History Cloudcuckoolander / LiveActionTV

** [[Recap/DoctorWho2006CSTheRunawayBride "The Runaway Bride"]]: Donna Noble has a brief moment when, upon seeing a hole bored all the way to the centre of the Earth, she wonders if there are dinosaurs, à la ''Film/JourneyToTheCenterOfTheEarth''. The Doctor is completely dumbfounded by this.

* Becker's delightfully-airheaded office assistant Linda from Series/{{Becker}} definitely seems to live in her own wavelength, to the point that it's lampshaded by other characters in-universe.

* From British sitcom ''Series/{{Miranda}}'', while best friend Stevie is more of a BunnyEarsLawyer, Miranda ''definitely'' counts. She spend more time messing around in the joke shop than actually working ("How about a game of Biscuit Blizzard?"), has an alarming tendency to burst into song randomly and [[NoFourthWall has no concept of the fourth wall]]. It's [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]] in the Season 3 opener, when Stevie actually quits the shop because she's fed up of Miranda never taking anything seriously. When Miranda later gets a normal office job, her Cloudcuckoolander nature just doesn't fit and she quits fairly sharpish, the pair soon reuniting when they realize just how boring life is without a Cloudcuckoolander to share it with.

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E4TheDoctorsWife "The Doctor's Wife"]] puts the mind of the TARDIS in a human body, demonstrating that she's '''[[UpToEleven even more]]''' of a Cloudcuckoolander than the Doctor, with a heavy dose of TheCloudcuckoolanderWasRight. Having your mind spread across all of time and space will do that to you.

** [[NoodleIncident If all her stories about her brother are true,]] then [[TheUnseen her brother]] is this UpToEleven.

* 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 [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Frodo Baggins]] seems the most likely candidate.

* Spending years in prison for a crime he didn't commit seems to have made [[DefectiveDetective Detective Crews]] from ''Series/{{Life}}'' slightly unhinged. He says things that make his partner ask if it's a "Zen thing", has an odd fruit fixation, and has a decidedly offbeat manner in dealing with the public.

** Mrs. Doyle is one as well, as is Father Jack Hackett, being both a senile old man ''and'' an [[TheAlcoholic alcoholic]]. "The Plague" gives us [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNzECWrEnok this gem]].

** Mrs. Doyle is one as well, as is Father Jack Hackett, being both a senile old man ''and'' an [[TheAlcoholic alcoholic]]. "The Plague" gives us [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNzECWrEnok this gem]] while in "Hell" we have [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vh9mp_syc8c this]].

* ''DucksBreathMysteryTheatre'' character and former MTV promo spokesman [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB_N7iWorvY Randee of the Redwoods]].

** 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 ideas of]] [[PaperThinDisguise a disguise]] and [[UnderwearOfPower how to wear underpants]] were ''good'' ideas. So, yes, he wore his underpants outside of his trousers, apparently somewhat more than once.

** 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 ideas of]] [[PaperThinDisguise a disguise]] and [[UnderwearOfPower how to wear underpants]] were ''good'' ideas. So, yes, he wore his underpants outside of his trousers, apparently somewhat more than once.

** Her mother also has traces of [[CatchPhrase what I call]] "Cloudcuckoolander tendencies."

* Gaius Baltar from ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003''. 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.

* A majority of characters on its Canadian counterpart, ''Series/{{SCTV}}'', qualify for this trope, particularly Bob and Doug [=McKenzie=]. The brothers would talk about random things (usually involving beer) and bicker with each other over something else.

* ''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 ("You're not making any sense, man.", "Excuse me, I'm making perfect sense; you're just not keeping up."). 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.

* ''Series/PicketFences'' had a rather dark RealityEnsues take on this. The character involved, who would often spout amusing nonsequiturs in the middle of dramatic murder investigations and was one of the funnier guys on the show, turned out to have Alzheimer's, which led to a tragic downward spiral.

*** In one classic example, he [[EurekaMoment makes a breakthrough in the case]] while in the hot tub and ends up [[Funny/Numb3rs running across campus in his bathrobe]] yelling about Archimedes. At the end of the scene, he finally realizes he's been separated from his clothing, and then has to try and remember where he left it.

-->'''Castiel''': This isn't funny, Dean! [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments The voice says I'm almost out of minutes!]]

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** Jenna Maroney drifted into Cloudcuckooland by Season Two.

* Hiro Nakamura from ''Series/{{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 Literature/DonQuixote. His friend actually took him to a ''comic book shop'' so he could translate what Hiro was talking about. Eventually he figured it out.

** There's Molly Clock, a season four guest character for a few episodes. She's a renowned psychologist... [[BunnyEarsLawyer who also happens to be a space case]].

** He is cemented in this role in season seven, as he [[spoiler:absorbs Sam's [[ImHavingSoulPains soul pains]] from his time spent in the Cage in Hell, which ultimately drives him insane. He spends several episodes concerned with bees and monkeys and is only peripherally able to deal with serious issues (like Leviathan) that the Winchesters care about]].

* Klaus from ''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy2019'' fits this trope so well, he has become a reference point people use when trying to explain what the term means. Aside from his extravagant personality, he has been shown to break the social norms in almost every scene he appears. In the first episode alone, he is the person standing outside with a pink kid umbrella at the funeral of his dad. Later he's seen walking around in his sisters skirt he casually stole from her closet. Many things he do seem random and out of place, whether it's because he's casually digging through the trash or randomly crawls out of a closet.
** His character has been criticized for the exact same reason, as Klaus is a drug addict and many people considered this behavior as the show using addiction and mental health issues as a comedic relief.

*** Dimwitted newsman Earl Camembert, among other things, tried to eat his dinner at the news desk once, and in an attempt to seem youthful and in-touch with what the youth wanted in a journalist, roller skated onto the news set to disco music and promptly fell flat on his face. (Extra hilarious because the sketch in question aired in late 1980- in less than a year disco and roller skating to it would be [[DeaderThanDisco completely out of fashion]].)

* ''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. The Weird One is often a fan favorite due to their quirkiness and being an underdog in the competition. Season 4's Sharon Needles and Season 11's Yvvie Oddly both won their respective seasons, while Season 1's Tammie Brown and Season 6's Milk gained huge followings as well.

* ''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 an underdog. 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.