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* The eponymous heroes of ''[[SuperSentai Engine Sentai Go-onger]]'' have a bus that contains their entire MissionControl and heroic gear storage in the back.

* Washuu's laboratory in ''TenchiMuyo''.

* [[BeetleBailey Mort Walker's]] comic strip ''Boner's Ark'' takes place on a boat that from the ouside looks like a rowing boat with a deep hull and one tiny cabin. Since it houses dozens, possibly hundreds of [[FurryComic anthropomorphic animals]] (including one tyrannosaurus rex), it's obviously much bigger than that.

* Some parts of Game/{{Unreal}} suffer this, more or less. However, a certain part of the game takes it to an [[WallBanger unbearable extreme]]. The [[spoiler:Skaarj Mothership]], from outside, isn't bigger than a house, yet once you enter it, you manage to play 6 levels of '''long long LONG''' [[TheMaze confuse mazes]] larger than stadiums (each), all while (in order): Visiting armouries infested with skaarjs, teleporting through portals between sessions of the ship, more mazes, visiting it's [[ElaborateUndergroundBase complex laboratory facilities]], annoying {{Backtracking}}, armouries and jails with even more enemies, [[spoiler:boss fight]], mazes, [[spoiler:[[AlienGeometries baffling giant empty room]], more boss fight]], then you [[spoiler:knock off the ship's light]] to go through MORE MAZES, mini boss fight, a [[spoiler:[[WhiteVoidRoom floating room surrounded by endless emptyness to all sides]], boss fight]]... Let's not forget when you [[spoiler:race through kilometers of colorfull tubes piloting a humongous escape pod]].

* Odd as it may seem, {{Eve Online}}. The containers (or "cans") that you buy on the market allow you to store, in the smallest can, 120 cubic meters (m3) worth of stuff, in an item that only takes up 100! The jettisoned containers ("jet cans") also count, as they can hold 27,500 m3 worth of items, from a shuttle that only has a 10 m3 cargohold (at worst, other ships (with the exception of the 0 m3 pod) have a 100 m3 cargohold, minimum)! Partly, this is {{Hand Wave}}d by freight continers having a "compression field" (for the same reason, you can't put livestock, passengers and some foods in them).

* The Ashleys' clubhouse in {{Recess}} on the outside it just looks like some old tires fused together but on the inside it has a game room, a study room, a tea party room, a tv room,etc.

* ''StarTrekEnterprise'': the time traveler's ship.

** Volkswagen Beetles also have this effect. Everybody thinks they're itty bitty peices of crap, but they're actually very roomy.

** Another example is Hermione's tiny little beaded handbag in book 7. It fits in her sock, but it contains clothes, books (many, many books), tents, and a framed portrait.

* And lets not forget the interior of 'Thunder', the name-giving boat of the [[SarcasmMode award-winning]] show {{Thunder in Paradise}}.

*** The Third Doctor asked TheBrigadeer (who had been standing there quietly) if he was going to say the line, his answer was "I can damn well see that!"

* In the (still animated) beginning of ''{{Enchanted}}'', Giselle gets out of her coach in her wedding dress, and Nathaniel is run over by all the animals that were apparently in the coach with her (even though her dress is so big, it's hard to tell how she fit herself).

* [[ThatGuyWithTheGlasses The Nostalgia Critic]] lampshaded this trope in his review of {{Full House}} (which, in turn, was lampshading this trope).

* Both utilized and subverted in ''{{Firefly}}''. Joss Whedon designed Serenity to be small and cramped. However, in the show, as it is mentioned to be a smuggling ship, there are a near inifinite number of hiding spots, so no one actually knows how big it is.

* ''WorldOfWarcraft'' generally averts this. Instances (that is, dungeons, but they're often not dungeons in story terms) are generally inaccessible aside from the one designated entrance, and are generally underground or in enclosed buildings, but if you go to one that's not an enclosed building and if you find a way to access them anyway you'll generally find that they take up as much space in the outside world as exists inside the instance. However, there are a few exceptions. Most notably, places controlled by mages are likely to be BiggerOnTheInside - Karazhan and the mage tower in Stormwind, for example