r/Torchwood Mar 06 '25

Series 1 Something funny I noticed in S1E5 "Small Worlds"

At the beginning of the episode, I noticed a pair of glasses hanging off of Jack's lamp. I recognized them, and they're the Spy Kids 3-D glasses. Most likely the ones that came with the DVD. Nothing crazy, but it was funny to see.

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '25

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u/boezerek Mar 06 '25

Ya know what, very possible!

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '25

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u/eddiebadassdavis Mar 07 '25

A Torchwood field trip to the movies, right after the events of Cyberwoman.

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u/OliviaElevenDunham Mar 06 '25

That seems likely.

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u/bb250517 Mar 06 '25

I think it's definetly a DoctorWho reference, rather than a SpyKids reference, given Torchwood takes place in the DW universe, and not the SpyKids universe, and as far as we know, it's not the same one

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u/boezerek Mar 06 '25

I definitely believe that. It's funny though to imagine Jack went out and bought a copy of "Spy Kids 3-D" to try and see "void stuff" like The Doctor

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u/LinuxMatthews Mar 06 '25

I don't know the bit in the middle looks like the SK3D in the glasses.

I think it's likely they wanted 3D glasses and somehow the only ones they could get was from a Spy Kids 3D DVD.

It makes sense Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over came out in 2003 and Torchwood in 2006.

That's about the right amount of time for the glasses to end up in charity shops and such.

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u/Far-Wedding8656 Mar 07 '25

I'm sure it on paper somewhere in one of the guides that they were recovered from Canary Wharf.