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Basically, it's when [[Bigger On the Inside]] keeps happening to the point of an [[Overly Long Gag]]. Related to [[Big Labyrinthine Building]].
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
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== Live Action TV ==
* Though they rarely bother to show it anymore, the TARDIS from ''[[
** Has happened to a couple of houses in the new series, when aliens attached new rooms or floors to an existing building.
* This happens in the first episode of ''[[The Goodies (TV)|The Goodies]]'' when Greame is showing the other two around their new office.
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== Western Animation ==
* The Classic ''[[Scooby Doo]]'' thing where they are running from the bad guys, hiding in barrels or [[Scooby
* In ''[[Futurama]]'', Fry spends a whole episode living in Bender's 'apartment' - a room just big enough for two people to stand up in - before discovering a door in one wall which leads to the closet, actually a spacious apartment with several further rooms leading off it. The door wasn't even being hidden by clever use of camera angles or anything - it was a blank wall in all previous scenes.
* In ''[[King of the Hill]]'', the Hill family takes a vacation to Japan. In their tiny hotel room, they do all their cooking and sleeping in a space about half the size of their living room, as a parody of overcrowding in that country. However, at the end of the two-parter when Hank's brother comes to help them check out, it is revealed that that was just the sitting room; there was a sliding door leading to several other rooms, and even a fountain.
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== Real Life ==
* The [
* [http://www.unforgettable.dk/ 42.zip], while mentioned on the [[Bigger On the Inside]] page, probably fits better here. It's a .zip containing 16 more .zips, which each contain 16 more .zips, and so on and so on. At the very bottom of the chain is a 4.3GB file, meaning altogether it takes up ''4.5 petabytes''. That's [
* It's an old joke about housing in [[New York City]] that everyone is always secretly hoping they'll notice a door one day that they [[Failed a Spot Check|never saw before]], and it turns out that their apartment is [[Friends Rent Control|twice as big as they realized]].
* Many used book shops are like this, since they tend to be built into old houses. For example, one has a main room that many people never get beyond... despite the fact that beyond it, through a tiny opening, there are five more rooms of equal or greater size.
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