In "The Wheel in Space", the Doctor removes the component that allows the TARDIS to be dimensionally transcendental, so the inside reverts to a simple police box interior.If you saw the inside first and then stepped outside, "It's smaller on the outside!" would be more natural. When you then see the inside, you comment on what you're looking at at the moment. On the other hand, the usual phrase is the natural wording when you see the outside first, which people generally do. This strange piece of furniture is covered by The Lonely Door trope.Ĭuriously, it is exceedingly rare to invert this trope's literal phrasing, and exclaim "It's smaller on the outside!" You'd have thought it would take less than 49 years for this inversion to be applied to the TARDIS, but you'd be wrong. The ultimate version is likely to be the Door in the Middle of Nowhere that unexplainably leads somewhere when opened.
See also Hammerspace and Bag of Holding for the variant where there is more storage on the inside. A subtrope is Oh Look, More Rooms!, in which rooms keep opening up further and further in, rather than blowing you away with a giant hall on first glance. Often, however, this is simply due to studio-budgeting, where the exterior establishing shot is simply a transition to the indoor-scene, and they will save money by having a smaller set of the exterior (or a shot of a small building to better visualize the location of the indoor space, etc).Ĭompare with Clown Car, a common sight gag, and Clown-Car Base, which is when we never see the inside. There may or may not be an in-universe explanation, typically involving some sort of Pocket Dimension relativisation of space-time, Applied Phlebotinum or simply magic. This might be a sight gag, but equally it may be done for technical reasons, such as in early Video Games, where fixed-size background tiles may cause furnished interiors to become larger than the plain exterior suggests. All you have to do is walk into an ordinary 1960s London police call box and you're in a space that dwarfs most Gothic cathedrals. Finding such a place couldn't be simpler. Technically referred to as dimensional transcendence, an unusual fact of some architecture in fiction is that no matter how small it is on the outside, on the inside it can be any size it darned well pleases.
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