History CloudCuckoolander / LiveACtionTV

** Phoebe Buffay is probably the most well-known example for a mass-media audience. For instance, she doesn't believe in evolution or gravity, and was convinced that her deceased mother's spirit returned in a cat.

** And in the ''Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures'' books, it seems that the Doctor's brain has been so thoroughly rattled by the fact he [[WhereIWasBornAndRazed destroyed Gallifrey]] (for the first time) that he can't "distinguish between the fact and fiction of a moving image." This gave him the idea, for a time, that {{Superman}}'s [[ClarkKenting idea of]] [[PaperThinDisguise a disguise]] and [[UnderwearOfPower how to wear underpants]] was a ''good'' idea. So, yes, he wore his underpants outside of his trousers, apparently somewhat more than once.

* ''Series/RupaulsDragRace'': In every season there's always at least one contestant that's "The Weird One," an unconventional queen whose personality and aesthetic tends towards the bizarre, whether it's comedic/clownish, anime-inspired, avante garde, or PerkyGoth. She's often a fan favorite due to being the {{Underdog}} of the season. Season 4's Sharon Needles and Season 11's Yvvie Oddly both won their respective seasons with their weirdness, though Season 1's Tammie Brown and Season 6's Milk gained strong followings as well.

--->'''Steinbrenner:''' [[RightForTheWrongReasons You had a premonition about the bomb, you climbed under that desk because you have ESP]]. Quick, George, put a thought in my mind! ...Meatballs! Hah! Unbelievable! You're a wonder, George!

--->'''George:''' What?

** This is also the show's characterization of George Steinbrenner, RealLife owner of the New York Yankees, boss of George Costanza, and laureate of the RamblingOldManMonologue.

** This is also the show's characterization of George Steinbrenner, owner of the New York Yankees, boss of George Costanza, and laureate of the RamblingOldManMonologue.

* ''Series/TheMiddle'' (the SpiritualSuccessor of ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle''): Brick, who even looks like Dewey, loves books to the point where he treats librarians as some sort of celebrity, has an unusual knowledge of fonts, and tends to repeat things after saying them. These are some of the more normal things he does. ''normal''...

%%* Lilly Truscott in ''Series/HannahMontana'' gravitates between [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bmjwWr7y70 this]] and {{Adorkable}}.

* ''Series/BrooklynNine-Nine'' has Adrian Pimento. While early episodes imply that his nuttyness is residual paranoia from being undercover in the mob for 12 years, more recent episodes show that that's just how he is.

%%* ''Series/DerryGirls''. Orla.

'''Wendy:''' Only his woman, Noser.

** Larry Fleinhardt of ''Series/{{NUMB3RS}}'' is this combined with AbsentMindedProfessor -- a brilliant thinker who can come up with remarkable insight, but walks around with his head in the clouds and tends to let more mundane matters slip his mind.

** From the same show: Roger names his dental tools after ''LordOfTheRings'' characters, and Abi is... Abi, and that's really all there is to it.
* Tyler from ''Series/MyHero'', one of the few characters who know about George Sunday's alter ego, Thermoman. This isn't the crazy part; the crazy part...what ''is'' the crazy part? The tea parties with [[LordOfTheRings Frodo Baggins]] seems the most likely candidate.

* Many characters on ''Series/TheYoungOnes'' have a touch of this, but the top candidates for Cloudcuckoolander on the show would be some of the Balowskis, particularly Reggie ("Hello, Mr. Pussycat! What you doing in a bucket?") and Brian ("...a helicopter, £100,000, a complete set of steak knives, some of those little black rubber things...").

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': The Doctor is an example of a Cloudcuckoolander that manages to be [[BunnyEarsLawyer pretty damn good at what they do]], but nevertheless retains their disdain for mundane things like reason and reality, even in their more serious [[TheNthDoctor regenerations]] (One, Seven and Twelve in particular), with regenerations like Four and Eleven constantly breaking the Cloudcuckoolander scale. A lot of it is ObfuscatingStupidity to fool their enemies, but most is because they just operate on a different level than everyone else. This could be justified by being a Time Lord, a civilisation that had been making the fabric of time and space their bitch for millions of years before the Doctor was born, except numerous episodes demonstrate that even other Time Lords find them weird.

--> '''Eric:''' I'm gonna miss you... You were always my favorite.
--> '''Angela:''' Really?
--> '''Eric:''' ...I dunno. (walks away)

--> '''Wesley:''' She's either counting oxygen molecules or analyzing the Petri dish she just put into her mouth. Or sleeping. I can never quite tell.

-->'''Drusilla:''' I'm naming all the stars...
-->'''Spike:''' You can't see the stars, luv, that's the ceiling. Also it's day.
-->'''Drusilla:''' ''I'' can see them, but I've given them all the same name, and there's ''terrible'' confusion.

* Cliff Clavin of ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' occasionally drifts into this territory. Coach and his penpal (they traded pens) Woody also qualify
-->'''Frasier:''' Hello in there, Cliff. Tell me, what color is the sky in your world?
-->'''Norm:''' Okay, Cliff. At what point in your life did you come to the fork in the road, where sanity was to the left and you took a hard right?

--> "I've got a leak in my bottom!"