Cloudcuckoolander/Music

Fan Works
MOD: These need to be moved to Cloudcuckoolander/Fan Works if they aren't there already. "Marik: By the way, Bakura, your costume could use some work. Bakura: ... what? Marik: I mean, I don't like to criticize, but it looks like your mother made that for you! Bakura: Marik, this isn't a costume. It's my clothes. Marik: Well, you could have done a better job is all I'm saying! Bakura: A better job of WHAT?"
 * The main character from Whispers in the Dark, a Percy Jackson and The Olympians fanfiction about the daughter of Thalia and Luke.
 * Author Avatar Art of the Mass Effect self-insert Mass Vexations
 * Kyouko in You Got Haruhi Rolled.
 * Mattie in Part Right, Half Wrong, a Third Crazy is a beautiful combination of Cloudcuckoolander and Deadpan Snarker. Where would we be without his arguments with his bedside lamp, among other things?
 * Tristan from Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series is a combination of a Cloudcuckoolander and a ditz. Almost every line that he gives is an illogical non-sequitur, such as his randomly given cry of "Burn the Witch!" and "Take off your clothes!"
 * The sad thing is, these two examples are him being coherent in the context of the scene.
 * More extreme examples of his CloudCuckoolandiness include "I like pudding!" and "I farted, it's funny!"
 * Marik is this and Poke the Poodle. His evil plans include pushing Yugi off a boat so that his hair will get wet and it'll take hours to dry, and borrowing Yugi's puzzle and not giving it back to him...for at least another 2 months. He also invited Dan Green to the Evil Council because he played a villain in one of the Pokemon movies, and seems to believe that there is a difference between killing someone and just 'destroying them a little'. And then there's the standard weirdness.

"Jamma-P: HEY, I DIDN'T WRITE THIS SCRIPT SO DON'T COMPLAIN TO ME!!!!! Yuri: Wow, someone needs a nap. Momoko: Is it me? Yuri: No. No, it's not Momoko."
 * Momoko from Wedding Peach Abridged:

"Vegeta: Nappa! No! It's a trick! Nappa: But Vegeta! Trix are for kids..."
 * Nappa of Dragonball Z Abridged:

"Farfalla's note before one Fan Fic Header: I sometimes refer to slashy bits in canon as 'sardines', because they're thrown like little rewarding treats to us little loyal dolphin-like fans... but that has nothing to do with this story."
 * There's also Super Kami Guru.
 * Major Raikov in the Metal Gear Solid fanfic Stray is "always the type who took sanity more as a suggestion," to the extent that Ocelot considers Raikov's Psycho Electro boyfriend to be the stabilizing influence in the relationship.
 * Raocow takes on a persona like this in his Let's Play entries. See: his Kamek's Revenge Let's Play, where he declares a fear of circles and refers to a flower that spits items when fed an egg or enemy to be "an altar to our dark flesh god".
 * He has weird names for the characters of Super Mario World. He calls Yoshi "stupid horse" even though he is a dinosaur. He calls the Charging Chuck "Football Charlie" because they are in football player uniforms.
 * To quote Raocow himself: "I'M SO GODDAMN WACKY"
 * Demykins from the Kingdom Hearts fanfic Those Lacking Spines behaves in this manner, with a multitude of his lines as shoutouts to other media; when he doesn't quote from various works, he ignores the situation altogether.
 * Which is also the common fanfiction depiction of regular old Demyx, because 90% of the people who write fanfiction have absolutely no concept of what makes Demyx Demyx. Or any other character, themselves.
 * Farfalla The Butterfly Kitten, a prolific Fan-Fic author and creator of the All-Ages Kirk/Spock Archive, is clearly one of these. Just look at her name. Also, only a Cloudcuckoolander could write This. Or This.


 * DRACO MALFOY in A Very Potter Musical.
 * Snape is an even bigger example, especially in the Potion Master's Corner.
 * Marty McSuperfly in Captain Garlic's Let's Play of Icewind Dale 2. Watch out for him when he gets near the wisdom-enhancing items, or goes by the mushroom fields in the Underdark.
 * The fan-made role-play Deadly Mistakes has Mathew. Given that he's also a Talkative Loon, he provides a lot of comedy.

Music
""Tonight I bought a suitcase for my candy, I drank with Ernest Hemingway, I watched a crazy man dance alone on water under a single star, a very talented musician graciously played the faucet for me...and I played along. I sang to a tuna in the brine. And finally, I stole a pink porcelain icicle and gave it to a superhero. Hmmmm. So sleepy now....Ps. I know EXACTLY why a raven is like a writing desk!""
 * Frank Zappa
 * Buckethead
 * Regina Spektor
 * Lady Gaga
 * Florence Welch of Florence + the Machine
 * Kate Bush
 * Tori Amos
 * Bjork
 * John Lennon
 * Ke$ha
 * Wesley Willis
 * Morten Harket
 * Cerys Matthews
 * Cyndi Lauper. Much of the appeal of watching the current season of Celebrity Apprentice is in watching her exist on a different plane of existence than every other competitor.
 * Syd Barrett
 * Yuki Kajiura
 * "Weird Al" Yankovic
 * Singer/songwriter Anna Nalick- probably because she identifies so strongly with Alice in Wonderland and often admits that she IS Alice and lives in her own world. This Facebook status will prove the point:

""I have millions of little ways to get over blocks because for me-- because I don't do it for a living-- it's important I enjoy it. But every artist that I've ever talked to gets a moment in a painting of what the fuck am I doing? What the hell is this? You get that scary feeling I used to get at school just doing anything virtually: you suddenly think, Oh my god! This could go horribly wrong at any second-- you get actually scared. So I developed tricks. In my mind I have a friend who is Luigi. Luigi owns a restaurant and he's got an alcove rather like this, and he always needs a painting for it. So whatever I'm doing, if ever I get that terrifying moment I say it's for Luigi's alcove, Luigi will like this. And he just lets me off-- it frees my head for two seconds and then I'm over the hurdle and I can carry on. So Luigi's alcove is one of my huge saviours. And then I like blending paint, so I have an alter ego called Mr. Blendini. He often paints for Luigi.""
 * Nicki Minaj
 * Andrew W. K.
 * Believe it or not, Justin Bieber revealed himself to be this on Ellen: I blow dry my hair like whoosh! whooosh!
 * Michael Jackson
 * Peter Gabriel once crossdressed as a fox in a long red dress and it was awesome.
 * David Byrne
 * Brian Wilson
 * Adam Young. Listen to his lyrics.
 * No, not that one, although he counts too, to an extent.
 * Matt Bellamy. Firstly, it seems to be In the Blood, since he grew up in a superstitious family who made frequent use of an Ouija board. He's obsessed with conspiracy theories. He's claimed to believe that humans evolved from spiders that float around in space, and he's also said that he wishes the gravity on Earth was lighter so that spiders would die. He likes dressing up in costumes, drawing veins on his arms, and trees. Unsurprisingly, he's used shrooms in the past.
 * Japanese rocker Gackt is well-known for his odd behavior, particularly in interviews: Instead of answering questions in a straight-forward manner, he instead says things that are deliberately absurd, nonsensical, or lewd, but always with a straight face, making it difficult to tell if he is joking or being serious.
 * Those infamous Utaban interviews ("The Pork Belly blocks...get them for me. They are back there. I know they are." / "Well I'm [referring to his penis] a Magnum." / "I haven't felt like being naked much lately.")
 * One of his most well-known jokes has led some fans to think that he seriously believes he's a 496 year old vampire. Even after he revealed his true age, there were still fans who still believed the vampire shtick.
 * But for most fans, it's all part of his charm.
 * Peter Wolf of The J. Geils Band, if getting kicked out by one-time roommate David Lynch for being too weird is anything to go by.
 * Michael Stipe
 * Nick Carter embodies this trope, especially as of late. Check out his Twitter.
 * Rudy "?" Martinez of ? and the Mysterians says that he has travelled time and seen dinosaurs.
 * Jazz bandleader Sun Ra kept his past shrouded in mystery, claimed to be from outer space, and created a Myth Arc surrounding this.
 * Tommy Scott, formerly of Space. He's heavily inspired by films - which he wanted his songs to sound like - and cartoons, rather than music, and has pretended to be various personalities when singing, such as Speedy Gonzales and Marlene Dietrich. And then there's the 'Suburban Rock 'n' Roll' video, where he's dressed up as a lion. Yeah.
 * Captain Beefheart. Captain Beefheart for the win. He seems to have lived on a plane so different from the rest of us, it's a wonder that he was able to survive as long as he did.
 * Paul McCartney. In addition to coming up with some truly baffling lyrics on occasion, he's prone to rambling and non sequitur in interviews, notwithstanding his reputation as a savvy PR man. For instance, Paul on painting:

""There's a glass in the back of my head. I'm a very sick person. I can't see too well on Thursdays. And another thing, my toenails don't fit.""
 * The Rev.
 * Bob Dylan. Along with drawing moustaches on himself, carrying huge lightbulbs and wooden puppets, he was known for giving hilariously nonsensical interviews to reporters in the mid 60s, with gems such as:

""I AM STILL THE MOST SWAGGED OUT UNICORN IN THE FUCKING EXISTENCE OF FUCKING UNICORNS NIGGA. FUCK PEGASUS, HE'S A FUCKING FAGGOT. OFUGKTA""
 * FULL (Furukawa Tomo) of Guniw Tools fame, judging by any of his lyrics, interviews and art.
 * Tyler, The Creator, of hip-hop collective OFWGKTA, though it's unclear how much of it is an act. He's referred to himself as a unicorn, a table, and a purse.


 * Any of The Protomen to one degree or another, between the rambling non-sequiturs that make up their "press releases", the insistence on codenames and general mystery about the band itself, half the things they've ever said (including the claim that their bus was destroyed by a vengeance-crazed rodent) and it takes a certain type of person to make a Rock Opera about Mega Man in the first place. The craziness is a big part of their appeal, though.
 * Keith Moon
 * Ian Anderson, on stage at least.
 * Damo Suzuki of Can. Just read the guy's interviews. His predecessor, Malcolm Mooney, also qualifies.

Puppet Shows

 * Most of the Muppet characters on Sesame Street would qualify. Yes, even Straight Man Bert, who has an unusual obsession with bottle caps and paper clips. Being a Nerd doesn't mean you're sane.
 * Sometime around 1988-92 was Ruby, a furry yellow monster who would often do things like wear a blindfold to see what it would be like to be blind or pretending she's a kangaroo after having her hair done up in a ponytail. She really makes Big Bird look sane.
 * Most of The Muppet Show cast would qualify, but Gonzo is the Poster Boy for this trope. Very much so. The word "Muppet", as used in Ireland, means what "Cloudcuckoolander" does here. It can be used as an insult, or a term of endearment, or both at once.
 * The entire cast of the highly surreal Norwegian puppet show Reparatørene Kommer (The Repairmen are Coming), later renamed Pompel og Pilt after the two main characters. If Cloudcuckooland is an actual land, this show takes place in it. Pompel og Pilt is Norwegian television's most beloved Nightmare Fuel.

Toys

 * In Bionicle Vezon was Flanderized into a Cloudcuckoolander.