History Main / Cloudcuckooland

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[[caption-width-right:350:Quite literally, in this case.]]

* UsefulNotes/{{Russia}}, if Internet videos are to be believed. It may be a partial inspiration for fictional Eastern European Cloudcuckoolands. Russians are not only well aware of their status, but also openly ''proud'' of it to the point of considering this a part of their culture, with countless folk songs, urban legends and [[RussianHumour anecdotes]] addressing the [[CrazyAwesome crazy awesomeness]] of everyday life in Russia.

* This is how Sarasa Land is portrayed in [[http://brawlinthefamily.keenspot.com/2011/06/13/341-super-mario-land-is-weird this]] ''Webcomic/BrawlInTheFamily'' strip.

This is not the same thing as TheWonderland, where everything is strange too, but with a bigger emphasis on [[MindScrew fantastic surrealism]] instead of [[SurrealHumor comical surrealism]], with the inhabitants of The Wonderland not necessarily having to be insane or even funny. Furthermore, the Cloudcuckooland does not need to be bizarre itself, only the people that live in it.

This is not the same thing as TheWonderland, where everything is strange too, but with a bigger emphasis on [[MindScrew fantastic surrealism]] instead of [[SurrealHumor comical surrealism]], with the inhabitants of The Wonderland not necessarily having to be insane. Furthermore, the Cloudcuckooland does not need to be bizarre itself, only the people that live in it.

This is not the same thing as TheWonderland, where everything is strange too, but with a bigger emphasis on fantastic surrealism instead of comical ridiculousness, with the inhabitants of The Wonderland not necessarily having to be insane. Furthermore, the Cloudcuckooland does not need to be bizarre itself, only the people that live in it.

This is not the same thing as TheWonderland, where everything is strange too, but with a bigger emphasis on fantastic surrealism instead of comical ridiculousness, with the inhabitants of The Wonderland not necessarily having to be insane.

This is not the same thing as TheWonderland, where the place and the people are strange too, but with a bigger emphasis on fantastic surrealism instead of comical ridiculousness, with the inhabitants of The Wonderland not necessarily having to be insane.

This is not the same thing as TheWonderland, where the place and the people are strange too, but more because they are fantastically surreal instead of comically ridiculous, with the inhabitants not necessarily being insane. On the other hand, the Cloudcuckooland does not need to be wacky itself, only the people that live in it.

This is not the same thing as TheWonderland, where the place and the people are strange too, but more because they are fantastically surreal instead of comically ridiculous, with the inhabitants not necessarily being insane.

This is not the same thing as TheWonderland, where the place and the people are strange too, but more because they are surreal instead of ridiculous, with the inhabitants not necessarily being insane.

This is not the same thing as TheWonderland, where the place and the people are strange too, but more because they are surreal instead of ridiculous, with the people not necessarily being insane.

This is not the same thing as TheWonderland, where the place and the people are strange too, but more because they are surreal instead of ridiculous.

This is not the same thing as TheWonderland, which is strange too, but more because it is surreal instead of ridiculous. Its inhabitants are also not necessarily insane, they just follow a different set of rules that, while nonsensical to us, is still consistent to the world they live in. That said, an overlap can exist happen.

This is not the same thing as TheWonderland, where the place is also strange, but the people are not necessarily insane. It just follow a different set of rules that doesn't make any sense to us, but are still internally consistent.

This is not the same thing as TheWonderland, where the place and people are also strange, but not necessarily insane. They just follow a different set of rules that doesn't make any sense to us, but are still internally consistent. The Cloudcuckooland, meanwhile, follows no rules.

This is not the same thing as TheWonderland, where everything is also strange, but not necessarily insane.

See also HufflepuffHouse, where most of a story's "wacky" characters that are neither cool nor "DracoInLeatherPants" enough to become {{Ensemble Darkhorse}}s are usually lumped together and given a place to play.

Compare with {{Wonderland}}.

Compare HufflepuffHouse, where most of a story's "wacky" characters that are neither cool nor "DracoInLeatherPants" enough to become {{Ensemble Darkhorse}}s are usually lumped together and given a place to play.

* In ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', Canada is depicted as such. It's a world with only one road, square ''everything'', the people's heads flap like garbage can lids, their prime minister is a [[Film/TheWizardOfOz massive green hologram]] ([[spoiler:That's actually [[ItMakesSenseInContext Saddam Hussein]]]]), Nova Scotia is inhabited by "little mushroom people", Quebec (or French Canada as other Canadians call it), is inhabited by ''Creator/CirqueDuSoleil'' performers who are thought of as weird ''even by other Canadians'', so they also consider Quebec as Canada's Cloudcuckooland, and then there's a "giant" who routinely terrorizes them, a culture based around toilet humor and eating Kraft Dinner, a military armed with hockey sticks and chainsaws, and the [[UpToEleven most insane royal wedding ceremony ever]]. Needless to say it's so over the top that [[MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales these episodes are utterly beloved by Canadians]].

* Canada from ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''. The Canadians quite often break into song, have flapping heads and beady eyes, and most aspects of their culture seem to revolve around fart jokes. This isn't to mention Canada itself seems to be a version of Oz. And even Canada has ''its own'' Cloudcuckooland: ''French Canada!''

* In ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', Canada is depicted as such. It's a world with only one road, square ''everything'', the people's heads flap like garbage can lids, their prime minister is a [[Film/TheWizardOfOz massive green hologram]] ([[spoiler:That's actually [[ItMakesSenseInContext Saddam Hussein]]]]), Nova Scotia is inhabited by "little mushroom people", Quebec is inhabited by ''Creator/CirqueDuSoleil'' performers who are thought of as weird ''even by other Canadians'', a "giant" who routinely terrorizes them, a culture based around toilet humor and eating Kraft Dinner, a military armed with hockey sticks and chainsaws, and the [[UpToEleven most insane royal wedding ceremony ever]]. Needless to say it's so over the top that [[MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales these episodes are utterly beloved by Canadians]].

* UsefulNotes/{{Portland}}, [[TheOtherRainforest Oregon]] is depicted as such in ''Series/{{Portlandia}}''. Keep Portland Weird, indeed...

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie'' has a realm called "Cloud Cuckoo Land" that is ruled by Princess Uni-Kitty, which makes her a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, as shown by her nature.

* Yakestonia from ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}''. The traditional greeting is "Zwooba, Zwooba, Zwooba!" while making fart noises under your armpits. And Halloween follows Easter traditions...and Christmas follows Halloween traditions.