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* The Czech StopMotion film ''Animation/ThePiedPiper'', which is heavily stylized to resemble Medieval wooden carvings and early mechanical devices.



* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCdiGames''
* ''VideoGame/IMMeen''
* ''VideoGame/TonicTrouble''. It starts on top of a snow- and palm tree-covered mountain and gets crazier from there...

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* The music video for the song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDZtUUVJ0yc "YABABAINA"]] by Music/{{Vocaloid}} producer Satapan-P is full of neon colors, [[StylisticSuck deliberately]] OffModel animation that moves at breakneck speed, and random events such as Miku, Zundamon, and Teto piloting a HumongousMecha in order to fight a [[AttackOfThe50FootTallWhatever giant pink dinosaur]].
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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYa5aQb3YGE Dragonzball P,]] a parody of the numerous [[InactionSequence Inaction Sequences]] that ''Dragon Ball Z'' is known for, is filled to the brim with nonsensical dialogue, frequent [[ArtShift Art Shifts]], faces distorting and rearranging at random, and characters inexplicably spinning in place.

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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYa5aQb3YGE Dragonzball P,]] a parody of the numerous [[InactionSequence Inaction Sequences]] instances of TalkingIsAFreeAction and other fight-scene {{padding}} methods that ''Dragon Ball Z'' is known for, is filled to the brim with nonsensical dialogue, frequent [[ArtShift Art Shifts]], faces distorting and rearranging at random, and characters inexplicably spinning in place.
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* ''Videogame/ArzetteTheJewelofFaramore'' bills itself as a SpiritualSuccessor to the Zelda CD-i games (albeit as a functional game) complete with hiring the original background artist and as such the cutscenes are animated in a [[StylisticSuck deliberately bizarre]] fashion complete with characters constantly making exaggerated expressions while mugging the screen.

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* ''Videogame/ArzetteTheJewelofFaramore'' ''Videogame/ArzetteTheJewelOfFaramore'' bills itself as a SpiritualSuccessor to the Zelda CD-i games (albeit as a functional game) complete with hiring the original background artist and as such the cutscenes are animated in a [[StylisticSuck deliberately bizarre]] fashion complete with characters constantly making exaggerated expressions while mugging the screen.
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* ''Videogame/ArzetteTheJewelofFaramore'' bills itself as a SpiritualSuccessor to the Zelda CD-i games (albeit as a functional game) complete with hiring the original background artist and as such the cutscenes are animated in a [[StylisticSuck deliberately bizarre]] fashion complete with characters constantly making exaggerated expressions while mugging the screen.
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Misused; this is about surreal and strange ANIMATION, not just weird faces or strange moments that are conventionally animated.


* Enjoy [[http://www.toplessrobot.com/2009/04/the_10_most_insane_moments_in_dragonball_and_dbz.php?page=1 this list]] of the top ten (yes, ''only'' ten) "WTF?" moments from ''Anime/DragonBallZ''.



* One has to wonder what the animators of ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' [[http://community.livejournal.com/capslock_bleach/275923.html?page=3#comments Episode 133]] were smoking when they made it. ''Everyone'' look like MemeticMolester|s. Even [[HoYay Hitsugaya.]] And [[TokenMiniMoe Yachiru Kusajishi]].
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* ''Manga/BocchiTheRock" sometimes sometimes delves into this to express how extreme [[ShrinkingViolet Hitori's social anxiety gets]], such as when she [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3IA5X2tfR0&t=32s violently "glitches out"]] and lets out a deranged shriek at the mere thought of having an Instagram account. The rest of the band's response indicates Hitori is having a bad [[HeroicBSOD anxiety attack]] at the same time.
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* ''Manga/BocchiTheRock" sometimes sometimes delves into this to express how extreme [[ShrinkingViolet Hitori's social anxiety gets]], such as when she [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3IA5X2tfR0&t=32s violently "glitches out"]] and lets out a deranged shriek at the mere thought of having an Instagram account. The rest of the band's response indicates Hitori is having a bad [[HeroicBSOD anxiety attack]] at the same time.
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* ''WesternAnimation/OggyAndTheCockroaches'' is like ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' on drugs. Enforcing the RuleOfFunny and RuleOfCool means that RealityIsOutToLunch. Oggy's house is an TARDIS-esque liminal space full of AlienGeometries. The ventilation system is an EldritchLocation with an entire civilization. A forest grows in the living room. The nearby city is used as a set of bowling pins. Normal-ish looking cartoon animals live alongside bizzarely mishapen humans. GrossUpCloseUp also comes into play at least once an episode. Oggy meets a cross-eyed Elmer Fudd knock-off chasing a kangaroo Roadrunner. Everyone speaks in animal noises or gibberish. It was probably not made on drugs.

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* ''WesternAnimation/OggyAndTheCockroaches'' is like ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' ''Franchise/TomAndJerry'' on drugs. Enforcing the RuleOfFunny and RuleOfCool means that RealityIsOutToLunch. Oggy's house is an TARDIS-esque liminal space full of AlienGeometries. The ventilation system is an EldritchLocation with an entire civilization. A forest grows in the living room. The nearby city is used as a set of bowling pins. Normal-ish looking cartoon animals live alongside bizzarely mishapen humans. GrossUpCloseUp also comes into play at least once an episode. Oggy meets a cross-eyed Elmer Fudd knock-off chasing a kangaroo Roadrunner. Everyone speaks in animal noises or gibberish. It was probably not made on drugs.
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* The second opening to ''Manga/DeathNote''. Very bright colors and Japanese metal for a show about a kid playing god? ''Someone'' had to be tripping.

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* The second opening to ''Manga/DeathNote''. Very bright colors and Japanese metal for a show about a kid playing god? ''Someone'' had to be tripping. The rest of the show has rather subdued animation, though.
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* The in-film animated short that accompanies "The Origin of Love" in ''Film/HedwigAndTheAngryInch'' is a heavily stylized depiction of the mythical past, "when the earth was still flat", with the [[AllMythsAreTrue gods of all the pantheons]] hanging around and all the people having four arms, four legs, and two faces until Zeus cuts them in half to teach them a lesson. The narrator warns that "if we don't behave, they'll cut us down again, and we'll be hopping around on one foot, looking through one eye" - with a rather unsettling depiction of this.
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See also ArtShift, OffModel, UnintentionalUncannyValley, ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs, SurrealHorror, FauxSymbolism, and WidgetSeries. Compare BigLippedAlligatorMoment, DisneyAcidSequence, and BizarroEpisode, where things only temporarily become deranged (usually). [[noreallife]]

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See also ArtShift, OffModel, UnintentionalUncannyValley, ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs, SurrealHorror, FauxSymbolism, and WidgetSeries.QuirkyWork. Compare BigLippedAlligatorMoment, DisneyAcidSequence, and BizarroEpisode, where things only temporarily become deranged (usually). [[noreallife]]
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* ''Manga/BoboboBobobobo'', has extreme ArtShift to realistic faces at times, things like Yugi Mutou shooting out of Bobobo's head, a male enemy becomes a very feminine torpedo and two boys fuse into a MagicalGirl. Here's one example [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJuRXTNSORE from the show.]]

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* ''Manga/BoboboBobobobo'', ''Manga/BoboboboBobobo'' has extreme ArtShift to realistic faces at times, things like [[Anime/{{Yugioh}} Yugi Mutou Mutou]] shooting out of Bobobo's head, a male enemy becomes a very feminine torpedo and two boys fuse into a MagicalGirl. Here's one example [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJuRXTNSORE from the show.]]



* ''Manga/XxxHOLiC'' is a wonderful manga, but the art style Creator/{{CLAMP}} employed does not translate well to video. The anime is fine, but the movie is trippy, surreal, and somehow enjoyable.

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* ''Manga/XxxHOLiC'' ''Manga/XxxHolic'' is a wonderful manga, but the art style Creator/{{CLAMP}} employed does not translate well to video. The anime is fine, but the movie is trippy, surreal, and somehow enjoyable.



* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCDiGames''

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** "Real Demons Caught on Tape" [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin has demon hand coming for the first person.

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** "Real Demons Caught on Tape" [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin has demon hand coming for the first person.person]].

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%%* The footage used in ''WesternAnimation/OffTheAir'' leans mostly towards this, though they have no shortage of bizarre live-action clips as well.

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%%* * The footage used in ''WesternAnimation/OffTheAir'' leans mostly towards this, though they have no shortage of bizarre live-action clips as well.well. Some examples:
** Cyriak's "Something" includes spinning heads [[ManiacTongue with their tongues sticking out]].
** "Real Demons Caught on Tape" [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin has demon hand coming for the first person.
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* ''Anime/WinterDays'' veers into this at points. Some notable examples:
** Noriko Morita's segment is animated in a very erratic manner, and features a woman being savagely attacked while the sounds of a crying baby ring in the background, as well as some BodyHorror.
** Katsushi Boda's segment features a man growing butterfly wings and fighting an EldritchAbomination, and culminates with a train floating in space.

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}''. After the film became a hit among the "head" crowd[[note]]the students who liked to get high on marijuana and LSD, among other drugs[[/note]] on college campuses in the late 60s and early 70s, somebody asked animator Art Babbitt (who animated the dancing mushrooms on that film) if he had been influenced by drugs. He jokingly admitted, "Yes, it is true. I myself was addicted to [[GRatedDrug Ex-Lax and Feenamint]]."

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}''. It goes from musical instruments turning into abstract shapes, dancing flowers/fairies, and Mickey Mouse as a sorcerer bringing brooms to life to the evolution of the earth from the Precambrian to the Cretaceous with hyper-realistic dinosaurs, a cutesy version of Greek Mythology, anthropomorphic animals doing a ballet performance to finally essentially Satan summoning his undead and infernal followers before ending at a group of a religious sect going into a forest. [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer No Really]].
**It's even lampshaded in real life.
After the film became a hit among the "head" crowd[[note]]the students who liked to get high on marijuana and LSD, among other drugs[[/note]] on college campuses in the late 60s and early 70s, somebody asked animator Art Babbitt (who animated the dancing mushrooms on that film) if he had been influenced by drugs. He jokingly admitted, "Yes, it is true. I myself was addicted to [[GRatedDrug Ex-Lax and Feenamint]]."
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* A good number of arthouse animation master Rene Laloux's work. Short films in particular border on FauxSymbolism with hideously fascinating animation. ''Animation/{{Gandahar}}'' is unnervingly bizarre, and then there's ''Animation/FantasticPlanet''...

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* A good number of arthouse animation master Rene Laloux's work. Short films in particular border on FauxSymbolism with hideously fascinating animation. ''Animation/{{Gandahar}}'' ''WesternAnimation/{{Gandahar}}'' is unnervingly bizarre, and then there's ''Animation/FantasticPlanet''...
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* ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroesIII'' cranks up the weird factor with the cutscene preceding the boss fight with Velvet Chair Girl, which is animated by AC-BU (of ''[[Manga/PopTeamEpic Bob Epic Team]]'' fame).
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* [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] in multiple ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'' episodes to show character's hallucinations or other mental problems.
** One particularly notable example is in the episode Time's Arrow, where [[spoiler: Beatrice's dementia makes the faces of many characters scribbled out, blends important images together, and even adds hellfire to a scene]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/LoveDeathAndRobots'' is an anthology with animated shorts in varied styles ranging from live-action quality CGI to the downright bizarre. A prime example of the latter is "The Witness", in which a girl sees a guy kill a girl, gets chased by the killer through a psychedelic city, kills the guy, then starts chasing a guy who witnessed it. And for extra MindScrew, there's only one girl and one guy - they're somehow chasing and killing each other in a weird loop.

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* ''WesternAnimation/LoveDeathAndRobots'' is an anthology with animated shorts in varied styles ranging from live-action quality CGI to the downright bizarre. A prime example of the latter is "The Witness", "[[Recap/LoveDeathAndRobotsTheWitness The Witness]]", in which a girl sees a guy kill a girl, gets chased by the killer through a psychedelic city, kills the guy, then starts chasing a guy who witnessed it. And for extra MindScrew, there's only one girl and one guy - -- they're somehow chasing and killing each other in a weird loop.
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%%* David & The Magic Pearl, well known to anyone familiar with WebAnimation/YouTubePoop, features plenty of this.

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%%* David & The Magic Pearl, well known to anyone familiar with WebAnimation/YouTubePoop, YouTubePoop, features plenty of this.
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Animation, freed from the limitations of live-action films, allows you to show anything you could ever ''imagine''. Here, that freedom is used to dispense with all semblance of reality, and sanity, taking the viewer into a crazy world where anything goes. Some people find this "anything goes" attitude delightful. Usually it [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs wasn't made on drugs]]... but it almost seems like it'd be less creepy if you knew they did.

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Animation, freed from the limitations of live-action films, allows you to show anything you could ever ''imagine''. Here, that freedom is used to dispense with all semblance of reality, and sanity, taking the viewer into a crazy world where anything goes. Some people find this "anything goes" attitude delightful. Usually it [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs [[QuirkyWork wasn't made on drugs]]... but it almost seems like it'd be less creepy if you knew they did.



* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY2GeH1P44k Dig]] (1972), a boy and his dog are given a tour of the Earth's crust [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs by a talking, singing rock.]]

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* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY2GeH1P44k Dig]] (1972), a boy and his dog are given a tour of the Earth's crust [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs [[QuirkyWork by a talking, singing rock.]]
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* ''VideoGame/HotelMario''



* [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros The Super Mario series]] has plenty of creatures that are far from real, but ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'' has character designs which just don't make sense in three dimensions.



* ''WesternAnimation/DonkeyKongCountry'', mainly due to the extremely primitive nature of its CGI animation.
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* The WebAnimation/{{Animutation}} genre of animation depicts random images moving around the screen, characters' heads on wrong bodies, fake misheard lyrics, subliminal messages, "singers" whose jaws fall off their face while they sing, all with no apparent plot.

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* The WebAnimation/{{Animutation}} {{Animutation}} genre of animation depicts random images moving around the screen, characters' heads on wrong bodies, fake misheard lyrics, subliminal messages, "singers" whose jaws fall off their face while they sing, all with no apparent plot.

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