History Main / MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext

* The [[https://legendsoflocalization.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/ghostbusters-ending-e.png ending screen]] to ''[[VideoGame/Ghostbusters1984 Ghostbusters]]'' on the [[UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem NES]] is one of the epitomes of AWinnerIsYou, but special mention has to go to "And [[BlindIdiotTranslation prooved]] the justice of our culture". Even among one of the worst video game endings of all time, this sentence stands out as making absolutely no sense whatsoever. How does completing a video game "proove" the justice of our culture? And to whose culture is it even referring? Japan's culture? America's culture? The Ghostbusters' culture? Who knows!

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* In WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic, Rob is sometimes a dinosaur.

** The end of "The Other Tarts". The psychotic Tart Toter bursts into the castle, brandishing a chicken and a squirrel in place of tarts, foaming at the mouth. He says: "This cosmic dance bursting with decadence and withheld permissions twists all our arms collectively, but if sweetness can win, (and it ''can''), then I'll still be here tomorrow to high-five you, yesterday, my friends. Peace." As he says this, the camera zooms in on his deranged, foaming face, and fades to the Tart Toter's delusion of drifting through space, surrounded by sweets, and Lumpy Space Princess is in the space background, riding on a donut. All of a sudden, it cuts back to the castle, where Finn cringes, and the episode ends.
** The whole episode "A Glitch is a Glitch", appropriately premiered on AprilFoolsDay. It's done in [[ArtShift glitchy-looking CGI graphics instead of the show's usual art style]] and revolves around [[RealityIsOutToLunch reality falling apart]] because the Ice King released a computer virus into the "universal source code", as part of a misguided attempt to get Princess Bubblegum to go out with him by making sure he's ''literally'' the only other person in the Land of Ooo. And the climax involves Finn and Jake recreating a ShockSite video where a woman eats her own hair.
* ''WesternAnimation/CyberSix'':
** One of the first things you see in the opening credits is a strange [[BuffySpeak bug-eyed gremlin-tadpole-thing]] floating in a tube of green bubbling fluid. It's one of the few clips from the opening scene that's not taken from an episode, this creature never appears in any episode, and it's never even so much as implied what in the hell this thing is supposed to be. One could assume that it's possibly an infant Cybersix, but as this is one of those shows that ''really'' doesn't like to explain a lot (which makes sense, considering the ''very'' [[ComicBook/CyberSix child-unfriendly comic]] this kid's show is based on) there's never even a shred of actual evidence to prove this.
** ''Terra'' is a strange episode. Von Reichter creates a BlobMonster made of mud and Jose bungles finishing it, resulting in a NonMaliciousMonster with the mind of a toddler at best. It manages to get its hands on Cybersix and starts draining her energy when a glowing orb comes out of her and into Terra which gives it the ability to speak and makes it start asking her what love is. Furious about this, Jose mutates the creature into a truly malicious entity that grabs Cybersix again, drains her energy again, making another glowing orb come out of her and [[FightingFromTheInside makes the nice love-happy Terra try to come out again]]. Feeling bad for it Cybersix hugs it and one of her tears touches it, which makes it glow blue and cures it, fully turning it back into the "good" Terra. Confused? You should be, since ''none'' of this makes any sense InUniverse or is even addressed. What the hell the glowing orb was and Cybersix's healing tears are never explained and never appear in the series again.
* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': "1+1 = Ed". From ed.wikia.com: "In this episode, the Eds embark on a learning spree, disassembling various objects and eventually stumbling into a bizarre universe that defies the laws of physics."
* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': [[LaughingMad Insane]] RealityWarper that he is, much of what Bill Cipher comes up with in the environments where he has control (mostly the mindscape, the dream world and [[spoiler:during the finale [[WorldofChaos all of Gravity Falls]]]]) is utterly nonsensical horror. Notable examples include:

** "You deserve a prize!...Here, have a head that's always screaming!" (Bonus points for Bill graphically dismantling the head from the outside in like an onion)
** Can't forget the beginning of the "penthouse suite" scene in the final episode: rather disorienting for the viewer and a complete MindScrew for poor [[spoiler:Ford. Bill rises out of the floor with a piano and plays and sings "We'll Meet Again", and that's just the beginning.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'': [[TheDitz GIR]] is this personified. Here are a few examples of him at his looniest.

* ''[[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius Jimmy Neutron]]'' has an example of this mixed with InsaneTrollLogic. In the show's [[Recap/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGeniusS2E6HollyJollyJimmy Christmas Episode]], Jimmy doesn't believe there is a Santa Clause, stating its impossible for anyone to deliver presents around the world in one night. Later, when he visits Santa's Workshop in the North Pole, Jimmy ([[SelectiveOblivious still not believing]] [[ArbitrarySkepticism in Santa]]) opts to deliver all the presents the Elves made for Christmas, stating that if he can successfully do so with his science, then Santa's Elves would be forced to agree that there is no Santa Clause. Just try to make sense out of Jimmy's line of thinking.

* ''WesternAnimation/OggyAndTheCockroaches'' sometimes has moments like this such as in the episode "Up to No Good", an otherwise straightforward episode where Oggy has to climb a mountain that grows out of his yard. At some point in that episode, he encounters a ''disco-dancing yeti'' that lives in a broken cable car (which seems to be much bigger on the inside). It becomes even more nonsensical when you consider that there's a rope that connects the cable car and a nearby city as if it's been there for a long time despite the fact that the mountain has just formed at the beginning of that episode.
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': In "Moon Farm", the main characters decide to fly an army of cows to the moon because of an ancient scroll containing a lost verse to "Hey Diddle Diddle", which claims that ice cream made from moon cow milk is the greatest in the universe. [[NoodleIncident We don't know]], and it's clear that many of the characters don't either.
** Also, Candace's running gag of hallucinating (possibly) a talking zebra that calls her Kevin.

** And then there's Klimpaloon, the Magical Old-Timey Bathing Suit Who Lives in the Himalayas.

* ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'': Any of Pinky's answers to the question, 'AreYouPonderingWhatImPondering'
** We actually get to see how he comes to those weird answers in an episode shown from Pinky's perspective. He barely listens to what Brain is saying and his mind wanders off on odd tangents until he is thinking about things that seem completely unrelated to the conversation to anyone but him.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': At the end of "Burns, Baby Burns", Larry Burns (Creator/RodneyDangerfield) randomly announces a party in the middle of the street. Not only does everyone present immediately join in the celebration, but Music/{{Journey|Band}}'s "Any Way You Want It" begins blasting out of nowhere. Marge [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this, only for Homer to tell her to stop worrying and enjoy the party.
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': In "A Million Little Fibers", Oprah's anus and vagina argue with each other (they each have a different British accent) until one of them pulls a gun and takes some people hostage.
** Supposedly, it's a callback to a scene from "[[Recap/SouthParkS6E10BebesBoobsDestroySociety Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society]]" where Bebe's breasts start talking to each other about plotting to rule the world by taking over the boys' minds, only to wake Bebe up and convince her to cover herself in order to break the influence they have over the boys in her class.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': In "The Chaperone", at one point a ''giant apple'' chases a woman. The context? [=SpongeBob=] and Pearl were doing a dance at the latter's prom called "The Sponge", which simply consists of bouncing on one's butt. Everyone else has trouble doing it and ends up injuring themselves and each other until the whole prom gets destroyed.
* ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'': In "Storm the Castle", an Italian unicorn who did not appear at an earlier point in the series [[spoiler: offers to repower Star's wand.]] This may also be a MindScrew.
** At least until the season 3 episode "Deep Dive", which implies [[spoiler: the unicorns are from the dimension that ''all magic in the multiverse'' flows from, having one in the wand is what powers it,]] possibly turning this into a case of {{Foreshadowing}}. It's not any less ''weird'' (for starters, [[spoiler:none of the other unicorns speak Italian, none of them have a removable horn they store in a suitcase, and it's unexplained how the Italian unicorn got outside the realm of magic]], but neither is anything else in the show.
* Pretty much everything about the Creator/CartoonNetwork show ''WesternAnimation/UncleGrandpa''. A ManChild RealityWarper who is everyone on earth's uncle and grandpa travels in a flying RV with his friends -- a wisecracking slice of pizza, a deadpan Godzilla-like lizard, a giant realistic flying tiger who farts rainbows, and a talking belly bag-- to save kids from dangers such as talking mustaches and hot dog monsters. Good morning!
* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'' has Billy come face-to-face with... ''The Nozzle'' during his recruitment to O.S.I. It comes out to serene meditation music, ominously aims at his face, calibrates, and then just leaves without doing anything whatsoever. Billy is scared shitless and even Hunter Gathers has no clue what in the hell The Nozzle does.

'''Hunter:''' I have no idea. Standard, uh, so how do you like your new body buddies?

* [[http://www.twogag.com/archives/1552 The page image]] is from ''Webcomic/TwoGuysAndGuy''. TGAG being a status quo gag-a-day webcomic, we never ''do'' learn the context.

** ''Theatre/TheTrailToOregon': Grandpa (Tittymitty) fought his own personal war against the lobsters in 1812. The leader of the lobsters, Cornwallis, was in love with his wife, so the two fought. That war is the reason Grandpa's face is on the million-dollar bill. The rest of the characters chalk this up to a story Grandpa made up, but at the end, Cornwallis returns to pay back his debt to Grandpa and saves the family from a waterfall.

** ''Theatre/Starship'': Commander Up was chopped in half (top down; hot dog, not hamburger) and no longer has a dick.

** ''{{Theatre/Firebringer}}'': The tribe worships a duck, and Chorn is an alien/god/all-powerful-being. It is never fully explained.

Sometimes, though, an event is just as nonsensical in context as it is when summarized (maybe even more nonsensical), and we say it [[TitleDrop Makes Just as Much Sense in Context]].

[[caption-width-right:302:For the record, the two preceding panels of this comic don't help explain this either.]]

** Hiram McDaniels, who is literally a five-headed dragon

* ''[[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius Jimmy Neutron]]'' has an example of this mixed with InsaneTrollLogic. In the show's [[Recap/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGeniusS2E6HollyJollyJimmy Christmas Episode]], Jimmy doesn't believe there is a Santa Clause, stating its impossible for anyone to deliver presents around the world in one night. Later, when he visits Santa's Workshop in the North Pole, Jimmy ([[SelectiveOblivious still not believing]] [[ArbitrarySkepticism in Santa]]) opts to deliver all the presents the Elves made for Christmas, stating that if he can successfully do so with his science, then Santa's Elves would be forced to agree that there is no Santa Clause. Just try to make sense out of Jimmy's line of thinking.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' has Billy come face-to-face with... ''The Nozzle'' during his recruitment to O.S.I. It comes out to serene meditation music, ominously aims at his face, calibrates, and then just leaves without doing anything whatsoever. Billy is scared shitless and even Hunter Gathers has no clue what in the hell The Nozzle does.

* ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'' is already pretty bizarre, but there's this one scene where the eponymous teacher, Itoshiki Nozomu, walks on a beach towards the ocean, looks up, sees a giant squid with BigOlEyebrows emerge from the water...and tenderly mumbles "Mother".

* ''Series/{{Cops}}'': There was a very strange case where a man walked in on his mother having sex with his wife. As if this itself isn't ridiculous, he doesn't know how to react, so he calls the police hoping they can do something about this. His mother, seeing that he's calling the police, stabs him in the hand. When they get there, they arrest his mother while his wife screams after the car "She's 61 years old! You can't do that to her!"

* The early surrealist films of Luis Buñuel and Creator/SalvadorDali. Being surrealist, they [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic are intended to be symbolic]] in a sort of [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible incomprehensible]] dream logic way.

** Schlatt and Connor trapping Michaelmcchill in wool and threatening to burn him alive because they think he's Herobrine.

** "Donk-Donk", one of the minigames in ''Fever'', is so bizarre that the description in the North American version of the game admits it's hard to describe. It involves what appear to be anthropomorphic tuning forks piloting a rocket propelled by their own rocking motion across a landscape of giant flowers and pink clouds, with a green cartoon octopus stuck to the underside of the rocket along for the ride. That's weird even for a WidgetSeries. The characters don't even have official names; they're referred to in the credits as "Uh... These guys?" And on top of all that, the music is in 3/4 time instead of 4/4 time like most of the other songs in the game.

* Being [[WidgetSeries what it is]], ''VideoGame/OmegaLabyrinthLife'' features a ''lot'' of systems that make absolutely no sense, aside from all being purely for {{Fanservice}}. Some prominent examples include: your character grows more powerful by absorbing Omega Power from fallen monsters, which is stored in their chests, and makes them [[BreastExpansion grow as a side effect]]; you identify unknown items by putting them into an Ambiguity Crystal, then rubbing it with a character's breasts to infuse it with Omega Power, making it grow larger and longer until the excess power ''erupts'' from the top half; and Tit-for-Tat, which is rock-paper-scissors only with ''breasts'' instead of hands.

* ''Film/TheHangover'' The rooster was never explained. ({{Word of God}} is they got it to feed the tiger, though).

** That could be a {{shoutout}} to ''Film/AttackOfTheKillerTomatoes'', but is still very random.

Even the characters in the work usually don't know what's going on, usually reacting with surprise/confusion/shock/horror (unless, of course, [[ConditionedToAcceptHorror this sort of thing happens so often that they've just decided to roll with it]]). A few fans, thought, might wonder [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs what the creators were thinking when they made that scene]]. Though, sometimes it's TruthInTelevision; after all, life can be pretty weird sometimes.

* Not unlike the below ''Rubber'' example, ''Film/DeathBedTheBedThatEats'' is much, '''much''' weirder than [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin its title]] suggests, mixing horror, sexploitation, surrealism, and arthouse tones with wild abandon. The director claims to ''have no memory of directing it''. [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs Go figure.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': "1+1 = Ed". Watching it may leave you wondering if the production team spent the story planning stage [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs frolicking in a kiddie pool full of LSD]].
** From ed.wikia.com: "In this episode, the Eds embark on a learning spree, disassembling various objects and eventually stumbling into a bizarre universe that defies the laws of physics."

* Every microgame in the ''VideoGame/WarioWare'' series.

Even the characters in the work usually don't know what's going on, usually reacting with surprise/confusion/shock/horror (unless, of course, [[ConditionedToAcceptHorror this sort of thing happens so often that they've just decided to roll with it]]). A few fans, thought, might wonder [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs what the creators were thinking when they made that scene]]. Maybe the moment/scene in question exists simply because [[AllWritersAreTrolls someone thought it would be funny.]]

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs and WidgetSeries is the whole show; this is just one case.

* CreatorThumbprint of Władysław Sikora. For example, the turtle in ''Film/AyoyDrJekyllAndMrHyde'' can only be explained thus. Also the Olympic runner in the same movie.