History Main / FluffyDryCat

* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': {{Exaggerated|Trope}} in a story in the manga: Genma Saotome has found a magic hairgrowth lotion that gives him long, spiky straight hair (worthy of a ''Dragon Ball Z'' character), but only when he gets angry. Then he fells into the koi pond, turning into a panda, and this translate into one gigantic ball of black-and-white fur, round and big enough to just roll around, forcing Ranma into an IndyEscape on the streets of Nerima.

* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'': Sometimes happens to the titular cat.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLorax'': Happens to the Lorax after being sprayed with a garden hose in a mini-movie.

* [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] in ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove''. When [[EverythingsBetterWithLlamas llama]] [[ForcedTransformation transformed]] Kuzco shakes his fur, only the hair on his head expands. Oddly, that’s the only part that wasn’t affected by the transformation.

* [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] in ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove''. When [[EverythingsBetterWithLlamas llama]] [[BalefulPolymorph transformed]] Kuzco shakes his fur, only the hair on his head expands. Oddly, that’s the only part that wasn’t affected by the transformation.

%%* This happens to the semi-feline robot [[VideoGame/MegaManV Pluto]] in ''[[http://stardroids.net/wordpress/?p=444 Stardroids]]'' after he is [[http://stardroids.net/wordpress/?p=442 unceremoniously dumped into the drum of a washer-dryer]]. [[http://stardroids.net/wordpress/?p=440 He ends up as fluffy as cat-android-ly possible]]. Static electricity must be quite a thing in the Stardroids universe.

When a wet cat (or any animal with fur) gets dried off, its fur sticks up, often with a "poof"ing sound similar to an umbrella unfolding. This can give the effect of making it look kind of like a [[Franchise/StarTrek Tribble]] with a face. This trope is about the way hair standing on end when dried is taken UpToEleven [[RuleOfFunny for comedy]]. This isn't just "cat is slightly fluffier when freshly washed and dried"; this is "short-haired cat is now one big puff of long, fluffy fur". {{Talking Animal}}s are usually rather annoyed by the entire process, and often [[TimmyInAWell non-speaking animals]] as well.

* This happens to ''WesternAnimation/MrBogus'' in the third act of the episode [[Recap/MrBogusS3E2BTV "B-TV"]], after getting [[UpToEleven blow dried by Mole]].

* ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'': [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame Senshi]] is forced to wash his [[ItMakesSenseInContext magic-resistant beard]] in order to cross a river with a water-walk spell. When he sits in front of the fire to dry off, his beard puffs up to the point he looks like a fluffball with arms, legs and a pair of eyes.

* In ''ComicBook/AlbedoErmaFelnaEDF'': The title character apparently faces this whenever she takes a shower and dries off with a blow dry chamber. Afterward, her fur is fluffed up all over her body and has to be combed down as a matter or course.

* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'': Sometimes happens to the titular cat.

* ''WesternAnimation/OliverAndCompany'': The source of the page picture. Oliver gets drenched by a fire hydrant -- courtesy of Dodger -- then walks over a subway air vent.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSwordInTheStone'': Happens to Archimedes the Owl when drying himself after "saving" Arthur as a fish from almost being eaten by a big pike. Complete with umbrella sound and Archie yelling:
-->'''Archimedes:''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYHFkAsWBOg&t=2m0s Pinfeathers and gollyfluff!]]
* ''WesternAnimation/ShrekTheThird'': Puss-in-Boots after the shipwreck.
-->'''Puss''': How humiliating...

* ''Literature/TheJungleBook'': The AnimatedAdaptation of ''Rikki-Tikki-Tavi'' features the eponymous mongoose getting this treatment after falling in his young master's bath.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Balto}}'': The first film has Muk and Luk, two polar bears, who practically explode into gigantic balls of fluff when they dry themselves off after [[BigDamnHeroes rescuing Balto from the lake]].

* ''WesternAnimation/FelixTheCat'' becomes one briefly in ''WesternAnimation/FelixTheCatSavesChristmas''.
* ''WesternAnimation/AsterixInBritain'': Happens shortly to Dogmatix after being drenched by the rain and drying himself by the fire at an inn.

* ''Film/{{Dolittle}}'': A sugar glider is sumberged in aquarium and shakes off water, with much longer puffed up fur than in reality.

%%* Salem in ''WesternAnimation/SabrinaTheAnimatedSeries'' exhibits this trope once.
%%* Happens to WesternAnimation/ThePinkPanther too.

* Happens on ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'', too. Tom gets stuck in a washing machine (and survives, of course). It cycles through the usual: Wash... Dry... Fluff... and out pops Tom, now a round, grey ball of fluff, who has somehow been fluffed so much that he now floats through the air sans legs.

* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'':
** [[TeamPet Momo]] gets a moment of this after being dried out by Aang's airbending in one episode.
** [[WeaselMascot Pabu]] follows suit after his [[TeamPet Small Team Pet]] predecessor in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra''.
* This happens to ''WesternAnimation/MrBogus'' in the third act of the episode [[Recap/MrBogusS3E2BTV "B-TV"]], after getting [[UpToEleven blow dried by Mole]].
* ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'': Happens to Dukey after he fails to thwart an evil pair of pants who have taken over the title character's mind.
* ''Characters/PinkPanther'':
** The second theatrical short "We Accept Pink Stamps" has this happen to Pink after climbing into an all-in-one laundry machine. The final fluff dry setting causes him to float out as a huge pink puffball.
** In "Tickled Pink", Pink gets a pair of magic roller skates that send him careening into a car wash. After the heat lamps dry him, Pink emerges as a large pink ball of fluff on skates.
** This also happens to him in the title sequence for ''The All-New Pink Panther Show''.

* ''Film/Dolittle'': A sugar glider is sumberged in aquarium and shakes off water, with much longer puffed up fur than in reality.

%%* ''Film/StuartLittle'': Snowbell.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSwordInTheStone'': Happens to Archimedes the Owl when drying himself after "saving" Arthur as a fish when almost been eaten by a big pike. Complete with umbrella sound and Archie yelling:

[[caption-width-right:350:I didn't know Persian cats could be orange.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'' gets his mane all fluffed up when he shakes it dry during the "Hakuna Matata" number.

* In ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020'', Sonic becomes a Fluffy Dry Hedgehog after shaking off the water from his unexpected trip in the Pacific.

* In ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog'', Sonic becomes a Fluffy Dry Hedgehog after shaking off the water from his unexpected trip in the Pacific.

* Film/SonicTheHedgehog becomes a Fluffy Dry Hedgehog after shaking off the water from his unexpected trip in the Pacific.

[[quoteright:350:[[Disney/OliverAndCompany https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fluffy_dry_cat_oliver.jpg]]]]

* ''Disney/OliverAndCompany'': The source of the page picture. Oliver gets drenched by a fire hydrant -- courtesy of Dodger -- then walks over a subway air vent.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'': Puss-in-Boots after the shipwreck in ''Shrek the Third''