History Main / SurrealHumor

* ''ComicStrip/ThePerryBibleFellowship'' is like an R-rated version of ''The Far Side'', often juxtaposing [[SugarBowl whimsical settings]] with BlackComedy and adult situations, like [[http://pbfcomics.com/129 a war between]] [[AnthropomorphicFood candy-people and chocolate people]] where "Colonel Sweeto" turns out to be a double agent (a peanut M&M).

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH2-TGUlwu4 Nyan Cat]] and a lot of other stuff on Website/YouTube.

* The creators of ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'' have stated that literally nothing happens for any reason other than to be funny, which is all you need to know for it to qualify as this.

* Franchise/SamAndMax is this with every iteration. A dog and a rabbit going to fight crimes is weird, yes, but what turns it UpToEleven is the dialogue, characters and the world. For instance, there's the "Rubber Pants Commando" of a bunch of babies with machine guns (or baby bottles in the cartoon) with a monkey, a fish mobster that wants revenge on Sam and Max for turning him that way, ([[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext and is never explained how he got like that]]) a man randomly bursting out into flame, and the utter nonchalance of the two main characters as all this happens.

* ''Webcomic/OtterlyHuman'' features bizarre character, such as a chair/human hybrid and a centaur with opposite characteristics of the traditional creatures.

* ''Webcomic/Otterlyhuman'' features bizarre character, such as a chair/human hybrid and a centaur with opposite characteristics of the traditional creatures.

* ''WebAnimation/GoingToTheStore2011'': A physics-noninclined CGI model wobbles and warps down the street to the tune of [=1960s=] proto-SynthPop.

* ''Website/{{Clickhole}}'''s brand of humor is equal parts this and MundaneMadeAwesome. It manages to parody the bubbly clickbait writing style of ''Buzzfeed'' so effectively that it's all the more hilarious when you take a closer look at its articles and realize how bizarre they really are. Standout examples include: an article about [[http://www.clickhole.com/article/5-child-stars-who-grew-be-acclaimed-novelist-salma-1351 five child stars who grew up to be Salman Rushdie]] (yes, all five of them), an article about [[http://www.clickhole.com/article/we-asked-6-famous-video-game-designers-about-game--2543 great unmade video games]] where we learn that the date of the Apocalypse is written on Franchise/{{Mario}}'s chest, and an article [[http://www.clickhole.com/article/we-asked-22-crab-fishermen-about-most-famous-perso-2396 interviewing crab fishermen about celebrities that they've caught in their nets]].

* ''Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale'' combines this with SurrealHorror. It covers the bizarre and often disturbing news from a ''very'' strange desert town infested with {{ancient conspirac|y}}ies and supernatural weirdness.

* Series/TheWubbulousWorldOfDrSeuss

* [[GodOfEvil God]] [[RealityWarper of]] [[OrderVersusChaos Chaos]] [[BewareTheSillyOnes Discord]], from ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' of all things, thrives off this trope whenever he's not falling into SurrealHorror instead. Notable moment: he conjures a glass out of thin air, summons a cotton candy cloud raining chocolate milk, and the glass fills... from top to bottom. Then he drinks the glass. Without the milk. He tosses the chocolate milk behind him, and [[StuffBlowingUp it explodes for no fathomable reason]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjD4umwKSLI See for yourself.]]

* ''WebAnimation/GoingToTheStore'': A physics-noninclined CGI model wobbles and warps down the street to the tune of [=1960s=] proto-SynthPop.

-->Kolobok hanged self.
([[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolobok Kolobok]] is a fairy tale character, a round bakery product which has no neck. Variations of joke: "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buratino Buratino]] (read: Pinocchio) drowned self", "A mermaid drowned self", "A giraffe drowned".)

*** Marshmallow People 2 is even weirder: it ends with [[spoiler: Triangle Man dying and turning into a tree and both marshmallow people transforming into inaminate marshmallows. And so [[AndZoidberg Triangle Girl]] wins!]]

* ''WesternAnimation/RickandMorty'': There are countless examples of surreal content littered throughout the run of the show, but the true heavy weight is "Interdimensional Television"; whether one considers the trope subverted because of the premise or played straight, it's hard to imagine anything more utterly random and peculiar making it on to television (even considering we are talking about ''Adult Swim'').

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* Franchise/Sam&Max is this with every iteration. A dog and a rabbit going to fight crimes is weird, yes, but what turns it UpToEleven is the dialogue, characters and the world. For instance, there's the "Rubber Pants Commando" of a bunch of babies with machine guns (or baby bottles in the cartoon) with a monkey, a fish mobster that wants revenge on Sam and Max for turning him that way, ([[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext and is never explained how he got like that]]) a man randomly bursting out into flame, and the utter nonchalance of the two main characters as all this happens.

* Sam&Max is this with every iteration. A dog and a rabbit going to fight crimes is weird, yes, but what turns it UpToEleven is the dialogue, characters and the world. For instance, there's the "Rubber Pants Commando" of a bunch of babies with machine guns (or baby bottles in the cartoon) with a monkey, a fish mobster that wants revenge on Sam and Max for turning him that way, (and is never explained how he got like that) a man randomly bursting out into flame, and the utter nonchalance of the two main characters as all this happens.

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

** ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' probably worked harder than any sitcom in history to sell itself on this basis, not just with regard to J.D.'s constant and consistently insane day dreams, but also the whole rest of the whack-a-do cast and off the wall absurdism of the entire world as it exists in and around Sacred Heart.

** ''Series/NewsRadio'' has surreal elments in abundance, up to and including entire episodes set in alternate continuities, like a news radio station in space...or a news radio station on the Titanic. But even in more mundane episodes, the premises that drove the mini arcs and character interactions tended to be so fantastical and over-the-top that the show could only work because of its theatrical presentation and acting as large as its crazy conceits--with the exception of the young station manager Dave, a subdued StraightMan playing [[{{foil}} opposite]] most of the insanity of every other character in the narrative.