Reeves and Mortimer's unique comedy combines surreal, often inexplicable, visually and verbally inventive material which often verges on the downright bizarre with traditional comedy double act staples such as violent, cartoonish slapstick ( such as the duo engaging in escalating fights with large frying pans, baseball bats, hammers etc ...), witty, often improvised silly banter ( usually at a trademark, prop-strewn desk ) and purposefully corny, rapid-fire jokes.

They simultaneously used very bizarre, idiosyncratic humour and traditional double act staples ( in later years they became increasingly reliant on violent slapstick ).

In a bizarre New Zealand first innings of 534 / 9 declared which saw four players make hundreds but no-one else reach double figures, Vincent made 104.

He is presented as such in The Acharnians, where Aristophanes shows him to be living morosely in a precarious house, surrounded by the tattered costumes of his disreputable characters ( and yet Agathon, another tragic poet, is discovered in a later play, Thesmophoriazusae, to be living in circumstances almost as bizarre ).

However, Hermione Baddeley, starring in the play as the cannibal " Noo-ga ," was drinking heavily and began engaging in bizarre antics and disrupting performances.

The Scarifyers: The Devil of Denge Marsh, by Paul Morris, is a light-hearted radio play ( on CD as a Cosmic Hobo publication, 2007 ) whose heroes ( played by Nicholas Courtney and Terry Molloy ) are engaged in foiling the return of this watery timeless horror and thwarting the intentions of its mysterious ( and sometimes bizarre ) human acolytes.

Perhaps one of the most bizarre incidents for the WFL in 1974 involved former Raiders defensive end John Matuszak, who had left the NFL's Houston Oilers to play for the WFL's Houston Texans.

Hanks and Ryan are the right actors to inhabit it, because you can never catch them going for a gag that isn't there: They inhabit the logic of this bizarre world and play by its rules.

The first points in school history were scored on a bizarre defensive play by intercepting and returning a two-point conversion.

While playing with the New York Yankees in 1982, Bobby Murcer, Graig Nettles, and Roy Smalley got caught in a bizarre 2-5-3-1 triple play.

Perhaps the most critically discussed issue in the play is the sequence, bizarre by modern Western European standards, in Act 5, Scene 4 in which Valentine seems to ' give ' Silvia to Proteus as a sign of his friendship.

Conway would play the first taping straight, but ad-lib bizarre scenarios during the second taping.

Having taken over the graveyard slot from October 1993 onwards, Radcliffe and Riley hosted a show of unprecedented variety incorporating poetry readings from regular guest Ian McMillan, off the wall, irreverent comedy, bizarre quizzes ' Fish or Fowl ', ' Bird or Bloke ', ' Bard or Blake ' ( amongst others ), and a play list that rivalled John Peel in terms of eclecticism.

On a recent 2011 tour the group introduced an all wireless setup which allow not only greater freedom-of-movement but created another level of uncertainty with all manor of radio stations, shortwave, CB and other unintended electronic interference to play a role, including bizarre interactions between E. S. P.

In 1971 he was due to play the role of Jeff Simmons, bass guitarist with The Mothers of Invention, in Frank Zappa's film 200 Motels ( a bizarre piece of casting, since the real Simmons was young, long-haired and American ) but left the production after an argument with Zappa.

The most notable gameplay differences are experienced by those who play as Malkavian ( due to their insanity, dialogue options are often non sequiturs, making it difficult to conduct conversations and negotiations ; Malkavians also encounter numerous bizarre moments during gameplay, such as television sets and stop signs speaking to them ) and Nosferatu ( who, in order to avoid Masquerade violations, are prohibited from speaking to humans and who do not have access to any gameplay options involving seduction ).

The setting allows one to play games that take place during the famous Pulp Era of literature, filled with ancient dinosaurs, power-hungry gangsters, vengeful vigilantes, amazing superheroes, evil Nazis, bizarre inventions, mystical psionics, hard-boiled detectives, trained martial artists, curious explorers, eldritch aliens, and various other fantastic people, places, and things.

Written by and starring Charles Busch, the play follows a Gidget-like character called " Chicklet " as she copes with a series of bizarre murders among her surfer crowd.

Founded in 1972 by Bernie Schürch, Andres Bossard ( August 9, 1944-March 25, 1992 ), and the Italian-American Floriana Frassetto, the group became popular for its play with bizarre masks and forms, light and shadow, and their subtle choreography.

Tom Milne said that the film was " almost universally greeted as a disappointment, at best a whimsical exercise in the faux-naif in its attempt to capture the poetic simplicity of medieval faith, at worse an anticlimatic blunder " and that it was " rather like watching the animation of a medieval manuscript, with the text gravely read aloud while the images — cramped and crowded, coloured with jewelled brillance, delighting the eye with bizarre perspectives — magnificently play the role traditionally assigned to marginal illuminations.

However, as Wimbledon became more established in the top flight of English football after promotion in 1986, their style of play necessarily became more advanced, and their bizarre behaviour was no longer so unexpected.

Once while playing with the Yankees, he and two other teammates got caught in a bizarre 2-5-3-1 triple play.

There followed a most bizarre sequence of events which led to Allen leaving Arsenal within just two months of arriving at Highbury, having not played a single competitive match ( although he did play three matches in Arsenal's 1980-81 pre-season friendly campaign ).

Proceedings took a bizarre turn when later in the same game, Michael Essien was seemingly booked twice but not sent from the field of play.

Using her invisibility to its full advantage, she tricks the social worker into behaving in a bizarre manner and replaces the Summers ' report with pages consisting entirely of repetitions of " All work and no play make Doris a dull girl ", an allusion to The Shining.

The bizarre people who inhabit the area also play a role in Kate and Andy's quest.

On September 14,, Ryan was involved with a bizarre outfield play during a game against the Cleveland Indians, where Jhonny Peralta hit a fly ball to Ryan in right-center field.

Perhaps his most bizarre and powerful film role occurred in Roman Polanski's Cul-de-sac ( 1966 ), in which he portrayed the love-sodden husband of a much younger French wife ( Françoise Dorléac ).

* In the " Misleader ", seventeenth episode of the first season of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, the character, Detective Munch, says, " a rape is a rape is a rape ," implying that the bizarre nature of the rape he was investigating did not change the fact that a rape had occurred and that rape is still illegal.

* A bizarre incident involving a fictitious write-in candidacy occurred in the small town of Picoazá, Ecuador in 1967.

After a bizarre tale by Whenua about the last time he saw Mavrah ( and the gigantic marine Rahi ), a pitched battle occurred between Mavrah, the Toa Metru, Vahki, and Kralhi, in which each Kralhi was destroyed and Mavrah ( presumably ) killed.

The only other time that occurred was when, through a bizarre turn-of-events, her beau's wife was revived by paramedics after she was declared dead.

Quickly switching Merkel for a real rag doll, he convinced Garrick and the Keystone police that a bizarre transmogrification had occurred and that Merkel was somehow dead.

For many years some DC comics would feature stories labelled as " Imaginary Tales ," signifying that the events which occurred therein did not have an active effect on continuity, and therefore that anything could happen, even the bizarre and contradictory.

The Royals led by a run until the bottom of the sixth inning when one of the most bizarre plays of the series occurred.

It may simply be the denial by an abuser that previous abusive incidents ever occurred, or it could be the staging of bizarre events by the abuser with the intention of disorienting the victim.

A bizarre exchange occurred in 1975 when a hostage-holding bank robber called Muni on the air and engaged him in a long, often nonsensical conversation ; the two peppered their post-hippie speech with discussions of Bob Dylan music and requests to hear the Grateful Dead.

A bizarre, widely televised low-speed chase ensued and ended hours later when Simpson returned to his Brentwood estate via the Sunset Boulevard exit and surrendered to law enforcement.

Although the game had " incredible role-playing potential ", the concept of role-playing rabbits can be viewed as bizarre, and as such at least one commentator believes that " most people thought it was stupid " when it was first released.

Some of the bizarre weapons in a particular game are based on topical subjects at the time of the game's release.

Many enemies encountered in the game are transformed into bizarre counterparts.

Best known as the BBC head of comedy ( 1995 – 2001 ), he produced the first two radio series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and is one of the people credited with creating the bizarre panel game Mornington Crescent for I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue.

Edmonton's third title in 1956 ended in bizarre fashion: after Jackie Parker scored a touchdown late in the game that gave Edmonton a 50 – 27 lead, fans swarmed the field in celebration.

An example of this is Woolly Hooves, a simulation game where the player gets his / her very own elemental llama, and goes on to hike, explore and complete less single-objective quests than some sites in a bizarre yet endearing world.

Nearly any sort of universe, ranging from almost normal to bizarre beyond imagining, can be modeled with the system, allowing Referees ( Multiversers term for the person running the game, similar to a Dungeons & Dragons Dungeon Master ) great freedom in creating new places to take their players.

Thouls are a bizarre humanoid species from the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game.

In keeping with the conspiracy theory and unidentified flying object ( UFO ) themes of the game, while red mercury is indeed usable as a seemingly impossibly potent nuclear fuel, it's actually originally meant to be a foodstuff for a bizarre alien race.

At the time of release, 64-bit users reported bizarre in-game errors including characters dropping dead, game script files not being pre-cached ( i. e., loaded when first requested instead ), map rules being bent by AI, and other glitches.

By the time of his death, in 1918, he had made it possible for the never-ending search for the bizarre in literature to be viewed not just as an amusing but pointless game, but as a true method, a metaphysical quest, reflecting more profound concerns and higher literary ambitions.

The coincidence of the goalscorer's name quickly led to the popular word game among football fans that Given " is the only Irishman who doesn't know where Dublin is " and the goal itself is still regularly featured on lists compiled of bizarre goals.

The game falls in the first-person shooter category, and has an arsenal of weapons ranging from the mundane to the bizarre, numerous enemies and liberal amounts of gore.

Nintendo Power also called attention to the game's ingenuity and theme, remarking that " he idea of this game is great and the weird creatures you can evolve can be both bizarre and hilarious.

And like that game, this one arms you with a pretty bizarre arsenal.

The missions in the game were typically bizarre and often satirised present-day society.

* I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, a radio panel game with bizarre games, notably Mornington Crescent and One Song to the Tune of Another on BBC Radio 4 ( 1974 -).

Many found the game to be bizarre and confusing, but colourful and innovative.

On June 17, 2011, John Carmack mentioned interest in a fifth game, saying, “ We are at least tossing around the possibilities of going back to the bizarre, mixed up Cthulhu-ish Quake 1 world and rebooting that direction.

Bettis later put together one of the most bizarre single game statistics in NFL history.

In his 1982 book Video Invaders, Steve Bloom described Donkey Kong as " another bizarre cartoon game, courtesy of Japan ".

There are 12 bizarre fighters in ClayFighter 63⅓, some from previous games in the series, but most debuting in this game.

This bizarre plot introduction sets up a game that is filled with variations on many traditional horror characters and themes ( sometimes with ironic twists ), as well as relatively novel characters all its own.

The game is remembered for its bizarre premise by both fans and critics alike.