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* ''[[Yotsuba&!]]'': Yotsuba and Jumbo do this, with Jumbo's shirt serving as trenchcoat. Given Jumbo's [[Gentle Giant|size]] and [[Adult Child|maturity]], it sorta counts. Certainly, [[Cool Big Sis|Asagi]] is willing to play along.

* A variation of this was done on ''[[Digimon]]'', though this one falls more under [[The Worm That Walks]]. In one episode, Davis tries to trick Veemon into Digivolving, and he does it by having a huge group of Numemon and Redvegimon pile up on each other wearing a costume that they put together. It was kind of obvious that the costume was not very well-patched, and the Numemon's eyes were clearly visible in some spots.

'''Veemon:''' I think he needs to see an eye doctor! }}

* Done frequently by Spritle and Chim Chim in ''[[Speed Racer]]''

* There exists a fanart on [[Deviant ART]] that shows [[Phineas and Ferb]] performing this.

* Calvin performs a singular variant using stilts in ''[[Calvin and Hobbes: The Series]]''. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] shortly afterwards:

 

 

* In the ''[[Babar]]'' movie Babar, Celeste, and Zephir try to get past some rhinos by piling up on top of each other and wrap up in cloak, while Zephir puts a banana in his mouth. They would've succeeded, too, if Zephir hadn't gotten too enthusiastic.

* In ''[[Madagascar]]'', Mason and Phil, the two chimpanzees, are caught doing this in the train station.

* In Disney's version of ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'', Esmeralda is known for doing this to hide from the soldiers. She does this by carrying Djali on her shoulders and wrapping a blanket around them so they could pass as an old man.

* A variation of this was done on ''[[The Land Before Time]]''. Towards the end of the film, Littlefoot, Spike, Ducky and Petrie get stuck in a tar pit while Cera is being chased by a herd of Pachycephalosaurus. The other four suddenly appear stacked up and covered with tar, and they unintentionally save her by scaring the Pachycephalosaurus' away, but Cera tells them [[Blatant Lies|that they didn't fool her.]]

* ''[[Scrubs]]''

** J.D. often enlists Turk to help him masquerade as "the world's most giant doctor". The punchline is that there really ''is'' a giant doctor at Sacred Heart, who punctuates these scenes by complaining about J.D. borrowing his coat without permission.

** He also attempts a triple giant doctor, with Elliot on the bottom and Lonnie in the middle. It doesn't go very well.

* Done once in ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]''. After the Rangers get turned into little kids, several of them get caught at a disaster scene and are taken back to the police station. [[The Chick|Kat]] and [[The Hero|Tommy]] pretend to be [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IboClzWBusQ& Billy's mom] so that they'll be let go. It helps that the police officer they talked to [[Blind Without'Em|couldn't see very well]].

* ''[[First Of The Summer Wine]]'': Two guys are shown doing this at the very end of the episode, "Ain't Love Dangerous".

* Done in an episode of ''[[That's So Raven]]'' with Cory and Stanley.

* Discussed in ''[[Castle]]''. One victim happens to have just run a con on a first-grade classroom; forensic evidence says that his murderer was between 5'3" and 6' tall, so the cops conclude that the first-graders probably couldn't have done it unless they were using this trope.

* This occurs on an episode of ''[[Honey I Shrunk the Kids (TV series)|Honey I Shrunk the Kids]]''. On an episode that parodies a famous ''[[Three Stooges]]'' short, Nick and his friend, Joel, do this wearing a long trench coat, a hat and a fake beard, and they do this to sneak into a wrestling arena to try to help Wayne and police chief Jake. Joel brings along his accordion and tries to play "Pop! Goes the Weasel" to see if Jake could hear it and fight better so he could win.

** In ''[[Muppets from Space]]'', the Muppets in Gonzo's rescue party do this to disguise themselves as doctors, at one point getting a weird look from a real doctor. Kermit stands on top of Fozzie and Pepe stands on top of Miss Piggy.

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bPjUz9X8I8 Done again in] [[The Muppets (film)|the 2011 movie]], with Fozzie and five other Muppets each operating one limb of a human disguise to sneak into Miss Piggy's office.

* In the [[Jim Henson]] TV special, ''The Tale of the Bunny Picnic'', all of the bunnies dress up as a giant bunny to try to scare away the dog who was ruining their picnic. This part was actually discussed by the characters throughout the special's climax.

* In an episode of ''[[Fraggle Rock]]'', the main fraggles use a cloak to disguise themselves as Sir Hubris so the can get the gorgs to leave forever.

* In [http://www.itswalky.com/d/20020210.html this] ''[[Its Walky]]'' strip, Joyce and Dina use a more specific version to pretend to be Jason.

* In [http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20070105 this] ''[[Scary Go Round]]'' strip, two goblins disguise themselves as a human teacher, using this method.

* In ''[[Minion]]'', the Knight that came to slay the Dark Witch Meryl was in fact [[Tagalong Kid|Rico and Ellaine]] wearing a helm and a cloak. It's a good thing the [[Glamor Failure|cloak blew open]] when it did, since the Knight had by that point hit several of Meryl's [[Berserk Button|Berserk Buttons]] and she was about a second away from blasting "him" into cinders.

* In [http://roosterteeth.com/comics/strip.php?id=2018&page=1 this strip] from [[Rooster Teeth]], four kids dress as two adults to help develop a new video game.

* Performed by Bloo and Mac on a regular basis in ''[[Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends|Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends]]''

** First seen in the episode "Frankie My Dear".

'''Bloo:''' [[British Accents|Er-hem, hem]]. Please call my by my first name... {{spoiler|[[Incredibly Lame Pun|Orlando]]}}. }}

** Bloo also did it once with Coco and Wilt to pose as a giant warrior of some kind and fight against Eduardo.

** In the episode "Who? What? Where? Ed?", the Eds are caught in [[Chain of Deals|an elaborate trading sequence]] worthy of ''The Legend of Zelda'', which leads them at one point to need to procure an anchor. They try to disguise themselves to steal one from the Kanker sisters, by standing on each other's shoulders and wearing a trenchcoat. Things go moderately well until, midway through the conversation, [[The Ditz|Ed]] sticks his head out of the trenchcoat and shouts "I am the legs!"

** In another episode ("Ed... Pass It On"), Eddy spreads rumors around the cul-de-sac that his brother's returning. At the end of the episode, Sarah and Jimmy disguise themselves as Eddy's brother to try to scare the Eds. While the costume does fall apart, Ed still believed that they were Eddy's brother.

* Parodied by ''[[League of Super Evil]]'', where an attempt by the main characters to try such a ruse in order to get into a fancy restaurant fails, mainly because there is a person right in front of them who happens to look just like them in their disguise.

* Inverted by ''Dick Spanner'' in a scene where Dick -- who, as a robotic Marlowe-style PI, naturally wears a trenchcoat and fedora at all times -- must get into a "smalls-only" establishment with a ''maximum'' height limit:

* ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]''

** In "Candy is Dandy", the girls talk to Mojo Jojo and try to talk him into committing more crimes so that they could take him out and bust him out of jail on a regular basis so that the mayor can reward them with more candy. During this scene, the girls were stacked up and wearing a trench coat and fedora so that nobody else in Townsville will notice it's them talking with Mojo. Mojo was also wearing a trench coat and fedora in this scene just to be extra cautious.