From "Television Tropes & Idioms"

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Something funny fractal9091 came across:

Sci Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale

My favorite bit:

Probably the most spectacular example is in the first segment of the Doctor Who story "The Trial of a Timelord", where Earth was apparently hidden by moving its entire solar system several million miles, which is the celestial equivalent of hiding from your date in an empty movie theater by leaning an inch to the left.