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{{quote|''"We're not clear yet, I think the bouncer is still looking at us."''
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** Done by a whole bunch of six inch-high Nac Mac Feegle in ''[[Discworld/A Hat Full of Sky|A Hat Full of Sky]]''. Said Feegles uses the same trick in ''[[Discworld/Wintersmith|Wintersmith]]''. It helps that, although everyone notices how weird they look, whenever someone tells them to get lost they just start [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money|waving around scads of money.]]
** In ''[[Discworld/Moving Pictures|Moving Pictures]]'', the ticket lady at the movie theater suspects one of the wizards of being this, when she spots his (fake!) false beard.
* Slytherin students use this to impersonate dementors in ''[[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban|Harry Potter]]''. Knowing why the culprits are doing this (Harry is afraid of dementors), the teachers are ''not''
* A similar trick was used unsuccessfully in ''[[Welkin Weasels]]: Thunder Oak'', involving nine ferrets in a human-sized suit of armor.
* In the children's novel ''Down Town'', Cary's first uncanny encounter is with an apparent bag lady. The accompanying illustration makes it clear that this is actually a whole lot of tiny humanoid creatures dressed up in old clothes.
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* 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.
{{quote|'''Esther:''' Did we ever find out exactly what's wrong with Mr. Manuel?}}
* 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
* 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.
* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' brings us "[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Dr. Bunwig McTwodudes]]", consisting of two adult men (though they sure aren't acting like it) and a bonus rabbit. [[It Makes Just As Much Sense in Context]]; they really don't have much of a reason to use a disguise like that. Since they're ''not'' short, the "doctor" ends up being very tall, though at least Riff is sitting on Torg's shoulders, not standing.
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** Though they did it straight (with a twist) in one episode; after Comic Book Guy bans Bart and Milhouse from his store, Homer attempts to sneak them in by donning a trenchcoat and riding on their shoulders, identifying himself to a skeptical C.B.G. as ''Shaquille O'Neal''.
** Another episode has, in the midst of several people admitting to not really being Native American, one guy who is really just 2 midgets in a costume.
** Another episode shows that the security standards at the power plant are disturbingly low: an X-ray scanner at the plant's entrance reveals two people with guns and one person to be two kids in a
* Taken to extremes in the ''[[Drawn Together]]'' [[Something Completely Different|episode]] [[The One With...|where they were]] [[Spinoff Babies|all babies]]. In the same episode the doctor was [[Dressed to Heal|four babies in a lab coat]].
* In the ''[[Family Guy]]'' episode "Prick Up Your Ears", Peter and Lois have to sneak into the school auditorium to crash the abstinence lecture. Naturally, Peter has an idea. Cut to an incredibly tall man with a fat head wearing a really long trench coat and high heels. Then it pans over to [[Bait and Switch|Peter telling Lois that this man was big enough for them to sneak in behind]].
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* 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.
{{quote|"We should have gone in before that other guy."}}
* Inverted by ''Dick Spanner'' in a scene where
{{quote|"What the goons didn't realize was, under the coat I was walkin' on my knees."}}
* ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]''
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