On top of it all, one set of grandparents brings along bizarre Asian foreign exchange student, Long Duk Dong.

The most elaborate set up involved an unsuspecting phone-box user becoming the centerpiece of a bizarre money exchange laced with secret codes involving a " nun " and a " doctor ".

They manage to fool Dave's family into thinking he is actually an Estonian exchange student sent to live with them, and enroll him in school where Link's bizarre behavior and supreme athletic skills shoot Dave and Stoney to popularity by association, allowing Dave to get closer to Robyn, to Matt's chagrin.

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 double play occurred in a nationally televised game between the New York Yankees and Chicago White Sox on August 2, 1985 when both Bobby Meacham and Dale Berra were tagged out at home by Carlton Fisk on a deep drive single to left-center by Rickey Henderson.

* 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.

The excitement over Brandon's bizarre death abated and Madame Lalaurie's stock soared when she resumed her self-imposed chores of visiting the poor and bringing cakes and comfort to destitute patients in the county hospital.

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.

However, this bizarre relocation plan never materialised and when the club finally did relocate in 2003, it was to the Buckinghamshire town of Milton Keynes.

Bowie's fascination with the bizarre was fuelled when he met dancer Lindsay Kemp: " He lived on his emotions, he was a wonderful influence.

Her increasingly bizarre hairstyles become a running gag, culminating in Give ' em Enough Rope, when she is completely bald and festooned with ribbons.

Waxy flexibility is when someone physically moves part of a catatonic person's body and the person stays in the position even if it is bizarre and otherwise nonfunctional ( such as moving a person's arm straight up in the air and the arm stays there ).

Clemens would also find himself the point of minor controversy when it was revealed in the book The Yankee Years by Joe Torre and Tom Verducci that Clemens ' bizarre pre-game ritual included soaking in extremely hot water then having the hottest possible muscle liniment applied to his genitals during his rub-down.

Other stories include ludicrous " kiss and tell " and similar stories by people who are portrayed as mentally disturbed, often with highly bizarre elements ; examples include allegations by a man who claimed that, on holiday touring in his caravan, he found a campsite run by Elvis Presley who, when plied with drink, admitted to the Kennedy assassination ; another from a retired toilet attendant who described the nature of faeces from various little-known celebrities and an elderly woman who blames anti-social behaviour in her area on bored Newsnight presenters, as well as a mental home patient who claimed to have had sex with a number of children's TV puppets.

* His second favorite dessert is Mashed Bananas with Ice Cubes and Cold beef Gravy ; he went to Bert and Ernie's apartment in one episode when Bert and Ernie are arguing over whether or not the disgusting dish is chocolate ice cream ; to trade them a chocolate ice cream cone Mr. Hooper gave him but trades his second cone he was given for the bizarre dish much to Ernie and Bert's disgust.

During the course of this exploration, Holloway's resolve slowly deteriorates, until the house's bizarre architecture leads him to believe an image he sees down a hall is the " monster " stalking them when, in fact, he is actually looking at his own men ; he shoots one of them, and, upon realizing what he's done, suffers a complete psychological breakdown and tries to murder them.

Perhaps ironically, Taylor had indirectly criticised Barnes when he wrote contemptuously of certain self-styled American Revisionist historians whose work Taylor characterised as marked by obsessive loathing for their own country, nostalgia for isolationism, hatred for the New Deal and a tendency to engage in bizarre conspiracy theories.

In a bizarre twist a few weeks later, the supporter's club was threatened with a lawsuit in the multi-million class by former coach Trond Sollied, who was briefly mentioned in a by-sentence of the letter as having been in charge when the bad habits of the team had begun.

A bizarre follow up to the former was that journalist Libby Purves, who had met Rice-Davies when Mandy was published, invited her to join a female recreation on the River Thames of Jerome K. Jerome's comic novel Three Men in a Boat.

In Yume Nikki ( or " Dream Diary " in English ), the protagonist Madotsuki explores the bizarre worlds of her subconscious mind when she goes to sleep.

In his Contes bizarre d ' Orleans, the latter says that the Americans picked up the common phrase " Quelle canule ", but they were usually shivering so hard when they said it that it came out with the " l " hardened into a guttural stop – thence a " k ".

The band was billed as the World of Wild Beards Incorporated, although when he explained this bizarre name during the course of the show, Mangum gave a small speech about an obscure, seemingly fictional company of the early 20th century named " Walking Wall of Beards Incorporated ".

* The story picks up seven years after the first film when Samantha Darko and her best friend Corey are now 18 and on a road trip to Los Angeles when they are plagued by bizarre visions.

To add to that, Roland and Jake have noticed bizarre changes in Susannah's behavior, which are linked to the event recounted in The Waste Lands when Susannah couples with the demon in the stone circle.

In 1998 Irvin was alleged to be involved in a bizarre incident during training camp when he allegedly inflicted a two-inch cut in the neck of Dallas guard Everett McIver while some team members were getting haircuts.

Like many sportsmen and managers, Neil Warnock is highly superstitious and has revealed many bizarre rituals including stopping at all traffic lights following a win regardless of whether they're red or green, watching the Sean Bean film When Saturday Comes the day before a big match, using the same razorblade, only urinating when he has held on for as long as possible and remaining in the dressing room after the players have left to pray.

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.

As the hallucinations become increasingly bizarre, Paul, one of his old Army friends, contacts Jacob to tell him about his hallucinations and is later killed when his car explodes.

Often through misinterpreting such a phrase as a different, though similar sounding phrase, or through interpreting it in one sense when another is intended, Shin-chan will embark on a course of action which, while it may be what he thinks is being requested of him, leads to bizarre acts which serve only to vex his parents or tutors even more.

Although the Greeks and Romans typically scorned Egypt's animal-headed gods as bizarre and primitive ( Anubis was known to be mockingly called " Barker " by the Greeks ), Anubis was sometimes associated with Sirius in the heavens, and Cerberus in Hades.

Empire magazine praised the film saying " the gaudily gory, virtuoso, hyper-kinetic horror sequel / remake uses every trick in the cinematic book " and confirms that " Bruce Campbell and Raimi are gods " and Caryn James of The New York Times called it " genuine, if bizarre, proof of Sam Raimi's talent and developing skill.

The magazine also ran a series of cartoons called 101 Uses for a John Major ( based on a comic book of some ten years earlier, called 101 Uses for a Dead Cat ), in which Major was illustrated serving a number of bizarre purposes, such as a train-spotter's anorak.

" It also featured a deck of cards ( called " Card cards ") with bizarre instructions, such as " If you can jump up and stay airborne for 37 seconds, you can lose $ 5, 000.

Moreover, Michelet distinguished between what he called, " the bizarre and monstrous " quality of the Middle Ages and the democratic values that he, as a vocal Republican, chose to see in its character.

These include cuckoldry, nuptial gifts, sperm competition, infanticide, physical beauty, mating by subterfuge, species isolation mechanisms, male parental care, ambiparental care, mate location, polygamy, and mechanisms that can only be called bizarre, including homosexual rape in certain male animals, cementing of females ' vaginal pores by males in some lepidopteran insects, and insect penises specialized to remove any sperm packets from females which may have been deposited by previous suitors.

Other critics were more generous ; Doug Elfman of the Las Vegas Review-Journal called it " another great and bizarre, twangy album of alternative-singer-songwriting stories about cars and horrible relationships ", while a reviewer in the New Straits Times noted its " smart, subtly dissident, and always catchy pop ".

: Film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum refers to a makeshift 1960s and 1970s genre called the acid Western, associated with Dennis Hopper, Jim McBride, and Rudy Wurlitzer, as well as films like Monte Hellman's The Shooting, Alejandro Jodorowsky's bizarre experimental film El Topo ( The Mole ), and Robert Downey Sr .' s Greaser's Palace.

Roger Ebert called Temple of Doom " the most cheerfully exciting, bizarre, goofy, romantic adventure movie since Raiders, and it is high praise to say that it's not so much a sequel as an equal.

In addition to her rigorous exercise routines Elisabeth practised what could be called a true beauty cult, but one that was highly ascetic, solitary, and prone to bizarre, eccentric, and almost mystic routines.

The first is an illusion created by the Mani Mani Statue that transforms the metropolis of Fourside into a bizarre neon metropolis called Moonside, filled with unusual characters and enemies.

" Jon Bonné at MSNBC called the episode " a perfect example of the first season ’ s bizarre and fruitful balance between edgy humor and softly-drawn neuroses " and stated that " it was this combination that made Groening ’ s shorts for the Ullman show so compelling, and ultimately what made it possible for The Simpsons to break the molds of network television.

* On an episode of The Chaser's War On Everything, Andrew Hansen and Chris Taylor do a sketch called " The Chaser's British Comedy Sketch ", filled with various Monty Python cliches, which climaxes with Andrew screaming " I'm going to do something so totally bizarre it will be imitated verbatim by comedy nerds for decades to come!

The AGAVE expedition also discovered on the Gakkel ridge, using " free-swimming " robotic submersibles, what they called " bizarre ' mats ' of microbial communities containing a half dozen or more new species ".

GamesRadar's Brett Elston called it a " bizarre bunny / balloon hybrid ".

Magazines and tabloids called them everything from " the sexiest twins alive ” and " the best selling calendar models of the world ” ( Cosmopolitan UK ) to referring to them as both “ bizarre and bulimic ” and “ sexual icons and America ’ s cartoon sweethearts ” ( Entertainment Weekly ) The London Sun said that the Barbi Twins “ took the glamour world by storm ”.

Erskine called a large number of witnesses who testified to Hadfield's sometimes bizarre behaviour, a surgeon who testified to the nature of the head injuries that Hadfield had sustained in battle, and a doctor, Alexander Crichton, who gave evidence that Hadfield was insane.

In 1963, they began making a series of bizarre beatnik style plastic figurines called the Nutty Mads which included some almost psychedelic creations such as Donald the Demon-a half duck, half madman driving a miniature car.

" R. Albert Mohler, Jr., president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, called it a work of " hate, cultural condescension, and bizarre proposals backed up with hare-brained analysis.

Some, such as James B. Harris ( Ranpo's first translator into English ), have erroneously called this the first piece of modern mystery fiction by a Japanese writer, but well before Ranpo entered the literary scene in 1923, a number of other modern Japanese authors such as Ruikō Kuroiwa, Kidō Okamoto, Jun ' ichirō Tanizaki, Haruo Satō, and Kaita Murayama had incorporated elements of sleuthing, mystery, and crime within stories involving adventure, intrigue, the bizarre, and the grotesque.

" Afterwards, he started experiencing what he called " the calamity ", a series of bizarre physiological transformations that took place over the course of a week, affecting each one of his senses, and finally resulting in a deathlike experience.

The band took the name from a fan who called them " Fettes Brot " after an early gig, which was probably meant as a compliment, but the members considered it so bizarre that they took it as the name for their new group.

An editorial in the journal Nature called the retraction " one of the more bizarre episodes in the history of drug research " and noted that " Some observers have in the past questioned NIDA's ability to maintain its independence in the face of the immense pressures brought to bear by those who stand behind America's interminable ' war on drugs '.

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.