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Incredibly Conspicuous Drag
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Somebody passing for the other gender is a common trope in comedy, all the way back to Shakespeare. However, it usually works only if the actor in question actually makes an effort to look and behave like a member of the opposite sex, otherwise the audience's Willing Suspension of Disbelief is broken and instead of being about, say, a man trying to pass as a woman, the work becomes about how a group of morons didn't realize they were trying to pick up a drag queen. Occasionally it works, if applied side by side with Rule of Funny. Of course, it's still all but obligatory for some clueless observer to find the disguised person very attractive, no matter how unconvincing the disguise may be. The trope is gradually becoming less common as it's often been used to mock transgender women who fail to pass and as such has attracted outcry from trans rights advocates. On the other hand, it is still played straight by some Drag Queens as camp to subvert gender role expectations. Compare Paper-Thin Disguise. A Sister Trope to Larynx Dissonance and (naturally) Disguised in Drag. |
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Jokey Smurf in The Smurfs one-page gag in "Romeo and Smurfette", who disguises himself as Smurfette (not perfectly) in order to fool a Smurf into a Prank Date. Needless to say, the Smurf is neither fooled nor amused. | |
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In The Desert Song, the "French Military Marching Song" is introduced by Margot (singing "We're men, men, men" in a soaring soprano voice) and a group of Chorus Girls. The flimsiness of their disguise as soldiers is Lampshaded by the ensemble lyrics: | |
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Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi's Crossdresser "Ms." Aki. is never outed, but is rather obvious — so much so that it seems the rest of the cast is aware of it and just treats him/her as a lovable eccentric. | |
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Conan wore pearls, lipstick and a wig to try to pass himself off as Callista Gingrich in Conan. | |
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There was an episode of Jeeves and Wooster where Wooster goes undercover as a woman for some reason, and later in the episode Jeeves does. It was far-fetched, even compared to the usual events of the series. | |
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The character The Old Snatch in the musical Me and My Dick— there are other cross-dressing roles, but this one is played by a man with a gravelly voice and a beard. | |
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A Full House episode titled "Fraternity Reunion" centers around Danny and Joey dressing as women in order to sneak their way into a sorority house reunion in order to take back a stuffed fraternity seal that was stolen from them in college. In typical Joey fashion he gets too into character and loses his wig in a limbo contest. Danny makes a mad dash for the seal and is subsequently revealed to the women as also being a man. They're both taken down by the women and are arrested by one of them who turns out to be a cop through some sort of Hollywood Law no doubt. | |
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Averted/Lampshaded in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Huck goes into town disguised as a girl, but a woman he encounters immediately tells he's just a boy in disguise. | |
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Battle Tendency gives us Joseph's famous attempt at infiltrating the Nazi lab in Mexico. The guards aren't fooled by an instant: no matter how hard he tries to act girly (and he tries a bit too hard for his own good), he sure as hell can't look the part. | |
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Averted with Zahara in Bad Education, who makes an effort to adopt feminine mannerisms, hair, and makeup on top of the women's clothing. And then played straight with the real Ignacio, who has stubble and an extremely deep voice. | |
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A number of the Carry On films involve Sid James or Bernard Bresslaw (or another similarly unmistakeably masculine cast member) wearing a dress, and the authority figure they're trying to evade falling instantly for him, despite the fact that he's clearly Sid James or Bernard Bresslaw wearing a dress. (The fact that the authority figure was frequently Kenneth Williams may add a bit of subtext to this.) | |
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The failure — or prime source of comedy, depending on how you look at it — of White Chicks is generally considered to be a combination of this and disturbingly unconvincing makeup. Shawn Wayans even admits in the DVD commentary that he makes "a very ugly woman." | |
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In Fist of the North Star, Kenshiro once confronted a gang of Ken-Oh's henchmen in a bar, one of them disguised himself as a nanny barkeeper. It doesn't take that much of an effort to discover the disguise as he didn't shave properly. | |
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Little Red Riding Hood: A wolf disguises himself as LRRH's grandmother by putting on her cap and robe. LRRH does seem to notice that something is off, but cannot quite put her finger on it, as "granny" gives explanation for all the oddities in her appearance. And is... discussed (and deconstructed)... in Witches Abroad, where the titular trio decide the family was "as thick as teak". Of course, the stories were being magically enforced. | |
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"Lavinia" from Doctor in Trouble is clearly just Dr. Burke in a dress doing an effeminate voice, but it somehow manages to fool the Master-at-Arms for a while. | |
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Cowboy Bebop has an incredibly masculine drag queen that shows up in both Jupiter Jazz episodes. He tries to hit on Edward until being informed that Ed is a girl. | |
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Open Season: In the "Scared Silly" special, Boog has to play a female Wumpus monster, to lure out the male species. | |
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The "men" attending the stoning of a blasphemer in Monty Python's Life of Brian are all obviously women with fake beards who forget to keep lowering their voices and constantly refer to each other as "she." But in a meta-twist these women were all played by men. | |
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It's quite common for modern productions of Iolanthe to have The Fairy Queen played by a man in quite obvious drag, playing off the (modern) Double Entendre of the word "Fairy" to mean "gay." | |
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Discworld: Hilariously played with in Monstrous Regiment. Blouse takes the guise of a woman and is ridiculously bad at it, to the point where all the washerwomen notice right away but don't say anything because they think it's entertaining. But while the women aren't fooled by his awful, extremely stereotypical act, the male guards buy it completely. The funniest part is when the female soldiers masquerading as male soldiers decide to don women's clothing to also infiltrate enemy lines, they're immediately accused of being this trope, saying that they're obviously male and it's the worst attempt at drag they've ever seen. In The Truth, when the mountainous brain-damaged villain Mr. Tulip is disguised as a nun. It actually works until he starts swearing; as Sacharissa says, she's known genuinely female nuns who looked just as bad, if not worse. Averted and played with in Jingo by Nobby Nobbs, disguised as a harem girl for reasons which aren't worth attempting to explain. The local women seem entirely fooled, though. (And if they aren't, well... he's still acting more sympathetic to their personal problems than the actual men in their lives...) |
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Done for absurdity in Final Fantasy XIV with Hildebrand Manderville during the 2.3 side storyline. Hildebrand disguised himself as the bride who's described as the "most beautiful in the land" to lure out the thief. Everyone is fooled apart from the player character and another inspector who the player is with (surprisingly so as it is very obviously a decidedly masculine character wearing a dress) until the veil comes off. While the effort failed the distraction was enough for the other inspector to identify the target in question who was magically (and more effectively) disguised as the groom. | |
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Sorority Boys is a textbook example. Back to Roger Ebert: | |
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The Buffalo Brothers in Relativity are a pair of Stupid Crooks. At one point, they need to get a message to the heroes, but they don't want to get caught, so they disguise themselves as old ladies. The disguises weren't very good, and probably wouldn't have worked anyway, but the fact that one of the brothers had a beard just made it beyond obvious. | |
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The Beagle Boys in Donald Duck comics. They still wear their masks, and don't shave. | |
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Averted and played with in Jingo by Nobby Nobbs, disguised as a harem girl for reasons which aren't worth attempting to explain. The local women seem entirely fooled, though. (And if they aren't, well... he's still acting more sympathetic to their personal problems than the actual men in their lives...) | |
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The '"Miss" Yasogami Pageant' in Persona 4, where the male members of the Investigation Team are unwillingly signed up for by the female members in revenge for putting them up in the actual beauty pageant. This results in the very burly Kanji poorly looking like Marilyn Monroe, Yosuke awkwardly dressed as a schoolgirl with bad makeup and the protagonist somewhat convincingly dressed as a female Japanese Delinquent. Teddie is the only aversion since he looks feminine enough to pass as a girl, leading him to landslide the competition dressed as Alice. | |
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Plump washerwomen take note, this is an absolute requirement for any Dame in any Pantomime! Never leave home without your obvious falsetto voice or bustle. Failure to produce bustle or react with extreme scepticism to cries of "they're behind you!" may lead to revoking of your 12x10 comedy-sized license. | |
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In Gentlemen of Fortune, the crooks end up escaping in drag. Not only it's incredibly conspicuous, one of the crooks still tries to hit after girls and tries to use the men's bathroom. | |
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In The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones, Fred and Barney are supposed to be working, but opt to attend a poker game against their boss instead. They don disguises, with Fred as a southern gentleman and Barney as his girlfriend. Barney makes some effort to pad out his chest and speak in falsetto, but keeps his five o'clock shadow. | |
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Subverted in a Don Martin cartoon for MAD: Men looking for an escaped convict at a train station see a hairy-armed, tattooed, stubble-faced person in a dress walk by. One of them pulls off the person's wig and they jump on the presumed escaped convict... but let her go with shamefaced apologies. | |
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In Yakuza Kiwami, Kiryu gets arranged to meet up with a girl at a hostess club named Goromi, which is just resident nutjob Goro Majima with a wig, a pink minidress, and bad makeup (beard and all). Amusingly, you play a dating mini-game with him just like with any other hostess before beating him up as usual. | |
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Mad Bull 34 takes the cake, here. The "Mad Bull" himself, an eight-foot-tall muscular behemoth of a police officer with a full beard and mustache, goes undercover as a nun and as a female prostitute. He somehow expects this disguise to work. | |
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The National Lampoon had a comic-book style ad for magazine subscriptions with two clearly middle-aged men (one had a moustache, the other stubble and a cigar) dressed like housewives at a supermarket. They addressed each other with female names, the employees regarded them as women, then the last panel had the police turn up and haul them off. None of this was explained in the least. | |
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Split Infinity: Stile is assigned an android fencing-instructor that's only programmed to teach women. Not only does it call him "lady", but it refuses to commence any lessons until Stile humors its limited programming and dons a protective bra ... which is his only item of apparel, being otherwise naked like all Proton serfs. Yes, he played this trope and Full-Frontal Assault straight at the same time. | |
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In SNK Gals Fighters, Iori Yagami has disguised himself as "Miss X" by wearing a long-skirted Sailor Fuku and a mask (in true sukeban fashion) and insisting he's a girl. Nobody who sees him believes it. SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy brings him back as DLC; while he can appear genderbent like Terry, the original is also an option. |
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The Flintstones: In an episode, Betty and Wilma enter a television contest for cooking the best cake, and they win. The prize is a huge amount of money, except that they have to bake the cake on television in the show. Unfortunately, right at the wrong time, Betty and Wilma get the measles and are quarantined. Seeing the prospect of great money slipping away, Barney and Fred "disguise" themselves as women. They successfully maintain their disguises, and successfully bake the cake, but blow it by using "Brand B" flour instead of the advertised brand. In The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones, Fred and Barney are supposed to be working, but opt to attend a poker game against their boss instead. They don disguises, with Fred as a southern gentleman and Barney as his girlfriend. Barney makes some effort to pad out his chest and speak in falsetto, but keeps his five o'clock shadow. |
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In Penguin Revolution, the talents and managers of Peacock are required to dress in drag for a publicity event. Most of the actors pull it off remarkably well, but Kaneda, one of the managers, just looks like a man in a dress. | |
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To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar: The three Drag Queen leads are constantly mistaken for women even though Chi-Chi is the only one who comes close to convincingly passing, due to John Leguizamo being shorter in stature and having smaller facial features compared to his lantern-jawed costars. | |
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In Laughing Under the Clouds Tenka disguises himself as a woman so he can spy on Chutaro. Since it's played for laughs it looks just way over the top and nobody's buying the disguise, anyway. | |
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Rapid Thunder (alias Codename: Albatross) in Mappy is a male corporate spy disguised as the female personal assistant of Nyamco CEO Goro. His whole disguise is literally a wig that isn't on right; he doesn't even affect a voice. | |
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In Girl Genius, the fairly bulky man Ollie dresses up as Judy for a humorous role in the pantomime like Heterodyne shows Master Payne's Circus of Adventure puts on in small towns as they travel. To be fair the real Judy is ripped, but she has a very feminine appearance. | |
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Happens in The Noob, when Your Name Here, a large man with the Face of a Thug, dresses up in drag for a story arc. | |
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Like many British comedies, Doctor in the House and its sequel series featured many episodes of men dressing as ladies, and never looking believable doing it. In "Doctor on the Box" from Doctor in the House, three medical students dress a fourth up as an elderly female patient to sabotage an interview as part of a documentary on the hospital; the fact that he is supposed to be an old woman does not stop him from squeezing the female interviewer's bottom. Chaos ensues when the subjects of the documentary discover the deception and decide to administer an enema, and then the real patient returns. The Doctor in Charge episode "Mum's the Word" involves the board members having to choose between Dr. Waring and Dr. Bingham as a junior doctor representative on the board; Dr. Stuart-Clark claims that Waring's mother is a Countess (she is, in fact, a policeman's wife). As she is at the hospital as a patient, the board members decide to meet her, and Stuart-Clark dons a blonde wig, blue eyeshadow, and women's clothing and pretends to be Mrs. Waring while the real Mrs. Waring is kept out of sight. His disguise manages to charm the board members, and Waring gets the position on the board. "A Turn for the Nurse" from Doctor on the Go sees Stuart-Clark trying to enter a ringer for a "best nurse" competition so that no-one need find out the prize money doesn't exist; Waring persuades her to drop out of the competition, and when Stuart-Clark finds out and reveals the "prize money" quandary, Waring has to dress up in drag as their entrant. His boss, Professor of Surgery Sir Geoffrey Loftus, recognises Waring immediately, but bites his tongue; meanwhile, rival hospital Highcross board member Sir Edmund Steele takes quite a liking to Waring... |
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This was Klinger's main schtick for much of the time on M*A*S*H. | |
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In Taking Woodstock, Liev Schrieber plays Vetty von Vilma, a transvestite woman. In the part he's very muscular and has an apparent deep voice, in addition to very visible facial hair. | |
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The boys of Ouran High School Host Club use this in order to keep Haruhi from transferring to the Lobelia Girls' Academy. | |
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In Memphis in 1987, Jerry Lawler disguised himself as a female fan at ringside so he could get close to and attack Tommy Rich. In his book, Lawler said that outside of a little lipstick, they didn't put any makeup on him for it. | |
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At the climax of Mulan several of Mulan's male comrades join her in infiltrating the palace by disguising themselves as concubines◊. Yao doesn't even bother shaving his beard and one of Ling's breasts appears to be crooked, but Chien-Po is the most passable of the three and simply looks like a very fat woman. Amazingly the disguises mostly work on some guards. | |
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Wonder Woman Vol 1: Hypnota wore a mustache and turban to disguise that not only was they are physically a woman, but also the identical twin sister of their Lovely Assistant in order to pull off some of their tricks as stage magicians. Hypnota did not bind their chest, seemed to be wearing mascara, and otherwise just looked like a girl wearing a mustache, which seemed to fool audiences just fine. They keep this same costume as their supervillain outfit, but does even less to hide the fact that they've got a woman's body and doesn't actually seem to be trying to pass as a man. Their gender identity is left ambiguous as their sister refers to them using male pronouns but they really don't try to disguise their female features. | |
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In an episode of Bob's Burgers, Bob makes friends with some fairly successful transvestite hookers, who look exactly like men in spandex dresses. | |
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One Piece: All the crossdressers from the series are incredibly ugly and clearly don't shave, though they still behave much like women. The only exception so far is the secondary character Izou: The only thing that gives away his sex is his lack of cleavage. Another example is Igaram, who disguises himself as Vivi to serve as a decoy twice. Problem is; he's a 48-year-old man with broad shoulders, while Vivi is a slim teenage girl. The second attempt doesn't fool anyone, but it does leave the Alabasta citizens distracted long enough to allow Vivi to properly say goodbye to the Straw Hats. |
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Madmartigan in Willow tries this briefly to hide from the husband of a lady he's currently boning. It ends up making said husband grossly infatuated with "Hilda", letting him deliver his immortal line: | |
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In The Truth, when the mountainous brain-damaged villain Mr. Tulip is disguised as a nun. It actually works until he starts swearing; as Sacharissa says, she's known genuinely female nuns who looked just as bad, if not worse. | |
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Kaamelott: One episode has Attila the Hun demanding the most beautiful women of Kaamelott as a "Begone" Bribe. He ends up with Arthur's Viking bodyguard Grüdü in a dress. It's not even remotely convincing, but it works out anyway. | |
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In the "Black Friday" trilogy (and also in South Park: The Stick of Truth), Kenny dresses up as a princess... and still wears his parka underneath the whole thing, making it very conspicuous. Everyone just chooses not to question why he wants to be a princess in their game. | |
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M. Butterfly's plot is that a male Chinese spy/opera singer fools a French diplomat into believing that he's a woman and carries on a relationship with him for twenty years before the truth comes out. Unfortunately, as Roger Ebert commented in his review of the film adaptation, John Lone (who plays the Chinese spy in the film) is no Jaye Davidson. | |
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In 2003, thanks to a match stipulation, Stephanie McMahon had to engage in Hot Lesbian Action with another woman. Eric Bischoff said he found "the ugliest lesbian in the world" for her, but everyone (except Bischoff) knew the "lesbian" was Rikishi. | |
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The original stage version of Hairspray cast gravelly-voiced Harvey Fierstein as the mother, Edna Turnblad. The original movie and movie-musical also have the role played by a man, but they attempt to make the mother somewhat feminine and are not examples. | |
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Big Macintosh, a big, bulky, deep-voiced stallion, disguises himself as a Southern Belle named "Orchard Blossom" in the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "Brotherhooves Social". It's such a shoddy disguise that it only fools exactly one old stallion who ends up getting a crush on him. Rainbow Dash recognizes him instantly, and while she doesn't verbally out him to anyone else that can hear, she turns up the snark and tells him not to expect her to take it easy on him in the competition because he's a stallion. Also notable in that it wasn't even necessary for him to dress up to begin with. It's explained by the judges that the competition has a "loose" definition of what qualifies as a sister (basically, a familial-like bond is all that's required), and they would've allowed him to compete as himself if he just asked. Rainbow is allowed to compete as Scootaloo's sister even though they aren't even related. | |
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Fable has a sidequest at the Darkwood Bordello to find the building's deeds in order to get rid of the abusive owner Grope. While one method is simply getting the man drunk, another is to wear a dress and wig then sleep with him. Players are required to shave any facial hair, but they can still be giants with arms bigger than Grope's waist and more body hair than a bear while still successfully passing themselves off as a woman. | |
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Monty Python's Flying Circus: The "Pepper Pots" are very obviously men playing the role of middle-aged or elderly women, in frumpy house dresses and shrill voices. For that matter, for the majority of the female characters in the series, no attempt is made to hide that they are played by the Pythons themselves in drag. (A memorable example: John Cleese in a red skirt and pigtails as Little Red Riding Hood.) Terry Jones proved particularly adept at drag roles, earning the title "the best Rat-Bag woman in the business." Zig-Zagged for laughs in the "Piranha Brothers" sketch. Dinsdale Piranha's girlfriend Gloria is portrayed by John Cleese in even more ridiculously exaggerated drag than usual, but she appears to be just an ordinary character otherwise until she drops this line: |
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Mic gets hit on by one in "Crocodile" Dundee. Being A) a rural Australian who doesn't know anything about crossdressing and B) somewhat drunk, Mic still fails to figure it out until his taxi driver informs him that the "lady" who's flirting with him is really a man. Mic checks... via inappropriate touching. | |
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SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy brings him back as DLC; while he can appear genderbent like Terry, the original is also an option. | |
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The Spoony Experiment: The Gatekeeper's wife is, like most characters on the show, played by Noah himself in a wig. He does have a funny bit on one of the commentaries about how difficult it was to find a bra the right size. | |
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PlayStation Access: "Rob's mum" is obviously a man in a dress speaking in a shrill voice. His face is always out of shot, but the body shape is a bit of a giveaway. Since they have several female members on staff, this is clearly a part of the joke. | |
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In both Paddington films, Mr. Brown is forced at one point to dress up like a woman to get past security. Despite him obviously being a man in a dress and makeup, a security guard falls for his disguise both times and refers to him an "incredibly sexy woman" even when he's actively shedding his disguise while running away. | |
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South Park: In the "Black Friday" trilogy (and also in South Park: The Stick of Truth), Kenny dresses up as a princess... and still wears his parka underneath the whole thing, making it very conspicuous. Everyone just chooses not to question why he wants to be a princess in their game. In "Butters Bottom Bitch", the police chief (Harrison Yates) dresses up as a female prostitute in a sting operation, but still keeps his mustache. The customers never notices it. Perhaps the all-time champion of this trope has to go to none other than Eric Cartman. In "The Cissy", he pretends to be a trans girl so that he can use the women’s restroom. Said disguise only consists of putting a pink bow on his hat. Literally nothing else about his appearance changes. |
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Barney Miller - the detectives were assigned to disguise themselves in drag to catch criminals - Dietrich took to the job with good humor, but never realized he just looked like a big guy in a dress. | |
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Red Dead Redemption 2: A sidequest has the player working for an animal wrangler named Margaret — a mustachioed man who dresses as a woman because he thinks a female animal wrangler will attract a bigger audience. A later sidequest has you escorting the artist Charles Châtenay, who has dressed as a woman in an attempt to hide from the multiple enemies he's made. He doesn't even bother to shave his facial hair and his low-cut dress shows off his copious chest hair. |
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Zigzagged in Olsen-banden (and its Swedish foreign remake Jönssonligan). The protagonists are con men with a penchant for impersonating other lines of work and will occasionally disguise themselves in drag for their heists, but how well they manage to convince other characters depends on Rule of Funny. In Jönssonligan får guldfeber, Sickan is initially against the idea of "[being] a madame" to distract one of their marks, but gets convinced to do so a few minutes before they put their plan into action. Due to his lack of fitting clothes and inexperience with makeup (which Vanheden had to help him with after he tries to paint his glasses with the mascara), it's implied that the disguise only worked due to the mark's poor eyesight without his glasses. Later on, he voluntarily disguises himself as a formal elderly woman twice to ensure that his nemesis won't recognise him from afar. Even his acquaintance Doris is fooled by it, despite the high-pitched voice he puts on... The first time he tries this. But when he tries it again in the first licensed game, Doris instead calls him out for "dressing like a biddy". | |
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There is a short from The Three Stooges where Curly dresses like an Indian maiden and a mountain man falls in love with him. Guess it's been a really long time since he last saw a woman. | |
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Santino Marella's appearances as "his twin sister from Italy", Santina. | |
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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows has Holmes disguising himself as a woman. Since it is a last-minute disguise, it isn't one of the better ones. But in the dark when the other guys could only glimpse it, it works. | |
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Subverted in Sherlock Holmes, who occasionally disguises himself as an old woman for a case. In one case the criminal actually got close enough to return "her" dropped umbrella and didn't notice a thing. | |
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In Gugure! Kokkuri-san, Shigaraki's poor attempts to disguise himself as Kohina to appeal to her Stalker with a Crush Inugami fool no-one due to his muscular build and hairy legs, and it just disgusts Inugami more than anything else. | |
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Hefty Smurf disguises himself as Smurfette (also not perfectly) in The Smurfs (1981) episode "Smurfette for a Day" to protect her from a gnome who wants to marry her. | |
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The Birdcage features Albert (Nathan Lane) dressing up in drag to convince a conservative family that he and his gay partner, Armand (Robin Williams), are in fact a normal straight couple to cover for their son, who is getting engaged to the conservative family's daughter. Not only is his drag conspicuous, but Albert and Armand's house is full of tells that they are, in fact, a gay couple. At the end of the movie, the entire conservative family has to dress in drag in order to escape the titular gay nightclub owned by Albert and Armand without being noticed by the press. | |
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