History Main / CoincidentalAccidentalDisguise

** Another episode ended with all the lead characters hung-over and wearing sunglasses. Manny had also hurt his leg so was walking around with a white cane. Then a person comes around collecting money for the blind, she was a bit shocked.

*** In the same episode, Niles agrees to host the party to showcase a brand-new painting by a famous artist he has acquired, and manages to get said artist to agree to attend. The silver-haired man shows up early in a plaid shirt and pants; he's also walking with a cane. This [[ContrivedCoincidence just so happens]] to be Martin Crane's trademark look, so Martin ends up pretending to be the artist when the real thing sneaks off for a tryst with Daphne's mother.

* One episode of ''Series/TheDrewCareyShow'' sees [[CloudCuckoolander Lewis]] go to see a [[DepravedDentist crazed Russian dentist]] who is eerily reminiscent of [[Literature/{{Frankenstein Dr. Frankenstein]]. A series of mishaps with Novocain and a laser beam leave Lewis with a swollen jaw, heavy scarring on his brow, blindness, and the ability to only speak in grunts, which make him look identical to Frankenstein's Monster.

* ''Series/ThatsSoRaven'': while sneaking into the shoot of a zombie movie Raven fell on the catering table, getting covered in food, causing her to blend in perfectly with the zombies.

** In "Legend of Satchmo", the babies search for a Satchmo (from a story Grandpa Lou told them during a camp-out) and mistake a dark figure (who is really Stu checking up on the kids) for the aforementioned creature.[[note]]This is the second episode the babies mistook Chaz as a sandman.[[/note]]
** In "Sleep Trouble", Chuckie's father Chaz goes to the Pickles' resident to check on the babies and when he ends up covered in sand due to falling into the sandbox in the backyard, Tommy and Chuckie notice this and are convinced that the Sandyman is after them.

* ''Series/SonnyWithAChance'': Ms Bitterman gets a rash from pison ivy and is mistaken for [=CandyFace=].

** In "Get That Bigfoot Out Of My Face", Dr. Doofenshmirtz is mistaken for Bigfoot after he falls of the balcony and gets covered in leaves and mud.

* A not-so-accidental version occurs in ''Disney/TheEmperorsNewGroove'', where Pacha's wife and kids set Yzma up to look like a piñata.
* In ''Disney/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'', the dwarfs run out of their home when they think there's a monster inside (it's really Snow White). Dopey, [[TheRuntAtTheEnd lagging behind as usual]], falls in a pile of pots and pans and runs out with the pots tangled up over his person. The others think he's the monster and attack him.

* In the WesternAnimaion/{{Classic Disney Short|s}} ''Disney/LonesomeGhosts'' (1937), Mickey, Donald, and Goofy manage to scare ''[[HorrifyingTheHorror some ghosts]]'' by getting covered in molasses and flour, giving them the appearance of much bigger, scarier ghosts (as opposed to the goofy humanoid ones that started the plot).

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* Happened in ''Series/NedsDeclassifiedSchoolSurvivalGuide''. Ned looked like Wild Boy, the subject of a famous painting.
* ''Series/ThatsSoRaven'': while sneaking into the shoot of a zombie movie Raven fell on the catering table, getting covered in food, causing her to blend in perfectly with the zombies.
* ''Series/BlackBooks'' [[ChekhovsGun established]] that Manny had a loose tooth, and a massaging device could put your back out. Also, he begins limping when the events of the episode activate a stress cramp in his leg. Putting these together had Bernard [[ItMakesSenseInContext becoming a ranting]] MadScientist with Manny as [[TheIgor Igor]].
** ''Series/BlackBooks'' also did this for the first time Bernard meets Manny - he wakes up to see him hovering overhead [[LooksLikeJesus dressed in a white hospital robe with his long hair loose]], surrounded by [[FluffyCloudHeaven white light]]...

** Happens yet again in "The Frogger." Jerry, terrified of "The Lopper" (a serial killer who takes the heads of guys that look like Jerry), leaves Lisi's apartment at night after splitting up with her. He sees the silhouette of a man walking down the misty street that looks like it's carrying a head. He begs to be let back up into Lisi's apartment, Lisi buzzes him up, and....out of the mist walks Slippery Pete, carrying the battery he stole to power George's Frogger machine.
* Occurs in ''Series/{{Jessie}}'' during a {{Halloween Episode}}. Jessie searches for the kids who are late trick-or-treating, but the kids were told by a creepy old doorman about an evil child-abusing nanny who lived in their building and happens to look exactly like Jessie's Halloween costume. This, along with Jessie being covered in red punch and having anger tantrums, leads the kids to believe that Jessie is possessed by the evil nanny and is out to murder them.
* In ''Series/FatherTed'', Ted finds himself standing in the exact position required to make a square bit of a dirt on the window look like a Hitler moustache, to the consternation of the Chinese family who were invited over specifically to prove that Ted wasn't racist.
* In one episode of the ''Series/TheDickVanDykeShow'', Laura and Rob dye something black, only to find that the black dye won't come off their hands and arms... on the night Rob speaks at an NAACP dinner.
* Not entirely coincidental, but in the ''Series/AmazingStories'' episode "Mummy Daddy", an actor shooting a mummy movie in a hick town, dressed head-to-toe as a mummy, hears his wife is giving birth and rushes to the hospital without changing out of costume. According to town legend, a mummy came to life fifty years ago and wreaked havoc. Hilarity ensues [[spoiler:especially when the ''real'' mummy shows up]].[[note]]TruthInTelevision. It happened with Creator/BorisKarloff when he was filming ''Film/BrideOfFrankenstein''. And since Karloff also played [[Film/TheMummy1932 The Mummy]] in the classic Universal movie...[[/note]]

* One ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'' episode has a bunch of kids telling ghost stories/urban legends and one is telling a version of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hook The Hook]]. Then, at the right/wrong moment, Buster stumbles out of the bushes, and when the kids see his HookHand, they run away in terror.
* The dressed-as Hitler-variation happened in one episode of ''Series/ChildrensHospital''. Of course, Judaism was a recurring theme in the episode and the character involved was the Jewish doctor (the guy playing him isn't Jewish).
* In the ''Series/ThirtyRock'' episode "The Tuxedo Begins", Liz decides to act crazy so people will give her space on the subway. She starts with a tangled white wig and smeared lipstick, and adds [[Film/TheDarkKnight heavy eyeshadow, a green sweater-vest, a pink gym bag, checkered socks and a worn purple overcoat.]]
* Of the "didn't take your costume off" variant, an episode of ''Series/OnlyFoolsAndHorses'' has Del and Rodney spot a woman being mugged down a foggy alleyway as they're on their way to a fancy dress party, forgetting in the moment what they're wearing. What we see [[MookHorrorShow from the muggers' perspective]] is Batman and Robin running towards them out of the mist, so they leg it.
* In the ''Series/TheAlmightyJohnsons'' episode "Unleash the Kraken!", Mike, a construction worker, shows up late to a costume party at his girlfriend's house in his work clothes, intending to change into his costume. Unfortunately for him, his brothers have independently chosen to dress as [[Music/VillagePeople a cop, an Indian chief and a cowboy]], and his girlfriend won't let him break the theme. Or rather, she knows it's not worth trying; her mother caused the whole thing as the Goddess of Parties, and trying to fight the party simply doesn't work.
* ''Series/OneHundredThingsToDoBeforeHighSchool'': In "Stay Up All Night Thing!", Ronbie gets tangled up in a sheet, turning him into a BedsheetGhost just as the middle schoolers are freaking out about the 'ghost janitor'.

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* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'', Bloo is mistaken for a ghost out of a horror movie after he catches a nasty cold, prompting him to turn pale, emit moaning noises and spit up "ectoplasm". Ew.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** Homer manages to get his head stuck in a beehive, then coat the beehive in blueberries, and then roll around, tangling himself up in the green picnic blanket. When he stands up, he looks like he is impersonating Marge. (He even lost his voice from yelling, so all he can make are scratchy noises like Marge makes.)
** Another example would be the HorribleCampingTrip episode where Homer ends up in his underwear, covered in mud and mistaken for Bigfoot. Taken to hilarious extremes when, even after getting captured by authorities and cleaned up, experts can't agree if he is a dumb human or a brilliant beast.
** Also, Homer ends up covered in green paint, and goes [[Series/TheIncredibleHulk wild with rage]], in front of special guest Creator/StanLee. ("I Am Furious, Yellow.")
--->'''Stan Lee:''' He's not the Hulk! I'm the Hulk! RAAAGHHH...! ''[rips short, growls and try to change into the Hulk]'' ...I don't understand, I did it once before!\\
'''Comic Book Guy:''' Oh, please, you couldn't turn into Bill Bixby.
** Also, while Grampa was competing (and failing) in a race, Groundskeeper Willie was cutting the grass with a scythe. It started raining, so Willie decided to put on his black raincoat, Grampa meanwhile was getting tired and his dentures fell out. Willie tried to return the dentures to him while in the raincoat and still carrying the scythe, leading Grampa to mistake him for the Grim Reaper, so he started running faster and [[AccidentalAthlete won the race]].
** Due to the side-effects of the treatments needed to keep him alive, Mr. Burns was once mistaken for a glowing alien.
** Also happens to Marge in one episode, in which a series of mishaps leave her looking like a stereotypical witch.

* During the ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' episode "Phobia Factor" Cody's garbage bomb explodes, covering him in sludge and trash, as he staggers back towards camp, holding his arms out zombishly and making unintelligible groaning noises (from disgust) he comes across a terrified and lonely Bridgette who immediately screams and makes a run for it.

* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': Every short featuring Pepe [=LePew=] involved Penelope the cat accidentally getting a white stripe on her back somehow. Notable exception: 1959's "WesternAnimation/ReallyScent" starts with the cat (Fabrette) ''born'' with a stripe. Heckuva birthmark. And in at least one short, Penelope wound up with a case of the sniffles impeding her sense of smell, and Pepe got black paint down his back, obscuring his stripe.
* Carried over to ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' with Fifi leFume, with the accidental disguise usually befalling Furball The Cat or Calamity coyote.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'' has Max and PJ being reminded of a horror movie killer by Pete (intentionally) and Goofy (by accident). And in the final scene of the episode, Pete is scared to death and faints by the appearance of a masked chainsaw-weilding man... which turns out to be Goofy, cutting off a tree.
** There's also the episode where Goofy decided to become a [[StreetPerformer street mime]], although this one was less accidental. Trying to come up with a costume for his performance, Goofy finally decides to wrap himself head to toe in aluminum foil and pretend to be a "robot" mime. Unfortunately, Max and P. J. have also decided to wrap themselves in foil to pretend to be space aliens as part of a prank; they broadcast a fake alien transmission over every television set in Spoonerville, with Max announcing: "Our mission? Quite simple: ''to take over Earth''!" Cue immediate citywide paranoia, and some pedestrians in front of an electronics store (with many TV sets in the front window) happening to glance down the street and spot Goofy going into his mime act. HilarityEnsues.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'', "I Was a Penguin Zombie": Skipper escapes from the vet after breaking his wing, and through a combination of green topical ointment (which numbs his mouth, making him unable to speak), tangled gauze, talcum powder, and a sprained ankle, ends up looking and acting like the living dead.

* Like the aforementioned show above, ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' has a share number of these as well. Whenever an adult gets covered in whatever mess he/she gets into, the babies mistake them for an unknown creature.
** In "Real or Robots", Stu begins sleepwalking and Tommy and Chuckie are convinced that the former's father is a robot.
** In "Beach Blanket Babies", Tommy and Chuckie discover the latter's father sleeping in buried sand at the beach and mistakes him as "The Sandman when he wakes up.
** In "Legend of Satchmo", the babies search for a Satchmo (from a story Grandpa Lou told them during a camp-out) and mistake a dark figure (who is really Stu checking up on the kids) for the aforementioned creature.[[note]]This is the second episode the babies mistook Chaz as a sandman.[[/note]]
** In "Sleep Trouble", Chuckie's father Chaz goes to the Pickles' resident to check on the babies and when he ends up covered in sand due to falling into the sandbox in the backyard, Tommy and Chuckie notice this and are convinced that the Sandyman is after them.
* In the ''[[WesternAnimation/CareBearsAdventuresInCareALot Adventures in Care-a-Lot]]'' episode "King of the Gobblebugs," Oopsy makes up a story about seeing the eponymous creature, getting the others all riled up to catch it. Later, Oopsy ends up falling into a barrel of glue and gets all manner of things stuck to himself, making the others think he's the king gobblebug, and they capture him.
* In the Chuck Jones cartoon ''WesternAnimation/TheBearThatWasnt'', a bear ends up in a factory with a cigarette in its mouth and holding a cup of coffee. No one can see through the PaperThinDisguise and they insist he's "a silly man who needs a shave and wears a fur coat" no matter how much the bear protests.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': This happens to the Professor in the episode "Shotgun Wedding". After being chased by Fuzzy Lumpkins, Professor falls into Fuzzy's home covered in mud and a vase of flowers and set of curtains fall on him leaving him looking like a female of Fuzzy's species.
* One ''[[WesternAnimation/TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack Flapjack]]'' episode has the titular character, after a series of unlikely events, being mistaken for a GenieInABottle.
* In one ''WesternAnimation/MaryokuYummy'' episode, Ooka makes up a story about the Yorglesclubber that ends up scaring not only the wishes, but herself and Fij Fij. Maryoku goes out to prove that there's no such thing, but along the way she gets covered in mud and various plants, so that when she comes back, the others think she's the Yorglesclubber and attempt to trap her.
* On ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'', through a series of coincidences (illness, pranks, the job wheel), Wooldoor ends up looking like a ''very'' stereotypical Hasidic Jew. This is ''[[CrossesTheLineTwice Drawn]] [[RefugeInAudacity Together]]'', of course, so HilarityEnsues.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/MartinMystery'' had Diana try out a hair dye that caused her hair to fall out and leave a stain on her balding head. MOM then gives her a tooth necklace, stating that people would pay attention to it instead of her bald head. It made her look just like the queen of an ancient race of aliens that they happen to encounter in the episode.
* In the WesternAnimaion/{{Classic Disney Short|s}} ''Disney/LonesomeGhosts'' (1937), Mickey, Donald, and Goofy manage to scare ''[[HorrifyingTheHorror some ghosts]]'' by getting covered in molasses and flour, giving them the appearance of much bigger, scarier ghosts (as opposed to the goofy humanoid ones that started the plot).
* In the ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' episode "Sky Pirates ... in the Sky!", just as Uncle Scrooge is about to notice Dewey has run off, Huey gets sprayed with blue fluid that knocks his hat off and stains his shirt. Scrooge sees a triplet in a blue shirt and relaxes.

* Ken Kirzinger (the actor who played [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason Voorhees]] in ''Film/FreddyVsJason'') needed dental work while he was filming the movie. He went to the dentist in full Jason costume and makeup as it would be too hard to take it all off, scaring the crap outta all the doctors and nurses.
** There's also an anecdote about Creator/KaneHodder (Kirzinger's predecessor as Jason) once running into a few hikers in the woods; shortly after filming finished for the day, so he was still dressed as Jason. The next day, he had to answer a few questions for police.

* Happens to Kaitou Kid in ''Manga/DetectiveConan'' OVA 10. He loses just enough pieces of his costume that the Detective Boys mistake him for Shinichi his {{Expy}}.

** The AltText implies that this is not the first instance of such a CoincidentalAccidentalDisguise.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'', Florence the Antropomorphic Wolf seeks shelter from a storm and medical attention... [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff400/fv00351.htm just as the house owner is watching a werewolf marathon]]. Crouched (to keep a wound closed), showing teeth (trying for a smile) and backlit by lightning, Florence is [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff400/fv00354.htm not a reassuring sight]].

** The very-short Broadman sneaks into a party disguised as a chef, while still wearing fake PointyEars from his TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade LARP, the end result being that Torg and Riff mistake him for the cookie-elf they're looking for.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "Fear of a Bot Planet", Leela and Fry infiltrate the titular world rather poorly disguised as robots.
-->'''Leela:''' Try to stay with the crowd so no one notices how crummy you look!\\
'''Crummy Robot:''' Aww, that was uncalled for.
* In an episode of WesternAnimation/TotallySpies, Clover tries to sneak into a private store by pretending to be a duchess. Gets hilariously subverted when the real duchess is already at the club.

* In the WesternAnimaion/{{Classic Disney Short|s}} ''The Lonesome Ghosts'' (1937),. Mickey, Donald, and Goofy manage to scare ''some ghosts'' by getting covered in molasses and flour, giving them the appearance of grotesque amorphous ghosts (as opposed to the goofy humanoid ones that started the plot).

** Also, Homer ends up covered in green paint, and goes [[TheIncredibleHulk wild with rage]], in front of special guest Creator/StanLee. ("I Am Furious, Yellow.")

* On ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' episode "Scary Godparents", Timmy gets covered in toilet paper and is mistaken for a mummy.

** In "Greece Lighting", Norm has a bull sign land on his head and is mistaken for a minotaur while chasing after Perry the Platypus.

** In "Bad Hair Day", Candace is mistaken for a rare "tangerine orangutan" thanks to mis-using Phineas and Ferb's hair-restoring machine. Candace manages to get the hair off, only for it to get stuck to Dr. Doofenshmirtz, who is mistaken for the orangutan instead and is captured by Jeremy's parents.

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* [[http://twentypercentcooler.net/post/show/5043 "Zecora's Gift"]], a ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fan-comic, has Derpy do this in the classic "horror movie startle" way.
* Early in the ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' fanfic ''Fanfic/TheVow'', the noble [[SwansASwimming swan]] Lady Lianne makes it a habit to go nearly very night to the harbor of Gongmen City in order to [[MelancholyMoon sit upon the waters beneath the moon and pray to it]]. Due to concealing her white robe and white feathers with a cloak, she's mistaken by the locals for a ghost.

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* A not-so-accidental version occurs in ''Disney/TheEmperorsNewGroove'', where Pacha's wife and kids set Yzma up to look like a piñata.
* In ''Disney/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'', the dwarfs run out of their home when they think there's a monster inside (it's really Snow White). Dopey, [[TheRuntAtTheEnd lagging behind as usual]], falls in a pile of pots and pans and runs out with the pots tangled up over his person. The others think he's the monster and attack him.

* A character in ''Film/RatRace'' [[DisasterDominoes accidentally]] disguises himself as Hitler (with a mustache-like smudge on his face being the least ridiculous aspect) and ends up on the stage of a UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo veterans meeting.
** He's also driving a VW Sedan (Hitler's real car, in fact) and due to very precise burns on his tongue and hand he was also talking German-sounding gibberish and showing his middle finger.
** Naturally, said character was ''actually'' Jewish (Jon Lovitz, to be precise).

* Pretty much the plot of the Creator/LaurelAndHardy short "The Live Ghost" - shanghaied onto a ship's crew, they think they accidentally killed a fellow crewman, who is merely drunk, and falls into a trough of whitewash. You can see where this is going.
* In ''Film/{{Eurotrip}}'': The main character is in the Vatican, and he sneaks about in a private room of the Pope that leads to his balcony. There he quarrels with his friend, who puts a pope hat on his head. He slips and grabs the curtain of the balcony door, and it falls down with him. When he gets up, he accidentally opens the door and the curtain wrapped all around him looks like a pope's robe and the curtain rail in his hands like a pope's staff. With him looking like this, the huge crowd on Saint Peter's Square thinks he is the new Pope.
** It goes even deeper than that. Prior to that, the bell signalling the death of the Pope is rung by one of the protagonists who "wonders what this rope is for" and one of the pope hats catches on fire and is thrown into the fireplace, releasing the white smoke that signals a new Pope has been selected. The crowd is waiting for his appearance when Scotty appears on the balcony.
* In ''Film/TheMuppetMovie'', Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem paint Fozzie and Kermit's car to keep them safe from Doc Hopper. When Doc Hopper manages to recognize them anyway, Kermit spots a billboard that ''just happens'' to match the paint job, and has Fozzie [[WallpaperCamouflage pull up in front of it so they can hide.]]

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* Not entirely coincidental, but in the ''Series/AmazingStories'' episode "Mummy Daddy", an actor shooting a mummy movie in a hick town, dressed head-to-toe as a mummy, hears his wife is giving birth and rushes to the hospital without changing out of costume. According to town legend, a mummy came to life fifty years ago and wreaked havoc. Hilarity ensues [[spoiler: especially when the ''real'' mummy shows up]].
** TruthInTelevision. It happened with Creator/BorisKarloff when he was filming ''Film/BrideOfFrankenstein''. And since Karloff also played [[Film/TheMummy1932 The Mummy]] in the classic Universal movie...
* ''Series/{{Sonny With A Chance}}'': Ms Bitterman gets a rash from pison ivy and is mistaken for [=CandyFace=].

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* Used in a 1950s ''Comicstrip/{{Peanuts}}'' strip where Lucy is inflating a paddling pool (so has goggles and flippers on and is using an airpump) only for it to blow away and land on Charlie Brown, who's reading a scare story about the then-contemporary UFO craze. Charlie Brown misinterprets the paddling pool as a UFO, Lucy as a Martian and the airpump as her DeathRay.

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* In ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'', the very-short Broadman sneaks into a party disguised as a chef, while still wearing fake PointyEars from his TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade LARP, the end result being that Torg and Riff mistake him for the cookie-elf they're looking for.

* Happened also in ''WesternAnimation/CampLazlo'', where Raj was covered in marshmallows and looked like a yeti.
** And to Scoutmaster Lumpus when he got covered in leaves and had a couple of eggs wedged down his throat to turn him into the mythical snipe.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Homer managed to get his head stuck in a beehive, then coat the beehive in blueberries, and then roll around, tangling himself up in the green picnic blanket. When he stood up, he looked like he was impersonating Marge. (He even lost his voice from yelling, so all he could make were scratchy noises like Marge makes.)
** Another example would be the HorribleCampingTrip episode where Homer ends up in his underwear, covered in mud and mistaken for Bigfoot.
*** Taken to hilarious extremes when, even after getting captured by authorities and cleaned up, experts can't agree if he is a dumb human or a brilliant beast.

*** "He's not the Hulk! I'm the Hulk! RAAAGHHH..! ...I don't understand, I did it once before!" "Oh, please, you couldn't turn into Bill Bixby."

* On ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'' episode "Scary Godparents", Timmy gets covered in toilet paper and is mistaken for a mummy.

* Every ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short featuring Pepe [=LePew=] involved Penelope the cat accidentally getting a white stripe on her back somehow.
** Notable exception: 1959's "WesternAnimation/ReallyScent" starts with the cat (Fabrette) ''born'' with a stripe. Heckuva birthmark.
** Carried over to ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' with Fifi leFume, with the accidental disguise usually befalling Furball The Cat or Calamity coyote.
** And in at least one short, Penelope wound up with a case of the sniffles impeding her sense of smell, and Pepe got black paint down his back, obscuring his stripe.
** In the cartoon ''Duck Dodgers in the 3rd Dimension'', while trying to escape from Marvin the Martian, Daffy Duck ends up crashing into a movie set. He emerges from the wreckage in a Roman legionnaire's helmet, a "skirt" made of barrel staves, and his beak knocked off - which makes Marvin mistake him for the Martian commander. Daffy, his beak surreptitiously hidden behind his back, goes along with the masquerade, because why settle for movie stardom when you can conquer the galaxy?

* Spongebob in ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' has done this multiple times. While he and Patrick were warning the citizens of Bikini Bottom about a "flying monster coming to eat you," Spongebob flew over the city after being blown up like a balloon. In another episode, he's at a sleepover with Pearl and her friends watching a zombie movie when he gets rootbeer for everyone by absorbing it, and becomes a lookalike to the movie zombies.

** In "Legend of Satchmo", the babies search for a Satchmo (from a story Grandpa Lou told them during a camp-out) and mistake a dark figure (who is really Stu checking up on the kids) for the aforementioned creature.[note]This is the second episode the babies mistook Chaz as a sandman.[/note].

* On ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'', through a series of coincidences (illness, pranks, the job wheel), Wooldoor ends up looking like a ''very'' stereotypical Hasidic Jew. This is [[CrossesTheLineTwice Drawn]] [[RefugeInAudacity Together]] of course, so HilarityEnsues.
* At the end of ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' episode "Operation P.R.O.M.", Dermott helps Dean try to win over Triana by "dressing in a scary costume" while standing next to her name spelled in fire. In practice, there's only enough fuel to set one letter ablaze (a lowercase t) and Dean gets a "ghost" costume... making him look like an angry KKK member.

* In the WesternAnimaion/{{Classic Disney Short|s}} ''The Lonesome Ghosts'' (1937),. Mickey, Donald, and Goofy manage to scare ''some ghosts'' by getting covered in molasses and flour, giving them [[http://www.disneyshorts.org/screenshots/1937/264/13large.jpg the appearance of grotesque amorphous ghosts]] (as opposed to [[http://www.planetzot.com/img/toons/dsn/mickey_ghosts/mickey_ghosts_img2.jpg the goofy humanoid ones]] that started the plot).

* During the ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaIsland'' episode "Phobia Factor" Cody's garbage bomb explodes, covering him in sludge and trash, as he staggers back towards camp, holding his arms out zombishly and making unintelligible groaning noises (from disgust) he comes across a terrified and lonely Bridgette who immediately screams and makes a run for it.

** Notable exception: 1959's "Really Scent" starts with the cat (Fabrette) ''born'' with a stripe. Heckuva birthmark.

** A similar thing happened to Armin Shimerman. An earthquake struck, as they are wont to do in California, while he was filming an episode of ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''. Because the phone lines were knocked down he rushed home to see if his family was okay, and of course without bothering to take off his [[RubberForeheadAliens bizarre Ferengi head prosthetics]]. A lot of supermarket tabloids published wild stories blaming the quake on aliens, complete with eyewitness accounts, not long after.

** A similar thing happened to Armin Shimmerman. An earthquake struck, as they are wont to do in California, while he was filming an episode of ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''. Because the phone lines were knocked down he rushed home to see if his family was okay, and of course without bothering to take off his [[RubberForeheadAliens bizarre Ferengi head prosthetics]]. A lot of supermarket tabloids published wild stories blaming the quake on aliens, complete with eyewitness accounts, not long after.