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** In "Downhill Johnny", Johnny and Dukey do this to sneak past the ski captain to shred the Bohemoth. The ski captain didn't buy it since numerous kids have already tried to fool him by doing that.
** In "Take Your Johnny to Work Day", Susan and Mary do this to sneak into a top secret lab, but they soon discover that Johnny and Dukey have done the exact same thing, and then, for some uknown reason, Johnny wanted to do a chicken fight with them.
* In ''[[The Fairly Odd ParentsOddParents]]'' episode "Love at First Height" A.J. and Chester do this in order to be tall enough to ride a Rollercoaster, however they end up being mistaken for an adult and get taken to Adult Land.
* Done frequently in the ''[[Scooby-Doo (animation)|Scooby Doo]]'' franchise, usually by Scooby and Shaggy (most of the time, Scooby is on top).
** In one episode, all five of the gang members stacked up to form a really tall ghost to try to scare away a couple monsters.
** In another episode, Scrappy did this with his friends, Duke and Annie, so they could sneak onto a subway by paying admission for just one person, but their trench coat came off just as soon as they passed the turnstyle.
** In the ''[[What's New, Scooby -Doo?]]'' episode, "Gentlemen, Start Your Monsters", {{spoiler|the culprit turned out to be Jimmy and his sister Cindy.}} Jimmy was on Cindy's shoulders in a jumpsuit.
* In an episode of ''[[The Flintstones]]'', Fred and Barney did it to try to sneak Barney out of an Arabian palace. Barney was the one underneath so that the others wouldn't recognize his face, but strangely, he didn't seem at all affected by Fred's weight.
* In an episode of ''[[The Jetsons]]'', George and Jane did it to sneak by two mysterious-looking men at a horse race using a trench coat they borrowed from a man who was sitting next to them.
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* This happened once on an episode of ''The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald''. On the video containing the episode, "Birthday World", Ronald has the Chicken McNuggets stand on top of each other and dresses them up as a weird-looking tree.
* In the ''[[Gumby]]'' short, "Wishful Thinking", Gumby and Pokey break into Prickle's house dressed as a ghost attempting to trick Prickle into telling them what he wished for on his birthday. Unfortunately, just as Prickle was about to tell them, Pokey lost his equilibrium causing Gumby to fall off his back and on top of Prickle. The fall caused Prickle to start screaming thinking the ghost had swallowed him.
* During a segment of "The Off-Beats" in an episode of ''[[Ka BlamKaBlam!|Ka Blam]]'', the five Off-Beats do this to surpass as the "president" with September as the head. They do this to try to fool the Populars into returning Betty-Ann's glasses. Since September had a very mature-sounding voice, the Populars bought it.
* In the ''[[South Park]]'' episode "Starvin' Marvin in Space", the boys do this and pretend to be Tom Brokaw so they can distract the government while Marvin boards his people onto the spacecraft. When Kyle makes a comment from inside the costume, Cartman at the head tries to cover by saying that he had some bad burritos today.
* In the ''[[Shaun the Sheep]]'' short, "Take-Away", Shaun and a couple of his sheep buddies do this using a trench coat they decloaked from a scarecrow so they could take the bus into town and buy pizzas for the entire flock. One of the rare instances where the trick actually succeeds.
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** In the episode "Hare Raising Night" Buster, Babs, Hampton, Plucky & Melvin the monster do this to look like they've been fused together by wearing a lab coat. Their cover was blown, however, when Plucky got too enthusiastic over Dr. Splicer taking their picture.
** In "Pluck' of the Irish", a beautiful lass reveals herself to be three leprechauns in disguise.
* On a Halloween special of ''[[Eek! theThe Cat]]'', Wendy and J.C. dress up as a giant chicken to go trick-or-treating, but even with the two of them stacked up, the costume was still too big for them. Eek attempted to solve the problem by making himself the head of the costume, which somewhat helped, but it wasn't long until he was suddenly flung out of the costume causing Wendy and J.C. to go the rest of the night as a headless chicken.
* In an episode of ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (animation)|Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers]]'', the Rangers disguised themselves as birds. Gadget stands on top of Monty, and Dale stands on top of Chip.
* Arnold & Gerald do this in the ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'' episode "Door #16".
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