History Main / ThePigPen

* Sid's granny from ''WesternAnimation/IceAge4ContinentalDrift'', and probably Sid himself.

* MountainMan Rancid Crabtree in the writings of the outdoor humorist Creator/PatrickMcManus.

* From 4chan's traditional gaming board comes the tale of [[http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=that%20guy Luke, Plagueson of Nurgle,]] a man with an apparently pathological aversion to cleanliness. A few highlights include the fact every deck he touched even for a moment became sticky to the point of being unshuffleable, his breath being able to nauseate even the hardiest among the storytellers, and his room (especially his bed), whose description should not be read after a meal of ''any'' sort.

* Woody's lack of hygiene is often PlayedForLaughs in ''[[Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody The Suite Life On Deck]]''.
** It’s also worth noting that his sister, Willa, isn’t much better, farting at a dinner table, gladly recalling a story about shooting snot on birthday cake and then eating it, and apparently has athlete’s foot. Really, the least disgusting thing she did on that date was eat her ribs messily.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "Hearts and Hooves Day", the song "The Perfect Stallion" briefly featured a filthy, smelly, fly-drawing stallion, whose cutie mark was a TRASH CAN.
** In [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS8E8TheParentMap one episode]], one of the booksellers at Starlight's childhood village says that she doesn't wish to cover up her natural scent. Cue her lifting up her arm and [[VisibleOdor green waves coming from it]].

** In ''Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS8E8TheParentMap'', one of the booksellers at Starlight's childhood village says that she doesn't wish to cover up her natural scent. Cue her lifting up her arm and [[VisibleOdor green waves coming from it]].

** In ''Recap/FriendshipIsMagicS8E8TheParentMap'', one of the booksellers at Starlight's childhood village says that she doesn't wish to cover up her natural scent. Cue her lifting up her arm and [[VisibleOdor green waves coming from it]].

** From the same series, villain Captain Fray (Capitão Feio) (who has a barely remembered origin as Smudge's uncle). However, different from Smudge, who is ecologically friendly and doesn't wish others were like him, Fray constantly tries to use his powers to pollute all of Earth and make everyone as dirty as him, putting him at clash with Smudge himself and the other main characters.

* Smudge (Cascão) from the Brazilian comic ''ComicBook/MonicasGang'' (''Turma da Mônica'') had as his personal gimmick the fact he ''never'' took a shower. ''Ever'', since he was born. An early comic strip implies Smudge took a bath as a Mother's Day gift, a cover of his comic book once shown him washing his hands... and in the [[SpinoffBabies spinoff teenagers]] series, he bathes once in a while. Though he's still not quite into it, as he himself once said:

** From the same series, villain Captain Fray (Capitão Feio) (who has a barely remembered origin as Smudge's uncle).

* Tree sloths are this. They move so slowly that algae grows in their fur, and they even has their own species of moth that lives its entire lifecycle on the sloth! This leads to them aquiring a pungent odor that's believed to act as a defense against predators, most of whom will avoid eating sloths unless other prey is not available.

* The Mess was a joke character who tried to join the ''ComicBook/{{Legion of Super-Heroes}}''. His power was the ability to attract dirt.

* While it isn't visible due to the nature of the show, the character White Yoshi in WebOriginal/VesterAndFriends hasn't bathed in 30 years.

* Baikinman from ''Franchise/{{Anpanman}}'', being an alien bacteria, love filth and his goal is to cover the world in germs. His lair is piled with garbage he doesn't bother to throw out, and he is actually allergic to soap and cleanliness, shrinking to the size of a fly when he's in contact with it. His Kabirunrun minions, living mold spores, are the same as him.

* Whiff and Scruff from ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' are both engines who work at the Waste Dump. Scruff in particular [[HatesBaths hates being cleaned]], though in the episode, "[[Recap/ThomasTheTankEngineS17E2ScruffsMakeover Scruff's Makeover]]", [[AcquiredSituationalNarcissism he became proud of his new coat of paint]], and [[NeatFreak refused to work at the waste dump]].

* Whiff and Scruff from ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'' are both engines who work at the Waste Dump. Scruff in particular [[HatesBaths hates being cleaned]], though in the episode, "[[Recap/ThomasTheTankEngineS17E2ScruffsMakeover Scruff's Makeover]]", [[AcquiredSituationalNarcissism he became proud of his new coat of paint]], and [[NeatFreak refused to work at the waste dump]].

Named after the ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' character Pig-Pen (pictured), who was always surrounded by a cloud of dust and has been seen going from "perfectly clean" to "covered in dust" while walking down the road or - most absurdly - ''in a rainstorm''. Also see MenCantKeepHouse, DirtyForeigner and HumansAreSmelly for a more fantasy-based variant. When this Trope is a defining trait of a villainous or otherwise evil character, see UncleanlinessIsNextToUngodliness. A character who offsets bad hygiene with high intelligence is a GeniusSlob. FilthyFun may or may not come naturally to them. If the character's bad hygiene comes with an odour to match, expect commentary in the form of StinkSnub.

* In ''Manga/{{Moyashimon}}'', when we first see Aoi Mutō she's absolutely filthy and covered in germs, including a number of food poisoning pathogens. However, this is just because she's just gotten back from a long sojourn across Eurasia, and didn't exactly have a lot of opportunities to bathe and change her clothes.

* In the ''[[Anime/SayonaraZetsubouSensei Zan Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei]]'' {{OVA}} we're introduced to [[NeatFreak Kitsu]] [[ControlFreak Chiri's]] older sister, Kitsu Tane, who became The Pig Pen and goddess over the TrashOfTheTitans trope by choice in order to save the life of their gold fish, which Chiri had decided to clean (using shampoo). Unfortunately for Tane, she had to maintain this behavior for so many years, it eventually got stuck (literally, trash seems to follow her around) and now she can't even take proper care of herself... She once appeared on TV in a ''How Clean Is Your House'' like show.
-->'''Show host:''' Wow, the beams are bending!\\
'''Tane:''' What? I tidied up before you came.

* Baikinman from ''Franchise/{{Anpanman}}'', being an alien bacteria, love filth and his goal is to cover the world in germs. His lair is piled with garbage he doesn't bother to throw out, and he is actually allergic to soap and cleanliness, shrinking to the size of a fly when he's in contact with it. His Kabirunrun minions, living mold spores, are the same as him.

* ''Pongalongapongo'' / ''Krazy Gang'' - [[http://www.toonhound.com/pongalongapongo.htm Pongo Snodgrass,]] a 70's-80's British comics character who loved filth and all things putrid, and was also something of a schemer.
* ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' - Rorschach does not bath or change clothes and when we see him eating raw beans in the first chapter his chin is covered in bean juice that he doesn't bother wiping off before putting his mask back on. Other characters frequently complain about it, but his only concession is to pour cologne over the grime.
* The Spanish [[note]]French? It's made by Spaniards for a French market.[[/note]] comic ''ComicBook/{{Blacksad}}'' features a rather whiffy weasel journalist named Weekly. His nickname derives from a joke circulating the office, that this is how often he bathes. The English translation says this is how often ''he changes his underwear''.
%%* Smudge, in ''ComicBook/TheBeano''.
* The Sergeant from ''ComicBook/{{Sturmtruppen}}''. To give an example, he doesn't know why the bath tub is full of water or what's soap, and after being washed is revealed that he lost roughly 7 pounds of filth.

* The TropeNamer and the pictured character is Pig-Pen from ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}''. Charles Schulz [[CreatorsPest disliked the character]], because he was basically just one joke, but character popularity forced him to include Pig-Pen occasionally. One strip from the 1950s features a ''clean'' Pig-Pen. He looks weird.
** Often he [[RuleOfFunny pushes the bounds of believability.]] Even when he is clean, he can often become dirty within seconds merely by stepping outside, at which point he says, "You know what I am? I'm a ''dust magnet''!" Both his hair and is shoelaces came undone ''entirely of their own accord''. He once got dirty while walking in a snowstorm. The other characters in the strip are torn between disbelief and a weird sense of admiration towards him. (Charlie Brown once said half-sarcastically that Pig-Pen "might carry on him the dust and dirt of ancient civilizations".)
* British newspaper strip ''ComicStrip/ThePerishers'' had Dirty [=McSquirty=], sometimes called Saint Flies because flies kept circling his head like a halo. Pretty much a one-joke character. (His Cousin Worsoff was the proverbial person who's worse off than everyone else. Worsoff lived in the sewers and [[TheVoice was only heard, not seen]].)
* Al Capp's ''ComicStrip/LilAbner'' had [[http://tinyurl.com/457r7d Moonbeam McSwine]], who was an odd variation. She was unwashed, unkempt, and she stunk, and often preferred the company of pigs to others, but was actually quite beautiful if you could get past that. (Capp designed her as a caricature of his wife, Catherine - minus the dirt.)

* The villain of Cricket Country strips in ''Cricket'', a children's magazine, is an extremely unhygienic, scruffy ToothyBird called Ugly Bird.
* Kenny the {{Cloudcuckoolander}} husky from ''ComicStrip/DogsOfCKennel'' has this as his defining trait.
* Calvin from ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes would be this if his mom didn’t make him bathe on a regular basis, he loves getting dirty doing things like playing in mud and collecting worms and insects and hates taking baths.

* In the Literature/{{Discworld}} of Creator/AAPessimal, [[FieryRedhead Mariella Smith-Rhodes]] leaves the Assassins' School, returns [[UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica Home]] - eventually - and is called up for National Service. Assigned as person in charge of her barracks room and therefore responsible for the perfection and absolute cleanliness of everything in it, she is less than pleased to realise one of her fellow recruits is actually known as Pigpen. Mariella notes, gloomily, that Morporkians slander her people with the assertion that they have yet to invent soap. There's even [[Series/SpittingImage a song]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rn6YbVSlCY8&list=PLIa36ETako3MaZaw7-I0qEuflOniBvTWd&index=19&t=0s about it]]. Considering (the otherwise undescribed) Pigpen, Mariella conceded that just sometimes, the Morporkians are right.

* Kristoff from ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'', to the point of being a RunningGag: he eats a saliva-covered carrot (it is Sven's saliva, but still it is pretty gross), only ever relieves himself in the woods, and (by his own admission) smells worse than a reindeer. The trolls say he's smelly no matter how much he washes, and Olaf describes him as "a pungent reindeer king." Later in "WesternAnimation/FrozenFever", Elsa says that ''because it's Anna's birthday'', she "'''even''' got Kristoff to take a bath", so that still must be a very rare event.
* Sid's granny from ''WesternAnimation/IceAge4ContinentalDrift'', and probably Sid himself.
* There's Messy Bear in the ''WesternAnimation/CareBearsBigWishMovie''.

* Booger from ''Film/RevengeOfTheNerds'' got his nickname through his flagrant disregard for his personal hygeine.
* [[MountainMan Gabby Johnson]] in ''Film/BlazingSaddles'': at one point he incapacitates an opponent simply by breathing in the man's face-- although that could just be [[HillbillyMoonshiner the booze.]]
* Hedorah from the ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' franchise, who feeds on pollution and expels it in even worse forms than before. There's a reason his debut film got the US title of ''[[Film/GodzillaVsHedorah Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster]]''. "The Sludge Monster" would have been an even more appropriate nickname, considering that sludge composes a significant portion of his total body mass ([[{{kaiju}} which is considerable, to say the least]]).
* 78-year-old "Big Edie" Beale and her 56-year-old daughter "Little Edie" Beale, as shown in the documentary ''Film/GreyGardens''. Especially Big Edie, the CrazyCatLady who lies on a bed piled with filth. Little Edie's bed is somewhat neater.
* The opening of ''Film/{{Bumblebee}}'' shows Charlie not changing outside of her clothing she wore the previous day and not showering, as shown when she sniffs herself for odors but simply shrugs it off. This is {{justified|trope}} due to the depression of losing her father. She properly cleans up herself after meeting Bumblebee, though.

* Burris Ewell from ''Literature/ToKillAMockingbird''.

* Brian in ''Literature/GoodOmens''. His parents do make him wash, but it doesn't really do any good; "there was something basically ''ground in'' about Brian".
** Also, by his very nature as the newest of the [[HorsemenOfTheApocalypse four Horsemen]] [[spoiler:and Brian's EvilCounterpart]], Pollution.

* This is the natural state of even the good members of vermin species in ''Literature/{{Redwall}}''. They actually have a comic song in ''Loamhedge'' about how bathing too much means one risks washing oneself entirely out of existence.
-->"I tell yer, that's the first bath I've took in me life, and the last one too, thank yer kindly!"
** Most of the Dibbuns (babies) would also be this way if their caretakers let them, going to impressive lengths to avoid bathing.
* Gunner Jurgen from the ''Literature/CiaphasCain'' novels fits this to a tee. He is exempt from normal Imperial Guard peacetime cleanliness regulations due to a variety of skin conditions. Other than Cain himself, nobody wants to be around him. [[spoiler: Of course that has more to do with Jurgen being a soulless AntiMagic pariah, but his filthiness tends to be what people fixate on when they feel repelled by him.]]

* ''Literature/DeadSouls'': One of Chichikov's servants who never washes himself.
* Sachar always has dirty hands in ''Literature/{{Oblomov}}''. And claims they were clean.
* ''Literature/TheTwits'':
* MountainMan Rancid Crabtree in the writings of the outdoor humorist Creator/PatrickMcManus.

* According to the narration of ''Literature/FantasticMrFox'', Farmer Bean never bathed ("he never even washed"), and he's hard of hearing because his ears are clogged with residue. (The Boggis and Bunce are probably unhygienic too; Mr. Fox says in an early chapter that he can smell them so easily because they stink.)
* JamesClemens (AKA JamesRollins) ''Literature/TheGodslayerChronicles'' has Bloodnullers; priests of the Gods who cover themselves head to toe in "Black Bile" [[spoiler: (Gods' Shit)]] which is used to nullify Graces given by the Gods' other Humorals. They are easily identified by their filth covered robes and the obvious stench.
* According to the ''Literature/ArsGoetia'', the demon Ipos is ''spectacularly'' dark with filth and grime--quite a juxtaposition with his angelic body (not that the [[MixAndMatchCritters head or feet are angelic]]). It's worth noting that ''none'' of the other demons get noted as being filthy (terrible of countenance, yes...).
* The Spaniards in ''Literature/{{Aztec}}'' are described as being so foul that Mixtli and the Mayan king have them forcibly washed.

* Two examples in ''Literature/TheDinosaurLords'':
** Montserrat is unable to walk five steps without something happening either to her or her clothes. Her servants have taken to keeping a stash of equipment by the entrance to main hall of the Imperial Palace so that they can prepare her just before she enters, as to not give her the chance to ruin her clothes and hair.
** The Life-To-Come sect preaches no physical pleasures, so many of them don't bath. Their "greatest" champion must be the Papal Legate - when Jaume enters the room the man's in, he has to restrain himself from gagging, and makes a mental not to wash the entire room three times afterwards[[note]]It's worth keeping in mind that Jaume's a follower of a group with radically opposite views, so he might not be the most reliable narrator out there when it comes to cleanliness[[/note]].
* Luci in ''Literature/TheEggMan'' is constantly sweaty and smelly. The protagonist, who has [[TheNoseKnows a hyper-evolved sense of smell]], is at the same time revolted and [[BileFascination oddly turned on]] by this.
* PlayedForDrama in ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', where [[spoiler:Theon]], after [[LossOfIdentity being forced into becoming Reek]] is kept from bathing by [[BastardBastard Ramsay]] as part of his torture and dehumanization. His smell is described variously as "like the grave", "like nightsoil and stale vomit", and "like pigshit".
* In ''Literature/{{Nightflyers}}'', Alys Northwind eats a lot, doesn't bathe very often, and almost never takes off her clothes.
* ''Literature/{{Eileen}}'': In order to deny her femininity and as a pointless antisocial gesture of rebellion, Eileen tries to bathe as little as possible and discusses wallowing in her own filth, not washing her hands after using the bathroom, etc.
* ''Literature/DisgustingMcGrossface'': The titular character never bathes, brushes his teeth, or washes his underwear, and he walks through mud.

* Ben Sturky from ''Series/ThatsSoRaven''.
* ''Series/{{Callan}}'' had Lonely, so called because he never took a bath. As well as being the best informer in London, he made great coffee.

* Danny Tamboreli made his mark on Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} by being the one actor who genuinely enjoyed being slimed.

* ''Series/TheRedGreenShow'': Winston Rothschild, III, owns and operates a very successful sewage and septic sucking service.

* Woody's lack of hygiene is often PlayedForLaughs in ''[[Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody The Suite Life On Deck]]''.
** It’s also worth noting that his sister, Willa, isn’t much better, farting at a dinner table, gladly recalling a story about shooting snot on birthday cake and then eating it, and apparently has athlete’s foot. Really, the least disgusting thing she did on that date was eat her ribs messily.
* On ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', Mike has a knack for getting impossibly filthy in short periods of time. After the bots convince him to kill all his eyelash mites, his eyelids immediately become covered in trash and food scraps. When Observer sent him a necktie, he somehow stained it during the few seconds the camera cut away from him.
* ''Series/{{The Wire}}'' Series 4. Dukie. His Mum's an alcoholic, the people living in his house are quite capable of selling his clean clothes to buy drugs.

* ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'': Charlie, who's ostensibly the bar's janitor, and Frank after his first year or so with The Gang. The apartment they share is disgusting.
* ''[[Series/CarryOnLaughing Carry On Laughing!]]'': Sir William from "The Baron Outlook" and Sir Pureheart from "Under the Round Table" are both knights who refuse to take off their armour, the former because he feels if he's ''entitled'' to wear it then he should do so ''at all times''; the latter because he swore an oath not to do so until he becomes "the greatest knight in the land". Both have gags involving [[DoubleEntendre "not having had it off for a long time"]].
* In ''Series/{{Wilfred}}'', Ryan rents out a room in his house to a new tenant, a woman named Anne. She has horrible hygiene, leaving food and other mess everywhere, and doesn't have a real job (her only source of income is to [[{{Squick}} post online fetish videos of herself to perverts who get off to her poor hygiene and eating habits]]). Anne does try to (literally) clean herself up for a job interview, but complains about it and goes back to being a lazy, dirty slob.

* ''Series/TheDarkCrystalAgeOfResistance'' has Deet. Apparently in the Caves of Grot, bathing is seen as a purely optional pastime.
-->'''Seladon:''' "When was the last time you washed your hands?"\\
'''Deet:''' "Why would I ever wash my hands?"

* ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'' has hippies that come in three main varieties: dirty, filthy, and crusty. Ew.

* Toko Fukawa from ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'' is said to smell pretty badly since she doesn't bathe very often, if at all. [[spoiler:The fact that [[VideoGame/DanganronpaAnotherEpisodeUltraDespairGirls she has a literal stinkbug for a pet]] probably doesn't help matters.]]
* The Gelato Man from ''VideoGame/AlphaProtocol''. Mike quips that he's at risk from catching salmonella just from looking at his establishment. [[spoiler:It helps keep down the customers and thus hide the NSA listening post in his shop.]]
* At the beginning of ''Webcomic/YetAnotherDamnFantasyAdventure'' the main character is covered in filth from his parents' farm, which gets him barred from the local tavern until you solve a puzzle involving bathing.
* ''Videogame/ShadowrunReturns: Hong Kong'' has Gobbet, former StreetUrchin who still lives that way: She sleeps in a giant pile of clothing and shares all her meals with her two pet rats. She also considers cleaning to be a chore and prefers recycling her dirty clothing and cooking utensils for as long as possible. The game also has Gaichû, a [[OurGhoulsAreCreepier ghoul]]. ''Shadowrun'' ghouls are stereotypically filthy because they tend to live in squats and sewers and eat rotten meat from corpses. Gaichû defies the trope as he does neither, preferring to bathe regularly and [[PickyPeopleEater prepare his food properly]].
* Although Barik from ''VideoGame/{{Tyranny}}'' would ''like'' to maintain high standards of hygiene, being [[ClingyCostume fused into a shell of iron and bronze scrap]] makes it ''difficult'' for him to keep himself clean; it's noted that he constantly smells of metal, oil, sweat and feces, despite his best efforts. In the Bastard's Wound DLC, [[spoiler:if you manage to get his armor off you can get him to finally take a bath.]]
* In ''VideoGame/PillarsOfEternity'', Durance and Hiravias are both described as having poor personal hygiene and grooming habits. [[{{Druid}} Hiravias]] does it to blend into nature, whereas [[NayTheist Durance]] hasn't bathed since [[CrisisOfFaith his god betrayed him]]. Funnily enough, Durance is [[HypocriticalHumor one of the only people]] to point out Hiravias' stink.

* Black Mage from ''WebComic/EightBitTheater''. He repeatedly claims that the smell is his spell components, but nobody buys it.
* Pauline from ''Webcomic/OurLittleAdventure'' apparently 'smells like a really good salad bar.'

--> '''Katie''': Yeah, Sylvester's always had rather... unique ideas about personal hygene.

* ''Webcomic/{{Bomango}}'': Gogo's poor hygiene and bad smell are often commented on, in the series. She took a shower once and only once and that's only because she wanted to get along with Andy's mom.
* ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge'' fancomic ''[[http://bobandgeorge.com/comics/ramnesis Jailhouse Blues]]'' featured Wily and Mega Man both being in prison ([[ItMakesSenseInContext long story]]) when Wily attempts another one of his overthrows. The results include two horrific abominations to robotics known as Nasty Toilet Man and Rancid Chef Man. The former is a filth-encrusted walking commode who leaks suspicious liquids everywhere, while the latter doesn't look as bad--but the comic makes it very clear that he has a grasp of sanitation and hygiene that's revoltingly unsound. Thankfully, Mega Man manages to dispatch both (though not without a RunningGag or two involving various attempts to bring down Nasty Toilet Man).

* A lot of characters in the ''Literature/{{Legatum}}'' series do not care about hygiene--especially in the country Glordale. It's not uncommon for some characters to have an aversion to bathing, brushing their teeth, or changing their clothes, and some characters are prone to soiling themselves on purpose. Some noteworthy filthy characters are Mulvernt the Cyclops, Trellorv the swamp troll, and just about every goblin character.

* From 4chan's traditional gaming board comes the tale of [[http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=that%20guy Luke, Plagueson of Nurgle,]] a man with an apparently pathological aversion to cleanliness. A few highlights include the fact every deck he touched even for a moment became sticky to the point of being unshuffleable, his breath being able to nauseate even the hardiest among the storytellers, and his room (especially his bed), whose description should not be read after a meal of ''any'' sort.

* Taken to ridiculous extremes on ''WebVideo/JakeAndAmir''. Amir very rarely bathes, has bad breath, never washes his clothes, most other characters complain about his smell, and DependingOnTheWriter, sometimes the only person who can stand to be around him because of this is Jake. There's also been at least three episodes, and probably more, that focus on Amir shitting his pants.

* ''WesternAnimation/FrenchRoast'': The homeless man is so filthy that a cloud of flies hovers over his head and follows him around. Of course, he is homeless.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' episode "Conway the Contaminationist", a man named Conway (a filthy, deformed pilot) comes to the Bagge house, claiming that terrible hygiene is actually ''good'' for your health. Muriel and Eustace decide to live filthy lifestyles too, but it makes them sick and miserable. Conway himself though [[BizarreHumanBiology actually does benefit from being dirty]], as he drinks sludge to heal his injuries, and even claims to be 193 years old.
* Phil and Lil from ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' loved to play in mud and garbage, and ate worms. They ate anything they could get their hands on. Lil eventually grew out of her habits but as of ''WesternAnimation/AllGrownUp'' Phil is the same.

* [[WesternAnimation/CaptainCavemanAndTheTeenAngels Captain Caveman]] is a big hairy ball of filth.
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' had Dogpoo, an obvious ShoutOut to Pig-Pen.

* In ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'', Patrick Star picked up the ConflictBall when he gained the status of Pig-Pen as a CompressedVice. He turned against suddenly scrupulous neat freak Spongebob and they waged a war of cleanliness vs. filth for 11 minutes.
** They do a good job of implying that this isn't new, though; in one scene Spongebob removes Patrick's "jacket" only to discover that what has appeared to be his skin ever since the show started is actually ''a uniform layer of caked-on filth half an inch thick''. For Spongebob's part, well, he's an ambulatory sponge, what did you expect?
** In the episode "Karate Island", one of the opponents Sandy faces is known as Filthy Phil who attempt to fight her using his body odor. However, Sandy is protected from his scent thanks to her "fresh air dome" and the stink is instead [[HoistByHisOwnPetard smelt by Phil himself]].
--> '''Filthy Phil:''' Man! I really do stink!
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'', Lana loves living the gross life whether it's playing in mud or rummaging through garbage. In stark contrast, her [[PolarOppositeTwins twin sister Lola]] is obsessed with beauty and cleanliness.
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' had Buttercup refusing to take a bath. She got so filthy that the townsfolk chased her with TorchesAndPitchforks. Even the MonsterOfTheWeek refused to fight her. ''That's'' what forced her to clean up.
** And Harry Pitt to a lesser extent who is always covered dirt due to the fact he likes to play in the mud.
* ''WesternAnimation/MuchaLucha'' had The Flea, whose special wrestling move was really bad odor. His outfit is actually white, but his lifestyle is so dirty it's become consistently brown all over.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TazMania'', Taz isn't especially dirty (not ''most'' of the time) but he ''does'' hate taking baths, something that is mentioned in several episodes.
--> '''Taz:''' [[ThirdPersonPerson Taz]] [[RunningGag hate water!]]
* Russel from ''WesternAnimation/StickinAround'', who emitted a "funky smell" at all times.
* Ed from ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy''. The Kankers are downplayed examples, but they appear as though they don't brush their teeth nor keep up with their hygiene.
* Jason was this in the first season of ''WesternAnimation/HomeMovies'' when the show felt like indulging itself in [[NauseaFuel gross-out humor]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSimBCOj_Rg To wit...]]
* One-shot villain Ample Grime from ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck.'' (Sister of NeatFreak villain Ammonia Pine, ironically.)
* Sloppy Joe from ''WesternAnimation/{{Grossology}}''.
* Ian "Eww-an" Wazselewski from ''WesternAnimation/TeachersPet''.
* Murdoc of {{Music/Gorillaz}} is notoriously [[UncleanlinessIsNextToUngodliness unhygienic]].
* One of the episodes of ''WesternAnimation/FanboyAndChumChum'' deals with Fanboy trying to beat a record on going for the longest time without a bath. The trope was brought UpToEleven in this case - his costume got so incredibly dirty, it came to life and gained the personality of a mobster called Stinks.
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' featured Billy's Mom going progressively insane as she repeatedly bathes Billy and dresses him in a clean tuxedo, only to have him get filthy within ''seconds'' by careening around the yard and playing with mud.
* It is implied several times that Bill from ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' has very poor hygiene and lives in very filthy conditions almost never cleaning up after himself, this is mainly due to being depressed after his divorce from Lenore.

* ''Literature/EdgarAndEllen''. One time in the animated series, Ellen got sprayed with an anti-bug formula, which made a bunch of bugs come jumping out of her hair.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "Hearts and Hooves Day", the song "The Perfect Stallion" briefly featured a filthy, smelly, fly-drawing stallion, whose cutie mark was a TRASH CAN.
** Back in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyG3'', Spike was awakened from his thousand year sleep and was as dirty as to be expected. He openly takes pride in how dirty he was and while everypony else is holding their noses, he implies he purposefully cultivated his horrid stench. However, after getting cleaned off he admits he's glad to be clean again.
* Toad, as depicted in ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'', cheerfully and purposely amplified the base mankiness caused by his mutation. He showered on a monthly basis, ate insects, had a odour that caused other characters to open windows in his presence, and was described as having 'the personal hygiene of a dead pig'.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheSuper6'' "Brothers Matzoriley" segment, the titular brothers had to deal with a recurring antagonist called Dirty Pierre, who was as filthy as he was malicious.
* The Dirt Dudes from ''WesternAnimation/MrBogus'' are anthropomorphic dust bunnies that are depicted as being dirty and very mean.
* Ramon Ridley from ''WesternAnimation/{{Dogstar}}''. A cleaning robot self-destructs after attempting to calculate exactly how much filth he has on him.

* Sloppy Smurf from ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs''.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/RawToonage'' / ''WesternAnimation/{{Marsupilami}}'' short, ''Bathtime for Maurice'', Marsupilami tries to get his gorilla friend Maurice a bath.
* The wizard Zabobon from ''WesternAnimation/TheBigKnights'', who wears a filthy robe and is perpetually surrounded by flies.
* Guysborough the Garbage Barge from ''WesternAnimation/TheodoreTugboat'' loves garbage and [[HatesBaths hates being cleaned]].
* Lord Stinker from ''WesternAnimation/{{TUGS}}'' is a garbage barge who works with [[DumbMuscle Warrior]] (and occasionally [[UpperClassTwit Top Hat]]). He wears a clothespin on his nose to escape smelling his own garbage.
* Whiff and Scruff from ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'' are both engines who work at the Waste Dump. Scruff in particular [[HatesBaths hates being cleaned]], though in the episode, "[[Recap/ThomasTheTankEngineS17E2ScruffsMakeover Scruff's Makeover]]", [[AcquiredSituationalNarcissism he became proud of his new coat of paint]], and [[NeatFreak refused to work at the waste dump]].
* In the ''WesternAnimation/HappilyEverAfterFairyTalesForEveryChild'' episode "Snow White" one of the seven dwarfs was named Smelly Sulfur, he often rolled around in dirt and his stench would kill plants as he passed by them.
* Dr. Zoidberg from ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''. He lives in a dumpster and his dates dump him because of his stench. [[spoiler:In a final season episode, he gets together with a woman with no sense of smell.]]
* Implied in the case of Jude Lizowski from ''WesternAnimation/{{Sixteen}}''--in one episode, it's mentioned that he actually went two weeks without bathing of any kind. But fortunately for the rest of the gang (and, by extension, everyone else), Jude never smells too bad, which Jude claims is due to something that he refers to as the "Stink Cycle."

* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers''
** Bob is commented on several times to have lacking personal hygiene. People frequently take note of a smell that seems to follow him, and he himself admits he doesn't wash much.
** Gene as well. In the Season 11 episode where he's patient zero for a family pinworm infection, it's noted that the Belchers thought he had a sunburn for a week when it was really just Buffalo sauce.
* In the Mondo TV cartoon for ''WesternAnimation/TheTrashPack'', ironically, the character that is considered the grossest of them all is ''not'' one of the Trashies, the living pieces of ''garbage''. Rather, it's Mr. Binner, a surly business man from Garden City. His white shirts are always stained, he has a green stink cloud that always follows him around, and his broken briefcase always drops out trash, which he simply kicks away instead of picking up.

* This is one of the most common stereotypes of geeks, especialy males. It's also disturbingly TruthInTelevision, as anyone who's ever been to a convention can attest. In fact, it is such a problem that tournaments and conventions have begun to institute hygiene requirements and post "stank bouncers" to reject particularly filthy attendees. It's also part of the informal 3-2-1 Rule: every day a convention attendee must get three hours of sleep, eat two meals, and take one shower.

* ''Series/{{Animorphs}}'' Downplayed example: Andalites have a stronger sense of smell than humans, and in one book the Andalite Ax notes that humans have a smell. When one of the human characters takes offense, he says it's not an unpleasant odor, and similar to an animal from the Andalite planet.

* ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'': Applies to Bolt at times. Justified, as real dogs enjoy being dirty.

'''Yuck!!''' A character whose most obvious trait is that they are absolutely filthy. [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Not filthy in morals, behaviors, or ethics]] ([[UncleanlinessIsNextToUngodliness but sometimes they are]]), but someone whose ''body'' is actually covered in filth. The person might have other qualities as well, but their filthiness is bad in relation to the rest of the cast, or at least the setting. Chances are that they may look just as bad as they smell, and bonus points if every nearby living being [[WiltingOdor withers away from the foul odor they radiate]].

* ''TabletopGame/Space1889'': Nomad Martians have a strict taboo for and punishments against wasting precious water (anything other than Martian, animal or plant consumption or Martian food preparation is wasting).

* This is the way that ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' distinguishes their [[HarpingOnAboutHarpies harpies]] from those in ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': Golarion harpies are {{Cute Monster Girl}}s in terms of looks... but are also sadistic predators and opportunistic scavengers with cultural levels of hygiene straight out of [[TheDungAges Tudor England]]. In other words, they ''stink'' from the cocktail of sweat, bodily filth, caked on blood, rotten meat and worse that infests their bodies. The best that harpies usually manage to do is to drench themselves in perfume or cologne, which doesn't really help -- one can almost always smell harpies before one can see them. Subverted for those rare harpies that go urban, whether or not they [[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch give up the nastier traits of their race or not]]; these harpies are described as typically being fastidious about their appearance and cleanliness to the point of near-obsession.

* Played for drama in ''Theatre/PerfectPie'': Marie's family can't afford enough water to let her bath regularly, and the dirt and smell are yet another thing that makes her a target of relentless cruelty at the hands of other children.