# Objects in pop culture that are bigger on the inside **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 29, 2014, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/objects-in-pop-culture-that-are-bigger-on-the-inside/689595 "2014-05-29T21:55:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2014, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/objects-in-pop-culture-that-are-bigger-on-the-inside/689595/41 "2014-05-30T01:27:20Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > The house in Heinlein’s “And He Built a Crooked House”, which was a folded tesseract. Hell, Gay Deceiver and her magic bathrooms count. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Prize](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d2c977/32.png) [@Sir\_Prize](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Prize)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2014, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/objects-in-pop-culture-that-are-bigger-on-the-inside/689595/42 "2014-05-30T01:33:11Z")
Santa’s bag of toys. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2014, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/objects-in-pop-culture-that-are-bigger-on-the-inside/689595/43 "2014-05-30T01:43:24Z")
Pee Wee Herman’s bike’s saddle bag. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2014, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/objects-in-pop-culture-that-are-bigger-on-the-inside/689595/44 "2014-05-30T01:44:08Z")
> [@Sir\_Prize](#): > > Santa’s bag of toys. In particular, Art Carney’s bag in the Twilight Zone episode [_Night of the Meek_.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfnbKgezGQA) ---
**Author:** ![Flywheel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2014, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/objects-in-pop-culture-that-are-bigger-on-the-inside/689595/45 "2014-05-30T01:51:41Z")
Pig-Pen’s shoes. ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2014, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/objects-in-pop-culture-that-are-bigger-on-the-inside/689595/46 "2014-05-30T01:53:03Z")
> [@Foggy](#): > > The Library at the Unseen University in the Discworld novels. That’s because it exists in L-Space. And Hex has been mentioned; its drawers are not only capable of expanding in three dimensions, but in _every_ dimension. Not mentioned are Gallifreyan paintings, which can contain at least an entire living city. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2014, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/objects-in-pop-culture-that-are-bigger-on-the-inside/689595/47 "2014-05-30T01:53:27Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > > [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > > > The house in Heinlein’s “And He Built a Crooked House”, which was a folded tesseract. > > Rufo’s trunk in _Glory Road_ is another Heinlein example. Also, the Gay Deceiver, the car in Heinlein’s novel _The Number of the Beast_. After the four main characters visited the Land of Oz, the car acquired a full bathroom. Also, remember Land of the Lost, the weird 1970s children’s show? There were these pylons that appeared on the outside to be roughly the size of a phone booth but were much bigger inside. And they had these tables on which various stones could be moved to alter the climate and other things. ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2014, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/objects-in-pop-culture-that-are-bigger-on-the-inside/689595/48 "2014-05-30T01:55:50Z")
Oh, and the Luggage. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2014, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/objects-in-pop-culture-that-are-bigger-on-the-inside/689595/49 "2014-05-30T02:04:03Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > Actually, ANY magician’s hat! Another classic is the [clown car.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESa4tVAf_gY) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2014, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/objects-in-pop-culture-that-are-bigger-on-the-inside/689595/50 "2014-05-30T02:26:57Z")
One writer opined that the _kibisis_, the magical bag that Perseus carried (and into which he put the Gorgon’s head) magically got bigger inside to accommodate whatever he put into it, and used this claim to bolster his pet theory about the origin of the myth. The thing is, I can’t find any reference at all to the kibisis doing such a thing, in either ancient or even modern sources. The Harry Potter universe has been noted, but in particular we see in the movie that the tents they set up the World Cup in _Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire_ are much bigger inside than out. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2014, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/objects-in-pop-culture-that-are-bigger-on-the-inside/689595/51 "2014-05-30T02:31:45Z")
The green limo of the Leanansidhe at the end of “Changes” in the Dresden Files books The hat in the intro of “Liddsville” The wardrobe in the Chronicles of Narnia (really amazed nobody got that one yet!) ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2014, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/objects-in-pop-culture-that-are-bigger-on-the-inside/689595/52 "2014-05-30T02:47:50Z")
> [@Infovore](#): > > The wardrobe in the Chronicles of Narnia (really amazed nobody got that one yet!) They did. Someone mentioned “Professor Kirke’s wardrobe” a while back. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2014, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/objects-in-pop-culture-that-are-bigger-on-the-inside/689595/53 "2014-05-30T02:50:05Z")
Ah, missed that! I should have searched for “wardrobe” instead of “Narnia” on the page. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2014, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/objects-in-pop-culture-that-are-bigger-on-the-inside/689595/54 "2014-05-30T03:05:46Z")
The submachine gun magazine in just about any movie with a submachine gun. Clark Kent’s suits, especially in the older comics. No way does Clark have the same huge shoulders and chest as Superman. His suits have to be bigger on the inside than on the outside. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2014, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/objects-in-pop-culture-that-are-bigger-on-the-inside/689595/55 "2014-05-30T13:28:43Z")
There was a song from the '50s called “She can’t find her keys”, about a guy who’s waiting for his goodnight kiss after a date, but his date can’t find her keys among all the other thins she has in her purse. She eventually pulls out such improbabilities as an army cot, a watermelon, and a fire hydrant, but still no keys. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2014, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/objects-in-pop-culture-that-are-bigger-on-the-inside/689595/56 "2014-05-30T15:26:19Z")
The Narnian wardrobe has already been mentioned, but we should also acknowledge the stable in “The Last Battle” which had a whole world in it. And, in that world was a garden, which had another, bigger world contained within it. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2014, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/objects-in-pop-culture-that-are-bigger-on-the-inside/689595/57 "2014-05-30T15:43:11Z")
Is Inspector Gadget an object? ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2014, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/objects-in-pop-culture-that-are-bigger-on-the-inside/689595/58 "2014-05-30T15:49:43Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Another classic is the [clown car.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESa4tVAf_gY) [My absolute favorite cown car bit](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JrUDn7V4vA)of all time. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2014, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/objects-in-pop-culture-that-are-bigger-on-the-inside/689595/59 "2014-05-30T15:51:04Z")
It may be worth mentioning the related phenomenon of [hammerspace.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammerspace) It has been suggested that some of these objects appear to have infinite capacity because they offer access to hammerspace. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2014, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/objects-in-pop-culture-that-are-bigger-on-the-inside/689595/60 "2014-05-30T15:53:10Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > The Narnian wardrobe has already been mentioned, but we should also acknowledge the stable in “The Last Battle” which had a whole world in it. And, in that world was a garden, which had another, bigger world contained within it. Yes: a world inside a garden, in a world inside a stable, in a world inside a wardrobe. Not many examples can beat that :). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/objects-in-pop-culture-that-are-bigger-on-the-inside/689595.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/objects-in-pop-culture-that-are-bigger-on-the-inside/689595.md?page=4)