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{{quote|'''Martha:''' It's... [[Bigger on the Inside]]!
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So you've got a Toyota Prius sitting by the side of the road. Two guys get out. Then another four guys. Then another six guys...
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* While infiltrating the Hidden Rain, Jiraiya of ''[[Naruto]]'' used one of his toad summons as a mobile base. On the inside, it was cavernous; on the outside, it was the size of a normal toad. Watching him pull himself out of the toad's mouth without its size changing was interesting to say the least.
== [[Film]] ==▼
* ''[[
* Inverted in a way by French comedian Florence Foresti in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LMTClqvCGs her gig about the Barbie Airplane], in which she points out how the inside of the plane is much smaller (or less furnished) than it's made to look on the outside. A rough translation:▼
{{quote|"[...] Barbie Big Fat Liar. Why? How many seats in this plane, you think? (shows the 4 windows on the plane) I'm asking you people sitting at the front, of course... 4? Ah, 8? I see the maths sup and maths spé are here today too (imitating a [[Dumb Blonde]]) "Of course, there's 2 rows!". So yes, 4 or 8, that's what we'd like to believe. Except that, Barbie Big Fat Liar (opens up plane), 3 seats. You're expecting some nice people, a great atmosphere, and all you find is 3 crappy seats."}}▼
▲== Film ==
▲* ''[[Resident Evil|Resident Evil: Extinction]]'' From a steel freight crate seven by fifteen feet, that is open and partially empty (the view fades to an ominous jet black), dozens of zombies come running out. The scene and the zombiestream lasts for several minutes.
* ''[[Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter]]''. Jesus gets in a fist fight ([[Non Sequitur Scene|for no apparent reason]]) with a group of [[Flat Earth Atheist|atheists]] who pour out of a compact car. Six at a time. In six waves.
* In one scene of ''[[You Don't Mess With the Zohan]]'', over a dozen Arabs get out of a regular New York taxi cab.
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* In ''[[Monty Python's The Meaning of Life]]'', over eighty children of all ages come out of a small apartment in one continuous cut. Of course it's all the more impressive how they all must have come out of the same mother. . .
* In ''[[Monty Python's Life of Brian]]'', a group of few dozen roman soldiers are inspecting apartment so small it couldn't possibly fit half of the group in. And still they manage not to find any of the dozen Jewish revolutionaries hidden inside the place. [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Not even after re-checking.]]
* In the [[Fatty Arbuckle|Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle
== [[Literature]] ==▼
* [[Played for Drama]] in ''[[Gaunt's
▲== Literature ==
* Wizarding tents in ''[[Harry Potter]]'' work this way: Sure,
▲* [[Played for Drama]] in ''[[Gaunt's Ghosts|Gaunts Ghosts]]'' novel ''His Last Command''. No one can figure out how so many Chaos troops are emerging from the admittedly large rooms the Guard is assaulting. {{spoiler|Turns out that there are warp portals through which they emerge, on the other side of which are vast armies.}}
* Death's house in the ''[[Discworld]]'' series, from the outside it looks fairly normal, if a bit morbid, but inside... Death's study is reckoned to be about a mile square, and it apparently isn't the biggest room.▼
▲* Wizarding tents in [[Harry Potter]] work this way: Sure, the LOOK like a regular two-person tent on the outside. But on the INSIDE, its roughly a fourth of a circus tent, complete with kitchen and numerous bunk beds. And those are the ordinary-looking ones.
▲* Death's house in the [[Discworld]] series, from the outside it looks fairly normal, if a bit morbid, but inside... Death's study is reckoned to be about a mile square, and it apparently isn't the biggest room.
** This has as much to do with Death just not understanding physics as anything else. In the land his house occupies, the ominous mountains in the distance are actually fairly close to the house; they simply look far away because they're literally blurry, which is all Death really cares about.
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==▼
▲== Live-Action TV ==
* On ''[[Sesame Street]]'', Oscar the Grouch has at least one elephant living in his trash can. And a swimming pool. And even Mr. Snuffleupagus himself once payed the grouch a visit - his snuffle was seen first coming out as he was leaving the trash can (and after ''five kids'' came out of it first!).
** Also in the show, an actual clown car was used in a counting lesson. A mini hatchback (with a police siren) came in driving around in circles, then came to a stop to let out 10 clowns (each counting 1 to 10 as the came out) before they all went back into it (counting backwards this time), after which the hatchback took off.
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** Heck, in at least one instance, the TARDIS was shown to be big enough ''[[Beyond the Impossible|to contain itself]]''.
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==▼
▲== Newspaper Comics ==
* In Jim Davis' ''[[U.S. Acres]]'',<ref>later adapted as segments of the animated ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'' show</ref> one-off mentions of things like his TV show add up to make the inside of Sheldon's eggshell downright palatial. No wonder he doesn't want to fully hatch.
** His feet are also always sticking out of the bottom. That alone makes it probably the most unusual example on this page by a wide margin!
* Snoopy's doghouse from ''[[Peanuts]]'' is much larger than it seems. Sometimes implied (or even stated) to
** One 1960s-vintage strip had Snoopy listening outside as Charlie Brown and Linus are moving furniture for him inside the doghouse -- and ''talk their way through navigating a landing and a change in directions in a stairwell!''
** A few strips had Snoopy building a birdhouse for Woodstock, which turns out to be another (bird-sized) Clown Car Base.
* A recurring gag in ''[[Funky Winkerbean]]'' involved Funky doing things inside his locker that should have been impossible, like roasting hot dogs on a fire.
== [[Recorded and Stand Up Comedy]] ==
▲* Inverted in a way by French comedian Florence Foresti in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LMTClqvCGs her gig about the Barbie Airplane], in which she points out how the inside of the plane is much smaller (or less furnished) than it's made to look on the outside. A rough translation:
▲{{quote|"[...] Barbie Big Fat Liar. Why? How many seats in this plane, you think? (shows the 4 windows on the plane) I'm asking you people sitting at the front, of course... 4? Ah, 8? I see the maths sup and maths spé are here today too (imitating a [[Dumb Blonde]]) "Of course, there's 2 rows!". So yes, 4 or 8, that's what we'd like to believe. Except that, Barbie Big Fat Liar (opens up plane), 3 seats. You're expecting some nice people, a great atmosphere, and all you find is 3 crappy seats."}}
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* In ''[[Monsterpocalypse]]'', some units have the "transport" ability while others have "cargo," with the former able to drop off infinite numbers of the latter. This can be explained with [[Units Not to Scale]] for the pods or [[Sizeshifter]] for the Shinobi, but the 60-ft tall Mechacthugrosh storing that many of the 15-ft tall Mecha Taskmasters?
== [[Theatre]] ==
* In ''[[Crazy For You]]'', the choreography for "I Can't Be Bothered Now" has more [[Chorus Girls]] emerging from a smallish car than could possibly fit in it.{{context}}<!-- MOD: Is this in the stage directions for the show, or was it just the way one production staged the number? -->▼
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▲* In ''Crazy For You'', the choreography for "I Can't Be Bothered Now" has more [[Chorus Girls]] emerging from a smallish car than could possibly fit in it.
* Every strategy game ever.
** ''[[Age of Empires (video game)|Age of Empires I]]'' provides an egregious example in Transport Ships. You can pile up to 10 ''elephants'' in a Transport Ship, and it looks like it would have difficulty carrying ''one''.
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* Most [[Space Station|space stations]] in the ''[[X (video game)|X-Universe]]'' series dock ships on external berths, which avert the trope. But some stations can dock ships up to heavy fighter size internally (and certain shipyards can do the same with ships of up to corvette and freighter size). There is no limit to the number of ships that can dock internally. One popular mod adds internal docking (and a pair of capital ship docking clamps) to player-built factory complexes, making them pretty easy to defend: just stuff a few dozen fighters inside (pocket change in the late game) and have them launch as needed; [[Schizophrenic Difficulty|out-of-sector]] [http://x3wiki.com/index.php/Simulation_modeling combat modeling] does the rest.
== [[Web Comics]] ==▼
▲== Web Comics ==
* ''[[The Whiteboard]]'': Red asks Doc if his truck was bought from a circus clown after seeing a bunch of players and gear being unloaded. Doc says no, but notes that [http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb448.html it uses the same technology].
== [[Web Original]] ==▼
* As revealed in the animation "Where's The Cheat?", The Cheat from ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' actually lives in the King of Town's grill. Occasionally, we actually get to see Strong Sad be stuffed inside the grill, and in one Strong Bad Email, there is actually a pizza parlor inside the grill, and both Strong Bad and The Cheat actually fit inside the grill.▼
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Played with in the ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' cartoon "Rabbit Every Monday". During the cartoon, Yosemite Sam forces [[Bugs Bunny/Characters|Bugs Bunny]] into his old wood-burning oven, and prepares to add wood to the fire. Bugs at one point emerges from the oven door and asks Sam, "You got a bottle opener on ya?" He then emerges from the oven for a moment, and returns to the oven with a bucket of ice and some folding chairs, and then pops out again to empty some ashtrays. Every time he opens the oven door, Dixieland music is heard playing. Finally, he opens the door and asks Sam, "Ain't ya comin' in, Mac? The girls have been askin' for ya." Sam, suddenly excited, slicks his hair back and enters the oven, expecting a party. Bugs gets second thoughts and opens the door to tell Sam it was all just a gag, only to see that there really is a party going on inside the oven. Bugs dives into the oven, and emerges one last time with a party hat and noisemaker, saying, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fotDv1XmT8o "I don't ask questions, I just have fun!"]
* Also done with an OLD ''[[Popeye]]'' cartoon with an Arabian theme. Olive Oyl is captured by an Arab shiek (Brutus) who takes her to his teeny (obviously no more than 3 ft by 3 ft) little tent in the desert. When she dubiously peeks inside, its palatial; going on and on and on. She draws back outside and then cartoonishly stretches her neck so her head goes all the way around the tent. This is older than color.
* Subverted on ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''. Krusty the Clown emerges from a stretch limo and a bunch of other clowns follow him out.▼
▲* As revealed in the animation "Where's The Cheat?", The Cheat from ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' actually lives in the King of Town's grill. Occasionally, we actually get to see Strong Sad be stuffed inside the grill, and in one Strong Bad Email, there is actually a pizza parlor inside the grill, and both Strong Bad and The Cheat actually fit inside the grill.
▲* Subverted on [[The Simpsons]]. Krusty the Clown emerges from a stretch limo and a bunch of other clowns follow him out.
{{quote|'''Krusty:''' Get back in! It's only funny with the small car.}}
** In another episode, when Bart was about to crush a clown car, Krusty and several other clowns quickly got out of it.
* Another older example is in ''Trolley Troubles'', an [[Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
* The buses from [[Cars|''Cars 2'']], which for some reason can actually carry cars inside them!
* In the ''[[U.S. Acres]]'' segment of ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'', Roy and Orson were running for leader of the farm. Every time a chicken entered the voting booth and voted, they fell through a trap door. Roy, who watched the chickens entering the booth, didn't suspect a thing until Orson asked how many got out of it.
* During the song "Topsy Turvy" from ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'', a troupe of women can be seen doing the can-can emerging out of one very small tent and disappearing into another (which also happens to be Esmeralda's dressing room).
== [[Web Original]] ==
▲== Web Original ==
* Many looped animations circulating the Internet have carefully crafted to make mundane objects in real life appear to act this way (for example, [http://dagobah.net/flash/tothetrash.swf to the trash!] [note: contains audio]).
== [[Real Life]] ==▼
▲== Real Life ==
* Bill Bailey once recounted a tale of people sneaking into Glastonbury by digging a tunnel under the fence that came out under a one-man tent. This is made even funnier when he describes the witnesses who are high on weed or LSD, watching thousands of people just ''pouring'' out of this tiny little tent. Something similar to that happened at the Woodstock festival.
* There is a joke that Mexican people have the superpower of making any van they enter into a Clown Car Base. If you live near the US/Mexican border, you could see they can fit 40-50 people in an 8-person van. It is kinda freaky. Made fun of specifically [http://wannabemustangjockey.deviantart.com/art/el-Campeonato-Mundial-mas-Loco-20694079 here].
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