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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* This is practically the calling card of Hiroyuki Imaishi (''[[Dead Leaves]]'', ''[[Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt|Panty and Stocking With Garterbelt]]'')
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* [[Excel Saga (manga)|Excel Saga]] and [[Puni Puni Poemi]]. Come to think of it, [[Shinichi Watanabe]]'s hair probably counts too, in some way.
* [[Papuwa]]
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* [[Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!]] is made entirely of this trope.
* [[This Is Jinsy]] seems to be another one.
* ''[[Danger 5]]'' has a bit of this. For one thing, the team, upon returning to base, receive a dressing-down from their boss, who happens to have an eagle's head. They later get attacked by Nazi apes, and stumble across a rock band in tropical Antarctica composed of hipster Neanderthals.
* ''[[The Mighty Boosh]]'', of course. [[Noel Fielding]] gave the probably most accurate definition of the series: "If Dali made a show, hopefully it would look like this."
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** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDn2Xp5ctQM Marshmallow People] is about [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|two marshmallow people]]. As if that wasn't weird enough, they ride on a flying otter to go visit triangle man.
*** Marshmallow People 2 is even weirder: it ends with {{spoiler|Triangle Man dying and turning into a tree and both marshmallow people transforming into inaminate marshmallows. And so [[And Zoidberg|Triangle Girl]] wins!}}
* The [[Let's Play|Let's Player]] [[Raocow]] lives for this trope (and [[Talkative Loon]]). When not being overly frustrated by the [[Nintendo Hard|difficult]] [[Platform Hell|levels]] that he plays, his commentary is so [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made on Drugs?|bizarre]] that it becomes hilarious.
** Taken to another level by the [[Stupid Statement Dance Mix|remixes]] people have made of his commentary. [[Raocow]] is surreal; the remixes are so insane they can fully replace hallucinogens.
* [[Jittery Dragon]]'s videos all fall into this, the exact opposite of [[The Land Before Time]] sequels it mocks. {{spoiler|The [[Dinosaur Train]] parody verges on [[Surreal Horror]] as well.}}
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* ''[http://kansattica.livejournal.com Awesome in Kansattica]'' is like this sometimes.
* ''[http://www.somethingawful.com/series/57.php Lauren's Cartoons]'' fall very nicely into this category; it helps that the writer (and narrator) is ''[[Better Than It Sounds|five]]''.
* [[Sad Panda Q and A]], although anything he does tends to be as strange as a [[TV Tropes]] entry on [[Sad Panda Q and A]].
* The fake [["Previously On..."]] segments on ''[[Atop the Fourth Wall]]'' take this form.
* The [[Asdfmovie|ASDF Movies]] by [http://www.youtube.com/user/TomSka TomSka] combine this trope with [[Rapid-Fire Comedy]]. There're currently five "movies" out.
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* ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force]]'' by its very nature (a rambling, nonsensically-titled show in which the three main characters are animated fast-food items) is built on this trope. Specific examples include the deranged Dr. Weird and his "experiments" that include demanding that his assistant chop off his head so hard that the [[High-Pressure Blood]] propels his body to Phoenix, and one episode which featured bacteria that infect Master Shake for the purpose of performing bad theater productions in his brain.
** Most [[Adult Swim]] original programs exhibit this in varying degrees, from "wacky" to "[[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made on Drugs?]]".
** The spiritual father of these shows, ''[[Space Ghost Coast to Coast]]'' started out as campy parody but especially in the latter half of the series tilted heavily into this camp. Often, Space Ghost seems barely interested in doing his job as a talk show host and if it makes him look bad in the process, Zorak and Moltar are there to help him.
* ''[[Adventure Time]]'', a show about a thirteen year old boy and his best friend who is also a dog with elasticity powers fighting multiple threats to their kingdom, comprised almost entirely of talking candy, at the behest of a princess made of bubblegum, makes a living off of this kind of humor.
* [[Reality Warper|God of Chaos]] Discord, from [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]] of all things, thrives off this trope whenever he's not falling into [[Surreal Horror]]. Notable moment: he conjures a glass out of thin air, summons a cotton candy cloud raining chocolate milk, and the glass fills... from top to bottom. Then he drinks the glass. Without the milk. He tosses the chocolate milk behind him, and [[Stuff Blowing Up|it explodes for no fathomable reason]]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjD4umwKSLI See for yourself.]
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