SOFA, SO GOOD

 

(That quote is from the episode “Amy’s Choice”.)

It’s a tossed-off line which could have been a major exaggeration on the part of the Doctor.  We never do get a “splainin” if there is a planet out there which is populated with literate sofas.  Was that a specific evolution of natural or bio-engineered design?  Or was it a form of artificial intelligence?

The one good thing about such trivial snippets of dialogue is that some future writer of a ‘Doctor Who’ script might come up with a plausible storyline about sofas who can read.

I’ve dealt with a wild idea for an adventure for the Time Lord – specifically, the Sixth Incarnation – which involved a sofa.  

It would be a case of matter transformation in which some alien of superior scientific ability* is able to disassemble the Doctor and reassemble him as a sofa.  And of course, it would be O’Bvious – even in a warehouse full of sofas – which sofa HAD to be the Doctor as played by (and dressed as) Colin Baker….

* Someone even more of a genius than the Rani.