Adventures of Kool Aid Man
Through three issues, The Adventures of Kool Aid Man was published by Marvel Comics. Then Archie Comics took the helm for six issues, with two changes made to the character design. First, he is no longer carrying a pitcher of Kool Aid. Frankly, I do not really understand the dynamics at play here -- it is an anthromorphized pitcher of liquid carrying around a pitcher of its contents? The second thing that Archie Comics did was give the character pants --
and shoes and socks. But there is this weird inconsistency with this narrative. We begin with these spandex bike shorts, but very abruptly and nowhere he might have changed we move into a hike into the forest with--
Confounding things, he takes them off and goes pantsless when it comes time to burst in and confront the enemy Thirstees.
Right after this sequence, Kool Aid Man has his cargo shorts back on. Later in the same issue he is in the beach with swimtrunks.
Which he continues to wear in the next issue, though curiously enough confronted with licensed likenesses of himself --
Licensed products of him (is the hot air balloon merchandise?) have no pants again.