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-->'''Homer''': It's just a bunch of stuff that happened.\\

* ''TheRoom''. Tuxedo football scenes, anyone?

* PerdidoStreetStation. the book starts with a bird man whose wings have been cut off asking a scientist to figure out how to get him to fly again. Most of the plot consists of the heroes fighting off evil moths that eat people's brains, with side trips involving fascist secret police, a robot-worshipping cult, a giant spider that weaves together strands of reality, demonic hands that possess people, and a Batman-like mutant vigilante with praying mantis arms. The other Bas-Lag books (as well as UnLunDun and Literature/{{Kraken}}) also apply, although to a lesser extent.

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* ''TheRockyHorrorPictureShow''.

* PerdidoStreetStation. the book starts with a bird man whose wings have been cut off asking a scientist to figure out how to get him to fly again. Most of the plot consists of the heroes fighting off evil moths that eat people's brains, with side trips involving fascist secret police, a robot-worshipping cult, a giant spider that weaves together strands of reality, demonic hands that possess people, and a Batman-like mutant vigilante with praying mantis arms. The other Bas-Lag books (as well as UnLunDun and {{Kraken}}) also apply, although to a lesser extent.

* ''Albuquerque'' by WeirdAlYankovic. The LemonyNarrator endures a HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood before moving to the titular city. The rest consists of {{Dissimile}}s, MontyPython {{homage}}s, non sequiters, true love, BluntMetaphorsTrauma, and a SpoofAesop.

* ''TheVentureBrothers'', ''Escape to the House of the Mummies, Part II'' (there is no part I) which includes such disparate elements as mummies (duh), time travel, and Edgar Allen Poe in a headlock.

--> -- The Nostalgia Critic, on ''RockADoodle''

-->'''TheNostalgiaCritic''': ''"This is the animated version of Mad Libs!"''

* The animated Titanic movie (yep, another NostalgiaCritic target), which strongly suggests the guy who pitched it wasn't even aware that the Titanic disaster was an actual thing that happened. Plot elements and random-ass shit come literally out of nowhere, including an occasion where a character responds to an expression of gratitude by breaking out into a completely irrelevant rap song. It suggests nothing so much as that the creators played an old adventure game to figure out how to make the movie; "To make a BLOCKBUSTER HIT, you'll need A STAR-CROSSED ROMANCE, TALKING ANIMALS, WACKY HIJINX, and A RAP SONG to show we're hip with the kids."

* ''Albuquerque'' by WeirdAlYankovic. The LemonyNarrator ends up in the titular city. The rest consists of {{Dissimile}}s, MontyPython {{homage}}s, non sequiters, true love, BluntMetaphorsTrauma, and a SpoofAesop.

Comedies do this all the time, as the RuleOfFunny means that they don't have to make sense. Video games often do it as well, thanks to the RuleOfFun. When non-comedic shows, books, movies, etc. do this, however, it can be quite jarring. How well they pull it off and how enjoyable they manage to be often has to do with the execution of the story. If it's good, then the story may be random, but at least it's the fun kind of random, rather than the confusing, annoying kind of random.

See Also: HalfwayPlotSwitch, ShaggyDogStory

* ''LonelyWerewolfGirl''. Justified since a major theme is that things never work out the way you wish they would.

* ''MegamanBattleNetwork 4'' is this to the extreme due to its odd structure: 75% of the game consists of [[InevitableTournament tournaments]] where your opponents are randomized. However, each opponent has his/her own obligatory pre-match sidequest. While ''some'' of these quest are par for the course for the series (opponents trying to sabotage/threaten/blackmail you into losing the match or causing havok somewhere else) you get inane BigLippedAlligatorMoments such as laying ghost Navis to rest summoned by your opponent who turns out to be a ghost herself due to having died in the womb, getting roped into sparring against kendo dummies scattered across the net for no reason, getting challenged to a game of explosive virtual soccer, getting challenged to a ''cooking match'', etc. While this idiocy is happening, we have two B plots of [[SarcasmMode insignificant stuff]] like an evil syndicate spreading Navi corrupting chips throught the net and ''a killer asteroid headed towards Earth''. Both these plots are handled in the remaining 25% of the game and come together quite clumsily. There's a reason why this game is the most hated of the franchise.

* ''TheVentureBrothers'', ''Return to the House of the Mummies, Part II'' (there is no part I) which includes such disparate elements as mummies (duh), time travel, and Edgar Allen Poe in a headlock.

* The "Smooth Criminal" segment of ''{{Moonwalker}}''. It starts with MichaelJackson and his kid friends playing soccer in a verdant meadow. It ends with him performing a concert at a club. In between, we have a dance number in a 1930s club that's deserted one moment and inhabited the next, Michael transforming into a spaceship to defeat an evil drug lord wielding a giant laser, and other stuff. Why? As with much of the film, [[Main/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses "Jackson wills it."]]