History Main / FurIsClothing

* Parodied in [[http://garfield.com/us-acres/1988-04-10 this]] strip of ComicStrip/USAcres. Lanoline and Roy roll back their sleeves, before realizing that they don't have sleeves and they just stripped the wool and feathers from their arms, painfully.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' DirectToVideo movie ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventuresHowISpentMyVacation'', Dizzy Devil is afraid to spin (like Tasmanian Devil) because he's shedding, and doesn't want to end up naked. Eventually he does spin and lose his fur, and spends the rest of the movie wearing a cardboard box and feeling ashamed for being naked.

* In the WesternAnimation/{{Droopy}} short ''Sheep Wrecked'', the Wolf tries to catch a sheep by firing a plunger-tipped arrow onto it and pulling it back with a rope. He ends up tearing off her puffy wool, underneath which she turns out to boast a knockout curvaceous, feminine figure with shapely legs

* In the WesternAnimation/{{Droopy}} short ''Sheep Wrecked'', the Wolf tries to catch a sheep by firing a plunger-tipped arrow onto it and pulling it back with a rope. He ends up tearing off her puffy wool, underneath which she turns out to boast a curvaceous, feminine figure with shapely legs

* In the WesternAnimation/{{Droopy}} short ''Sheep Wrecked'', the Wolf tries to catch a sheep by fiding a plunger onto it and pulling it back with a rope. He ends up tearing off some it her wool, revealing some very shapely legs.

** Near the end of "WesternAnimation/ForScentImentalReadons", following the UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo, Penelope locks herself and Pepe in a room, then [[VictoriasSecretCompartment pulls her fur open at the collar and drops the key down it]].

* In ''Disney/TheGreatMouseDetective'' Fidget the bat is briefly shown to have a pocket on the inside of his wing as he's searching for the checklist that he lost.

* This also happens to Lady Kluck from Walt Disney's ''Disney/RobinHood'', as a result of her being grabbed by the rear while charging at some rhino guards; thus exposing some pale purple and pale lilac polka dot printed bloomers, which shows that her feathers are her clothes.

** In ''Ventriloquist Cat'', a cat is projecting his meow at a series of mannequins dressed in police uniforms. Butch the dog strips the uniform off each dummy looking for the cat. The cat then projects his meow onto a real police officer, and Butch ends up stripping him down to his boxers. In retaliation, the officer pulls Butch's fur down, leaving him in his boxers.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBeavers'' episode "Sans a Pelt," a mishap involving a magic trick left Norb and Dag with no fur except head fur...and needing to get back to the dam.

* Wigs may technically count as RealLife example. Even the idea of putting your fur back on can be TruthInTelevision if you make a wig out of your own cut hair, like Creator/KarenGillan did after [[DyeingForYourArt shaving her head]] to play ComicBook/{{Nebula|MarvelComics}} in ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy''.

* This trope goes way back. Many mythical "animal brides" like {{selkies|AndWereseals}} and {{swan|sASwimming}}-maidens shed their hides or feathers to reveal a gorgeous woman underneath. Unscrupulous human men often force these women into marriage by stealing and hiding the animal skins to keep their brides from returning to the wild.

* Wigs may technically count as RealLife example. Even the idea of putting your fur back on can be TruthInTelevision if you make a wig out of your own cut hair, which Creator/KarenGillan did after [[DyeingForYourArt shaving her head]] to play ComicBook/{{Nebula|MarvelComics}} in ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy''.

* Wigs may technically count as RealLife example.

* The entire story of [[JustSoStories How The Rhino Got Its Skin]] is about this -- the reason the rhinoceros' skin is all wrinkly is because some other animals filled it with sand when he took it off to go swimming.

* In ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay'', Conker is a HalfDressedCartoonAnimal, but in the parts of the game where he [[ItMakesSenseInContext urinates]] there is an audible zip before and after he does so.

** This is actually a bit more sticky; some Pokémon are specifically stated as wearing clothing (such as the belts that Sawk and Throh make themselves out of vines), but others, while ''looking'' like they wear clothing, are more ambiguous on whether or not they ''are'' clothing. One of the more famous examples of this is the debate over whether the "pants' Lucario wears are part of its fur or not. Machoke was largely considered to wear belts but WordOfGod confirms that they're nude.

** Also, what is a Gardevoir or a Gothitelle's dress supposed to be made from?

->'''Stewie:''' Brian, quick, grab some money.\\
'''Brian:''' (Picks up a handful of cash and stuffs it in his sides)\\
'''Stewie:''' Y-you have pockets? Are you putting that in pockets? That's so cute.

There is a variant of this trope in which an animal character has pockets as part of his/her actual physiology. Those pockets are most commonly located on the thighs. Another variant involves animal lifting the fur or skin on his or her leg to [[ShowSomeLeg reveal a sexy woman's leg]].

!!Examples of Removable Fur:

* The entire story of [[JustSoStories How The Rhino Got Its Skin]] is about this -- the reason the rhinoceros's skin is all wrinkly is because some other animals filled it with sand when he took it off to go swimming.

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!!Fur Pockets Variant Examples:

!!Fur Used to ShowSomeLeg:

-->'''Wolf:''' Now, there's a purty leg of lamb.

** In the ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse2013'' shorts Minnie is in her classic, topless design with the skirt. There are a few jokes that her fur is a shirt.

%% Administrivia/WeblinksAreNotExamples * [[http://www.alliednetservices.com/clipart/addams_fur.jpg This]] Creator/CharlesAddams cartoon.

* The ''WesternAnimation/SuperMarioBros'' cartoons portrayed Toad's mushroom cap as actually being a hat and not part of his body.

%% WeblinksAreNotExamples * [[http://www.alliednetservices.com/clipart/addams_fur.jpg This]] Creator/CharlesAddams cartoon.

* In the ''ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}'' episode "Olive's Boithday Presink", Popeye grabs a bear by the wrist and punches it, leaving him with a bear fur coat in his hand.

* The titular duo of ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' have revealed their fur to be nothing but a suit in a few different episodes, by unzipping to take a bath or go skinny dipping.
** In the episode "Sven Hoek", Ren unzips the front of his fur to [[UrineTrouble urinate]] on the "Don't Whiz On The Electric Fence" board game Stimpy and Sven are playing.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TimonAndPumbaa'', the eponymous characters show that their fur is this (they sometimes wear underwear under it). This pretty much changes what many people thought about the ''Lion King'' franchise, because based on this info, we can pretty safely assume [[GameChanger that it goes for the whole movie cast]].
* ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' has done this on a few occasions, with Tom either being shaven or being scared out of his fur, wearing nothing but GoofyPrintUnderwear. It happened particularly often in the later Creator/ChuckJones shorts.
** In the short "WesternAnimation/QuietPlease", Spike the bulldog rolls up his arm fur like a sleeve, revealing an anchor tattoo, before running after Tom to pummel him.
** Spike also takes the fur of his upper body off like a shirt and places it over a puddle for Tom and Jerry to walk across in "The Truce Hurts". He wears a red undershirt beneath his fur.
** In "Love That Pup", Spike warns Tom that if he messes with his son Tyke one more time, he'll skin Tom alive. Cue Jerry framing Tom for messing with Spike's son once again. In the final scene we see Spike, Tyke and Jerry sleeping on Tom's fur, while elsewhere Tom spies on them wearing nothing but a [[BankruptcyBarrel wooden barrel]] with red long johns underneath.
** When Tom runs over Mama Duck with a lawnmower in "Little Quacker", exposing her turquoise bra and bloomers, which she quickly covers with her now robe-like feathers.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/BettyBoop'' episode "WesternAnimation/TheOldManOfTheMountain", a bear removes the upper part of his fur as if it were a coat and [[PuddleCoveringChivalry places it over a puddle for Betty to walk across.]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Animalympics}}'' the flamingo figure-skater's big finish has her spin around so fast her feathers are blown off, revealing a set of underwear beneath, which she immediately covers with a robe.
* ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' has a more serious example. Gabumon take his coat off to keep an unconscious Matt warm. When Matt wakes up Gabumon quickly grabs his coat and puts it back on. Followed by Matt saying "I didn't know you could do that."
** Justified, in that Gabumon is actually a reptile, wearing fur from his evolved form, Garurumon
* WesternAnimation/TexAveryMGMCartoons:
** In ''Jerky Turkey'', a turkey removes his feathers by unzipping them like a full-body costume.
** In ''Wild and Woolfy'', a horse prepares to cross a stream by removing its hooves like slippers, revealing ''human'' feet underneath.
** In ''Lonesome Lenny'', Screwy Squirrel pours hair remover on Lenny the dog, leaving him naked save for a pair of boxers. He bashfully covers himself up and makes his way to a closet where he keeps extra dog suits.
** In ''One Ham's Family'', where the Big Bad Wolf, disguised as Santa Claus, is put through the wringer by a "bad widdle kid" pig. At the end, the kid giving his mom a fur coat, she gushes "It's just what I've always wanted," only for the Wolf, pink and naked from the neck down with a towel around his waist, takes it back and says "You and me both, sister!"
** In ''Ventriloquist Cat'', a cat is projecting his meow at a series of mannequins dressed in police uniforms. Butch the dog strips the uniform off each dummy looking for the cat. The cat then projects his meow onto a real police officer, and Butch ends up stripping him down to his boxers. In retaliation, the officer pulls Butch's fur down, leaving him in his boxers.
* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'':
** In "All Fowled Up" when WesternAnimation/FoghornLeghorn accidentally blows himself up with a firecracker, the feathers on the top half of his body get blown off and he holds up the bottom half like they're pants without a belt. The 'pants' slip a bit and we see his underwear - lavender with yellow polkadots.
-->"Fortunately, I keep my feathers numbered for just such an emergency."
** A similar gag happens at the end of the Leghorn short "Weasel Stop", when he and the weasel are run through a machine that removes their feathers/fur and bales it up like hay.
** In Creator/TexAvery's "Cross Country Detours", was a parody of a nature documentary, which at one point features a lizard shedding its skin. The lizard gets on its hind legs and begins to perform a striptease dance while it sheds its skin, a scene [[{{Rotoscoping}} rotoscoped]] from footage of an actual stripper they brought into the animation studio.
** In Creator/RobertMcKimson's "A Peck o' Trouble", Dodsworth the cat gets caught in a retracting extension ladder; when his kitten assistant re-extends the ladder to free him, his fur "suit" is torn off, leaving him in yellow boxer shorts.
** Creator/BobClampett's "WesternAnimation/TheBashfulBuzzard" has a scene where Beaky Buzzard attempts to snatch a sheep as he's flying past, resulting in his tearing her wool off and leaving her in a lavender slip. Red-faced, he averts his eyes while handing it back to her.
** In Clampett's "The Wise-Quacking Duck", WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck prepares to get into the oven by performing a strip tease routine with his feathers. And, yes, he wears boxers.
** In the Daffy short "Thumb Fun", a car whizzes by Daffy as he's hitch-hiking, leaving him featherless and in his boxers.
** This also occurs with the hens and crows in the movie, ''WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck's Fantastic Island''. The hens that Taz defeathers are shown wearing bloomers and bras.
** [[{{WesternAnimation/SylvesterTheCatAndTweetyBird}} "That puddy tat has a pink skin under his fur coat!"]]
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants''.
** An inversion occurs in "I'm Your Biggest Fanatic", [=SpongeBob=] idolizes a sea cucumber named Kevin who is the leader of a jellyfishing club. In the end, the jellyfishers remove the hat from his head and places it on [=SpongeBob=], although the hat turns out to not be a hat at all. They just ripped off the top of his head.
** In "Someone's In the Kitchen With Sandy", Sandy takes off her fur to shower. Plankton, who was stowed into her treedome, steals the fur and uses it to masquerade as her in order to steal the secret Krabby Patty formula, leaving with Sandy with the embarassing experience of being furless in public.

* In ''Webcomic/SabrinaOnline'', Sabrina is apparently wearing pants that make her look like she's not wearing any pants, because it blends into her fur.

* Played with in a Nedroid comic; Reginald mocks Beartato for not dressing in layers like he did, then gets so involved in the rigamarole of taking off said layers that he barely notices when he's run out of clothes and starts taking off his skin.
* Perry the Platypus from ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' is frequently like this. In one episode, Perry went to his lair via suction tubes and reveals Perry naked with his boxers.

* Some Franchise/{{Pokemon}} actually wear "clothing."
** This is actually a bit more sticky; some Pokémon are specifically stated as wearing clothing (such as the belts that Sawk and Throh make themselves out of vines), but others, while ''looking'' like they wear clothing, are more ambiguous on whether or not they ''are'' clothing. One of the more famous examples of this is the debate over whether the "pants' Lucario wears are part of its fur or not. Machoke was largely considered to wear belts but WordOfGod confirms that they're nude.
** Also, what is a Gardevoir or a Gothitelle's dress supposed to be made from?

* In ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay'', Conker is a HalfDressedCartoonAnimal, but in the parts of the game where he [[ItMakesSenseInContext urinates]] there is an audible zip before and after he does so.
** In the Xbox [[VideoGameRemake remake]] ''Conker: Live and Reloaded'', he's wearing shorts, so it makes more sense.

* Wigs may technically count as RealLife example.

* WebAnimation/HomestarRunner: Is the green part of Coach Z's body supposed to be his skin or some sort of jumpsuit?
** He's got footies all right. ''Airthlete'' footies.
** Also, Homestar Runner's [[LongPants "pants"]], Strong Bad's "mask" and "boxing gloves", Marzipan's "dress", and so on, so forth.
* Inverted in the ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'' series films, what appears to be Woody, Buzz Lightyear, Jessie, and the aliens' clothing '''is actually their "skin"'''! (Nothing has been confirmed for the other toys, however).

* One M&M's commercial has [[Creator/CreeSummer the green M&M piece]] changing clothes (her candy shell) and being caught naked (she is a chocolate chunk).
** Another commercial has the brown M&M clearing up a misunderstanding by explaining to some humans at a party that her shell is brown, so it only looks like she's naked. The red M&M sees her, think's it's "that kind of party" and tears off his own shell.
* As revealed in [[WesternAnimation/PixarShorts ''Tokyo Mater'']], a car's paint actually serves as its clothing, so not wearing paint at all is considered to be the automobile equivalent of nudity.
* WesternAnimation/YakkityYak's fur coat is depicted as a literal fur coat that can be taken off.
* Blackarachnia's helmet from ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' is actually revealed near the end of the episode "Predacons Rising" to be an actual helmet, unlike those of the other Transformers.
* The ''WesternAnimation/SuperMarioBros'' cartoons portrayed Toad's mushroom cap as actually being a hat and not part of his body.
* This trope is taken to its gory extreme in the PETA-made game ''Super Tanooki Skin 2D'', which consists of a skinless tanooki chasing Mario around trying to get his fur back. It's as horrifying as it sounds.
* The [[WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts Classic Disney Short]] ''Working For Peanuts'' ended with WesternAnimation/ChipAndDale disguising themselves as albino chipmunks by covering their bodies with flour to hide from WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck while at a zoo, but their disguises are ruined when the two both accidentally fall into water, washing off the flour on their lower bodies. The two chipmunks then make up for this by rubbing away some of the flour on their upper bodies to make them look like if they were wearing suspenders, therefore grabbing the tourists' attentions. When the zoo finally closes for the day, Dale celebrates by pulling on his "suspenders", leaving Chip dumbfounded.
** The 1929 MickeyMouse short "Karnival Kid" features Mickey removing his ears and the top part of his skull as if it were a hat and bowing to Minnie. Later when Minnie pays for one of Mickey's hot dogs, she [[ShowSomeLeg pulls back the fur on her leg]] to grab a coin, and Mickey sneaks a peek, blushing.
** In the ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse2013'' shorts Minnie is in her classic, topless design with the skirt. There are a few jokes that her fur is a shirt.
* In the novel ''American Gods'', Shadow hitches a ride with a fellow who tells a tall tale about a deer that literally jumped out of its skin to escape a hunter, then was given a replacement knitted by local women.
* In a ''ComicStrip/KrazyKat'' strip, Krazy claims to be "complitley clothed in a garmint of fur"--as opposed to Ignatz Mouse, who's hairless and therefore "nude". (Krazy feels embarrassed for him and covers him with a cloth.)
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBeavers'' episode "Sans a Pelt," a mishap involving a magic trick left Norb and Dag with no fur except head fur...and needing to get back to the dam.
* The entire story of [[JustSoStories How The Rhino Got Its Skin]] is about this -- the reason the rhinoceros's skin is all wrinkly is because some other animals filled it with sand when he took it off to go swimming.
* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' [[http://www.garfield.com/comics/vault.html?yr=1981&addr=810212 ripped his "cat suit"]] when he tried to pick up a chocolate covered peanut. He then said he needed a bigger one.
* An odd case in the ''WesternAnimation/TuffPuppy'' episode "Hot Dog" has Kitty Katswell cooling herself down by taking off all her clothes and shaving her fur into a onesie.
* In ''WesternAnimation/OggyAndTheCockroaches'', not only does this apply to the mammalian characters, but also to the cockroaches as well. Oggy switches between having undergarments on underneath and none at all depending on the episode. The characters' coats behave like fur in some instances (for example, when Oggy's or Jack's hair gets blown away entirely by a very loud noise), but like fabric in others (for example, when a part of the coat gets ripped off, or when a character pulls up their "shirt", puts their hand in their "pocket", or washes their full body "fur suit").
* Despite the quote at the top of the page, Brian from WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy is a complete subversion of this trope; the aforementioned "pockets" incident seems to be a one-off joke, seeing as in a recent episode, he confirms, "I ''am'' nude, I'm just covered in fur."
* Parodied in [[http://garfield.com/us-acres/1988-04-10 this]] strip of ComicStrip/USAcres. Lanoline and Roy roll back their sleeves, before realizing that they don't have sleeves and they just stripped the wool and feathers from their arms, painfully.
* [[http://www.alliednetservices.com/clipart/addams_fur.jpg This]] Creator/CharlesAddams cartoon.
* In ''VideoGame/PinkPantherPassportToPeril'', Pink Panther once takes off his pink fur like a suit so he can put on more fashionable clothes in order to visit a British mansion. His fur-suit is then stolen by 2 bad guys.
* In the series ''WesternAnimation/ZigAndSharko'', various animals seem to be able to painlessly remove parts of their body, with zippers sometimes appearing to make the appendages seem even more like clothing accessories. Zig appears to wear boxer shorts underneath his fur, while Sharko apparently wears the same beneath his grey shark exterior.