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== [[Film]] ==

* In [[Buster Keaton]]'s "[[The Scarecrow]]," two farmhands share a one-room house in which all the furnishings have at least two ~~functions -- there~~ is a record player/stove/oven, refrigerator/bookcase, rolltop desk/sink, bathtub/sofa, and Murphy bed/piano.

* In [[Buster Keaton]]'s "[[The Scarecrow]]," two farmhands share a one-room house in which all the furnishings have at least two functions—there is a record player/stove/oven, refrigerator/bookcase, rolltop desk/sink, bathtub/sofa, and Murphy bed/piano.

* The title characters' home in the movie ''[[Mr. and Mrs. Smith]]'' was filled with camouflaged and hidden equipment caches, including a gun drawer hidden as part of a wall oven.

* K from the second ''[[Men in Black (film)|Men in Black]]'' movie has a cache of weapons hidden in his old apartment, which is now someone else's home. They have to [[Laser-Guided Amnesia|neuralize this family]] in order to access it.

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* Pick a room in any of the ''[[Spy Kids]]'' movies.

* The film ''Robin and the Seven Hoods'', set in the 1920s Prohibition era, features a bar/casino that can transform into a temperance church meeting for when the police show up.

* Not actually a hideout, but the apartment of Bruce Willis's character in ''[[The Fifth Element]]'' had a lot of [[Super Multi-Purpose Room]] features, simply as a space-saving convenience.

* Not actually a hideout, but the apartment of Bruce Willis's character in ''[[The Fifth Element]]'' had a lot of Super Multi-Purpose Room features, simply as a space-saving convenience.

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** Only the female ones.

* In ''[[Stingray (TV series)|Stingray]]'', the Gerry Anderson series, where X20, the weird sea creature who lives all alone in a house on a rock in the middle of the ocean, disguises the secret sea-creaturey equipment in an ordinary-looking house in case he gets visitors, which he did a few times (though he also had to don a quick human disguise on these occasions as well).

* Anderson did much the same thing at various times in [[Thunderbirds]]. International Rescue's headquarters on Tracy Island is a combination of this trope and [[To the Batpole]], with both huge hidden hangars for the Thunderbirds and parts of the main ~~house -- especially~~ the living ~~room -- that~~ conceal communications devices, radar screens, etc. A more direct use of the trope is seen in the episode "The Impostors", where the stereotypical hillbilly shack of Jeremiah Tuttle, one of IR's agents, has the same sort of comm gear (and who knows what else) hidden in much the same way as X20's house. The Tuttle family pick-up can also go into overdrive and hit high speeds if needed.

* Anderson did much the same thing at various times in [[Thunderbirds]]. International Rescue's headquarters on Tracy Island is a combination of this trope and [[To the Batpole]], with both huge hidden hangars for the Thunderbirds and parts of the main house—especially the living room—that conceal communications devices, radar screens, etc. A more direct use of the trope is seen in the episode "The Impostors", where the stereotypical hillbilly shack of Jeremiah Tuttle, one of IR's agents, has the same sort of comm gear (and who knows what else) hidden in much the same way as X20's house. The Tuttle family pick-up can also go into overdrive and hit high speeds if needed.

* [[The Goodies]] lived and worked in an office that included fold-down beds that were also doors to other rooms, a window showing a choice of vistas or a TV screen, and in one episode, controls that drove the building in the famous Le Mans 24 hours race. Later episodes set in the office included props doing similar versatile work.