History Main / AllClothUnravels

** Used in an early [[{{Pun}} strip]]. Garfield only pulls on a thread from Jon's pants, but the shirt somehow unravels, too. That's because Jon was wearing thermal underwear (and only that).

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJssoL8sR1E This]] '90s ad for Martini vermouth, featuring a young Creator/CharlizeTheron.The dress of Theron's character begins to get unravelled, revealing her naked bottom. Unfortunately, the ad ends before more can be shown.

* In the film ''Film/MouseHunt'', Lee Evans's character is stripped by a string factory. For anyone curious, see [[http://www.knittingtipsbyjudy.com/cel2.html here]] for how it was done.

* This is the very first thing that happens to poor ComicBook/SpiderMan after the entire ''ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan'' debacle when he tackles three female criminals, one of them being able to control threads. He's forced to don web undies and has the entire incident shown off across New York. It gets worse when it turns out the web formula is a little ''too strong''.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJssoL8sR1E This]] '90s ad for Martini vermouth, featuring a young Creator/CharlizeTheron.The dress of Theron's character begins to get unravelled, revealing her naked bottom. Luckily, the ad ends before more can be shown.

* ''WebAnimation/SimonsCat'': In "Christmas Yarn" the eponymous cat gets a thread of Simon's sweater stuck in its mouth as Simon walks out of the house, with the expected result.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFaNMQ_zxoM&feature=related This]] ad for back-to-school clothes.A strand of a girl's red dress gets caught in the doors of a school bus, unravelling the entire dress, leaving the girl covering her undergarments in embarrassment.

* In Creator/ShirleyJackson's very slightly autobiographical book ''Raising Demons'', on a family trip to New York, 6-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.

* Happens to the main character Josefine in the end of "Should a Schoolgirl Tell". A strand of cloth gets caught in a chair, unravelling her skirt till her underwear are showing in the end. Hilariously, she does not realize it,and continued to walk obliviously while flashing her underwear.
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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFaNMQ_zxoM&feature=related This]] ad for back-to-school clothes.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJssoL8sR1E This]] '90s ad for Martini vermouth, featuring a young Creator/CharlizeTheron.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy69qcnLgrM This]] ad for Kit Kat ice cream bars.

* Happens to the main character Josefine in the end of "Should a Schoolgirl Tell". A strand of cloth gets caught in a chair, unravelling her skirt till her underwear are showing. Hilariously, she does not realize it.

[[folder: Radio]]
* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': In "Friday The Thirteenth", Miss Brooks ends up tearing off a lapel on Mr. Conklin's new suit by merely pulling on a loose thread.

* In ''[[Disney/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh Winnie the Pooh 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.

* One ''WesternAnimation/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 an argyle lower half.
* On more than one occasion, Franchise/ScoobyDoo and friends would grab a trailing strip of mummy wrapping and give a tug, unravelling the mummy like a top.
* This happened to WesternAnimation/{{Popeye}}'s swimsuit in the Al Brodax short "The Bathing Beasts".

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/PotatoesAndDragons'', a yeti is defeated in this way. His fur is unraveled until most of it is gone.

* Dexter's Mom inflicts this to an alien overlord in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'', scoring a DefeatByModesty.

* Happens at least once to WesternAnimation/KickButtowski.
* ''WesternAnimation/TazMania'': In "Here Kitty, Kitty, Kitty", Kitty unravels a comforter of the bed and Taz has to knit it back together.
* Gargamel's robe gets unraveled in this fashion at least twice in ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'', not to mention Sassette's overalls and Brainy's bandage wrapping.
* The mummy variant happens in ''WesternAnimation/TheMrMenShow'' episode "Science".
* In the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode "Runaway Runway", at one point Ferb's entire outfit is accidentally unraveled.
* Happens to Billy in ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' episode "Dumb Luck", when some kids at school pull a loose clothing string on the back of his shirt, revealing his disgusting body. [[FanDisservice Trust us, it is not something you want to see.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'': In episode "[[Recap/StarVsTheForcesOfEvilS1E22InterdimensionalFieldTrip Interdimensional Field Trip]]", a monster wholly made of threads is defeated this way. Miss Skullnick ties the tip of a thread to a large paper clip, and then fastens it to "The Universe's Most Immovable Post". As the school bus flees with the monster in hot pursuit, it unravels itself completely.

* ''Manga/MaicchinguMachikoSensei'' is one of the first {{ecchi}} series where the main character always found herself disrobed. Many times, it was due to a single thread being yanked from her sweater. One gratuitous example was an episode in which no {{Fanservice}} was provided until the last thirty seconds or so of the episode... where she goes ice-skating, her student pulls a thread and slides her across the ice, revealing her breasts. (By the way, it was a kid's show.)

[[folder:RealLife]]

Related to ClothingDamage and TheNudifier. Only metaphorically related to PullTheThread. Occasionally combined with GivingThemTheStrip.

* ''Series/{{Qi}}'', on the 'K' season, "Kris Kringle", featured an un-knitting machine invented by Imogen Hedges. The machine unravelled a scarf that Alan was wearing and wound the yarn back up into a ball.

* ''Series/{{Qi}}''; on the 'K' season, "Kris Kringle", featured an un-knitting machine invented by Imogen Hedges. The machine unravelled a scarf that Alan was wearing and wound the yarn back up into a ball.

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

* This happened to ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}'s swimsuit in one of the Al Brodax shorts.

* Happened to June's sweater once in ''WesternAnimation/KaBlam''

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