Basic Trope: A vehicle holds more passengers than it appears to.
- Straight: Jolly the Clown gets out of his car and fifty other clowns soon follow.
- Exaggerated: Jolly the Clown gets out of a tiny toy car and is followed by a trillion other clowns.
- Downplayed: Jolly is driving a six-seater van and eight clowns come out.
- Justified:
- The seats have been removed from the car, leaving enough room for the clowns.
- The car is Bigger on the Inside.
- Inverted: Somehow, several cars are inside Jolly's body.
- Subverted:
- Jolly the Clown gets out of his car, but no other clowns follow.
- The car is parked above a manhole and lacks backseat flooring. The clowns climbed out of the manhole into the car and got out of it.
- Double Subverted:
- Only for him to open the trunk, and the fifty other clowns climb out of there.
- The manhole was locked before Jolly's car drove over it.
- The clowns are too thick to fit through the manhole.
- Parodied: Jolly the Clown also runs a bus company using his clown cars.
- Zig-Zagged: The number of clowns leaving Jolly's car constantly varies, from one to fifty to six.
- Averted:
- Jolly does not own a car.
- Jolly's car holds a realistic amount of clowns.
- Enforced:
- The creators can't afford a bigger car because of budget cuts.
- The creators are fans of circuses and want to include a circus-related gag in their work.
- Lampshaded: "How do they fit in there?"
- Invoked: Jolly and his friends all become clowns because their car is too small to fit them all otherwise.
- Exploited: Jolly is a bank robber. He baffles the police by driving a car that appears to be too small to fit all the other robbers.
- Defied: Jolly jumps into the car, immediately locks the door, and drives away, before any other clowns can follow him in.
- Discussed: "That clown's driving a car. How many clowns do you think are in that car?"
- Conversed: "I love when clowns get out of a car that's obviously too small for them to fit in."
- Implied: Jolly drives his car into a nearby parking garage. Soon after, a procession of clowns walks out the exit.
- Deconstructed: Jolly has to see a therapist about his claustrophobia after being crammed in so many cars.
- Reconstructed: Through exposure therapy, Jolly gets over his claustrophobia.
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