Dead dead demon’s de de de destruction starts with a man waking up in a post-apocalyptic Tokyo after being possessed by an alien for several years. In episode 0, we follow his journey through a devastated landscape of refugee camps, killer robots, and militarized factions before flashing back to spend the rest of the series on the story of how Tokyo ended up like this.

What follows is a horrific and depressing deconstruction of Doraemon.

Pushing Daisies:
A pie-maker can bring dead plants, animals and people back to life by touching them.
But he has to touch them again within one minute, which kills them permanently, or else something of equal “life force” in the vicinity will die.
He uses his gift to keep the pies and ingredients fresh in his bakery (sacrificing flowers he places nearby).
When the bakery struggles financially, a friend convinces him to solve murder cases instead, by interrogating the victims.

Crash landing on you.

A South Korean CEO of a cosmetics company, while paragliding, gets sucked in a tornado that pushes her far inside the land and lands in North Korea. She meets a military guy and his squad and basically has to go back to South Korea.

It was… quite good actually (if you like K-dramas). But the premise is one of the most absurds I’ve seen in a series.

Common Side Effects is such a great satire/critique of the US healthcare industry and a competent breakdown of it’s issues as well as the issues of self-medication and alternative medicines, but the entire plot hinges on something absolutely absurd.

This is revealed early in the first episode, so it’s not a spoiler.

It all hinges on a very specific mushroom that was discovered by one of the main characters, which can heal what seems to be literally anything, from any type of disease to literally being impaled through the chest with a steel pipe. In the first episode he literally breaks a pigeons neck and then heals it instantly as evidence of his discovery. No matter the circumstances, it seems to be able to bring people back from the brink of death to perfect health.

This absurd plot device, however, is extremely well used towards the goals of the show in critiquing both big pharma and alternative medicine without rigorous scientific understanding.

Despite being absurd, one of my favorite recent pieces of media.

Quantum Leap is the silliest idea imaginable.

Silver goes to an old favorite, a one season wonder called ‘Strange Luck.’

The premise was that the hero had survived a plane crash that killed both his parents. Now, years later, he has completely ridiculous luck. In the pilot episode he’s arrested. Detective interviewing him pulls out his file, which is about 1,000 pages. He’s been arrested for murder over a dozen times, but has letters of commendation from numerous VIPs, including two Presidents and the Pope.

The movie with the most absurd premise I ever watched was Titanic II:

100 years after the sinking of the Titanic, a new luxury cruise ship is built.
They call it Titanic II.
It sets out on its maiden voyage with lots of rich and important people on board.
Where it suddenly encounters a huge iceberg.
I won’t spoil the ending.

The mighty boosh. Garth Mahrengis Darkplace. The IT crowd. Red Dwarf. What we do in the shadows. Wellington paranormal.

Childrens Hospital but it’s intentions are to be absurd

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Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Metalocalypse, Star Trek

Testees

Rehearsal

I still don’t know if it’s trying to make fun of the people or truly help them. It’s bonkers and I love it.

The Chair Company