History Main / DerangedAnimation

See also ArtShift, OffModel, JUnintentionalUncannyValley, ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs, SurrealHorror, FauxSymbolism, and WidgetSeries. Compare BigLippedAlligatorMoment, DisneyAcidSequence, and BizarroEpisode, where things only temporarily become deranged (usually). [[noreallife]]

See also ArtShift, OffModel, UncannyValley, ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs, SurrealHorror, FauxSymbolism, and WidgetSeries. Compare BigLippedAlligatorMoment, DisneyAcidSequence, and BizarroEpisode, where things only temporarily become deranged (usually). [[noreallife]]

* 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 deep in the UncannyValley 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.]]

* György Kovásznai's ''Animation/FoamBath''. A trippy musical romantic dramedy with MediumBlending and extreme OffModel animation that lets its characters deform, shrink, fall apart or change art style in accordance to their (or each other's) emotions, at times dipping deep into the UncannyValley. The rest of the creator's works qualify as well, but this was his only feature film.

* ''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, UncannyValley facial expressions and an extremely unsettling soundtrack (coupled with [[SpeakingSimlish characters speaking nonsense]]).

* ''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 UncannyValley"), then dedicated his life to ''breaking'' all those rules.

* 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 [[UncannyValley 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.

%%* ''Anime/TekkonKinkreet[=/=]Anime/TekkonKinkreet'' is bizarre throughout, but the [[spoiler:Minotaur]] segment tops it all.

->''"Someone wrote this."''
-->-- '''Creator/MasakoX''' on ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica''

* Doggy Poo, 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''.

* "Rock Odyssey" from Creator/HannaBarbera productions, circa 1982, which was unreleased in the US. It involves a guitar dragon, army skeletons, siren headed policemen and the Beast of the Apocalypse.

* 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 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.

* The early Simpsons shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show (which bled through in the show's first two seasons. In fact, the animation to season one was so bad that Matt Groening was fixing to cancel the show if it didn't improve).

* Usually not common in ''Anime/PrettyCure'', but at one point in episode 13 of ''Anime/SmilePrettyCure'' 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.

* 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''), 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).

** What is the deal with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfVZtDh5UQk milk ads and deranged animation]]?
*** 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.

* 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 deep in the UncannyValley 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]].
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5pBm2UBTF8 Maynard's Wine Gum]].

* ''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.]]

* ''Manga/BoboboBobobobo'', has extreme ArtShift to realistic faces at times, things like 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]]

* 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.

* Doggy Poo, 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''.

* ''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.'']]

%%* ''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.

* ''[[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.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYa5aQb3YGE Dragonzball P]], a parody of the numerous [[InactionSequence Inaction Sequences]] 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.

* [[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.
* [[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]]).

* ''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]].

%%** And since [[spoiler: ArtInitiatesLife turns out to be in play]], Deranged Animation can get literal!

%%* ''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]].

* The video for Music/{{Radiohead}}'s ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHiGbolFFGw Paranoid Android]]''.

* [[https://youtu.be/_4iYEZvORLE 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.

%%** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SI5pWhxlYg Ah, my cows, such velocity]]"
* 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''), 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).

* The video that Spumco did for Music/{{Bjork}}'s "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybDX_5hQ6So 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]].
* 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.]]

* The video for Music/PearlJam's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvqoF-uhQnQ&feature=related Do the Evolution]], animated by Creator/ToddMcFarlane of ''ComicBook/{{Spawn}}'' fame.

* 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''.

* 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.

* 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.

** 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?!"

* Later Soviet animation often descended into this. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_vLKRpQ43w The 1988 Soviet adaptation]] of ''Literature/TreasureIsland'' was mostly good but bizarre angles, Lovecraftian geometry and Live Action fragments transformed it into nightmares. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otMKRhR9va8#t=1068 Check out the cannon scene]].

* ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt''. ''WesternAnimation/{{Ben 10}}'', ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'', ''WesternAnimation/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.

* 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 TastesLikeDiabetes and 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.]]

* ''VideoGame/HotelMario'' and ''VideoGame/IMMeen''.

* ''Svetlonos (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.]]

%%* Most of Creator/JanSvankmajer's works fall into this trope.

* ''Anime/PopeeThePerformer is known for its (excluding intense nightmare imagery) disturbing wild animation. And boy, was this anime the product of its time.

** Boingo's future-predicting manga in ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Stardust Crusaders]]'' is drawn in an even more surreal and simplified artstyle, which is animated in his own [[EndingTheme Ending Themes]].

* The 2012 anime of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' has this happen in the action scenes, with lurid colours and {{Written Sound Effect}}s galore.

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqzESY7SIqU Agamemnon Counterpart]]'' (a.k.a. ''Let's Make a New Friend''), what looks like a 70s educational cartoon but 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'').

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqzESY7SIqU Agamemnon Counterpart]]'' (a.k.a. ''Let's Make a New Friend''), what looks like a 70s educational cartoon but with rapidly distorting faces and scenery, bouncing blue creatures, and the letters "a" and occassionally "o." And a man with an EyelessFace screaming throughout (audio from the French film ''A Cry From Within''; music from ''The Human Tornado'').

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqzESY7SIqU Agamemnon Counterpart]]'' (a.k.a. ''Let's Make a New Friend''), what looks like a 70s educational cartoon but with rapidly distorting faces and scenery. And a man with an EyelessFace screaming throughout (audio from the French film ''A Cry From Within''; music from ''The Human Tornado'').

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqzESY7SIqU Agamemnon Counterpart]]'' (a.k.a. ''Let's Make a New Friend''), what looks like a 70s educational cartoon but with rapidly distorting faces and scenery. And a man with an EyelessFace screaming throughout (from the French film ''A Cry From Within''; music from ''The Human Tornado'').

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqzESY7SIqU Agamemnon Counterpart]]'', what looks like a 70s educational cartoon with rapidly distorting faces and scenery. And a man with an EyelessFace screaming throughout.