April 6th, 2011
Bigger on the Inside Timeline
Internet, you’re either going to love or nitpick today’s comic. Please tell me which when you can, and feel free to note where we might have missed something.
I will early on note that yes, there’s about a half dozen things that would have worked from the Harry Potter world, but we chose to keep it down to just one.
EDIT: For part 2 of the timeline, click here.
And now you can have the timeline in poster form! For only $15 plus shipping and handling, it’s a glossy 18 inch by 24 inch beast, combining parts 1 and 2 of the Timeline.
April 6th, 2011 at 8:11 am
Ramona Flowers’ subspace purse!
April 6th, 2011 at 8:12 am
Luv it… youtube should be on there though…
April 6th, 2011 at 8:37 am
Jughead Jones…famous for being able to eat at least his own weight. Gotta be dimensional manipulation.
April 6th, 2011 at 8:44 am
Any building in any RPG. Seriously.
April 6th, 2011 at 9:24 am
How about both?
Love it, but remember (at least in the books) the tent doesn’t belong to the Weasleys. Their car was larger on the inside than out, though.
April 6th, 2011 at 9:31 am
Dood, it was Perkin’s tent, the only other guy who works with Arthur Weasley in the department of Misuse of Muggle Artefacts circa The Order of the Phoenix cus after the events of that book, at the start of The Half Blood Prince, he, Arthur, gets a promotion and a bigger compliment of staff.
The tent is then used by Potter and company in The Deathly Hallows for camping in various forests up until Potter, being the blinding idiot he is, forgets that he-who-must-not-be-named’s pseudok is a location and protective spell removal jinx where it is again said that Perkins didn’t want it, the tent, back due to his lumbago which has gotten worse.
Thus, not the Weasley’s tent. How did you ever get that wrong. =P
/Nerd 8D
April 6th, 2011 at 9:48 am
The Luggage used by Rincewind in Discworld (first seen in “the color of Magic”) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Luggage#The_Luggage
April 6th, 2011 at 10:18 am
Lo, you have forgotten the famous Sport Billy’s Omnisack…
April 6th, 2011 at 10:26 am
Nice!
One important early example — Snoopy’s doghouse. And one nitpick: The bag of holding dates back to at least 1974; it appeared in the original D&D rulebooks. I remember that because 1975 was the most recent year I played D&D…
April 6th, 2011 at 10:38 am
Uhhh, Snoopy’s dog house.
April 6th, 2011 at 10:52 am
Minor nitpick, pokeballs aren’t necessarily bigger on the inside than the outside. It has yet to be explained how they work. On the show it was implied the pokemon was shrunk down, but one prevailing fan hypothesis is that they digitize the pokemon and store them in a virtual environment.
April 6th, 2011 at 11:13 am
Snoopy’s Dog House (probably)
April 6th, 2011 at 11:37 am
I am sitting next to a real live British Nanny, we think you forgot a magician’s hat and Jeanie’s bottle, and too many things to name now. Popcorn?
April 6th, 2011 at 11:49 am
House of Leaves!
April 6th, 2011 at 12:44 pm
Narnia — the wardrobe in The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, and beyond the door in The Last Battle: “like an onion: except that as you continue to go in and in, each circle is larger than the last.”
April 6th, 2011 at 1:15 pm
One can quibble over whether the house from Heinlein’s “— And He Built a Crooked House —” (1941) qualifies… it’s not really bigger on the inside than the outside, just that most of the house sticks into a fourth dimension so that only a small part of the outside is visible.
April 6th, 2011 at 1:56 pm
pandora’s box
April 6th, 2011 at 2:11 pm
What about I dream of Jeannie’s bottle??
April 6th, 2011 at 2:17 pm
The thing your aunt gave you which you don’t know what it is.
April 6th, 2011 at 2:40 pm
@Ink Asylum – Good one. But on some levels, isn’t the purse really an homage to the BoH?
@simon, morfos, mrhthepie – laughs assigned to your posts.
@josh, Ollie – I must hang my head in Potter nerd shame. Also, why the heck have I not done more Harry Potter gags?
@lehenry – I debated Luggage for a bit. Admittedly, I haven’t read a lot of Discworld, so Luggage kind of seemed like another take on the BoH.
@Krvavy I had no idea who Sport Billy was before this morning
@Martin, sensei, Scraw – How are these ideas coming in synchronized waves?
@Korbl – it’s gotta be bigger in there. Otherwise, my Golurk would be broken.
Hi Mom (yes, that’s really my mom)
@Katie – what’s the House of Leaves?
@Spiltjoyce – I was looking at the Wardrobe just being a portal, since its power is really that it’s built from the wood of a tree that grew from the planted magic rings.
@Doctroid – technically, the BoH works on a similar principle.
@personstuff – the box is actually just as big as it needs to be to hold things.
@anteup704 – Genie and Djinn lanterns work nicely, but getting a date for them is tough.
@kellyMc – I still don’t know what that is.
April 6th, 2011 at 3:18 pm
@Katie – So glad I’m not the only one to think of that.
House of Leaves is a spectacular novel within a novel about a house that is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Leaves
April 6th, 2011 at 3:20 pm
Jeannie’s Bottle shouldn’t count because technically you were shrunk down before entering. So the bottle is the same size. This was shown when the bottle was looked into and you could see jeannie’s room was shaped like the bottle. I could be wrong though…
April 6th, 2011 at 4:15 pm
Good call @Katie,
That’s the first thing that came to my mind as well. The House of Leaves is a book which has a house that is larger on the inside.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Leaves
April 6th, 2011 at 4:34 pm
@Katie – Win.
@Dern – House of Leaves, by Mark Z. Danielewski (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Leaves )
April 6th, 2011 at 5:14 pm
… 1989? 1989?! Try 1974.
April 6th, 2011 at 5:57 pm
The Barney bag.
April 6th, 2011 at 6:22 pm
Dr. Strange’s Sanctum Sanctorum should be on this list big time.
April 6th, 2011 at 6:24 pm
you forgot snoopies house.
April 6th, 2011 at 6:50 pm
@William – Good point
@Bryan, Brad, Duodecimal – Looks like I need to add some to my reading list.
@maltezefalkon – We’ll be fixing this ASAP. My research initially had it showing up in AD&D 2nd edition.
@Masteradept – Sanctum Sanctorum and Fate’s Tower aren’t so much bigger but exsisting in different dimensions. I’m citing the Naria Wardrobe decision on that.
Also, my friend Ralph noted that Wakko as a being counts as being bigger on the inside.
April 6th, 2011 at 6:55 pm
What about Sport Billy’s bag?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport_Billy
April 6th, 2011 at 7:49 pm
Snoopy’s house is good example.
April 6th, 2011 at 7:54 pm
The lament configuration or Lemarchand’s puzzle box acts as key to hell. Once it is solved it opens a door between worlds. When the portal opens the demons known as the cenobites come to collect the individual who completed the puzzle to either torture them for all eternity or turn them into a cenobite. It doesn’t hold anything inside it.
April 6th, 2011 at 8:30 pm
The ghost trap is more than slightly debatable. It doesn’t hold physical matter at all–just ghosts, which are made of ectoplasm, and so can be pretty easily compacted. Though I remember in the cartoon series (which may or may not technically be canon), the big red holding tank in the basement was basically an infinite universe, and operates on the same technology as the traps.
April 6th, 2011 at 9:33 pm
The Horadric Cube from Diablo 2 – 2000
The portable hole is another Dungeons and Dragons artifact bigger on the inside than outside, but it’s based on the same thing from the cartoons… Loony Toons perhaps? Often used by bugs bunny and Wile E Cyote.
April 7th, 2011 at 12:39 am
@Dern, you really should read house of leaves. It’s amazing. It’s also indescribably evil.
April 7th, 2011 at 7:08 am
@Dern – House of Leaves is a book which you should consider reading. It could very well melt your brain. Written by Mark Z. Danielewski. Just to make things more fun, there are four or five different editions with ever more screwy printing. Just promise me that you won’t read it whilst using any mind-altering substances, alright?
April 7th, 2011 at 8:57 am
agree with Taellosse. I’m not fully sure the ghost trap is larger on the inside as I never got the impression you could store physical items in there, just ghosts.
Heh, let’s keep this realistic ;P
April 7th, 2011 at 11:53 am
the Luggage from Diskworld is not really a take on BoH, since it is a “living” thing, self-aware, bad-tempered, capable of traveling alone with its own hundred feets, and that will follow it’s master anywhere, even if said master is teleported through space, time or dimensions. Also, if you put dirty clothes in it, they are clean when you take them out, even if the luggage ate a few people in the meantime.
Therefore, I submit it’s much more different from the BoH than Marry Poppins’ or Felix’ bags are.
April 7th, 2011 at 2:41 pm
Also the Mirror of Erised, although it only shows reflections it was also made to hold the Sorcerer’s Stone (albeit by one of the most powerful wizards of all time) it shows some possibility of magical expansion before any of the others were mentioned.
April 7th, 2011 at 2:49 pm
Uhhh…you forgot THE BARNEY BAG
April 7th, 2011 at 2:59 pm
I dont think I see the Unseen University mentioned yet. The wizards academy in Ankh-morpork. A better, I think, if perhaps less amusing representative for Discworld than the Luggage.
April 7th, 2011 at 4:55 pm
The Phantom Tollbooth!!!
April 7th, 2011 at 5:36 pm
You TOTALLY forgot Mrs Frizzles pockets. You know…. Magic school bus stuff
April 7th, 2011 at 7:29 pm
If you read more Pratchett you will learn that The Luggage should be taken very, very seriously, and should most certainly be on the list.
“Technically, the Luggage acts as a classic Bag of Holding but with the added bonus that items of laundry stuffed in will also come out cleaned, pressed and smelling faintly of lavender. ” http://wiki.lspace.org/wiki/The_Luggage
April 7th, 2011 at 8:27 pm
The Big Comfy Couch? There was way more stuff in there than could possibly fit.
April 7th, 2011 at 10:40 pm
In Canada, we had Casey and Finnegan’s Treehouse.
April 8th, 2011 at 12:03 am
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BiggerOnTheInside
April 8th, 2011 at 2:34 am
The Spice Bus from the Spice Girls move….. sorry, had to say it
April 8th, 2011 at 2:46 am
The genie’s lamp!
April 8th, 2011 at 4:13 am
Eega Beevas trousers in Mickey Mouse comics.
April 8th, 2011 at 5:06 am
whoville – horton hears a who!
April 8th, 2011 at 5:07 am
my backpack!
April 8th, 2011 at 6:07 am
Would be tough to illustrate, but how about the teacher’s mother’s ass from the Mr. Show with Bob and David episode “The Return of the Curse of the Creature’s Ghost”?
April 8th, 2011 at 7:35 am
You forgot the Dragon Ball capsules, that inspired pokeballs &é years later I reclkon
April 8th, 2011 at 12:01 pm
merlin’s magic bag he uses for packing in disneys the sword in the stone…
April 8th, 2011 at 1:48 pm
um hermiones bag in the 7th movie, the grandmothers bag from halloween town, an dhte disney show out of the box, the club house!
April 8th, 2011 at 1:55 pm
The AllSpark from Transformers, once compressed to human holdable size, could count. Many of the G1 Transformers (Megatron, Soundwave, Astrotrain, possibly Blaster) could change size in a way that was explained by some sort of trans-dimensional manner. Soundwave would be the classic example of this.
April 8th, 2011 at 4:36 pm
I think this miss the black hole from mutafukaz, a french comic axed sifi. It’s like a hole, but you can take it , and roll it for hide it, and then take what you place inside the hole…
April 9th, 2011 at 7:42 am
For sure Snoopy’s dog house.
I have seen Jeanie’s bottle suggested, but I believe she shrunk in size to accomodate the bottle rather than the bottle being bigger on the inside.
April 9th, 2011 at 12:33 pm
Wackos bag of tricks!
April 9th, 2011 at 9:03 pm
An old Popeye cartoon – Olive Oyl is kidnapped by a lusty sheik, and kept in his tiny tent in the desert. I remember Popeye goes into the little tent, sees a vast palace of rooms, and puts his head out to check the size of the tent – and snakes his head all the way around the tent, then snakes his head back and goes back in to rescue Olive. Why men made such a fuss over that beanpole is beyond me.
April 9th, 2011 at 9:03 pm
Baggin’ Saggin’ Berry’s pants…he had everything anyone could ever need ever in those pants.
April 10th, 2011 at 3:26 am
I can’t believe no one mentioned Gay Deceiver – the little sentient Ford roundabout/spaceship/time machine featured primarily in Robert Heinlein’s “Number of the Beast.” Imagine a station wagon or a small SUV… with two rather large and luxurious bathrooms (aka “refreshers”) inside.
April 10th, 2011 at 6:33 am
George Stobbart’s jacket pockets (Broken Sword video games for those not in the know).
April 10th, 2011 at 9:38 am
Snake’s cardboard box? He has like a whole house in there
April 10th, 2011 at 10:58 am
doraemon magic pocket
April 10th, 2011 at 7:20 pm
Josh & Ollie – while the tent does not start off as the Weasleys’, it ends up being given to them. So I’d say it’s acceptable to say it’s theirs.
ssh – Whoville doesn’t count. It is not bigger on the inside than the outside. There is no ‘inside’ of Whoville. It’s just a really really little world.
April 10th, 2011 at 8:32 pm
Bender – 2996
April 11th, 2011 at 12:19 am
Link’s tunic. He carries 20+ bombs plus a bow and arrows, and many other items that are too numerous to mention (including a bunch of masks in Majora’s)
April 11th, 2011 at 7:52 am
How could you forget Sport Billy?
April 11th, 2011 at 8:09 am
The Jerry Steiner’s pockets from his coat in Parker Lewis.
April 11th, 2011 at 11:36 am
Captain Caveman was always pulling some huge stuff out of his pockets.
April 11th, 2011 at 4:48 pm
Also from 1963
Merlin’s bag in Disney’s sword in the stone.
April 11th, 2011 at 6:57 pm
The deep dank halls of my mind….
April 13th, 2011 at 7:49 am
the Luggage/UU definitely need to be in there…technically binky could carry whole countries of plague/war victims too…
and link’s bags/general person…just finished windwaker again
…how he carried 99 bombs + 99 arrows + bow + boots + telescope + sail + hammer + camera + grappling hook + hookshot + joy pendants + knight’s belt things + skull necklaces + bait + 70-odd charts + bottles + feathers + various charms and so on is beyond me…
April 14th, 2011 at 5:41 pm
You forgot Snoopy’s house. A dog house that has a pool table and doubles as a Sopwith Camel airplane.
April 16th, 2011 at 5:30 am
The room of requirement. Hermione Grangers beaded handbag. Star Trek’s Holodecks.
April 16th, 2011 at 11:01 am
And the Doraemon’s pocket too XD
April 17th, 2011 at 7:47 pm
Oh, and the Merlin’s bag on the Disney film XDD
April 18th, 2011 at 6:44 pm
It was actually a tent they borrowed…..
April 20th, 2011 at 5:11 pm
Only Canadians will get this one……….
Mr. Dress-Ups Tickle Trunk
April 21st, 2011 at 6:40 pm
Djinn lamps or bottles don’t count. Islamic theology teaches that djinn are akin to angels, being insubstantial and only taking on physical humanoid forms when interacting with humans. The differences consisting of angels being composed of pure light and having no free will while djinn are composed of smokeless fire and having free will like humans.
April 22nd, 2011 at 10:51 pm
Don’t forget Hermione Granger’s bag with the undetectable extension charm in Deathly Hallows
April 22nd, 2011 at 11:57 pm
@Teej – The holodeck’s interior size never actually exceeds the exterior, it only produces the illusion of a larger space in the room. In The Next Generation’s first episode Data throws a rock which hits the wall about ten feet away from them which shimmers then continues producing the illusion. Heh, I loved that show.
April 29th, 2011 at 1:57 pm
Magician’s Hat
May 26th, 2011 at 10:12 am
A couple of previous posters cited examples from the work of Robert Heinlein, but missed the Big One. The Fold Box from “Glory Road”. Every adventurer’s/hero’s dream. Beginning as a small pack the size of a briefcase, it could be unfolded to roughly the size of a moving van, if space permitted. And each level of unfolding allowed access to that amount of cargo space, so it had to be sorted carefully.
July 1st, 2011 at 1:46 pm
The house in House of Leaves
July 11th, 2011 at 11:37 am
Hermione’s purse.