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18* [[WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts Mickey Mouse]]'s classic look has red shorts with gold or white buttons, but no shirt. And note that it's only his "classic" look where he counts as this. Every other outfit Disney's put him in has a shirt.
19* Most of the Disney duck characters are both pantsless and unshod, but Scrooge [=McDuck=] wears ''spats'' on top of his webbed feet.
20** Ditto most of the duck characters in ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' (which was explicitly set in the same world). Including Gosalyn, unusually, although not including Morgana. Morgana was more humanoid, though.
21** [[TheOneWhoWearsShoes Exceptions to the shoeless duck rule]] include Mrs. Beakley of ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'', Gosalyn Mallard of ''Darkwing Duck'', and Launchpad [=McQuack=], who appeared in both.
22** Launchpad and Mrs. Beakley were also exceptions to the pantsless duck rule, normally appearing fully clothed, although Launchpad on a couple occasions dressed in the costume of Darkwing Duck, an outfit that included neither pants nor shoes.
23** Although a typical pantsless duck, Darkwing was at times bizarrely shown to have boxer shorts beneath his costume, which was way too short to cover such a garment.
24*** Another pantsed duck would be Quackerjack, with his jester outfit.
25** Daisy Duck is rare among female characters in that she's usually bare bottomed, with her feathers giving the appearance of a skirt, though unlike other ducks, she wears shoes. Sometimes she'll be seen wearing long skirts if it fits the setting of a story.
26** The normally bottomless WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck nephews Huey, Duey, and Louie were given shorts when they were redesigned as preteens for ''Quack Pack''.
27** There is an urban legend about [[http://www.snopes.com/disney/films/finland.asp Donald Duck being banned in Finland]], because he does not wear pants.
28*** The legend is probably based on the few angry letters that the Finnish Donald Duck magazine received decades ago on the subject, and responded by publishing a picture of a ridiculous-looking duck with pants, which largely killed the issue. Many Finns find this legend amusing, in that the nudity taboo is far weaker in Finland than it ever has been in America, and there have been several comics in the country's national newspaper which have on occasion showed naked characters with visible but non-pronounced genitals, leading to no repercussions.
29*** There's also the fact that Donald Duck is the most popular fictional character of them all in Finland. That would be an even bigger achievement were he banned.
30** Mickey and Donald being half-naked was [[PlayingWithaTrope played with]] in [[Recap/MickeyMouseS1E1NoService one of the recent Disney Channel shorts]]. Donald and Mickey want to buy food, but [[WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} the store owner]] enforces his "no shirt, no shoes, no service" sign. Mickey has no shirt, Donald has no shoes, and the two end up fighting over each other's clothing.
31** Characters like [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Porky Pig]] and WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck usually wear a [[ModestyTowel towel around their waist]] after showering, despite neither wearing pants. WordOfGod states that it's basically because Donald is [[FunnyAnimal "human"]] and therefore would have a human reaction to it.
32** In a lot of the older Donald Duck cartoons, Donald's modesty is played like a fourth wall joke; he walks around without pants all of the time, but whenever his shirt gets removed he immediately covers his crotch.
33* Donald's friend José Carioca was a HalfDressedCartoonAnimal, with a hat, suit, gloves and no pants, but his comic book series loses the gloves and gives him a pair of blue pants that are slightly torn at the bottom in a way that makes it look like they just painted his lower body blue. This appears to have been done not because they find the idea of a pantsless character offensive, but [[WearingAFlagOnYourHead so that his design implements all the colours of the Brazilian flag, not just the Green and Yellow]].
34* In ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'', Huey, Dewey, Louie, Donald, and Scrooge don’t wear any pants with their outfit. Webby wears a skirt with nothing underneath. Most ducks aren’t wearing shoes, but Scrooge wears spats and Lena wears sneakers. The fact that most ducks don’t wear shoes is Lampshaded in “The Richest Duck in the World” when Scrooge can’t find any shoes to shine.
35* When Goofy first appeared (as Dippy Dawg), he wore only a hat, vest and shoes (along with the prerequisite WhiteGloves). Of course, he eventually became fully clothed after being given a more human-like appearance at the start of the color film era.
36* Minnie Mouse and Clarabelle Cow featured designs which had skirts and underbloomers, but not necessarily shirts. In more recent years, however, someone apparently decided that wasn't acceptable and changed her default outfit to a dress. Since then, depictions of her in the red polka-dotted skirt have been mainly limited to the ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouseWorks''-era cartoons, and depictions of her [[InkblotCartoonStyle white-faced, black-eyed "classic" design]].
37** Minnie's earliest cartoons (''Steamboat Willie'' period, 1928-29) had her wearing a bra over her naked chest, but from late 1929 she went completely topless.
38*** ''The Grocery Boy'' seems to treat Mickey's and Minnie's black fur as an item of clothing itself. In it, Minnie momentarily pulls back the fur on her chest, showing us that she [[VictoriasSecretCompartment keeps her powder puff underneath]]!
39** Before the MoralGuardians noticed and became offended, many of the female cow characters would walk around with bare udders, but eventually the artists were forced to give them skirts.
40* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Bonkers}}'' Bonkers D. Bobcat and most of the other anthromorphic male cartoon animals wear only shirts, while female cartoon animals wear skirts or dresses.
41* ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'': lampshaded this trope: In the BodySwap episode "A Fly in the Ointment", the usually jumpsuit-clad Gadget is bodyswapped with the pantsless Dale. Upon noticing "her" "nudity", Gadget immediately fashions a makeshift skirt from a Dixie cup which "she" wears for the rest of the episode.
42** ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' parodied the show and trope with a skit involving Gadget forgoing pants to match the other Rangers, who are all male and don't wear pants. Chip, Dale, and Monty see Gadget and promptly give excuses to leave the room for... various reasons.
43* In "Vowel Play," the "skywriting" episode of Disney's ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'', the normally pantsless Baloo's shirt comes off as well, resulting in a naked Baloo (wearing only a hat). Rebecca Cunningham, his BarefootCartoonAnimal female boss, proceeds to berate him... but only for his spelling errors.
44** In a later episode, "My Fair Baloo", an episode in which all the attendees at a formal ball strip off their outer garments to sew them into a giant hot-air balloon in order to fly the massive airplane that had served as the site of their dance home, Baloo has on an undershirt.
45*** That doesn't even cover the half of it, so to speak. The tuxedo that Rebecca rented for Baloo originally had a pair of pants before he puts it on.
46** Another ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'' episode ("Plunder and Lighting", the {{pilot}}) featured Rebecca being repulsed by dirty socks on Baloo's bedroom floor. One has to wonder where these socks came from, considering Baloo, as well as most of the rest of the show's cast, went barefoot. (RuleOfFunny probably explains it.)
47* Back when Creator/ToonDisney first hit the air, this trope was lampshaded in one of their commercials called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePSZcF8yhkE "The No Pants Dance".]]
48* Some of the marine animals from ''WesternAnimation/FishHooks''.
49* Both Fifer and Fiddler Pig from ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeLittlePigs''.
50* In The 1934 Silly Symphonies cartoon "The Flying Mouse" featured 4 unnamed mice who wore a shirt, gloves, and slippers but no pants. Including the boy mouse who daydreamed about flying like a bird.
51* The ''WesternAnimation/GummiBears'' all wear shirts and hats (and in Gammi's case a dress) but no pants. Although their medieval attire has their shirts normally be long enough to cover under the waist.
52* Whenever Perry the Platypus of ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' has to wear clothes, he usually doesn't wear pants. Lampshaded at one point by Doofenshmirtz.
53* The ''WesternAnimation/RawToonage'' segment ''WesternAnimation/{{Marsupilami}}'': Maurice wears a pink shirt but no pants.
54* In the educational video series ''WesternAnimation/LanguageArtsThroughImagination'', Figment only wears a yellow and red shirt as he does in the Epcot attraction Ride/JourneyIntoImagination.
55* Like with most of Disney's anthropomorphic bird characters, Professor Owl and the bird students from the ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresInMusicDuology'' wear clothes but no pants, with Professor Owl only wearing a white dress vest, blue coat, teal shirt, green bowtie and black (or sometimes red) spectacles.
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57* ''WesternAnimation/TheNinthLifeOfShermanPhelps'': Sherman wears only a pair of striped pants. Ronald only wears pants and a necktie.
58* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfDawdleTheDonkey'': Rola Polar Bear wears pants with suspenders, a scarf and a hat. Sometimes he puts on sunglasses.
59* True to the title of the show, the cast of ''WesternAnimation/AlmostNakedAnimals'' [[{{Squick}} wears only underwear (their fur having been shaved off)]].
60* The Seville brothers of ''WesternAnimation/TheAlvinShow'' and ''WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'' didn't wear pants because (until the 2007 franchise reboot) their turtleneck shirts were long enough to reach their ankles.
61** The Chipettes are a different story altogether. In the 1980s cartoon they were [[FullyDressedCartoonAnimal always fully dressed]]. Early promotional material for ''Film/AlvinAndTheChipmunks: The Squeakquel'' seemed to suggest they were going to wear skirts over their naked lower halves. In the final film the girls wear shirts, and skirts that obviously don't reach that far down, and it seems like the Chipettes make only a half-assed attempt at being fully clothed as it leaves their butts visibly unclothed. So, first they are fully clothed, then implied to be half naked, then go obviously half naked...
62* Where to begin on ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}''? Yakko wears pants but no shirt. Wakko wears a shirt, but no pants. Dot wears a skirt and bloomers but no shirt. Walter Wolf wears overalls, a hat, and yellow gloves. Rita, Runt, Skippy, Slappy ([[AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal she only wears a hat]]), Pinky and the Brain, Buttons and the Goodfeather Pigeons prance around in the nude with pride, but if Minerva Mink ever did the censors would be up in arms!
63** At one point Slappy's shown [[FurIsClothing lifting her fur]], doing a [[ShowSomeLeg sexy leg reveal]]. Walter Wolf does this once as well, with the same results.
64** In ''WesternAnimation/WakkosWish'', Skippy is wearing a shirt without pants (at least in the wintertime).
65** Yakko Warner wears tan pants with a black belt and WhiteGloves, but no shirt.
66** Wakko Warner wears a light blue shirt, a red baseball cap, and WhiteGloves, but no pants.
67** Dot Warner wears a pink skirt, bloomers, and WhiteGloves, but no shirt. Sometimes Dot's bloomers are pink, sometimes white. In "Please Take My Sibling", Dot's skirt fell down, and she was revealed to be wearing white AND pink bloomers.
68** Wilford B. Wolf wears pants, glasses, and a bowtie,... but in Fabio-esque form, he wears torn shorts and a bowtie.
69** Walter Wolf wears overalls, a hat, and yellow gloves.
70** In contrast to Walter Wolf, his female nemesis Slappy is usually seen wearing nothing but her hat. However, she ''was'' fully clothed in "Hurray for Slappy" and "Macadamia Nut" (except for [[BarefootCartoonAnimal the shoes]], that is), but otherwise, if Slappy decides to wear clothes (in episodes like "I Got Yer Can", "Critical Condition", "No Face Like Home", "Mighty Wakko at the Bat", "Soccer Coach Slappy" and "Sunshine Squirrels"), Slappy wears a shirt and no pants.
71--> '''Wakko:''' This is a bit much.
72-->'''Dot:''' I'll say.
73* In ''WesternAnimation/TheBackyardigans'', Pablo's regular garb consists of nothing but a blue and yellow propeller beanie and a blue bowtie. Tyrone wears an orange and blue striped sweater with no pants, yet is ''still'' often seen with his hands in his pockets [[FridgeLogic for some weird reason]]. The other three members of the cast (no other characters are ever seen, heard or even mentioned) are pretty well covered with Tasha being the only one of the children who wears shoes.
74* On ''WesternAnimation/{{Birdz}}'', most of the adults are fully dressed, but the children (of both sexes) wear only shirts. An exception is Mr. Nuthatch, who wears only a jacket.
75* A Boomerang short plays with this where a bunch of cartoon characters can't buy anything at a store because of "No shirt, no shoes, no service." So WesternAnimation/QuickDrawMcGraw, who is wearing horse shoes, takes [[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones Fred Flintstone]]'s shirt and asks to buy clothing for the rest of the toons, the shopkeeper responds, you need pants too. Quickdraw's usual outfit consisted of a red hat, a blue bandana, and a gunbelt; El Kabong wore a black hat, a bandana-style mask and a cape, and Baba Looey wore a yellow sombrero and yellow bandana.
76* WesternAnimation/CalvinAndTheColonel from the self-titled series.
77* Most of the cast of ''WesternAnimation/CampLazlo'' are half-dressed. A notable exception is the episode where Edward goes around [[ComedicUnderwearExposure pantsing]] everyone, where suddenly everyone is wearing pants. The fact that Edward himself gets pantsed in the ending scene is spoiled by the fact that he himself wasn't wearing pants until that scene.
78* In ''WesternAnimation/CatBurglar'', this is the default clothing mode for both main characters. Rowdy the cat wears a black knit cap and turtleneck sweater and Peanut the dog wears a security guard outfit, but neither of them wear pants or shoes.
79* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Chowder}}'', the title character is apparently wearing shorts, he's just so fat that his poncho/shirt mostly covers his shorts when he wears it. However, the animation isn't very consistent, and he'll occasionally be shown wearing nothing else under it.
80** Also, Shnitzel tends to wear nothing but an apron and underpants a good percent of the time.
81* Lampshaded on the "Once Upon a Tyne in NYC" episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow'' as Cleveland rescues Tim the Bear from a gay bar.
82-->'''Cleveland:''' He's not interested!\
83'''Gay Barfly:''' Then why did he walk into a gay bar without pants on?!?\
84'''Cleveland:''' Cartoon bears NEVER wear pants!
85** In "You're the Best Man, Cleveland Brown," everyone goes to a strip club and Tim just finds the most out-of-the-way corner to get drunk...because a strip club is a bad place to be when you don't wear pants.
86** Tim's wife is also half-dressed (she wears a dress without underwear), but their son is [[BarefootCartoonAnimal fully dressed but without shoes]].
87* The Red Guy from ''WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken'' is a savage parody of this trope.
88* Count Duckula in the original version of ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse'' and his [[WesternAnimation/CountDuckula self-titled]] Spinoff spurned pants, even though most of the other FunnyAnimal characters were [[FullyDressedCartoonAnimal fully dressed]]. His counterpart in the 2015 reboot is fully dressed with pants and shoes, but the reboot contains another straight example in Isambard King Kong Brunel (a monkey who only wears a vest and hat).
89* The main character from ''WesternAnimation/DanielTigersNeighborhood'' is a tiger who wears a jacket and shoes, but no pants.
90* [[TalkingAnimal Mendel]] from ''WesternAnimation/DNAce'' wears a shirt, vest, and a pair of goggles.
91* ''WesternAnimation/ElliotMoose'' only wears a green shirt with a red star on it. This applies to both the animated (when he is in his regular outfit) AND live-action segments.
92* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'''s Peter Griffin once dressed as WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck to go to ''Theatre/DisneyOnIce''. [[http://www.skyrocketonlinemarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/peters-donald-duck-costume.jpg Guess how that turned out...]]
93** Stewie Griffin shows up half-dressed in the pantsless fashion at least once too.
94* The ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' episode "[[Recap/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriendsS1E4AdoptcalypseNow Adoptaclypse Now]]" had a brief scene where it's pointed out that most imaginary friends are nude... and then Mr. Herriman freaks out over not wearing pants. He proceeds to hop around in too-big pants for a good duration of the episode.
95* Though Bender from ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' isn't an animal, he goes around naked most of the time. He will, however, occasionally become modest and wear a towel or some other form of covering as the situation requires, like when he and Fry were relaxing in a steam-filled room.
96** Another ''Futurama'' example: Kif Kroker runs around in the tunic-cum-uniform without pants that Zap Brannigan imposed on the Earth military, but while Zap and all the humans are carefully covered, Kif's underwear frequently shows, between his lackey role, alien anatomy and ability to climb walls like a gecko. One bizarre way this is used is when he peels off his skin with his uniform (and precious ambergris) on it, revealing a new naked skin below, that is somehow wearing underwear.
97*** This gets even stranger when you realize that Kif's species reproduces through any skin contact, meaning he would not realistically have or need genitals.
98** Nibbler wears a cape, and sometimes diapers.
99* In ''WesternAnimation/FilmationsGhostbusters'', Tracy the gorilla sports only a fedora and khaki shorts.
100* There is a humorous trailer in recent movies ([[ItMakesSenseInContext asking people to turn off their cell phones]]) dealing with a development team for the fictional CGI movie ''Happy the Hedgehog''. ExecutiveMeddling forces the designers to put shorts on him. Their response? Add the shorts, but ''[[WriterRevolt keep the fly unzipped.]]''
101** That's Peter and Bobby Farrelly, by the way. Who would totally do that.
102* In ''WesternAnimation/HarveyBeaks'', Foo, Kratz, and Technobear are only dressed from the waist down, the latter wearing nothing but a Speedo.
103* ''WesternAnimation/HarveyBirdmanAttorneyAtLaw''
104** "Blackwatch Plaid" had fun with this trope by portraying Secret Squirrel as a flasher (since he only wears a trenchcoat). Later episodes show him wearing boxers underneath after the court ruled against him.
105** "Grape Juiced" has Reducto try to prove that Grape Ape is using steroids because one of the side effects is testicular shrinkage, and since Grape Ape wears no pants, his genitals should be quite visible under normal circumstances.
106* ''WesternAnimation/HoppityHooper'': Waldo, Fillmore and most of the supporting cast fall into this category: wearing jackets and hats, and sometimes shoes and neckwear (Waldo wears spats but no shoes). Hoppity himself is an AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal as he wears only a bowtie.
107* IR Baboon in ''WesternAnimation/IAmWeasel'' only wears a white t-shirt with "I.R." written upside-down on it, which leads to a RunningGag of people and animals laughing at [[NakedPeopleAreFunny his big red butt.]]
108* This happens to Aquarus in ''WesternAnimation/Invincible2021'', as part of AdaptationalSkimpiness, in the animated adaptation, he only wears a sleeveless shirt. It seems that Aquarus doesn't care that his lower half is exposed and his heroic companions don't seem to care or comment on that either.
109* In ''WesternAnimation/JumanjiTheAnimatedSeries'', when Peter transforms into an animal, his pants mysteriously disappear, but the only thing he keeps when he transforms into an animal is his orange shirt.
110* Quack Quack the duck from ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'' wears a pair of underwear, but no shirt.
111* Between the two title characters of ''WesternAnimation/LennyAndSid'', the former wears only a shirt, and the latter wears only overalls.
112* Leo Lionheart, the main character of MGM's ''WesternAnimation/TheLionhearts'' series, wore just a sweater. His dad, Grandpa Lionheart, wears a sports jacket.
113* Most WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes characters don't bother with covering their lower bodies unless they're disguised.
114** Bugs in particular disdains pants, but not skirts and dresses.
115** {{Lampshaded}} on ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'' episode "Jailbird and Jailbunny" when people keep pointing out that WesternAnimation/PorkyPig has no pants, and Porky seems embarrassed enough to buy a pair. Porky is a particularly notable example seeing as pigs have relatively little hair on their bodies.
116** Daffy Duck becomes one in episode "Peel of Fortune" when he claims that he wears "mall pants" at malls to show respect, but no "mall shirts" because malls don't deserve that much respect (that, and he can't afford a shirt). When he accidentally loses the pants, he covers himself in embarrassment, even though he normally goes around naked all the time.
117** The female gorilla from the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoon "Apes of Wrath" wears a pink skirt that looks just like Dot Warner's skirt.
118** Zigzagged in some cartoons, where a character will lose the fur covering his legs!
119* In WesternAnimation/TheMouseOnTheMayflower the main character Willum Mouse wears a hat, shirt, and coat, but no pants.
120* ''WesternAnimation/{{Mr Bogus}}'' only wore a pair of blue shorts as his normal attire, except for a few occasions where he does become fully dressed, such as when he becomes his superhero alter ego, Super Bogus.
121* In ''WesternAnimation/TheMrMenShow'' storyboards, Mr. Persnickety wears a plaid vest.
122* Jake Spidermonkey from ''WesternAnimation/MyGymPartnersAMonkey'' doesn't wear pants (in fact, one episode states that he dislikes pants). Often lampshaded throughout the series with a common RunningGag being Jake boasting about [[NakedPeopleAreFunny his exposed buttocks.]]
123* ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'':
124** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyRescueAtMidnightCastle'': Habbit, the Moochick's rabbit assistant, wears only a pair of red pants and some breeches to hold them up, without shirt or shoes of any kind. This is in contrast to his later appearances in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends'', where he just doesn't wear anything.
125** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Played with. [[OurNudityIsDifferent Clothing of]] ''[[OurNudityIsDifferent any]]'' [[OurNudityIsDifferent sort is formalwear for ponies]], and as such runs the gamut from minimal to deeply covering. In Canterlot in particular, it seems that almost everyone wears some clothing, which makes sense since it seems to be populated by upper-crust folk. This is lampshaded on a number of occasions.
126*** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E26TheBestNightEver The Best Night Ever]]" when the ponies are getting ready for the Grand Galloping Gala, Rarity acts scandalized at Spike (a male dragon) seeing them while they're changing, until Applejack points out that none of usually wear anything anyway.
127---->'''Spike:''' Come on, you guys! Let me in!\
128'''Rainbow Dash:''' Sure thing, Spike!\
129'''Rarity:''' Heavens, no! We're getting dressed!\
130'''Applejack:''' Dressed? Uh, beg pardon, Rarity, but, uh... we don't normally wear ''clothes''.\
131'''Rarity:''' ''(groans, opens the door)'' Sorry, Spike. Some of us ''do'' have standards.
132*** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E15TheSuperSpeedyCiderSqueezy6000 The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000]]", when Rainbow Dash yanks the covers off Fluttershy, Fluttershy immediately covers her non-existent breasts with her front hooves while blushing furiously.
133*** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E7MakeNewFriendsButKeepDiscord Make New Friends but Keep Discord]]", when cleaning up the Smooze's slime at another Gala, Discord vacuums up Rarity's entire dress. Rarity promptly covers up her chest and crotch and staggers offscreen, despite being no more or less exposed than she normally is.
134*** In general, Rarity's mother seems to be the only pony to actually wear pants with her shirt.
135* Ollie the cat from ''The Ollie and Moon Show'' wears a blue shirt with white stripes. His friend Moon [[BarefootCartoonAnimal wears a red blouse and a black skirt]].
136* ''WesternAnimation/{{Oswaldo}}'''s eponymous character only wears a hoodie that he wraps tightly around his head, otherwise going without any pants.
137* Ludwig the bat from ''WesternAnimation/{{Pearlie}}'' wears a pair of glasses and a necktie.
138* Played with in ''WesternAnimation/ThePinkPanther'' cartoons, where occasionally, the Panther would "undress" (typically just removing "socks" just before going to bed), but he looks exactly the same.
139* In ''WesternAnimation/TheRaccoons'', most of the males are nude or shirt-only. Melissa and Nicole Raccoon wear only a shirt as well, which is somewhat strange as they actually have breasts. Lisa and Sophia are the only fully dressed main characters in the series.
140* Skips the yeti from ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' wears only jeans and a belt to them.
141* In ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'', most of the cast is fully clothed except for Rocko, Heffer, Slippy the Slug, and the Chameleon brothers, in Rocko and Slippy's cases they only wear shirts but sometimes if Rocko loses his, he will gain a pair of underpants, and if it's for a formal occasion Rocko will wear pants. Heffer's normal attire consists of a pair of red overalls, but no shirt. The Chameleon brothers are naked and no one ever comments on this.
142* Three and Four from ''WesternAnimation/SevenLittleMonsters''. Although having just an oversized T-shirt as his regular wardrobe, Three dons a different costume pertainable to the plot of each episode, in which case a good one-third of his wardrobe applies to this trope. Four sports a yellow T-shirt and purple top hat.
143* WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs wear pants and hats, [[WalkingShirtlessScene but no shirts]].
144* In ''WebAnimation/SpaceGoose'', Space Goose and Ugly wear only shirts (not counting Goose's space helmet). Sally wears a dress and boots, while Joe wears a shirt and pants. Dr. Donkey wears a top hat, a monocle and a dinner jacket.
145* Many characters on ''WesternAnimation/{{SpongeBob SquarePants}}'': Patrick only wears shorts. Plankton is ([[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS3E1TheAlgaesAlwaysGreenerSpongeguardOnDuty "good grief!"]]) naked. Mrs. Puff's underside is always visible because she wears a skirt with no pants. Squidward only wears a shirt, and this last one is {{lampshaded}} many times; in one example, [=SpongeBob=] asks Squidward why he never wears pants, and at the end, he is seen wearing a pair; in another, he runs out of his house, wearing only bubbles over his private parts (with characters covering their eyes as he runs by), and at the end of the episode, [=SpongeBob=] gives Squidward his clothes to wear just before the last bubble, which is placed where his crotch would be, pops.
146* Dr. Viper from ''WesternAnimation/SWATKats'' wears only a labcoat.
147* Buster Bunny, Plucky Duck, and Shirley the Loon from ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures''. Occasionally, Babs Bunny was shirtless, and twice pantsless (both times when imitating males - "Elmer Presley" and Groucho Marx).
148** Hamton J. Pig is another debatable male example because he wears overalls, but not a shirt.
149** In the pilot episode, Buster initially appears without clothes. A paintbrush enters the frame and paints a shirt on (though it takes the animator a couple of tries to get the outfit right), with Buster commenting, "...and some clothes for the censors". (Babs is drawn in already wearing her usual outfit)
150* WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry are usually naked, but are occasionally seen wearing shirts without pants in some cartoons. Jerry also sported a red bowtie on some of his appearances on television.
151** Also, Puggsy the dog, Frankie the flea, and [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment the Singing Cat Gang]] from ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryTheMovie''.
152* Zigzagged quite a bit in ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryKids'' with Droopy and Dripple. Most cartoons had both of them fully-clothed. However, in a few shorts as well as promotional art, Dripple wore a yellow t-shirt with a teal stripe across the middle, and Droopy on the other hand, went au naturale.
153* For cartoon turtles, the creature's [[RemovableShell shell is usually treated as an outer garment]] (which often leads to an embarrassing unshelling), even in ''WesternAnimation/{{Franklin}}'', a series of books and cartoons that usually avoids such cartoonish tropes. Exceptions include the Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles, as well as Braker Turtle, a rather minor character in the 1980s series ''WesternAnimation/TheGetAlongGang'', who was fully clothed like the other animal characters in his world.
154** Note that, at least in the most recent incarnation of the series, no one points out that the TMNT are mostly naked; so, even though they can't take off their shells, the shells could possibly be considered clothes in the barest sense of the term.
155* ''WesternAnimation/TUFFPuppy'':
156** Dudley Puppy only wears a shirt and no pants, apparently due to having a strong aversion towards wearing them. That being said, he has been consistently shown to not mind wearing pants as part of a disguise, plus the episode "Mom-A-Geddon" [[FurIsClothing depicts his seemingly pantsless lower half as actually being pants]] when they are pulled back to show his underwear as well as the tracking device his mother put there.
157** Two of Snaptrap's henchmen [Larry and Francisco] don't wear pants either.
158* The "Silly Songs with Larry" segment in the ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'' episode "Are You My Neighbour?" features Larry the Cucumber, fresh from a bath, wearing nothing but a towel wrapped around his waist. Repeated mention is made of how embarrassing it is for him to be meeting people in this state of undress -- even though he's actually better covered than usual, since like most of the Veggies he normally wears nothing at all.
159* Cindy Bear from ''WesternAnimation/YogiBear'' cartoons wears a blue skirt, a yellow scarf on her neck, and a flower in her hair. She wore a hat in the original 1961 cartoons and in a few of her later appearances as well.
160** Clothing was a major plot point in the short ''Boo Boo Runs Wild''.
161* There are other Creator/HannaBarbera characters who are half dressed, including:
162** [[WesternAnimation/AugieDoggieAndDoggieDaddy Augie Doggie]], Doggie Daddy's son (turtleneck)
163** Ding-A-Ling Wolf, WesternAnimation/HokeyWolf's sidekick (bowler hat, short-sleeve shirt and vest)
164** WesternAnimation/TopCat, Choo Choo, the Brain ([[WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain No, not that Brain]]), and Benny the Ball from ''WesternAnimation/TopCat''.
165** [[WesternAnimation/LippyTheLionAndHardyHarHar Lippy the Lion]] (tattered vest and top hat)
166** [[WesternAnimation/RicochetRabbitAndDroopALongCoyote Ricochet Rabbit]] (cowboy hat, gun belt and vest)
167** WesternAnimation/PeterPotamus and [=SoSo=] the monkey (Peter wears a safari jacket and pith helmet; [=SoSo=] wears a backwards hat and blue shirt)
168** WesternAnimation/SecretSquirrel and Morocco Mole (Secret wears a white trenchcoat and a hat with eye holes; Morocco wears a fez and smoking jacket)
169** ''WesternAnimation/MagillaGorilla'' wears shorts with suspenders, hat, bow tie, and shoes. No shirt.
170** Maw and Shag Rugg from ''WesternAnimation/TheHillbillyBears'' are half dressed, but Floral Rugg borders on [[FullyDressedCartoonAnimal fully dressed]], although she's a BarefootCartoonAnimal. Paw Rugg also [[BarefootCartoonAnimal goes barefoot]].
171** Muttley from ''WesternAnimation/WackyRaces'' and ''WesternAnimation/DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines'' (collar on the former; pilot's helmet, goggles and scarf on the latter).
172*** In the "Idaho à Go Go" episode of ''Wacky Races'', a wolf wears a blue turtleneck [[BroughtToYouByTheLetterS with a white letter W]].
173** ''WesternAnimation/ShirtTales'' the 1982 cartoon TV show features characters in the show including Tyg Tiger, Pammy Panda, Digger Mole, Rick Raccoon, Bogey Orangutan, Kip Kangaroo can be seen wearing shirts that show words and symbols appearing on their shirts, they also don't wear pants or shoes and often go around barefoot solving crimes.
174** ''WesternAnimation/PoundPuppies1980s'' features the main five puppies wearing clothes but no pants (including Nose Marie and Bright Eyes, who wear nothing underneath their skirts).
175** A Creator/CartoonNetwork spot from TheNineties spoofed this in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS9M4N5b46c a pastiche of a famous commercial for GAP jeans]], where an assortment of Half-Dressed and [[AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal Accessory-Wearing]] cartoon stars sing Depeche Mode's "Just Can't Get Enough". The punchline: "Everybody in No Pants".
176* The title characters of ''WesternAnimation/TheWildPuffalumps'' are creatures based on jungle animals that only wear Hawaiian shirts and sunglasses.
177* A lot of the non-human cast in ''WesternAnimation/IvickVonSalzaTheLittleLumberjack'' aren't fully dressed.
178* ''WesternAnimation/GeniusGenie'' is set in a WorldOfFunnyAnimals. All of the adult characters wear shirts but no pants, although the kid characters are all {{Barefoot Cartoon Animal}}s.
179* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futz}}: The episode "High Seas Futz" features a PirateParrot dressed in a purple vest and waistband.
180* In the “Theo Presents” Christian videos, Theo has two pet anthropomorphic mice Luther and Belfry. While Belfry is fully clothed, Luther wears a shirt and coat but no pants.
181* In ''WesternAnimation/SabansAdventuresOfOliverTwist'' (an AnthropomorphicAnimalAdaptation of [[Literature/OliverTwist the novel]]), the male anthro characters tend not to wear pants, while the female ones wear full dresses [[BarefootCartoonAnimal without shoes]].
182* ''WesternAnimation/LetsGoLuna'': Leo and Andy both wear shorts and a hat, but no shirts.
183* ''WesternAnimation/WorkItOutWombats'': All of the characters wear shirts, but none of them wear pants or shoes. Gets a little awkward in the episode "Sparkle Pants," where [=JunJun=] and Zadie decide that they want to wear pants.

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