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'''Drusilla:''' ''I'' can see them, but I've given them all the same name, and there's ''terrible'' confusion. }}
* Zora from ''[[Sonny With a Chance]]''. In the pilot episode, she actually thought ''Sonny's'' presence meant she wasn't the weird one anymore. It didn't work out that way.
* The Doctor of ''[[
** The [[Big Finish Doctor Who|Big Finish audio drama]] ''Caerdroia'' has the Eighth Doctor develop a literal split personality, and his Cloud Cuckoolander side (substantial enough to begin with) gets its own body. The most normal personality says he "doesn't even seem to be living in the real world", and therefore attempts to deny usually being the same person as he is.
** And in the [[Eighth Doctor Adventures]] books, it seems that the Doctor's brain has been so thoroughly rattled by the fact he [[Where I Was Born and Razed|destroyed Gallifrey]] (for the first time) that he can't "distinguish between the fact and fiction of a moving image". This gave him the idea, for a time, that [[Superman]]'s [[Clark Kenting|idea of]] [[Paper-Thin Disguise|a disguise]] and [[Underwear of Power|how to wear underpants]] was a ''good'' idea. So, yes, he wore his underpants outside of his trousers, apparently somewhat more than once.
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** His was-to-be-girlfriend Audrey is this, too. She is an unusual example, being sultry, attractive and quirky at the same time.
* The Mayor in ''[[Spin City]]'' comes through in the occasional crisis and was much more normal in Season 1, but he's clearly not very bright or rational much of the time
* Codie on ''[[Step By Step]]'' is highly eccentric and lives in a van. By many accounts he's dumb, but he also happened to outscore Dana on the [[
* The title character of ''[[Merlin (TV)|Merlin]]'' probably comes across this way to the other characters at times (the scene where he tells Gwen he's checking her house for giant rats, stealing Arthur's food 'to keep him in shape', accusing apparently innocent people of being trolls and demons), but his actions all make perfect sense to the audience.
** The fact that he often turns out to be ''right'' probably keeps him from being written off as a total lunatic, though his bizarre behavior does seem to keep people from treating his claims seriously, at least initially.
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* Abby Sciuto from [[NCIS]]. The resident [[Lab Rat]] and [[Perky Goth]], she often befuddles and confounds her coworkers with [[Non Sequitur|Non Sequiturs]], tales of various [[Noodle Incident|Noodle Incidents]] and tangential directions she takes from normal conversation topics.
* Parker of ''[[Radio Free Roscoe]]'' goes off on bizarre tangents, frequently pulls nonsense quotes from her grandmother out of the air, and generally speaking, is really, ''really'' weird.
* Another example of [[Joss Whedon]] taking a sane, functional member of society and [[Break the Cutie|making them crack]]: ''[[Dollhouse]]'' has {{spoiler|Topher}} in the Epitaphs. He sometimes can't even follow his own thought processes. This exchange between Adelle and Zone sums it up ([[
{{quote| '''Zone:''' Yeah? {{spoiler|[Topher}}] also thinks he's a little teapot short and stout.<br />
'''Adelle:''' {{spoiler|Topher Brinks}} is a genius! And you will keep a civil tongue in this house or we'll put your tongue in a stew. }}
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