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Nonsense Classification
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A classification is made that doesn't make any sense at all. The categories overlap, are on different levels of abstraction, or something along those lines. Usually Played for Laughs or as Sarcasm Mode, but it can also be Played for Drama as a tool for showing that a character is high, a Cloud Cuckoolander, or has gone insane. Note that for a classification to be this trope, the division must be nonsense in itself. A valid division presented in a humorous way is something else, for example Gratuitous Latin. Likewise, a classification with heavy Unfortunate Implications of Fantastic Racism or similar (such as All Gays Are Pedophiles or Aliens Are Bastards) is another kind of nonsense - not this trope. Same goes for sets of food groups that are merely unhealthy or alien. While a nonsense classification of food groups is likely to also be unhealthy or alien, the thing that makes it this trope is that the categories overlap, mix levels, or similar. See also Binomium ridiculus and Taxonomic Term Confusion. Examples |
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Mutant UA: Pyrisamfundet doesn't like to have a forbidden zone in the middle of their nation. They feel it's embarrassing. So they decided that it isn't a real forbidden zone. Sure, it's an ash-desert full of monsters and mysterious phenomena - but hey, this area is geographically shaped like a square. Real forbidden zones are round! That's the in-universe reason. The reason beyond the fourth wall is that the authors wanted to make another forbidden zone, but they had already released an official map where all the zones were listed. retconning the map into being unreliable for political reasons solved that problem quite elegantly. |
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The Simpsons Dr. Nick's recommendation, when Homer wants to gain weight: "You'll want to focus on the neglected food groups such as the whipped group, the congealed group and the chocotastic!" An early commercial featuring Bart Simpson has him explaining the basic four food groups: sandwich group, cow group, jungle group, and Butterfinger group. Reverend Lovejoy at one point summarizes the major world religions as "Christian, Jew, and (looking at Apu) miscellaneous." |
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Garfield states the four basic food groups are meat, vegetable, dairy and catsup. | |
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Discworld The Discworld food groups (at least if you're Sam Vimes): sugar, starch, grease, and burnt crunchy bits. It says something about the strangeness of the Discworld that on that world, all four of these things can be dug out of the ground. Ponder Stibbons' attempts at cladistics (really closer to phenetics) lead to conclusions such as "the banana is actually a fish", because there are fish which are yellow and travel in "bunches". Types of rock the Dwarfs have a name for (overlapping with Translation: "Yes" because these are a single word in Dwarvish) include "rock which just hit me on the head" and "rock which looked really interesting and which I swear I left here yesterday." |
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Final Fantasy XIV divides all creatures into several "something-kin" categories. Much like early Real Life taxonomy, these mostly make sense, provided you don't look too hard at the edge cases — perhaps most notably, due to Fantastic Racism, the various beast tribes are not classified as "spoken", despite obviously meeting the qualification of "sapient humanoid". And then there's the one hapless scientist who campaigned to get ducks classified as "spoken", despite the fact that they are clearly "cloudkin" (i.e. birds), on the grounds that their quacks were supposedly "a highly developed language beyond the comprehension of mankind". | |
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In Elf, Buddy says that elf food tries to include "all the food groups": candy, candy canes, candy corn, and syrup. | |
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Garfield and Friends: According to Garfield, the four basic food groups are: pasta; cheeseburger with fries; chocolate cake; and more pasta. | |
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The Areas of My Expertise plays this card a few times. For example the column on "food, drink, and cheese", where there are "only so many kinds of foods to write about", namely "abs, polar bear steaks, chili, chili, and polar bear steaks." | |
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Plants vs. Zombies has an "suburban almanac" that describe all the different plants and zombies in the game. This encyclopedia, not taking itself very seriously, keep mixing up the concept of "individual" with the concept of "species". We also have the zomboni who is not a zombie but an alien who likes to hang out with zombies and the zombie yeti, who we don't know anything about... except for his name, birth date, social security number, educational history, past work experience and sandwich preference (roast beef and Swiss). | |
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The Patrick Star Show: In "Late for Breakfast", the available flavors of chum are "moist", "soggy", and "pumpkin spice". | |
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The Doctor Who episode Closing Time features a baby named Alfie (aka Stormageddon, Dark Lord of All) who classifies all humans into four categories. "Mum", "Not Mum" (his father Craig), "Also Not Mum" (the Doctor) and "Peasants". By the end of the episode, he and Craig have grown close enough to allow for a "Dad" classification. His first word is also "Doctor", indicating he may have eliminated the "Also Not Mum" category as well. | |
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On Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Cookie also has his own take on the four basic food groups: beans, bacon, whiskey and lard. A deleted scene has him name the only three spices he uses: salt, salt, and sodium chloride. | |
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Prior to the creation of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Treasury Department held authority over some seemingly random national security obligations, including command of the Secret Service. This is because the Secret Service was originally created to combat counterfeit currency after the Civil War (a responsibility they still hold to this day) and gradually gained more responsibilities. Before they were created, the FBI and IRS's duties belonged to the Secret Service. | |
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Homestar Runner: The "Four Branches of Stupid Things Homestar's Done" in the sbemail "4 branches." | |
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