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All Cloth Unravels
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It's a law of cartoon physics (occasionally crossing over into live-action) that anything made of cloth can unravel into a single thread as though it were knitted like a sweater. Obviously more realistic (if you care about that kind of thing) when it involves an actual sweater, but even then unraveling a sweater typically isn't as easy as pulling on a random loose thread. A variation of this trope concerns undoing a mummy's wrapping this way, usually causing the mummy to spin. Of course, this has the same problem in that a mummy isn't covered by one single long wrapping any more than a shirt is made of one single thread. In especially cartoonish examples, this also applies to an animal's fur or feathers. Related to Clothing Damage and The Nudifier. Compare Stripping Snag when a piece of clothing gets stuck somewhere and is subsequently ripped off. Only metaphorically related to Pull the Thread. Occasionally combined with Giving Them the Strip. |
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In Kirby's Epic Yarn, the entire world is made of cloth and fabric, so this trope is used to disintegrate a few enemies. | |
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The mummy variant happens in The Mr. Men Show episode "Science", courtesy of Mr. Quiet and his vacuum cleaner. The mummy in question promptly has a Naked Freak-Out and slams his sarcophagus shut. | |
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It happens to Turbo's poncho in Lift-Off. Unlike other examples, however, they are able to get Ricardo to repair it before too much damage is done. | |
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In Change 123, Hibiki leaps off a bridge onto a truck. A thread from her sweater gets caught on the bridge railing, unraveling her entire sweater. Later becomes an awkward moment when her primary persona opens her coat... | |
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Used in The Simpsons parody of Face/Off, where two characters' faces are sewn onto each other's heads. A loose stitch is mistaken for a loose collar thread and unraveled from one side of the neck to the other, causing the face to flop forward horrifically. And then the same thing happens to the other character. | |
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In the Full House episode "Wrong-Way Tanner", D.J.'s necklace is stuck to the sweater Steve is wearing, while Stephanie videotapes her family for her school project. Once Stephanie makes it clear she intends to share her videotaped footage to her classmates, D.J. starts chasing her, leaving behind a trail of sweater thread in her wake, while Steve futilely holds onto the thread. When the Tanner family views the clip late in the episode, the sweater is shown in the footage to have been already in tatters and Steve mentions that his mother can use the remaining parts of the sweater — the sleeves — as leg-warmers. | |
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One Looney Tunes short has Sylvester hiding from Granny in her knitting basket as she is knitting. His fur gets caught in the yarn and it starts unraveling, so he knits it back in and ends up an argyle lower half. | |
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Taz-Mania: In "Here Kitty, Kitty, Kitty", Kitty unravels a comforter off the bed and Taz has to knit it back together. | |
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The old comic G.I. Joe (not to be confused with the famous Hasbro's franchise) featured the character (created by Dan De Carlo) Wendy the Waf, a blonde military girl. In a story, "Eyes Right", she models for a new Waf uniform that is wrapped in a blade of a plane, reducing the uniform to a mini-skirt. | |
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The 1992 comedy The Nutt House has a scene where a woman has her dress unraveled in this manner. | |
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Garfield: Used in an early strip. Garfield only pulls on a thread from Jon's pants, but the shirt somehow unravels, too. That's because Jon was wearing thermal underwear (and only that). Another early Garfield shows the cat tying a loose end to a post and running to unravel his way out of a Homemade Sweater from Hell. Unfortunately for him, Jon's mother just re-knits the sweater from the resulting thread. Implied in the April 3, 1991, where Garfield gives Jon a ball of yarn. In yet another strip, Garfield slucks on a bowl of spaghetti, only to mistakenly unwind Jon's sweater instead. |
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This happens in the Married... with Children episode "Blond And Blonder" after the girl with Braces of Orthodontic Overkill dances with a guy, with her braces getting caught in the guy's suit, resulting in a short trail of thread from her braces as he walks away and her running after him to prevent further damage to his suit. | |
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This is a common gag in Mortadelo y Filemón. Generally, they'll start pulling the thread into a ball, but the thread belongs to a buff man's sweater or something. The owner of the garment will hit them (usually Filemón) for ruining his clothing. If the mummy wrapping variation counts, they do that sometimes, too. |
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Charby the Vampirate has a slight variation with a bead dress on this strip. | |
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In The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the mummy version happens when Rocky is unwrapped. | |
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This is the standard method of defeating a mummy in Toon. What you find once the bandages are completely unravelled is up to the Animator, but, as always in Toon, Rule of Funny applies. | |
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Donald Duck is the victim of this in the Disney short "On Ice" (1935), losing his sweater as it doubles as a makeshift kitestring. | |
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The Wizards of Waverly Place episode "Wizards vs. Werewolves" includes the mummy variation. | |
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In The Dark Knight, the Joker sticks a grenade into a prone bank employee's mouth. The guy can only watch helplessly as Joker strolls away to his getaway vehicle, trailing an unravelling thread from his jacket, which pulls the grenade pin once it gets slammed in the door. It was just a smoke grenade. The guy is not amused. | |
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Happens in The Man Called Flintstone when Barney Rubble tries to use Fred's tie to get down a 100-foot drop from a prison cell window. The entire tie unravels into a single thread as Barney tried to climb back up it. | |
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Happens in The Lucy Show when a thread from Lucy's dress gets snagged as she exits an elevator. | |
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An episode of Majokko Meg-chan has a Brainwashed and Crazy Rabi does this to a random woman. | |
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Amanda exploits this in Through the Dragon's Eye. As she and keeper Boris wander around the giant sentient tree searching for the first Veeton, she unravels his sweater so they will be able to find their way back to the entrance more easily (in a Shout-Out to Theseus and the Minotaur). In a later chapter, she unravels the rest of the sweater so they can lower Rodey into a deep chasm to get the Veetarod back after it fell from Scott's pocket. | |
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Happens in two Woody Woodpecker shorts: In Buccaneer Woodpecker, when he confronts Buzz Buzzard (who appears here as a pirate), Woody notices a loose thread on his coat and starts pulling on it, unravelling the coat and the hat (but oddly, leaving the buttons and everything else in place). In Wrestling Wrecks, Woody pulls a thread from a wrestler's shorts into the piece an old lady is knitting next to him. In the next shot, when she finishes knitting the shorts back together, she gets scared and embarrassed at the same time, as the guy recovers his shorts and wears them again offscreen. |
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In the Phineas and Ferb episode "Runaway Runway", at one point Ferb's entire outfit is accidentally unraveled. | |
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Our Miss Brooks: In "Friday The Thirteenth", Miss Brooks ends up tearing off a lapel on Mr. Conklin's new suit by merely pulling on a loose thread. | |
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In the comic strip adaptation of The Flintstones, Betty asks how Wilma knows her dress is unraveling. Wilma replies that the man following them is a string collector, and he has accumulated a very large ball of string. | |
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One recurring sketch on The Armstrong and Miller Show involves an accident-prone presenter who continually ends up destroying priceless historical artifacts. Guess what happens in the one where there's a centuries-old tapestry. | |
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MouseHunt: While trying to operate his string factory single-handed (all the workers have quit because he can't pay them), Lars fails to notice a thread from his coat has become snagged and unravelled, and feeds it into the machinery. Then as he flails about trying to shut the machines down, more parts of his clothes keep getting caught and unraveled until he's stripped naked. For anyone curious, read the note it was knitted upside down so it would unravel from the bottom up or see here for how it was done. | |
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The Babaloos: In “Wrong Stitch�, Baby Towel and Teaspoon’s fooling around manages to not only unravel one of Kevin’s wool socks, but also wrap the resulting string around most of the living room. | |
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Yoshi's Woolly World being a Spiritual Successor to Kirby's Epic Yarn, this trope is used to uncover secrets and modify the environment by pulling on loose threads of cloth with Yoshi's tongue. | |
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Star vs. the Forces of Evil: In episode "Interdimensional Field Trip", a monster wholly made of threads is defeated this way. Miss Skullnick ties the tip of a thread to a large paper clip, and then fastens it to "The Universe's Most Immovable Post". As the school bus flees with the monster in hot pursuit, it unravels itself completely. | |
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This happened to Popeye's swimsuit at the end of Al Brodax short "The Bathing Beasts". | |
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The Real Ghostbusters: One episode has Peter inherit a fortune, but it winds up being cursed by a miserly ghost so that misfortune strikes whatever the money is spent on. When Peter buys a nice suit, Janine spots a loose thread on his shoulder and gives it a tug, causing the entire suit to unravel (even the pants). | |
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The Crumpets: In "No Pffuture", Pfff unknowingly unravels his rug by foot, leaving behind its red thread everywhere he walks in his house and his neighbor's and setting off chaos in both houses and between. In "Nu comme Hervé", the loose thread of Cassandra's yellow skirt gets caught in an elevator door. She breaks the thread before it could disintegrate her skirt, which is now short. |
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According to The Book of Biff, "String theory states the sweater can be destroyed by pulling a single thread as distance is increased in opposite directions." | |
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Doctor Slump. In the anime adaptation of The Story of Donbe, Aoi Kimidori is seen talking to Kurikinton Soramame when Donbei ties a thread of her dress to a car which took off and unraveled her dress in front of him causing her to get embarrassed and slap Kurikinton. | |
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In Case Closed a series of bizarre and improbable events results in Haibara's sweater unraveling until she's down to her underwear, while trapped in a freezing cold delivery truck. | |
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In the Bewitched episode "Snob in the Grass", Samantha Stephens used this trope to get revenge on a Rich Bitch. | |
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In Life of Pi, Pi describes a number of badly-behaved guests at his father's zoo. One visitor waved the fringe of her sari at a lion, which grabbed it and began to pull on it. To get away, the woman had to spin around like a top until the entire sari came off. | |
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Happens to Little Audrey at the end of one short story. She walks on oblivious as her panties are on display. | |
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In Up the Chastity Belt, Lurkalot gets the threads of Lady Ashfodel's tapestry hooked on his belt, and unravels it when he storms out of the room. | |
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On more than one occasion, Scooby-Doo and friends would grab a trailing strip of mummy wrapping and give a tug, unravelling the mummy like a top. | |
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In Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day, Piglet is being carried away by the wind. Pooh grabs Piglet's scarf, but it unravels to a single string, and Piglet holds on to it as he soars like a kite. | |
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This is how you defeat a mummy in Simon the Sorcerer. | |
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Spider-Man: In The Amazing Spider-Man (2014), this is the very first thing that happens to poor Spider-Man after the entire Superior Spider-Man (2013) debacle, when he tackles three female criminals, one of them being able to control threads. He's forced to don web undies and has the entire incident shown off across New York. It gets worse when it turns out the web formula is a little too strong. | |
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Exaggerated in the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "The String". Squidward has a loose string on his shirt, which SpongeBob pulls. It ends up unraveling his entire shirt...no, scratch that, everyone's shirts. And it doesn't stop there. In fact, it doesn't stop until SpongeBob unravels the entire universe, and is then unraveled by Patrick, making Patrick the only living thing in existence. Yeah. | |
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High School D×D: Happens to Rossweisse in a short special when she's having a study session to help Issei pass his exams. After he saves her from falling out the window, he notices a string loose and tries to pull it out, causing her suit to get shredded to bits and leaving her in underwear and stockings. Rossweisse then starts crying in embarrassment over how she can't get married now. | |
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In Girl Got Game, after Hamaya's clothes get torn, the loose threads get caught and eventually unravel entirely, leaving him completely naked (though he seems baffled as to how his underwear got caught up in it too). | |
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Doctor Who: In the story "The Space Museum", the eponymous museum is labyrinthine enough that Ian unwinds Barbara's cardigan in order to use the wool à la Theseus. To be fair, he is shown to have some trouble starting the sweater's disassembly, and Barbara has to take it from him and pick open a starting point; but after that it's just treated as a ball of yarn with a long single thread (which, as usual with string in a labyrinth, runs out too soon). At the beginning of the Doctor's fourth regeneration in "Castrovalva", the Fifth Doctor completely unravels his previous incarnation's scarf while wandering about the TARDIS hallways searching for the Zero room, presumably so he could find his way back to the console room. |
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The Homer Price story "Mystery Yarn" has a woman mysteriously beat two men to become World's Champion String Saver, even though her ball of string was smaller. The story doesn't explain, but astute readers will notice that when she starts unrolling it, she's wearing a "robin's egg-blue dress with the pink trim at the bottom", which is later described as a "robin's-egg-blue blouse with the pink skirt" and finally a "dress with the robin's-egg-blue trim at the neck". | |
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Simon's Cat: In "Christmas Yarn", the eponymous cat gets a thread of Simon's sweater stuck in its mouth as Simon walks out of the house, with the expected result. | |
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The Johnny Bravo episode "Blanky Hanky Panky" has the Mayor of Aron City left in an undershirt and tighty whities after his suit is unraveled. | |
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Miss Machiko is one of the first ecchi series where the main character always found herself disrobed. Many times, it was due to a single thread being yanked from her sweater. One gratuitous example was an episode in which no Fanservice was provided until the last thirty seconds or so of the episode... where she goes ice-skating, her student pulls a thread and slides her across the ice, revealing her breasts. Said sweater gag was used in the first live action movie — Machiko's crochet-like sweater gets a single thread snagged while at home, and by the time she makes the full run to her classroom, her shirt is gone. |
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In Kill la Kill, Nui Harime manages to easily defeat Sanageyama by severing his Goku Uniform's Banshi, a Life Fiber that has been imbued with the will to become clothing. One of the few examples of actually weaponizing this trope. | |
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In one episode of Ed, Edd n Eddy, Eddy pulls a thread of Jimmy's shirt, unraveling the shirt and removing his outline. | |
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In Aladdin, Jafar magically unravels the Magic Carpet into a purple string, even though it's multiple colors with purple as the base. Literal case of A Wizard Did It. This is also an example of a Conspicuously Light Patch. When the carpet was together, it was created with a combination of traditional animation and digital mapping. Unraveled, it was only traditional animation, so it was reduced to a single solid color. | |
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QI featured an un-knitting machine invented by Imogen Hedges, on the 'K' season Christmas episode, "Kris Kringle". The machine unravelled a scarf that Alan Davies was wearing and wound the yarn back up into a ball. | |
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The kids of The Monster Squad dispose of The Mummy using this method. | |
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Karate Bears do this from time to time. | |
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In the Mahabharata, Yuddhisthra has lost everything in a dice game against his brother-in-law Duryodhana. Including his (and his brothers') wife Draupadi. Duryodhana and Karna want to "put Draupadi in her place" for scorning them, so they try to rape her in front of their court (and her now-defeated husbands). She prays to Krishna for help, and since she had once bandaged a wound on his finger using a piece of her sari, he returns the favor: as Dushasana pulls on her sari, it's extended until the Kauravas just give up and stop. | |
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Happens to Chisame in Negima! Magister Negi Magi, while onstage at a cosplay contest. Negi and Kotarô end up pulling the threads in her costume without realizing what it is, causing the costume to fall off and leaving Chisame in only her underwear. The crowd naturally starts cheering. It is, however, a little bit better in that her costume isn't reduced to a single string. It's that that particular string was keeping all the pieces of the costume together. But still... | |
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Books of Adam: This comic has a rather bloody variation with skin. | |
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In The Perils of Penelope Pitstop episode "Carnival Calamity", Penelope slowed her descent by clutching a thread on the Hooded Claw's pants, revealing his Goofy Print Underwear. | |
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In an episode of Potatoes and Dragons, a yeti is defeated in this way. His fur is unraveled until most of it is gone. | |
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Sunnyside: Part of Charlie Chaplin's pathetic effort to imitate the rich city chap includes donning thick woolen socks, to imitate the city chap's fancy spats. One of the townspeople notices a loose thread hanging from Charlie's sock and grabs it. Charlie's entire sock unravels. | |
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Gargamel's robe gets unraveled in this fashion at least twice in The Smurfs, not to mention Sassette's overalls and Brainy's bandage wrapping. | |
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In The Nightmare Before Christmas, Jack Skellington uses this to destroy Oogie Boogie. Jack grabs a dangling thread from Oogie's clothing (which is basically just a burlap sack) and tangles it in a rotating blade; the blade's pull quickly unravels enough of the thread that Oogie's clothing comes completely off, revealing that Oogie's "body" is really a huge mass of bugs. Without his clothing to hold his bugs together, Oogie simply falls apart. Justified in that the loose thread is part of the sack's stitching; when the stitches are pulled, the cloth is intact but it can't hold together anymore. | |
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Dexter's Mom inflicts this to an alien overlord in an episode of Dexter's Laboratory, scoring a Defeat by Modesty. | |
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In a Childrens Hospital episode, a nurse has her uniform scrubs stripped off in this manner. | |
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Captain Flamingo: At the end of "Portrait of a Superhero", just when Milo is about to take a family portrait in a nice outfit, Avi founds a blue string in the floor and starts to unravel. It was revealed that the string that he was unraveling was actually Milo's outfit, revealing his goofy flamingo underwear during the photo shoot. | |
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