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7->''"This guy has walked out of a venue and collapsed in the middle of a public bar. His best mate who's the only doctor in the building has been picked up and carried away by security. His girlfriend has stepped over his prone body to ask me for an autograph. And now [[Creator/NancyCartwright Bart Simpson]] is telling him to come away from the light! THAT IS SURREAL!"''
8-->-- '''Series/{{Adam Hills|InGordonStreetTonight}}''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhXGxNgv6Iw on what is and is not surreal]]
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10Something that's so bizarre and inexplicable that it's funny. This is a strange version of CrossesTheLineTwice: It takes talent (or luck) to make something so {{Mind Screw}}y and what-in-God's-great-holy-name-did-I-just-witness-inducing that it makes you laugh.
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12Almost every comedy in history has used this at least a few times. It's usually mixed in with other ComedyTropes, and an undercurrent of it can be felt throughout many shows. However, some take it above and beyond any sense of normalcy.
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14There are several genres dedicated to this trope. It's the main selling point of GagSeries, surreal comedy and DadaComics, and a main feature of PostModern comedy. This type of humor has exploded in all forms with the rise of the internet; many meme[=s=] take this form.
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16This trope often overlaps with SoBadItsGood, especially when a work falls into this by accident. One way to create Surreal Humor is with {{Bathos}}.
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18SuperTrope to DadaComics, GagSeries, and WordSaladHumor.
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20Compare QuirkyWork and SoBadItsGood. Contrast SurrealHorror.
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22!!Examples:
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25* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHpWoAmVQm8 This commercial]] for an online shoe shop called Zalando. It starts off pretty normal, with a frightened guy saying you shouldn't let your wife / girlfriend / sister discover the online shop because she will buy excessive amounts of shoes. The commercial ends with a delivery man ringing the doorbell. A woman who bought the shoes screams in excitement, the frightened guy screams in fear… and the delivery man screams for no reason with a bored facial expression.
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29* ''ARG/OmegaMart'':
30** Omega Mart's more benignly weird products are often just parodies of regular products you'd find in a real grocery store, like Whale Song antiperspirant and antidepressant or the various mergings of art and fine meats/cheeses in the delicatessen.
31** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o40XBXlvXDw Omega Mart Lemon]] might be creepy when it reveals its eye, but [[OhCrap its sudden change in expression]] after the announcer says that the store will be [[DeadlyEuphemism "carefully disposing of them"]] [[spoiler:and a hand comes down to grab it]] is ''hilariously'' pitiful. That's not even getting into the fact that [[AssholeVictim the lemons are being culled for a reason]].
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35* This is practically the calling card of Creator/HiroyukiImaishi (''Anime/DeadLeaves'', ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'', and ''WebAnimation/InfernoCop''.)
36* ''Manga/BoboboboBobobo'' is the very essence of this trope: A man who can communicate with all body hair sets out on a quest to stop the bald overlord from "bald-ifying" everyone on the planet. Bo-bobo fights many bizarre enemies along the way, mostly by confusing the ever-loving hell out of them (and, in the process, the audience).
37* ''Anime/ExcelSaga'' and ''Anime/PuniPuniPoemi''. Come to think of it, Creator/ShinichiWatanabe's hair probably counts too, in some way.
38* ''Manga/{{Papuwa}}'' covers the adventures of a soldier who is stranded on an island with all sorts of bizarre creatures and people, including the eponymous island-boy Papuwa.
39* ''Anime/HareGuu'': A boy living in a jungle village with his dippy, drunken single mom finds his life turned upside-down by a mysterious girl with crazy powers who seems to have devoted her life to tormenting him.
40* ''Anime/MagicalShoppingArcadeAbenobashi'': A freak thaumaturgical incident leads to two kids from Osaka being pulled into a series of AlternateUniverse[=s=] that parody one genre after another ([[EasternRPG Japanese role-playing games]], kung-fu movies, etc.) It [[CerebusSyndrome gets a bit more poignant]] in later episodes, though.
41* ''Manga/CromartieHighSchool'': A parody of Japanese high-school "delinquent dramas" involving the everyday lives of a band of wannabe tough-guys. The main character's school mates include a robot, a gorilla, and a Freddie Mercury look-alike named Freddie, who may or may not actually be him.
42* ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' may have a reputation for being ''[[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible important art]]'', and it may be well-earned, but you may also be surprised by how many times you'll see middle school girls get run over by elephants, how many bodily-function jokes turn up, and how hard it is to tell if the {{fanservice}} isn't something you're supposed to laugh at.
43* ''Anime/SuperMilkChan'' chronicles the adventures of a smart-mouthed pre-school "superhero" named Milk-Chan, who is called upon frequently by the President of Everything to fight crime, but usually just messes around with her friends.
44* ''Anime/PaniPoniDash'': A moody child genius whose best friend is a depressed talking rabbit becomes a high-school teacher to a class of eccentrics and misfits while secretly being observed by aliens. And let's not even get started on the class representative, [[InexplicablyAwesome Ichijou]]...
45* ''Manga/{{Nichijou}}'' is a sketch comedy about a mostly-ordinary high school class... Except one of the students is a robot girl with a wind-up key sticking out of her back, and another keeps producing guns from nowhere. Even the seemingly-ordinary characters in this show tend to [[MundaneMadeAwesome wildly overreact to things]].
46* ''Anime/{{FLCL}}'' is a coming-of-age story that combines guitars, an alien invasion, gratuitous sexual symbolism, and robots coming out of a pre-teen boy's head.
47* ''Manga/OnePiece'' loves this. Most characters and locations have at least one bizarre quirk for the sole purpose of having the more serious ones react to them with bafflement.
48* ''Manga/PopTeamEpic'' relies on this quite a bit. [[http://sirlorence.tumblr.com/post/126554912934/everytime-i-think-bkub-reached-max-weird-i-find-a One example]], plainly described: Pipimi prepares to sing "Goddamn Bitch in Cat Tights" before being interrupted by her companion Popuko eating a lemon and grimacing, causing her to adopt the same facial expression in response.
49* ''Manga/GugureKokkuriSan'' is about a human girl who lives with a fox, a dog, and a tanuki spirit and goes to a normal school with an alien who insists that he is human. The girl also happens to be a self-proclaimed doll and cup noodle addict whose house is filled with weird supernatural objects and has more common ground with supernatural spirits than other humans.
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53* Anonymous cartoonist [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_(Simpsons_artist) Chris (Simpsons artist)]] has built an entire career on drawing the most unabashedly nonsensical cartoons that the human mind can produce, all while commenting on them with [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} bizarre stream-of-consciousness asides to his audience]]. Everything about his work, from his [[StylisticSuck inept attempts at drawing human figures]] to his [[SpoofAesop clueless self-help advice]], contributes to its general surrealism. Case in point: he still insists on being credited as "Chris ([[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Simpsons]] artist)," and his [[https://www.facebook.com/TheSimpsonsArt/ official Facebook page]] is still called "Simpsons pictures that I gone and done"...even though he stopped drawing characters from ''The Simpsons'' around 2011.
54* Surrealist painter Creator/ReneMagritte (he of "this is not a pipe" fame) is often considered the TropeMaker.
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57[[folder:Comic Books]]
58* There once was a [[ComicBook/DisneyMouseAndDuckComics Disney Comics]] series ''WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} as [insert historical person here]'' (from UsefulNotes/{{Italy}}, I think). Mainly it was the life story of a famous man, retold as TheThemeParkVersion, with Goofy as Creator/LeonardoDaVinci / Creator/MarcoPolo / Casanova / whomever, WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse as his sidekick, WesternAnimation/{{Pete}} as an antagonistic character and occasionally other Creator/{{Disney}} characters too. But in-between, this series often brought sheer absurd gags which weren't commented or lampshaded: A royal guard driving a unicycle, a woman wearing a fried egg on her hat, a spaghetti salesman making his noodles dance, just like a snake charmer... Lots of it.
59* ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'' comics. The fact that he constantly [[BreakingTheFourthWall breaks the fourth wall]] and [[MediumAwareness seems to be fully aware that he's a comic book character]] is only the tip of the iceberg.
60* ''ComicBook/GiraffesOnHorsebackSalad'' is a romantic comedy written by Creator/SalvadorDali with [[Creator/MarxBrothers Harpo Marx]] as the leading man -- how could it be anything else? The tale begins with a woman traversing an exclusive nightclub in a winding white velvet tunnel, an orchestra playing music with roast chickens tied to the tops of their heads, and a ballerina dancing while a swarm of [[HelpingHands disembodied hands]] caress her -- and it simply gets ''more'' inexplicable as the story progresses.
61* Seen in a lot of Paul Kirchner's original work:
62** ''Dope Rider'', which appeared in the pages of the counterculture magazine "High Times" from 1975 to 1986, spins the wild misadventures of a skeletal cowboy drug-dealer, combining an assortment of Wild West tropes with dream-like imagery and FauxlosophicNarration. The main character would frequently be killed in action, only to [[UnexplainedRecovery return to life the next issue]].
63** ''[[https://imgur.com/a/3CIsrZv The Bus]]'' was a monthly comic published in ''Heavy Metal'' magazine, in which various bizarre things happen involving buses (and a reoccurring bald man frequently getting on, off, or waiting for said buses). It got a reprint and a sequel in 2015.
64* In ''ComicBook/MonicasGang'', Jimmy Five stories having Nutty Ned often involve large deals of surreal situations, metalanguage and wordplays, much to Jimmy's confusion.
65* ''Franchise/SamAndMax'': A wise-cracking anthropomorphic dog and sociopathic "hyperkinetic rabbity-thing" going to fight crimes is weird on its own, but what really does it is the dialogue, characters and world-building. For instance, there's the "Rubber Pants Commando," a bunch of babies with machine guns (or [[FamilyFriendlyFirearms baby bottles]] in the cartoon) lead by a talking ape, Mack Salmon, a fish mobster who blames Sam and Max for his current form (even thought [[NoodleIncident it's never explained why]]), a man [[SpontaneousHumanCombustion randomly bursting into flame]], and the utter nonchalance of the two main characters to all these strange goings-on.
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69* ''Film/CabinFever'''s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK2rc4NbKco infamous "pancakes" scene]] combines this with a dash of SoBadItsGood. That kid actually comes back later in the film when seen by the main character who is dying in a hospital. The kid is with a man in a bunny costume who is holding a plate full of... PANCAKES. And he has syrup in the other hand! According to the end credits, the bunnyman is played by "We'll Never Tell."
70* Some Creator/LuisBunuel films like ''Film/TheDiscreetCharmOfTheBourgeoisie'' and ''Film/ThePhantomOfLiberty'' offer examples of this.
71** As does ''Film/UnChienAndalou'' by Buñuel and Creator/SalvadorDali, although it might also serve as NightmareFuel or NauseaFuel for some people.
72* Creator/FedericoFellini's ''City of Women'' has plenty surreal comedy situations during the whole film.
73%%* ''Film/EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce''
74* ''Film/ForbiddenZone'' has this in spades, unsurprising given that one of its major influences was old [[Creator/MaxAndDaveFleischer Fleischer]] cartoons.
75* ''Film/FearAndLoathingInLasVegas'' qualifies, as does ''Film/{{Brazil}}'', both directed by Creator/TerryGilliam.
76* ''Film/FriendOfTheWorld'': In the third chapter of the film, the comedy goes from dark to bizarre and surreal as the characters venture out.
77* ''Film/StrangerThanFiction'' is a surreal comedy about a man who discovers his life is being written by a struggling writer... Who is planning to kill him off.
78* ''Film/HotRod'' has this all over the place, being written by Music/TheLonelyIsland (more on them below.)
79* The Polish brother's film ''Northfork'' has surreal images, dialog, and situations that are often comically absurd, but some are off-putting enough to crossover into SurrealHorror.
80* ''Film/{{If}}'': There are many surreal moments, but one of the most surreal is when the headmaster orders Travis, Wallace and Knightly to apologise to the vicar for shooting him, he opens a massive drawer in his study, in which the vicar is lying.
81%%* ''Film/OLuckyMan''
82* Creator/KarelZeman's work doesn't just blur the line between fantasy and surrealism; it completely erases the line, then washes out any remaining traces of it, then waltzes all over and around where the line used to be.
83* 1928 silent comedy ''Film/ThereItIs'' is kind of like a slapstick version of ''Film/UnChienAndalou''. A chicken appears out of a cracked egg. Pants dance by themselves. Scotland Yard is a yard, in Scotland. The Scotland Yard detective protagonist has as his partner a fly, who lives in a matchbox and has his own tiny magnifying glass for finding clues. The detective goes to sleep in a bed and wakes up suspended in air over a bathtub. A painting of a ship at sea comes to life and douses the detective with seawater.
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86[[folder:Jokes]]
87* A popular LightbulbJoke is:
88-->Q: How many surrealists does it take to change a light bulb?
89-->A: Fish.
90** Of course you could put in your own surreal item. A longer punchline to the same joke is:
91-->Q: How many surrealists does it take to change a light bulb?
92-->A: Three. One to hold the giraffe and the other two to fill the bathtub with brightly colored power tools.
93** Or forget the lightbulb:
94-->Q: How many surrealists can you fit in a dishwasher?
95-->A: None, doghouses don't fly. (Duh.)
96** Or a non-surrealist related one:
97-->Q: How many ducks does it take to change a lightbulb?
98-->A: The defense rests.
99* [[TuringTest Are you a human being]] or did you just make a bunch of UsefulNotes/{{Dada}} jokes?
100** No soap, radio!
101* [[RussianHumour Russians]] seem to be fond of such jokes.
102-->A bear walks across a forest and sees a car on fire. He gets inside and burns to death.
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104-->A hedgehog walked down the forest, forgot how to breathe, choked and died. Then remembered and walked on.
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106-->Two crocodiles, a blue one and a red one, are flying through the sky, especially the red one.
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108-->Q: Two crocodiles are flying, first is green, second to the north. How much a drunk hedgehog costs if shadows disappear at midnight?
109-->A: Why do I need a fridge if I don't smoke?
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111-->Kolobok hanged self.[[labelnote:?]]([[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolobok Kolobok]] is a fairy tale character, a round bakery product which has no neck. Variations of joke: "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buratino Buratino]] (read: Pinocchio) drowned self," "A mermaid drowned self," "A giraffe drowned").[[/labelnote]]
112* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_joke Elephant jokes]] are nonsensical variants on "why did [x]? because [pun on x]." jokes, named so because a lot of them feature elephants in the setup. They can be standalone, or daisy-chained together to make an increasingly nonsensical story. Here are a handful of examples...
113-->'''Q:''' Why does an elephant have flat feet?\
114'''A:''' To walk on the lily pads.
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116-->'''Q:''' How many elephants can you fit in a mini-cooper?\
117'''A:''' Four; two in the front, two in the back.\
118'''Q:''' How many ''giraffes'' can you fit in a mini-cooper?\
119'''A:''' None, it's full of elephants.\
120'''Q:''' How do you get two whales in a mini-cooper?\
121'''A:''' The same way you get [[FunWithHomophones to Wales]] in any other car; take the M4 and go over the Severn Bridge.
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123-->'''Q:''' What did the Dallas police chief say when the elephant walked into the station?\
124'''A:''' Nothing; he didn't notice.[[labelnote:*]]For added points, this one's a jab at the Dallas police for letting Jack Ruby past security with a gun. Isaac Asimov, normally not a fan of this kind of joke, found it sophisticated enough to include in a book of his favorite jokes.[[/labelnote]]
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128* Creator/JohnHodgman's ''Literature/CompleteWorldKnowledge'' series derives most of its humor from the juxtaposition of incredibly bizarre happenings with an [[TheComicallySerious utterly serious presentation]]. ''Literature/TheAreasOfMyExpertise'' alone includes LittleKnownFacts about the 50 United States (including the existence of a secret 51st state that's home to the legendary Thunderbird), a time-table for [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent different kinds of werewolves]], the claim that [[PlanetOfSteves all ringtail cats are named John McCain]], and the secret history of hobos.
129* Creator/HenrikDrescher's children's book ''Literature/{{Klutz}}'' is filled to the brim with this brand of humor, especially concerning the family's clumsiness being caused by their over-sized black boots.
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133* In ''Series/ThatMitchellAndWebbLook'' the "Numberwang" sketches rely on this. A game show that [[{{Calvinball}} adheres to no comprehensible rules]], but which appears to mostly consist of saying random numbers. And everything not related to the game itself is equally bizarre.
134-->'''Host:''' Joining me tonight are Julie, who's from Yorkshire, and Simon, who's from a factory and made of a special metal. So, Julie, ever killed a man?\
135'''Julie:''' No.\
136'''Host:''' Simon?\
137'''Simon:''' ''Yes''.\
138'''Host:''' Great! Let's play [[{{Spinoff}} Wordwang!]]
139* This is par for the course on ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus''. Their "Science Fiction Sketch" is about a race of blancmanges from the Andromeda Galaxy who come to Earth and turn nearly everybody in [[UsefulNotes/{{Britain}} England]] into [[UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}} Scotsmen]] so they can become UsefulNotes/{{tennis}} champions, and are only thwarted by [[spoiler:being eaten by [[ChekhovsGunman a seemingly-insignificant couple introduced near the start of the episode who turned out to also be aliens]]]]. There's also the RunningGag of [[DropTheCow ending sketches by having a knight come out and hit people on the head with a rubber chicken]].
140* ''Series/TheTomGreenShow'' combines this with GrossoutShow. If you pumped Creator/AndyKaufman full of meth and let him and a cameraman loose into the streets, you might wind up with something as grotesque as Tom Green's style of comedy.
141* Series/TheWubbulousWorldOfDrSeuss: In its first season.
142* ''Series/GreenWing'' has moments like this most notably when Sue White manually takes Mac's sperm whilst he's in a coma so [[StalkerWithATestTube she can have his baby]] and gives birth to [[spoiler:a baby lion]]. Most of the other scenes involving Sue White are also surreal.
143** There is an episode where doctors create a human pyramid at different windows throughout the episode to show a picture of UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}}' face to confuse everybody.
144* ''Series/TimAndEricAwesomeShowGreatJob'' is made entirely of this trope. On that note, ''anything'' by Creator/TimAndEric counts.
145* ''Series/ThisIsJinsy'' seems to be another one.
146* ''Series/{{iCarly}}'' falls into this at times, such as that one instance where Spencer somehow managed to play the drums so hard that one of the cymbals burst into flame.
147-->'''Spencer''': ''[[LampshadeHanging How did that even happen?!]]''
148* ''Series/{{Danger 5}}'' has a bit of this. For one thing, the team, upon returning to base, receive a dressing-down from their boss, who happens to have an eagle's head. They later get attacked by Nazi apes, and stumble across a rock band in tropical Antarctica composed of hipster Neanderthals.
149* ''Series/MrShow:'' Just, constantly: "America ''can'', '''''must''''', and '''''-will-'''''...blow up the moon."
150* ''Series/TheMightyBoosh''. Creator/NoelFielding gave the probably most accurate definition of the series: "If Dali made a show, hopefully it would look like this."
151* ''Series/TwinPeaks''. Surreal, absurd, soapy, highly-original mystery show peppered with frequent, off-beat comedy.
152* The ''Series/TenaciousD'' series. Maybe not Tim and Eric levels of twisted, but definitely weird, with an odd, ironic take on the life of rock musicians.
153* A standard feature of ''Series/ABitOfFryAndLaurie''. Most of the sketches are parodies or satirical, but they usually have some little thing that is ''off''. A man delivering a dull monologue is eating his cornflakes with a knife and fork; a modern-day {{Swashbuckler}} accuses a corrupt MP of lining his ''bathroom'' with fine delicacies (and the swordfight is randomly interrupted by a [[VoxPops Vox Pop]]).
154* The entirety of ''Series/TheEricAndreShow'' can be summed up in this trope. The cast actually goes out of their way to make the guests (who are often [[EnforcedMethodActing under the impression that its just another talk show]]) as uncomfortable as possible, such as placing heaters under the seat (and positioning it strategically under a leaking pipe), not running the A/C in the building, going off on random, bizarre tangents with little to no provocation, and sometimes even pulling things on Eric and Hannibal that even ''they'' were not expecting.
155* ''Series/TheYoungOnes''. All that needs to be said is, "Elephant Head."
156* Surrealism has been a defining feature of a few [[WorkCom Work Coms]] over the years:
157** ''Series/NewsRadio'' has surreal elments in abundance, up to and including entire episodes set in alternate continuities, like a news radio station in space...or a news radio station on the Titanic. But even in more mundane episodes, the premises that drove the mini arcs and character interactions tended to be so fantastical and over-the-top that the show could only work because of its theatrical presentation and acting as large as its crazy conceits--with the exception of the young station manager Dave, a subdued StraightMan playing [[{{foil}} opposite]] much of the insanity of every other character in the narrative.
158** ''Series/TheDrewCareyShow'' was among the most surreal sitcoms of its time, from the mad science shenanigans of the shady Drug Co. where Louise works as a custodian, to an entire episode run like an episode of ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'', and other much inane silliness in most any episode.
159** ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' probably worked harder than any sitcom in history to sell itself on this basis, not just with regard to J.D.'s constant and consistently insane day dreams, but also the whole rest of the whack-a-do cast and the off-the-wall absurdism of the entire world as it exists in and around Sacred Heart.
160** ''Series/{{Community}}'' gradually found its footing in surrealism, [[SelfReferentialHumor meta humor]], and [[GenreRoulette genre send ups]] during the first season and then never looked back.
161** ''Series/ThirtyRock'' has a character who is canonically immortal, an increasingly loose fourth wall, a functional gay bomb, an entire holiday tradition built around leap day, in addition to many, many other oddball plot elements.
162* ''Series/KamenRiderBuild'' revels in meta humor and bonebreaking MoodWhiplash. Visual effects can be interacted with, e.g. when [[{{Deuteragonist}} Ryuga]] starts explaining his life story and the corresponding flashback appears, [[TheHero Sento]] grabs the scene and chuck it away, much to Ryuga's disappointment. ''Twice.'' Sento's [[mediumawareness medium awareness]] doesn't end there as he calls himself the protagonist and everyone else supporting cast. Also, he usually handwaves their questions about the workings of Toku genre. The ability of various characters to narrate the episode recaps concisely and coherrently is often impacted by whatever just happened, be it a plot twist, a WhamLine, someone's death, etc. All of which happens fairly often. The story switches between the main cast's DomCom antics, politics surrounding an ArtifactOfDoom and a terrorist group creating bio-weapons via human experimentation at a blazing speed.
163* ''Series/NoSoapRadio'' was an attempt to bring the {{Absurdism}} of ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' to Americans, and naturally features lots of this as a result. It's one part SketchShow and one part {{Sitcom}}, and both of them gleefully dive into the inexplicable and bizarre.
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167* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8BWBn26bX0 The video for The Avalanches' Frontier Psychiatrist.]] A geriatric {{hip hop}} group lip-syncs to old movie clips while the lyrics are illustrated by almost everything imaginable? Oh hell yes.
168* Some works by The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band ("Doo Dah" was originally "Dada,") who appeared in the pre-[[Creator/MontyPython Python]] show ''Do Not Adjust Your Set'' and were cited by Eric Idle as a major influence on Python's surrealism.
169** Founder Bonzo Vivian Stanshall went on to record solo songs and comic monologues which were, if anything, even weirder.
170** Another singer/raconteur in similar vein was Scotland's Ivor Cutler.
171* Music/FrankZappa, when he isn't being just plain surreal.
172* Music/BobDylan has written a lot of songs like this
173* Music/{{Radiohead}} released a DVD called "The Most Gigantic Lying Mouth of All Time," which, among other things, features hilariously surreal interviews with the band members.
174* When Music/TheLonelyIsland aren't parodying music and hip-hop cliches, they're doing this. Prime examples include "Jack Sparrow," "Punch You In The Jeans," "Meet the Crew," "Space Olympics" and "I Fucked My Aunt." Another common staple of theirs is a premise that starts innocuously but then slowly descends into insanity, as seen in "Like a Boss," "Dreamgirl" and "I Run New York" among others.
175* The music videos, tour antics, promotional materials and overall atmosphere generated by Music/MileyCyrus during her promotion of the 2013 album ''Bangerz'' is fueled on this, when it's not the usual RefugeInAudacity or HotterAndSexier. From dancing {{little people|AreSurreal}} and...erm, bottom-heavy twerking dancers, to dancing rainbows, teddy bears and unicorns, to the DerangedAnimation projected onscreen during the ''Bangerz'' Tour, to the surrealism surrounding her "We Can't Stop" video, all convention seems thrown out the window.
176* Music/{{Queen}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od6hY_50Dh0 video]] for "[[SanitySlippageSong I'm Going Slightly Mad]]" straddles the line between this and SurrealHorror.
177* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tCjmdyjyoo It's Dark!]] by the Music/{{Vocaloid}} producer GHOST/Ghost and Pals is a song about [[EatDirtCheap eating dirt]] that combines this and WordSaladHumor, complete with a dose of MoodWhiplash towards the end. It must be seen to be believed.
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180[[folder:New Media]]
181* The entire basis of the YoutubePoop phenomenon.
182* ''WebAnimation/CharlieTheUnicorn'' and any video by [[http://www.filmcow.com/index.html Film Cow]]
183** Just to recap on what videos they've done. [[WebAnimation/TheCloak A sentient cloak who fights communism with his disembodied head sidekick Robert Mitchum]], A mad scientist who is in love with a swiffer mop and sends an elephant to hell [[ForScience in the name of science]], [[WebAnimation/LlamasWithHats two hat-wearing llamas who argue about ethics]] [[CrossesTheLineTwice (one of which is a cannibal)]], [[AnimateInanimateObject and a civilization of spatulas at war with evil spoons]] and the closest thing said spatulas have to an afterlife is [[CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys "new France."]] [[SerialEscalation And that's just scratching the surface.]]
184** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDn2Xp5ctQM Marshmallow People]] is about [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin two marshmallow people]]. As if that wasn't weird enough, they ride on a flying otter to go visit triangle man.
185*** Marshmallow People 2 is even weirder: it ends with [[spoiler:Triangle Man dying and turning into a tree and both marshmallow people transforming into inanimate marshmallows. And so [[AndZoidberg Triangle Girl]] wins!]]
186* WebVideo/FilthyFrank is rife with strange humor, if it doesn't involve anything [[CrossesTheLineTwice offensive]] or [[GrossOutShow gross]].
187* The {{Lets Play}}er LetsPlay/{{Raocow}} lives for this trope (and TalkativeLoon). When not being overly frustrated by the [[NintendoHard difficult]] [[PlatformHell levels]] that he plays, his commentary is so bizarre that it becomes hilarious.
188* Creator/JitteryDragon's videos all fall into this, the exact opposite of WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime sequels it mocks. [[spoiler:The WesternAnimation/DinosaurTrain parody verges on SurrealHorror as well.]]
189* The Website/CollegeHumor guys dip into this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wEDz3t3CKA at times.]]
190* Most of [[http://meganamram.tumblr.com/ Megan Amram's]] funniest moments.
191* ''Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale'' combines this with SurrealHorror. It covers the bizarre and often disturbing local news from a ''very'' strange desert town infested with {{ancient conspirac|y}}ies and supernatural weirdness, mostly delivered in [[CozyVoiceForCatastrophes the oddly-calm tones]] of radio host Cecil Palmer.
192* ''Podcast/{{Qwerpline}}'', centered around the utterly bizarre Nsburg of Therpston County, is essentially ''Night Vale'', if it traded in the horror for double the comedy. The raccoon population is so explosive, the City Council counts raccoon deaths as fatalities for tax reasons, the Girl Scouts are better equipped than the Police Department, the recycling center ends up with everything that ''can't'' be recycled, there are ''two'' Town Halls (one's a nicknamed Pool Hall), and a "secret" (big air quotes) society of pipesmen plus any number of certifiably insane residents and inane business ventures. ''Most'' of this is treated as normal.
193* Twitch Streamer and Youtuber {{BroTeamPill}} often uses this in his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsM5XkvRpzE videos.]]
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197* Where to begin with ''Radio/TheGoonShow''? Exploding taxis, a jet-propelled [=NAAFI=], pianos with diplomatic immunity, bent spoons in lieu of money... Creator/MontyPython may be better known, but the Goons got there more than a decade earlier.
198* ''Radio/TheBurkissWay'' could get very strange at times. One sketch involves an office worker who is employed as a token Desmond Dekker and the Aces for contractual reasons, despite being an amoeba and annoying the other workers by constantly reproducing asexually by mitosis during office hours. And he can't even get the song right.
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202* Swedish comedian Henrik Elmér is all about this.
203* Stand up "tragidian" Brother Theodore built his career around bizarre and morbid routines.
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207* The sheer absurdity of some of the situations that transpire in ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' can veer into this. [[LudicrousGibs Given the nature]] [[CruelAndUnusualDeath of the combat system]] [[OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank in the game,]] BloodyHilarious and BlackComedy tend to come into play frequently as well. We also have random instances of MundaneMadeAwesome on occasion, e.g. "The metalsmith has been stung by a honeybee!"
208* ''robotfindskitten'', while allegedly being "zen," is arguably all about the bizarre, meta-referencing "non-kitten objects" you can find. Some are just plain Pythonesque. Samples include: "A livery stable! Get your livery!" "It's the horizon. Now THAT's weird." and "Look, it's Fanny the Irishman!"
209* [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Between adopting sirloin steaks and discussing marijuana usage with Dracula]], the humor in ''VideoGame/SpaceFuneral'' tends to get pretty weird.
210* ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'' features an ExcusePlot involving a CarnivalOfKillers and injects it with some downright bizarre humor. Your opponents in the first game alone include a mad scientist with an earthquake machine operated by a BrainInAJar who [[spoiler:gets taken out by your rival [[CutSceneBoss in the middle of a cut-scene]]]], an old bag lady whose shopping cart turns into a WaveMotionGun, and [[PsychopathicManChild a creepy woman-child]] who attacks with sports equipment and an army of gimps.
211* ''VideoGame/EarthwormJim'' was a game that opened with you launching a cow out of catapult, so it was never the most sane of games in the first place. ''Earthworm Jim 2'' was even more bizarre: Suddenly transforming into a flying blind cave salamander that flies through the game's WombLevel, inflating your head like a balloon while a demonic cat shoots darts at you, and an entire level made out of meat are just the icing on the cake.
212%% * ''VideoGame/TheMagicSchoolBus'' would go into elements of this, but it's most notable with the first two games. How's that for some EarlyInstallmentWeirdness?
213* ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'' thrives on this trope thanks to the theme of entering the minds of the mentally unstable leading to some pretty surreal scenarios, like traveling an Escher-esque suburban neighborhood infested with thinly-disguised secret agents.
214* ''VideoGame/BarkleyShutUpAndJamGaiden'' is a gleefully bizarre soup of basketball and JRPG references, lashed together with plenty of this. The underground UsefulNotes/FurryFandom colony and the fact that ''Film/SpaceJam'' is a canonical part of the absurd world's past is just the tip of the iceberg.
215* ''VideoGame/PonyIsland'': Much of the game's humor comes from the idea of Hell as a video game...programmed by Lucifer, who is quite possibly the most incompetent game designer in existence.
216* ''VideoGame/PotatoThriller'' is a bizarre horror-adventure game with [[StylisticSuck deliberately half-assed graphics]] and a nonsensical plot. It involves a bounty hunter named Quindalin and his partner Dexter trying to track down the Potato Man, a Mr-Potato-Head-esque figure who kills people by deep-frying them alive.
217* ''VideoGame/ToiletInWonderland'' consists mostly of this. It's about a girl named Mira who suffers from constipation, which somehow lets her travel into another world where she encounters various strange characters. Along the way, she is joined by a naked muscular man whose head is shaped like a butt, a white rabbit that whinnies like a horse, an NPC that Mira [[HelloInsertNameHere gave a name]], and a sentient fire extinguisher that expresses its annoyance whenever Mira uses it for something other than its intended purpose.
218* ''VideoGame/{{Hylics}}'': The text is all either procedurally generated or strangely worded for humorous effect, and there are dramatic, trippy animations for using a burrito and a vegetable (and a cupcake, in the sequel) in battle.
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222* ''Webcomic/TheBirdFeeder'' has a character called Exotic, who is an exotic bird of indeterminate species, who claims to be from an unknown island off the coast of Brazil called Combrobway. Generally, any strip involving Exotic or any of its strange stories of its homeland is fairly surreal.
223* ''Webcomic/BloodyUrban'' is an example of supernatural meets surreal, from [[EldritchAbomination eldritch abominations]] acting as therapists and IT guys, to giant amoebas charging their iPods on the ceiling.
224* ''Webcomic/BrawlInTheFamily'' whenever Waluigi's around. "Expecting a normal webcomic? TOO BAD! WALUIGI TIME!"
225* ''Webcomic/MrSquare'' Stars a limbless and depressed "square on a stick" and a talking sheep. They once made [[http://revfitz.com/comic/issue380/ Gutter Muppet Glitter Cakes]].
226* ''Webcomic/OtterlyHuman'' features bizarre characters, such as a chair/human hybrid and a centaur with opposite characteristics of the traditional creatures.
227* ''ComicStrip/ThePerryBibleFellowship'' is like an R-rated version of ''The Far Side'', often juxtaposing [[SugarBowl whimsical settings]] with BlackComedy and adult situations, like [[http://pbfcomics.com/129 a war between]] [[AnthropomorphicFood candy-people and chocolate people]] where "Colonel Sweeto" turns out to be a double agent (a peanut M&M), and [[FingerInTheMail his "nut" is sent home in a box]].
228* ''WebComic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'' has a lot of jokes about subverted expectations -- like NotWhatItLooksLike and LiteralMetaphor -- where the way things actually turn out to be is so absurd that's the main joke. Like, you wouldn't expect "Get off your high horse" or "he threw up a lot of red flags" to be literal, especially with an absolutely gigantic genetically modified horse or "throwing up" meaning vomiting.
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232* The ''WebAnimation/AlfredsPlayhouse'' have quite bit of this and "SurrealHorror," including singing about alfred's sexual abuse and his escape from it into into fantasy to the tune of the ''Series/PeeWeesPlayhouse'' theme song, Dictator Alfred is friends with cheerful inagined versions of Hitler and Stalin, and Alfred cross-dresses from time to time.
233* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xynvrod0P6k Banjo Gyro!]] It's about fast food employees trying to get rid of a demon in their restaurant
234* Many videos made with ''VideoGame/GarrysMod'' or Source Filmmaker likes to have this a lot. Best examples are [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVcWgJXL-ww this]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVrrt-nvDnQ this]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRVgYHvWdm0 this]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzMq5_thk4o this]].
235* ''[[http://kansattica.livejournal.com Awesome in Kansattica]]'' is like this sometimes.
236* ''[[http://www.somethingawful.com/series/57.php Lauren's Cartoons]]'' fall very nicely into this category; it helps that the writer (and narrator) is ''five''.
237* WebVideo/SadPandaQAndA, although anything he does tends to be as strange as a Website/TVTropes entry on WebVideo/SadPandaQAndA.
238* The fake PreviouslyOn segments on ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'' take this form.
239* ''WebVideo/DontHugMeImScared'' depicts this and SurrealHorror. because each episode has a trio of puppet characters (Red Guy Yellow Guy and Duck Guy) being teached by talking objects causing them to enjoy themselves by using their imaginations... until their imaginations turn the episodes nightmarishly surreal. in the end everything goes back to normal and nothing happens.
240* The [[WebAnimation/{{asdfmovie}} ASDF Movies]] by [[https://www.youtube.com/user/TomSka TomSka]] combine this trope with RapidFireComedy.
241-->"Nice hat."\
242"Thanks!"\
243"I was being sarcastic."\
244"Well, [[ImpossibleTheft I stole]] your [[TheBlank face!]]"
245* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH2-TGUlwu4 Nyan Cat]], a video composed of a cat with a Pop Tart for a body that flies through space trailing rainbows while an endlessly loop of a catchy, cutesy song plays. And then there are the many variants on the meme, like the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaEmCFiNqP0 "Smooth" Jazz cover]].
246* [[https://www.youtube.com/user/TVMaxwell TVMaxwell's]] stuff will almost always leave the viewer wondering what the hell they just watched, and why exactly they enjoyed it.
247* ''WebAnimation/GoingToTheStore2011'': A physics-uninclined CGI model wobbles and warps down the street to the tune of [=1960s=] proto-SynthPop.
248* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' has this kinda stuff all over the place. The WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail [[Recap/StrongBadEmailE118Virus "virus"]] notably, begins with Strong Bad getting an email comprised of demented code, which mocks him when he tries to delete it, and things get weirder throughout the toon.
249-->'''Strong Bad:''' And... the Compy just peed my carpet.
250* ''WebAnimation/TheDementedCartoonMovie'' [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin lives up to its name]], featuring a solid half-hour of a RandomEventsPlot involving badly-animated stickmen, a mad scientist, a superhero, WordSaladHumor ("zeeky doogy boog!"), and [[StuffBlowingUp way too many explosions]].
251* A lot of [[WebVideo/HitlerRants Downfall parodies]].
252* ''WebAnimation/TohoKingdomToons'' frequently lives off this.
253-->'''Gabara''': i can't believe Godzilla and Anguirus impregnated us!
254-->'''Monster X''': IMPRISONED, not impregnated! Oh, i can't believe they overpowered us.
255-->'''Gabara''': they didn't overpower us! they lured us here, with the prospect of Bon-Bons (swallows Bon-Bon) i still think it was worth it.
256* Any of the works of Purpleeyeswtf, like ''WebVideo/NonePiece'' and ''WebVideo/CodeMENT''.
257* The whole point of ''Webcomic/MountainTime''.
258* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrW4Vd2cP2w THIS]] skit.
259* ''WebVideo/OddityArchive''. When your first episode is about the Series/MaxHeadroom [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_broadcast_signal_intrusion_incident incident]]...
260* ''WebAnimation/BravestWarriors'': One episode involves the crew being pestered by an Emotion Lord, a crazy old RealityWarper who does things like conjure a swarm of chocolate puppies. Another episode stakes the future of a race of buttless aliens on whether Beth and Chris can patch things up between a pair of energy beings that possess people's backsides and make them swell to enormous size.
261* ''Literature/HowToSurviveAZombieApocalypse''
262* Drag Queen and ''Series/RuPaulsDragRace'' contestant [[Creator/{{Katya}} Katya Zamolodchikova's]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Saq6zLJ1GLE RuFlections]]
263* [[https://twitter.com/dril @dril]].
264-->tomorrow im going to fill up on bread befoore 10am and get waterboarded by my seven identical uncles
265* [[http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/avocado The Fifth Avocado]], a nonsensical Flash cartoon in which an oddly-accented narrator tells rambling stories about spontaneously-combusting baby ducks, monkey tea parties, and the ghosts of fish drowning. Then the whole thing ends with [[spoiler:a parody of the ending of the ''Film/FightClub'' movie]].
266-->'''Narrator:''' Once upon a time there was a ducky that drank some Snapple. Suddenly, this little duck-- oh, wait, I forgot to tell you, the ducky's name is Jamal.
267* ''Website/{{Clickhole}}'''s brand of humor is equal parts this and MundaneMadeAwesome. It manages to parody the bubbly clickbait writing style of ''Buzzfeed'' so effectively that it's all the more hilarious when you take a closer look at its articles and realize how bizarre they really are. Standout examples include: an article about [[https://clickhole.com/5-child-stars-who-grew-up-to-be-acclaimed-novelist-salm-1825122576/ five child stars who grew up to be Salman Rushdie]] (yes, all five of them), an article about [[https://clickhole.com/we-asked-6-famous-video-game-designers-about-the-game-t-1825123112/ great unmade video games]] where we learn that the date of the Apocalypse is written on Franchise/{{Mario}}'s chest, and an article [[https://clickhole.com/we-asked-22-crab-fishermen-about-the-most-famous-person-1825122046/ interviewing crab fishermen about celebrities that they've caught in their nets]].
268* A great deal of {{Animutation}}s fall into this:
269** "Lesko's Revenge" has Matthew Lesko and a 3D-rendered Scotsman's head lip-synching to a song about drawing Pokemon. Then Lesko falls down a pit and dies, but eventually returns from the grave and goes around hitting people with a hammer.
270** The ''WebAnimation/ColinMochrieVsJesusHChrist'' trilogy spins a wild story of Colin Mochrie being temporarily turned into a Scotsman, training with underpants-wearing space leprechauns to fight in a martial arts tournament, and then getting into an epic showdown with Jesus, who has taken over the world (and is really [[spoiler:Mike Brady]] in disguise).
271* ''WebVideo/LasagnaCat'' runs giving this treatment to the ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' comics, often to a ridiculously far-out degree. The second "season" of the series, plays it off a little more darkly, even to the point of frequently dipping into SurrealHorror.
272* [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/surreal-memes Surreal Memes]] are designed to be as absurd and ironic as possible.
273* WebVideo/DrewGooden: A common trait of his Vines are surreal gags with quick cuts and edits, such as one where his cereal spoon ''floats away from him'' while he's trying to eat.
274* WebAnimation/{{ENA}} uses this and SurrealHorror interchangeably, leaning more towards the latter as the series goes on.
275* Creator/{{Karameru}}'s short animations always contain unexpected twists, frequently with StuffBlowingUp. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6NWKxuykiI This short]] is but one example of how chaotic and surreal his animation shorts can get.
276* Ladies And Gentleman,[[https://youtu.be/22to7s22Nb8/ El Hombre Bola (The ball man)]]
277* WebAnimation/HeavyIsDead: Many of the gags fit the bill, such as the myriad of {{Funny Background Event}}s, the game show gag, and the moment where Heavy inexplicably duplicates and [[PokingDeadThingsWithAStick pokes his own dead body with a stick]].
278* WebVideo/{{Caddicarus}} lives and breathes this trope, with all sorts of hilarious, demented happenings in his videos. Part of the fun is that you never know what's going to happen next.
279* This is a major element of ''WebVideo/SMPLive'', with bits like "æ", "Bean Yoda", conflicts over banning Obama from ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' restaurants, Pokay's "sea pickle" RunningGag...
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283* ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' by its very nature (a rambling, nonsensically-titled show in which the three main characters are animated fast-food items) is built on this trope. Specific examples include the deranged Dr. Weird and his "experiments" that include demanding that his assistant chop off his head so hard that the HighPressureBlood propels his body to Phoenix, and one episode which featured bacteria that infect Master Shake for the purpose of performing bad theater productions in his brain.
284** The spiritual father of these shows, ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGhostCoastToCoast'' started out as campy parody but especially in the latter half of the series tilted heavily into this camp. Often, Space Ghost seems barely interested in doing his job as a talk show host and if it makes him look bad in the process, Zorak and Moltar are there to help him.
285* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', a show about a teenage boy and his best friend who is also a dog with elasticity powers fighting multiple threats to various kingdoms, including ones comprised of different types of AnthropomorphicFood, makes good use of this kind of humor.
286* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
287** [[RealityWarper God of]] [[OrderVersusChaos Chaos]] [[BewareTheSillyOnes Discord]], thrives off this trope whenever he's not falling into SurrealHorror instead. Notable moment: he conjures a glass out of thin air, summons a cotton candy cloud raining chocolate milk, and the glass fills... from top to bottom. Then he drinks the glass. Without the milk. He tosses the chocolate milk behind him, and [[StuffBlowingUp it explodes for no fathomable reason]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjD4umwKSLI See for yourself.]]
288** Of course, even the God of Disorder himself has nothing on [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Pinkie Pie]], who has this trope down to a science. Among her more notable feats are appearing in multiple places at once during a song, showing up in a mirror without being in the room, sprouting two additional pairs of limbs, walking on thin air, and [[VoluntaryShapeshifting morphing her own face]] [[MythologyGag into that of]] [[TakeThatScrappy a G3 pony]].
289* ''WesternAnimation/TwelveOunceMouse'' chronicles the [[StylisticSuck badly-drawn]] misadventures of an alcoholic, amnesiac mouse named Fitz whose best friend is a photorealistic chinchilla. Fitz runs (very) odd jobs for a talking shark while living in a town populated by such strange people and creatures as a match who runs a liquor store, a gender-shifting "Man-Woman," and a talking square who claims to be fabulously wealthy.
290* ''WesternAnimation/CatDog'' has a weird enough premise on its own, being about the misadventures of a cat and dog who are ConjoinedTwins with AHeadAtEachEnd. Some of the episode plots are pretty weird too, like Catdog being terrorized by a monster with an olive-loaf sandwich for a head, a rare disease making a pecan tree grow from Dog's head, or "a sudden outbreak of laryngitis and temporary color-blindness" being used to set up an {{homage}} to silent movies.
291* 1981 cartoon short ''WesternAnimation/HomeOnTheRails'' certainly has an odd setting: a husband and wife live in a house that is literally ''on the railroad tracks''. They have to open two doors from time to time to let a train pass through their home. There's also their "cuckoo" clock, which doesn't have a cuckoo but a series of ever-changing little figures--one time the clock shows a man being guillotined, another time a man gets his head punched clean off, another time the clock shows a washerwoman who empties her bucket on the floor of the house.
292* ''WesternAnimation/UncleGrandpa'' is about an eccentric, InexplicablyAwesome old man who is "everyone in the world's grandpa and uncle," and who travels the Earth in an RV that's BiggerOnTheInside, getting young people into (and out of) crazy misadventures. Helping him in his quest are his LizardFolk bodyguard Mr. Gus, an egotistical [[AnthropomorphicFood talking pizza slice]] named Pizza Steve, and the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin aptly-named]] Giant Realistic Flying Tiger.
293* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' is about the everyday life of a young boy and his family. Did we mention the boy and his mother are blue anthropomorphic cats, his sister and father are pink rabbits, his brother is a goldfish that spontaneously sprouted legs one day and was adopted by the family, and his love interest is a peanut with antlers who turns out to be a shapeshifting fairy after she literally comes out of her shell? And that's not getting into how weird Gumball's friends and neighbors (and the crazy situations they get into) are.
294* One tagline for ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' is "[[SarcasticTitle It's anything but]]," and is that ever an accurate description. The main characters are an anthropomorphic blue jay and raccoon who work in a city park for a gumball machine, and their antics tend to involve stuff like accidentally bringing video game villains to life, summoning an EldritchAbomination after tying in rock-paper-scissors too many times in a row, or [[GRatedDrug tripping on]] [[BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce hot sauce]].
295* The classic shorts of WesternAnimation/ThePinkPanther often use very bizarre occurrences in otherwise mundane situations, like when a deck chair randomly comes to life and tries to eat the Panther.
296* ''WesternAnimation/ItsSuchABeautifulDay'' combines Surreal Humor with SurrealHorror. Justified because the protagonist Bill is mentally (and perhaps terminally) ill, and has to deal with how his depressing (yet ridiculous) life may eventually end with premature death.
297* ''WesternAnimation/RexTheRunt'', a claymation series by ''Creator/AardmanAnimations'' is not exactly the ''WesternAnimation/WallaceAndGromit'' kind of fare that you may have expected. If the ''CloudCuckoolander'' Vince isn't enough for the series to qualify for this trope alone, bizarre adventures such as accidentally deflating the earth or flying to a planet inhabited by Moai heads in a can of baked beans will. Plenty of ''DerangedAnimation'' (as well as use of live-action backgrounds) adds to this too.
298* ''WesternAnimation/PigGoatBananaCricket'': A show about the strange adventures of a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin pig, a goat, a banana, and a cricket]]. A fairly typical example of what sort of thing happens on this show is the episode where Pig becomes a police officer by finding a badge, a uniform, and a police car ''in a box of cereal''. He then has to solve the mystery of who has been stealing everyone's ''moustaches''.
299* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': Of course, it should be expected from a show about {{Funny Animal}}s living on a planet full of magic. Weird things happen, involving stuff like aliens, weapons, explosions, interdimensional travel, etc.
300* ''WesternAnimation/NeoYokio'': The show will frequently make off-beat jokes with weird comedic timing and the show treats the incredibly strange premise (a slacker magician from a wealthy family being pressured to keep up the family business of demon-slaying) as realistically as possible. It's easy to compare it to more comedic versions of MagicalRealism.
301* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'': There are countless examples of surreal content littered throughout the run of the show, but the true heavy weight is "Interdimensional Television"; whether one considers the trope subverted because of the premise or played straight, it's hard to imagine anything more utterly random and peculiar making it on to television (even considering we are talking about ''Adult Swim'').
302* ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'' is a show largely dedicated to spoofing tropes of reality shows, various animated genres and media, and [[ReferenceOverdosed everything else imaginable]]. Some of the plots are just plain weird, though, especially in later seasons that treat the FramingDevice of cartoon characters on a reality show as [[TheArtifact just an excuse to get all these crazy characters in one place]]. One episode involves one of the house guests taking in [[MediumBlending a live-action cow]] as a pet, and in another, token black housemate Foxxy Love degenerates into [[UncleTomfoolery increasingly offensive black stereotypes]] due to brain damage from a tumor. The creators have stated that literally nothing happens for any reason [[RuleOfFunny other than to be funny]].
303* Played with in a few episodes of ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'', whenever Mister Mxyzptlk shows up. An exasperated Superman insists that real humour has rules, and that Mxy's pranks are "just random idiocy."
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