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The outrageous character who undermines all of a [[sitcom]]'s attempts at verisimilitude (such as they are).
 
Often, the outrageous character(s) clearly has a key to the residence of the more central characters of the show, since they nearly always show up unannounced and never knock or ring the door bell (see [[Drop in-In Character]], [[Your Door Was Open]] and [[Inadvertent Entrance Cue]]).
 
The [['''Wacky Guy]]''' may also be a [[Weirdness Magnet]], his own strangeness an attractor for other weirdness without being directly responsible for it.
 
Contrast [[Deadpan Snarker]], although they can be combined. Compare [[Fun Personified]], [[Cloudcuckoolander]], [[The Ditz]]. May be behind the [[Zany Scheme]].
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* Harry, ''[[3rd Rock from the Sun]]''.
* Jack, ''[[Will and Grace]]''.
* [[ExtravertedExtroverted Nerd|Steve Urkel]], ''[[Family Matters]]''.
* Kimmy Gibbler, ''[[Full House]]''.
* Barney Stinson from ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'', with a heaping help of [[Jerkass]], and a handful of [[Deadpan Snarker]].
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