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A piece of media that's oddly endearing (or simply perplexing) in its utter oddity. Quirky works often consist of Surreal Humor or are a Gag Series, or in darker cases, Surreal Horror. The plot may hinge on bizarre transformations, freakish-looking creatures, and nonsensical actions that only seem to make sense in realms of logic far removed from your own. Cultural differences can play into this. Some works are comedies full of references that the target audience gets, but comes across as surreal to viewers from cultures other than the creators' own. In some cases, full-fledged Values Dissonance can be a possibility. With particularly unusual works, viewers may end up feeling that their creation seems to have involved large amounts of hallucinogens, cocaine, crack, or any other illicit substance that makes people think really weird ideas are also really good ones. In most cases, the creators were actually sober, but sometimes Artistic Stimulation was involved. Regardless of the quirkiness's scope, such a work may involve a Big-Lipped Alligator Moment, a particularly egregious Makes Just as Much Sense in Context moment, or a Dada Ad. This trope may sometimes (but not always) overlap with Cliché Storm, and Humor Dissonance may be involved. Compare with Mind Screw (which refers to works that are densely symbolic and/or surreal), and This Is Your Premise on Drugs (in the event that Artistic Stimulation is suspected or even involved). Not to be confused with Crazy Workplace, where an in-universe work environment is quirky. |
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The Calamari Wrestler, and Minoru Kawasaki's follow-up film, Executive Koala are respectively about a wrestler who becomes a giant squid and a giant Koala who may have murdered his wife. | |
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Awful Hospital is brain-meltingly surreal, to say the least, besides all the unorthodox characters and bizarre workings of the fictional universe it takes place in. | |
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Ultraman Taro, a Self-Parody of the Ultra Series that draws inspiration from Japanese fairy tales. It's got incredibly silly kaiju like the opera-singing Orphy, the volleyball-playing Garaking, and Mochiron, a tiki monster from the Moon that loves to eat mochi rice cakes. It's got wacky plotlines that involve such things as an alien boy band having to play pop music to calm down a drunken kaiju, an android replica of a woman killed in a car accident bringing back the ghost of her pet parrot as a giant monster to kill all motorists in Japan, and an Oni-like alien shrinking the characters and putting them inside a bean to be eaten by one of their friends. And that's just the tip of the insanity iceberg. Ultraman Ace too, especially in its later cours. Episodes treated with utmost seriousness have dealt with things like an alien stealing pandas to make them a Cash-Cow Franchise on his homeworld, a kid whose bedwetting problems bring a monster recurring in his dreams to life, a man being turned into a cow by the Big Bad using a cursed nasal ring, a man-eating hot-air balloon literally draining the fun out of children, and a Kappa kaiju who disguises itself as a swimming pool and turns kids into kappas by eating their navels with the help of an android couple. The series is also infamous among fans for featuring some of the wackiest kaiju ever, including a violin kaiju. |
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The Devil is a Part-Timer!: A demon lord who escaped from a fantasy dimension to modern-day Japan is forced to work at MgRonald's, and enjoys it so much that he pulls a Heel–Face Turn. | |
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Skibidi Toilet Series is an animated web series about humanoids with cameras, speakers, T Vs and other appliances for heads fighing against singing toilets with human heads coming out of them in an ever escalating arms race. It's bizzare premise and popularity with the younger generation made it a target of online ridicule and even moral panic in some countries. | |
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Wild Zero. Japanese punk rockers, bikers and a trans woman fight zombies, aliens and evil managers wearing short shorts. And it is GLORIOUS. | |
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Sweet Movie and W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism are Weird Serbian Stuff. Just the intros to our articles have serious problems summing up the movies. | |
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Delicatessen is about a butcher in post-apocalyptic France murdering the janitors he employs in his apartment building and serving them in his shop, and when his daughter falls in love with one of the janitors, she enlists the help of a team of militant vegetarians to save him. | |
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The 90's version of The Mr. Men Show, which was produced in Canada, had many weird and random segments during the show that were very out of place, including random quizzes, people dancing against stock backgrounds depicting places like the mountains and a church, a Japanese man who knows karate visiting a science lab and a man being fed corn like a baby. | |
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La Vie des Botes was a French sitcom about a robot family and talking objects (just like Pee-wee's Playhouse), which aired regular cartoons between the live-action segments. The channel, TF1, put many hopes on this project (because it was a co-production with Canada, some designers from E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Alien worked on it) but it wasn't successful and it stayed for just one year; today, very few people remember this show. | |
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A Town Called Panic. A film based on a show animated entirely with toy figurines about a horse, cowboy, and indian toy being roommates. Horse is the main character. | |
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King of Mask Singer, a Korean Talent Show where every contestant is a celebrity hidden behind an elaborate costume, tends towards this. Vulture described its American adaptation, The Masked Singer, thusly: | |
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Doom Patrol is considered one of the weirdest comic books ever made, featuring things like an imaginary city of Scissor Men who speak in non sequitur, the Pentagon being an Eldritch Location that trapped a telephone-like being with tongs or dogs that can smell through time. | |
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Chuck puts an ungodly amount of classified government information into the brain of a Best Buy-Expy retail slave and then sticks him with a Statuesque Stunner Femme Fatale and Adam Baldwin to keep him safe and his family unaware. Gets even funnier in the seasons that work Subway sandwiches or references to same into EVERY episode. | |
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Redwall is about mice and other animals living in what is called an abbey but is more of a church crossed with an apartment complex, a gated community, a daycare, and an assisted living facility, and they constantly have to fight off vermin such as rats and foxes who plan to take over the "Abbey" For the Evulz. Then there are the stranger characters such as a owl who speaks in rhyme (Sir Harry the Muse), Somerset-accented moles, World War II fighter pilot hares (Basil Stag Hare, among others), and tribal squirrels obsessed with fighting (the Gawtrybe). | |
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And then there's their unofficial series, Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger, where the characters fight monsters in their heads using the power of delusions. There's a reason why their name means "Unofficial Task Force Akibaranger". They're struggling to become an official team of Super Sentai. | |
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Moone Boy, a surrealistic series featuring a Martin Moone, a somewhat dimwitted schoolboy, and his imaginary friend (who can talk to other people's imaginary friends) growing up in Boyle, Ireland from 1989 to the early 1990s which would occasionally shift into an animation style that resembled Martin's drawings. | |
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Spice World, which could be The Spice Girls' own A Hard Day's Night, but aims more for Head with its parade of nonsensical sequences. | |
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Cooking with Dog, a YouTube program featuring a woman demonstrating how to cook simple Japanese dishes "hosted" by a dog with a thick Japanese accent. Equal parts weird, cute, Japanese, and useful. | |
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The Western is so deeply rooted in how other countries perceive America that we even have a trope about it. Ironically, many of the most beloved Westerns are Spaghetti Westerns, made by Italians for both the American and Italian markets. | |
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A lot of card-carrying mad genius Jenna Moran's (best known for Nobilis and Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine) non-commercial pet projects are just straightforwardly weird. One that's currently on hiatus is about mischievous little fairies and has a task resolution system based off circuit diagrams and predicate logic. | |
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SiIvaGunner is a gag music channel dedicated to imitating video game music channels as closely as possible. Most of their purported "High Quality Rips" are joke posts, except when they aren't (which itself is part of the joke). Their Running Gags are consistent enough to become sentient characters, some of which include: a recolored Mario that sometimes wears Fred Flintstone's clothes, a porn star with No Indoor Voice, Nozomi Tojo from Love Live!, and a poorly drawn Wood Man. | |
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Last Year at Marienbad is a French film that lacks a traditional plot, backstory, named characters, etc. It's a pretty good representation of some of the more difficult-to-access aspects of French cinma. | |
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Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger went to this territory more than once, especially in its early episodes, as can be seen in the Power Rangers: Dino Thunder episode "Lost and Found in Translation". Amazingly, it managed to do that while still being overall Darker and Edgier than its Power Rangers counterpart. | |
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The Beano and its characters (Minnie the Minx, Dennis and Gnasher, etc.) count as this, having very British humor and not being exported elsewhere to countries not familiar with said humor or the characters. | |
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Sam & Max: Freelance Police. A couple of gun-toting Funny Animals fight crime (sometimes on purpose), and go on mildly psychedelic adventures through Eagleland childhood nostalgia and American pop cultural references. To non-Americans it ranges from mildly incomprehensible to completely incomprehensible, which may be why the largest fansite for them is British. | |
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Never before has Canada's largest city been so quirky. Scott Pilgrim includes but is not limited to lesbian half-ninjas, psychic super vegans, bionic arms, Sexy Demon Hipster Chicks, abilities to manipulate pure sound using sheer determination, angry Chinese fathers with katanas protecting their obsessive daughters, and gay men as far as the eye can see (though the book focuses on a heterosexual couple). | |
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Lazy Company, a French TV (mostly) comedy about four hapless GIs during the Battle of Normandy, featuring a Captain America ersatz, Hitler disguised as a nun, mad scientists, a friendly Japanese pilot, and general wackiness all over the place. | |
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Paranoia is an example of American absurdity at its finest. | |
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At Swim-Two-Birds, a bizarre comic novel by Flann O'Brien, in which the protagonist, also an author, wanders Dublin and doesn't do very much of anything, comes across some strange quasi-fictional phenomena and eventually has to deal with his characters breaking the fourth wall and rising up against him. | |
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SASUKE and Kinniku Banzuke, which air in the US and Australia as Ninja Warrior and Unbeatable Banzuke, respectively. G4 heavily plaued up their status as wacky Japanese shows. Not only did they throw "ninja" into the first show's name, but the on-camera host who appears before and after segments on Unbeatable Banzuke, who only speaks Japanese and needs to be subtitled? He was the host hired by G4 solely for the American version. | |
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Yellow Submarine, translating The Beatles' psychedelic phase with perfection. | |
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Save the Green Planet!, a film by South Korean director Jang Joon-Hwan about a man who kidnaps and tortures to death people who he thinks are alien invaders. And he's the hero! It is, naturally, primarily a comedy | |
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In Date A Live, there are girls who can cause massive damage to the world just by appearing. And killing them is just about impossible. The solution? Date them. And the Dating Sim-like choices that occasionally pop up as you do so are not decided by you, but by a group dedicated to this very purpose. | |
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Gustavus: Continuity-free adult comedy about a hapless, balding bastard dealing with the absurdities of '60s-'70s urban Socialist life. Each episode starts with a pretty standard setup with a genuine satirical message that gets excessively weirder and veers strongly into ridiculous cartoon logic territory, often mixing it with Black Comedy. Characters and the world itself become pliable, metaphors become literal, and Gustav himself gets crazier as each story progresses — and some shorts barely have a story beyond a series of sight gags. | |
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Fantadroms, a Latvian cartoon about a shapeshifting cat robot that goes around his homeworld stopping various disputes between other characters. This trope actually prevented this show from getting an American release - Streamline Pictures had plans to release an American localization of the show, but they scrapped it partially due to them considering it too bizarre for American audiences. | |
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Big Tits Zombie. The title says it all. | |
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Total Recall (1990): Arnold Schwarzenegger stars in a Mind Screw-y parody of Arnold Schwarzenegger movies, based off a short story by Philip K. Dick and directed by Paul Verhoeven. | |
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Engine Sentai Go-onger is a LOT Lighter and Softer than the rest of the franchise and is considered a comedy. In direct contrast, Power Rangers RPM was a Pragmatic Adaptation which, as the top of the RPM page describes it, is to Power Rangers what The Dark Knight was to Batman, making this one real jarring to those who watched both versions. | |
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The SCP Foundation's New Weird trappings regularly lead it into this territory. Among the less surreal things the titular organisation deals with are a species of giant human hands that can be milked like cows to an alien disguised as a toaster that forces people to refer to me in first person. | |
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The Touhou M-1 Grand Prix features a Monster Mash of characters, including many from Japanese Mythology, from a shmup video-game doing stand-up comedy. | |
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Princess Pi tends to rely on nonsensical logic. | |
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Nyaruko: Crawling with Love!: Nyarlathotep the Crawling Chaos takes the form of a hyperactive Otaku teen girl and comes to Earth ostensibly because of her job as a Space Cop, partly because she wanted easy access to Anime and Toku goods, but primarily because she fell in Love at First Sight with Ordinary High-School Student and H. P. Lovecraft fan Mahiro Yasaka and wants to be his Manic Pixie Dream Girl wife (with lots of sex involved). He responds with Slapstick and forks. They're later joined by Nyarko's old classmates Cthuguha the Living Flame (who has an equally obsessive lesbian crush on Nyarko) and Hastur the Unspeakable One (who's an Adorably Precocious Child with a crush on Mahiro), all culminating in a parody harem-slash-Love Dodecahedron with LOTS of pop culture references. And that's just the base premise; we haven't even touched on the plot yet... | |
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The Spoils of Babylon and its Spin-Off The Spoils Before Dying. Affectionate Parodies of bloated, pretentious miniseries from the 70s and 80s that were based off Doorstopper novels, acted out by an All-Star Cast playing actors playing characters. | |
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Adventures of Captain Vrungel: A Soviet inconsistently animated mini-series about an old seadog protagonist who is probably lying about the show's entire plot, a handsome but not very bright young sailor, and a dishonoured tramp participating in a regatta around the globe while getting chased by two hilariously gratuitous Mafiosi and a seemingly unkillable James Bond Captain Ersatz looking for a priceless MacGuffin in a cello case. Squirrels, robo-dogs, exploding volcano island saunas, house domino and lots of champagne ensue. This is an adaptation of a much earlier children's novel of the same name. Most of the weirdness and hilariousness was preserved (and even added, in case of the James Bond character). | |
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Micmacs is about a video store clerk falling in with a clan of weirdos who live in a junkyard after he gets shot in the head, and then him and the clan taking revenge on the two biggest weapons manufacturers in France (one of whom created the landmine that killed his father, the other one which made the bullet that he got shot with) via a procession of "Home Alone" Antics. | |
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Superman/Batman, the sucessor to the old World's Finest teamup comics, is so heavily reliant on continuity that it can result in this to the uninitiated. For example, the Maximums arc (A Spiritual Crossover with The Ultimates... or at least it starts that way) begins by showing Superman and Batman committing Superdickery on unsuspecting Captain Ersatzes of Marvel characters, leading them to vow revenge and invade their earth, while two deformed and psychotic doubles of Superman and Batman (Bizarro and Batzarro) try to save the originals by going to multiple alternate earths (including one where Superman is a communist). In the end it turns out the Maximums were creations of the Joker and Mr. Myxpltk who were playing a game of chance with one another in exchange for cosmic power, who proceed to forcibly Fusion Dance the Maximums into a being called the Maximum Maximum and then do the same to the various version of Superman and Batman and make them fight. Having the knowledge of who these characters are and what all these plot points are Mythology Gags of only makes it make somewhat more sense. | |
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Repo Man: A sci-fi punk rock movie with a Random Events Plot. | |
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A Film with Me in It: a film about a guy who really wants to be in a film but has been generally unlucky in his life, who keeps ending up with people being killed in incredibly incriminating accidents around his flat while he and his best friend keep proposing film scenarios in order to figure out how to get out of their predicaments. | |
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Joseph's Machines is a channel focused on Rube Goldberg Devices, known for its complete lack of Do Not Try This at Home disclaimers, instead choosing to show the failures of the machines directly to the audience. | |
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Donnie Darko, as well as director Richard Kelly's other movies are examples of a WAT in action. | |
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show: The midnight movie to end all midnight movies. | |
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Homestuck is fairly internally coherent, but the extremely unusual storytelling, as well as the sheer absurdity of the plot, definitely qualifies it as this. Furthing it is how American pop culture such as Con Air and Insane Clown Posse directly ties in to the plot. | |
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The World According to Jeff Goldblum downplays this. In order to fully enjoy this Edutainment documentary series, the viewer has to not only find the very Serious Business behind ice cream, denim, tattoos, etc. (especially as experienced by Americans) as interesting and even inspiring rather than odd and/or pathetic, but be a fan of the CloudCuckoolander character actor/jazz musician who is exploring them in his cheerfully idiosyncratic way. The two trailers for the show are upfront about its eccentricity, especially the first one — Goldblum notes "Be forewarned, I am in the show a lot" and goes on to say "So if any of this tempts you, or wearies you, you can make a decision right here." But it ended up one of the most-hyped charter productions of Disney+, with National Geographic dubbing it into a double-digit number of foreign languages, and was only the third of the streaming service's many original productions to get the go-ahead for a second season. | |
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The Fuccons (Oh! Mikey in Japan) is a parody show featuring a Standard '50s Father, House Wife, and their son... With all the characters being played by mannequins whose faces never change. And raucous laughter. Yeah. | |
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The Tales Of Waterville (as far as obscure and unknown films are concerned) is just so downright bizarre that it makes Wild Woody look sober; aside from looking like something that belongs in a Nintendo 64 Video Game due to its weird graphics and animations, the voice acting is all over the place with the heroes sounding bored at times whereas the villains sound downright bombastic, the narrator is of the Captain Obvious variety, and the aforementioned villains are laughably stupid and have no common sense whatsoever. It has to be seen to be believed! | |
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The Giant Claw: A 50s B-Movie best known for the design of the titular monster. | |
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The Young Ones: four college students who can't stand each other share a house with a series of random talking objects. In addition to frequent cutaway gags and other non-sequiturs, Once an Episode a band (or lion tamer) will perform, usually in their house. | |
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Bibleman comes across as this to anyone who isn't American. Or at least an American Evangelical Christian. | |
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Tokyo Gore Police: A film which takes Gorn to new heights. | |
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Rockula, a vampire movie done in a way no one else would even fathom. How does this young, nerdy vampire go out on the town in the daytime? Sunblock. Then he forms a circa-1980s rock band, with Bo Diddley — yes, it's really Bo Diddley — to court his reincarnated girlfriend from centuries ago and break a curse, but in doing so he runs afoul of his rival, a futuristic mortician(?) played by Thomas Dolby. We've only scratched the surface of the weird decisions this movie makes, not the least of which includes the vampire's mom played by Toni Basil who has a dancing sequence for no other reason than it's Toni Basil, and then Dolby dressing up as a pirate and attacking the lead with a hambone. | |
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HoL: Human Occupied Landfill. Hand-written in several late-night sessions in an IHOP, and originally offered no character creation since "everyone just makes the same types of characters over and over again". When character creation was included in the expansion, stat rolling included several strange and useless abilities, such as an "Almond Joy" stat. ("Roll 1-3: Sometimes you feel like a nut. Roll 4-6: Sometimes you don't.") | |
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Flex Mentallo has its titular hero being a tulpa of a lower dimension that wears leopard trunks and can alter reality by flexing his muscles fighting with the man who wrote him, who thinks he is now childish and lame, and is also an alternate version of Morrison dying of a drug overdose and hallucinating parallel worlds and shitting kids. | |
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Donkey Hodie follows the adventures of a donkey who lives in a windmill and has a magenta mane and her best friend, a purple-colored panda from outer space. Other strange elements in the show include a dragon who wants to be an actor, an alligator whose game shows pop up out of nowhere most of the time, a talking cloud, a skunk who is a doctor, a superhero radish whose sidekick is a superhero porcupine, weird fauna such as a flower that can grow humongous and rocks that resemble and smell like cheese, the main character owning strange stuffed animals (the least weird of these being a stuffed elephant), the existence of a Fan Convention dedicated to cheese, the characters finding a nest that holds a talking songbook inside it and the town in the show being populated by a huge amount of penguins. | |
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Le Bébête Show looks like The Muppet Show, but all the Muppets are replaced by caricatures of French political figures. For example, François Mitterrand is portrayed as a frog named Kermitterrand (and naming himself God) | |
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Shade, the Changing Man. As expected of a story where madness is a central theme, there’s a lot of weirdness and psychedelic imagery to be found in it. What makes things even more complicated is that sometimes, the weird things we see in the story aren’t even real, they’re just part of someone’s dreams or imagination, so it can be pretty hard for the reader to tell what’s real or not. This goes for its sequel series, Shade The Changing Girl and Shade The Changing Woman too. | |
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Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! runs on this and nothing else. Same with Spin-Off Check It Out! With Dr. Steve Brule. | |
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Where do we even start with Sonichu and its magnitude of WHAT-ery? The basic premise alone is already bizarre; the adventures of a Sonic the Hedgehog/Pikachu hybrid and his real life creator, and only gets more wild from there; with one of the main villains being a witch based on one of the author's college deans, Time Travel, and rival webcomic creators being put on a show trial. | |
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Grabbers, a monster film about a group of giant squid-like bloodsucking aliens that attack a seaside town. High-alcohol blood is poison to them, so when they rampage one evening there's only one way to survive the night: get everyone to the pub and keep them sloshed all night long. | |
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Bon Cop, Bad Cop. The entire setup, most of the humor, and even the title are all hinged upon Canadian bilingualism. | |
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Scissor Seven is an action comedy about an amnesiac idiot named Seven becoming an assassin to make money, cure his amnesia, and maybe find out about his past along the way. Sadly, he's a horrible hitman, in a world where everyone and their dog have some sort of super power. Expect all sorts of unexpected things... that somehow manages to have an interesting plotline, character development, with surpisingly hard hitting moments, while still being incredibly silly. | |
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Dog & Scissors: A teenage bookworm is murdered and inexplicably reincarnated as a dachshund. His (former?) favorite novelist adopts his new doggy self and torments him with scissors. | |
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The Noddy Shop may look like your average kids' show, but some parts of it seem very strange. There's Aunt Agatha, a woman who has a high-pitched voice, obsesses over the ocean and rats, thinks she's a mermaid and can produce the sounds of a big ocean liner; a woman who runs an ice cream shop while dressed up in an ice cream cone costume; small creatures called goblins that act like a reverse family with the parents being childlike and the kid being the parent figure; a talking lobster who can play a piano and has a family; talking babies who claim to be toilet trained; singing lips without faces that live in a box; and an alligator who has big breasts, which is something not normally seen on a show made for preschoolers. | |
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Any film by Taika Waititi applies. Even his first major studio project, Thor: Ragnarok, where he appears as the rock alien Korg, modelled after what he calls a "cuzzie from the East Cape of New Zealand". | |
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My Mother the Car, which was about a man whose deceased mother possesses his car, and can speak to him through the radio. | |
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Herman Hedningnote lit. "Herman the Heathen" but called Marwin Meathead in English editions., a weird Reference Overdosed Swedish comic with the sickest sence of humor you are likely to encounter. You have to wonder what the hell is going on inside Jonas Darnell's head. | |
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Pataclaun, a comedy Sitcom Centered around a Dysfunctional Family, the series star MachÃn and Wendy, a parody of a stereotypical Peruvian couple; alongside their observant baby, Monchi. After the pair got married, they moved to a new house; without realizing that the place is haunted by three ghosts: Queca, Tony, and Gonzalete, each of them representing a different facet of Peruvian society. This would be quirky enough on its own but they are also all deeply flawed brightly dressed clowns living in a very colorful house. It was considered a very unique series for its rampant use of irreverent humor, local slang, on-point satire of current events. Pataclaun's humor is deeply rooted in Peruvian culture, making references and jokes that resonate strongly with the local audience that adds to create a sense of surrealism for viewers from different cultural backgrounds. | |
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Farscape is an eclectic mixture of Australia, Bio Punk, muppets and S&M. And that's not even getting into their infamous "mindfrell" episodes.... | |
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Although the plots in Neopets tend to be a bit more serious, the site itself has a LOT of weirdness. And that's why people love it. | |
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Llan-ar-goll-en is a wabbitnote Weird British Thing (sort of) about a man solving mysteries in a live-action world with an animated doggy sidekick in the small, titular village. You'd think it sounds awfully a lot like Blue's Clues (and you're right), but what's especially weird about it is what it contains. From flying bikes to talking handbags and singing letter stamps, and with the main cast comprising of a pirate and wizard, this show is nothing short of a Welsh Mind Screw. | |
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Wicked! and Deadly! by Morris Gleitzman and Paul Jennings are two children's series revolving around the bizarre, including a killer superadvanced sheep army, and immortality-conferring tea. Anything by Paul Jennings generally counts. | |
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Attack the Gas Station!, a South Korean comedy film that runs on Rule of Cool and Rule of Funny. | |
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Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger in the vein of the above, features Samba transformations and two villains who represent the emotions Joy and Happiness, with many of their antics qualifying as killing with kindness. Also the Red Ranger appears to be The Kid-Appeal Character. | |
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Llamas with Hats is, to put it simply, a series of videos describing the adventures of a psychopathic llama who visits and devastates a South American city, sinks a cruise ship, and nukes an entire city. All the while, his squeakily-voiced friend with a flowery hat voices his concern and condemns the madman's orphan-dooming actions by crying CAAAAAAARL! Repeatedly. | |
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The Invisibles is freaking mind-bending. It takes place in a 3D holograph made by the friction of two overlapping universes (What, you've never heard about the Holographic principle?) of fascism and anarchy. The story follows the Invisibles, anarchistic chaos magicians, as they do things like fight bacterial gods, seek for the chalice that contains the shit and pus of Judas twitching during his suicide, try to beat a Genetic Abomination designed to be a fleshsuit for the Archons and was supposed to marry Lady Di or travel from reality to fiction (Yes, from reality to fiction). | |
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Valhalla Rising: a Danish/UK film about a mute one-eyed Norseman and a young boy, both slaves, who kill their pagan masters and join a bunch of Crusaders trying to get to Jerusalem. However, the crew gets lost and end up in America, where they all go crazy and get killed by mostly-unseen natives or each other. The film has very little dialogue, with long stretches of almost complete silence. | |
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Twin Peaks features an FBI agent with a sweet tooth as the main protagonist, a quirky soundtrack, an eccentric eyepatch-wearing woman with Super-Strength, and a dimension populated by strange beings who have the ability to control other peoples' bodies. | |
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Archie’s Madhouse is a series of weird and fantastical stories based on the Riverdale gang, fitting it snugly this category. Madhouse was also a springboard for the equally bizarre Sabrina the Teenage Witch. | |
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Amélie is about a woman attempting to make her neighbors' lives better by taking a garden gnome from one of them and taking pictures of it vacationing around the world, tricking an abusive greengrocer into thinking he's insane, and escorting a blind man to a train station giving him vivid descriptions of the surroundings. | |
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While Bakemonogatari is probably still bizarre in Japan, the religion/mythology of Japan at least let the original audience understand things like the crab gods and lost cows. The series also makes many, many puns which make more sense in Japanese. | |
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Much like the games it's based on, Super Mario Bros. (1993) is noted for just how weird it is, from individual scenes like the dancing Goombas and Toad's devolution to the movie as a whole's conceit of a parallel dinosaur dimension. | |
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The Red Green Show: A group of middle-aged rural Canadian men engage in various shenanigans in their lakeside lodge (including one stance where one of the members made hot sauce with a secret ingredient that was jet fuel) whilst the titular character creates DIY projects usually out of random junk held together with duct tape. For some reason, American PBS viewers found this to be hilarious. | |
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Tetsuo: The Iron Man: A Deliberately Monochrome Body Horror movie about a salaryman cursed to slowly transform into a walking pile of scrap metal. | |
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The Aquabats! Super Show! is often incredibly ridiculous, and indeed seems to revel in it. Laser guitars, cartoons randomly popping up, and odd plotlines often involving a rather strange Monster of the Week are only the start. | |
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The Mighty Boosh can be described as an endless series of nonsequiturs, or the aesthetics of a children's show (low budget, bad costumes, puppets, musical numbers) mixed with vulgar humor and stoner plots. Based on a radio program and something non-British people often cannot believe really exists. | |
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The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension: A sci-fi comedy satire about a Parody Sue who saves the world from a Mad Scientist. | |
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Nanalan': A green little girl with a speech impediment visits her nana and plays in the backyard. For some reason, us Canadians thought that both this and Téléfrançais! were educational. Have fun trying to find out what her dog's name is. Here's one short. | |
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The asdfmovie series is a rather odd series of sketches not tied together at all that involves potatos with guns, throwing cheese at aliens and "doing an internet". In a similar vein, you have Action Bunnies. |
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Noel's House Party. Specifically, Mr. Blobby. Originally created as a fake children's show character used for a Candid Camera Prank-type section of the show, that monstrosity spiraled out of control and became a franchise that fits this trope in its own right. | |
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Valerie and Her Week of Wonders is a surreal, allegorical 1970 Czech movie set perhaps in the 1800s about a 13-year-old girl's sexual awakening. Seemingly, every character who interacts with her is infatuated with her and/or a vampire. Or secretly her parents. Cut to cheery Gainax Ending. | |
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El Chavo del ocho has shades of this. It's a comedic Mexican series with a fairly normal plot but has a serious case of Dawson Casting. The very obviously adult comedians playing children can come off as unusual. El Chavo is specially seen as weird to the rest of Latin America. While the show's popularity in its home country has waned in recent years, it's still widely beloved across countries like Venezuela, Colombia, and specially Brazil, of all places. Part of the appeal comes from just how zany and exotic the Mexican slang and mannerisms are to other Latin Americans (it helps that the stereotypes are very exaggerated), while still managing to be fairly relatable. Hell, El Chavo is just one of the pieces of media that makes English speakers think that the Spanish-speaking world (and Brazil & Portugal) is a paradise for crazyness. |
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Hot Rod: A film about an Evel Knievel wannabe wanting to raise $50,000 in order to get a heart transplant for his Jerkass stepfather, solely so he can mercilessly beat him, all set in a warped Affectionate Parody of 80s Spielbergian Suburbia. | |
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The Big Lez Show is an MS Paint animated series about Lezlie Mackerel, an extra-terrestrial living in Australia along with his Sasquatch friends, weird loud yellow creatures known as Choomahs, and... whatever the hell Clarence is. Virtually everyone speaks in thick, curse laden Australian Slang, are huge stoners, and various other weird stuff happens. | |
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Savage Dragon is too violent and sexual to be a typical superhero book but way too fun to be a serious adult comic. Some of the villains this series has seen include a man who fires human waste with enough force to decapitate, a deadly Flying Brick with a chicken head, and a cute 3-foot-tall warlord that takes over entire galaxies (and was friends with the hero's adopted daughter for a time). Then we have strange twists on expies of Doctor Doom or Captain Marvel. Then we have the other end of the spectrum with characters like Darklord and the Fiend who are very disturbing and deadly. | |
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Fish Story: The long and complicated tale of how, thanks to a series of coincidences, an obscure punk song from a failed 1970s punk band saves the world in 2012. | |
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In-universe, 30 Rock shows a nonsensical musical soundbyte featuring Jenna smiling, winking, and laughing at the camera. She then says (out of the commercial) that she has no idea how it advertised Tokyo University. | |
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Axe Cop. What actually happens in the comic is weird enough, but when you factor in that the writer is a six-year-old boy, it truly achieves this status. | |
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Madman. It's hard to place it in one particular genre or the other. Usually, it's every genre all at the same time. | |
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Oobi is a show aimed at preschoolers where all the characters are played by live-action, talking hands with eyes on them. | |
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The Filthy Frank Show (made by George "Joji" Miller, the self-proclaimed "Ed Wood of YouTube") relies heavily on Surreal Humor and tends toward the extremely random, offensive, and often downright gross. | |
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The Whitest Kids U' Know is, in many ways, a weird version of The Kids in the Hall, clearly taking its inspiration from that show but possessing its own bizarre sense of humor based around snark, Refuge in Audacity, and enough Lampshade Hanging to run an electrician supply house. | |
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The City of Lost Children is about a mad scientist who lives on an oil rig offshore from an unspecified Steampunk city abducting children so he can steal their dreams; and when he abducts the little brother of a circus strongman, the strongman and a little girl from an orphanage go on a quest to get him back. And it involves a brain in a tank. | |
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Meet the Feebles is practically The Muppets on a cocktail of acid and weed. | |
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The Masked Singer involves celebrities performing in extravagant costumes that hide their identities, leaving a panel of judges to try and figure out who they are. The weirdness escalates once certain celebrities are unmasked, with possibly the most insane being Sarah Palin in season 3 and Kermit the Frog (!) in season 5. In fact, a Reddit comment on this clip from the season 5 sing-along special says it all: | |
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Glen or Glenda: An unintentionally surreal film by Ed Wood who hijacked a true story about a transvestite. | |
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Round the Twist. Plots include a skeleton's curse that forces the cursed to end every sentence with "without my pants" (from the episode of that title), gum leaves that can transfer injuries to anyone who can hear a song played on them ("The Gum Leaf War"), a ghost haunting an outhouse ("Skeleton On The Dunny"), and superpower-conferring underpants ("Wunder Pants")...in the first season. It gets weirder: Overarching plots including music played by ghosts who are trying to save their lighthouse, two ghosts wanting to save their loved ones from accidentally crashing on a boat thanks to human error 100 years ago, and doing so by possessing all of the regulars, including a young girl possessing a teenage boy, a viking love book and a mysterious visitor from a lost land. On top of that, two seasons have extra story arcs, both involving hints that a child is deliberately cultivating weaponizable stenches. Based on the works of Paul Jennings, who's in Literature above. | |
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Alice in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking Glass can get very strange thanks to much of the plot operating on dream logic, and Alice herself often becomes frustrated with the strange characters she encounters. Many of the odder things in these Dream Lands are takeoffs of aspects of Victorian Britain. | |
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A Dutch cartoon series called Boes (the inspiration for Ox Tales), about a Dutch farmer and his misadventures around the farm, including a lot of humour involving various farm and exotic animals, with lots of surreal Body Horror scenarios. | |
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Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan is a parody of every Harem Genre trope and plenty more, and does it by taking them to ridiculous extremes, so it looks especially strange to those not familiar with the genre. Unusually though, whilst the tropes are Japanese, the humor is nearer to American Gag Series like South Park. | |
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Exploitica was a late-night Channel 4 equivalent of Mystery Science Theater 3000, except without actors, just text commentary in the letterbox space or superimposed on characters as thought bubbles. Subjects dryly mocked included B-movies, exploitation films, outdated educational reels, and a Gene Autry serial, for some reason. | |
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Rubber. A movie about a sentient murderous tire. And the people who watch the film. | |
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Mushroom Land is a Polish web video series that seems to be some cross between an educational children's television and a heavy trip on hallucinogens. Or a product of a damaged child's mind. Or who knows. | |
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Sukiyaki Western Django. A Spaghetti Western, in English, with an almost totally Asian cast. | |
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The Guard: An over the top homage to 70's Dirty Harry-esque, mismatched partner Cop Movies ... set in small town Ireland. The eponymous Guard (Irish Cop) takes acid, molest corpses, hires prostitutes, insults his American counterparts, buys his dying mother cocaine and contracts an STD. By comparison, the drug dealers he's taking down discuss existentialism and morality, and there's an off kilter scene about gay IRA operatives. | |
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Aachi and Ssipak is a strange South Korean animated socio-political action comedy about a dark futuristic world that is powered by fecal matter. Needless to say, there is a lot of Toilet Humor. | |
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Today's Special centers around a mannequin with improbable dancing skills who lives in a department store and has a magic hat that brings him to life every night. Other characters include a Magical Computer who behaves like a human being, a mischievous oversized mouse who always talks in rhyme, and "the Mime Lady" who appears in random segments for no reason. And that's just the regular cast. | |
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Battle for Dream Island: Let's see... the main cast is a group of anthropomorphic objects who not only battle for a luxurious island, but also suffer various cruel and unusual deaths, there are various Dark Crystal-esque made-up words (Goiky, Yoyleberry, Yoyleland, Non-Slip Shoes So Ha, etc.), the hosts are speaker boxes and Eldritch Abomination numbers, and the contestants who get eliminated don't get sent home, but rather to either a giant metal box, an eternal algebra class, or a big rotating building... yeah. | |
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Zardoz, where the weirdness is enhanced by Sean Connery in an orange nappy. Unsurprisingly, John Boorman was heavily abusing cocaine throughout filming, and to this day admits even he isn't sure what half the film is about. | |
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Monty Python's The Meaning of Life. Even if you've seen their popular works, nothing will prepare you for this 2 hours worth of strangeness. | |
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Men With Brooms is possibly more Weirdly Canadian than Kids in the Hall. It's a sports comedy about curling, that also features Paul Gross, Leslie Nielsen (as a retired curling guru and hallucinogenic mushroom enthusiast), a guest appearance by Canadian rock group The Tragically Hip, a bagpiper in a kilt with no explicit connection to the plot, and a running gag involving beavers. | |
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Father Ted, while produced and funded by the British Channel 4, was written and created by two Irishmen, Graham Linehan and Arthur Mathews, and all of the actors, characters, locations, and crew were Irish. Collectively had the entirety of England, Wales, and Scotland asking "what does feck mean exactly?" | |
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The Italian Spiderman series on YouTube is filmed in English, dubbed into Italian and then subtitled back into English. As well as being a parody, its plot is fairly nonsensical, and it features various wonders such as surf-offs derailed by attacking penguins, and detachable exploding boomerang moustaches. | |
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The Annoying Orange, which has now crossed over to Cartoon Network. | |
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Gekisou Sentai Carranger, which was essentially an extremely silly Self-Parody of Super Sentai. This resulted in some problems when adapting to Power Rangers Turbo as the seriousness of the American show did not go well with the Denser and Wackier Japanese footage. Seriously, there was an episode where the Monster of the Week bakes the heroes into a giant pizza! Go-Onger below was its Spiritual Successor. | |
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Tampopo is a western in '80s Japan about ramen, complete with John Wayne-alike, varmits, and dramatic string music, interspersed with other unrelated sketches about food. | |
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Holy Motors, is about a man being driven around Paris in a limousine — every time it stops, he exits in costume as a different character, and the entire style of the movie seems to change along with him. The movie goes out of its way to basically frustrate any and every expectation or definition as to what it's about or how to describe it, as it jumps from bizarre monster movie to serious family drama to violent crime thriller to sudden, inexplicable musical number. It also begins with a different man finding a movie theater hidden behind his bedroom wall, has an insanely awesome accordion-based intermission, and concludes with an extremely melancholy but still WTF-worthy barrage of conceptual non-sequiturs. | |
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Garth Marenghis Darkplace pretends to be the rediscovery of a cult 1980s horror series, somewhat in the style of actual British shows of the period but deliberately bad, with a made-up history on top of it. | |
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Beakman's World. A zany-haired scientist in a neon green lab coat, his perky female assistant, a man in a rat suit, two penguins who watch the show from their home in the South Pole, famous dead guys, and a kooky and fun atmosphere to learn about science. | |
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Lupo Alberto is set in a World of Funny Animals... And not only the title character is a wolf dating a hen, he actually eats other chicken - and was rather miffed when his girlfriend accused him to cheat on her with his midnight snack. | |
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Akikan! is a series about about empty soda/juice cans doing battle to determine whether steel or aluminum cans are superior, for the standardization of cans into one format, strengthening the industry. Oh, and the cans take the forms of cute girls in strange outfits... | |
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Hachaverim Shel Barney was adapted from Barney & Friends, itself a WHAT, that has even more shades of this, especially to viewers who aren't Israeli or Hebrew speakers. It's the same as Barney & Friends, but takes place in Israel (something that is very prevelant in this version) instead of America. And there's it's very own weird elements including a Nightmare Fuel-inducing Israeli rendition of Rainbow Beard the Pirate. | |
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Takashi Miike films, particularly his most extreme films such as Gozu and Ichi the Killer, tend to represent the most bizarre, violent and fetishistic Japanese strain of films to people outside of the nation. | |
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Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!: Russ Meyers's best-remember film, a hallmark of sexy, violent, Americanexploitation films. | |
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Grim Prairie Tales: Two travellers in The Wild West played by Brad Dourif and James Earl Jones try to top one another with increasingly outrageous stories in this anthology movie. | |
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Stranger Things makes it obvious right from the title. Rooted in nostalgia for The '80s, it is a homage to similar works of the past, particularly Stephen King's Americana-based horror novels and the family adventure films of Steven Spielberg and Amblin Entertainment, combined with dollops of H. P. Lovecraft, Dungeons & Dragons, and Silent Hill. | |
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Super Sentai. This is the reason an American adaptation, that would eventually become Power Rangers, got stuck in Development Hell. Executives thought it was too much of this trope to succeed on American TV. Within Sentai itself, there's Battle Fever J, which has bizarre costumes and a lot of dancing. However, it introduced the first robot in Sentai, and was thus the first Super Sentai. Toei eventually added Goranger and JAKQ into the ranks of Super Sentai, possibly to ensure that Battle Fever J wasn't the first one on the list. Ninja Sentai Kakuranger can only be described as what happens when you take Japanese beliefs and folktales (mainly of ninjas and Youkai; the latter of which are known for being very weird in their won right), adapt them as People in Rubber Suits fighting each other, add a Rakugo narrator to commentate on them, and then filter all that through the Camp sensibilities of the Batman (1966) TV show - complete with the Hit Flashes. Gekisou Sentai Carranger, which was essentially an extremely silly Self-Parody of Super Sentai. This resulted in some problems when adapting to Power Rangers Turbo as the seriousness of the American show did not go well with the Denser and Wackier Japanese footage. Seriously, there was an episode where the Monster of the Week bakes the heroes into a giant pizza! Go-Onger below was its Spiritual Successor. Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger went to this territory more than once, especially in its early episodes, as can be seen in the Power Rangers: Dino Thunder episode "Lost and Found in Translation". Amazingly, it managed to do that while still being overall Darker and Edgier than its Power Rangers counterpart. Engine Sentai Go-onger is a LOT Lighter and Softer than the rest of the franchise and is considered a comedy. In direct contrast, Power Rangers RPM was a Pragmatic Adaptation which, as the top of the RPM page describes it, is to Power Rangers what The Dark Knight was to Batman, making this one real jarring to those who watched both versions. Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger in the vein of the above, features Samba transformations and two villains who represent the emotions Joy and Happiness, with many of their antics qualifying as killing with kindness. Also the Red Ranger appears to be The Kid-Appeal Character. And then there's their unofficial series, Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger, where the characters fight monsters in their heads using the power of delusions. There's a reason why their name means "Unofficial Task Force Akibaranger". They're struggling to become an official team of Super Sentai. Season 2: The Akibarangers take on a cosplaying sentai villain fanboy, meet alternate versions of rangers, including Ryuuranger whose been reduced to a Chinese food mascot named China Red. They also get a second robot that is the size of a remote controlled car, not that it's any less effective than their full-size car. |
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Hausu. There is a killer piano in this movie. It isn't the only killer inanimate object, either. And this is just the tip of the iceberg, people. | |
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The Monkees is filled with enough randomness and absurdity to qualify, especially during the second season, where they were either stoned out of their minds or didn't care any more and ad-libbed. �Frodis,� anyone? The subsequent film Head cranked it up a few notches. | |
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The Lure is about two mermaids winding up in 1980s Warsaw, Poland and joining a band that plays at a dance club. One falls in love with a musician, and the other one's a cannibal. It took Sundance Festival by storm... and the Polish critics are confused why. Completely Different Title must have helped, though. | |
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Humanity Has Declined: Humanity is nearing extinction... and being replaced by a race of small, stupid, perpetually-smiling fairies. This is all played for satire and Black Comedy. | |
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Bubba Ho Tep: The description defies any rational reality and should be read in full on its page, but the short version is Elvis Presley (who swapped places with an impersonator) wakes from a coma after twenty years and teams up with John F. Kennedy (who had his death faked, was dyed to look like a black man and finally had the missing half of his brain replaced with a bag of sand) team up to take on a redneck mummy who's offing various residents of the retirement home they live in. Yeah. | |
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Ginger Snaps - Werewolves as a literal metaphor for puberty. Shooting up drugs (well, wolfsbane) is the only way to temporarily slow the transformation. Its two sequels ramp up the weirdness even more. | |
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The American episode of Screenwipe had Charlie Brooker showing an American focus group a handful of British shows that he felt would be seen as weird to non-Brits, including EastEnders, The Bill, Countdown, Bullseye, and Springwatch. The Americans hated them... except for EastEnders, apparently. | |
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Black Books. Dave "Mouse Ears" Smith, pesticide by coffee machine, and "Then it's left... at the dead badger." | |
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The Complete World Knowledge trilogy, which consists of books with long titles, filled to the brim with "100% false" facts, though the appendices in the paperback versions acknowledge the fact that occasionally a truth manages to end up in one of them by accident. In addition, the page numbering does not restart in later books in the series, instead picking up where the previous one left off. The second book also serves as a page-a-day calendar, which among other things reveals an Escalating War of bizarre precipitation between Richmond, Virginia, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in the late 1970s. | |
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The 2nd season, og spektralsteinene (and the spectral stones) can be best described as a Norwegian Doctor Who, having Time Travel between many famous fictional works like Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, Robin Hood, Robinson Crusoe, and more, but also real-life happenings like World War II with them meeting their father and helping him in La Résistance, aka. Milorg, and in the end being named after themsleves. Ends with them traveling through space meeting aliens, driving the Doctor Who refference home. | |
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Pushing Daisies. It involves an explosive scratch-and-sniff card, Paul Reubens, an author of adult pop-up books (all in the same episode), a red-and-white striped morgue, and a very American '50s Retro Universe. Oh, and it's about a baker who can bring the dead back to life with a touch, and can't ever touch his thus-revived girlfriend or she'll die permanently. Should probably mention that. | |
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Black Sheep (2007) is a black comedy about Killer Sheep. | |
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Let's Speak English thought it necessary in the strip for 24/02/2016 to explain the vital importance - as well as the social convention - of wearing a face mask in Japan if you suspect you are ill, so as not to spread anything contagious in a densely populated country. Up until early 2020 this was indeed a Weird East Asian Thing that had to be patiently explained to Westerners, and was taken as proof that the Japanese are impossibly weird and alien. | |
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Jam was another late-night Channel 4 program designed to make you think the next morning that you probably hallucinated it. Deeply surreal Black Comedy specially aired with no intro, end credits, or ad break. | |
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The Young Offenders, a pair of Lower Class Louts go on a road trip on stolen bicycles in order to salvage cocaine bales from the sea in order to get rich and are pursued by a cop with an unhealthy obsession with arresting bike thieves and an Evil Cripple with a nail gun. | |
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Ultraman Ace too, especially in its later cours. Episodes treated with utmost seriousness have dealt with things like an alien stealing pandas to make them a Cash-Cow Franchise on his homeworld, a kid whose bedwetting problems bring a monster recurring in his dreams to life, a man being turned into a cow by the Big Bad using a cursed nasal ring, a man-eating hot-air balloon literally draining the fun out of children, and a Kappa kaiju who disguises itself as a swimming pool and turns kids into kappas by eating their navels with the help of an android couple. The series is also infamous among fans for featuring some of the wackiest kaiju ever, including a violin kaiju. | |
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The duo DANIELS had already proven to be weird with Swiss Army Man, which revolves around a man using a versatile corpse to get out of a deserted island. But Everything Everywhere All at Once takes it on a whole new level being a multiversal madness where it's borderline impossible to guess what will happen in the next scene, with new events like Ratatouille with a talking raccoon, sentient rocks, hot dogs for fingers, a bagel that threatens the multiverse, awards shaped like butt plugs, etc. | |
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Giraffes On Horseback Salad is a surrealist romantic comedy by Salvador DalÃ, an adaptation of a never-produced film that would have starred Harpo Marx. The only true surprise here is that it's not even more quirky than it already is. | |
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Bananas in Pyjamas, a kids' show about giant anthropomorphic bananas. That wear pajamas. And get cheated nearly every episode by the giant anthropomorphic rat that runs the corner shop. And there's the issue of their inherent desire to chase and hug giant living teddy bears. | |
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Tex Willer is normally a serious comic, but storylines with Mefisto instantly takes a turn toward the insane due the sheer weirdness of the nightmares he can conjure◊. Then there was the storyline where Mefisto allied himself with a voodoo cult whose leader was a white man that believed himself the earthly incarnation of Baron Samedi and had a faux-medieval castle hidden in Florida's swamps... | |
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Kabouter Wesley from Belgium, has talking animals and talking objects like food and a house. The protagonist has an illegal chicory plantation and a neogotic chapel in his home. Oh, and that aforementioned house has spores, which form traintracksnote it’s a pun in Dutch, on which comes a train that runs over the protagonist. Who also dies multiple times in the series, always being alive the next episode. Once even within the same episode, for no reason. | |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comes across as this to non-British audiences, especially during the scenes when they use the Infinite Improbability Drive. Douglas Adams himself alluded to how much cricket is a weird British game in Life, the Universe and Everything with the commentators of Test Match Special not at all fazed by Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, and a sofa appearing from nowhere on the pitch at Lord's. And only the British would be so insensitive to use the hallowed 'Wikkit Gate' as part of a game. | |
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All the movies starring the Mexican luchador El Santo also definitely qualify as a Mexican Example Of Weirdness (MEOW). Any and all movies featuring him (or any luchador, for that matter: El Blue Demon had a few films of his own) can be best described as "the sixties Batman tv series but sillier, and Mexican". They have a cult following in Japan, presumably because of this. | |
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Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. The show starts with the titular character getting saved from a Apocalypse Cult but then goes into Mood Whiplash when the more... bizarre things appear, such as animated Imagine Spot sequences and a talking backpack. Mix it in with bizarre character names straight out of a Rik Mayall Britcom (Titus Andromedon, anyone?) and you get one of the most weird things Tina Fey has ever done. | |
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Waking Ned Devine: The eponymous Ned dies of a massive heart attack after winning the lottery. The local town bands together to cover up his death in order to claim his winnings. Hilarity ensues. Also, a very old man rides a motorcycle while very, very naked. | |
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Max Havelaar is considered to be by lots of Dutch literature critics to be one of the weirdest works in Dutch literature to be ever written. The main reason why is because the book is one of the first to change of writer and writing style dependent on the one character who at the moment of writing is writing the story (which is nowadays common thanks to postmodernism, but the book was written in 1840, which was long before the very first postmodern writers were born). | |
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Last Year's Snow Was Falling: A Claymation short about a narrator desperately trying to find a story to tell, before settling on a nameless small-town idiot and ADD-plagued Cloudcuckoolander who is ordered by his wife into the woods to find a christmas tree. He comes across Baba Yaga's house instead. What comes next challenges even the narrator's endurance. | |
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Maid RPG. Original flavour Japanese weirdness in RPG form. | |
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Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!: a parody of cheesy monster films, a hallmark of American cinema. | |
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Homestar Runner. All crazy retro pop culture references, all the time. And are those guys supposed to be people or what? Sweet Cuppin' Cakes is an in-universe example, depicted as Strong Bad's attempt to deliberately create a "kuh-razy cartoon". |
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Electric Wonderland can come off as pretty crazy, due to it taking place in a Cyberspace world unbound by the laws of physics. | |
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Ao Usagi's art. A lot of it is Touhou fanart. Some of it is incredibly normal. Sometimes it's a boob in an orange peel. | |
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Téléchat, a French-Belgian puppet show from the '80s. The series is a parody of TV news presented by a black cat with an arm cast (which he uses as an all-purpose box) called Groucha and his female counterpart, an ostrich called Lola. The news (which Groucha does with the help of a sentient microphone) relates the life of "gluons", supposedly the smallest things in existence. Sometimes Lola will also have a talk round, with a fork and a spoon ([with human faces!). There are also nonsense commercials with a green orangutan in the jungle, who always manages to screw up the take, to the chagrin of the spot's director; and Léguman, a parody of Japanese Sentai shows. Because of its quirkiness and freakish ambiance, this show scared a whole generation of French kids, who will tell you that it still gives them some feeling of dread if they try rewatching the show. An outsider wouldn't necessarily be traumatized, but would get that this thing was weird in a distinctly French (well, Belgian and French) way. | |
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Casa de mi Padre: A parody of Mexican telenovelas starring the very WASPy Will Ferrell as a Mexican who must defend the family home. | |
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Within Sentai itself, there's Battle Fever J, which has bizarre costumes and a lot of dancing. However, it introduced the first robot in Sentai, and was thus the first Super Sentai. Toei eventually added Goranger and JAKQ into the ranks of Super Sentai, possibly to ensure that Battle Fever J wasn't the first one on the list. | |
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Paperinik New Adventures: Donald Duck has a Secret Identity as Paperinik, known in English-speaking countries as Superduck or the Duck Avenger; he finds an Artificial Intelligence in a skyscraper. | |
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Duck Dynasty and Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, two of the main drivers of the "rednecksploitation" boom in American Reality TV in the early '10s. Specifically, they're Weird Images of the South (WITS), even for many Americans. | |
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Ninja Sentai Kakuranger can only be described as what happens when you take Japanese beliefs and folktales (mainly of ninjas and Youkai; the latter of which are known for being very weird in their won right), adapt them as People in Rubber Suits fighting each other, add a Rakugo narrator to commentate on them, and then filter all that through the Camp sensibilities of the Batman (1966) TV show - complete with the Hit Flashes. | |
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Footrot Flats is probably one of the most New Zealandy pieces of media ever made. Being set on a rural farm, there's a fair bit of exploration of the countryside and wildlife, as well as elements of both Maori culture and language, as well as white New Zealander common culture (such as their obsessions with football and cricket). | |
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Shredder Orpheus takes the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice to a post-apocalyptic future where Hades and Persephone run a broadcasting corporation that literally suck out people's souls, Orpheus's lyre was supposedly made by Jimi Hendrix in an effort to elevate human consciousness, and the lead-in to the climax revolves around skating an Underworld parking garage. | |
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LazyTown. The least bizarre thing is the pink hair on the central character. When the Canadian kids network YTV had the rights to the show, they put out a promo deriding the show for its weirdness, and theorized that the show must be made in Iceland by a giant gorilla - followed by a clip where the villain, dressed as a gorilla, climbs a giant antenna. | |
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Experimental / indie / made for contest [RPGs] in general. From "Appliance Adventure" (a game about intelligent, talking household appliances) to "Get Out of Infernopolis" (storytelling gameified UNO where there is only one player / soul and everybody else is a GM / petty demon who makes the one player's life miserable). | |
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Adam & Paul, a more-or-less plotless dark comedy about two heroin addicts (modeled on Didi and Gogo and Laurel and Hardy) who spend a day wandering around Dublin trying to scrape money together to buy a fix. There are Amusing Injuries, an encounter with a patriotic Bulgarian, lots of dialogue that goes absolutely nowhere, and a generally weird and tragicomic tone. | |
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Gonna Be the Twin-Tail!!: Extra-dimensional invaders attack Earth not for its resources or to conquer it but... for its twintails? Rather, they're attacking Earth to drain the "zokusei" (something that has no direct definition in most languages other than Japanese) of its people. Said Zokusei manifests in typical Otaku fetishes like bloomers, model-making, and of course, twintails. | |
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Lookism, where to begin. Most of his life Park Hyung Suk has been bullied for being fat and unattractive. After his mother shows up at school and sees that he's bullied, she takes all the money she got and lets him transfer schools. It's a school with 7 departments, and he's enrolled to the fashion department. But On his way, the hairdresser cuts his hair to look like Kim Jong Un, and after being beat up on the street, he locks himself into his new apartment. After crying himself to sleep, ha awakens again due to a Potty Emergency. When done and washing his hands, he sees a Bishōnen in the mirror. It's him, with a Heroic Build! But in the bedroom, his old body is sleeping. It's not a "Freaky Friday" Flip and can best be described as Literal Split Personality as he changes between bodies each time he sleeps. Instead of taking the normal path of revenge, he decides to befriend as many as he can. So it's a fighting, gag, Psychological Horror, Romantic Comedy, and possibly more series with male fanservice(the same way some Anime & Manga has female fanservice for no reason what so ever all of sudden), while aimed at the same age and gender group as seinen manga. | |
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Breaking Bad, from the moment it premiered, was joked about (especially by non-Americans) as a show whose plot, about a schoolteacher who turns to selling crystal meth in order to pay his medical bills, could only have taken place in the United States due to its expensive private healthcare system. This parody video jokes that, had the show been set in Canada, it would've been over the minute Walter White first arrived at his doctor's office.note Ultimately, when it was remade in another country (as Metástasis), they had to set it in Colombia for the story to work at all. Combine that with Mexican drug cartels, neo-Nazi gangsters, and a New Mexico setting presented in full New Old West mode, and you've got the makings of an epic crime drama. | |
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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, a crime drama/dark comedy/art film set almost entirely in a surreal, high-class French restaurant where the characters' costumes change colour depending on the room they're in. It mixes passionate sex scenes with horrifying spousal abuse, a truck full of rotten meat, and a man forced to roll around in dog poo, and has one of the most unappetizing, horrifying final movie meals in history. Some say it's supposed to be a commentary on British politics in the 1980s. | |
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The Moomins is often difficult to describe to people who've never heard of it before. It's a slice-of-life series about a family of trolls who look like anthropomorphic hippos and occasionally go on adventures. The author of the books, Tove Jansson, was an anarchist and it often shows. What's really unusual is how much of a classic the series is considered in its native Finland, being nowadays an institution of national identity with The Merch of it being about as omnipresent as Winnie the Pooh. Again, it's about anarchist hippo trolls. | |
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Repo! The Genetic Opera: A metal Rock Opera set After the End featuring musical contributions by Yoshiki. | |
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Sabrina the Teenage Witch, much like the comic it’s based on, has a lot of bizarre moments. And it’s not just the spells. Its animated counterpart would follow suit. | |
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Listening To 11975 M Hz is made by a Texan who is also a marine. You really, really would not guess that by reading it if you're going by stereotypes. | |
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In a similar vein, you have Action Bunnies. | |
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Pee-wee's Big Adventure: Being the first feature length film by Tim Burton as well as having Pee-Wee Herman go on a road trip in order to find his Cool Bike, it was almost guaranteed a spot on this page. | |
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Novas Aventuras De Megaman, thanks in no small part to having a Genre Shift almost every issue, being Darker and Edgier, Bloodier and Gorier and Hotter and Sexier than most versions of the Mega Man (Classic) franchise. | |
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Don't Hug Me I'm Scared is a creepy but deceptively cute series of videos starring puppets who encounter Faux Affably Evil talking food, animals, and objects. There's also a lot of gorn. | |
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Fight! Kikkoman is a Product as Superhero Parody Commercial featuring a fundoshi-wearing, comically-buff man with a packet of soy sauce for a head who fights off "foreign sauces" in a Kamen Rider parody. And it's based on an in-joke from the Japanese web forum 2channel. | |
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RoboGeisha. We dare you to watch the trailer without bursting out laughing or dropping your jaw in sheer WTF. Or both. | |
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Mountain Time is about as WHAT as it gets, what with its constantly-derailing story lines, characters that range from astronauts to neurotic hamsters to Jewish garden hoses, and settings that are often nonsensical (such as clouds that turn into hams). | |
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