diff --git a/src/expfig/utils/get_pandas.py b/src/expfig/utils/get_pandas.py
index 37a7f3c..d399172 100644
--- a/src/expfig/utils/get_pandas.py
+++ b/src/expfig/utils/get_pandas.py
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 class BadPandas:
     def __getattr__(self, item):
+        if item.startswith('__'):
+            # Alleviates pytest issue with self.__unwrapped__, see https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/5080
+            raise AttributeError(item)
+
         raise ModuleNotFoundError("Optional dependency 'pandas' not installed. "
                                   "Install with 'pip install pandas' to utilize this functionality.")