[[quoteright:175:[[YogiBear http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yogi.jpg]]]]
[[caption-width-right:175:He's [[HalfDressedCartoonAnimal not wearing pants]], either.]]

Low-budget cartoon characters always wear neckties (if male) or necklaces (if female). Or collars, even if they don't have shirts (see illustration). Or have some outlandish costume that obscures part of their neck.

This is because if a character's standing and talking, it's cheaper to just animate the head while using only one drawing for the body. A collar makes a nice dividing line to let animators do this while making it easy to keep the body parts together.

{{Hanna-Barbera}} TV cartoons [[LimitedAnimation abused this most]] [[TvTropesDrinkingGame egregiously]].

The advent of digital animation have rendered this a largely DiscreditedTrope, used mostly as a tribute to the classics.
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!!Examples

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[[folder: Comic Books ]]

* Sherman and Megan might look identical if it weren't for Megan's pearl necklace in {{Shermans Lagoon}}

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[[folder: Video Games ]]

* The modern interpretation of DonkeyKong has the big ape wearing only a red tie [[BroughtToYouByTheLetterS with his initials on it]].

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[[folder: Western Animation ]]

* As pictured above, YogiBear. Also, his pal Boo Boo wears just a bowtie.
* All the men in ''TheFlintstones'' wear collars. The women tend to wear necklaces.
* Models constructed for stop-motion animation (example: ''Chicken Run'') often have this or some other similar method used to disguise where the head was joined to the body.
* In the 1970's Hanna-Barbera adaptation of TomAndJerry, Jerry was fitted with a bow-tie.
* TheSimpsons family are all designed like this. ''Pearls on a little girl?'' That's why.
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