Top 10 Times Cartoon Characters Changed Their Appearance

Easily one of the funniest and most iconic transformations in cartoons. In Rick and Morty season 3, episode 3, Rick turns himself into a pickle to avoid family therapy with his daughter Beth and his grandchildren Morty and Summer. Because of something Morty did, Rick can't transform back into a human easily and ends up in the sewers where he has to fight for his life. He eventually gives his new body an upgrade after he kills a rat. The rest of the episode turns into an action movie skit that sees Rick fighting a bunch of bad guys.

In the episode "Really Loud Music," Luna is convinced by Doug and Michelle to change her appearance for a competition, turning her into Lulu.

In the episode "The Two Faces of Squidward," SpongeBob accidentally slams a door on Squidward's face, who is then rushed to the hospital where he gets facial reconstruction surgery. The treatment makes him amazingly handsome and beautiful, so much so that the citizens of Bikini Bottom faint because of how handsome he is. They ask for autographs and follow him around, and he enjoys all this attention.

Eventually, a massive crowd gathers around Squidward's house and soon tries to break in to get him. Squidward has no choice but to escape and hide in SpongeBob's house, where he begs the latter to help him get his old life back. They then hide in the Krusty Krab. Squidward asks SpongeBob to smash the same door that injured him into his face to turn him back to normal, threatening to hit SpongeBob if he doesn't.

SpongeBob repeatedly slams the door in Squidward's face, making Squidward even more handsome. Suddenly, a shoe falls through a hole in the roof. Before it hits Squidward in the head, SpongeBob shoves him out of the way, and he stumbles face-first into a pole, returning his face to normal. The crowd leaves in disappointment.

In the episode "Don't Make Me Over," Meg asks her crush on a date, but he turns her down. To cheer her up, Lois takes Meg to the mall for a makeover. This makeover makes Meg look so hot that she becomes popular.

This ties in with the subplot of the episode where Peter and his friends start a band, and Meg becomes the lead singer. She eventually lets fame go to her head, becoming rude and arrogant. This fame earns her a spot on Saturday Night Live.

Meg is seduced by Jimmy Fallon and has intercourse with him, but discovers that the entire encounter is being aired live on television as part of the show. Peter attacks and beats up Fallon in revenge. Afterward, Meg apologizes and returns to her old look, feeling that "being beautiful is too much work."

In the episode "Treehouse of Horror IV," which is a parody of The Devil and Daniel Webster, Homer is at work and states that he would sell his soul for a donut after finding that Lenny and Carl took all the donuts. The devil, revealed to be Ned Flanders, appears and offers Homer a contract to seal the deal.

Before Homer finishes the donut, he has a brilliant idea. Realizing that Ned will not be able to have his soul if he does not eat all of the donut, Homer keeps the final piece in the refrigerator. Unfortunately, while half-asleep and looking for a midnight snack, he eats that final piece, prompting the devil to reappear and take Homer's soul.

Marge then fights to get her husband's soul back and even hires a lawyer. Later, the jury rules in favor of The Simpsons. Enraged, the devil frees Homer but gets his revenge by turning Homer's head into a donut. The next morning, Homer, as gluttonous as ever, cannot stop eating his own head. He can't even leave the house because the entire Springfield police department is waiting outside to eat him, a joke about the stereotype of police officers loving donuts.

Everyone's favorite alien Roger from American Dad has disguised himself multiple times throughout the show's seasons, taking on different personas for different purposes, one of them being to get out of the Smith family's house without being recognized by the CIA. Roger's most famous and evil persona is Ricky Spanish, simply because he managed to get himself hated by the entire town when using this persona. The seventeenth episode of the eighth season of American Dad is the episode to watch if you haven't seen it yet.

In the episode "Back in Black," Lucy wants to be more regular and normal so that Lincoln's friend Rusty's little brother Rocky will like her. When the sisters find out, they become overjoyed with her wanting to be more normal and give her a new makeover to gain Rocky's attention.

In "Anthology of Interest II," the 18th episode of season 3 of Futurama, the crew continues where they left off in the previous episode in which Professor Farnsworth revealed his "What-If Machine." In this episode, the robot Bender asks what would happen if he were a human.

The machine shows that Professor Farnsworth would invent a process of "reverse fossilization," which can turn metal robots into organic life-forms. He then tests it on Bender, who is successfully transformed into a human. After a short period of adaptation, Bender loses self-control over his new senses of taste, touch, and emotional responses, and goes on a sensory input binge. A week later, at the Academy of Science Nobel Prize judging, the Professor presents Bender, who has become so fat he cannot move.

In the episode "Closet Clown," Ed Bighead, despite his disdain for clowns, suddenly starts becoming one himself and gets actual joy from being a clown. However, he tries to keep it a secret from everyone else.

In the 12th episode of season 1 of South Park, the episode is centered around actress and singer Barbra Streisand. Of course, she is parodied pretty hard in classic South Park fashion, though the episode focuses more on her singing career, depicting her voice as annoying.

There are two different stories being told here. One involves the four boys - Cartman, Stan, Kyle, and Kenny - finding an old triangular relic during a school trip called the Diamond of Pantheos. The rest of the episode centers around Streisand, who already has a similar relic and wants to acquire the other piece.

Later in the episode, Streisand acquires the relic from the boys and turns into "Mecha-Streisand," which is basically a giant robotic creature resembling the monster Godzilla. She is later defeated by Leonard Maltin, Sidney Poitier, and Robert Smith, all of whom take the forms of Japanese movie monsters.

In the episode "Changes," which is the pilot episode of the series, Dexter's sister Dee Dee goes into Dexter's laboratory after their mom asks her to check if her brother is ready to go to school. Dexter is obviously not happy about his nosy sister's intrusion, so the two start chasing each other around the lab, making a mess of the place.

They eventually stumble upon Dexter's latest invention: a handheld device that turns people into various animals. Dee Dee, mad that she saw one of her dolls used as a test dummy in the lab, uses the remote on Dexter, turning him into a rabbit. Dexter then uses the remote and turns Dee Dee into a frog.

The two go back and forth, turning each other into different animals like a beaver, a tiger, a dinosaur, etc. Their mom then goes to check on them, mad at their antics. They both race to press the button on the remote and are successful in turning each other back to normal, with only one problem: Dexter now looks like Dee Dee and Dee Dee now looks like Dexter.

In the episode "The Transplant," Muriel has the dog Courage dig a hole in the ground so she can plant a new flower, as her previous one died. Courage digs very deep and finds a bone. After digging all around it, he reveals more bones, which turn out to be the remains of an extinct giant kangaroo creature.

Courage's old master Eustace decides to auction it off, but in the process injures his back. Dr. Vindaloo performs a disc transplant on Eustace using a vertebra from the monster that Courage kept, which causes him to mutate into a giant kangaroo monster. Eustace then kidnaps his wife and runs off with her like Donkey Kong kidnapping a princess. Courage then has the doctor implant another monster bone into him to transform himself so he can fight Eustace and save Muriel.

In the third episode of season two of Paradise PD, Karen creates an all-female police force to combat Randall's misogynistic politics after finding out that Gina gets paid less than her male counterparts in the department.

Randall and the rest of the men get kicked out of their police station after Karen takes it over and uses it for the female police force. Randall combats her by establishing his own all-male police force but soon is very upset with his police force for being shown up by a bunch of women. He mostly blames Kevin, believing that Kevin is not acting manly enough, and vows to train him to become the ideal man.

During training, Randall puts testosterone patches on Kevin, turning him into a mega-buff, bulked-up "Kev-Man" who is more efficient against criminals than any of the male or female officers in the town. Later, the testosterone patches turn Kev-Man into a gigantic behemoth who acts more like a Neanderthal and causes chaos in the town.

Kev-Man then heads to Hooters where Gina now works after she quit. After arguing with Randall and Karen, and receiving an apology from the latter for her misogyny, Gina fights Kev-Man and removes his testosterone patches, turning him back into Kevin.