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* ''ComicStrip/BeetleBailey'': ''ComicStrip/BonersArk'' takes place on a boat that from the outside 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.

* ''FanFic/ShinjiAndWarhammer40K'': The Boyz's operation room is a small broken house around their town's outskirts. It is bigger on the inside because its occupants had dug out a three-levels basement.

* The final scene of the 1995 film ''Film/{{Safe}}'' starring Julianne Moore had the main character Carol enter an igloo type structure that appears to be substantially larger than it appeared only seconds earlier when viewed from the outside.

* In Webcomic/{{Realmwalker}} Mimir's well id bigger on the inside. He also happens to live in space with a group of female companions, and has an incredibly deep voice...

* Barbie's camper, house, and even her closet all exhibit this in ''WebAnimation/BarbieLifeInTheDreamhouse''. In fact her closet is so much bigger on the inside that it's literally possible to get lost in it for days simply trying to find one particular pair of earrings.

* ''WesternAnimation/VivaPinata'': In Bringing Up Cluckle, it is incredibly obvious that Carol's house is bigger on the inside. Hudson Horstashio goes into and out of a door that barely fits him in a house that's only slightly larger than him, when the inside can fit a a family of Cluckles and a whole baby Dragonache with much room to spare.

** ''Series/IDreamOfJeannie'': In the epsiode "Jeannie Fixes the House", Jeannie (a gennie) decides on her own accord that her master Major Tony Nelson needs a better house and decides to help him sell his current modest one without asking his permission. Jennie poses as real estate broker when a couple comes to look at Tony's house to possibly buy it. To make the house more desirable to the couple, she use her powers and blinks a mainson-sized kitchen and dinning room and a giant backyard with pool and tennis courts, among other rooms, in place of the small kitchen, dinning room, and backyard of the house. The problem is that the exterior of the house however still looks like a normal modest house thus confuounding the persective buyers as to how such a modest looking house rooms like a mansion on the inside. As usual for a show the relies heavilly on the ResetButton, by the end of the episode everything is set back to normal after she blink the hous back to it's orginal form.

''Series/IDreamofJeannie'': In the epsiode "Jeannie Fixes the House", Jeannie (a gennie) decides on her own accord that her master Major Tony Nelson needs a better house and decides to help him sell his current modest one without asking his permission. Jennie poses as real estate broker when a couple comes to look at Tony's house to possibly buy it. To make the house more desirable to the couple, she use her powers and blinks a mainson-sized kitchen and dinning room and a giant backyard with pool and tennis courts, among other rooms, in place of the small kitchen, dinning room, and backyard of the house. The problem is that the exterior of the house however still looks like a normal modest house thus confuounding the persective buyers as to how such a modest looking house rooms like a mansion on the inside. As usual for a show the relies heavilly on the ResetButton, by the end of the episode everything is set back to normal after she blink the hous back to it's orginal form.

* In the 5th-8th century Slavic myth of the witch Baba Yaga, her tiny hut is magically, on the inside, like a great hall.

* According to "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E10JourneyToTheCentreOfTheTardis Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS]]", the inside of a TARDIS is big, really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to the TARDIS. Whether or not the Doctor was exaggerating at the time is up for debate. We also see much more of the interior than the usual few hallways, and you really get the idea of just what it's like in there. You could spend days and never see the same thing twice, each room more wondrous than the last. But you wouldn't, 'cause it's an EldritchLocation that can be as scary as all hell, especially if you make the mistake of [[DoNotTauntCthulhu pissing off the TARDIS]], as the salvagers very quickly realise. Perhaps the most-accurate thing one can say about the TARDIS is that the main thing that limits her interior dimensions is the Doctor. Regardless of whether its size is truly infinite, at the very least it can safely encapsulate ''an entire star'', which it uses as a power source. The star that exists inside the TARDIS is frozen in time at the instant it becomes a black hole. This means it must be a MASSIVE star, far larger than our sun. The absolute minimum size a star must be to form a black hole is 3 times the size of our sun (but they are typically much larger than that). This also has the side effect of making the TARDIS a Dyson Sphere. That little police box is actually a Dyson Sphere on the inside. Puts a little bit of perspective into how powerful a TARDIS is doesn't it?

* ''TabletopGame/TheDelversGuideToBeastWorld'': Player Characters using tricked-out wagons as their bases of operations can upgrade them with cubes of extradimensional space salvaged from the Broken World, sold in 5 foot cubes.

* ''LightNovel/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'':
** Nyarko mail-orders a device called the Anywhere Dial, a ShoutOut to the magical door in ''Howl's Moving Castle'' (mentioned below). The Dial is attached to a closet in Mahiro's house to give Nyarko, Cuuko, and Hasta their own bedrooms since, before then, they'd been crashing in his living room. Notably, while Cuuko and Hasta seem to only have bedrooms, Nyarko almost seems to have her own house in there, complete with a kitchen and bathroom (and since it's [[LovableSexManiac Nyarko]], it looks halfway between a regular home and a LoveHotel).
** Back in the first season, Nyarko and Mahiro go to break up a black market auction; Mahiro quietly remarks that the auction house is a lot bigger on the inside, and Nyarko remarks that his tolerance for unusual situations is pretty impressive.

* In the first ''LightNovel/Overlord2012'' Drama CD, Ainz Ooal Gown uses the base-building item "Green Secret House" to create a small cottage as a temporary shelter. Externally, it's nothing special, but on the inside, it contains several rooms that can fit a large number of people.

* The Jay Bush and Duke ads for Bush's Baked Beans depict Duke as having what appears to be fairly typical doghouse that would be just enough for him to lie down for a nap in or take shelter from rain. However, one of them depicts him as having a harem inside being pampered on a cushion by a group of poodles and with a golden fire hydrant in the background. Another shows him having a secret printing press in the basement.

* ''Manga/AhMyGoddess''' Skuld created one of these to provide extra storage space for some of the motorcycle club's gear. Unfortunately, the control got accidentally reset — stranding Keiichi and Belldandy in the center of an ''infinitely'' large room. And Bell was temporarily without her powers... [[spoiler:Keiichi finally realized the crawlspace under the building wasn't within the field, so they pulled up a portion of the floor and crawled out.]] Of particular interest is ''how'' it's expanded: it connects "borrowed" time-slices of the room from the ''future'' to the present room. How much time does a slice amount to is not explained, but Skuld does say that it will run out of batteries in less than a week's time; if the time slices were able to almost quadruple the room's size in less than a day's use, a week's time would round on the logarithmic.

%%* And lets not forget the interior of ''Thunder'', the name-giving [[CoolBoat boat]] of the [[SarcasmMode award-winning]] show ''Series/ThunderInParadise''.

* From ''Comicbook/{{PS238}}:''

* ''FanFic/TheWorldOfTheCreatures'', being part ''Doctor Who'' crossover fic, has the TARDIS. If you need any more information, check out the ''Doctor Who'' folder above.

* ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'': Peter Quill's ship, the ''Milano'', doesn't look like it could have room inside of it for anything other than the cockpit, but several scenes show the characters walking around in some fairly spacious interior compartments of the ship.

* ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'':

%%* The Ambis spaceships in ''WebComic/{{Jix}}'' fit this trope.

* ''Talse Uzer'' / ''WebComic/TowerOfGod'':

* In ''Webcomic/FindersKeepers'', we have [[http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/6143/20090331.jpg Morlock's store.]] Among other things, it has a sign that reads: "Morlock: [[LampshadeHanging It's bigger on the inside.]]"

* In ''Webcomic/MountainTime'', it is implied that this is a trait of an [[http://mountaincomics.com/2012/01/02/mountain-time-318/ ordinary human stomach.]]

* ''Film/AnAdventureInSpaceAndTime'', a docudrama about the filming of the First Doctor's episodes, features a MythologyGag with Waris Hussein half-jokingly lamenting that the run-down, shabby set on which they're forced to film the TARDIS scenes is "smaller on the inside".

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'':