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These tropes are here to screw with your mind. These are tropes about the absurd, UsefulNotes/{{dada}}ism, nonsense, {{non sequitur}}s, the surreal, and the bizarre.[[note]]But not the [[BazaarOfTheBizarre Bazaar]]; that's something else.[[/note]]
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These tropes are here to screw with your mind. These are tropes about the absurd, UsefulNotes/{{dada}}ism, MediaNotes/{{dada}}ism, nonsense, {{non sequitur}}s, the surreal, and the bizarre.[[note]]But not the [[BazaarOfTheBizarre Bazaar]]; that's something else.[[/note]]
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* UsefulNotes/{{Dada}} \\
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* UsefulNotes/{{Dada}} MediaNotes/{{Dada}} \\
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RuleOfFunny meets UsefulNotes/{{Dada}}.
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RuleOfFunny meets UsefulNotes/{{Dada}}.MediaNotes/{{Dada}}.
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Tell somebody that they are unable to do what they are doing, and they will [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome experience reality]] as they stop.
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Tell somebody that they are unable to do what they are doing, and they will [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome experience reality]] reality as they stop.
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* TakenFromADream: \\
A character brings something from a literal dreamworld into reality.
A character brings something from a literal dreamworld into reality.
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A series that viewers don't think makes much sense.
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A series work that viewers audiences don't think makes much sense.sense. There's no way someone could have come up with it unless they were high -- oh wait, they did?
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* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs \\
There's no way someone could have come up with this unless they were high -- oh wait, they did?
There's no way someone could have come up with this unless they were high -- oh wait, they did?
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It's animated and [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial totally not made]] [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs on drugs]], we swear.
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It's animated and [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial totally not made]] [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs [[QuirkyWork on drugs]], we swear.
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* QuirkyWork \\
A series that viewers don't think makes much sense.
A series that viewers don't think makes much sense.
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* WidgetSeries \\
A series that doesn't make much sense outside of the culture of its country of origin, and is used in other countries as indicative of that culture's strangeness.
A series that doesn't make much sense outside of the culture of its country of origin, and is used in other countries as indicative of that culture's strangeness.
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merged with Living Clothes
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* DancingPants \\
Clothing that moves around by itself.
Clothing that moves around by itself.
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An incredibly odd, if not outright incomprehensible, disaster or apocalyptic event that alters reality in strange and dramatic ways.
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* BizarroApocalypse \\
An incredibly odd, if not outright incomprehensible, disaster or apocalyptic event that alters reality in strange and dramatic ways.
An incredibly odd, if not outright incomprehensible, disaster or apocalyptic event that alters reality in strange and dramatic ways.
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* A [[NiceHat Hat]] \\
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* A [[NiceHat Hat]] hat \\
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* LittlePeopleAreSurreal \\
Little people are used as part of a surreal scene, because they're relatively rare and unfamiliar in real life.
Little people are used as part of a surreal scene, because they're relatively rare and unfamiliar in real life.
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A world where real-life elements co-exist with various fantastical elements and he weirdest stuff imaginable.
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A world where real-life elements co-exist with various fantastical elements and he the weirdest stuff imaginable.
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* NonsenseClassification \\
A classification that doesn't make any sense at all.
A classification that doesn't make any sense at all.
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* BizarroFiction \\
Literary genre known for high weirdness, shock horror and gross and surreal narratives.
Literary genre known for high weirdness, shock horror and gross and surreal narratives.
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Something that relies too heavily on symbolism/surrealism/absurdism/metaphors too be understood in a conventional matter and lacks a clear-cut explanation (on purpose).
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Something that relies too heavily on symbolism/surrealism/absurdism/metaphors too to be understood in a conventional matter and lacks a clear-cut explanation (on purpose).
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An alternate world that doesn't make any kind of logical sense.
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An alternate world that doesn't make any kind of logical sense.is indistinguishable from dream reality.
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* MuseumOfTheStrangeAndUnusual \\
Find here what you can't find in any other museum.
Find here what you can't find in any other museum.
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Living this life is so absurd that it actually becomes a joke.
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* CompanionCube \\
An inanimate object treated by characters as a real person.
An inanimate object treated by characters as a real person.
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* CrazyMemory \\
A character remembers an event so ridiculous it couldn't possibly be true.
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* CrazyMemory CollectorOfTheStrange \\
A character remembers an event so ridiculous it couldn't possibly be true. Collecting the weirdest and most bizarre stuff possible.
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* TheDeadCanDance \\
Although they probably smell funny doing it.
Although they probably smell funny doing it.
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Tunneling straight through molten core?
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Tunneling straight through molten core? Seems like a good idea.
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* ImprobableAntidote \\
Anything can cure poison if the plot requires it.
Anything can cure poison if the plot requires it.
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* InventionalWisdom \\
Standard, evil plot-critical machines have that one lever/function that seems to be totally unrelated to the rest of it.
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* LopsidedDichotomy \\
The logical explanation and a blatantly impossible and ridiculous one are presented as the only two possibilities.
The logical explanation and a blatantly impossible and ridiculous one are presented as the only two possibilities.
* NonSequitur \\
The conclusion doesn't follow from the premises.
The conclusion doesn't follow from the premises.
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* NoodleImplements \\
To describe this one, we'll need a sail, two yards of rope, and at least one strong yak.
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* OfferVoidInNebraska \\
Void where prohibited.
* OnceKilledAManWithANoodleImplement \\
A BadassBoast of having killed somebody with something nobody would consider a weapon -- and then not explaining or showing how it was done.
* OrganAutonomy \\
Body parts that have a mind of their own. Sometimes they succeed in displacing the brain as the seat of authority.
Void where prohibited.
* OnceKilledAManWithANoodleImplement \\
A BadassBoast of having killed somebody with something nobody would consider a weapon -- and then not explaining or showing how it was done.
* OrganAutonomy \\
Body parts that have a mind of their own. Sometimes they succeed in displacing the brain as the seat of authority.
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* PoorCommunicationKills \\
An implausible and out-of-character misunderstanding.
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* ReachingBetweenTheLines\\
Sending anything other than sound down the phone lines.
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* SeamlessScenery \\
Literally walking into the next scene.
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An anecdote or fable with a nonsensical moral.
* SmellPhone: Smells are powerful enough to travel through communication devices or other technology.
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An anecdote or fable with a nonsensical moral.
the point that is has absolutely no point.
*SmellPhone: Smells are powerful enough to travel through communication devices or other technology.SpringtimeForHitler \\
There's nothing just as crazy as failing at failing.
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There's nothing just as crazy as failing at failing.
* TrippyFinaleSyndrome \\
The grande finale takes place in some trippy and abstract realm.
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* UnsoundEffect \\
A visual sound effect for something that doesn't actually make that sound.
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A city or place whose location is never revealed.
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When someone is [[CargoShip so devoted]] to a hobby/inanimate thing that they may as well go through with it and get the tax benefits.
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When someone is [[CargoShip so devoted]] to a hobby/inanimate thing that they may as well go through with it and get the tax benefits.
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A city or place whose location is never revealed.
* WhyDontYouMarryIt\\
When someone is [[CargoShip so devoted]] to a hobby/inanimate thing that they may as well go through with it and getabout which the tax benefits.work gives conflicting clues where it is located.
* WhyDontYouMarryIt\\
When someone is [[CargoShip so devoted]] to a hobby/inanimate thing that they may as well go through with it and get
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* {{Cloudcuckooland}} \\
A strange and obscure place with strange people and customs.
A strange and obscure place with strange people and customs.
* TheFreakshow \\
A show that involves people with odd physical deformities or features and people with strange or dangerous talents.
A show that involves people with odd physical deformities or features and people with strange or dangerous talents.
* TheGrotesque \\
A super-ugly/deformed character that induces fear, pity and curiosity in others.
* GrotesqueGallery \\
A group of creatures who appear ugly or gross, arranged in a way to unsettle even more.
A super-ugly/deformed character that induces fear, pity and curiosity in others.
* GrotesqueGallery \\
A group of creatures who appear ugly or gross, arranged in a way to unsettle even more.
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When things are too heavily loaded with symbolism or metaphors to make sense.
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* ParadoxPerson \\
This person should not be possible to exist by the laws of the setting but somehow still does.
This person should not be possible to exist by the laws of the setting but somehow still does.
* {{Surrealism}} \\
Art movement which wanted to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, by irrational juxtaposition of images, illogical scenes, dream logic or pure MindScrew.
Art movement which wanted to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, by irrational juxtaposition of images, illogical scenes, dream logic or pure MindScrew.
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MindScrew music video edition.
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Weird foreign series.
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* TheWonderland \\
An alternate world that doesn't make any kind of logical sense.
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* WorldOfWeirdness \\
A world where real-life elements co-exist with various fantastical elements and he weirdest stuff imaginable.
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* SurrealMusicVideo \\
MindScrew music video edition.
MindScrew music video edition.