History Main / HalfDressedCartoonAnimal

Very importantly, this does ''not'' mean a character without an outfit is automatically regarded as "naked". Most animal characters from TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation wore no clothes whatsoever, but acted denuded only when random comic violence rendered them featherless or furless, with their underlying bare skin (and occasional GoofyPrintUnderwear) revealed. Hence, feathers and fur have long been grandfathered in as an acceptable [[FurIsClothing animal analogue for clothing]]. Strangely, if a half-dressed character loses their shirt they will suddenly realize their crotch is exposed.

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** Back when ''Star Wars: Film/ANewHope'' was in production, there were executives worried about Chewbacca not wearing pants. This was rather hilariously lampshaded in the third ''Robot Chicken Star Wars Special'' when Han Solo met Chewbacca's family for the first time, and they were all fully clothed. "You mean you've been naked all this time?!"

* The Annoying Thing/Crazy Frog is often depicted with only a leather jacket, helmet, and goggles. This is a bit of a subversion in that unlike almost all others the Crazy Frog has visible naughty bits. Eventually the Crazy Frog commercials had a black censor bar.

* Many college mascots are animals clad only in a sweater bearing the school's initials.
* Likewise, a good chunk of UsefulNotes/{{fur|ryFandom}}suiters either wear a shirt or shorts/pants. Sometimes the article of clothing ''is'' part of the costume, as in the costumer never bothered to make legs or a complete torso for it (both to keep costs down and make it less hot to wear), letting the clothing hide this fact.

* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal/NewspaperComics

!!Examples

* ''Fanwork/ZanyToTheMax'':

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* Early cinema's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Y2tP9s8y2Ic Le Cochon Danseur]], a 1907 short film based on a popular French vaudeville act. The pig even uses a ModestyTowel when his waist coat is pulled off.
* Back when ''StarWars: ANewHope'' was in production, there were executives worried about Chewbacca not wearing pants.
** This was rather hilariously lampshaded in the third ''Robot Chicken Star Wars Special'' when Han Solo met Chewbacca's family for the first time, and they were all fully clothed. "You mean you've been naked all this time?!"
** ''ThePhantomMenace'' suggests droids view their outer coverings as clothing with C-3PO embarrassed about being "naked".

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* Referenced in ''WebVideo/TheFundayPawpetShow'' ThemeSong - "Pawpets, Pawpets/We will sing and dance/Pawpets, Pawpets/We're not wearing pants"

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* In ''Pinball/PoliceForce,'' the villains and civilians are FunnyAnimals who wear little to no clothing.

-->'''Strong Bad:''' Hey, I always wondered, is your skin green or are you wearing a green body suit? Y'know with footies and sockies.
-->'''Coach Z:''' Oh, I got footies alright... [[TheUnreveal athletes' footies]].
* The Annoying Thing/Crazy Frog is often depicted with only a leather jacket, helmet, and goggles. This is a bit of a subversion in that unlike almost all others the Crazy Frog has visible naughty bits.
** Eventually the Crazy Frog commercials had a black censor bar.

** Likewise, a good chunk of UsefulNotes/{{fur|ryFandom}}suiters either wear a shirt or shorts/pants. Sometimes the article of clothing ''is'' part of the costume, as in the costumer never bothered to make legs or a complete torso for it (both to keep costs down and make it less hot to wear), letting the clothing hide this fact.
* As with the Trope page quote, Dutch comedian Harry Jekkers mentioned the fact that WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck wears no trousers during one of his shows in the early nineties. In fact, he points out that a '''Duck''', while walking as a normal human being, wears no pants. What follows is his outrage when he points out that when this same '''Duck''' is in his natural element -- swimming in water -- he suddenly starts wearing ''swimming trunks.'' Cue laughter from audience.

* Referenced in the FundayPawpetShow ThemeSong - "Pawpets, Pawpets/We will sing and dance/Pawpets, Pawpets/We're not wearing pants"

** Likewise, a good chunk of {{fur|ryFandom}}suiters either wear a shirt or shorts/pants. Sometimes the article of clothing ''is'' part of the costume, as in the costumer never bothered to make legs or a complete torso for it (both to keep costs down and make it less hot to wear), letting the clothing hide this fact.

*** Whenever Homestar is shown shirtless, his entire torso is censored via {{pixellation}}, with two exceptions: In Strong Bad's fan fiction in the WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail "fan clubs", Homestar is just wearing a fig leaf; in the 2014 Halloween cartoon "I Killed Pom Pom!" Homestar dresses up as [[Series/ArrestedDevelopment Tobias Funkë]], wearing nothing but cut-off shorts and blue skin paint.

* In at least one case, Winnie the Pooh's half-clothed nature was considered SeriousBusiness when a conservative Polish council [[opted to exclude him from a playground on that basis]](http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/winnie-the-pooh-banned-from-polish-playground-for-being-an-inappropriate-hermaphrodite-9872278.html).

*** Whenever Homestar is shown shirtless, his entire torso is censored via {{pixellation}}. (Except for one bit of fan fiction drawn by Strong Bad, where Homestar is just wearing a fig leaf.)
** It gets even weirder when Strong Sad, who doesn't seem to wear any pants (or anything for that matter), is somewhat concerned about buying his favorite underwear back from an online auction.
** Coach Z seems to be naked, but on a few occasions it's implied that he's actually wearing a green jumpsuit. That he never removes or washes.

* Shirtless or Bare-chested: wears pants, shorts, overalls (which often border on fully dressed), or a skirt, but without a shirt or any other kind of top. Some characters wearing skirts without shirts are not wearing any underwear. This variant is a lot more common for female characters than the pantless variant. Overlaps with WalkingShirtlessScene.

* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal/{{Live-Action TV}}

* ''WebAnimation/ZanyToTheMax''

** Subverted with Dot, who is revealed to wear a black shirt, making her also a BarefootCartoonAnimal.

->''"You know, DonaldDuck never wore pants, but when he comes out of the shower, he puts a towel around his waist. I mean, what's that about?"''

But if your characters are {{Funny Animal}}s, you are bound to run the gamut of animals until you hit unfamiliar ones. A [[FullyDressedCartoonAnimal full outfit]] has a high chance of obscuring what species a character is, so you're bound to find just enough clothing to make it quirky to that character without covering up the most basic cues, with the major exception of WhiteGloves. Characters with distinctive tails might not get pants, and ducks are rarely given shoes. Some [[HalfDressedCartoonAnimal Half-dressed cartoon animals]] wear shoes, but others do not. Also, shirtless ones are more likely to wear shoes than pantless ones.

* Excalibur of ''Manga/SoulEater'' only wears a shirt and top-hat, though he's not an animal. This is lampshaded in his first appearance when Black Star asks what he is why the hell he's not wearing any pants.

[[HalfDressedCartoonAnimal Half-dressed cartoon animals]] often, but not exclusively, come in two variants,

* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal/{{Comic Books}}

* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal/{{Newspaper Comics}}
* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal/{{Video Games}}

* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal/{{Western Animation}}

** That, or it just proves that Americans were too prudish for their own good health in the old days. May or may not apply today as well.

* Toyed with in ''manga/ServantXService''. Kenzo works from home and uses a stuffed bunny rabbit fitted with a camera as his proxy at the office, and Megumi ends up pointing out that since the rabbit has no clothes, it technically constitutes sexual harassment on Kenzo's part.

* In ''Fanwork/ZanyToTheMax'', Zak (when [[ConjoinedTwins separated from Ko]]), Pakko, and Makko all wear shirts but no pants.

* Excalibur of ''Manga/SoulEater'' only wears a shirt and top-hat, though he's not an animal. This is lampshaded in his first appearance when Black Star asks why the hell he's not wearing any pants.

* Pantless or Bare-bottomed: wears a shirt, coat, vest, or some other kind of top, but no pants, shorts, or overalls, or a skirt and very rarely with any underwear on.[[hottip:*:A shirt or any other kind of top without pants, shorts, overalls, or a skirt but with underwear would border on fully dressed if the underwear looks enough like shorts.]] This also refers to characters wearing dresses or skirts (even long ones) with shirts but without underwear. This variant is [[AlwaysMale more common in male animals than in female animals]].

* WebAnimation/HomestarRunner does not seem to wear any pants, but he does wear a shirt, shoes ([[LongPants that look exactly like his feet, but with blue soles stuck to them]])[[hottip:(Proof): A certain shot in ''In Search of the Yello Dello''.]] and a propellor cap (he calls it his "buzzer"). Also, Marzipan's ancestor, Old-Timey Marzipan, seems to wear a skirt... but it's actually her ''body''. Strong Bad lampshaded this on one occasion.

-->-- '''Chandler''', ''Series/{{Friends}}'' [[note]]To keep the floor from getting wet![[/note]]

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* Excalibur of ''Manga/SoulEater'' only wears a shirt and top-hat, though he's not an animal. This is lampshaded in his first appearance when Black Star asks why the hell he's not wearing any pants.
* Played with in AliceInSexland. Cheshire is a catgirl covered in fur who only wears a collar, which would usually qualify for this trope. However, due to the [[{{hentai}} type]] of story this is, you can see ''everything.''
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