"The entire script is based around a single gag that hasn't been funny since the 1950's (and even then, it was bordering on creaky): a man disguising himself as a woman. But not just any man: a Ferengi. Specifically, Quark. Armin Shimerman, the actor who played Quark, is obviously a talented guy with great comedic timing, but he's no Tony Curtis or Jack Lemmon. And when it comes to putting Shimerman in drag, it's fair to say that some like it. Not."
—The Agony Booth on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ("Profit and Lace")
"Zack enters in full drag and a lady’s wig, weirdly dressed like a conservative forty-year-old lawyer who falls asleep with a glass of wine in her hand every night, filled with regret over how readily she sacrificed family for a career...
Within 0.5 seconds of walking through the door, Bambi’s immediately hit on by a background extra, while every male character in the vicinity gives her the sex-eye. This had to happen, as part of the long-standing tradition where dudes forced to drag up for plot reasons are flirted with and goosed by every man they come into contact with, who find them so irresistible, they’re driven mad with lust. Of particular note in this cliché is Sid James in (Carry On) Don't Lose Your Head, who makes for an absolutely grotesque woman — seriously, he looks like a bollock in a bonnet — yet still sets the hearts a-fluttering."
Within 0.5 seconds of walking through the door, Bambi’s immediately hit on by a background extra, while every male character in the vicinity gives her the sex-eye. This had to happen, as part of the long-standing tradition where dudes forced to drag up for plot reasons are flirted with and goosed by every man they come into contact with, who find them so irresistible, they’re driven mad with lust. Of particular note in this cliché is Sid James in (Carry On) Don't Lose Your Head, who makes for an absolutely grotesque woman — seriously, he looks like a bollock in a bonnet — yet still sets the hearts a-fluttering."—Stuart Millard on Saved by the Bell, So Excited, So Scared''
on Saved by the Bell, So Excited, So Scared''"Strap on those boobs, soldier! That's an order!"
Kate: Alright, so the question is how could I help you reposition your brand identity? Answer: We team you up with a hot female co-star.
Bugs: Usually... (is suddenly in a Marilyn Monroe getup) I play the female love interest.
Kate: About the crossdressing thing. In the past? Funny. Today? Disturbing.
Bugs: (taking off the disguise) Lady, if you don't find a rabbit with lipstick amusing, you and I have nothing to say to each other.
"Cross-dressers! I mean, double-crossers!"
— Samurai Champloo, "Hellhounds for Hire, Part 1"
Tifa: Wait a minute. Cloud!? Is that you!? Oh my god, that makeup! And that dress!
Hope: Well, Sid, what do ya think?
Sid: He's absolutely perfect. Look at that. He'd fool anybody.
Peter: Until I open my big mouth.
Mr. Mainwaring: For all I know, you might be a German spy.
General Fullard: Oh, rubbish.
Mr. Mainwaring: It is not rubbish, sir. They're being dropped all over the continent, by parachute. Some of them are even disguised as nuns.
General Fullard: Are you mad? Do I look like a nun?
