Which Switch? (comic story)

Having failed to land on the planet Shantella Prime and getting soaked by a passing car when she opened the door, Rose challenges the Doctor to explain the TARDIS console switches. After pressing the wraparound hologram switch and the Galactic lotto draw switch, they press the in-flight stereo system, which the Doctor had absent-mindedly swapped for a micromodulator switch. It shrinks them.

They climb up the Doctor's tie, which has been discarded untidily across the console but have to get to the other side. Rose slips on a patch of machine oil left by the Doctor when he was oiling the gravity gauge but is saved when she catches a lifeline thrown by the Doctor. Rose fights through the cobwebs and finally throws the switch in reverse, returning them to normal size.

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

The TARDIS[[edit] | [edit source]]

The TARDIS switches include a wraparound hologram switch, one that allows access to the Galactic Lotto Draw, and a micromodulator switch.
The TARDIS previously had an in-flight stereo system.

Popular culture[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Doctor likens being shrunk to Alice in Wonderland.
Rose flippantly mentions Action Man when the Doctor talks about shrinking pairs of socks.

Clothing[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Doctor mentions being able to keep "a thousand pairs of socks in a matchbox" using the micromodulator.
The shrunken Doctor and Rose use a discarded neck tie to climb up the console.
The Doctor recently oiled the gravity gauge.

Animals[[edit] | [edit source]]

The shrunken Doctor gets trapped in a spider's web, which are like ropes at his size.
A shrunken Rose hopes there aren't any stowaway cats on board the TARDIS.
The shrunken Doctor claims he has yet to be mistaken for a fieldmouse.