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* Drag Queen and ''Series/RuPaulsDragRace'' contestant Katya Zamolodchikova's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Saq6zLJ1GLE RuFlections]]

Compare QuirkyWOrk and SoBadItsGood. Contrast SurrealHorror.

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Compare WidgetSeries and SoBadItsGood. Contrast SurrealHorror.

* The ''WebAnimation/AlfredsPlayhouse'' have quite bit of this with "SurrealHorror," including singing about alfred's sexual abuse and his escape from it into into fantasy to the tune of the ''Series/PeeWeesPlayhouse'' theme song, Dictator Alfred is friends with cheerful inagined versions of Hitler and Stalin, and Alfred cross-dresses from time to time.

%%* ''Literature/HowToSurviveAZombieApocalypse''

* ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'' is a show largely dedicated to spoofing tropes of reality shows, various animated genres and media, and [[ReferenceOverdosed everything else imaginable]]. Some of the plots are just plain weird, though, especially in later seasons that treat the FramingDevice of cartoon characters on a reality show as [[TheArtifact just an excuse to get all these crazy characters in one place]]. One episode involves one of the house guests taking in [[MediumBlending a live-action cow]] as a pet, and in another token black housemate Foxxy Brown degenerates into [[UncleTomfoolery increasingly offensive black stereotypes]] due to brain damage from a tumor. The creators have stated that literally nothing happens for any reason [[RuleOfFunny other than to be funny]].

This trope often overlaps with SoBadItsGood, especially when a work falls into this by accident. It is also a very common source of WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs. One way to create Surreal Humor is with {{Bathos}}.

* The {{Lets Play}}er LetsPlay/{{Raocow}} lives for this trope (and TalkativeLoon). When not being overly frustrated by the [[NintendoHard difficult]] [[PlatformHell levels]] that he plays, his commentary is so [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs bizarre]] that it becomes hilarious.

** Most Creator/AdultSwim original programs exhibit this in varying degrees, from "wacky" to "WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs."

* WebVideo/FilthyFrank is rife with strange humor, if it doesn't involve anything offensive or [[GrossOutShow gross]].

-->-- '''[[Series/AdamHillsInGordonStreetTonight Adam Hills]]''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhXGxNgv6Iw on what is and is not surreal]]

Something that's so bizarre and inexplicable that it's funny. This is a strange version of CrossesTheLineTwice: It takes talent (or luck) to make something so {{mind screw}}y and WTF-inducing that it makes you laugh.

** Taken to another level by the [[StupidStatementDanceMix remixes]] people have made of his commentary. LetsPlay/{{Raocow}} is surreal; the remixes are so insane they can fully replace hallucinogens.

* Creator/FedericoFellini's ''Film/CityOfWomen'' has plenty surreal comedy situations during the whole film.

* ''Film/OLuckyMan''

* The entire basis of the WebAnimation/YoutubePoop phenomenon.

* A great deal of WebAnimation/{{Animutation}}s fall into this:

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHpWoAmVQm8 This commercial]] for an online shoe shop called Zalando. It starts off pretty normal, with a frightened guy saying you shouldn't let your wife / girlfriend / sister discover the online shop because she will buy excessive amounts of shoes. The commercial ends with a delivery man ringing the door bell. A woman who bought the shoes screams in excitement, the frightened guy screams in fear… and the delivery man screams for no reason with a bored facial expression.

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-->Once upon a time there was a ducky that drank some Snapple. Suddenly, this little duck-- oh, wait, I forgot to tell you, the duck's name is Jamal.

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