Mind Screw/Western Animation: Difference between revisions

** The fact that the creator Peter Chung seems to actually know what's going on, but deliberately stops himself when he starts explaining it is either very annoying or very liberating depending on how you look at it.

** None of this is helped by the fact that each episode is a self-contained story that is clearly already in progress, with no recap and zero exposition. That or a Yungian nightmare, take your pick, either one is both valid and complete bullshit.

Mandy: "Billy, if you had been [[Insane Troll Logic|paying attention the whole time you would have figured out he was obviously an Earthworm]]." }}

* In ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'', the first episode where you see Pearl does not seem weird... [[Fridge Logic]] ensues, as you ask yourself, "How the heck can a crab father a whale?!"

** It should be noted, though, that the sort of question Glen Murakami wasn't keen on answering were things about the characters' non-suited lives, and the "how did villain X get out of the [[Cardboard Prison]] last time?" sort of things that he considered unimportant, a distraction from the main plot. This was the only episode in which ''nothing'' was made sense of. (Well, Beast Boy does move on after the Terra incident - which we'd thought him over three seasons ago. The rest is pure randomness.)

* ''[[Xavier: Renegade Angel]]'' is basically one massive, nonsensical mind screw after another, until the whole thing resembles a 3D-animated acid trip [[Gone Horribly Wrong]].

** I just thought it was a virtual reality.

'''Homer:''' ...I don't know. }}

* The ''[[Futurama]]'' episode "The Sting", in which Leela's perception of reality becomes more and more deranged, with events that turn out to be dreams, a hallucination of a morbidly cheerful musical number, a ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey]]'' parody, and descent into obsessive insanity. It turns out {{spoiler|everything in the episode since the bee attack was her nightmare.}}

* At the end of the ''[[Super Mario World (animation)|Super Mario World]]'' episode "The Yoshi Shuffle", Luigi's brain is apparently melted (giving rise to the [[Fan Nickname]] "Retard Luigi") following this exchange:

'''Mario:''' Whaddaya mean, ''catch'' the ball? [[Baleful Polymorph|You]] ''[[Baleful Polymorph|were]]'' [[Baleful Polymorph|the ball!]] }}

* ''[[The Matrix|The Animatrix]]'' is an animated series inspired by ''[[The Matrix]]'', but "half of it couldn't even be understood unless you were crazy or an art major."

* Parodied in ''[[Family Guy]]'' in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B64mI-FfT7w&feature=related "Oceans Three and a half]

'''Stewie:''' Shut up. }}

* The Canadian short ''[http://www.nfb.ca/film/La_Salla La Salla]''. 15 seconds in, the main character is shooting replica cows at paintings for no obvious reason.

* Pretty much all of ''[[Adventure Time]]''. Good luck trying to understand any of it!

* ''[[Regular Show]]'', which usually starts out with a fairly simple, straightforward, and every-day plot (learning to play guitar, getting tickets to a concert, throwing a friend a surprise birthday party, etc), but by the last few minutes of the episode, their totally normal actions will usually have [[Divide by Zero|broken reality]], woke up some kind of [[Eldritch Abomination]], traveled through time, or they've ended up getting attacked by something. Usually something really messed up. And the really screwy thing is that after the cosmic horror part is solved, it's usually only an afterthought, at which point the characters focus on the normal subplot that got them into it.

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