Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Other references

She was mentioned during the NCIS episode "Bloodbath". In the BBC sitcom The Vicar of Dibley, the first name of the main character, Geraldine Granger, is at one stage said to be Boadicea (Geraldine is her middle name).

In the 1980s children's television show Alvin and the Chipmunks there is a character called Boudikat, who appears in the episode "Romancing Miss Stone" from the third season. Boudikat is an aggressive feline creature, who constantly gets in the way of David Seville's attempts to Romance Miss Stone, with hilarious consequences. According to Roland Rivron, a leading expert on 80's cartoons, the Boudikat and thus Boudica were the inspiration for the legendary ThunderCats .