Doctor Who's animated Daleks! spinoff has a brilliant Short Circuit Easter egg. The "Time Lord Victorious" transmedia event is unlike anything in the history of Doctor Who. It weaves a stunning narrative across multiple different mediums, taking multiple incarnations of the Doctor to a period of galactic history that has previously gone unexplored — the Dark Times at the very beginning of the universe.
There, David Tennant's Tenth Doctor has committed an act of genocide, destroying the Kotturuh — a race who consider themselves the Bringers of Death. The Kotturuh were the ones who allocated lifespans to the different races of the universe, and without them, all of time is now in flux. In the distant future, the Daleks are time-sensitive enough to know something is going terribly wrong, and that they are faced with threats that should have died out in the Dark Times. The Daleks! animated series charts the story of their attempt to figure out what's going on, and the Daleks have unwittingly crossed a new enemy from outside time and space itself. The Daleks have lost Skaro, and in the second episode of the animated series they head to the Fifth Galaxy to awaken their reinforcements.
A Dalek army has been secreted on a distant world in the Fifth Galaxy, kept in suspension until the moment they are needed. The strategy will be a familiar one to fans of the classic Doctor Who series, because it's one they deployed in the Jon Pertwee story "Planet of the Daleks." But this time the Daleks have placed a Sentinel in charge of their army, presumably because nobody who discovered the unassuming robot would connect it to the Daleks. The design of the Sentinel is quite delightful — it's clearly modeled on Johnny 5 in the Short Circuit films.
The design isn't a perfect match, presumably to ensure the Daleks! episode doesn't lead to the BBC being sued, but the basics are the same; the treads instead of legs, the slender body, the grasping arms, and the shutters over the eyes. The Sentinel uses these shutters to express as it reacts to the instructions it is given by the Dalek Strategist. It's all wonderfully reminiscent of Johnny 5.
Unfortunately, the Daleks have underestimated their enemy, an entity that originates from outside time and space. The Entity is able to identify the threat of the Dalek reinforcements, and it reprograms the Sentinel to recognize the Dalek Strategist as the Emperor. The Sentinel implants this falsehood within the databases of the Dalek army, hoping to trigger a Dalek civil war. The Dalek Strategist is surprisingly loyal to the Emperor, instead ensuring the army is destroyed. The Dalek civil war has been averted in Doctor Who so far, but the Daleks are no closer to finding a way to fight the Entity — and their Sentinel has been destroyed.
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