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There is some [[Truth in Television]], [[The Dung Ages|as people used to rarely bathe or keep themselves clean.]] But as inventions such as electricity, indoor heating and indoor plumbing became more commonplace, walking around in a large layer of grime became rarer.
Named after the ''[[Peanuts]]'' character Pig-Pen, pictured right, who was always surrounded by a cloud of dust and has been seen going from "perfectly clean" to "covered in dust" while walking down the road or—most absurdly -- ''in a rainstorm''. Also see [[Men Can't Keep House]], [[Dirty Foreigner]]. A character who offsets bad hygiene with high intelligence is a [[Genius Slob]]. For vilains who are like this, see [[Uncleanliness Is Next to Ungodliness]].
Do not confuse with [[Dirty Kid]].
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== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* Obviously, Pig-Pen from ''[[Peanuts]]''. Charles Schulz disliked the character, because he was basically just one joke, but the character popularity's forced him to include Pig-Pen occasionally. One strip from the 1950s features a ''clean'' Pig-Pen. He looks weird. (It also doesn't last. This strip revealed that Pig-Pen's state isn't entirely his fault; it turns out he's a ''dirt magnet'': over the course of a couple frames, while standing still and ''not doing anything'', he goes from neat and clean to his usual appearance.)
* British newspaper strip ''[[The Perishers]]'' had Dirty McSquirty, sometimes called Saint Flies because flies kept circling his head like a halo. Pretty much a one-joke character. (His Cousin Worsoff was the proverbial person who's worse off than everyone else. Worsoff lived in the sewers and [[The Voice|was only heard, not seen]].)
* Al Capp's ''[[Li'l Abner|Lil Abner]]'' had [http://tinyurl.com/457r7d Moonbeam McSwine].
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* ''[[Beetlejuice (animation)|Beetlejuice]]'' in his cartoon was especially filthy.
* ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]''
** Patrick Star had a few traits of this, though they only become emphasized in later seasons. The worst was likely "The Ballad of Filthy Muck"; when SpongeBob asks him when the last time he bathed, Patrick couldn't remember that far back. He finally does decide to bathe after figuring out he'd likely never be allowed into the Krusty Krab again.
** In "The Battle of Bikini Bottom", this becomes a [[Compressed Vice]] and a motive for Patrick Star to pick up the [[Conflict Ball]] and turn against the suddenly scrupulous neat freak Spongebob, as they then waged a war of cleanliness vs. filth for 11 minutes.
*** They do a good job of implying that this isn't new, though; in one scene Spongebob removes Patrick's "jacket", only to discover that what has appeared to be his skin ever since the show started is actually ''a uniform layer of caked-on filth half an inch thick''. For Spongebob's part, well, he's an ambulatory kitchen sponge, what did you expect?
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* In the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]" episode "Hearts and Hooves Day", the song "The Perfect Stallion" briefly featured a filthy, smelly, fly-drawing stallion, whose cutie mark was a ''trash can''.
* In ''[[Amphibia (TV series)|Amphibia]]'', [[The Protagonist|Anne]] is almost always a disheveled mess (aside from a couple episodes where [[She Cleans Up Nicely]]); her hair has twigs and leaves in it, she hasn't gotten a lasting change of clothing since coming to Amphibia, and she's always missing a shoe (the missing one having been found by the [[Big Bad]], the initial reason [[Chekhov's Gun|he starts looking for her]]). While this could initially be attributed to her being a city girl having to "rough it" after being stuck here, it seems odd she is unwilling or unable to find a way to bathe or acquire a change of clothes in Wartwood, seeing as lack of running water and electricity don't make this a problem for the natives.
* Beach Head in ''[[G.I. Joe|G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero]]''; you couldn't tell by looking at him, but he has very bad hygiene, admitting to not using deoderant. Mainframe learns this the hard way when they take cover in a coffin to survive a cave-in, and it takes the other Joes several hours to dig them out.
== [[Real Life]] ==
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