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* Jordan from ''[[Real Genius]]'' is a [[Motor Mouth|hyperactive]] [[The Insomniac|insomniac]] who in her second scene bursts in on Mitch in the bathroom to give him a sweater she made for him overnight, oblivious to why he might be made nervous by this. She also mentions that her former roommate went crazy and had to transfer schools, although she doesn't know if that had anything to do with her. As she [[Character Development|develops]] into Mitch's [[Love Interest]] later in the film, her personality gradually becomes less hyper.

* Gracie Allen's [[The Ditz|ditz]] persona frequently slipped into this type. Sample dialogue from ''College Swing:''

'''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!]]'':

'''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"]].

* 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:

'''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]].}}

** 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.

* [[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.

* 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"]].

* 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)...

'''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.<br />

'''Alex:''' Oh. So, do you have any... LIVE people?<br />

'''Julien:''' Uh, no. Only dead ones. }}

:: But he also has a worrying tendency towards conversations with himself...

:: At one point in [[Madagascar]] 2 he argues with himself to explain the concept of sacrifice to the other animals...

'''(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.

* 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):

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]]''.

'''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:

'''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:

'''Jay''': I don't have any kids! And someday I'm gonna die... }}

* U.S. Bill in ''[[The Specials]]''.

'''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.

* Fred Kwan (Tony Shalhoub's character) in ''[[Galaxy Quest]]'', with such lines as "That was a hell of a thing" after traveling through hyperspace for the first time, or, after sucking bad guys out through the airlock, "Sorry, I was - door was a little sticky. Did you see that? I'll get one of my boys up here with a can of WD-40."

* ''[[Rookie of the Year]]'' has Phil Brickman, the pitching coach:

** Also

** And

** Also Bob Carson, Owner of the Cubs

'''Larry Fisher:''' [Whispers to assistant] That man is turning into a cracker jack }}

* Agnes in ''[[Despicable Me]].'' ADORABLE though. She's also '''four'''.

* 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]]'' (played by [[Johnny Depp]]), who lives in a wonderful romantic world inside his own head... or is it?