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* In ''GirlGotGame'', after Hamaya's clothes get torn, the loose threads get caught and eventually unravel entirely, leaving him completely [[NakedPeopleAreFunny naked]] (though he seems baffled as to how his underwear got caught up in it too).

* In ''GirlGotGame'', after Hamaya's clothes get torn, the loose threads get caught and eventually unravel entirely, leaving him completely naked (though he seems baffled as to how his underwear got caught up in it too).

In especially cartoonish examples, this also applies to an animal's fur or feathers.

Related to {{Clothing Damage}}. Not at all related to {{Pull the Thread}}.

* In some cartoons, this applies to an animal's fur or feathers.
** One ''LooneyTunes'' short has Sylvester hiding from Granny in her knitting basket as she is knitting. His fur gets caught in the yarn and it starts unraveling, so he knits it back in and ends up with colored checks in his lower half.

* Used in an early ''{{Garfield}}'' [[IncrediblyLamePun strip]]. Garfield only pulls on a thread from Jon's pants, but the shirt somehow unravels, too.

* The 1992 comedy ''The Nutt House'' has a scene where a character [[[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v18bmT4Qrfo has her dress unraveled]] in this manner.

* Happens in ''[[TheFlintsones The Man Called Flintstone]]'' when Barney Rubble tries to use Fred's tie to get down a 100-foot drop from a prison cell window. The entire tie unravels into a single thread as Barney tried to climb back up it. Watch it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBcgz3k_2cI here, 2:15-2:30]].

* Happens in ''The Man Called Flintstone'' when Barney Rubble tries to use Fred's tie to get down a 100-foot drop from a prison cell window. The entire tie unravels into a single thread as Barney tried to climb back up it. Watch it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBcgz3k_2cI here, 2:15-2:30]].

* In Laurel & Hardy's Way Out West, Stan is helping Ollie get a locket off his neck — he starts pulling at a loose thread and soon unravels most of Ollie's underwear.

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* In Laurel & Hardy's ''WayOutWest'', Stan is helping Ollie get a locket off his neck — he starts pulling at a loose thread and soon unravels most of Ollie's underwear.

* One recurring sketch by {{Armstrong and Miller}} involves an accident-prone presenter who continually ends up destroying priceless historical artifacts. Guess what happens in the one where there's a centuries-old tapestry.

* In ''{{Change123}}'', Hibiki leaps off a bridge and onto a truck. A thread from her sweater gets caught on the bridge railing, unraveling her entire sweater. Later becomes an awkward moment when her alternate persona takes off her jacket...

* Used in a ''{{Garfield}}'' [[IncrediblyLamePun strip]]. Garfield only pulls on a thread from Jon's pants, but the shirt somehow unravels, too.

* In Laurel & Hardy's ''WayOutWest'', Stan is helping Ollie get a locket off his neck — he starts pulling at a loose thread and soon unravels most of Ollie's underwear.

->''If you want to destroy my sweater''\\
''Hold this thread as I walk away''\\
''Watch me unravel, I'll soon be naked''\\
''Lying on the floor (lying on the floor)''\\
''I've come undone''

Related to {{Clothing Damage}}. Not at all related to PullTheThread.

!!Examples:

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* This is a common gag in ''MortadeloYFilemon''. Generally, they'll start pulling the thread into a ball, but the thread belongs to a buff man's sweater or something. The owner of the garment will hit them (usually [[ButtMonkey Filemon]]) for ruining his clothing.
** If the mummy wrapping variation counts, they do that sometimes, too.

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** That's because Jon was wearing thermal underwear (and only that)

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* In Laurel & Hardy's ''WayOutWest'', Stan is helping Ollie get a locket off his neck — he starts pulling at a loose thread and soon unravels most of Ollie's underwear.

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* One recurring sketch by ArmstrongAndMiller involves an accident-prone presenter who continually ends up destroying priceless historical artifacts. Guess what happens in the one where there's a centuries-old tapestry.

[[AC:{{Manga}} and {{Anime}}]]
* Happens to Chisame in ''MahouSenseiNegima'', while onstage at a cosplay contest. Negi and Kotaro end up pulling the threads in her costume without realizing what it is, causing the costume to fall off and leaving Chisame in only her underwear. The crowd naturally starts cheering.
** It is, however, a ''little'' bit better in that her costume isn't reduced to a single string. It's that that particular string was keeping all the pieces of the costume together. But still...

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* This is how you defeat a mummy in ''SimonTheSorcerer''.

[[AC:WesternAnimation]]
* In ''WinnieThePooh and the Blustery Day'', Piglet is being carried away by the wind. Pooh grabs Piglet's scarf, but it unravels to a single string, and Piglet holds on to it as he soars like a kite.

* In ''ThePerilsOfPenelopePitstop'' episode "Carnival Calamity", Penelope slowed her descent by clutching a thread on the Hooded Claw's pants, revealing his GoofyPrintUnderwear.
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* In an episode of ''{{Potatoes and Dragons}}'', a yeti is defeated in this way, by unravelling his fur until most of it is gone.

** One ''LooneyTunes'' short has Sylvester hiding from Granny in her knitting basket as she is knitting. His fur gets caught in the yarn and it starts unraveling, so he knits it back in and ends up with checkers in his lower half.

* In Laurel & Hardy's ''WayOutWest'' Stan is helping Ollie get a locket off his neck - he starts pulling at a loose thread and soon unravels most of Ollie's underwear.
* In TheRockyHorrorPictureShow, the mummy version happens when Rocky is unwrapped.

* In Shirley Jackson's very slightly autobiographical book ''Raising Demons'', on a family trip to New York, six-year-old Sally ties the loose thread of her knitted hat to a seat in the train before getting off: "I'd like to see ''that'' train get away," she says. Things don't get really challenging until the hotel turns out to have a revolving door.

* One recurring sketch by ArmstrongAndMiller involves an accident-prone presenter who continually ends up destroying priceless historical artefacts. Guess what happens in the one where there's a centuries-old tapestry.

[[AC: {{Manga}} and {{Anime}}]]
* Happens to Chisame in MahouSenseiNegima, while onstage at a cosplay contest. Negi and Kotaro end up pulling the threads in her costume without realizing what it is, causing the costume to fall off and leaving Chisame in her underwear. The crowd naturally starts cheering.
** It is, however, a LITTLE bit better in that her costume isn't reduced to a single string. It's that that particular string was keeping all the pieces of the costume together. But still...

[[AC: VideoGames]]
* In KirbysEpicYarn, the entire world is made of cloth and fabric, so this trope is used to disintegrate a few enemies.

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* In an episode of ''{{Potatoes And Dragons}}'', a yeti is defeated in this way, by unravelling his fur until most of it is gone.

* Happeded to June's sweater once in ''KaBlam!''.

* Happens to Chisame in MahouSenseiNegima, while onstage at a cosplay contest. Negi and Kotaro end up pulling the threads in her costume without realizing what it is, causing the costume to fall off and leaving Chisame in her underwear.

* Happens to Chisame in MahouSenseiNegima, while onstage at a cosplay contest. Negi and Kotaro, end up pulling the threads in her costume without realizing what it is, causing the costume to fall off and leaving Chisame in her underwear.