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* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' would ''constantly'' distort reality to better convey the emotion of the scene, or for the sake of a gag. Characters change size and proportions depending on mood, {{Imagine Spot}}s can be physically interacted with, gravity only exists when the creators want it to, and the line between "metaphor" and "reality" is all but non-existent. Basically, imagine the most odd-ball animation of both ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' and ''Anime/{{FLCL}}'', and you've got ''Teen Titans''.

-->-- '''[[Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses MasakoX]]''' on ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica''

* The animation in the [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness earlier episodes of]] ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' were much tripper and surreal than the more grounded animation later on.

* ''Film/{{Mutafukaz}}'' features unconventional character designs and frequent art shifts. The main character has pitch black skin, a large round head, and massive eyes, and his best friend has a fiery skull for a ''head''. Yet, all the background characters are realistically proportioned. That's not even going into what the alien architecture looks like.

* ''Animation/HugoTheHippo'' has a number of bizarre scenes. There's the one where Aban-Khan slaughtering the rest of Hugo's herd is represented by him [[BloodlessCarnage shooting lightning at hippo-shaped clouds]]. Later, Aban-Khan turns a garden into an army of strange-looking vegetable soldiers to capture Hugo, which inexplicably features a scene where Jorma and Hugo try to escape into space on a giant butterfly.

%%* ''Animation/HugoTheHippo''. The title doesn't cover the madness within.

%%* ''WesternAnimation/HugoTheHippo''. The title doesn't cover the madness within.

* Joel Guerra's ''WebAnimation/{{ENA}}'' is animated in the style of an experimental Japanese-only PS1 game, with dialogue performed in cutscenes with characters glitching and performing strange animation loops, while the segments inbetween animate similar to a first person adventure game. The final result is charmingly unsettling.

* Usually not common in ''Franchise/PrettyCure'', but at one point in episode 13 of ''Anime/SmilePrettyCure'' we get [[http://morningglorydew.tumblr.com/post/22013209130/holy-spit-miyuki two terrifyingly freaky shots of Miyuki's face from below]]. Said shots have already reached MemeticMutation status around the fandom.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSNbnMXba4g Eggs]] (1971) features an argument between [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Anthropomorphic Personifications]] of [[MotherNature Birth]] and [[TheGrimReaper Death]] over the future of humanity, and ends with [[spoiler: [[KingOfAllCosmos a very strange avian God]] breaking up the fight.]] How strange is this GOD? Well, it has three mouths all of which speak in an incoherent dialect which switches from English to Japanese to incomprehensible gibberish in seconds.

* Based out of Alice Springs, Australia, the discount store chain Mad Harry's is known for its very off-model animations, with an art style so deep in the UncannyValley it stops being eerie and loops back around into being bewilderingly hilarious. Two ads produced for the chain can be found on YouTube, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTIyRfpJaXU here]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDI-nYY7YvQ here]].

* Much of the animation of ''Anime/LupinIIIPinkJacket'' is like this, especially in episodes animated by [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WWySUrjIdqs Tatsuo Ryuno]].

* The guys who made ''Anime/ExcelSaga'' had to be hyped on ''something''. Whether it was crack or way too much coffee and not enough sleep is up to you.

* ''Anime/ExcelSaga'' does have some semblance of sense and logic, just as long as you're aware of what all the parodies and references are, what's being satirized, and why. It's not so much some kind of "random for the sake of random" or "on drugs" type of psychedelic trip. (That distinction goes to ''Manga/BoboboBobobobo''). ''Anime/ExcelSaga'', however, IS one big non-stop barrage of in-jokes poking fun at the director Creator/ShinichiWatanabe's own thoughts, feelings, and ludicrous experiences at working in multiple genres of anime, as well as original manga author Koshi Rikudo's cynical, social satire, self-mocking, and controversial statements about his own nation's strange policies and economic troubles. Although the existence of the Puuchuus and why they randomly turn into Takao Saito and Creator/LeijiMatsumoto characters when struck with a blunt object....

* ''Manga/BoboboBobobobo'', has extreme ArtShift to realistic faces at times, things like Yugi Mutou shoot out of Bobobo's head, a male enemy becomes a very feminine torpedo and two boys fuse into a MagicalGirl. Here's one example [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJuRXTNSORE from the show]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYa5aQb3YGE Dragonzball P]], a parody of the numerous [[InactionSequence Inaction Sequences]] that ''Dragon Ball Z'' is known for, is filled to the brim with nonsensical dialogue and faces and bodies distorting in anatomically impossible ways.

%%* [[http://youtu.be/Ay7ER3TGSoM Interview With Dalí]] is almost as weird as his artwork.
%%* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYa5aQb3YGE Dragonzball P]], full stop.
%%-->'''Goku:''' THAT'S WHAT ''YOU'' GET FOR ACTING THE MICKEY, VIRGINIA.
%%** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=7pSmhZFbCy0 The sequel]] arguably takes this further, if only because it's twice as long.
%%-->'''Vegeta/[[DubNameChange Virginia]]:''' Kaka Carrot Cake, when I was just a little boy, he...[[FelonyMisdemeanor he didn't invite me to his birthday party!]]
%%-->'''Goku/Kaka Carmen Electra:''' You monster, Frisbee!

* ''WesternAnimation/XavierRenegadeAngel'': Between the [[StylisticSuck intentionally low-quality CGI]], the cast of eccentric characters, and the outrageously surreal storylines, it takes the cake as the most bizarre show [adult swim] has ever produced. Cranked up and damaging the knob with "Damnesia You", the episode where the winners of a contest get their films shown in an ExcusePlot where Xavier goes to different dimensions to figure out his identity. Styles shown in the episode include:

* [[https://vimeo.com/67635073 The Summer 2013 promo]] for Cartoon Network is this trope taken UpToEleven.

* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieRebellion'' brought back Gekidan Inu Curry, designers of the surreal ArtShift witch labyrinths, and had them do an ever-escalating portion of the visuals. Random flying objects, twitchy paper cut-out animation, and creepy misshapen ''puppets''... the end result is like watching the [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs already trippy]] original series [[UpToEleven on acid]]. [[spoiler: Justified in that the whole movie takes place inside a labyrinth, with everything that comes with it.]]

* ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhx-qWDMGyo One of]] the openings for season 3, which is insane ''[[UpToEleven even by the standards of the show.]]''

%%** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=7pSmhZFbCy0 The sequel]] arguably takes this UpToEleven, if only because it's twice as long.

* Perhaps the strangest and most bizarre animated fare in all of Looney Tunes was "WesternAnimation/PorkyInWackyland". It's supposed to be bizarre, and they warn you ahead of time, but still, it was definitely over-the-top. The backgrounds for the cartoon's remake, "Dough for the Do-Do", are [[UpToEleven even MORE surreal]]!

* ''WesternAnimation/XavierRenegadeAngel'': Between the [[StylisticSuck intentionally low-quality CGI]], the cast of eccentric characters, and the outrageously surreal storylines, it takes the cake as the most bizarre show [adult swim] has ever produced. Cranked UpToEleven and damaging the knob with "Damnesia You", the episode where the winners of a contest get their films shown in an ExcusePlot where Xavier goes to different dimensions to figure out his identity. Styles shown in the episode include:

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Squidbillies}}''. Dan Halen with all his weird schemes and nonsense he inflicts upon Dougal County would count alone but Early Cuyler's life cranks it UpToEleven. He has a "truck-boat-truck", which is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin exactly what it sounds like]] and equipped with massive monster truck tires. Plus there's unrelated craziness like a snake boy, a boy with sticks for arms and legs, and a field full of sheriff clones.

** In "Squeaky Boots", It's taken [[UpToEleven Up to Eleven]] during Krabs' [[SanitySlippage Sanity Slippage]]; his facial expressions go all over the place but are consistently terrifying.

* A number of episodes of certain shows from''WesternAnimation/TheDisneyAfternoon'' that were animated by [[Creator/WaltDisneyAnimationUnits Walt Disney Television Animation Australia]] such as ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'', ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'' (their biggest one), ''WesternAnimation/Bonkers'' and ''WesternAnimation/TimonAndPumbaa'' (their second biggest) tended to have that, after their rather uninspired work on ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'', their first project.

%%* ''WesternAnimation/XavierRenegadeAngel''

* A number of episodes of certain shows from''WesternAnimation/TheDisneyAfternoon'' that were animated by Creator/WaltDisneyAnimationUnits Walt Disney Television Animation Australia such as ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'', ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'' (their biggest one), ''WesternAnimation/Bonkers'' and ''WesternAnimation/TimonAndPumbaa'' (their second biggest) tended to have that, after their rather uninspired work on ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'', their first project.

* A number of episodes of certain shows from''WesternAnimation/TheDisneyAfternoon'' that were animated by ''Creator/WaltDisneyAnimationUnits Walt Disney Television Animation Australia'' such as ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'', ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'' (their biggest one), ''WesternAnimation/Bonkers'' and ''WesternAnimation/TimonAndPumbaa'' (their second biggest) tended to have that, after their rather uninspired work on ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'', their first project.

* A number of episodes of certain shows from''WesternAnimation/TheDisneyAfternoon'' that were animated by ''Creator/Walt DisneyAnimationUnits Walt Disney Television Animation Australia'' such as ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'', ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'' (their biggest one), ''WesternAnimation/Bonkers'' and ''WesternAnimation/TimonAndPumbaa'' (their second biggest) tended to have that, after their rather uninspired work on ''WesternAnimation/The New Advetures of Winnie The Pooh'', their first project.

* A number of episodes of certain shows from''WesternAnimation/TheDisneyAfternoon'' that were animated by ''Creator/Walt Disney Animation Units#Walt Disney Television Animation Australia'' such as ''WesternAnimation/Darkwing Duck'', ''WesternAnimation/Goof Troop'' (their biggest one), ''WesternAnimation/Bonkers'' and ''WesternAnimation/Timon and Pumbaa'' (their second biggest) tended to have that, after their rather uninspired work on ''WesternAnimation/The New Advetures of Winnie The Pooh'', their first project.