Basic Trope: Bizarre and confusing animation.
- Straight: "Zachary and Yolanda" is an animated show with lots of surreal scenes.
- Exaggerated: Every other scene in "Zachary and Yolanda" is a Big-Lipped Alligator Moment with practically unwatchable animation.
- Downplayed: "Zachary and Yolanda" has some surreal moments on occasion, but for the most part the animation is sensible.
- Justified: The scene takes place inside of a dream, hallucination, or other type of Imagine Spot.
- Inverted: "Zachary and Yolanda" is very Logical And Cutesy.
- Subverted: Despite the Surreal imagery in "Zachary and Yolanda",the show itself it's pretty Logical and has a coherent plot.
- Double Subverted: ... Then The last episode kicks in.
- Parodied: "Zachary and Yolanda" is so nonsensical, it's basically unwatchable.
- Zig-Zagged: "Zachary and Yolanda"'s surrealism depend on the season
- Averted: The animation makes complete sense.
- Enforced:
- To add some surrealism to the plot.
- "Zachary and Yolanda" is (or is based on) a 90s cartoon, making this somewhat expected.
- Zachary and Yolanda was made for showcasing the DigiAnim system of the 1970s. The surreal scenes showcased features that weren't easily integrated into a proper plot.
- The Zachary and Yolanda colab had no communication between the participating animators to keep the individual scenes as distinct as possible, even though coherency suffered a lot from it.
- Lampshaded: "What the hell was that?"
- Invoked: In "Zachary and Yolanda" Zachary Licks a toad and then he Enters in a Disney Acid Sequence.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Zachary and Yolanda are dosed by a hallucinogen, but instead of showing their perspective of a trip, the animation remains ordinary as we see not what they would see, but what other, non-tripping people in the room see.
- Discussed: "One moment we're completely normal, and the next, we're in an acid-trip dimension where my hands turned into pancakes."
- Conversed: "Why do some animated segments make absolutely no sense?"
- Played for Laughs: Surreal Humor.
- Played for Drama:
- The scene with deranged animation is a sign that a character is starting to go insane.
- or dying.
- Played for Horror: Surreal Horror.
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