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** Same with SpinOff ''Series/CheckItOutWithDrSteveBrule''.

* With sketches like ''[[StuffBlowingUp Farm Film Report]]'', [[https://youtu.be/s4B_PY2vveQ the story of Vikings and beekeepers]], and of course, [[CanadaEh Bob & Doug McKenzie]], ''Series/{{SCTV}}'' could be considered as such.

* ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' comes across as this to non-British audiences, especially during the scenes when they use the [[ItRunsOnNonsensoleum Infinite Improbability Drive]]. Creator/DouglasAdams himself alluded to how much UsefulNotes/{{cricket|Rules}} is a weird British game in ''Literature/LifeTheUniverseAndEverything'' with the commentators of ''Test Match Special'' not at all fazed by Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, and a sofa appearing from nowhere on the pitch at Lord's. And only the British would be so insensitive to use the hallowed 'Wicket Gate' as part of a game.

* The films of writer Creator/CharlieKaufman, who started with ''Film/BeingJohnMalkovich'' (the [[Creator/JohnMalkovich actor in the title]] reacted to receiving said script with IsThisAJoke) and didn't dial down anywhere down the line. That movie's director, Creator/SpikeJonze, indulged in this before with his music videos (putting the Music/BeastieBoys in a cop show and Music/{{Weezer}} on ''Series/HappyDays'', making Creator/ChristopherWalken dance madly - and eventually ''fly'' - to Music/FatboySlim), and his movies took one step further - after ''Malkovich'', there was ''Film/{{Adaptation}}'' (another Kaufman script), ''Film/WhereTheWildThingsAre'', and ''Film/{{her|2013}}''.

* ''Series/TheMonkees'' is filled with enough randomness and absurdity to qualify, especially during the second season, where they were either stoned out of their minds or didn't care any more and ad-libbed. [[EverybodyMustGetStoned ”Frodis,” anyone?]] The [[TheFilmOfTheSeries subsequent film]] ''Head'' cranked it up a few notches.

* Any of Creator/ConanOBrien's late night shows would count as this. Yes, even his tenure on ''Series/TheTonightShow''.
* ''Series/WonderShowzen''. This is all that needs to be said about it (besides VulgarHumor, that is).

* ''At Swim—Two Birds'', a bizarre comic novel by Flann O'Brien, in which the protagonist, also an author, wanders Dublin and doesn't do very much of anything, comes across some strange quasi-fictional phenomena and eventually has to deal with his characters breaking the fourth wall and rising up against him.

* ''The Young Offenders'', a pair of {{Lower Class Lout}}s go on a road trip on stolen bicycles in order to salvage cocaine bales from the sea in order to get rich and are pursued by [[InspectorJavert a cop with an unhealthy obsession with arresting bike thieves]] and an EvilCripple with a [[NailEm nail gun]].

* Anything by Creator/GuyMaddin, but especially his 2015 film ''The Forbidden Room'', which was full of stories inside of stories inside of stories inside of stories, including (but not limited to) such topics as Filipino banana vampires, evil skeleton-leotard-wearing insurance defrauders, an educational film on how to take a bath, a man bidding against his own doppelganger on a cursed bust of the god Janus, and a musical number where Udo Kier had to have a lobotomy to stop him from thinking about butts.

* ''Funky Forest: First Encounter'' is a surrealist collection of vignettes, some of which interact with one another and none of which make much sense at face value. For a taste of the madness, head [[https://youtu.be/q5SZzFaAZyY here.]]

* ''Attack of the Killer Refrigerator''. Title is all you need to know.

** ''Film/FasterPussycatKillKill'': Russ Meyers's best-remember film, a hallmark of sexy, violent, Americanexploitation films.

* ''Grim Prairie Tales'': Two travellers in TheWildWest played by Creator/BradDourif and Creator/JamesEarlJones try to top one another with increasingly outrageous stories in this anthology movie.

* ''Taxidermia'' is a possibly-generational epic featuring three extremely different but equally gross segments that go, in full GenreBusting mode, from weird historical sex comedy to puke-filled inspiration sports film parody, finally arriving at ultra-gory horror film territory.

* Judging by the trailers of movies like ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZo59DeZY9g Obonsam Besu]]'' [[note]]''Devil May Cry'', may or may not be a ripoff of the [[VideoGame/DevilMayCry game]][[/note]], ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO9ctKn_Mdc 2016]]'', and ''[[https://youtu.be/GRi9qHi1VIs&feature=channel&list=UL The Godfather]]''[[note]]It seems that Don Corleone is a zombie now.[[/note]], the entire movie industry of Ghana seems to run on this trope. It's a '''SWAG''' ('''S'''urreal and '''W'''eird '''A'''rriving from '''G'''hana). And special mention to ''[[http://youtu.be/wfdSx1YX_3w Nkrato]]'' for this comment:

* A few Turkish films from the 1970's were pretty (in)famous for their [[SerialNumbersFiledOff blatant plagiarism of characters and effects,]] [[SpecialEffectsFailure practically no budget for the effects they didn't steal]] and [[RandomEventsPlot some really bizarre plots]]. This resulted in such films as ''Film/ThreeBigMen'' (where ComicBook/CaptainAmerica and Wrestling/ElSanto fight ComicBook/SpiderMan, who has become a murderous thief), ''Rampage'' (A.K.A: ''Turkish Rambo'') and ''Film/TheManWhoSavesTheWorld'' (better known as ''Turkish Star Wars'').