Coincidental Accidental Disguise: Difference between revisions

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* When [[Scamp]] gets chased off for jumping in someone's yard, Tramp decides to go after him into the "Haunted" house. Having discovered that the shoe he's hidden in has holes in the bottom, Scamp decides to continue his jumping practice from inside the shoe, which gives Tramp the impression that the boot is moving due to a ghost. Eventually, Scamp jumps his boot into some white wash, which gives Tramp a second fright when Scamp comes home entirely white.

 

 

== Fan Fiction ==

 

 

** 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).

* In ''It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie'', Fozzie, while carrying a bag of money to the bank, accidentally gets painted green and is mistaken for The Grinch.

* In the opening scene of ''[[Hot Shots]]'' a pilot miraculously survives the mid-air destruction of his fighter, only to be shot by hunters as he now bears an uncanny resemblance to a moose, thanks to some sticks that have become stuck on his helmet.

** [[Artistic License History|The Nazis actually]] [[Did Not Do the Research|despised the ]][[Even Evil Has Standards|Ku Klux Klan]], [[They Just Didn't Care|but who cares]]?

* In ''[[Mean Girls]]'', Cady walks in on Janice and Damien while wearing her Halloween costume, and this trope happens. She's supposed to be dressed up as--in her words--an 'ex-wife', but Janice and Damien were currently watching a horror movie and lightning and thunder just happened to crash as Cady walked in.

* In ''[[Schtonk]]!'', the satire about the faked Hitler diaries, the counterfeiter is sitting at his work while wearing an old Wehrmacht coat. He has a fever, and his sweaty hair sticks to his forehead. Then he spills some ink, cleans it up with his handkerchief, sneezes, cleans his nose and unwillingly leaves a spot looking like a Hitler moustache. And then, his partner in crime comes in and tells him that people want proof that the diaries were written by noone but Hitler himself. Cue the counterfeiter looking into a mirror.

* Pretty much the plot of the [[Laurel and Hardy]] 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.

** 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 ''[[The Muppet Movie]]'', 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 [[Wallpaper Camouflage|pull up in front of it so they can hide.]]

** Another Seinfeld episode culminates in Kramer carrying a cane, wearing Joseph's Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, donning a woman's hat, and to complete the effect, having an altercation with a woman on the street, leading to his being mistaken for a Pimp.

* In one episode of the ''[[Dick Van Dyke Show]]'', 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.

* The dressed-as Hitler-variation happened in one episode of ''[[Childrens Hospital]]''. 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 though).

* In the 30Rock 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 [[The Dark Knight|heavy eyeshadow, a green sweater-vest, a pink gym bag, checkered socks and a worn purple overcoat.]]

 

== Music ==

 

 

 

== Video Games ==

** You have the option of English or Spanish for this. Yes, even being confused and unaware of what's going on.

* In the first ''[[Space Quest]]'' game, setting up this kind of situation is required in order to progress. Roger Wilco needs to hide in a washer/dryer, get caught in the cycle, and emerges in one of the evil alien uniforms.

 

== Webcomics ==

** [[Alt Text]] implies that this is not the first instance of such a [[Coincidental Accidental Disguise]].

** There was also the second Halloween arc, where Riff's redesigning the fog machine to run on Rogaine caused him and Torg to sprout hair all over their bodies, just in time for the first of the many annual demons from the Dimension of Pain to show up and ask the 'werewolves' how to find Torg.

 

 

== Western Animation ==

* Happened also in ''[[Camp Lazlo]]'', 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.

** Another example from ''The Simpsons'' would be the [[Horrible Camping Trip]] episode where Homer ends up in his underwear, covered in mud and mistaken for Bigfoot.

** Also, Homer ends up covered in green paint, and goes [[The Incredible Hulk|wild with rage]], in front of special guest [[Stan Lee]]. ("I Am Furious, Yellow.")

** Also happens to Marge in one episode, in which a series of mishaps leave her looking like a stereotypical witch.

* In ''[[Catscratch]]'', a type of this happens, where Gordon has a violent allergic reaction to broccoli (that he doesn't notice), which coincidentally makes him look exactly like the monster from a movie his brothers were watching. Later, Gordon has a different reaction to chocolate, which makes him looks like another monster from a comic book his brothers were reading.

* Cartoons often have a character being wrapped in toilet paper and looking like a mummy, such as [[The Fairly Odd Parents|Timmy Turner]] in "Scary Godparents" and [[Phineas and Ferb|Candace Flynn]] in "Are You My Mummy?"

* Every ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' short featuring Pepe LePew involved Penelope the cat accidentally getting a white stripe on her back somehow.

** Notable exception: 1959's "Really Scent" 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.

** There's also the episode where Goofy decided to become a [[Street Performer|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. [[Hilarity Ensues]].

* ''[[The Penguins of Madagascar]]'', "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.

* Can anyone even ''count'' the number of times this happened to Shaggy (or Scooby) on ''[[Scooby Doo]]''?

** There was also the episode, ''Krab Borg'', where Spongebob mistook Mr. Krabs for a robot. At first, Squidward didn't believe his ramblings, but after seeing Mr. Krabs with piercing red eyes (due to getting salt in his eyes), a pair of tongs in his claw (mistaken for metal pinchers) and two batteries in his back pocket (from his radio that broke and the batteries were in his pocket cause he planned to give them to Pearl for Christmas), he starts to believe Spongebob.

** Another example is ''Squidward the Unfriendly Ghost''. Spongebob and Patrick accidentally melt a model of Squidward that they mistook for the real one, and while they were panicking about saving it, the REAL Squidward comes out of his bathroom, covered in white powder from fixing himself up, and naturally, Bob and Pat freak out and vow to do anything for Squid's "ghost" in apology. Eventually turns into [[Stop Helping Me!]] on his part, especially by the time they try to [[Buried Alive|bury his "ghost".]]

* In the ''[[Care Bears|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 ''The Bear That Wasn't'', a bear ends up on a construction site with a cigarette in its mouth and holding a cup of coffee. No one can see through the [[Paper-Thin Disguise]] and they insist he's "a silly man who needs a shave and wears a fur coat" no matter how much the bear protests.

* In one ''[[Maryoku Yummy]]'' 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 ''[[Drawn Together]]'', through a series of coincidences (illness, pranks, the job wheel), Wooldoor ends up looking like a ''very'' stereotypical Hasidic Jew. This is [[Crosses the Line Twice|Drawn]] [[Refuge in Audacity|Together]] of course, so [[Hilarity Ensues]].

== Real Life ==

* [[Truth in Television]]: A large man reported taking a trip to China while bright red all over from a sunburn, which would have made him resemble the Buddhist lord of the underworld and judge of souls, Yama in Chinese and Enma in Japanese. He scared small children.

** There's also an anecdote about [[Kane Hodder]] (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.

* [[Christopher Lee]] alarmed an elderly Italian couple when he knocked on their door in the middle of the night, covered in blood from a car accident. They'd been watching him play ''[[Dracula]]'' not long before.