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* Haley Long in ''[[American Dragon: Jake Long]]''. She doesn't have the bow, but when she transforms, she always has her hair. Though this seems to be true for all the characters when they transform, male or female, her dragon form is also ''pink''. When Fu Dog is showed macking on a female dog, she usually has a bow, lipstick, and/or a sparkly collar. Hey, Fu digs the girly-girls.

* [[Care Bears]] come in all colors - though a female Bear's fur tends to be more noticeably pastel. And nearly all of the pink-furred characters are female by default. In some series, they even wear girlie clothes too. (Note that this applies to cases where [[Viewer Gender Confusion|the writers had made up their minds]] as to who was what.)

* There's an episode of ''[[The Fairly ~~Odd Parents~~]]'' where Timmy wishes everyone would look exactly the same. Everyone turns into a gray blob... and the female characters have ''gray lipstick'' and heavy eyelashes. In one episode, Timmy accidentally wished he was a girl... and was [[Attractive Bent Gender|turned into a girl]] with a ponytail, a bow, eyelashes, lipstick, a blouse, and a skirt.

* There's an episode of ''[[The Fairly OddParents]]'' where Timmy wishes everyone would look exactly the same. Everyone turns into a gray blob... and the female characters have ''gray lipstick'' and heavy eyelashes. In one episode, Timmy accidentally wished he was a girl... and was [[Attractive Bent Gender|turned into a girl]] with a ponytail, a bow, eyelashes, lipstick, a blouse, and a skirt.

* In their heyday, the [[Looney Tunes]] inadvertently became the [[Talking Animal]] equivalent of a sausage party. Over the years, attempts were made to add some ladies into the cast for a more even gender balance. The results were... mixed:

** Babs Bunny in ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'' has the eyelashes, the bow (one for each of her ears, in fact), and a skirt, and her fur is bubble-gum pink. Similar tells are on Shirley the Loon (long hair/feathers, a dress, and a bow) and Fifi LaFume (a bow and purple fur). The good news is, their personalities were strong enough to transcend these obvious cues.

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* Very subtly done in ''[[Happy Feet]]''. The female Emperor penguins have purple undersides under their beaks and males have orange. The females also have their chest feathers shaped to vaguely resemble breasts.

* In ''[[Animaniacs]]'', Dot has a yellow flower around her ears (which sometimes appears with a pink bow), a pink skirt and on fancy occasions wears a pink dress and matching jewellery. She also has tufts of fur from the side of her face that make her look like she has a pixie-like haircut. Rita the cat has eyelashes, as does Slappy Squirrel, who also has a hat with a flower on it. On the male side, Yakko and Wakko have shorter hair than Dot, with Yakko wearing pants (oversized slacks with a large belt) and Wakko not, although he does wear a [[Pink Girl, Blue Boy|blue]] sweater and red baseball cap. The Hip Hippos also had a [[Pink Girl, Blue Boy]] color scheme.

* Inverted in the series ''[[~~What a Mess|~~What-a-Mess]]''. Well-groomed Afghan Hounds naturally have long hair on their heads, and long hair that tends to make them look like they're wearing fancy clothes. Despite all this, the Afghan Hound protagonist, What-a-Mess, is a male dog. However, this trope is played straight with the cat, Felicia. She has long eyelashes and a bow.

* Inverted in the series ''[[What-a-Mess]]''. Well-groomed Afghan Hounds naturally have long hair on their heads, and long hair that tends to make them look like they're wearing fancy clothes. Despite all this, the Afghan Hound protagonist, What-a-Mess, is a male dog. However, this trope is played straight with the cat, Felicia. She has long eyelashes and a bow.

* In kids' show ''Dive Olly Dive'', the female submarine has curly eyelashes, pink eyeshadow, and a ''heart-shaped headlight''.

* Christmas special, [[Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer]] (the stop animation one) has Claurice, a doe that Rudolph is attracted to. How do we know Claurice is female? Well, she has no antlers for one thing, but she also has lighter fur, eyelashes and a bow on her head. Yup, definitely a female deer.

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* Human babies. Without their little pink or blue onesies, they're relentlessly [[Ambiguous Gender|androgynous]].

** They have actually done several social experiments with this. The point of the experiment was to show how people treat girl and boy children differently. Each time they would just use one baby and just give it different clothes (pink and bows for a girl, blue and maybe a sports shirt for a boy). No one could tell the difference.

{{quote|"[[Monty Python's The Meaning of Life|Is it a boy or a girl, doctor?]]"

"[[Monty Python's The Meaning of Life|I think it's a little early to start assigning gender roles, don't you?]]" }}

** To many observers, a frilly ''blanket'' implies that the baby's a girl, even if the blanket is blue.

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