Berserk Button: misusing Nightmare Fuel
#2: Nov 23rd 2018 at 12:30:58 PM
Wackyland is a surreal fantasy world. Cloudcuckooland is a place whose culture makes its inhabitants appear weird to outsiders.
notriddle
Since: Jul, 2014
#3: Nov 26th 2018 at 11:24:34 AM
Then I think Cloudcuckooland needs some cleanup, because the first example (under "Advertisement") is:
Several commercials in the '80s for Cap'n Crunch cereal feature Crunch Island, discovered by Cap'n Crunch himself. The wildlife included singing trees and baseball bats, which were baseballs with eyes and bat wings. One known town is Practical Joking Ghost Town (full of ghosts that play really dated jokes on visitors) and the central mountain — Mt. Crunchmore — carved in the shape of its discoverer's face.
The wildlife has nothing to do with the culture. Somewhere around a quarter of the examples have nothing to do with people, describing a Disney Acid Sequence more than a nation of lunatics:
The world of One Piece definitely fits here. It wouldn't be uncommon to encounter a floating island that magnetizes things to it, a place that rains lightning, or an area that has air you walk on. That's not even counting the bizarre organisms that happen to live on this crazy town of a planet...
The planet of AB/Bedlam appeared in the Judge Dredd story "The Jigsaw Man." A planet where everyone was mad, the landscape defied physics and the titular man caught a disease that made him disappear in neat, geometric squares, remaining alive even as his organs vanished until he was nothing but a mouth.
In some Sonic the Hedgehog continuities, the Special Zone (aka the Warps of Confusion) is a mixture of this and Hyperspace Is a Scary Place. Notably it's based on the very trippy special stages in the first Sonic game (the background consists of birds morphing into fish in an Escher-like manner as discordant twinkly music plays, etc.)
And it's probably misused in a similar way outside of the page itself even more often.
eroock
Since: Sep, 2012
#4: Nov 28th 2018 at 4:33:05 AM
Those could be fixed manually. If you find misuse on a larger, take it to TRS.
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I notice that the original "Wackyland" is in both Cloudcuckooland and Wackyland, with similar descriptions about why.
Edited by notriddle on Nov 22nd 2018 at 9:15:44 AM