Model name doesn't match the table name

So, under "Basic Usage", in the eloquent documentation (http://laravel.com/docs/5.0/eloquent) I see that the Model class' name is used by eloquent to determine the table that's being invoked. However, in the video, we created a class whose name is "TodoList"; the table we created has a name="todo_lists". There is a mismatch between our class name and our table name.

Now, the documentation states that we can explicitly specify the table to be invoked by declaring a $table variable; the thing is, in the video Hampton Paulk doesn't explicitly specify the table name... The crazy part, is that this actually works!!

So, as may already be construed, my question is: why??? Why does it work? What did I miss?

If someone can clear this up for me, then I might be able to get some sleep tonight :-p

Thanks for the help!!