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* Jordan from ''[[
* Gracie Allen's [[The Ditz|ditz]] persona frequently slipped into this type. Sample dialogue from ''College Swing:''
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'''Gracie:''' ''(sighs rapturously)'' Clams.
'''Hubert:''' Aren't they beautiful? I hope I don't make you think of clams.
'''Gracie:''' Oh no, no. I was just thinking, if we were clams, we'd never have to take our shoes off. Wouldn't that be wonderful? }}
* Johnny from ''[[Airplane!]]'':
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'''Rex Kramer:''' Passengers certain to die!
'''Steve McCroskey:''' Airline negligent.
'''Johnny:''' There's a sale at Penney's! }}
:: Just [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080339/quotes see for yourself]. And ''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083530/quotes The Sequel]''. He's credited as [[You Look Familiar|"Jacobs"]].
* [[Robin Williams|Leslie Zevo]] in ''[[Toys (
* Henry Bullock from ''[[Splitting Heirs]]''. It's proven by his first scene, where he shows up on roller-skates.
* Brick from ''[[Anchorman]]'' veers between this and [[The Ditz]].
* Will Proudfoot from ''[[Son of Rambow]]'' is a sweet, innocent and idealistic dreamer whose dazzling and vibrant worlds of adventure are poured like rivers of color onto the pages of an old Bible in pencil and pastel. Sadly, this is also the only healthy emotional outlet he has from losing his father and being raised in an oppressively religious community.
* [[Peter Lorre]]'s character in ''Crack-Up'', Colonel Gimpy, is a well-loved eccentric who becomes the "mascot" of an airfield he wanders around in, and later sneaks aboard the protagonists' airplane insisting he has a meeting with a European monarch. He's also given to quoting [[Lord Byron|Byron]] and having exchanges like the following:
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'''Ace Martin:''' Wise as an owl.
'''Col. Gimpy:''' An owl! You know, an owl in daytime, she can't see -- like this [blinks rapidly] -- but in nighttime, she can. [Pause] Goodbye... }}
:: Since it's Peter Lorre, it turns out that {{spoiler|it's all a ruse to [[Obfuscating Stupidity|cover his true nature as a cold-blooded foreign agent]].}}
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* The film adaptations, more than the book-versions, of the ''Harry Potter'' series, show Bellatrix Lestrange as one of the few malevolent versions of this trope.
** Luna Lovegood is a more benign example.
* Jim Carrey's portrayal of ''[[The Mask (
** In the original Mask comic, the mask actually warped the mind of the wearer to the point where all their actions lead to gruesome, horrible, and sometimes hilarious murders. Stanly Ipkiss kills a lot of people. Remember the Tommy Gun? This time, the thugs are blown to bits.
* [[The Room|Tommy Wiseau]] is this both in film and in real life.
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** Lucas, though, doesn't have even drugs for an excuse.
** AJ super glues coins to the floor and not one of his friends gives any indication that this is in anyway unusual for him.
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* [[Lilo and Stitch|Lilo]]. She feeds a fish peanut butter sandwiches because she believes that it controls the weather, and makes voodoo dolls of her so-called "friends" out of spoons.
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* A lot of the characters in Christopher Guest's [[Mockumentary]] comedies would fit this trope. To take but one example, Fred Willard's dog-show announcer in ''[[Best in Show]]'' goes from wondering aloud why one entrant isn't dressed up in a Sherlock Holmes-style deerstalker hat and pipe to asking which dog would make a good wide receiver on a football team. He later asks his on-air partner, apropos of nothing at all, to guess how much he can bench-press.
** In fact, Fred Willard's primary role in Guest's ensembles is to be the most obvious [[Cloudcuckoolander]] in the cast; which is truly a feat, considering that nearly all of Guest's main characters qualify as Cloudcuckoolanders to varying degrees. According various people who have worked with him, he really likes to play this trope [[Truth in Television|in real life]] as well. Christopher Guest described him on the Charlie Rose show as a man who "got into character twenty-five years ago, and has never gotten out"]].
* Thick Kevin from ''[[The Boat That Rocked]]'' is this to a tee, epitomized when he comes to a Christmas party dressed as the Easter Bunny. Bob from the same movie is a slightly less flamboyant version, as he's mostly just a weird guy who's off in his own world.
* Katie, the yellow baby yak from ''[[Horton Hears a Who!]]'', in spite of having only one line: "In my world everyone is a pony that eats rainbows and poops butterflies." The rest of the time she'll inexplicably: make a ''gonk'' face like she's choking, sit with her back to Horton (he's a kind of [[The Jungle Book (Disney film)|Baloo the Bear]] "teacher" in this adaptation), and finally {{spoiler|float off into space... in spite of being a hoofed mammal with no wings}}. Fittingly, while the other young animals have parents Katie appears to be completely unique.
* Frank, the paranoid lizard from ''[[The Rescuers Down Under]]'' is clearly off his rocker.
* All of the lemurs in ''[[Madagascar]]'' seem crazy to some degree, but King Julien XIII is definitely the worst. He clearly comprehends all that goes on around him (which may be why he's King)...
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'''Julien:''' They're up there. ''[points to some human skeletons hanging from parachutes snagged on the branches of a large tree]'' Don't you love the people? Not a very lively bunch though.
'''Alex:''' Oh. So, do you have any... LIVE people?
'''Julien:''' Uh, no. Only dead ones. }}
:: But he also has a worrying tendency towards conversations with himself...
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:: At one point in [[Madagascar]] 2 he argues with himself to explain the concept of sacrifice to the other animals...
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'''(as god)''' Mmm very nice, thank you for that sacrifice...
'''(as Julien)''' Please have another sacrifice!
'''(as god)''' No No I've had enough for today...
'''(as Julien)''' Look I will be very insulted if you don't have another sacrifice!
'''(as god)''' I DONT WANT ANOTHER SACRIFICE OK?!
'''(as Julien)''' Look at you, you look skinny!
'''(as god)''' No, I said I've had enough, now clear off! }}
:: In the 1st movie he uses a skeletal hand as a scepter. In the 2nd movie he goes through four different crowns.
* Allen from ''[[The Hangover]]'' does not seem to operate on the same wavelength as anyone else; it's heavily implied he's seriously mentally ill, though he appears able to function to a degree. [[Genius Ditz|He is, however, a genius at card-counting.]]
* Stéphane from ''[[
* Belle from the Disney version of ''[[Beauty and
** The real [[Cloudcuckoolander]] of the [[Disney Princess|Disney Princesses]] is probably [[The Little Mermaid
* Every ''[[Ice Age]]'' film has one of these.
** 1st has the Dodos, a species that plans to survive the Ice Age which even they themselves say will last for billions of years, with a stockpile of 3 watermelons. Possibly [[Fridge Brilliance]] though, because historically they survived much longer than mammoths and sabre-tooth tigers.
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** 3rd has Buck, the one-eyed weasel who most likely lost part of his brain when he lost his eye.
* In ''[[Scrooged]]'', the Ghost of Christmas Present fits this pretty well if not a prefect fit. Though she also has tendencies of the [[Jerk Sue]] minus the feminism.
* Raven in ''[[Cecil B. Demented]]'' (she's always [[Perky Goth|perky]] no matter what she says):
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Satan says you need more color! }}
* Jay from the [[View Askewniverse]] lapses into this sometimes. Example: His Planet of the Apes fantasy in [[Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back]].
** "[[Clerks II|There he goes. Homeboy fucked a Martian once.]]"
* Brian in ''[[Half Baked]]''.
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'''Thurgood''': You have smoked yourself retarded. }}
* Ed and Rafiki from ''[[The Lion King]]''.
* In ''[[The Love Guru]]'', the sports commentator played by Stephen Colbert, whether o not he's on drugs at the moment, is a definite Cloudcuckoolander. On drugs:
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'''Jay''': I like the Christmas babies, Trent! And I like the way my skin feels when I wearing my rainbow jacket! [starts making robot noises] }}
** ...and then off the drugs:
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'''Trent''': I know you're under pressure.
'''Jay''': The kids in school...
'''Trent''': ...you don't have any kids.
'''Jay''': I don't have any kids! And someday I'm gonna die... }}
* U.S. Bill in ''[[The Specials]]''.
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'''Nightbird''': That's okay.
'''U.S. Bill''': It's hot. Don't press your face against it for too long or you get red streaks on you for, like, a month. }}
* Rubin Farr from ''Rubin And Ed'' (played by Crispin Glover, appropriately enough): Among many other instances, he dances around his cluttered bedroom to classical music while squeaking a cat toy, wears a hubcap on his head like a sunbonnet at one point, and interrupts a business seminar to announce "I am the king of the echo people" (it ''almost'' makes sense in context, but only because of a hallucination sequence from earlier in the film). He has the occasional surprising moments of [[Deadpan Snarker|deadpan snark]] though, and sort of gives Ed a [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]] at one point.
* Zuzu Petals from ''[[The Adventures of Ford Fairlane]]''.
* Grandma Georgina in the most recent ''[[Charlie and
** Willy Wonka in any version of this story, whether it's ''Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory'' or ''Charlie and the Chocolate Factory''.
* Alice from the 2010 ''[[Alice in Wonderland (
* [[Pirates of the Caribbean|Jack Sparrow]] seems to be this, though he's actually pretty good at thinking up [[Indy Ploy|Indy Ploys]].
** [[Fridge Logic|Isn't the defining characteritic of an]] [[Indy Ploy]] [[Fridge Logic|precisely that you don't think?]]
* Bettie Heslop in ''[[
* In ''[[Down Periscope]]'', Nitro definitely qualifies, from having "absorbed a lot of voltage" as an electrician/radio operator during his time in the Navy. E.T. "Sonar" Lovicelli is one of these as well, to a lesser degree.
* Poppy from ''[[
* Fred Kwan (Tony Shalhoub's character) in ''[[
* ''[[Rookie of the Year]]'' has Phil Brickman, the pitching coach:
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** Also Bob Carson, Owner of the Cubs
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'''Bob Carson:''' Oh Boy, Fish, look a decoder ring... I got it out of the Cracker Jack Box... look it fits on your finger.
'''Larry Fisher:''' Yeah, Yeah that's great Uncle Bob.
'''Larry Fisher:''' [Whispers to assistant] That man is turning into a cracker jack }}
* Agnes in ''[[Despicable Me]].'' ADORABLE though. She's also '''four'''.
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'''Edith:''' But scary.
'''Agnes:''' -smiles- Like Santa.
* Crispina from ''[[The Magdalene Sisters]]'', {{spoiler|until she completely loses her mind}}. }}
* For a charming/ sexy example, there's the titular character in ''[[Don Juan Demarco
* Everyone in ''[[Dracula: Dead and Loving It]]'' has this to a certain extent, but Renfield is the most obvious one.
* The ''[[Mystery Team]]'' has shades of this.
* Marty, in ''Cabin in the Woods'', begins the movie as a typical stoner whose statements and actions while high are Cloudcuckoolandic, but by the end of the movie, he is the only one who sees things clearly.
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