History Main / TotemPoleTrench

** Meowth and Jessie's Wobbufette did this at least twice. once in "Will the Real Professor Oak Please Stand Up" by posing as a reporter and again in another episode dressed up as a guard.

** In another episode, Meowth and Jessie's Wobbuffet do this.

** In the video game, this is a special move that the Eds can pull off. It's primary function is to either let the group hide behind telephone poles or to walk across narrow platforms.

* Performed by Bloo and Mac on a regular basis in ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends''.

* Baloo and Kit do this in another episode.

** In an episode, Garfield and Odie disguise themselves as a police officer to save Jon from a crazy car salesman.

* In an episode of ''Peabody's Improbable History'', Peabody and Sherman do this to stand in for an actor on a stage play.

** In another episode, Vinnie tries to help Blythe dance on national TV by [[HugeRiderTinyMount propping her up on his shoulders underneath her dress while doing all the dancing]]. The plan apparently worked since the crowd loved it and didn't even notice Vinnie at all.

->''"We're not clear yet, I think the bouncer is still looking at us."''\\

-->-- ''[[http://www.mastersoftheart.com/index.php Masters of the Art]]''

* Timon and Pumbaa have done this a few times in ''WesternAnimation/TimonAndPumbaa'' usually in attempts to fool Quint. Pumbaa usually has a habit of blowing their cover by speaking out loud, which is why their attempts usually fail.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/PoundPuppies2010'' episode, "Hail to the Cheif", Lucky, Niblet and Strudel do this to try to sneak into the White House. The guard obviously didn't buy it.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/HeathcliffAndTheCatillacCats'', Heathcliff, Hector and Wordsworth do this to try to return Mungo to his original owner. While they do succeed, they afterward get chased by a gang of dogs. It also didn't help much that Wordsworth was on the bottom, and since he was on roller skates, it sent the cats on a really wild ride.

* In a [[http://sparkydearly.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=fanfics&action=display&thread=630 fanfiction]] of ''Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians: The Series'', the main pups stack up on each other wearing a trench coat and fedora and attempt to rescue one of their adopted brothers. In this case, Lucky stood on Cadpig's shoulders, and Cadpig stood on Rolly's shoulders. [[spoiler:Surprisingly, they are successful.]]

* Two fans of the Hub's ''[[WesternAnimation/PoundPuppies2010 Pound Puppies]]'' series made a [[http://sparkydearly.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=imrps&action=display&thread=7348&page=1 fanfiction]] of it that involved this trope. In the fanfic, Lucky and Cookie do this to try to trick [=McLeish=] into selling them a pup for adoption with Lucky on top and Cookie on the bottom. Throughout the scene, they were both nervous about getting caught, but [=McLeish=] was too preoccupied to take the time to notice.
* [[http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/329/9/8/trench_coat_buddies_by_babclayman-d4h8pc0.jpg This ''Air Buddies'' fanart]] features the Buddies piled up on each other in a trench coat with B-Dawg at the top wearing a hat. By the looks of things, it's not going very well since poor Budderball at the base is unable to support all his siblings at once while standing up.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Starvin' Marvin in Space", the boys do this and pretend to be Tom Brokaw so they can distract the government while Marvin boards his people onto the spacecraft. When Kyle makes a comment from inside the costume, Cartman at the head tries to cover by saying that he had some bad burritos today.

* ''WesternAnimation/BackAtTheBarnyard'' : Freddy and Peck do this in "Some Like ut Snotty" to crossdress as a normal height girl while going on a date with Eugine and two of his friends while accompanied by Otis and Pig (who are also crossdressed as girls)

* Some flyers and banners advertising the 2013 D23 Expo show different Disney characters wearing Mickey Mouse's famous outfit from ''The Sorcerer's Apprentice''. One of which shows Chip and Dale wearing the outfit with Chip on Dale's shoulders.

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* There are a few videos that people have posted on Website/YouTube of people doing this with their friends. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYgPhIOPaSw These]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbsign1_u60 are]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eANh4p_QETQ a few]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6hy2juofNs examples]].
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* In an episode of ''UnderTheUmbrellaTree'', the three main puppets attempted to do this with Gloria on top.

-->'''Sophia:''' We'll get one of those really long overboard, I'll stand on your shoulders, and...

* ''[[AlanDeanFoster Kingdoms of Light]]'' features Khaxan Munderucu, an incredibly powerful giant evil spellcaster. He's really twenty-two goblin mages in a giant all combining their magic.

For a more specific form of this trope, look 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. A Animal form of the trick would be PantomimeAnimal.

* Done by Goten and Trunks to enter an adults-only tournament in ''Manga/DragonBall Z''. And the best part is, they ''are'' competent at fighting in tandem like that, only stopping at #18, who blows their ruse in the semifinals. She was suspicious most of the fight, but finally manages to put two and two together when they activate Super Saiyan, and she sees golden light emitting from every hole in the suit. It should be noted that except for Master Roshi, she is the only one who realize it's them at all, even after the Super Saiyan transformation.