History PaperThinDisguise / WesternAnimation

** Happens again in "Send In The Clowns", where Mario and the cavemen don't realize the clowns in Bowser's circus are actually Rexes until one of their noses falls off.

** Also played for laughs in "SpongeBob Meets the Strangler". The strangler uses only a fake mustache as disguise (a datailed scene has even the price tag attached to it) and it actually fools SpongeBob.

* In ''WesternAnimation/SheepInTheBigCity'', General Specific and his men use various poor disguises to sneak toward Sheep. Sometimes, instead of a disguise, the secret military organization installs a sign that identifies the thing, but instructs one to ignore it. Thus the arrow sign that says "Top Secret Military Base" and "Please look the other way". The secret helicopters bear the label, "Please Ignore".

* Philemena pulls this off successfully with a fake moustache in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''. It should be noted that she's a ''bird'' in a town populated solely by ''ponies''. ([[AndZoidberg And Spike.]])
** Fluttershy used a large hat and sunglasses to go unnoticed during her fashion model career, which would have been more convincing if her canary yellow body and distinctive cutie mark were also concealed.
** Inverted in "Party of One". Pinkie Pie disguises herself as a block of hay. Wearing [[ConspicuousTrenchcoat a trenchcoat and fedora]]. [[UpToEleven And Groucho glasses]]. Despite the over-the-top silliness, it ''could'' be a effective disguise, if everyone didn't already knew [[CloudCuckoolander Pinkie Pie]] would be the only one crazy enough to wear that in the first place.
** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E21DragonQuest Dragon Quest]]", Rarity disguises herself, Rainbow Dash, and Twilight Sparkle in a silly-looking dragon costume. This fools the dragon herd, especially since [[spoiler:there's an actual dragon that resembled the costume]].

* Alluded to in the ''HomeMovies'' episode "Camp." Coach McGuirk is on the run from cultists, and among the long list of things he asks from the people he's staying with is a fake mustache. The thing is, in the time since the cultists last saw him, he's ''grown a full beard''. In effect, he wants a "paper-thinner" disguise than the one he already has.

** In "Lisa Goes Gaga," Lady Gaga disguised herself by putting on sunglasses and a grey hoody. However, the hoodie had "GAGA" written on the back in blinking letters and it was rigged with sound effects to make it say, "Gaga Gaga Gaga."

* In "Lisa Goes Gaga," Lady Gaga disguised herself by putting on sunglasses and a grey hoody. However, the hoodie had "GAGA" written on the back in blinking letters and it was rigged with sound effects to make it say, "Gaga Gaga Gaga."

*** Also, it seems like people generally don't know his appearance that well...after all, there's no photography in this world - all they have is colorless drawings, and that's only in the Fire Nation.

-->'''Theme Song:''' He wears a disguise to look like human guys, but you're not a man, you're a chicken, Boo.

* In GarfieldAndFriends, these almost always work to perfection, one exception was when Orson was disguised as a "rooster ranger" to prank Roy. Roy saw right through the disguise and accent, even [[LampshadeHanging lampshading]] this trope at one point, eventually covering him with paint and mud. [[spoiler: However, the real Orson walked up and wondered what Roy was doing. It turned out the "rooster ranger" was actually Lanolin disguised as Orson, making this a subversion]].

** And it works!

** In one episode, Roger gets in a hit-and-run accident wearing nothing but a wig, a wifebeater and Kevin Bacon's nose from a disguise kit, and Kevin Bacon gets blamed for it. Even ''Bacon himself'' is convinced he did it despite having been thousands of miles away from the scene and not "remembering" it because "it's clearly ME on the tape!"

* On ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'', one of the villains ridicules the Toilenator by mentioning that he was once fooled by Numbuh One in disguise, even though the disguise consisted solely of a T-shirt that said "[[MostDefinitelyNotAVillain I'm not Numbuh One]]."

* On ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'' in order to convince Pete that he doesn't need any more children, PJ disguises himself as a baby. PJ is a ''very overweight eleven-year-old'', and besides that is Pete's ''son'', whose apparent absence was not remotely explained until Max says he's at the store several minutes later, so Pete should have noticed [[RuleOfFunny (he didn't)]]. DramaticIrony is PlayedForLaughs here, with Pete delivering the lines, "Aww, kind of reminds me of PJ back when he was cute!" and "PJ was never ''this'' bad!" The former of the lines results in PJ ''[[BewareTheNiceOnes biting]]'' Pete, with his fully developed adolescent teeth, and Pete still doesn't notice. He does, however, comment on how absurdly big he is. At least PJ's acting was better than it [[BadBadActing usually is.]]

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** In his review of the show, WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic felt it especially ridiculous that Sonic felt the need to reassure the audience it was him under the disguise every time he used one. Gee, [[ViewersAreMorons it's good that we're being kept in the loop huh?]]
*** I always thought he was nudging on the fact his disguise was ''[[TooDumbToLive actually working]]''.

* In ''RockosModernLife'' Filbert recalls when he first met Heffer when he began a job giving away free samples at the grocery store. His boss warned him that Heffer was a master of disguise. As a result, the ever paranoid Filbert didn't trust anyone wanting to try the free samples, and yet still kept trusting Heffer, who's disguise consisted of a paper bag with a smiley face painted on it.

* In ''WesternAnimation/SheepInTheBigCity'', General Specific and his men use various poor disguises to sneak toward Sheep. Sometimes, instead of a disguise, the secret military organization installs a sign that identifies the thing, but instructs one to ignore it. Thus the arrow sign that says "Top Secret Military Base" and "Please look the other way". The secret helicopters bear the label, "Please Ignore".

* BugsBunny can pretend to be a human by simply wearing human clothes. This cover is usually blown when someone notices his tail or ears. Of course, no one bothers to notice the gray fur or obviously non-human face...

** In the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short "Dough for the Dodo", Porky fools the Dodo by wearing only a ragged green coat and an umbrella on his head, however in the original short "PorkyInWackyland" (which was the former was a remake of) Porky had a very effective disguise wearing a false beard that covered everything but his eyes, a false nose and glasses, a different coat, and a helmet with a light bulb on it.
** Another ''Looney Tunes'' example, though this counts as a {{subver|ted trope}}sion: Sylvester puts on a dog suit to infiltrate a dog pound where Tweety is hiding. So unconvincing is this disguise, that the dogs inside see through it immediately and attack, forcing Sylvester to make a quick escape. Later, a DoubleSubversion occurs when a dogcatcher notices the still-disguised Sylvester and inattentively throws him back into the pound, where [[BigBallOfViolence another mauling]] awaits.

* In a SylvesterCatAndTweetyBird cartoon, Sylvester attempts to disguise himself as a monkey in order to infiltrate Tweety's apartment. Initially it seems as though his disguise was actually working, but then he lifts his hat up and she whacks him in the head, with her also saying "Did you really think I would be fooled by that disguise?", making this a subversion similar to the Mr. Burns example.

** Even more so with Mater's disguise as Ivan in ''Cars 2''.

* The ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead'' episode "Pool Toys" has the duo wear nerd glasses to try to fool Tom Anderson into getting them to build his swimming pool. Were it not for Anderson's poor eye sight, this plan probably wouldn't have worked.