Changes: Cross-dressing characters

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Hanna-Barbera borrowed many motifs from vaudeville or burlesque, especially in its short cartoons. Drag, or impersonation of the opposite sex, is one such motif. The practice has its roots in many vaudeville comics who had female characters, as well as the concept of the pantomime dame, where matrons or ugly stepsisters in stage fairy tales were always men in drag, young boys were usually women in drag, and all the women in Shakespearean plays were portrayed by young men in drag.

Males in Drag

Huckleberry Hound

In "Sir Huckleberry Hound", Huck disguises as a fair damsel. He even raises his voice like one.
The title card of "Little Red Riding Huck" shows Huckleberry Hound dressed as Little Red Riding Hood. He does so later in the cartoon itself.
In “Freeway Patrol”, the bank robber whom Huck is pursuing poses briefly as a woman in distress.

Quick Draw McGraw

At the end of "Shooting Room Only", Baba Looey is seen wearing a blond female wig.
In another short, Quick Draw McGraw mistakenly changes into a ballet tutu instead of his El Kabong costume.

Yogi Bear

In "Disguise and Gals", two male bank robbers dress as old women in order to hide out in Jellystone Park.

Wacky Races

In "Idaho a Go-Go", Dick Dastardly dresses first as Little Red Riding Hood, and later as the grandmother.

The Perils of Penelope Pitstop

In "Cross Country Double Cross", The Hooded Claw dresses as an old woman in order to hitch a ride on Penelope's scooter.
The Hooded Claw impersonates Penelope in "Hair Raising Harness Race" and "Big Top Trap".

Scooby-Doo

Scooby-Doo and Shaggy Rogers frequently dress as women, usually to evade the villain(s) of the episode.

The Harlem Globetrotters

In "The Great Geese Goof-Up", Meadowlark dresses Curly like a nurse, with a mop head for a wig.
In "Bad News Cruise", Curly falls into a pile of laundry below the ship's main deck and emerges dressed like a woman.

Dynomutt, Dog Wonder

In "The Sinister Symphony", the villain Many Faces dresses as an old woman and tricks Dynomutt into helping him escape in a taxicab.
In "The Injustice League of America", Dynomutt does an unconvincing impersonation of the Queen Hornet.
In "Shadowman", Dynomutt paints a ballet tutu on Blue Falcon.
In "Madame Ape Face," Dynomutt poses as a female model.

Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels

In one episode, Taffy Dare puts a wig resembling her own hairstyle on Captain Caveman.

Richie Rich

In one "Zillion-Dollar Adventure", the villain Dr. Disguise does an almost perfect impersonation of Gloria Glad. Richie is deceived, but Dollar the Dog is not.

Super Friends

At the end of "Rub Three Times for Disaster", Gleek appears in a belly dancer costume.

Pac-Man

In "The Bionic Pac-Woman", Pac-Man impersonates his own wife's robotic doppelganger to rescue the real Ms. Pac-Man from Mezmaron.

The Little Rascals

In "Just Desserts", Alfalfa is forced to dress like a girl and substitute for the ailing Darla Hood in the baking contest.

The Gary Coleman Show

In "Hornswoggle's Hoax", Hornswoggle tries to fool Andy by impersonating Angelica.

Other Examples

In The Galaxy Trio episode "Space Fugitives", one of the three alien criminals disguises himself as Gravity Girl.
In The Herculoids, Gleep disguises himself as Princess Serena so that he, Zandor, and Gloop can rescue Tara from Darkon.
There were several episodes of The Flintstones that had Fred and Barney disguised as women. In addition, in the episode "Reel Trouble," an art thief disguises himself as an old woman, convinced that Fred would see him and his henchman Fingers committing the crime on film.
In the Speed Buggy episode "The Hidden Valley Of Amazonia," Debbie convinced Mark, Tinker, and even Speed Buggy to disguise themselves as girls.
In one episode of Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch, Scrambles unwillingly disguises himself as Susie Scooter.
In the Help!... It's the Hair Bear Bunch! episode "Goldilocks and the Three Bears", Hair Bear plays Mama Bear.
Men disguised as women have also appeared in episodes of Touche Turtle and Dum Dum and Hong Kong Phooey.
In the Smurfs episode "Smurfette for a Day", Hefty is disguised as Smurfette.
Shaggy and Scooby Doo have also worn women's clothes on more than one occasion.
In The Adventures of Robin Hoodnik, Deputy Oxx disguises himself as Maid Marian.
In the Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids episode "Orient Express", a male spy disguises himself as an old woman in order to steal a formula from the team.

Females in Drag

In one episode of The Flintstones, Wilma Flintstone and Betty Rubble don black mustaches in order to invade a Water Buffalo meeting.
In one episode of Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels, Brenda Chance wears a mustache as part of her chauffeur uniform.
In The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries episode "Sherlock Doo", Daphne Blake wears a black mustache as part of her police disguise.
In The Little Rascals episode "Fright Night", Darla Hood dresses so as to resemble Alfalfa.
In one episode of The Roman Holidays, Laurie disguises herself as Gus.
In a Drak Pack episode, Vampira disguises herself as Drak Jr in order to ruin a birthday party.
In The Arabian Knights, Princess Nida disguised herself as Vangore and an old man.

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 * In the ''[[Speed Buggy]]'' episode "The Hidden Valley Of Amazonia," Debbie convinced Mark, Tinker, and even Speed Buggy to disguise themselves as girls.
 * In one episode of ''[[Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch]]'', Scrambles unwillingly disguises himself as Susie Scooter.
-* In the ''[[Help! It's The Hair Bear Bunch!]]'' episode "Goldilocks and the Three Bears", Hair Bear plays Mama Bear.
+* In the ''[[Help!... It's the Hair Bear Bunch!]]'' episode "Goldilocks and the Three Bears", Hair Bear plays Mama Bear.
 * Men disguised as women have also appeared in episodes of ''Touche Turtle and Dum Dum'' and ''Hong Kong Phooey''.
 * In the ''[[Smurfs]]'' episode "Smurfette for a Day", Hefty is disguised as Smurfette.