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* In ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'', the E. Henry Thripshaw's Disease sketch. "And the thing about saying the wrong word is, A, I don't notice it, and B, sometimes orange water given bucket of plaster."

* Drusilla (and, briefly, Spike) on ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''. Also the ward full of Glory's "brain-suck" victims in the Sunnydale hospital, {{spoiler|and Tara, who got brain-sucked late in the season and was later restored}}. All three examples also had some degree of prophetic or otherworldly knowledge.

** Also, the rest of the universe considers Crichton to be one as well, and upon learning that there is an entire planet where he's considered to be normal ("Erp"), Moya's crew resolves to avoid it like the plague.

* In the episode "Signals and Codes" of ''[[Burn Notice]]'', Michael is approached by a schizophrenic man named Spencer who, despite being a pattern-seeing computer genius also believes that Michael is a member of a secret group of guardian aliens fighting against the forces of darkness. At the end of the episode {{spoiler|he's on medication and Sam's gotten him a job with a cryptographer friend of his, so the babbling is a bit lessened}}

** Sometimes they're prophetic: "Find the hand that lies in the shadow of the light. In the eye of the husband of the eye of the cow."

** Sometimes [[No Fourth Wall]]: "Throughout history the nexus between man and machine has spun some of the most dramatic, compelling and entertaining fiction."

'''Hugo''' ''(on first meeting them)'': I know who you are. You're President [[Ulysses S. Grant]] and the snowman. You've come because it's Arbor Day, and there aren't enough zippers to go around.

'''Myka''': Well, at least he's not evil or dead. }}

 

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