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….
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