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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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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Moyashimon]]'', when we first see Aoi Mutō she's absolutely filthy and covered in germs, including a number of food poisoning pathogens. However, this is just because she's just gotten back from a long sojourn across Eurasia, and didn't exactly have a lot of opportunities to bathe and change her clothes.
* ''[[Dragon Ball]]'' - In the first tournament arc, Krillin faces off against Bacterian, a huge fat guy whose main superpower is the unbearable stench emanating from his person due to the fact that he supposedly has never bathed once in his entire life. {{spoiler|Krillin eventually manages to beat him when he's reminded by Goku that ''he doesn't have a nose'', and thus can't smell him.}}
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* Megumi Noda from the manga, anime ''and'' [[Live Action Adaptation]] of ''[[Nodame Cantabile]]'' is a piano prodigy with a slovenly life style and personal habits, whose apartment is practically a garbage heap.
== [[Comic Books]] ==▼
▲== Comic Books ==
* The Mess was a joke character who tried to join [[The Legion of Super Heroes]]. His power was the ability to attract dirt.
* Smudge (Cascão) from the Brazilian comic ''[[Monica's Gang]]'' (''Turma da Mônica'') had as his personal gimmick the fact he ''never'' took a shower. ''Ever'', since he was born. An early comic strip implies Smudge took a bath as a Mother's Day gift, a cover of his comic book once shown him washing his hands... and in the [[Spinoff Babies|spinoff teenagers]] series, he bathes once in a while. Though he's still not quite into it, as he himself once said:
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* The Sergeant from ''[[Sturmtruppen]]''. To give an example, he doesn't know why the bath tub is full of water or what's soap, and after being washed is revealed that he lost roughly 7 pounds of filth.
== [[Film]] ==▼
▲== Film ==
* Scores of peasants in ''[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail]]''. "He must be a king... [[The Dung Ages|he hasn't got shit all over him]]."
* ''[[Beetlejuice]]''.
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* [[Michelle Rodriguez]] in practically every movie she does.
== [[Literature]] ==▼
▲== Literature ==
* ''[[The Belgariad]]''
** Beldin, although that was a side effect of his main trait (ugliness), rather than his main trait itself: He just didn't care about his appearance, and he rejected civilized behavior to the extent that he'd pour food out of a bowl onto the ground to eat it.
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* ''[[The Twits]]''{{context}}
▲== Live Action TV ==
* Oscar the Grouch from ''[[Sesame Street]]'' lives in a garbage can.
* ''[[Callan]]'' had Lonely, so called because he never took a bath. As well as being the best informer in London, he made great coffee.
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* In an episode of ''[[Law & Order: Special Victims Unit]]'', [[Sick, Sad Subculture of the Week|a gamer couple]] are facing charges of abusing their daughter. Benson notes that they haven't showered in awhile.
== [[Music]] ==▼
* [[Ke$ha]]'s https://web.archive.org/web/20131030064100/http://www.cracked.com/funny-4433-ke24ha/ stage persona/public image] involves wearing makeup and glitter in such a way they resemble filth, and having unkempt, unwashed-looking hair. ([[She Cleans Up Nicely]], though.) She also has a [[Tumblr]] dedicated to pictures of [http://putyourbeardinmymouth.tumblr.com/ men putting their beards in her mouth].▼
▲== Music ==
▲* [[Ke$ha]]'s http://www.cracked.com/funny-4433-ke24ha/ stage persona/public image] involves wearing makeup and glitter in such a way they resemble filth, and having unkempt, unwashed-looking hair. ([[She Cleans Up Nicely]], though.) She also has a [[Tumblr]] dedicated to pictures of [http://putyourbeardinmymouth.tumblr.com/ men putting their beards in her mouth].
* In "Another One Rides the Bus," [["Weird Al" Yankovic]] briefly mentions a passenger who "hasn't showered in a year."
* Murdoc of [[Gorillaz]] is notoriously [[Uncleanliness Is Next to Ungodliness|unhygienic]].
== [[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.) ▼
▲== Newspaper Comics ==
▲* Obviously, Pig-Pen from ''[[Peanuts]]''. Charles Schulz disliked the character, because he was basically just one joke, but character popularity forced him to include Pig-Pen occasionally. One strip from the 1950s features a ''clean'' Pig-Pen. He looks weird.
* 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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* James in ''[[One Big Happy]]'' invariably looks this way.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==▼
▲== Tabletop Games ==
* Followers of Nurgle in ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' and ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' take pride in being physically filthy and disease-ridden (morally filthy to boot).
** Not really. Good and evil are very relative things in Warhammer. They're actually the nicest people in the setting, it's just that their way of showing it involves turning other people into this, and often with fatal results.
== [[Video Games]] ==▼
▲== Video Games ==
* ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'' has hippies that come in three main varieties: dirty, filthy, and crusty. Ew.
* Oghren from ''[[Dragon Age]].'' He's got the personality to match.
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* The Gelato Man from ''[[Alpha Protocol]]''. Mike quips that he's at risk from catching salmonella just from looking at his establishment. {{spoiler|It helps keep down the customers and thus hide the NSA listening post in his shop.}}
* Lyle from ''[[Achewood]]''.
* Black Mage from ''[[8-Bit Theater|Eight Bit Theater]]''. He repeatedly claims that the smell is his spell components, but nobody buys it.
* Pauline from ''[[Our Little Adventure]]'' apparently 'smells like a really good salad bar.'
* Sylvester from ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20090925111512/http://www.agameoffools.com/comic_57.html A Game of Fools]''.
{{quote|'''Katie''': Yeah, Sylvester's always had rather... unique ideas about personal hygene.}}
== [[Web Original]] ==
▲== Web Original ==
* The Poopsmith from ''[[Homestar Runner]]'', due to his job.
** Coach Z's hygiene seems to be rather suspect as well.
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* Phlegm of the [[Whateley Universe]], whose main characteristic seems to be that he's always covered in a couple inches of, well, mucus. And it oozes out of his clothing.
== [[Western Animation]] ==▼
* Phil and Lil from ''[[Rugrats]]'' loved to play in mud and garbage, and ate worms. They ate anything they could get their hands on. Lil eventually grew out of her habits
▲== Western Animation ==
▲* Phil and Lil from ''[[Rugrats]]'' loved to play in mud and garbage, and ate worms. They ate anything they could get their hands on. Lil eventually grew out of her habits but as of ''[[All Grown Up!]]'' Phil is the same.
* While it was not her most [[Cute Bruiser|notable]] [[Badass|characteristic]], Toph from ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' liked to walk around in "a healthy coating of earth," partly because she was an Earthbender, partly to rebel against her posh parents.
* [[Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels|Captain Caveman]] is a big hairy ball of filth.
* ''[[South Park]]'' had Dogpoo, an obvious [[Shout-Out]] to Pig-Pen.
* ''[[Beetlejuice (animation)|Beetlejuice]]'' in his cartoon was especially filthy.
* ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]''
* In ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'', Patrick Star picked up the [[Conflict Ball]] when he gained the status of Pig-Pen as a [[Compressed Vice]]. He turned against suddenly scrupulous neat freak Spongebob and they waged a war of cleanliness vs. filth for 11 minutes.▼
** 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.
** 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?▼
▲** In
* One episode of ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'' had Buttercup refusing to take a bath. She got so filthy that the townsfolk chased her with [[Torches and Pitchforks]]. Even the [[Monster of the Week]] refused to fight her. ''That's'' what forced her to clean up.▼
▲*** 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?
* ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'' has recurring background character [[Meaningful Name|Harry Pitt]], who actually got his own episode in "Cootie Gras", albeit for somewhat unrelated reasons.
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* ''[[Mucha Lucha]]'' had The Flea, whose special wrestling move was really bad odor. His outfit is actually white, but his lifestyle is so dirty it's become consistently brown all over.
* Russel from ''[[Stickin' Around]]'', who emitted a "funky smell" at all times.
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* Ian "Eww-an" Wazselewski from ''[[Teacher's Pet (TV series)|Teachers Pet]]''.
* One of the episodes of ''[[Fanboy and Chum Chum]]'' deals with Fanboy trying to beat a record on going for the longest time without a bath. The trope was brought [[Up to Eleven]] in this case - his costume got so incredibly dirty, it came to life and gained the personality of a mobster called Stinks.
* One episode of ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
* It is implied several times that Bill from ''[[King of the Hill]]'' has very poor hygiene and lives in very filthy conditions almost never cleaning up after himself, this us mainly due to being depressed after his divorce from Lenore.
* [[Giant Mook]] Greasepit from ''[[Biker Mice From Mars]]'' has some kind of mutation where he literally sweats motor oil & grease from his pores constantly. He makes a major mess wherever he goes, and often ends up tripping or causing others to trip because of the slime he drips all over the place.
* ''[[Edgar and Ellen]]''. One time in the animated series, Ellen got sprayed with an anti-bug formula, which made a bunch of bugs come jumping out of her hair.
* 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 [[
* 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]] ==
* In early Middle Ages, the people surprisingly ''weren't'' this at least to the extent seen today, as public baths were an important social function to all classes of the society. After a while the church found out that prostitution was practiced in them, and some doctors connected (partially correctly) some of the epidemics to communal bathing. As result, washing yourself came considered to be both immoral and unhealthy well into the 18th, or even 19th century.
** Regular bathing was also seen as the preserve of Moors, Turks and Jews and not something a proper Christian should really be doing, especially in those areas of Europe which had direct contact with Islam. In Aragon and Castile, bathing was one of the excuses by which a person in high society could be brought before the Inquisition... [[Poke the Poodle|and likely be forced into re-education.]] So if you were on the wrong side of the Monarchy, you might well find yourself [[Morton's Fork|choosing between cleanliness and public humiliation as a heretic.]]
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