History Cloudcuckoolander / LiveActionTV

* Fred from ''{{Angel}}'' resided in CloudCuckooland for a while; the small room she occupied in The Hyperion, for example, was covered with random thoughts she had in magic marker. She was only this way because of her mental trauma from being a slave in the demon dimension, Pylea. She recovered gradually, and became a useful asset to Angel Investigations.
** The Mayor in {{Spin City}} comes through in the occasional crisis and was much more normal in Season 1, but he's clearly not very bright or rational much of the time
** Creed on {{The Office}} is a kleptomaniac, doesn't understand the concept of a blog and was judged by Ryan to be too dangerous to own one, is unaware of how uncomfortable he can make people, rarely ever does work, but he still has a job and managed to trick Michael into convincing him to keep it
** Codie on {{Step by Step}} is highly eccentric and lives in a van. By many accounts he's dumb, but he also happened to outscore Dana on the SATs and often becomes the voice of reason in family criseses

** Brittany from ''Glee''. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGPfNB2nKgU&feature=related Did you know dolphins are just gay sharks?]]

* Brittany from ''{{Glee}}'' started out as a nameless background dancer, but has evolved into this. While many of the characters (Emma, Quinn) can be a bit spacey, it's hard to imagine Brittany as a functioning person in real life.

--->'''Noser: '''Hey, Wendy Watson.
--->'''Wendy: '''Hey, Noser.
--->'''Noser: '''Who's the man?
--->'''Wendy: '''That would be Shaft, Noser.
--->'''Noser: '''What kind of man?
--->'''Wendy: '''A complicated man.
--->'''Noser: '''So who understands him?
--->'''Wendy: '''Only his woman, Noser.
--->'''Noser: '''Right on.

-->'''Spike:''' You can't see the stars, luv, that's the ceiling. Also it's daytime.
-->'''Drusilla:''' I've given them all the same name, and there's terrible confusion. I fear there may be a duel...

*** In reality, Ziggy's the OnlySaneMan among the Ranger Series Operators, even calling out the others for passing judgment on Rangers Gold and Silver's zords. ("Look in the mirror, people: We're in no position to be sitting in judgment of anything weird!") Gem and Gemma are AdultChildren who, like Dr. K, have been raised in a government think tank codenamed "Alphabet Soup".

* The title character of ''{{Merlin}}'' probably comes across this way to the other characters at times (the scene where he tells Gwen he's checking her house for giant rats, stealing Arthur's food 'to keep him in shape', accusing apparently innocent people of being trolls and demons), but his actions all make perfect sense to the audience.
** The fact that he often turns out to be ''right'' probably keeps him from being written off as a total lunatic, though his bizarre behavior does seem to keep people from treating his claims seriously, at least initially.
* ''DucksBreathMysteryTheatre'' character and former MTV promo spokesman [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB_N7iWorvY Randee of the Redwoods]].
* Cat Valentine on ''{{Victorious}}''.
* Does Gaius Baltar from re-imagined ''BattlestarGalactica'' count? If you pretend you're one of the thousands of people with the sole exception of Caprica Six who can't see the Six that he's always conversing with, he comes off as more than a little bit not all there.
** How about the Hybrids? They're constantly spouting what seems to be gibberish, but can often be interpreted as speaking prophecies. It's mentioned that one theory is that because they live their lives as the minds of starships traversing the galaxy, they simply have a clearer view of the universe. Another theory is that they have literally seen the face of God, and it has driven them mad.

* Buster from ''ArrestedDevelopment'':
-->'''Buster:''' I love it here. And the language these guys use. Rough! One of the guys told me to take my head out of my bottom and get back to work. (Cackling laughter.) My bottom!
** No love for GOB?
-->'''GOB:''' My God, what is this feeling?
-->'''Michael:''' Well, you know the-the feeling that you're... that you're feeling is- is what many of us call 'a feeling'.
-->'''GOB:''' But it's not like envy, or even hungry.
-->'''Michael:''' Could it be love?
-->'''GOB:''' I know what an erection feels like, Michael! No, it's the opposite. It's.. it's like my heart is getting hard.

-->"It goes DING when there's stuff!"

* Barbra Jean from ''Reba'' is pretty much the queen of this trope, plus she's also the DumbBlonde AND TheDitz, Van has his share of "cloudcuckooland'' moments as well.

--->'''Murdock:''' I AM SANE!! ''S-A-N-E!!!'' '''SOUND!!!!''' '''''SENSIBLE!!!!!''''' * gets dragged off to his room*

-->'''Drusilla:''' I'm naming all the stars...\\
'''Spike:''' You can't see the stars, luv, that's the ceiling. Also it's daytime.
-->'''Drusilla:''' I've given them all the same name, and there's terrible confusion. I fear there may be a duel...\\

*** But nothing excuses this!

* '''Brittany''' from ''{{Glee}}'' started out as a nameless background dancer, but has evolved into this. While many of the characters (Emma, Quinn) can be a bit spacey, it's hard to imagine Brittany as a functioning person in real life.

-> '''Vince:''' Howard. Howard. Howard. Howard. Howard. Howard. Howard? Howard!
-> '''Howard:''' This better be good
-> '''Vince:''' You know the black bits in bananas? Are they tarantulas' eggs?
Or this:
-> '''I'm a gifted child. I'm like Mowgli, in flares.'''
* Kevin Lucas from ''JONAS''. God help the boy if he's really like that in real life.

-->"When I was younger, I actually thought I was an angel because I had a round face. And I thought about becoming a nun -- Sound Of Music -- but I really like boys, so I didn't. Not all boys, there's one boy. More man. Man-boy. He's totally... * unclassifiable wibbling noise* "

--> Robin: * dressed in a karate outfit* Barney, I can't break fifteen bricks with my forehead!

*** To be even more fair Leonard's and Howard's utterances in that episode are just as CloudCuckooLandish and they were all making them past each other simultaneously.

* Cat Valentine on "Victorious"

* Brittany from ''Glee''. She started out as just TheDItz, but has increasingly become this.

* Brittany from ''Glee''. Usually she's just written as regular ol' dumb, but occasionally she pops off with a real Cuckoolander gem.

* Buster from ''ArrestedDevelopment'':
-->'''Buster:''' I love it here. And the language these guys use. Rough! One of the guys told me to take my head out of my bottom and get back to work. (Cackling laughter.) My bottom!

* Parker from ''{{Leverage}}''. She has very little social skills and often makes inappropriate yet accurate comments. However, she is very skilled in other areas such as improvisation when it comes to thieving.

* Hiro Nakamura from ''{{Heroes}}'' has this, always in reference to geek lore that occasionally confuses people around him if they don't know what he's referencing. However, in the 4th season when [[spoiler: his mind was screwed with,]] he ends up speaking in NOTHING but geek references to talk about something else entirely, and seemed to think that he was Don Quixote. His friend actually took him to a ''comic book shop'' so he could translate what Hiro was talking about. Eventually he figured it out.
* ''That's So Raven's'' Chelsea fits this trope...well.

* Raj from TheBigBangTheory can be like this sometimes. "If I could talk to rabbits, they would be amazed by me and make me their king. I would be nice to them...at first..."

** 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.
* Robert Goren from LawAndOrderCriminalIntent is this trope. In the early episodes he plays around with a switchblade and cuts himself to freak out a suspect, and in later episodes he pretty much dows his own thing without the rest of the department.

* Fred from {{Angel}} resided in CloudCuckooland for a while; the small room she occupied in The Hyperion, for example, was covered with random thoughts she had in magic marker. She was only this way because of her mental trauma from being a slave in the demon dimension, Pylea. She recovered gradually, and became a useful asset to Angel Investigations.

* Does Gaius Baltar from re-imagined Battlestar Galactica count? If you pretend you're one of the thousands of people with the sole exception of Caprica Six who can't see the Six that he's always conversing with, he comes off as more than a little bit not all there.

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'''Drusilla:''' I've given them all the same name, and there's terrible confusion. I fear there may be a duel...\\

-->'''Drusilla:''' I'm counting all the stars...\\
'''Spike:''' That's the ceiling. And it's day.

* Cat Valentine on "Victorious"

**To Be fair, bananas are good. Always take a banana to a party.

***** ''Most'' of the Doctor's CloudCuckoolander type behavious seems to mostly be part of his act of ObfuscatingStupidity to make people underestimate him (or also a way of coping with how tough things get sometimes). Mind you, he's probably still in part a genuine cuckoo, he ''is'' the last surviving member of his species, who did away with the rest of them, has enough issues to put Freud out of a job, and has been travelling around the universe saving the day and screwing up intermittently for a good few hundred years... it's all bound to make you at least a little insane.
** The BigFinish RadioDrama ''Caerdroia'' has the Eighth Doctor develop a literal split personality, and his CloudCuckoolander side (substantial enough to begin with) gets its own body. The most normal personality says he "doesn't even seem to be living in the real world," and therefore attempts to deny usually being the same person as he is.
** And in the Eighth Doctor Adventures 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.