In Popular Culture
- Tardis Environmental UK are a supplier of portable toilets has their logo as a red tardis. A "Tardis" is a UK industry-wide nickname for a single portable toilet unit
- "Doctorin' the Tardis" was a 1988 novelty pop single by The Timelords (better known as The KLF) which hit number one in the UK and had chart success worldwide. It was a reworking of several songs (principally "Rock and Roll Part 2" and the Doctor Who theme music) with lyrics referencing Doctor Who, specifically the TARDIS.
- Turner Prize-winning artist Mark Wallinger created a piece entitled Time and Relative Dimensions in Space in 2001 that is structurally a police box shape faced with mirrors. The BBC website describes it as "recent proof of enduring legacy".
- A Tardis was briefly seen in the February 10, 2013 Simpsons episode Love is a Many-Splintered Thing. It appears in the House of Commons, whereupon Winston Churchill steps out and break-dances.
Mentioned in the Cinematic Orchestra song "All things to all men" feat. Roots Manuva.
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