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* In ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'', this is how Elliot and Ellen's parents react to all the [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-03-10 weirdness] happening [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-03-12 around them]. They get only a few [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-12-10 practical] concerns.
* ''[[Copper]]'' has a very large tendency to tell all its stories like this, though mostly it seems to be an excuse to draw [[Scenery Porn|fantastic settings]].
* In ''[[Voodoo Walrus]]'' this is a common theme. Cars regularly enter a setting by [https://web.archive.org/web/20140524071312/http://voodoowalrus.com/?p=1729 falling right out of the sky], [https://web.archive.org/web/20140524090443/http://voodoowalrus.com/?p=699 explosions are often comprised of cats], and a talking cactus was once responsible for driving a Hummer/pirate ship hybrid vehicle.
** Said cactus also went by the name Captain Thud and was single-handedly responsible for blowing up the entirety of Wichita.
* ''[[The Snail Factory]]'' has an entire cast of bizarre creatures and even inanimate objects, but these are usually more or less treated as normal employees.
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== Western Animation ==
* In ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' probably owes a lot of its popularity to emulating the Mundane Fantastic into [[Sitcom]] format. The actual level of weirdness and whether or not it effects the plot changes [[Depending on the Writer]].
* Same goes for ''[[Family Guy]]''. However, some of the stuff is more commonly an [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]: no one sees anything too weird in the personification of Death, talking dogs, or evil babies. [[Seth MacFarlane]]'s other [[Animated Show]]s, ''[[American Dad]]'' and ''[[The Cleveland Show]]'', also fall under this trope.
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