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''"Everyone's probably looking at us, we're a ''15 foot tall man''."''|''[http://www.mastersoftheart.com/index.php Masters of the Art]''}}
Two or more children (or just short people) pile up, [[Human Ladder|one on another's shoulders]], and put a [[Conspicuous Trenchcoat]] (and usually a fedora hat) over this pyramid to make them look like an adult or a tall man. Usually a [[Paper
For a more specific form of this trope, look to [[Two Men One Dress]].
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A mechanical version would be [[Combining Mecha]].
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== Comic Strips ==
* ''[[Calvin and Hobbes (Comic Strip)|Calvin and Hobbes]]'': Once done by Calvin to get a ticket to a violent movie he was too young to see, using Hobbes as the top half of a [[Coat, Hat, Mask]] totem pole. The box office vendor, seeing Hobbes as a plush toy, [[Hilarity Ensues|was not convinced.]]
* One of Piraro's ''Bizarro'' comics shows a reporter addressing the camera, while in the background a mob of bemused interviewers crowd around two boys sitting on each other's shoulders: "Ladies and gentlemen, the leading candidate in this race has just been discovered to be a couple of kids in their dad's overcoat."
* A variation in the German strip ''Ottifanten'', which features [[Funny Animal|anthropomorphized elephants]]. Two kids try this trope, but since the lower one has his trunk sticking out, they're mistaken for a flasher.
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* In ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events|The Carniverous Carnival]]'', Violet and Klaus use this to pose as a two-headed person.
* [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[Discworld (Literature)|Discworld]]'':
** Done by a whole bunch of six inch-high Nac Mac Feegle in ''[[Discworld (Literature)/A Hat Full of Sky|A Hat Full of Sky]]''. Said Feegles uses the same trick in ''[[Discworld (Literature)/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 (Literature)/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 (Franchise)/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'' amused -- especially not McGonagall.
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{{quote| '''J.D.:''' We tried giant black doctor, Turk. People ran.}}
** 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
* ''[[The Whitest Kids U Know]]''
** A recent sketch took this to a ridiculous level, especially considering that the two guys in the trenchcoat (Trevor and Sam) are both well over six feet tall.
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** The Ingrid Twins did this in their first episode. The Ingrid who loved Cat confessed to him at the end of the episode that she wasn't really a tall girl by taking off her dress revealing her sister underneath.
** CatDog themselves have done this twice in the episode, "All You Can't Eat" in a montage of attempts to try to eat at Taco Depot. The first time, they were disguised as a cowboy; the second time, they were dressed like a woman.
* Performed by Bloo and Mac on a regular basis in ''[[
** First seen in the episode "Frankie My Dear".
{{quote| '''Old Man Winters:''' Your name is "Bloo"?<br />
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* ''[[Clone High]]'': In "A Shot in D'Arc," Napoleon and Taft use this disguise- with stilts, too- to try and score some points in a basketball game against their absurdly overpowered genetically engineered rivals. Funny because Taft is the top half.
* In one episode of ''[[Bonkers (Animation)|Bonkers]]'', Bonkers does this by himself using stilts to pose as Piquel's wife.
* ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy (Animation)|Ed, Edd n Eddy]]''
** 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.
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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 Blam! (Animation)|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 (Animation)|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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* On an episode of Saban's ''Adventures of Oliver Twist'', Oliver, Dodger and Charlie try to pose as aristocrats to sneak past guards to participate in a horse race competition. Oliver sat on Charlie's shoulders wearing a coat and hat. At first, the plan seemed to work, but it didn't last long when Charlie grabbed a handful of orderves, then he ran out of the disguise going on an eating rampage.
* On an episode of ''[[The Ren and Stimpy Show (Animation)|The Ren and Stimpy Show]]'', Ren and Stimpy disguise themselves as the wife of the house to sneak past an angry dog so Ren can snatch a sample of some of his favorite food. They were unsuccessful.
* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]''
** In the episode "Stare Master", Scootaloo stands on top of Apple Bloom with a bucket on her head and drapes a rug around them so that they could pretend to be a creature while Sweetie Bell chases them. In this case, they were trying to be "Creature Catchers" so they can try to get their cutie marks.
** In the episode, "Dragon Quest", Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash and Rarity disguise themselves as a dragon to check on Spike while he hangs out with the big dragons. Twilight was at the head of the costume standing on top of Rainbow Dash while Rarity posed as the hind quarters.
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