the camera pans up from the dinky miniaturized TARDIS model to reveal that it is in fact a dinky miniaturized TARDIS in an ordinary-sized back lawn, making the low quality of the model shot part of the storytelling. What we initially mistake as a tiny model TARDIS masquerading as a real one is in fact . . . a tiny model TARDIS. This is remarkably savvy, and demonstrates a self-awareness on the part of the show
