Fun idea, but don’t introduce the characters with names.
Just be very, very, descriptive yet anachronistic(instead of a gun/sonic screwdriver, “a bulbous but strange, shiny, metallic wand lazily sits at ease in a smart leather holster at the hip of a bug-eyed, grey-haired, multicolour scarf-laden Grandfatherly-old man”, and let the Easter Egg light up the players’ eyes when they figure it out for a good giggle!
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