Basic Trope: A Funny Animal has either pants or a shirt, never both.
- Straight: Alice the Alligator wears a shirt, but does not wear pants.
- Exaggerated: Alice wears a single accessory, such as a hat or scarf, but never a shirt or pants. Or vise-versa.
- Downplayed:
- Barefoot Cartoon Animal.
- Alice also wears a skirt over her lower half, but has nothing under the skirt.
- Alice doesn't wear a shirt with her skirt, but since she's a reptile, she has no reason to.
- Justified:
- Alice feel that pants get in the way of her tail, and goes bottomless for comfort.
- Alice wants to wear pants, but ones made for her body shape are very difficult to find.
- Alice's specifically being an alligator as opposed to another species means that her cloaca is under the base of her thick tail; her groin is featureless when viewed from the front. She does still get embarrassed if someone sees under her tail, but it's much less likely for that to happen by accident.
- Inverted: Alice is fully dressed, but her human friends are only partially clothed.
- Subverted: Alice wears Alligator-print pants.
- Double Subverted: ...on certain occasions.
- Parodied:
- Alice has a magic cloaca that hates pants.
- A human tries to dress as their favorite cartoon animal character by not wearing any pants.
- Zig-Zagged:
- As part of her Unlimited Wardrobe, Alice sometimes wears pants, and sometimes does not.
- The series is set in a World of Funny Animals. Depending on the individual character, characters may wear anything from nothing at all, to some accessories, to only a shirt or pants, to being otherwise fully dressed but wearing no shoes, or wearing a full outfit.
- Averted: Alice is fully dressed at every occasion.
- Enforced:
- With how large alligator tails are compared to most animals, the character designer could not figure out how to draw Alice with pants where her tail wasn't just illogically clipping through.
- No pants = less detail to draw = faster and cheaper to draw.
- Lampshaded: "You're one to talk about my fashion sense, Alice! You don't even wear pants!"
- Invoked: Alice knows anthropomorphic animals are seen as “kiddy”, so goes bottomless to challenge that stereotype.
- Exploited:
- Alice knows she has no pants on, and tells her human friends to try it out.
- Alice's brother Bob the Alligator is in a fight. Unfortunately for him, his state of dress gives his opponent a very clear target.
- Defied:
- “Get me some pants! NOW!”
- Alice wears (or designs) pants that are able to fit her tail by allowing her tail to fit through an adjustable hole in the back.
- Discussed: “Alice has no pants on! Now of only the laws of TV land applied to us.”
- Conversed: “You ever noticed that Alice has no pants on?”
- Implied:
- Alice is drawn in a very simplistic art style where a design on her chest indicates that she's probably wearing a shirt, but the point where her shirt ends and her body begins isn't clear.
- Alice is never seen onscreen, but other characters say she "never wears any pants".
- Deconstructed: A blizzard hits, and Alice, despite wearing a coat and mittens, is still in danger of getting frostbite on her entire lower body.
- Reconstructed: Claire the rabbit, on the other hand, has fur covering her lower half and therefore is kept warm.
- Played for Laughs:
- Alice tries to put on pants, but she can't get them up past her tail and falls on her face.
- Alice averts her eyes when another character loses their clothes.
- Alice loses her shirt as well and frantically covers her groin.
- When getting out of the shower or bath, Alice wears a Modesty Towel around her lower half... despite having nothing there anyway.
- Played for Drama: Alice has to deal with a Peeping Tom looking up her non-existent skirt.
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