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{{quote|''"Where is that pass? It must be somewhere. Key to the city of Skaro, no? Pilot's licence for the Mars-Venus rocket run. Galactic passport? Do you travel much? Honorary member of the Alpha-Centauri Table Tennis Club."''|'''The Doctor''', ''[[
The standard comedy bit for any character with a magic hat, [[Bag of Holding]], or other large collection of stuff in an impossibly small space is that he can never find the thing he needs when he needs it.
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** Stoffer Briggs frantically goes through one of these while the others fight a giant poodle. Luckily, they manage to drive it off without his input.
** In a bit of a variation, George has forgotten exactly what's in his [[Bag of Holding|closet]]. He starts keeping a list, but he knows there are some items that are basically lost because he can't recall what they are and thus cannot summon them.
* Averted in the pre-Internet ''[[
== Films -- Animation ==
* The Genie does this in ''[[Aladdin (Disney)|Aladdin]]''. At one time, Genie pulls out a crab looking suspiciously like Sebastian from ''[[The Little Mermaid (Disney)|The Little Mermaid]]''. [[Sarcasm Mode|So suspiciously]] that it is accompanied by instrumentals from [[Shout
* ''[[Toy Story (Animation)|Toy Story]]''. "Prepare to meet... MR. ANGRY EYES!!"
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== Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[
** The Fourth and Tenth Doctors have done this from time to time. One memorable scene from the Fourth Doctor's first appearance ("Robot") has the Doctor searched by a security guard. We are then shown the foot-high pile of items taken from the Doctor's pockets, which completely covers the poor security guard's desk. The new series explains this by revealing that his pockets are bigger on the inside than the outside. It implies that Time Lord technology uses these pocket dimensions everywhere.
*** Lampshaded in [[Doctor Who
** One of the [[Expanded Universe]] novels runs with it:
{{quote| '''The Doctor:''' [...] for you it would be the first time, but I'm not going through the endless emptying-the-pockets routine with its plethora of whimsical surprises again. I'm just not. The first several dozen times are fine, but after that it gets old. I mean, finally, in the long run, I don't ''care'' how many yo-yos I have.}}
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