTube, and one of the biggest Doctor Who communities on the web full-stop. He has been writing and video editing since his early teens, and first got a taste for content creation after making his own Doctor Who trailers, off the back of a burning obsession with the Matt Smith era of the show. Like many his age, he first got into Doctor Who with the 2005 revival, but has since gone back and fallen in love with the classic years too. If you need someone to recite every Doctor Who episode in order, or to give you a random factoid about the making of Gridlock, Danny is the person to ask!