It was a running gag rooted in cartoon absurdity, played for laughs without deeper commentary. Throughout the film, pleakley and jumba are forced to wear disguises to blend in with the humans around them as they hunt for stitch, with pleakley opting to dress as a woman tourist wearing. Fans loved pleakley’s attempt to dress as a woman, and they were upset that disney chose to take away such an iconic moment. To go “undercover,” they dress as a tourist couple — jumba wearing a fake mustache and sunglasses, pleakley in various wigs with their face beat for the gods And yes, i’m they/themming pleakley because, as reddit declares, Lilo & stitch director dean fleischer camp tried to put pleakley in a dress to make the character more accurate to the animated film, but disney denied it
Pleakley appeared dressed as a woman in.
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