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* In ''WesternAnimation/CatsDontDance'', Darla's tearoom gains a stage, floodlights and a ''giant cake, complete with backup singers'' [[{{Hammerspace}} from nowhere]] at the pull of a rope.

* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' - when prohibition is re-introduced to Springfield, "Moe's Pet Shop" becomes one of these. Barney is sitting on one of the stools as it rotates into the wall - when the room returns to a bar again, his clothes are ragged and he remarks "[[AmusingInjuries Those gears down there hurt]]!".

* ''StarshipTitanic'' has tiny versions of these rooms for guests traveling "Super Galactic Traveler Class" as the furniture folds in and out to create a kitchen, dining area, bedroom, and living area. (Not at the same time, mind.) The problem is that unless you know which furniture plates to unfold in the proper order, the furniture gets in its own way and won't fully unfold. [[spoiler: There's also a puzzle where you need to unfold the couch so that you can watch the room's TV and see if you won an upgrade to a less confusing room.]]

* Music Room 3, the base of the ''OuranHighSchoolHostClub''. Platforms rising out of the floor, magically appearing side rooms and musical instruments....

Named for the room in small schools that serves as a combined cafeteria, gymnasium, and/or auditorium; which is often referred to with a cutesy portmanteau name like "cafetorinasium" or "cafetorium". (Incidentally, the school in the animated show ''{{Fillmore}}'' had a cafetorium. But that school had ''everything''.)

* In ''Series/{{Stingray 1964}}'', the GerryAnderson 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).

* TheTick bugs Arthur to reveal where "the hidden switch" is in the pilot episode. Naturally, there isn't one, and Tick nearly destroys the apartment looking for secret SuperHero gear.

* In ''TheSuperHeroSquadShow'', the Franchise/XMen's Danger Room is like this, reconfiguring itself to be the gym, the cafeteria, or anything else (while still being just as good at the whole DeathCourse thing.)
* The ClassicDisneyShort ''Mickey's Trailer'' has the eponymous trailer, whose interior could transform with the pull of a switch, so that, say, Donald's bedroom could become a bathroom for his morning dip.

* In ''TheSuperHeroSquadShow'', the Franchise/{{X-Men}}'s Danger Room is like this, reconfiguring itself to be the gym, the cafeteria, or anything else (while still being just as good at the whole DeathCourse thing.)

* In an episode of ''PinkyAndTheBrain'' the bridge of an old harbor-tour boat transforms into a fully-functional anti-sub warfare center.

* In Creator/BusterKeaton's "TheScarecrow," 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 1980 HannaBarbera cartoon [[WesternAnimation/DrakPack Drak Pack]] had one of these, a room in an old run-down haunted mansion that turned into a high-tech communications center at the touch of a BigRedButton.
* Parodied in ''TheSimpsons'' - when prohibition is re-introduced to Springfield, "Moe's Pet Shop" becomes one of these. Barney is sitting on one of the stools as it rotates into the wall - when the room returns to a bar again, his clothes are ragged and he remarks "[[AmusingInjuries Those gears down there hurt]]!".

* K from the second ''Film/MenInBlack'' movie has a cache of weapons hidden in his old apartment, which is now someone else's home. They have to [[LaserGuidedAmnesia neuralize this family]] in order to access it.

* In FairlyOddParents, AJ has one of those. It transforms from his bedroom into an advanced lab, complete with clone-in-tube.

* Parodied on ''FamilyGuy''; Quagmire's bland living room turns into a fully-equipped bachelor pad with the press of a few buttons. In a later episode, there is a chase scene in his house in which every piece of scenery folds out into a bed when knocked.

* ''{{Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends}}'' had one at Aunt May's boarding house, in Queens. Somehow, she didn't notice.

* ''{{Zettai Muteki Raijin-Oh}}'' has a classroom that transforms into a giant robot control center.

* Sarah Jane's attic in ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'', triggered by the sentance "Mr. Smith, I need you." which makes her MagicalComputer Mr. Smith awaken and transform the room (or at least the chimney breast).
** Chimneys have breasts?
** Only the female ones.

* In FairlyOddParents, AJ has one of those. It transforms from his bedroom into an asvanced lab, complete with clone-in-tube.

* In BusterKeaton's "TheScarecrow," 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 TexAvery cartoon ''The House of Tomorrow'' includes a luxurious room that can be made to look like a dilapidated shack in case the IRS man comes to call.

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

* Even older film example: the gymnasium of Bedford Falls High School memorably transforms into a swimming pool in ''ItsAWonderfulLife''.

* In the Bond-movie ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies'', Chinese [[ActionGirl female superspy]] Wai Lin has a run-down bike repair-shop which transforms into a full-blown spy lair.

* ''{{Goldfinger}}'' has the big game room at his stud farm that transforms into a presentation room, then a gas chamber.

* 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 ToTheBatpole, 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.

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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg9qnWg9kak THIS THING!]]
* A common feature of boats and RVs. For space-saving, almost every piece of furnishing serves two or more functions.