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| 17 | 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 [[QuirkyWork wasn't made on drugs]]... but it almost seems like it'd be less creepy if you knew they did. |
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| 19 | For younger viewers, this can be either a pretty rich well of NightmareFuel, whether or not {{accidental|nightmare fuel}}, or NightmareRetardant. |
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| 21 | See also ArtShift, OffModel, UnintentionalUncannyValley, ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs, SurrealHorror, FauxSymbolism, and QuirkyWork. Compare BigLippedAlligatorMoment, DisneyAcidSequence, and BizarroEpisode, where things only temporarily become deranged (usually). [[noreallife]] |
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| 24 | !!Examples: |
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| 26 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 27 | |
| 28 | [[folder:Advertising]] |
| 29 | * [[https://vimeo.com/67635073 The Summer 2013 promo]] for Cartoon Network is one minute of surreal versions of the then-current shows and characters. |
| 30 | * The "Get a Load of Milk" ads. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTA4Jp2ifbA Just watch a few.]] |
| 31 | ** What is the deal with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfVZtDh5UQk milk ads and deranged animation?]] |
| 32 | *** We've [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NGabt5IHBg no idea what]] the problem is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fJhJnWizkQ with milk adverts.]] Or [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR7RYKPJBdo&feature=related milkshake ones]] for that matter. |
| 33 | *** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrrvTnyIIzA This one.]] |
| 34 | ** [[FridgeBrilliance They have something to do with bones or teeth.]] [[FridgeLogic But some don't remotely mention it.]] |
| 35 | * The old mid-80's Levi's jeans ads, where the Levi's logo would open like a door and various random weird creatures would walk or scurry out. The most memorable were the giant green alien in the samurai armor, and the Tarzan guy wearing jeans who would swing out yelling "Leeeeee-viiiiiiiii's!" |
| 36 | * Based out of Alice Springs, Australia, the discount store chain Mad Harry's is known for its very off-model animations, with an art style so creepy it stops being eerie and loops back around into being bewilderingly hilarious. Two ads produced for the chain can be found on [=YouTube=], and both are [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTIyRfpJaXU just as strange]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDI-nYY7YvQ as each other.]] |
| 37 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5pBm2UBTF8 Maynard's Wine Gum.]] |
| 38 | * The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLsONa3gKIQ Mr. Yuk]] ads. |
| 39 | * Nickelodeon's old station identification spots from the 1980's and early-to-mid 1990's. |
| 40 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZrks-BPeLQ We love the suuuuuubs!]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG042nkReBA&feature=related Subs are a do-llar off!]] |
| 41 | ** All of [[http://rathergood.com Rather Good's]] videos are like this. Presumably, Quizno's was going for that when they hired him... |
| 42 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ee0syZi9E0 This]] commercial for Royco soup in a cup. |
| 43 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgaoqvmmg1E These]] [[https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV12X4y1m7yR/?from=search commercials]] for Zact Lion toothpaste makes you question your state of sanity. |
| 44 | [[/folder]] |
| 45 | |
| 46 | [[folder:Anime Film]] |
| 47 | %%* ''Animation/AachiAndSsipak'' is a Korean film about a world powered by feces and the little blue guys who provide it. |
| 48 | * ''[[Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena The Adolescence of Utena]]'' (well, the series is like this too, but mostly the movie). It runs like a dream on hallucinogenics. It includes scenes like a morphing butterfly/girl/bedsheet in a cabbage patch and ''Utena turning into a car''. Listening to the director's commentary, however, reveals that not only was its creator sober and off drugs, but he's also an incredibly calm, thoughtful individual in general and [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory everything has an allegorical meaning]]. |
| 49 | %%* ''Manga/{{Akira}}'', once Tetsuo starts to mutate. It's also nightmarish and [[NauseaFuel disgusting]] as well. |
| 50 | %%* ''Anime/AngelsEgg''. When even ''[[Creator/MamoruOshii the goddamn creator]]'' throws up his hands and admits he has no idea what the film is supposed to say, you know you're in bizarro-land. Gorgeously-animated bizarro-land. |
| 51 | %%* Though some of its chapters are [[SceneryPorn breathtakingly]] or [[{{Gorn}} horrifyingly]] realistic, there are some stories in ''Anime/TheAnimatrix'' that just went out of the loop. "Kid's Story" has its moments, but "World Record" and "Matriculated" take the cake in terms of distorted, wild animation. |
| 52 | %%* ''Anime/BelladonnaOfSadness'' is trippy throughout, but the repellent VisualInnuendo during the representative rape scene, in particular, stands out. |
| 53 | %%* ''Belladonna''. Creator/KunihikoIkuhara, the creator of the aforementioned ''Utena'', was directly inspired by it. |
| 54 | %%* Many elements of ''Anime/{{Catnapped}}'', particularly Papadoll (a monstrous dog) and Buburina (a freakishly animated evil cat queen). Just check at her freaky eyes and facial expression when she's hypnotizing characters. |
| 55 | * ''Anime/CatSoup'' has been described by reviewers as "''Franchise/HelloKitty'' [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs on acid]]" with the characters speaking in squeaks, their lack of facial expressions, lifeless eyes, the setting's desaturated colors and the sheer amount of {{Big Lipped Alligator Moment}}s. This is also an example of TheWalrusWasPaul. |
| 56 | %%* ''Anime/DeadLeaves'': Take ''Anime/{{FLCL}}'' [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs and give it LSD in addition to all the crack]]. In an interview on the disc, one of the creators was asked what his inspiration was. His reply was simply "I'm a Drunkard." Said interview was conducted in a rooftop bar while the group was being served drinks of ever-increasing potency. It eventually culminated in what one of the group described as ''detergent''. Also, in one Creator/AdultSwim bumper, they quoted an interview (but didn't say which one) where the producers stated that ''FLCL'' is "the type of show we make to let off steam after tackling something like ''Evangelion''." |
| 57 | %%* ''Anime/{{Interstella 5555}}''? Too easy. It is, after all, basically a giant Music/DaftPunk music video. |
| 58 | %%* Every piece of animation Creator/MasaakiYuasa has directed. |
| 59 | %%* All of ''Anime/MindGame''. |
| 60 | %%* ''[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion The End of Evangelion]]'' gets really weird and creepy once Instrumentality starts. Also, the little there was in the way of animation in [[GainaxEnding episode 26]] was rather... trippy. |
| 61 | %%* ''Noiseman Sound Insect'' is a beautiful short film, but also very, very messed up. |
| 62 | * ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieRebellion'' brought back Gekidan Inu Curry, designers of the surreal ArtShift witch labyrinths, and had them do an ever-escalating portion of the visuals. Random flying objects, twitchy paper cut-out animation, and creepy misshapen ''puppets''... the end result is like watching the [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs already trippy]] original series on acid. [[spoiler:Justified in that the whole movie takes place inside a labyrinth, with everything that comes with it.]] |
| 63 | %%* ''Anime/RadioCityFantasy'''s more surreal segues go into this territory. |
| 64 | %%* Creator/SatoshiKon appears to have used something to help him with his work at times, judging from ''Anime/PerfectBlue'', ''Anime/ParanoiaAgent'', and especially ''Literature/{{Paprika}}''. |
| 65 | %%* ''Manga/{{Tekkonkinkreet}}'' is bizarre throughout, but the [[spoiler:Minotaur]] segment tops it all. |
| 66 | %%* ''Manga/{{Unico}} in the Island of Magic''. |
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| 69 | [[folder:Anime Series]] |
| 70 | * AC部's art style in general. Aside from the ''Bob Epic Team'' shorts, they're also responsible for the [[MemeticMutation memetic]] "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EKTw50Uf8M Galo Sengen]]" and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvu9itUS8eU "It's So Good Now"]] music videos. |
| 71 | * ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'' is more or less a SliceOfLife series that looks at the various idiosyncrasies of some rather unusual (but still average, all considered) teen-aged girls. And then there's Sakaki's dream about what Chiyo's dad might be like--a huge, orange cat that spouts GratuitousEnglish. Had to be some ''weird'' "dream" for Sakaki to come up with that. |
| 72 | * ''Manga/BoboboboBobobo'' has extreme ArtShift to realistic faces at times, things like [[Anime/{{Yugioh}} 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.]] |
| 73 | * ''Anime/ConcreteRevolutioChoujinGensou'': [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x38k4r7 The ED looks very SHAFT]], but it's not - it's actually the (mostly) sane Creator/StudioBones. The show itself, with its color palette, frenetic action and frequent abuse of in-storyline AnachronismStew, would also count. |
| 74 | %%* ''Anime/CControl''. |
| 75 | * 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. |
| 76 | * ''Anime/ExcelSaga'' does have some semblance of sense and logic, just as long as you're aware of what all the parodies and references are, what's being satirized, and why. It's not so much some kind of "random for the sake of random" or "on drugs" type of psychedelic trip. (That distinction goes to ''Manga/BoboboBobobobo''). ''Excel Saga'', however, IS one big non-stop barrage of in-jokes poking fun at the director Creator/ShinichiWatanabe's own thoughts, feelings, and ludicrous experiences at working in multiple genres of anime, as well as original manga author Koshi Rikudo's cynical, social satire, self-mocking, and controversial statements about his own nation's strange policies and economic troubles. Although the existence of the Puuchuus and why they randomly turn into Takao Saito and Creator/LeijiMatsumoto characters when struck with a blunt object.... |
| 77 | * ''Anime/{{FLCL}}'', which almost qualifies as a drug in and of itself. Actually, it ''was''. It was the anti-depressant for everyone who had worked on ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''. |
| 78 | * ''Anime/{{Gankutsuou}}'' is set in a futuristic world so trippy one would almost think it was made by Dr. Gonzo from ''Literature/FearAndLoathingInLasVegas'', not Studio GONZO. |
| 79 | * ''Anime/HareGuu'' is an acid trip from start to finish. The weirdness is too much to state on one paragraph, but suffice to say, the first opening features dancing palm trees and a world inside a stomach. And that's the ''least weird'' thing you'll get. |
| 80 | * Episode 18 of the ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' anime. There's no way that the decision to have the Roman Empire randomly pop out of the sea and sing about the differences between heaven and hell was made while sober. |
| 81 | ** And then there's the movie ("Paint it, White!") where he appears again and sings a rock version (!) of his Heaven and Hell song. It doesn't even make sense in context... well, the context itself doesn't really make any sense, either. |
| 82 | * ''Anime/{{Kaiba}}''. The plot summary alone sounds a little out there... ''And then you see the art style.'' Kaiba looks like a child's TV show, with trippy architecture and illogical types of technology, gone CerebusSyndrome and mixed with adult themes. Buildings are depressingly creepy, even with the bright colors and lack of geometric structure. Then you consider how the authorities [[spoiler:steal bodies, look into other peoples' personal worlds, execute enemies, have sex, pilot spaceships, HIT BUTTONS AND PRESS LEVERS, etc,]]. |
| 83 | %%* ''Anything'' made by Creator/KazuyaTsurumaki. This guy won't ever need drugs -- he's crazy enough just as is. |
| 84 | * ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'': |
| 85 | ** The 2012 anime of has this happen in the action scenes, with lurid colours and {{Written Sound Effect}}s galore. |
| 86 | ** Boingo's future-predicting manga in ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Stardust Crusaders]]'' is drawn in an even more surreal and simplified [[ArtShift artstyle]], which is animated in his own [[EndingTheme Ending Themes]]. |
| 87 | * ''Anime/{{Kemonozume}}''r. In fact, the art style is actually fairly representative of everything Yuasa (and Studio 4C, for that matter) has done since ''Anime/MindGame''. |
| 88 | * The ''Franchise/LoveLive'' series, an otherwise pretty mundane franchise about IdolSinger schoolgirls, took a crack at this one with the music video for [[Anime/LoveLiveSunshine Ruby Kurosawa's]] solo song "Cotton Candy Ei Ei Oh!", whereupon [[RealityIsOutToLunch all semblance of logic and reason decided to take a lunch break]] and the remaining void was filled by what could best be described as a combination of Rikako Aida on the art team, the animator(s) of ''Bob Team Epic'', and unspeakable amounts of acid locked together in a room for 24 hours straight without sleep, all set to a song that is almost as insane as the video would have you believe the song to be. [[https://youtu.be/Ksf_gq6fZZM It has to be seen to be believed.]] |
| 89 | * Much of the animation of ''Anime/LupinIIIPartIII'' is like this, especially in episodes animated by [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WWySUrjIdqs Tatsuo Ryuno]]. |
| 90 | %%* ''Anime/MindGame'' heavily featured about three or four animation styles, all of them rather...unconventional. |
| 91 | %%* ''Anime/{{Mononoke}}'' takes this and plays it for every drop of horror possible. |
| 92 | * CGI series ''Ga-Ra-Ku-Ta'', or ''Anime/MrStainOnJunkAlley'', which features a hobo named Mr. Stain that finds an object in each episode that royally screws him or his friends up, such as him finding a box of crayons that [[ArtInitiatesLife make anything you draw become real]] [[spoiler:which leads to his friend losing his entire face and begin sucking everything in sight up due to his face becoming a black hole.]] It certainly doesn't help that Junk Alley is apparently built above the ruins of a sunken, Lovecraftian city. Though that would probably explain most of the weird, creepy things that happen. |
| 93 | * Episode 167 of ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' Shippuden is this and severe OffModel. In a rare example, it actually works; the episode is a high-speed ChaseFight between two people who are about ''this'' close to gods, and the animation emphasises this. |
| 94 | * Creator/OsamuTezuka himself did a few films falling under this trope, especially his more adult films "Kleopatra" and "1001 Nights". |
| 95 | * ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt''. ''WesternAnimation/{{Ben 10}}'', ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'', ''Franchise/ThePowerpuffGirls'' - all of the Western cartoons you used to watch were pureed and delivered intravenously directly to the brains of the people behind ''Anime/DeadLeaves'' and ''Anime/{{FLCL}}'', then Gainax stuck a pen under their trembling fingers and told them to draw. Unlike most of the other examples, this one was actually influenced by drugs - the creators have admitted that they were drunk off their ass when they came up with the concept for the show. |
| 96 | * If you've watched past the ''Anime/ParanoiaAgent'' pilot you'll know about the episode called "Kin no kutsu" (or, "The Golden Shoes"). While much of the animation gets deranged, the Golden Shoes gets mention since Michio Mihara let at it when the character hallucinates. If you recognize his name from Space Dandy he also animated the first episode of the 2-part series finale, "Dandy's Day in Courty, Baby." |
| 97 | * ''Anime/PopeeThePerformer'' is known for its (excluding intense nightmare imagery) disturbing wild animation. And boy, was this anime the product of its time. |
| 98 | * ''Manga/PopTeamEpic'' in its entirety, but especially the ''Bob Epic Team'' segments. |
| 99 | * Usually not common in ''Anime/PrettyCure'', but at one point in episode 13 of ''Anime/SmilePrecure'' we get [[http://morningglorydew.tumblr.com/post/22013209130/holy-spit-miyuki two terrifyingly freaky shots of Miyuki's face from below]]. Said shots have already reached MemeticMutation status around the fandom. |
| 100 | * ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' is normally devoid of this and doesn't contain as much as a single exaggerated expression, but steps right off the deep end whenever the witches show up. |
| 101 | * ''Anime/PuniPuniPoemi'', which compresses an even greater amount of insanity into 1/13th of the time. |
| 102 | * ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhx-qWDMGyo One of]] the openings for season 3, which is insane even by the standards of the show. |
| 103 | * Shinichiro Watanabe, who created ''Anime/SpaceDandy'' had also previously graced us with drug-induced hallucinations in both ''Anime/SamuraiChamploo'' and ''Anime/CowboyBebop''. These scenes contrast heavily with the otherwise 'realistic' designs and atmosphere elsewhere in both shows. |
| 104 | * ''Manga/SoulEater'''s art style is a little out-there, but still fairly restrained. Once people start going insane, though, the [[OffModel model]] is thrown right out the window in favor of some truly demented imagery with {{Nightmare Face}}s galore. |
| 105 | * ''Anime/SpaceDandy'': Some episodes are more... trippy than others. Case in point episode 21, with the alien world of [[EveryoneisJesusinPurgatory Planet Limbo]]. |
| 106 | * ''Literature/{{Trapeze}}''. Oh dear god((s)/dess(es)) ''Trapeze''. A little series about psychiatry at which its own entry notes (legitimately) that it ''makes viewers fear for their own mental health''. Take a novel series about an ''unusual'' psychiatrist, mixing it with hallucinogenic vitamin shots, adding one's brains and a major TV announcer, and placing all of these in a blender and setting to "liquefy". And then having a big-name model dress up as a perky-goth nurse and injecting said medicine whilst the doctor leers nearby in a ''psychedelic fursuit''. And this is a Cliff's Notes version of the series BEFORE the True Insanity starts ''per episode''. |
| 107 | * The ''Manga/WeddingPeach'' OVA where the Love Angels become cat girls contain EXTREMELY traumatizing images, such as when they go [[NightmareFace catty]] over Yanagiba and when they take the forms of the schoolgirl versions, when they innocently move about the wall of the school, yet another NightmareFace with catty features they don't have anymore until they see Yanagiba. |
| 108 | * ''Anime/WelcomeToTheNHK'' has snippets in which the protagonist is taunted by appliances. |
| 109 | * ''Anime/WinterDays'' veers into this at points. Some notable examples: |
| 110 | ** 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. |
| 111 | ** Katsushi Boda's segment features a man growing butterfly wings and fighting an EldritchAbomination, and culminates with a train floating in space. |
| 112 | * ''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. |
| 113 | [[/folder]] |
| 114 | |
| 115 | [[folder:Asian Animation]] |
| 116 | * ''Animation/DoggyPoo'', an absurd little piece of Korean junior existentialism about a sentient doggy poo searching for the meaning of his own existence. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k3X-kGgS_I Clip and commentary here,]] from Charlie Brooker's ''Series/YouHaveBeenWatching''. |
| 117 | [[/folder]] |
| 118 | |
| 119 | [[folder:Eastern Animation]] |
| 120 | * ''Animation/ArmenFilmAnimatedShorts'', directed by Robert Saakyantz. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwgfLl1giaE This short,]] for example, is about a [[BodyHorror constantly shapeshifting]] monster-magician in [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical Turkish national clothes]]. And yes, this is a Soviet animation. It was animation adaptation of a children's story written by the famous writer Kwon Jeong-Saeng, and its meaning is quite clear: [[AnAesop ''Anything, no matter how worthless it may seem, has its value.'']] |
| 121 | * ''Animation/CaptainPronin'', a parody of '80s action movies, is exactly what would happen if Mike Judge did meth. |
| 122 | * ''Animation/{{Clinic}}'' is a MedicalHorror short film by Russian animator Alexander Bubnov featuring some strangely-animted vignettes representing the nightmares had by an old man in the hospital. |
| 123 | * The 1980s Latvian cartoon ''[[https://youtu.be/zkYqOVdBD0o Fantadroms]]'' is entirely composed of this. The extremely bizarre visuals are further accented by the lack of dialogue (in order to cross language barriers) and the near-constant synthpop soundtrack. |
| 124 | * György Kovásznai's ''Animation/FoamBath''. A trippy musical romantic dramedy with MediumBlending and wonky animation that lets its characters deform, shrink, fall apart or change art style in accordance to their (or each other's) emotions. The rest of the creator's works qualify as well, but this was his only feature film. |
| 125 | * The animation in ''Animation/HisWifeIsAHen'' is a tad... well, let's start with the boxes that just shrink into thin air after use. |
| 126 | * ''Animation/HugoTheHippo'' is a Hungarian animated film with a number of bizarrely-animated scenes. There's the one where Aban-Khan slaughtering the rest of Hugo's herd is represented by him [[BloodlessCarnage shooting lightning at hippo-shaped clouds]]. Later, Aban-Khan turns a garden into an army of strange-looking vegetable soldiers to capture Hugo, which inexplicably features a scene where Jorma and Hugo try to escape into space on a giant butterfly. |
| 127 | * Everything by Ivan Maximov. For example [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5_gZIV3MG0 this]] thing. |
| 128 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r16GL3N4PdM Jak Dziala Jamniczek]] is an epitome of this. Or anything by Julian Antonisz for that matter, thanks to his unique animation technique. |
| 129 | * Everything by Creator/JanSvankmajer. |
| 130 | * Almost everything done by Creator/MarcellJankovics, but ''Animation/SonOfTheWhiteHorse'' takes the cake with its vibrant colors and surreal artistic representation. Let's just look at the BigBad (a gigantic supercomputer that walks on two legs) and his two lackeys (a HumongousMecha and a three-headed rock monster), who all look completely out of place for what is supposed to be ancient mythology. |
| 131 | * The Czech StopMotion film ''Animation/ThePiedPiper'', which is heavily stylized to resemble Medieval wooden carvings and early mechanical devices. |
| 132 | * ''Animation/PlanetataNaSakrovishtata'' ("The Treasure Planet") is a 1982 Bulgarian animated film that gave Stevenson's classic novel the RecycledInSpace treatment twenty years before [[WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet Disney got around to it]]. The art style is really weird, to say the least. |
| 133 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQWuw7UNwG0 Porgu AKA Hell]] is most definitely this, starting out relatively sane and slowly descending into a nightmarish vision of man's debauchery. |
| 134 | * A good number of arthouse animation master Rene Laloux's work. Short films in particular border on FauxSymbolism with hideously fascinating animation. ''WesternAnimation/{{Gandahar}}'' is unnervingly bizarre, and then there's ''Animation/FantasticPlanet''... |
| 135 | * ''Světlonoš (Torchbearer)''. A trippy stop-motion animation that features what looks like an ancient Greek hero walking into a set of ruins filled with deadly clockwork traps operated by female statues. Female statues that feel ''pain'' when broken. And let's not get into the carnivorous rats that tear apart anything that dies within the ruins, or the mechanized flying creature that spouts artificial blood when defeated [[spoiler:or the hideous machine at the end that needs human blood to keep the heavens running.]] Creator Václav Švankmajer took inspiration from the work of his father, surrealist Jan Švankmajer. |
| 136 | * Later Soviet animation often descended into this. [[Animation/TreasureIsland1988 The 1988 Soviet adaptation]] of ''Literature/TreasureIsland'' was mostly good, but often featured bizarre angles and Lovecraftian geometry. |
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| 138 | |
| 139 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 140 | * The cut-scenes in ''VideoGame/AliceMadnessReturns'' notably the first scene which is...disturbing, to say the least. |
| 141 | * ''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. |
| 142 | * [[DownloadableContent Episode 11.5]] of ''VideoGame/AsurasWrath'' takes a Key Animator from Anime/{{FLCL}}, combines his talent with Creator/Studio4C, and mixes it with the already awesome nature of the game to bring some really insane animation that will make you go "What the Hell just happened?" |
| 143 | * The [[http://www.thebeatlesrockband.com/cinematic.php intro]] to ''Music/TheBeatles: VideoGame/RockBand''. It starts off normal, going on a whistle-stop tour through their career. Then it reaches the halfway point and - *{{B|igLippedAlligatorMoment}}LAM* - the drugs kick in. ''Duuuude''. |
| 144 | * ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'' is [[StealthPun filled to the brim]] with this. Which makes sense, given that the game mimics the classic Creator/MaxAndDaveFleischer cartoon style. Bosses undergo VoluntaryShapeshifting, physics are a non-issue, there are countless AnthropomorphicObjects (the protagonists themselves are cups with bodies), and there are projectiles ''[[BulletHell everywhere.]]'' |
| 145 | %%* ''VideoGame/EarnestEvans'' used multi-layered sprites to try and make the main character's movements more fluid. It...didn't work out. |
| 146 | %%* ''VideoGame/FruitMystery'' loves this trope. You're either an extremely stupid or insane person who runs around feeding different foods to zoo animals until a timer runs out, then you get a giant MindScrew at the end. It's horribly drawn and designed on purpose. And yes, it's just as funny as it sounds. |
| 147 | * In the final battles in ''VideoGame/{{Hellsinker}}'' as well as the extra stages, the graphic design goes from just weird to downright surreal. |
| 148 | * ''VideoGame/{{Ib}}'': The ''Carrie Careless and the Galette de Rois'' video ([[GameBreakingBug if you can even watch it]]). Puppet-like designs done in MS-Paint, creepy facial expressions and an extremely unsettling soundtrack (coupled with [[SpeakingSimlish characters speaking nonsense]]). |
| 149 | %%* ''VideoGame/IMMeen''%% |
| 150 | * ''VideoGame/KatamariDamacy'' gives you this impression right off the bat. After finishing the intro theme (which suspiciously involves lots of mushrooms), you'll already be wondering what drug the creators were on when they were making it. And it just keeps getting weirder from there. To start with, you play as a guy with a cylinder for a head rolling things up to make stars, and your dad, who is the king of the universe, by the way, pukes rainbows that work as a teleporting device. Right. |
| 151 | * ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' very much starts with this in each installment, with the protagonists experiencing bizarre sequences whose actual canonicity is unclear but generally involves a lot of clashing, disintegrating people, scattering doves, and sinking headfirst into fathomless water. Apparently, maturing into the power of the Keyblade does a number on the coherency of one's dream-state. |
| 152 | %%* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCdiGames'' |
| 153 | * ''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). |
| 154 | * Technically, Creator/PaulRobertson's works are animations, not games, but they're all done in the style of video-game sprites. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSdoDjcI5VE Kings of Power 4 Billion%]] is ''possibly'' the most deranged. |
| 155 | * The opening of ''[[VideoGame/Persona2 Persona 2: Innocent Sin]]'' is ''trippy''. It starts with the main character's skin turning into a bunch of bright lights and textures, and then it just gets weirder. Most of it does make sense when you've actually played the game, and it's a fairly fitting opening for such a bizarre game. |
| 156 | * The art style of ''VideoGame/PizzaTower'' makes heavy use of intentional OffModel, squash and stretch, and odd proportions. While not terribly disturbing in execution, it's still one of the most unhinged-looking indie games out there. |
| 157 | %%* ''VideoGame/SpaceKids'' is what you get when you hand early CGI rendering equipment to people who watched the ''Raggedy Ann'' movie way too much as kids. Being eaten alive in some form or another is a recurring theme. |
| 158 | * Any colored cutscene in the ''VideoGame/{{Thief}}'' series. |
| 159 | %%* ''VideoGame/TonicTrouble''. It starts on top of a snow- and palm tree-covered mountain and gets crazier from there...%% |
| 160 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZBZPA6OEnw This]] deliciously surreal ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' {{fanvid}} which retells some of the story events of ''Silent Sinner In Blue'' combines semi-serious scenes with heartwarming nostalgia, art that is very on-model to the signature style of series creator ZUN, and many, many bizarre visual gags and {{meme}}s. Also, Eirin dances! |
| 161 | ** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yer73i66uv0 flash video]] for Music/{{IOSYS}}'s remixed remix of Reisen's {{leitmotif}}, ''It doesn't stop at the affected area, but goes deep inside and Aah Aaahn ~ The Final Udongein'', is a completely surreal, semi-nightmarish glimpse into what you might see if she used her madness-inducing Lunatic Eyes on you. |
| 162 | * ''VideoGame/UmJammerLammy'' can get odd sometimes. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU5kBlENd_0 This part of the game]] will have you wondering whether someone [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs spiked Lammy's pizza]], or the ''VideoGame/ParappaTheRapper'' [[TheVerse universe]] is just that [[WorldGoneMad messed up]]. |
| 163 | %%* ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' usually averts this, using 16-bit style graphics for the overworld and monochrome sprites in battles. This just makes the swan dive into this all the more terrifying during the boss fight against [[spoiler:Photoshop Flowey, which is a photorealistic mash-up of plants, flesh, and metal shaped into limbs, a hideously deformed human head that has its mouth shaped like a beak, and a TV that shifts between a NightmareFace of Flowey, and a screaming humanoid shown in black and white. His attacks include -- and are not limited to -- spawning bunker bombs from nowhere, growing vines with hands on the end that fires its fingers and crushing you with ballerina slippers.]] Quite a bit to take in. |
| 164 | * ''VideoGame/YumeNikki''. Most of the animation in question is walking loops. Still gives a lot of people nightmares. |
| 165 | [[/folder]] |
| 166 | |
| 167 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 168 | %%* All of Adidas' ''Adicolor'' series are quite odd, but Adicolor [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4W45qKGiz4 Black]] is completely deranged. |
| 169 | * ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm-KwaheNAI Agamemnon Counterpart]]'' (a.k.a. ''Let's Make a New Friend''), what looks like a 70s educational cartoon reconstructed by aliens, with rapidly flashing and distorting faces and scenery, bouncing blue creatures, and the letters "a" and "o" appearing frequently. And a man with an EyelessFace screaming throughout (audio from the French film ''A Cry From Within''; music from ''The Human Tornado''). |
| 170 | %%* ''WebAnimation/AlfredsPlayhouse''. [[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/416052 Seriously NSFW and scarred for life warnings...]] |
| 171 | * The {{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. |
| 172 | * The first two videos of the ''WebAnimation/{{Arfenhouse}}'' series have random plots that make no sense. |
| 173 | %%* Egoraptor, creator of the WebAnimation/AwesomeSeries, is a veritable master of deranged animation, especially when it comes to faces. |
| 174 | %%** Ladies and gentlemen... [[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/549991 Awesome Reach]] (WARNING: CONTAINS NSFW CONTENT). |
| 175 | %%* [[http://barfquestion.newgrounds.com/flash/ Barfquestion's animations]], such as "Sperm Rider" or his valentine's day animations. |
| 176 | %%* All of you are weak. Lying safe and sound in your cozy little sanities. In your nice, safe, minds. [[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/438856 BREAK THEM]]. ({{NSFW}}, by the way; also, possible '''epilepsy''' trigger near the end). |
| 177 | * ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFCSXr6qnv4 Charlie the Unicorn 2.]]'' The ''first'' ''WebAnimation/CharlieTheUnicorn'' didn't make a lot of sense... but it didn't have a [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment spontaneous, unexplained scene]] where the two unicorns harassing Charlie ''inflate'' for no reason at all before returning to their previous forms without seemingly realizing a thing. |
| 178 | %%* Literally anything and everything made by [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzNZlJzmjomyl00ewlxHqOA Cool 3D World]]. Warning! Content is {{NSFW}}, thanks to a generous amount of BodyHorror, FanDisservice, and [[FreudWasRight Freudian imagery.]] |
| 179 | * ''WebAnimation/{{Cyriak}}''. His works are very surreal and bizarre, using edited clips of real animals or objects to make them as Eldritch as possible. These [[http://www.cyriak.co.uk/ animations]] are likely to leave you disgusted, hypnotised, and really, really creeped out. Some of the notable examples are [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FavUpD_IjVY cows & cows & cows]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQO-aOdJLiw Baaa]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jX3iLfcMDCw Welcome to Kitty City.]] |
| 180 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C_HReR_McQ Don't Hug Me, I'm Scared.]] If the first video is anything to go by, then deranged animation is either because of drugs or because you get ''too creative''. As examples, it features creepy puppets and utilizes a really weird 3D animation sequence. ''Don't Hug Me, I'm Scared 2'' only gets weirder. It has 2D animation parts and shows an impressive case of making dolls morph into...something. |
| 181 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYa5aQb3YGE Dragonzball P,]] a parody of the numerous 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. |
| 182 | -->'''Goku:''' THAT'S WHAT ''YOU'' GET FOR ACTING THE MICKEY, VIRGINIA. |
| 183 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=7pSmhZFbCy0 The sequel]] arguably takes this further, if only because it's twice as long. |
| 184 | -->'''Vegeta/[[DubNameChange Virginia]]:''' Kaka Carrot Cake, when I was just a little boy, he...[[FelonyMisdemeanor he didn't invite me to his birthday party!]] |
| 185 | -->'''Goku/Kaka Carmen Electra:''' You monster, Frisbee! |
| 186 | * Joel Guerra's ''WebAnimation/{{ENA}}'' is animated in the style of an experimental Japanese-only [=PS1=] game, with dialogue performed in cutscenes with characters glitching and performing strange animation loops, while the segments in-between animate similar to a first person adventure game. The final result is charmingly unsettling. |
| 187 | %%* ''WebAnimation/{{Evaporate}}''. This webtoon is made to be both as [[MindScrew surreal]] and [[StylisticSuck low-quality]] as possible, and the way it's animated certainly doesn't help make it any less surreal. |
| 188 | * Most of [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO7fujFV_MuxTM0TuZrnE6Q Felix Colgrave's]] work follows this pattern, with surreal, warped figures and animation. |
| 189 | %%* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2O0QSfoL4g Funny Horsie]]''. Also, anything else made by [[https://www.youtube.com/user/fizzymilk1989 Chriddof/Chris Lyons]]. |
| 190 | * ''WebAnimation/GoingToTheStore2011'' and its sequels are examples of deranged 3D animation set over real-life backdrops. Physics and bodily limits are entirely optional when you're a CG mannequin. And that includes [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext your vehicles]]. |
| 191 | %%* ShowWithinAShow example: "Sweet Cuppin' Cakes" from ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' is ''probably'' meant to be a parody of this sort of thing. Not that you can really tell the difference. |
| 192 | * The ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' fan film [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNpW8KZOVhw ~IF I DIDN'T HAVE YOU~]] features the main characters [[StylisticSuck singing very poorly and animated in sloppy 3D]] with very questionable background imagery. |
| 193 | * [[http://youtu.be/Ay7ER3TGSoM Interview With DalÃ]] is almost as weird as his artwork. |
| 194 | %%* [[http://youtu.be/NhheiPTdZCw The Music Scene]], by Blockhead. Animated and Directed by '''one man'''. |
| 195 | %%* The ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' spoofs by hotdiggedydemon on [=YouTube=], the [[WebAnimation/PonyDotMov PONY.MOV]] series, features John K.-esque animation and disgusting imagery, and that's just for starters. |
| 196 | %%* Not quite as surreal as the rest of these, but still disturbing as hell is ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNu8u_Kpa00 Pony]]'' by the same animator as ''Kiwi!'' |
| 197 | * ''WebAnimation/RatboyGenius'' is animated in Blender, with unbelievably ugly models, very poorly. The effect is both trippy and scary. |
| 198 | %%* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eq2-WH7WoE This]] animation based on an old Royco Cup-a-Soup ad. |
| 199 | %%* The VideoGame/GarrysMod creations of ''WebAnimation/RubberFruit'' can only really be described as this. The best example is highlighted in one of their most popular videos, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqDaMSk00wA Heavy and Scout think they are birds.]] |
| 200 | * ''WebAnimation/SaladFingers'' is bizarre and unsettling as the main character, Salad Fingers, is a lanky, creepy man with green skin and long fingers that lives in a rundown house in what seems like a post-apocalyptic world. |
| 201 | ** Beside ''WebAnimation/SaladFingers'' there are a lot more animations from the same creator, such as ''WebAnimation/SpoilsburyToastBoy'' and the ''Socks'' series. |
| 202 | * ''WebAnimation/SomethingAbout'' mixes simplistic drawings with pictures of real life objects to create its characters and environments, resulting in scenes like several simply-drawn Nintendo characters fighting a villain composed of real pictures of an eye and crab legs. |
| 203 | * [[https://web.archive.org/web/20160526165345/http://www.newgrounds.com:80/portal/view/486523 Sonic Meets Bon Jovi,]] where the animator blatantly wasn't trying too much in terms of actually animating the characters. You may also lose sleep over the look on Rouge's face. Then the audio slowed down and became horribly distorted. And then the computer locked up completely. |
| 204 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwOGbXj9o2c&feature=player_embedded Spamland,]] an animation based on the [[WordSaladHumor gibberish text]] found in spam e-mails. A CartoonCreature [[TalkativeLoon recites this text]] while appropriate visuals swirl around. |
| 205 | * ''WebAnimation/StoryFromNorthAmerica'': Both videos contain frequent grotesque and insane animation, although the second video exaggerates this compared to the first. |
| 206 | %%* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/user/Unkletom45044 Unkletom45044]]'' |
| 207 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5aS3lYOZyU Why is he selling merch for a demo...]], features Ralsei and Susie from ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}'' talking about Mercedes-Benz for a full minute with some clearly rushed animation. |
| 208 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkKKTsJZ5kU&list=PL15C8503039DBB23E&index=101 YOLO]] and its sequel, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc8hHUT_gU0 YOLO 2.]] What should be a relatively normal girls' night out party turns very, ''very'' weird, with limbs randomly stretching, [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands inexplicable superpowers]], and general gross-ness (a guy takes "I'm gonna fuck your shit" a little [[LiteralMinded too]] [[TooMuchInformation literally]]). |
| 209 | [[/folder]] |
| 210 | |
| 211 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 212 | * ''Podcast/CoxNCrendor [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFytMWyB3hjfc7u5UFDnCeg Animated]]'' is pretty bizarre as far as animations based on podcasts go. Take a scene from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvdkt_jsDRI this episode.]] Crendor flies off on tiny rocket chair, then it cuts to Crendor on the moon where he suffocates to death. Then Crendor appears inside of Jesse's mouth, falls out, and then is normal size again. None of this has anything to do with the topic of the video. All this is done without interrupting the flow of the original conversation. [[RandomEventsPlot And this kind of thing happens all the time]]. |
| 213 | * Thanks to the programs "Garry's Mod" and "Source Filmmaker" people can now make short films starring the various characters from Valve video games. Some of these are VERY deranged indeed. Some creators famous (or infamous) for this are the likes of WebAnimation/RubberFruit, WebAnimation/Eltorro64Rus and WebAnimation/STBlackST. |
| 214 | * {{WebVideo/Googlebrains}} has videos themed around this trope! |
| 215 | * ''WebAnimation/{{Pamtri}}'': That’s the sole purpose of this [=YouTube=] channel. |
| 216 | * 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]]. |
| 217 | [[/folder]] |
| 218 | |
| 219 | [[folder:Western Animation Film]] |
| 220 | %%* The infamous sequence from the claymation ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfMarkTwain'' where three cute kids meet an angel named Satan. "Life itself is only a vision, a dream. Nothing exists save empty space and you. And you are but a thought." |
| 221 | * Genie's introductory song in ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}''. |
| 222 | %%* ''WesternAnimation/AllegroNonTroppo'' has several examples: The evolutionary march, Firebird sequence. |
| 223 | %%* Getafix's hallucinations from ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' And The Big Fight after he's gone insane and lost his memory. |
| 224 | * Beavis' [[http://youtu.be/W84rbZekx3s hallucination]] after he ingests some peyote from ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtheadDoAmerica'' which is done in the style of a music video, it features among other things demons crawling out of Butthead's skin, themselves as zombies or demons, demonic creatures everywhere riding in mini cars or playing guitars, and a demonic Muddy Grimes (the villain of the movie) driving by in a curvy road and being eaten by a sand worm. |
| 225 | %%* ''WesternAnimation/TheBraveLittleToaster'' is full of this, most notably in the title character's NightmareSequence involving a MonsterClown. Certain parts of the junkyard sequence near the end of the film also count, such as the build-up to the [[spoiler:Heroic Sacrifice]]. |
| 226 | * It's just for one frame, but ''WesternAnimation/TheCareBearsAdventureInWonderland'' has a moment where the wizard is drawn with freakishly deformed features. |
| 227 | * ''WesternAnimation/AChristmasCarol1971'' as produced by Chuck Jones and directed by Richard Williams. It won an Academy Award for Best Short but is rarely shown on television, thanks to its trippy and nightmarish imagery. If the sight of the open-jawed Jacob Marley doesn't scare you, Ignorance and Want ''will''. |
| 228 | %%* ''Film/TheCongress'' is half animated, half live action with the animated sections representing a chemical induced hallucinatory world. Some of the animation is semi-realistic - the heroine Creator/RobinWright ([[AdamWesting playing herself]]) is mostly drawn in a naturalistic sort of style but most other people and especially the background events bring to mind some of the crazier animation of the 1930s mixed with ''WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine''. |
| 229 | %%* ''David and The Magic Pearl'', well known to anyone familiar with YouTubePoop, features plenty of this. |
| 230 | * Certain pieces of animation by Creator/DonBluth in general qualify, as his aesthetic ''is'' largely based in what he learned while working at Creator/{{Disney}} -- but tends to be a lot weirder and full of wacky moon-logic. This argument begins and ends with ''WesternAnimation/RockADoodle''. |
| 231 | * "[[WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}} Pink Elephants on Parade]]" Or 'Why elephants shouldn't drink alcohol.' The phrase "pink elephants" refers to hallucinations from too much alcohol consumption. |
| 232 | * The Mexican animated movie ''[[Franchise/ElSantos El Santos vs La Tetona Mendoza]]'' not only really have insane animated sequences but also [[ToiletHumor relies a lot in gross-out humor as well]]. |
| 233 | * ''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]]. |
| 234 | ** 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]]." |
| 235 | * ''Animation/FantasticPlanet'' -- This example is a little [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-j-rHRr714 on-the-nose]]. Literally, in the case of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhNAnQAoyjw some of the creatures.]] |
| 236 | * Music/FrankZappa worked with StopMotion clay animator Creator/BruceBickford, producing a great deal of animation, which can be seen in Zappa's concert films ''Baby Snakes'' and ''The Dub Room Special'', as well as in a film exclusively devoted to Bickford's animation, ''The Amazing Mr. Bickford''. These videos contain images that include Zappa transforming into TheDevil, explicit clay figure sexual intercourse and masturbation, mutilation, Gregory Peccary (a pig character from one of Zappa's songs), Zappa being attacked by monsters, and other weird imagery that fluidly morphs into other weird imagery. Bickford has done similarly weird stuff on his own accord. None of it was influenced by drug use, especially not the stuff he did with Zappa, who ''hated'' drugs. |
| 237 | %%* Stella's transformation sequence in ''WesternAnimation/HelpImAFish'' embodies this trope. |
| 238 | %%* All the animated films of Creator/HenrikMoller. |
| 239 | * ''I Married A Strange Person!''. Creator/BillPlympton makes incredibly surreal animation more often than not. He must have started his career after reading a book listing all the rules for animating the human face (chiefly, "don't distort or transform things too much or you'll end up in the UnintentionalUncannyValley"), then dedicated his life to ''breaking'' all those rules. |
| 240 | %%** ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutant_Aliens Mutant Aliens]]''. You have been warned. |
| 241 | * The ''Heffalumps and Woozles'' song in ''[[WesternAnimation/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day]]''. |
| 242 | %%* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8A3uTPTsEE Max don't have sex with your ex]]". And there are more like this from the same band. |
| 243 | * "Bumble Boogie" and especially "Blame It On The Samba" in ''WesternAnimation/MelodyTime'' make delightful use of this trope. |
| 244 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Mutafukaz}}'' features unconventional character designs and frequent art shifts. The main character has pitch black skin, a large round head, and massive eyes, and his best friend has a fiery skull for a ''head''. Yet, all the background characters are realistically proportioned. That's not even going into what the alien architecture looks like. |
| 245 | * ''The Point!'' has a musical number about a whale decomposing, a three-faced man, and a talking tree. Unlike most of the other examples, this one ''was'' made on drugs. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guqFqcV4Po0 Just watch it.]] |
| 246 | * ''WesternAnimation/RaggedyAnnAndAndyAMusicalAdventure'', is the near-legendary Richard Williams' trippy adaptation of the classic children's characters. It includes such madness as a giant taffy-blob monster named The Greedy, who is constantly shoving globs of ''himself'' into his mouth, and a [[TheNapoleon diminutive king]] who inflates whenever he laughs and is subjected to forced tickling which causes him to swell to immense size. That's not even scratching the surface; [[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6706642381871663196 watch for yourself]] and find out... |
| 247 | %%* The ''Literature/RainbowMagic'' movie has this in Jack Frost's rap. |
| 248 | %%* Anything Creator/RalphBakshi had anything to do with -- and that includes ''Film/CoolWorld'' (despite being an utter failure) and ''Spicy City''. |
| 249 | %%* The "It's Tough to be a God" sequence in ''WesternAnimation/TheRoadToElDorado'', justified because the main characters are implied to be extremely drunk. |
| 250 | * ''WesternAnimation/RockOdyssey'' from Creator/HannaBarbera productions, circa 1982, which was unreleased in the US. It involves a guitar dragon, army skeletons, siren headed policemen, the Beast of the Apocalypse, [[AnimateInanimateObject a talking jukebox]], and a whole lot more. |
| 251 | %% Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * ''WesternAnimation/SaludosAmigos'' ends "The Watercolors of Brasil". |
| 252 | * ''Street of Crocodiles''. Stop motion animation that uses things like antique doll parts, machinery, and ''fresh meat''. You have been warned. According to Mark Romanek, that short was one of his major inspirations for the music video of Music/NineInchNails "Closer". |
| 253 | %%* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansTroubleInTokyo'': Just like the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' animated series before it, it contains bits of deranged animation, plus bits of deranged anime as well. |
| 254 | %%** And since [[spoiler:ArtInitiatesLife turns out to be in play]], Deranged Animation can get literal! |
| 255 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheThiefAndTheCobbler''. Especially in the [[ReCut Recobbled Cut]], this movie is trippin'. |
| 256 | * The finale of ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeCaballeros'' ("WesternAnimation/{{Donald|Duck}}'s Wacky Peyote Trip!") is the best representation of a drug-induced hallucination ever seen. |
| 257 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', Mei's nightmare is like this including Devon as a mermaid prepared like sushi, 4*Town's faces on flowers emerging from school lockers and a snake emerging from a horse's mouth. |
| 258 | %%* ''WesternAnimation/TwiceUponATime'', especially the NightmareSequence involving sentient office supplies. |
| 259 | * While definitely not a animated film ''Film/TwilightZoneTheMovie'' has a version of Literature/ItsAGoodLife segment that involves Anthony having powers to insert people into [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5pQfOMkhmQ a Saturday cartoon nightmare]] as well as creating a terrifying rabbit and a goblin-demon that gets more deranged in design as it continues to pester the residents of the house. |
| 260 | * The philosophical film ''WesternAnimation/WakingLife'' is less over the top than most examples on this page, as it is a series of vignettes where people monologue about dreams and philosophical concepts. It does get a bit trippy, sometimes. |
| 261 | ** The same producers' adaptation of ''Literature/AScannerDarkly''. And the odd thing is, it's an excellent adaptation of the novel with a [[TearJerker brutal ending]]. |
| 262 | * Music/PinkFloyd's ''Music/TheWall'': Animated by Gerald Scarfe, who would later design ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}''. This video features venomous VaginaDentata flowers, marching fascist hammers, a vermiform judge with an anus for a face... |
| 263 | %%** Also ''Wish You Were Here''. |
| 264 | * ''WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine''. |
| 265 | [[/folder]] |
| 266 | |
| 267 | [[folder:Western Animation Shorts and Music Videos]] |
| 268 | * ''[[http://www.archive.org/details/200 200]]'', a trippy tribute to the US Bicentennial by Vincent Collins. Actually commissioned by the United States Information Agency. More or less all of the creator's other work seems to fall under this - ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Era_8CuPLYc Fantasy]]'' and the much more NSFW ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2BAeh8wZLI Malice In Wonderland]]'' for instance. |
| 269 | %%* This [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WppJEf3ZtFU "Cosmic Clock"]] segment from ''3-2-1 Contact'' manages to make ''geology'' trippy and unsettling. |
| 270 | * The music video for Music/ArcticMonkeys [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpOSxM0rNPM&nohtml5=False "Do I Wanna Know"]] starts of extremely simplistically with a sine wave moving in sync with the vocalist, but once the chorus starts it morphs into full animation which steadily gets more and more bizarre, until by the end of the video it's really freaking you out. |
| 271 | * The music videos for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9uf25wHhs0 "Are We Still Married"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG_Npxq0kU8 "Can't Go Wrong Without You"]] by Music/HisNameIsAlive, both animated by the aforementioned Brothers Quay. They're both {{Mind Screw}}s involving cryptic symbolism and {{Creepy Doll}}s. |
| 272 | %%* ''Anything'' made by Creator/BobClampett is Grade A Certified guaranteed to have at least ''some'' degree of this trope. Particularly in scenes done by Rod Scribner who used a wacky, fast-paced, rubbery animation style with often over the top expressions and wild takes. |
| 273 | %%* "The Big Snooze" has WesternAnimation/BugsBunny invading one of Elmer Fudd's dreams and infecting it with some Nightmare Fuel. |
| 274 | %%* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnt__lyGIQ4 The Breakfast Monkey]]'' was apparently made BEFORE Gerard Way was doing cocaine. [[ComicBook/TheUmbrellaAcademy It's surprisingly not that far off from what he made AFTER he sobered up.]] |
| 275 | %%* Music/ButtholeSurfers' "Who Was In My Room Last Night" mixes deranged animation with live action in order to represent the main character's drug trip. No one really seems to know who animated these segments, but reportedly Music/RobZombie was involved, and some of it ''does'' look like his drawing style. |
| 276 | * During most of the nineties and some of the early two thousands, there was an Argentine tv show shown and Sundays that was called ''Caloi En Su Tinta''. In it, the titular Caloi, a recognized comic artist and writer for the country who sadly passed away in 2012, presented this kind of animation from all over the world. Most of the kids from that time would watch it and love it, even if it was scary sometimes, and Caloi was [[AnimationAgeGhetto Savvy enough]] to walk right in front of the screen and cover it when something like a sex scene appeared. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyUJAwCJFTc This]] was the opening to give you an idea of the show, and there are some shorts in [=YouTube=] as well. |
| 277 | * Creator/TexAvery's MGM short ''The Cat That Hated People'' has its title character taking a rocket to the moon and encountering a lot of ''really'' weird shit. |
| 278 | * Spumco (the guys who did ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'') did a video for Music/WeirdAlYankovic's ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtMU8nvZzOs Close But No Cigar]]'', which features a rather perverted cat who [[MarsNeedsWomen latches onto beautiful young (human) women]], [[FurryReminder gives them the intestines of small animals as gifts]], and [[MinorFlawMajorBreakup then messily devours the women at the first minuscule flaw he detects]]. |
| 279 | %%* Swedish MelodicDeathMetal band Music/DarkTranquillity loves this, especially in the music videos of their more recent albums. Case in point: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HENkKnwBd0I The Fatalist]]", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzVDt1xYFsM Iridium]]", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bx-okDZYw4 Endtime Hearts]]", also "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce4UXfZsrWs Zero Distance]]" intersperses real-live shots with MindScrew imagery. |
| 280 | * The music video for ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Njb3JTZ1ibY Dead Fox]]'' by Courtney Barnett features vehicular homicide and cartoon animals. |
| 281 | * ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_TlaxmOKqs Destino]]'' is what happens when Disney lets Creator/SalvadorDali do a cartoon. No, that is not a joke, Disney ''did'' have Dalà work on a short film back in the 1940s, but understandably never finished it. It was revived some fifty years later and unleashed in 2003 in all its surreal glory. |
| 282 | * In ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HbT1zXhRbk Dig]] (1972)'', a boy and his dog are given a tour of the Earth's crust [[QuirkyWork by a talking, singing rock.]] |
| 283 | * The video for Music/PearlJam's ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDaOgu2CQtI Do the Evolution]]'', animated by Creator/ToddMcFarlane of ''ComicBook/{{Spawn}}'' fame. |
| 284 | * ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JP4mmind0io Eggs]] (1971)'' features an argument between [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Anthropomorphic Personifications]] of [[MotherNature Birth]] and [[TheGrimReaper Death]] over the future of humanity, and ends with [[spoiler:[[KingOfAllCosmos a very strange avian God]] breaking up the fight]]. How strange is this GOD? Well, it has three mouths all of which speak in an incoherent dialect which switches from English to Japanese to incomprehensible gibberish in seconds. |
| 285 | * ''WesternAnimation/FaceLikeAFrog'' - with the special added bonus of Music/DannyElfman as a literal lounge lizard singing about the dangers of going in the basement, and a score by Music/OingoBoingo. |
| 286 | * ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEAObel8yIE Fantasmagorie]]''. One of the first ever animated anythings, and, naturally, it was trippy as shit... |
| 287 | %%* The music video for DYE's ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QFwo57WKwg Fantasy]]'' ({{NSFW}}) starts getting deranged about halfway through, in a way that it's also terrifying. |
| 288 | %%* Zagreb Film: ''Diary'', ''The Fly'' (not to be confused with the 1980 Oscar-winning short of the same name), ''Paranoia'' and ''Surogat''. |
| 289 | %%* The Squirrel Nut Zippers' video for " [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sxFyu_U2go The Ghost of Stephen Foster]]" specifically mimics the demented style of Creator/MaxAndDaveFleischer. |
| 290 | %%* The music video for Peter Pan Speedrock's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaNumEnTbS0 "Hard Rock Rules"]] looks like something John K. would do if you shot him up with heroin cut with LSD. |
| 291 | * 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. |
| 292 | %%* Music/{{U2}}'s video for ''[[http://youtu.be/-_WDG8iLT1o Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me]]'' dip into this. |
| 293 | * Honda's "Hate" advert, and its associated web-advergame. LSD trips to sell diesel engines. |
| 294 | --> *jaunty tune* "Hate something/Change something/Hate something change something/Make something better...". |
| 295 | * The StopMotion ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1mVSTnzxBs Illuminant]]'' video by Music/{{Efterklang}} has a pink animal with a baby doll for a head. That glows. |
| 296 | * The 1931 [[Creator/MaxAndDaveFleischer Dave Fleischer]] short ''In My Merry Oldsmobile'' revolves around a [[ThePeepingTom peeping tom]] breaking into a woman's house and trying to corner her in her bedroom while she's undressing (with the strong implication that he plans to sexually assault her), only for her boyfriend to barge in and [[BigDamnHeroes save her]] at the last minute. It also features the boyfriend somehow turning the bad guy into a ''staircase'' by punching him, and it ends with the boyfriend and the DamselInDistress getting married...[[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext before proceeding to beat each other up in a boxing ring]]. Oh: and the female lead's near-rape is [[MoodWhiplash immediately followed]] by a FollowTheBouncingBall musical number. '''And''' the whole short ultimately turns out to be a [[ProductPlacement sponsored ad for Oldsmobile cars]]. Because nothing says ''"Buy our cars!"'' like violence and voyeurism. |
| 297 | * The video that Spumco did for Music/{{Bjork}}'s ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTZ7XZIiT7o I Miss You]]'', which is a thoroughly disturbing piece of art (you have to wonder what was going through John Kricfalusi's head when he designed this). George Liquor... American makes a [[TheCameo cameo]]. |
| 298 | * Creator/JanSvankmajer animated stuff like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQkWrZw05P4 animated meat love,]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxGu8v8v2ew people eating furniture,]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTHAv2_qM6M increasingly violent football]] among other things. And you'll never look at ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'' the same way again after seeing his movie ''Alice''. |
| 299 | * Animator Creator/JimTyer is absolutely famous for this. Just check out any Creator/TerryToons cartoon he animated on, like the opening of "House Busters", and you'll see some of the weirdest cartoon animation ever committed to paper! |
| 300 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWuYL6Fjn2s The music video]] for the song "Joey" by the band BOY is just begging to have an explanation. |
| 301 | * The Italian music video ''La Serenissima'' (also known as "Venice in Peril") was one of several music videos set to music by Rondo Veneziano and animator Guido Manuli. This is probably most memorable for being shown as an interstitial (often sporadically at OtakuOClock hours) in many Western television markets, where viewers generally had absolutely no clue as to its origins or plot but were nonetheless drawn to the visuals. The animation depicts a giant spaceship of unexplained origin rescuing Venice from a watery grave. Also appearing is an animated version of the band depicted as faceless robots wearing baroque period clothing and playing classical instruments (which was a gimmick actually used by the Rondo Veneziano group in the early 80s, predating Music/DaftPunk by almost two decades). At the time, Rondo Veneziano was mostly unknown outside of Europe but their style may be familiar, classical music with a rock/disco beat. The dreamlike visuals, catchy tune (one of Rondo's most popular), and apparent [[NoPlotNoProblem lack of story/plot explanation]] all made it an experience that many remember, despite seeing it only once or twice. Until the [=YouTube=] era confirmed its existence, many were convinced that due to their vague half-memories of this video (and the relative rarity of others having seen it), that it may as well have been from a dream. |
| 302 | * The cartoon short that concludes Creator/WinsorMcCay's pioneering 1911 short ''WesternAnimation/LittleNemo'': Characters stretch and shrink and materialize out of random lines; one character draws another. |
| 303 | * The video for ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-RtYwiWX3s Lolipop]]'' by Mika. |
| 304 | %%* ''Love & Theft'', by Andreas Hykade, featured in Stuttgart Animation Festival 2010: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEUxlwb2uFI watch it here]]. |
| 305 | * The animated music video of Roger Glover's ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oADfmYQWmW8 Love is All]]'' (sometimes known by the album title ''The Butterfly Ball'', based on [[Literature/TheButterflyBallAndTheGrasshoppersFeast the book of the same name]]), which used to pop up on HBO and Nickelodeon in the '80s. Full of crazy transformations, anthropomorphic animals wearing creepy masks, and other examples of why '70s animation was a cesspool of horror (unless you were a weird kid). |
| 306 | %%* Anything by [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkHPqmBsJkws8HbPP1cd_NA Michael Cusack]], director of the ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' parody ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6yg4ImnYwA Bushworld Adventures]]''. Don't expect anything from him to stay on-model. |
| 307 | * Nearly everything related to Chad [=VanGaalen=], but in particular the video for his song ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLw5b70OJH8 Molten Light]]'', which he animated himself. The acid trip animation is not helped by the fact that the song is extremely disturbing by itself, on both a lyrical and aural level. |
| 308 | %%* Les Elton's ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBYAJBwyNWs Monkeydoodle]]'' features [[MushroomSamba bizarre surrealist landscapes]], unsettling rotoscoped tigers, offensive anti-Semitic imagery, and jazz music. The only other surviving example of his "Simon the Monk" cartoons, ''The Hobo Hero'', is just as strange, and more racist. |
| 309 | * Every single animated segment of ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'', which somehow succeed in making even less sense than the actual sketches. |
| 310 | * Whatever [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oebxMjiSzsI this]] is, it's the official video for Music/TheyMightBeGiants' song ''Music Jail.'' It defies description, let alone explanation, with...creatures that consist of nightmarish amalgamations of people, machinery, and musical instruments. |
| 311 | %%* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubR6r2ZQCV4 This video]] for ScreamerClaus' ''Mutwa''. It must be seen to be believed. |
| 312 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO_VONrCJQE Myriad Harbor]] by Music/TheNewPornographers gives a whole new meaning to the term "hair band". |
| 313 | * The animation of Creator/DonHertzfeldt. "My ''spoon'' is ''too big.''" |
| 314 | * The short "WesternAnimation/NowHearThis", which manages to look like a ''dialogue-free'' DisneyAcidSequence. |
| 315 | %%* ''WesternAnimation/OliveTheOtherReindeer''. It looks as if it were made by a color-blind animator on acid. |
| 316 | %%* The backdrops for Music/PaulMcCartney's 2013 tour were pretty nuts, too. |
| 317 | * Disney shorts aren't so well known for this kind of thing, but when they get weird, they get ''weird''. Case in point: ''[[http://babbletrish.blogspot.com/2009/08/captain-eeyore-and-weirdest-disney.html Plutopia]]''. |
| 318 | %%* The Video for Music/WeirdAlYankovic's "[[http://youtu.be/MRJILK3NxSM Polka Face]]". |
| 319 | * Perhaps the strangest and most bizarre animated fare in all of Looney Tunes was "WesternAnimation/PorkyInWackyland". It's supposed to be bizarre, and they warn you ahead of time, but still, it was definitely over-the-top. The backgrounds for the cartoon's remake, "Dough for the Do-Do", are even MORE surreal! |
| 320 | * ''WesternAnimation/QuasiAtTheQuackadero''. Highly regarded animated short from TheSeventies that was ranked as one of the top 50 Greatest Cartoons by members of the animation industry. |
| 321 | * The video for Music/{{Radiohead}}'s ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHiGbolFFGw Paranoid Android.]]'' |
| 322 | * Every single thing in Nick's Random!Cartoons shorts collection, which was an attempt to capitalize on kids' obsession with surrealist humor and the non-sequitur. |
| 323 | * ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Puph1hejMQE Ready, Able]]'' by the band Grizzly Bear is absolutely insane, and watching it under the influence of any mind-altering substances is either a really awful, or incredibly great idea. The morphing depressed plasticine figures are scary, yet infinitely interesting. |
| 324 | * From Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1D3a5eDJIs Running Down a Dream]]'', a homage to ''ComicStrip/LittleNemo'' by Creator/WinsorMcCay. [[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Little_Nemo the actual strip was just as insane.]] |
| 325 | * About 10 years of animated shorts for ''Series/SesameStreet''. |
| 326 | %%* The animated parts of Cindy Lauper's music video of ''She-bop''. [[WesternAnimation/KaBlam This is from the same guy who did Henry and June, after all]]. |
| 327 | * Music/TheOffspring's ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kenF3_77774 She's Got Issues]],'' which features [[RetroactiveRecognition a young]] Creator/ZooeyDeschanel seeing disturbed imagery around her. |
| 328 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms2klX-puUU Here's a ''story from North America''...]] |
| 329 | * ''O' Canada.'' (aka Creator/NationalFilmBoardOfCanada): ''WesternAnimation/{{Strange Invaders|2001}}'', a deeply weird cartoon about a baby from outer space that lands in a suburban couple's home and torments them. |
| 330 | %%** ''L'Apprenti'' |
| 331 | %%** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SI5pWhxlYg "Ah, my cows, such velocity."]] |
| 332 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b8isnhYMjg Swing You Sinners]], possibly the UrExample of a DisneyAcidSequence. As psychedelic as anything from the '60s, and yet it was made in the '30s. |
| 333 | %%* UPA: ''WesternAnimation/TheTellTaleHeart'' |
| 334 | %%* This is where we remind you of Gene Deitch's [[http://thadkomorowski.com/2008/11/04/phuckin-deitchtastic-mhan/ run on "Tom and Jerry"]]. Ye gods... |
| 335 | %%* The end sequence of "Tranz" by ''Music/{{Gorillaz}}'', brought to you by the makers of "WebAnimation/HamsterHell"! |
| 336 | * The Fleischer's next-door rival Creator/VanBeurenStudios (literally -- the studio was right across the street from Fleischer's building) had very wildly animated and surreal cartoons, although that got toned down around 1934 once Burt Gillett got on board as director. |
| 337 | * The climax of the short ''Wearing of the Grin'' is a bit unnerving, to say the least, with Porky Pig being forced to tap-dance in "the Green Shoes" through a surreal landscape as two leprechauns laugh at his misfortune. |
| 338 | ** The '90s short "WesternAnimation/InvasionOfTheBunnySnatchers" starts out as a pretty standard "Body Snatchers" parody -- then goes way off the deep end, using weird cheap animation for the invaders. (Though that was the point. Bugs himself called them "Robot Retreads" while thinking up a way to get things back to normal.) |
| 339 | %%* Tim Hope's ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkxZf9LvLpI Wolfman]]'' manages to be scarier than most live action horror movies. |
| 340 | * Take one look at WesternAnimation/WoodyWoodpecker's [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GJ4GvNsomrU/RaHJgB5Q79I/AAAAAAAAAFc/gy-EPz5ZlZ8/s1600-h/Woody+ original design]] and see if that isn't one of the ugliest things you've ever seen. |
| 341 | * The ''WesternAnimation/YogiBear'' special that Kricfalusi did for Creator/CartoonNetwork. You haven't lived until you've seen Boo-Boo, Yogi, and Cindy each revert to primitive, horrific animals... [[spoiler:To be fair, it's only Boo-Boo and Cindy. Yogi never does reform to a primitive, horrific animal, as he is kept the straight man throughout the whole short.]] |
| 342 | %%* The music video for ''[[Music/TheCars You Might Think]]''. The only reason it's probably somewhat less deranged is the lack of computer power and tricks to that time. |
| 343 | * Bill Plympton (almost every film from ''WesternAnimation/YourFace'' to present). The face in ''Your Face'' morphs and mutates and fractures in fascinating ways. |
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| 347 | %%* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'' had a fair bit of this, though it's hard to tell when it's this or just plain OffModel. |
| 348 | * ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'': |
| 349 | ** The episode "A Glitch is a Glitch," which is animated entirely in CGI and is purposefully made to look very, very buggy, as the entire world is a computer program that's been corrupted, resembling a bad video game beta. It has to be seen to be believed. |
| 350 | ** The episode "The Great Bird Man," in which [[spoiler:the ex-goblin king Xergiok]], while flying on what could loosely be termed a bird, [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext re-inserts his eyes for the first time]] and begins a song that turns into a DisneyAcidSequence which stands out in a series peppered with them. |
| 351 | ** "Food Chain", which was guest-animated by Creator/MasaakiYuasa, is a trippy little affair where Magic Man casts a spell that makes Finn and Jake live out the food chain as birds, bacteria, plants, and caterpillars. And on top of all that it's a MusicalEpisode too! |
| 352 | * ''WesternAnimation/AeonFlux'': The episodes made with no dialogue and with Aeon Flux dying in every episode make more sense than the later ones where she lives in the end and there is dialogue. |
| 353 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'', especially the episodes from seasons two and three, like "The Butterfly," "The Question," "The World," "The Void," "The Job," "The Countdown," "The Oracle," "The Pizza," and "The Finale." Season one is rather tame, but does have its share of deranged moments, such as Gumball's run of bad luck on "The Curse" or Nicole fighting Tina Rex's father in "The Fight." |
| 354 | %%* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X-vapggVnI This trailer]] for ''The Animal Conference'', a German kids' movie. |
| 355 | * ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' has an absolutely bizarre premise which would fit this trope on paper. And it would probably be more often if (A) they weren't [[LimitedAnimation animated immaculately in Flash]], and (B) they weren't constantly aware of their deranged ways. |
| 356 | * ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' usually stuck to its realistic, Dark Deco style, but it used some truly weird animation to great effect. Notable examples: Clayface's first demise, and any time the Scarecrow appeared. |
| 357 | %%* The pre-Code WesternAnimation/BettyBoop cartoons were consistently crazy - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=er-A0t7_Kp0 case in point.]] |
| 358 | * [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] in multiple ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'' episodes to show character's hallucinations or other mental problems. |
| 359 | ** 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]]. |
| 360 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheBrothersGrunt'': Its main characters (a race of ashen white, veiny, twitching humanoids) and its [[GrossOutShow gross-out humor]] are deranged. The fact that its creator is also more known for [[Westernanimation/EdEddNEddy the previously-mentioned cartoon up above]] is self-explanatory in its self. |
| 361 | * ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' features several {{Art Shift}}s of varying displays of animation. Also, the art style is a bit unusual considering an injury has the character let out a goofy expression complete with an idiotic laugh, which mostly happens to Courage. |
| 362 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Crashbox}}'' is made of this trope with the most deranged animation coming from segments like "Distraction News" and "Eddie Bull." |
| 363 | * A number of episodes of certain shows from''WesternAnimation/TheDisneyAfternoon'' that were animated by [[Creator/WaltDisneyAnimationUnits Walt Disney Television Animation Australia]] such as ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'', ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'' (their biggest one), ''WesternAnimation/{{Bonkers}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/TimonAndPumbaa'' (their second biggest) and even some later episodes of ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresofTheGummiBears'' tended to have that, after their competent but rather uninspired work on ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'', their first project. |
| 364 | * Invoked with Urpgor from ''WesternAnimation/TheDreamstone'', to accentuate his insanity. In terms of animation, he's by far the most dynamic character in the show. |
| 365 | %%* Adult Swim alumnus [[WesternAnimation/TheDrinkyCrowShow Drinky Crow]], and keep in mind that this is ''after'' {{executive meddling}} toned down/changed some of the content. Read the Maakies comic strip for the full eyeball salvo. |
| 366 | * ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy''[='=]s animation style is odd enough to provide a decent example of this trope, especially with episodes like "[[BizarroEpisode 1 + 1 = Ed]]." The squiggly art design is certainly a bonus. |
| 367 | * ''WesternAnimation/FanboyAndChumChum's'' adventures are so bizarre and surreal they definitely fit this trope, but their status of "''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' in CGI" is further strengthened by the very cartoony, OffModel in a Creator/JohnKricfalusi way art style. |
| 368 | * Many silent-era and pre-Code cartoons from UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation lived and breathed this trope, including the original ''WesternAnimation/FelixTheCat''. Early ''WesternAnimation/BettyBoop'' like ''WesternAnimation/BimbosInitiation'', especially had a tendency to dispense with any semblance of reality just for the sake of a laugh. Or, sometimes, for the hell of it, as when a squadron of fighter planes turns into a flock of birds and back again. |
| 369 | %%* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy''. |
| 370 | * Some viewers of the claymation cartoon ''WesternAnimation/{{Gumby}}'' have assumed that its myriad surreal images were influenced by drug use. However, Gumby's creator Art Clokey claims that drugs were not an influence: "The strongest thing I've ever taken was coffee or orange juice." (The documentary ''Gumby Dharma'' reveals that Clokey did briefly experiment with LSD and other drugs in the late 60s, but this was after he made the classic Gumby shorts, and he had sworn off drugs by the time he returned to filmmaking.) |
| 371 | * The climactic Paraphernalia Wagon sequence from ''WesternAnimation/HalloweenIsGrinchNight'' is several straight minutes of SurrealHorror, Dr. Seuss-style. |
| 372 | * ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim''. Everything is dark, full of sharp angles, dirty and neglected. The huge metropolis where the show takes place looks as uncaring and uncared for as the people that inhabit it. Some buildings look tall enough to look almost impossible. The characters, besides being darkly colored and being drawn with inhumanly sharp lines, are also disproportionate, with huge heads, triangle-shaped bodies, and noodle-like limbs. |
| 373 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Jellystone}}'': As seen in the trailer, the characters and locations are purposely exaggerated for the sake of jokes. One scene in "Grocery Store" features Augie Doggie dancing among dancing cheeses in a vaporware backdrop, while [[VolumetricMouth elongating her mouth]] to severely chomp on one of them. |
| 374 | * ''WesternAnimation/KaBlam'' lives and breathes on this trope. Only a few shorts (and by "few", we mean enough to count on one hand) were grounded. |
| 375 | * Hank's nightmare sequence from the ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' episode "The Man Who Shot Cane Skretteberg", in which Hank, Dale, Bill, and Boomhauer are being chased by giant versions of Cane and his friends while people they know with multicolored skin laugh at them, soon the people start looking more bizarre and cartoony with bulging eyeballs and elongated jaws with crooked teeth like something out of a Tex Avery cartoon or an Ed Roth painting, and the sequence ends with Hank and his friends being shot with paintballs and drowning in pools of paint. |
| 376 | * ''WesternAnimation/KingStarKing'' is the absolute epitome of this trope, with every single scene being a grotesque orgy of drug-fueled surrealism. |
| 377 | * ''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 "[[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. |
| 378 | %%* ''WesternAnimation/TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack'' is pretty much what happens when you try to remake ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' (from its glory days on Nickelodeon), mix it with ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', and get animators to do it that not even John K. would hire -- not because of his ego, but because he was too afraid of the artwork. |
| 379 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheMidnightGospel'' is designed to look surreal and provoke thought and as such, its animation can be wacky and its stories can become nonsensical. |
| 380 | * The MushroomSamba sequences in the "Mayhem Night" episode of ''{{WesternAnimation/Motorcity}}'' are some of the trippiest of its kind, and rarely anything seen in a kid's, much less Disney, cartoon. |
| 381 | * ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' is generally tame with its animation, but whenever [[MadGod Discord]] shows up and creates a WorldOfChaos, stuff like talking piles of apples, herds of eyeless rabbits with spider-like limbs, and pies appearing from thin air only to fall ''into'' the sky becomes commonplace. Not that there aren't any {{Nightmare Sequence}}s without him. |
| 382 | * The footage used in ''WesternAnimation/OffTheAir'' leans mostly towards this, though they have no shortage of bizarre live-action clips as well. Some examples: |
| 383 | ** Cyriak's "Something" includes spinning heads [[ManiacTongue with their tongues sticking out]]. |
| 384 | ** "Real Demons Caught on Tape" [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin has demon hand coming for the first person]]. |
| 385 | * ''WesternAnimation/OggyAndTheCockroaches'' is like ''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. |
| 386 | %%* The original ''WesternAnimation/{{Popeye}}'' animated series get progressively more bizarre in their gags the further you go back and realize WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes style, CartoonPhysics and other notions of ''what is real'' hadn't been standardized yet in early Western animation. |
| 387 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheProblemSolverz'', with its brightly-colored animation and strange character designs. The pilot episode "[=NeonKnome=]" is the epitome of weird. |
| 388 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'' sometimes used this, especially as far as the design of [[GrotesqueGallery the ghosts]] is concerned. "Knock, Knock" in particular uses this like ''nobody's'' business. What's more, the accompanying toys were just as shockingly weird as the series' moments! |
| 389 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'': One aspect that really makes it stand out is the ''deliberate'' usage of OffModel, where characters often completely change appearance every shot. Add in liberal usage of GrossUpCloseUp, a [[Creator/JohnKricfalusi creator]] who has more than a few screws loose due to drug abuse and childhood trauma, and generally FamilyUnfriendlyViolence, and you have a show that ran on NightmareFuel. It had a huge impact on Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} in general. |
| 390 | * ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' is a more downplayed example as it isn't often very deranged, but it does include the kind of {{wild take}}s that wouldn't be out of place in a Tex Avery or Bob Clampett short. |
| 391 | %%* A lot of 80s cartoons, but ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYs_GCy9PRk Rubix the Amazing Cube]]'' should have a special mention. This show is [[MindScrew not comprehensible]] to any degree. |
| 392 | * The animation in the [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness earlier episodes of]] ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'', especially in the pilot episode "Tommy Pickles and the Great White Thing", were much tripper and surreal than the more grounded animation later on. |
| 393 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': |
| 394 | ** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E22KrustyGetsKancelled Krusty Gets Kancelled]]", when Itchy & Scratchy are bought out by a rival show, Krusty tries showing an incomprehensible Russian cat-and-mouse cartoon called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyxYdj9dGcI Worker & Parasite,]] a parody of the Gene Deitch ''Tom and Jerry'' cartoons and EasternEuropeanAnimation in general, which is known to be very surreal in nature. Naturally, Krusty's reaction is "What the hell was that?!" |
| 395 | ** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E9ElViajeMisteriosoDeNuestroJomer El Viaje Misterioso De Nuestro Jomer]]" Homer's hallucinatory DreamSequence due to the effects of eating [[BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce chili so hot]] that he couldn't swallow it without coating his tongue in candle wax offers the animators many opportunities to show off surreal animation sequences. Creator/DavidSilverman insisted on animating this sequence in-house instead of normally outsourcing it to Korea to ensure it came out exactly how he wanted. |
| 396 | * ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': |
| 397 | ** In "Squeaky Boots", It's taken Up to Eleven during Krabs' [[SanitySlippage Sanity Slippage]]; his facial expressions go all over the place but are consistently terrifying. |
| 398 | ** So far, every episode from season 10 onwards has had this. |
| 399 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Squidbillies}}''. Dan Halen with all his weird schemes and nonsense he inflicts upon Dougal County would count alone but Early Cuyler's life cranks it up. He has a "truck-boat-truck", which is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin exactly what it sounds like]] and equipped with massive monster truck tires. Plus there's unrelated craziness like a snake boy, a boy with sticks for arms and legs, and a field full of sheriff clones. |
| 400 | %%* ''WesternAnimation/{{Superjail}}!'' -- and its short-lived partner in crime, ''WesternAnimation/{{Robotomy}}''. |
| 401 | * ''WesternAnimation/TeachersPet'', which probably has the most deranged animation out of any Disney show ever made. |
| 402 | * ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'' would ''constantly'' distort reality to better convey the emotion of the scene, or for the sake of a gag. Characters change size and proportions depending on mood, {{Imagine Spot}}s can be physically interacted with, gravity only exists when the creators want it to, and the line between "metaphor" and "reality" is all but non-existent. Basically, imagine the most odd-ball animation of both ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' and ''Anime/{{FLCL}}'', and you've got ''Teen Titans''. |
| 403 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheTwistedTalesOfFelixTheCat''. Justified, as it's a 1990s revival of the old Felix the Cat cartoons. |
| 404 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=websjjCtexM The intro]] to the '70s era children's PBS program ''Vegetable Soup'', sixty seconds of uncannily tall and skinny cartoon hippies jamming. |
| 405 | * ''WesternAnimation/WhateverHappenedToRobotJones'': The show looks something the people behind ''WesternAnimation/SchoolhouseRock'' did after they got bored with years of educational shorts and decided to do a middle-school KafkaKomedy about a robot. |
| 406 | * ''WesternAnimation/XavierRenegadeAngel'': Between the [[StylisticSuck intentionally low-quality CGI]], the cast of eccentric characters, and the outrageously surreal storylines, it takes the cake as the most bizarre show [adult swim] has ever produced. It gets cranked up to the point of damaging the knob with "Damnesia You", the episode where the winners of a contest get their films shown in an ExcusePlot where Xavier goes to different dimensions to figure out his identity. Styles shown in the episode include: |
| 407 | ** Puppetry with Green Screening |
| 408 | ** Atari 2600-esque Graphics |
| 409 | ** VideoGame/GarrysMod |
| 410 | ** Live-Action |
| 411 | ** 60's Style Animation like WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine |
| 412 | ** Squigglevision done with paper and pencil. |
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