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Curiously, it is exceedingly rare to invert this trope's literal phrasing, and exclaim "It's smaller on the outside!"
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== Anime ==
* The heroes of ''[[Jo
** It has a fridge, but no bathroom. If I remember correctly, they have to use that zipper ability to use a bathroom.
* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima (Manga)|Mahou Sensei Negima]]''
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** As are the Gateports in Mundus Magicus.
* Somewhat parodied in ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'', when they went over to Haruhi's house, or at least the dream before it. Haruhi in the dream was about to open a closet, and Tamaki tried to cheer up the rest of the group, and probably himself, by saying "Inside that closet must be an infinite space"
* ''[[Tenchi Muyo! (Anime)|Tenchi Muyo]]''
** Washuu's laboratory. It's accessed through a doorway under the stairs at Tenchi's house, but [[Word of God]] says the laboratory covers ''five planets''.
** Jurai's treeships generate pocket dimensions as living space for their crew.
** In the TV-series, ''Tenchi Universe'', she gives the bathroom the same treatment. Apparently, they decided that the floating, bubbled, hot-springs ''island'' from the OVA was a tad too showy.
* Lala of ''[[To Love Ru (Manga)|To Love Ru]]'' seems to be able to do this, turning a closet into a mid-sized lab, expanding an already existing room to 5 times normal, while someone was in it, and later building a three bedroom flat on top of the main character's house.
* ''[[Ah! My Goddess (Manga)|Ah My Goddess]]''' Skuld created one of these to provide extra storage space for some of the motorcycle club's gear. Unfortunately, the control got accidentally reset -- stranding Keiichi and Belldandy in the center of an ''infinitely'' large room. And Bell was temporarily without her powers... {{spoiler|Keiichi finally realized the crawlspace under the building wasn't within the field, so they pulled up a portion of the floor and crawled out.}}
* Gluttony's stomach in ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (Manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]''. [[It Makes Sense in Context]]. {{spoiler|[[Big Bad|Father]] wanted to make a quick and cheap access to the [[Gate of Truth]]... And created [[Bottomless Pits|a more or less bottomless]] [[Pocket Dimension|pocket dimension]] instead.}}
* The peach sennin's table-top garden box in ''[[Inuyasha (Manga)|Inuyasha]]'', where all his "disciples" live and work. Also Yourei-Taisei's home is both a small shack under a bridge and a massive paradise. And of course, there's {{spoiler|Naraku, who was bleeding gigantic voids after he first absorbed Moryoumaru and whose body was the second to last battleground. The actual last battleground also counts, as it was the inside of the Shikon no Tama itself.}}
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*** Similarly, though not played for laughs, in [[Patricia Mc Killip]]'s ''Harpist in the Wind'' (third in the ''Riddle-Master'' trilogy) there's a tower with an external spiral staircase that appears to be finite in size, but when you try to climb it you'll find that the top is always the same distance above you... ''unless'' the owner feels like letting you in.
* Several locations in ''[[Harry Potter (Literature)|Harry Potter]]'', mostly those which are [[Invisible to Normals]], are hidden in small spaces: Grimmauld Place, Platform 9¾, the tents the Weasleys use at the Quidditch World Cup... but this is literally because [[A Wizard Did It]].
** Hermione's tiny little beaded handbag in ''[[Harry Potter (Franchise)/Harry Potter and
** Arthur Weasley expands the inside of his Ford Anglia so the entire Weasley family and then some can fit inside comfortably.
*** The Ministry Cars from ''[[Harry Potter (Franchise)/Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban|Prisoner of Azkaban]]'' work the same way.
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* John Crowley's ''Little, Big'' : this trope (and the title of the book) refer to both the Edgewood house and Faerie being 'bigger in the inside' (a kind of topographry one of the characters of the novel refer to as an ''infundibulum'').
* ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'': the Halls of the Undying are a lot bigger on the inside. The most obvious difference is a staircase leading upwards whereas the building doesn't have a tower.
* In the ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' [[Eighth Doctor Adventures]] novels, the villain, Sabbath, turns up wearing a suit which is bigger on the inside. [[Paper
* [[The Berenstain Bears]]' treehouse.
* Clothahump's tree in the ''[[Alan Dean Foster|Spellsinger]]'' series.
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== Live Action TV ==
* The TARDIS, "[[Buffy
** It is such a recognisable example of this trope that the word 'Tardis' can actually be found in the dictionary, defined as 'something which appears to be much larger on the inside than on the outside'.
** Also used to dramatic effect in the episode "Doomsday": The Daleks mention that the [[Black Box|Genesis Ark]] will establish their dominance because of "Time Lord science". The Doctor wonders what that means, and near the climax, {{spoiler|it's revealed that the Daleks meant this aspect of Time Lord science - the ark, though tiny, contains millions of Daleks.}}
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** The page quote is actually a lampshading of a [[Catch Phrase]] of those seeing the TARDIS for the first time. "It's ''bigger'' on the ''inside!''" This was being mocked as early as Doctor number 3, although Benton thought it was just too obvious to be worth pointing out.
*** Ten and Martha: [[Never Heard That One Before|"It is? I never noticed!"]]
*** Ten pre-empts this with Wilf, but Wilf (having never been in the TARDIS but still being used to weird stuff) just replies, "I was expecting it to be [[Shiny
*** Rory immediately deduces the inside is in another dimension, disappointing Eleven: "I like the bit when someone says 'It's bigger on the inside!' I always look forward to that."
** Don't forget the Doctor's [[Hammerspace|pockets.]]
*** In the [[Eighth Doctor Adventures]], it turns out [[Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane|he just tears the lining out of his pockets]].
** Eleven's TARDIS, according to [[Matt Smith]], is apparently "bigger on the inside more than bigger on the inside previously".
** Furthermore, when he jettisons off rooms for fuel, he says goodbye to the swimming pool, the scullery, and ''Squash Court 7.'' The fact that there are seven squash courts - combined with the fact that it is supposed to be able to comfortably contain the egos of six Time Lord pilots simultaneously - implies that the TARDIS ranks in size somewhere between university campus and small neighborhood.
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