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

12. Stop! Hammer Time

Doctor Who The Halloween Apocalypse Yaz mallet
BBC

The Halloween Apocalypse easter egg train continues, with the episode featuring the grand, long-awaited return of a TARDIS mainstay... the mighty mallet!

At several points throughout the episode, the Doctor uses the mallet to whack the TARDIS console, in an effort to get it to start. Just like how we all whack the TV remote against our hand when it suddenly stops working. Foolproof strategy.

Most famously, the TARDIS mallet was used by Donna Noble in Series 4's The Poison Sky, where she hit a Sontaran on the back of the neck (the species' weak spot) sending him tumbling to the floor.

Doctor Who The Poison Sky Donna Noble
BBC

While the mallet wasn't used in War Of The Sontarans in a similar way, Dan did hit one of the potato-heads in the back of the neck with a wok - which might've been intended as a direct nod to this Donna moment.

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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!