History Main / ClownCarBase

* Breeding pens in ''{{Farmville}}'' can hold up to 40 animals when fully expanded. This is reasonable for rabbits and other small creatures, but gets ridiculous with horse paddocks, cattle yards, and especially zoos, which can be stuffed full of 40 elephants.

* In ''{{Pikmin}}'', only [[ArbitraryHeadcountLimit 100]] Pikmin can venture onto the surface at any given time as a survival mechanism so only up to 100 can be lost at one time. However, the Onions themselves can have an enormous number of them inside (up to 999 in the first game, ''99,999'' in the second, which is far more Pikmin than you'll ever need in either game).

* Certain tiny apartments in the North End of UsefulNotes/{{Boston}} are well known for achieving this affect whenever a group of people leave it at the same time, especially if it's a party that's been broken up by the cops.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'': {{Zigzagged|Trope}}. [[DependingOnTheWriter The dimensions of Patrick's home tend to vary by the episode.]] Sometimes the boulder that makes up the "roof" of his home is on top of an entire pit, sometimes it just covers a inch deep crater. Either way Patrick fits a lot of stuff in there, and usually when he does so we don't get to see the inside.

* In ''MachinesWiredForWar'', units can be significantly too large to fit inside the building that created them and transport unit can carry units larger themselves inside them. This is partially justified by teleporting technology.

* ''AceCombat'' games have from time to time bases that can keep spawning enemies until destroyed.

* Scooby's dog house in APupNamedScoobyDoo is a tiny dog house on the outside... and a mansion on the inside.

!!Examples

[[folder:Anime and Manga]]

[[folder: Comics]]
* In "Franchise/{{Superman}} & Franchise/{{Batman}} vs Franchise/{{Alien}}s & Franchise/{{Predator}}" Superman brings his fortress of solitude to a volcano to evacuate the Aliens and Predators who have been stranded there for thousands of years, along with the predator ship. On the outside the fortress is roughly 4 meters in diameter and spherical, but the inside is an entire dead universe he is free to decorate as he choose.

[[folder:Film]]

* Death's house in the Literature/{{Discworld}} series, from the outside it looks fairly normal, if a bit morbid, but inside... Death's study is reckoned to be about a mile square, and it apparently isn't the biggest room.
** This has as much to do with Death just not understanding physics as anything else. In the land his house occupies, the ominous mountains in the distance are actually fairly close to the house; they simply look far away because they're literally blurry, which is all Death really cares about.

* On ''Series/SesameStreet'', Oscar the Grouch has at least one elephant living in his trash can. And a swimming pool. And even Mr. Snuffleupagus himself once payed the grouch a visit - his snuffle was seen first coming out as he was leaving the trash can (and after ''five kids'' came out of it first!).

* A sketch on ''Series/{{Laugh-In}}'' had an absurdly large number of people getting out of a bathtub.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'' has the TARDIS, which is the trope namer for BiggerOnTheInside, but there have been numerous cases of areas mentioned but never seen. For example, it has a library, and a swimming pool (which once fell into the library when the TARDIS landed on its side), and even ''hallways'', many of which are apparently past incarnations of it that came with each regeneration.
** The swimming pool was also seen in the Fourth Doctor's era, when the Doctor and co are chased through the ship by Sontarans.

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* In Jim Davis' ''ComicStrip/USAcres'' [[note]]later adapted as segments of the animated ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' show[[/note]], one-off mentions of things like his TV show add up to make the inside of Sheldon's eggshell downright palatial. No wonder he doesn't want to fully hatch.
** His feet are also always sticking out of the bottom. That alone makes it probably the most unusual example on this page by a wide margin!
* Snoopy's doghouse from ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' is much larger than it seems. Sometimes implied (or even stated) to be an [[ElaborateUndergroundBase elaborate basement]], but whenever the (tiny) visible structure is destroyed, he behaves as if the entire house is gone. And, perversely, he chooses to sleep on ''top'' of the thing, even in the rain or cold!
** A few strips had Snoopy building a birdhouse for Woodstock, which turns out to be another (bird-sized) ClownCarBase.
* A recurring gag in ''ComicStrip/FunkyWinkerbean'' involved Funky doing things inside his locker that should have been impossible, like roasting hot dogs on a fire.

* ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse2013'' does this with the British guards in "WesternAnimation/OneManBand".

* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' episode 11. A vicar motions two gravediggers to get out of a grave they're digging. They do so, and then several others get out: 6 more gravediggers, two miners, two men in uniform (possibly escaping prisoners), a police dog and its handler, and a surfboarder. Watch it on Website/YouTube [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0MC_4c-zbY#t=4m25s here]]. This could be called a ClownCarGrave but that name has already been used for [[{{Airplane}} another trope altogether]].

** TotalAnnihilation and SpiritualSuccessor ''VideoGame/SupremeCommander'' are notable aversions, you can actually see the units being produced in a properly-scaled building and they have to clear the production platform before the next one can start. It's especially notable with certain giant units: Total Annihilation's Krogath was so big it needed it's own specialized factory to produce, and Supreme Commander's "experimental" tire units are so big they're placed and constructed like buildings.

* Averted in ''VideoGame/{{Goldeneye}}'', where each stage has a set number of enemies. A common tactic on levels with Natalya is to clear out the stage first due to her rather suicidal habit of running right between you and the enemies.

** ''1'' (known originally as ''Air Combat''), ''Zero'', ''X'', ''X2[=/=]Joint Assault'' and ''6'' gives us '''Airborne Fortresses[=/=]Bombers[=/=]Carriers''' that have a number of Escort Fighter squadrons on board that can launch from them that you have to destroy. And despite their ungodly sizes, laws of physics defying sizes there is still no way to justify having as many aircraft, in combination to their bomb bays, missile launchers, AA guns, and super weapons which include ICBMs with essentially a non-nuclear FantasticNuke, and even exotic things such as a "Shockwave Cannon" and lasers. Where is it even possible to fit enough hanger space, munitions, fuel, etc for these escorts?

* In Jim Davis' ''ComicStrip/USAcres'' [[note]]later adapted as segments of the animated ''GarfieldAndFriends'' show[[/note]], one-off mentions of things like his TV show add up to make the inside of Sheldon's eggshell downright palatial. No wonder he doesn't want to fully hatch.

* Played with in the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoon "Rabbit Every Monday". During the cartoon, Yosemite Sam forces Characters/BugsBunny into his old wood-burning oven, and prepares to add wood to the fire. Bugs at one point emerges from the oven door and asks Sam, "You got a bottle opener on ya?" He then emerges from the oven for a moment, and returns to the oven with a bucket of ice and some folding chairs, and then pops out again to empty some ashtrays. Every time he opens the oven door, Dixieland music is heard playing. Finally, he opens the door and asks Sam, "Ain't ya comin' in, Mac? The girls have been askin' for ya." Sam, suddenly excited, slicks his hair back and enters the oven, expecting a party. Bugs gets second thoughts and opens the door to tell Sam it was all just a gag, only to see that there really is a party going on inside the oven. Bugs dives into the oven, and emerges one last time with a party hat and noisemaker, saying, "I don't ask questions, I just have fun!"

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode ''[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E23InspirationManifestation Inspiration Manifestation]]'', while Rarity's "improvements" on the birdhouse make it double in size, the interior is so big that the robin gets lost and it includes a shoe closet and multiple stairwells.
* In ''WanderOverYonder'', Lord Hater's skull-shaped spaceship is barely bigger than a two-storey house on the outside, yet it contains his entire army, a dungeon, a mall, and lots of other rooms.

* ''JesusChristVampireHunter''. Jesus gets in a fist fight ([[BigLippedAlligatorMoment for no apparent reason]]) with a group of [[FlatEarthAtheist atheists]] who pour out of a compact car. Six at a time. In six waves.

* In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'', Mr. Weasley borrows a tent from a friend of his for use at the World Quidditch Cup. What seems like a small (3'x5') tent outside has at least 3 bedrooms, a kitchen and a dining room inside. As Harry gets his first look, he mutters happily, "I love magic!"
** The same tent shows up again in Part I of ''Deathly Hallows.''

* ''Series/DoctorWho'' has the TARDIS, which is the trope namer for BiggerOnTheInside, but there have been numerous cases of areas mentioned but never seen. For example, it has a library, and a swimming pool (which once fell into the library when the TARDIS landed on its side), a closet for the Doctor to change outfits, and even ''hallways'', many of which are apparently past incarnations of it that came with each regeneration.
** You do see the closet full of clothes at one point, when Ten has just regenerated and is picking out the outfit for his new form.

* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' episode 11. A vicar motions two gravediggers to get out of a grave they're digging. They do so, and then several others get out: 6 more gravediggers, two miners, two soldiers, a police dog and its handler, and a surfboarder. Watch it on Website/YouTube [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0MC_4c-zbY#t=4m25s here]]. This could be called a ClownCarGrave but that name has already been used for [[{{Airplane}} another trope altogether]].

* In ''Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian'', a group of few dozen roman soldiers are inspecting an apartment so small it couldn't possibly fit half of the group in. And still they manage not to find any of the dozen Jewish revolutionaries hidden inside the place. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Not even after re-checking.]]

* During the song "Topsy Turvy" from ''Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'', a troupe of women can be seen doing the can-can emerging out of one very small tent and disappearing into another (which also happens to be Esmeralda's dressing room).

* Some levels in the ''CallOfDuty'' games have RespawningEnemies spawn from implausibly small rooms or buildings.

* Also done with an OLD ''{{Popeye}}'' cartoon with an Arabian theme. Olive Oyl is captured by an Arab shiek (Brutus) who takes her to his teeny (obviously no more than 3ft by 3ft) little tent in the desert. When she dubiously peeks inside, its palatial; going on and on and on. She draws back outside and then cartoonishly stretches her neck so her head goes all the way around the tent. This is older than color.
* In the USAcres segment of ''GarfieldAndFriends'', Roy and Orson were running for leader of the farm. Every time a chicken entered the voting booth and voted, they fell through a trap door. Roy, who watched the chickens entering the booth, didn't suspect a thing until Orson asked how many got out of it.