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Misleading Package Size
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Normally, due to people not wanting to waste too much material, packages tend to be about the same size as what's in them. Not when this trope comes up. In that case, an entire wooden box used for major transport could be used to carry a single pen, a steel suitcase the size of a rifle is used to transport a single ammo clip, etc. Tends to be parodied in cartoons, when they somehow pull a giant 30+ inch TV out of a package the size of a shoebox, in which case it can overlap with Hammerspace. Contrast Bigger on the Inside and Clown Car. Often paired with Obvious Object Could Be Anything. Has nothing to do with Bigger Is Better in Bed. Or Gag Penis. |
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Taz-Mania: In "Sub Commander Taz", he ordered a nuclear submarine from a comic-book ad. It was delivered in a crate that filled most of the room, but it turned out to be a toy so small it could be dropped into a water glass. | |
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Classic Disney Shorts; There's a Donald Duck cartoon in which he's a gift wrapper in a department store. He puts a small ring inside a large box, then tries to put a football in the box meant for the ring. He has to deflate the ball in order to fit it in. In "Pluto's Party", Pluto gets a present shaped like a huge bone, but when he bites into it, it turns out to be a wagon. |
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Dragon Ball: Anything from the Capsule Corporation (vehicles, appliances, houses, etc.) collapses down for storage in a capsule no bigger than a person's finger. | |
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In King of the Hill, Luanne gives Hank a shoebox gift, but turns to contain only a tiny gift box containing a pass to swim with the resort's dolphin. | |
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Mickey Mouse (2013): In "Ghoul Friend", Mickey pulls out a huge toolbox, inside of which is only a teeny, tiny wrench. | |
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There's a Donald Duck cartoon in which he's a gift wrapper in a department store. He puts a small ring inside a large box, then tries to put a football in the box meant for the ring. He has to deflate the ball in order to fit it in. | |
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In an episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show Laura tries to open a box that Rob gets in the mail. When she finally manages to open it an inflatable dinghy pops out and inflates, leaving it about 5x the size of the original box. It had also just happened in a sketch Rob had written for "The Alan Brady Show", making it a case of In-Universe Truth in Television. | |
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Shining Time Station: In "Stacy Cleans Up", Schemer gives away some sample lollipops he got from a candy manufacturer. With the wrapper on, they look like old-fashioned, giant lollipops. After multiple layers of wrapping are removed, the actual pop is about the size of a marble. | |
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In the Kaeloo episode "Let's Play Magicians", Kaeloo orders a magic kit with 2000 pieces. When the package is delivered, it's enormous, but all it has inside is a hat and a wand (users are apparently supposed to magic up the remaining 1998 pieces). | |
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Iznogoud: In Iznogoud's Birthday, Iznogoud is given a box that contains a chain of boxes, the key point being that each box is bigger than the one containing it. | |
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In The Emperor's New Groove, Yzma shows off her Complexity Addiction by considering doing this to herself: turning Kuzco into a tiny, little flea, then putting him in a box and putting that in another box and mailing it to herself, where she would smash it with a hammer when it arrives. | |
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Hetalia: Axis Powers fanfic Gankona, Unnachgiebig, Unità: Parodied several times. From clothes to books to Death Notes to flowers, the characters' backs can store them all. | |
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In Betty Boop's Birthday Party, Betty is given a piano as a birthday gift. The large box the guest had to push contained the stool, while the smaller box contained the piano itself. | |
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In DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story, the Briefcase Full of Money is opened to reveal a single, lonely stack of bills. Even funnier is the fact that the man offering says that it's $100,000, which is more money than is shown. $100,000 would require ten 100-deep stacks of $100 bills. | |
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Greg Heffley of Diary of a Wimpy Kid recalls opening a video-game sized gift-box only to find a memory card. | |
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In the animated adaptation of How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, a large serving dish for Cindy Lou Who holds a series of increasingly small waiters with smaller serving dishes, the smallest of whom serves her a strawberry. | |
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Family Guy: Brian once received a Christmas present shaped like a wine bottle. | |
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In the Disney short "How to Hook Up Your Home Theater", Goofy is having trouble opening a small package of cables. After failing to open it, a single drop of sweat causes the package to burst open, covering Goofy in about half a metric ton of cables. | |
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In the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "The Idiot Box", SpongeBob buys a television set just to play with the box it came in. The TV was about three times the size of the box. | |
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Happy Heroes: In Season 3 episode 24, the spherical bomb Big M. receives in the mail is around the size of the palm of his hand if not smaller, but it's contained in so much packaging wrap that it looks a lot bigger. | |
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