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* In Film/TheThreeStooges short ''Dutiful But Dumb'', Moe and Larry do this to get a photo of a movie star and his (latest) wife. Done again in ''Malice in the Palace'', where Moe, Larry, and Shemp make themselves into a very tall spirit in order to scare a guard into giving them the Rootentooten Diamond.

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* In Film/TheThreeStooges short ''Dutiful But Dumb'', Moe and Larry do this to get a photo of a movie star and his (latest) wife. Done again in ''Malice in the Palace'', where Moe, Larry, and Shemp make themselves into a very tall spirit in order to scare a guard Omigosh, Emir of Schmow, into giving them the Rootentooten Diamond.

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* ''Fanfic/KedaborysMuppetMania'': In Episode 2, [[WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball Darwin, Teri, and Sussie]] enter the theatre stacked on top of each other in a trenchcoat as a gag.
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* In ''VideoGame/ChicoryAColorfulTale'', there's an NPC in the Dinners Transit Office called "An Adult", who's actually three kids in a trench coat. They try to pass themselves as an adult to get a transit pass, but while they're terrible at it, they manage to steal Pizza's pass if the latter relents and gives it to them. Not that that's Plum's problem since he can just give them a new one.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingMaurice'', [[spoiler: the Boss Man in charge of the ratcatchers is actually a swarm of rats in a coat and hat, controlled by the Rat King. This being Literature/{{Discworld}}, this is sometimes terrifying, sometimes hilarious (they aren't very coordinated) and sometimes both at once.]]



* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingMaurice'', [[spoiler: the Boss Man in charge of the ratcatchers is actually a swarm of rats in a coat and hat, controlled by the Rat King. This being Literature/{{Discworld}}, this is sometimes terrifying, sometimes hilarious (they aren't very coordinated) and sometimes both at once.]]



** Done by a whole bunch of six inch-high Nac Mac Feegle in ''Literature/AHatFullOfSky''. Said Feegles uses the same trick in ''Literature/{{Wintersmith}}''. It helps that, although everyone notices how weird they look, whenever someone tells them to get lost they just start [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney waving around scads of money.]]

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** Done by ''Literature/AHatFullOfSky'' has a whole bunch of six inch-high Nac Mac Feegle in ''Literature/AHatFullOfSky''.working together to move a scarecrow to disguise themselves as a "bigjob". Said Feegles uses the same trick in ''Literature/{{Wintersmith}}''. It helps that, although everyone notices how weird they look, whenever someone tells them to get lost they just start [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney waving around scads of money.]]

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%%* Done in "Commercial Breaks" ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'' to predictable ends.

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%%* * Done in "Commercial Breaks" ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'' to predictable ends.


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* ''Series/{{Ted}}'': John and Ted do this in the third episode to shoplift a birthday gift for a bully. It goes badly since John can't see under the trenchcoat.

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A subtrope to TwoMenOneDress. A much more advanced form of the trick would be MobileSuitHuman. For a much more extreme form of this trope, look to TheWormThatWalks. A mechanical version would be CombiningMecha. An animal form of the trick would be PantomimeAnimal.

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A subtrope to TwoMenOneDress. A much more advanced form of the trick would be MobileSuitHuman. For a much more extreme form of this trope, look to TheWormThatWalks. A mechanical version would be CombiningMecha. An animal form of the trick would be PantomimeAnimal.
PantomimeAnimal. This trope is also a StockVisualMetaphor for organizations or groups suffering internal quarrels or factionalism -- see also WeAreStrugglingTogether, JurisdictionFriction, or NotSoOmniscientCouncilOfBickering.


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* ''Anime/KOBeast'': The one-off character Don appears to be a giant PigMan, but is pulling this trope by standing on his son's shoulders and wearing a concealing mantle. The disguise is as paper-thin as traditionally expected for a comedy, but none of the other characters realize until ''after'' Don is apparently [[DisneyDeath blown in half during a fight]].
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* In the intermissions of the ''VideoGame/SpongeBobSquigglePants'' level titled "B-Movie", an audience is shown watching an old SlasherMovie where Squidward is chased by a mysterious killer. Upon winning or losing the level, it's revealed that the killer was actually [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick stacked on top of one another in a costume.
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* In ''[[Literature/KirbyLightNovel Kirby and the Dangerous Gourmet Mansion!?]]'', Kirby and King Dedede try to attend Madame Parfaitsky's birthday party by disguising themselves as Meta Knight's ([[DisguisedInDrag female]]) dance partner. They do this by having Dedede wear a dress large enough to cover his whole body, while Kirby, the "head", rides around on his head.

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