# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2014, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/objects-in-pop-culture-that-are-bigger-on-the-inside/689595/101 "2014-06-02T22:11:10Z")
> [@Gedd](#): > > On \* Phineas and Feb: Mission Marvel\*, the crossover with Marvel Comics, the brothers show Iron Man, Spider-Man, Thor and Hulk their Secret Hideout for Emergency Defense (SHED) which looks like . . . a shed. Until you go inside. Then it looks like a Stark Industries lab. Ferb (a Brit) claims it’s “just a little British sci-fi technology.” The Griffin house in _Family Guy_, since Stewie has a weapons lab in his closet. And Peter’s porn stash has an amazingly big vault that houses it. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2014, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/objects-in-pop-culture-that-are-bigger-on-the-inside/689595/102 "2014-06-02T22:16:35Z")
The titular box in the Futurama episode “The Farnsworth Parabox.” Also in Futurama, Bender’s torso cavity. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2014, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/objects-in-pop-culture-that-are-bigger-on-the-inside/689595/103 "2014-06-02T23:09:20Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Kim Kardashian’s vagina? Nadya Suleman’s (“Octomom”) Some locations in _Alice in Wonderland_ “The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe” \*Twilight Zone \*episode “Little Girl Lost” Jonah in the whale ??? ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2014, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/objects-in-pop-culture-that-are-bigger-on-the-inside/689595/104 "2014-06-04T13:50:44Z")
The original [clubhouse](https://www.google.com/search?q=legion+of+superheroes+clubhouse&tbm=isch&imgil=IPVgWm1zhAKo3M%253A%253Bhttps%253A%252F%252Fencrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com%252Fimages%253Fq%253Dtbn%253AANd9GcQ4-FF4PdG_4GRQUBGeqDihDfA1vvXQVW7z-83gMdx0GF1zx0bwmg%253B268%253B435%253BDSAINgs2TOlDyM%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fsorcerersskull.blogspot.com%25252F2013%25252F05%25252Fanother-futuristic-cross-section.html&source=iu&usg=__TeQxOZ0NJDy_9eMZymjGAtqyGMc%3D&sa=X&ei=4SOPU7apAumhsASOrIGQDA&ved=0CDIQ9QEwAg&biw=1280&bih=828#facrc=_&imgrc=IPVgWm1zhAKo3M%253A%3BDSAINgs2TOlDyM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fstatic.comicvine.com%252Fuploads%252Foriginal%252F5%252F58294%252F1430962-legion_clubhouse.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fsorcerersskull.blogspot.com%252F2013%252F05%252Fanother-futuristic-cross-section.html%3B268%3B435) for the Legion of Superheroes. How that tiny little spaceship sized building provided a clubhouse for 20 members always mystified me. And Noah’s ark. Holding all the animals? Give me a break. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2014, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/objects-in-pop-culture-that-are-bigger-on-the-inside/689595/105 "2014-06-04T15:15:17Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > STOP! I don’t understand. Can you break it down? ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2014, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/objects-in-pop-culture-that-are-bigger-on-the-inside/689595/106 "2014-06-04T15:21:23Z")
The monolith in Jupiter orbit in 2001. 2km long on its greatest axis, but full of stars. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2014, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/objects-in-pop-culture-that-are-bigger-on-the-inside/689595/107 "2014-06-04T16:00:24Z")
The Enterprise’s holodeck. It was just a room on a ship, but nobody in an adventure there ever seemed to bump into a wall. ---
**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:** [June 4, 2014, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/objects-in-pop-culture-that-are-bigger-on-the-inside/689595/108 "2014-06-04T16:03:31Z")
> [@gnoitall](#): > > I don’t understand. Can you break it down? Well-played. ---
**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:** [June 4, 2014, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/objects-in-pop-culture-that-are-bigger-on-the-inside/689595/109 "2014-06-04T21:54:00Z")
I think the Enterprise’s holodecks just used the forcefield equivalent of a treadmill. You might walk for miles, but you never actually get anywhere. Cloud City in the Special Edition of _The Empire Strikes Back_ might qualify, with its exterior windows in interior walls. And I’m ashamed to admit to knowing this one, but the hypno-gourds in Xanth have an entire separate world within them. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2014, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/objects-in-pop-culture-that-are-bigger-on-the-inside/689595/110 "2014-06-04T22:07:34Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I think the Enterprise’s holodecks just used the forcefield equivalent of a treadmill. You might walk for miles, but you never actually get anywhere. Treadmill? Hmmm… In the Voyager holodeck, the Renaissance era plane/glider actually flew. I think. Maybe not… Now I’m gonna have to Netflix ST:VOY! :mad: Thanks a lot! ---
**Author:** ![Crawlspace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Crawlspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crawlspace)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/objects-in-pop-culture-that-are-bigger-on-the-inside/689595/111 "2014-06-05T01:20:43Z")
The tunnel in Mr. Rogers’ house that leads to the Neighborhood of Make Believe. ---
**Author:** ![batsto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b2d939/32.png) [@batsto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/batsto)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/objects-in-pop-culture-that-are-bigger-on-the-inside/689595/112 "2014-06-05T14:39:33Z")
Captain Caveman’s fur. And his club, too. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/objects-in-pop-culture-that-are-bigger-on-the-inside/689595/113 "2014-06-05T15:46:19Z")
Phineas T. Whoopee’s 3d Blackboard was much larger than the case he carried it in on “Tennessee Tuxedo and his Tales”. ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/objects-in-pop-culture-that-are-bigger-on-the-inside/689595/114 "2014-06-05T19:01:09Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Cloud City in the Special Edition of _The Empire Strikes Back_ might qualify, with its exterior windows in interior walls. I didn’t see the Special Edition so I don’t know, but perhaps they weren’t windows but just computer screens showing images from outside cameras. ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/objects-in-pop-culture-that-are-bigger-on-the-inside/689595/115 "2014-06-05T19:03:38Z")
> [@gnoitall](#): > > The monolith in Jupiter orbit in 2001. 2km long on its greatest axis, but full of stars. Based on 2010, the monolith was able to transport material from elsewhere. I assume it wasn’t full of stars, but you could see through it to some other spot in the galaxy. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/objects-in-pop-culture-that-are-bigger-on-the-inside/689595/116 "2014-06-05T20:38:34Z")
Some of the stories I’ve read about Baba Yaga describe more rooms than one would expect a “small cottage” to fit, or maybe Russian cottages are just a lot larger than I’m used to. Definitely more roomy than you’d expect from the illustrations. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/objects-in-pop-culture-that-are-bigger-on-the-inside/689595/117 "2014-06-05T20:45:28Z")
When I was a teenager, my parents said I had a hollow leg. Because of how much food a typical teenaged boy can down at suppertime, you see… Yeah, it’s a stretch (ha), but I wonder when that phrase was first used. ---
**Author:** ![well\_he\_s\_back](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3ab097/32.png) [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/objects-in-pop-culture-that-are-bigger-on-the-inside/689595/118 "2014-06-05T20:49:06Z")
wasn’t there a house of this sort in John Crowley’s novel Little, Big ? ---
**Author:** ![Evin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/59ef9b/32.png) [@Evin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evin)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/objects-in-pop-culture-that-are-bigger-on-the-inside/689595/119 "2014-06-05T20:56:51Z")
Whoville? ---
**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:** [June 5, 2014, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/objects-in-pop-culture-that-are-bigger-on-the-inside/689595/120 "2014-06-05T20:58:56Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > Some of the stories I’ve read about Baba Yaga describe more rooms than one would expect a “small cottage” to fit, or maybe Russian cottages are just a lot larger than I’m used to. Definitely more roomy than you’d expect from the illustrations. I think Baba Yaga’s hut is pretty much canon. I think it was at least strongly implied that the Fourth - and Tenth - Doctor’s pockets were dimensionally transcendental, given the amount of stuff that he used to keep in there. And then there was the Dalek prison ship. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/objects-in-pop-culture-that-are-bigger-on-the-inside/689595.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/objects-in-pop-culture-that-are-bigger-on-the-inside/689595.md?page=7)