The title panel of the August 1, 1993 strip shows Garfield's fur put on a clothes hanger as if it were a suit. Another commercial has the brown M&M clearing up a misunderstanding by explaining to some humans at a party that her shell is brown, so it only looks like she's naked. The red M&M sees her, think's it's "that kind of party" and tears off his own shell. Compare Removable Shell for the shelled animal variant, Removable Animal Markings for when an animal's natural stripes and spots are depicted as removable, and Clothing Appendage for when the "garments" aren't removable. Subtrope of Appropriate Animal Attire. See also Exposed Extraterrestrials and Fur Is Skin.

In the Betty Boop episode " The Old Man of the Mountain", a bear removes the upper part of his fur as if it were a coat and places it over a puddle for Betty to walk across. In the short " Quiet Please!", Spike the bulldog rolls up his arm fur like a sleeve, revealing an anchor tattoo, before running after Tom to pummel him. The short "Mighty Mouse and the Wolf" has the titular wolf at one point persuade several sheep into taking off their wool by aiming a gun at them. One of the sheep blushes and turns around after realizing that they're facing the audience while disrobing.

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Almost Naked Animals takes this to its literal extreme. The entire cast has mostly-bare skin and underwear, even characters who are animals that logically can't be shaved. Each variant can also work with feathers, or, more rarely, scales and skin. Not to be confused with Pretty in Mink or Fur and Loathing, though any of those might be referenced for the sake of humor. In the Popeye episode "Olive's Boithday Presink", Popeye grabs a bear by the wrist and punches it, leaving him with a bear fur coat in his hand.

A similar gag happens at the end of the Leghorn short "Weasel Stop", when he and the weasel are run through a machine that removes their feathers/fur and bales it up like hay. In Tex Avery's "Cross Country Detours", was a parody of a nature documentary, which at one point features a lizard shedding its skin. The lizard gets on its hind legs and begins to perform a striptease dance while it sheds its skin, a scene rotoscoped from footage of an actual stripper they brought into the animation studio.Sheep in the Big City sometimes uses gags involving Sheep's wool being treated like clothing. Examples include Sheep dropping off his wool at the dry cleaner's in the pilot episode and Sheep occasionally covering himself in embarrassment when his wool unravels. Perry the Platypus from Phineas and Ferb is frequently like this. In one episode, Perry went to his lair via suction tubes and reveals Perry naked with his boxers. The titular duo of The Ren & Stimpy Show have revealed their fur to be nothing but a suit in a few different episodes, by unzipping to take a bath or go skinny dipping. In the novel American Gods, Shadow hitches a ride with a fellow who tells a tall tale about a deer that literally jumped out of its skin to escape a hunter, then was given a replacement knitted by local women.