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  • The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin Teddy Ruxpin is an Illiop, basically an anthropomorphic bear. He wears a shirt and shorts, but no shoes. He mentions in "The Faded Fobs" that Illiops don't normally wear shoes.
  • Zummi, Gruffi and Grammi from Adventures of the Gummi Bears do not wear shoes.
  • Fergie the White Rabbit from Alice's Wonderland Bakery. Just like his ancestor from the film, he's a fully-clothed barefooter.
  • Gumball, a blue cat, and his parents (his mom a cat like him, his dad a pink rabbit) from The Amazing World of Gumball are fully dressed besides not wearing shoes. His adopted goldfish brother Darwin wears ONLY shoes, and his sister (also a rabbit) wear shoes or socks. The series lampshades it in several episodes; for example, in the Origins Episode, it turns out Gumball used to wear shoes, but he gave Darwin the pair he wears now.
  • The majority of the talking frog characters from Disney's Amphibia are fully clothed with the exception of shoes.
    • Main character Sprig Plantar wears a green jacket, black shorts and a dark green hat with goggles.
    • Hop Pop wears a gray coat, purple trousers, a yellow waistjacket, a blue ascot and has light purple spats, which he wears on his otherwise bare feet.
  • Nearly every non-human character from Animaniacs wears clothes without shoes, although quite a few of them are Half Dressed Cartoon Animals or Accessory Wearing Cartoon Animals.
  • Animaniacs (2020): Julia, a Recurring Character in the Pinky and the Brain segments, is a mouse who has a different outfit in each of her three episodes (a green pantsuit in her first appearance, a Spy Catsuit in her second, a 1950s housewife costume in her third), but always goes barefoot.
  • The cast of Around the World with Willy Fog wear fancy 19th century clothing, but no footwear.
    • There was a bit in Around the World in Eighty Days where Passepartout is put on trial for sacrilege, with his lost shoes as evidence. In Willy Fog, the incriminating item was changed to Rigadon's hat for this reason.
  • Imaginary Friend Nadine from Arthur. Justified Trope because she's wearing pajamas.
  • In The Barkleys, all of the characters are anthro dogs who are barepawed but otherwise fully clothed. But curiously, in one episode Arnie is frying up burgers and tells his friends, "Take two, fellas...you can use 'em to resole your shoes!"
  • The titular characters of The Bellflower Bunnies wear clothes but not shoes.
  • Contrary to being fully dressed in a coat, tie, cap and vest in his comic book appearances, Batman villain Mr. Toad appeared barefoot with white spats on TV's Beware the Batman.
  • In the Bob's Burgers episode "Steal Magazine-olias", Professor Foxtail is an anthro fox scientist in the children's magazine Gene steals whom Tina becomes attracted to. Foxtail wears a full outfit including a Labcoat of Science and Medicine, but no shoes.
  • The Prairie People and Hawgtie (a Pig Man member of Tex Hex's gang) from Bravestarr wear no shoes but are fully clothed otherwise.
  • Jessica and Tanner from The Bremen Avenue Experience wear clothes but no shoes.
  • In Bugs Bunny Builders, Bugs, Lola and Petunia wear jumpsuits, but no shoes. Daffy wears a shirt and short overalls, while Wile E.'s outfit is a pair of larger overalls and no shirt; they don't wear shoes either.
  • Bunny of Bunny and Claude, the Funny Animal version of Bonnie and Clyde from the late 60s Looney Tunes. She wears a dress and a skirt, but runs around in her bare feet.
  • Half of the titular band in The Cattanooga Cats; while Country and Kitty Jo wear boots, Scoots and Groove don't wear shoes at all. With their late-60s hippie aesthetic, going barefoot fits them well.
  • A few characters from Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers, including Gadget, Tammy, Lahwhinie and Desiree d'Allure, are barefooters who are otherwise fully clothed. Most of the other talking animal characters are of the half dressed variety.
  • Chip and Potato: Nico Panda doesn't wear shoes, but most of his classmates do.
  • Count Duckula is the only member of the regular cast not to wear shoes. Or trousers for that matter! While other characters such as the peasants are frequently seen without shoes, this is most likely a case of barefoot poverty.
  • Jean Bon the Pig Man from Courage the Cowardly Dog doesn't wear shoes.
  • Most characters from Danger Rangers, although the heroes will wear boots when necessary for safety's sake.
  • DuckTales (2017): Much like in the original show, whether or not a character wears shoes depends on how human-like their body is. Of the main characters only Launchpad and Mrs. Beakley wear shoes, though Scrooge has spats that cover a portion of his feet. This ends up becoming a minor plot point in "The Richest Duck in the World!" when Scrooge tries to rebuild his fortune from scratch and starts back up his old shoe shine business, only to realise that nobody wears shoes.
  • Peter Puppy in the Earthworm Jim cartoon, where he sports a shirt and some shorts, but no shoes; in the source game, however, he's completely nude.
  • Most of the characters in Elinor Wonders Why are fully clothed but barefoot. An exception is Ms. Mole, who wears purple shoes.
  • All the heroic dinosaurs from Extreme Dinosaurs gain footwear after transforming with the exception of their fighting triceratops, Spike. Their enemies, the Raptors, do not have footwear considering they are digitigrades.
  • Brian Griffin, the talking dog of Family Guy, is usually nude, and when he does wear clothes, his outfits usually include a shirt and pants but no shoes.
  • Gabby’s Dollhouse has several cats who wear clothes without shoes — or at least seem to. With some of them, it's hard to tell because the characters have bootie-like paws a la Hello Kitty.
    • DJ Catnip wears a glittery magenta hoodie that acts almost in a skirt to him thanks to how short his legs are.
    • Kitty Fairy wears a green dress that looks like a flower.
    • Cakey wears a cupcake wrap as a "shirt".
    • Both Baby Box and Mama Box wear colorful plastic cups as "dresses" and body.
  • Belfry, the batty Non-Human Sidekick of Filmation's Ghostbusters, wears only a leotard without shoes. Interestingly, his siblings are all Fully Dressed Cartoon Animals.
  • Gary the Rat wears a dark gray business suit and red tie, but no shoes.
  • Bobo Haha, the talking monkey who is Generator Rex's Non-Human Sidekick. Being a monkey, it would be pretty stupid of him to cover his prehensile feet with shoes.
  • In The Hillbilly Bears, Paw and Floral of the protagonist Rugg family are fully clothed except for their bear feet. The show's other anthro bears are either this or half-dressed (Maw and Shag Rugg fall into the latter trope).
  • Hit-Monkey: The Monkey is a pint-sized Badass in a Nice Suit, but since his lower appendages are, functionally, a second set of hands, wearing shoes just wouldn't make much sense. Especially since he's just as capable of using them to dispose of his enemies as any other body part.
  • A Hollywood Hounds Christmas: While Dude and Cuz are Fully-Dressed Cartoon Animals, Rosie goes barefoot. She DOES, however, wear a red jumpsuit covered in hearts with a tutu over it.
  • In The Houndcats, Musselmutt wears a hat, shirt, vest, and pants, but no shoes. Rhubarb wears a sombrero and a cloak that reaches down to his bare feet. The others don't wear pants.
  • Eugly the rabbit from Kaeloo wears a tee-shirt, a skirt and leggings, but no footwear.
  • Lieb from The Lingo Show wears a leotard and wristbands, but nothing on her feet.
  • Lana and Judy Lionheart from The Lionhearts wear full outfits without shoes.
  • Mother Bear, from the animated Little Bear series, wears a long dress without slippers.
  • The main pets in Littlest Pet Shop (2012) are usually Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animals. However, in "Winter Wonder Wha...?", they wear tuxedos without shoes while attempting to make a homesick penguin feel better.
  • The Loud House: Regardless of how much clothing they wear (being either half-dressed or fully clothed aside from the feet), almost none of the Funny Animal characters from Lincoln's Dream Sequence in "White Hare" wear footwear. The only exception is Beulah, who wears brown boots.
  • Speedy Gonzales and his fellow Mexican mice in their Looney Tunes appearances wear white shirts and pants but not shoes.
  • Tina Russo, Speedy Gonzales (again) and Lola Bunny (again) from The Looney Tunes Show. They go barefoot but are otherwise clothed.
  • Elizabeth from Marvin the Tap-Dancing Horse is an anthropomorphic pig who doesn't wear shoes.
  • Mighty Max: Virgil wears only a red cloak and Hanuman only wears a Loincloth when encountered in the zoo. After putting on his warrior vestments, Hanuman still doesn't wear shoes. Justified in that, like most monkeys, he has hand-like feet which not only probably wouldn't fit in shoes, but also provide increased agility which would be negated if he wore shoes.
  • A few debatable cases in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. Although the pony characters have hooves instead of feet, and despite the fact that they don't usually wear much in the way of clothes anyway, a couple of the various outfits and costumes they wear throughout the series either lack footwear entirely, or put footwear on the fore hooves (hand equivalents) while leaving the hind hooves (foot equivalents) unshod. Some examples of the latter scenario would be Applejack's boots and Rainbow Dash's gauntlet/slipper things in their respective Grand Galloping Gala costumes, as well as Rarity's slippers from her bathrobe outfit during her breakdown in "Suited For Success".
    • This choice actually makes sense since ponies don't normally wear clothes to begin with; outfits are usually worn for decorative reasons, and shoes complete the outfit. Also, being quadrupedal, their back hooves will be obstructed by the front hooves or their dresses, so it wouldn't make sense to put shoes on hooves that won't be seen by others.
    • Spike the dragon, who actually does have feet, is almost always barefoot, even in the few situations where he's otherwise wearing a full outfit (such as the getup he's tossed into in "The Ticket Master" or his bard outfit from "Hearth's Warming Eve"). This doesn't change until the sixth season RPG Episode "Dungeons & Discords", in which he wears boots as Garbunkle the magician.
    • Maud Pie is probably the best consistent example of this trope in the show— as an adult, she always wears a frock covering all of her body but showing the legs and hooves, while most other ponies make a habit out of usually wearing no clothes.
  • Some supporting characters from The Oddball Couple have clothes but not shoes. (Fleabag is a Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal while Spiffy and Goldie Hound are Fully Dressed Cartoon Animals.)
  • Over the Garden Wall: Miss Langtree's pupils from "Schooltown Follies" wear full outfits complete with hats, but no shoes, and they look adorable. Justified by them being fairly realistic animals who’d be unable to wear human shoes.
  • P. King Duckling applies this trope when in his regular outfit: a blue long-sleeved shirt and green shorts, but no shoes.
  • Carmen from Patrol 03, who wears a police uniform without shoes (unlike her Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal colleagues).
  • Rat characters Scrag and Mr. Flea from Pearlie wear shirts and pants but lack shoes.
  • Punkin' Puss and Mushmouse: Neither titular character wears shoes — which is not surprising given that they're a hillbilly cat and mouse.
  • Quack Pack: Shoes are the only clothes Huey, Dewey and Louie do not wear.
  • In the notorious Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon" episode "Ren Seeks Help", Ren's parents (who are anthro dogs like him) wear clothes, but not shoes.
  • In Saban's Adventures of Oliver Twist the two major female anthros, Nancy the cat and Princess Annushka the dog, wear full dresses but go barefoot. By contrast, the male animal characters are Half-Dressed Cartoon Animals.
  • Salem the cat from Sabrina: The Animated Series, who's usually an Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal, becomes an example of this trope when he wears a smoking jacket that reaches to his knees, without shoes or any other clothing.
  • Some characters from Sheriff Callie's Wild West, most notably the trio of singing prairie dogs, wear Western outfits but go barefoot.
  • Hardware and Windhammer, two alien members of Mon*Star's mob in SilverHawks. Hardware has a space adventurer outfit with pants, while Windhammer wears a cloak that reaches to his knees, but neither one uses footwear.
  • Snooper and Blabber, Hanna-Barbera's cat/mouse team of Detective Animals, wear stereotypical Private Detective outfits with nice hats and trenchcoats that reach to their knees, but no shoes.
  • The Space Cats wear sci-fi outfits that include no footwear.
  • Some of the humanoid animal beings known as the Beastials from Spider-Man Unlimited do not wear shoes.
  • Most of the cast of SpongeBob SquarePants go barefoot. In fact, this led to a situation where SpongeBob forgot how to tie his shoes, and couldn't find anyone who could help him remember, because most everyone he asked either didn't wear shoes or didn't have feet.
  • Lt. M'Ress from Star Trek: The Animated Series is a Cat Folk alien who wears a Starfleet uniform but goes barefoot. The official explanation is that she doesn't need (or want) footwear because of her thick pawpads, although the animators don't bother drawing them when her soles are visible.
  • From SWAT Kats: T-Bone and Razor go barefoot in their pilot suits, while Dark Kat wears a black cloak that reaches to his ankles (and apparently nothing else). Somewhat odd, given that everyone else on the show (except Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal Dr. Viper) wears shoes, including the main characters in their civilian attire.
  • None of the Funny Animal characters in Sylvanian Families wear shoes, as per their toyline.
  • In TaleSpin, a lot of characters go barefoot while otherwise being fully clothed. There are too many to list, but examples in the main cast include Rebecca Cunningham (who wears an informal suit complete with pants), her daughter Molly (a child's outfit including a knee-length skirt), Wildcat (a mechanic's uniform), and Shere Khan (an expensive business suit).
  • Some werewolf characters from Teen Wolf. In the main cast, Grandma and Grandpa Howard are fully clothed with shoes, but go barefoot when transformed. Grandma wears a light violet dress without any shoes. Grandpa wears a peach-colored shirt, light brown vest and tan pants, but no footwear.
  • Several Beast Folk characters from ThunderCats (1985) have full outfits with footwear that doesn't cover their footclaws or soles. In the main cast, Tygra wears a blue jumpsuit with open-toed boots. Mumm-Ra wears a long red cloak and bandages, but does not have any footwear.
  • All the Beast Folk of Thunder Cats 2011 are barefoot with otherwise full outfits, excepting Leo, Panthera and the Swordmaker.note  Justified in the case of the series' cats, shown using their foot claws to climb structures like the giant tree featured in their Gladiator Games. Noble Cats do make a point of wearing spats for fashion's sake.
  • Fully-clothed barefooters in Tiny Toon Adventures include Babs Bunny, Hamton J. Pig, Shirley McLoon, and Rhubella Rat. Roderick Rat gies back and forth between this trope and Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal, depending on the episode.
  • Toot & Puddle. Toot and Puddle are pigs who both go barefoot. However, Dr. Ha Song, who is also a pig and Otto, a turtle, both wear footwear. There are other characters who are less anthropomorphic that also don't wear it, as they don't walk about on two legs like the other characters.
  • Junkyard, the humanoid mutant dog from Toxic Crusaders doesn't wear shoes.
  • Except for Keswick, almost all the major male characters in T.U.F.F. Puppy (which takes place in a World of Funny Animals) are usually seen barefoot but otherwise clothed. However, some of them (like main character Dudley) fit under the half-dressed category. Lampshaded in "Mom's Away", which has a gag about a kangaroo mom who can't find shoes to fit her huge feet.
  • Little Bits, a Cute Kitten introduced in the Wander over Yonder episode "The Stray", starts out as one, first appearing in a tattered dress and bare feet. When the characters enter rough desert terrain, Wander gives her his shoesnote  to protect her "poor exposed little footsies". In later appearances, she reverts to this trope when she wears clothes at all.
  • Darwin, the chimpanzee sidekick from The Wild Thornberrys. Eliza gave him clothes not long after they met, but Darwin still doesn’t wear shoes though.
  • In Wild West COW Boys Of Moo Mesa, the majority of the main cast and several background characters wear Western outfits without shoes or boots. Possibly a Justified Trope because they have hooves instead of paws.
  • Work It Out Wombats! takes place in a World of Funny Animals, none of whom wear any shoes.
  • Quite a few characters in Yin Yang Yo! go around without shoes, particularly the main three. Lampshaded in the episode "Worked Stiff"; Yang gets a job at an amusement park to get a pair of expensive shoes, then when Yin and Yo get them for him after he loses his job, he just throws them onto a power line, pointing out to Yin that he doesn't wear shoes.

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