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• Abstract Scale
  To measure the immeasurable.
• Acid Trip Dimension
  A space-time rift that looks like your last LSD trip.
• Ad Dissonance
  An advertisement in a work is ironic or otherwise inappropriate to the action.
• Appeal To Audacity
  Something is declared true because nobody in their right mind would make up such a ridiculous story if it were false.
• Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?
  A female expected to be assaulted is ignored, and becomes insulted over it.
• Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?
  A non-sequitur answer when a more obvious solution is expected.
• Bathos
  The lofty or serious juxtaposed with the ludicrous or commonplace.
• Big Lipped Alligator Moment
  A totally random event is inserted into a serious story, then never referred to again.
• Bizarrchitecture
  Buildings built in impossible or nonsensical ways.
• BLAM Episode
  A Big Lipped Alligator Moment that takes up a whole episode, though the episode itself is internally consistent.
• Blessed Are the Cheesemakers
  Cheese is funny.
• Breathless Non-Sequitur
• Calvinball
  The game's rules are whatever you feel like.
• Camp
  
• Chewbacca Defense
  You pretend you can win the argument if you get the other guy to shut up by any means.
• Cloud Cuckoolander
  A character who is just plain out there.
  • Cuckoolandian Counterpart
    An unholy dead ringer of an often sane character.
• Companion Cube
  An inanimate object treated by characters as a real person.
• Contemplating Your Hands
  Fascination with hands while on drug trips.
• Crazy Awesome
  A quirky character is more effective and/or awesome because of his quirkiness.
• Crazy Memory
  A character remembers an event so ridiculous it couldn't possibly be true.
• Crazy Prepared
  Prepared for every situation, I mean every situation.
• Cue the Flying Pigs
  If something impossible is said to only happen if X, X will happen.
• Cutaway Gag
  Non sequitor humor tossed in for why the hell not.
• Dada
  Confusing anti-art movement.
• Dada Comics
  Comics consisting of surreal, non-sequitur humor.
• Dancing Pants
  Clothing that moves around by itself.
• The Dead Can Dance
  Although they probably smell funny doing it.
• Deranged Animation
  It's animated and totally not made on drugs, we swear.
• Digging To China
  Tunneling straight through, molten core? Bah.
• Disney Acid Sequence
  A music sequence in a strait-laced film enters through a sudden art shift into deranged animation territory.
• Dream Land
  A world comprised of dreams... or nightmares.
• Le Film Artistique
  Indie True Art film that most people don't bother even trying to understand.
• Giant Foot of Stomping
  A big foot comes out of nowhere and stomps someone to death.
• Happy Place
  Troubled people curl up and go away in their heads to places where everything is warm and fuzzy and candy corn.
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• Hitler Ate Sugar
  Just because someone evil did something doesn't make that thing evil - but people treat it like it was.
• Implausible Deniability
  A character consistently denies doing something even through incontrovertible evidence.
• Improbable Antidote
  Anything can cure poison if the plot requires it!
• Indecisive Medium
• Inventional Wisdom
  Standard, evil plot-critical machines have that one lever/function that seems to be totally unrelated to the rest of it.
• Is It Always Like This?
  A normal person wanders into a crazy place.
• It Runs On Nonsensoleum
  A "scientific" device that runs on something impossible or nonsensical.
• Makes Just as Much Sense in Context
  It doesn't. The epileptic trees remain epileptic unless you possess fridge brilliance.
• Mind Screw
  When things just make no sense.
• Mushroom Samba
  Ingesting something hallucinogenic results in - whoooa! The pink fleas! My Slinky has eyes!.
• Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant
  An innocent character who constantly creeps out those around her.
• Non-Sequitur Thud
  Saying something random after being clobbered.
• Noodle Incident
  An event in the past that's referenced but never explained.
• Noodle Implements
  Talking about an un-described complicated act by describing a long list of things used in it.
• "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer
  We know this sounds ridiculous, but we are not making this up.
• Offer Void In Nebraska
  Void where prohibited.
• Once Killed a Man with a Noodle Implement
  A Badass Boast of having killed somebody with something nobody would consider a weapon — and then not explaining or showing how it was done.
• Organ Autonomy
  Body parts that have a mind of their own and can influence their owner's brain.
• Oxymoronic Being
  Someone or something that is innately self-contradictory.
• Personal Dictionary
  Change the definition of a word to suit your purposes.
• Poor Communication Kills
  An implausible and out-of-character misunderstanding.
• Puff of Logic
  When a convincing argument causes something to stop existing.
• Reality Is Out To Lunch
  An area where the laws of physics or reality just stop applying.
• Refuge in Audacity
  Making something so outrageous that it becomes acceptable, when dialed-down levels would be offensive.
• Scaled Up
  The villain turns into a snake or dragon.
• Serial Escalation
  A consistent escalation in whatever the heck a work is doing.
• Still Fighting The Civil War
  Some people just can't get over the fact that "their side" lost some conflict long ago.
• Surreal Horror
  It's scary and it makes no sense! Wonderful!
• Surreal Humor
  Rule of Funny: Beyond the Impossible
• Surreal Theme Tune
  A theme tune with random lyrics that has little connection to the show.
• The Treachery of Images
  This is an image. But it does not exist.
• True Art Is Incomprehensible
  Anyone can understand this tripe, it can't possibly be artistic!
• Unsound Effect
  A visual sound effect for something that doesn't actually make that sound
• Waking Non Sequitur
  A strange outburst from someone who is waking up.
• The Walrus Was Paul
  The creator of a work outright admits it was deliberately made to confuse the audience and poke fun at their attempts to find meaning in it.
• Wave Of Babies
  Um. It's a big wave made up of babies. Yeah, I don't get it either.
• Weird Aside
  A person mentions something utterly weird in passing as if it were quite normal.
• Weirdness Coupon
  If someone is "weird", it's acceptable that they do things that normal people couldn't get away with.
• What Do You Mean, It Wasn't Made on Drugs?
  There's no way someone could have come up with this when they weren't high - oh wait, they did?
• Where The Hell Is Springfield??
  A city or place whose location is never revealed
• Why Don't You Marry It?
  When someone is so attached to a hobby/inanimate thing it may as well be romantic.
• Widget Series
  Weird foreign series.
• Word Salad Humor
  Take Inherently Funny Words and try and combine them to make a funny sentence.
• Word Salad Philosophy
  "I believe in Meaningless Meaningful Words."
• World Gone Mad
  Nothing makes sense in this place! Argh!