History CloudCuckoolander / WesternAnimation

** [[Characters/GravityFallsMabelPines Mabel Pines]] is enthusiastic about everything ("Yay, grass!"), prone to outbursts of silliness (like folding an encoded map into a paper hat), and full of [[EccentricArtist ridiculous ideas for arts and crafts projects]] (from her hundreds of hand-knitted sweaters to stuff like "caticatures" or a drawing of "a waffle with big arms"), but she and her brother Dipper are savvy enough to cope with the weirdness endemic to the eponymous town.

* ''WesternAnimation/PatAndMat'' is a Czech StopMotion series about two of those doing [[DoomItYourself home "improvement" and fixing their car]]. Examples include tying a ladder to a bike in order to transport bigger loads or making a fish pond. In their living room.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers''

-->'''Brock:''' Honestly, Hank, where do you pick that stuff up? I never see you read.
-->'''Dean:''' It's weird, right?
-->'''Brock:''' It's like he channels dead crazy people.
-->'''Hank:''' (concerned) You think it's a cry for help?

** Ice King later turns out to be a rather horrifying deconstruction of this trope. His strange behaviour actually stems from [[spoiler:having had his mind warped and his memory erased by an ArtifactOfDoom. The process was slow and extremely painful, destroying his relationships with his fiancee and surrogate daughter, and it's implied that most of his actions are a subconscious attempt to replace them]]. By the time the main series takes place, he's barely a shadow of his old self and is miserable due to his inability to form normal relationships. ''And'' it's implied that without the [[spoiler:mental remnants of his old self restraining him, he would be just a violent madman rather than an [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain ineffectual]] CloudCuckooLander. When this control occasionally slips, he is [[NotSoHarmlessVillain much more]] [[PsychopathicManchild disturbing]]]].

** Even Aang had some slight moments of this earlier in the series.

** While Sokka is normally pretty rational, he does occasionally have some very ''strange'' ideas, such as when Momo goes missing, Sokka concludes, apropos of nothing, that Appa ate him, and attempts to crawl into Appa's mouth. And at another time he licks something off a cave wall, despite having just spent a whole day hallucinating thanks to going bonkers from cactus juice, because he has "a natural curiosity".

** Mabel Pines is enthusiastic about everything ("Yay, grass!"), prone to outbursts of silliness (like folding an encoded map into a paper hat), and full of [[EccentricArtist ridiculous ideas for arts and crafts projects]] (from her hundreds of hand-knitted sweaters to stuff like "caticatures" or a drawing of "a waffle with big arms"), but she and her brother Dipper are savvy enough to cope with the weirdness endemic to the eponymous town.

** Zim himself often fits; in one episode, when confronted by fully mobile talking babies (possibly a hideous parody of Rugrats), he stated that 'I knew it! Earth babies come from space!'. More pointedly, in an unfinished episode called "The Trial", he is kidnapped and brought to court among his people; in spite of the flagrant evidence that it is, in fact, a trial for his continued right to exist, he insists on believing it to be a party in his honor. In what was to be that episode's ending, Zim is scanned for defects by the robot "control-brains" that run the planet. His insanity drives the machines to madness, and they declare him ''the greatest of all Irkens''. The Tallest weep as Zim is temporarily placed in command of the Tallest's ship and proceeds to smash it into everything.

** Dale Gribble. Bobby at least has shown that he can competently conduct himself through many situations (his {{Cloudcuckoolander}} moments seem to be sort of self-aware instances of fantasy-indulgence, or the fact that he's still very impressionable as a child). Dale, however, seems to live quite happily as an adult in a world all his own that just happens to intersect with Arlen, Texas. Once he tried to combat a heatwave by "fighting fire with fire," which entailed turning the heat all the way up in his house. Another time he hosted his own shortwave radio show during which he claimed to be getting a phone call from former (and long-since deceased) Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev.

** Pinkie Pie is a prime example and the page image for this trope. Whereas all the other ponies walk, [[SillyWalk hopping and skipping in a gait]] called [[InherentlyFunnyWord pronking]] (and [[OffscreenTeleportation teleporting]]) are her primary modes of transportation, and she frequently [[WeirdAside goes off on weird tangents]], [[ThatRemindsMeOfASong breaks out in song]], and DependingOnTheWriter can either [[PaintingTheMedium paint the fourth wall]] or flat-out [[FourthWallObserver break it]]. "[[NoodleIncident ... and then I said]] [[MemeticMutation 'Oatmeal? Are you]] ''[[MemeticMutation craz...]]''' oh."

** Oddly enough, [[spoiler:corrupted Pinkie from the first two episodes of the second season. You'd think that being brainwashed into hating anything fun would dampen this, but apparently not. Despite being angry, resentful, and dead serious, Pinkie still hops around, skates on the soap-roads (even as she protests that it's not as fun as it looks), and yells "It's your fault it didn't work!" while looking at (and meaning) nopony in particular]].
** Discord, the villain of those two episodes and the embodiment of Chaos, can actually make Pinkie seem somewhat sane by comparison.

* {{Deconstruction}} with Luz in ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse''. She tends to be very immersed in her own world, but it led to her becoming friendless and getting into trouble often at school. Luz's EstablishingCharacterMoment is playing with an action figure and a ''live snake'' in her principal's office, which she intended to be part of a school book report. The way both the principal and Luz's mother Camila talk about it, this is far from the first time that Luz has done something like this. Camila then thought it would be a good idea to send Luz to Reality Check Summer Camp at the beginning of the story. It gets reconstructed through the series, with her embracing her weirdness and finding her TrueCompanions, but also slowly learning to deal with reality and be less impulsive.

** Homer Simpson frequently tends toward this. Perhaps most notoriously in ''The Simpsons Movie'' where he's imagining a cymbal-banging monkey... and THAT tells him to pay attention to what Marge is saying.

** The title character.

** Patrick. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNZSXnrbs_k The inner machinations of his mind are an enigma]].

** Steven himself is an excitable young boy whose thought processes are a little weird sometimes.