Citations:mondo bizarro

Noun: "the world of the surreal or bizarre"

 * 1980, Washington Post, 19 April 1980, c1/1:
 * It was just part of a week in which the news..went further and further into the realm of Mondo Bizarro.
 * 1995, Tom Pilkington, "A Twisted Family Feud", World & I, January 1995:
 * Like most of Goyen's fiction, the story is set in mondo bizarro and is an allegory of the kind of pinched, destructive moral code that hovers over East Texans like a poisonous fog.

Adjective: "(slang) extremely bizarre"

 * 1989, Mike Littwin, "Orioles Are Getting Good Luck and Bounces", Los Angeles Times, 25 April 1989:
 * When straight-shooting Cal Ripken suggests that life has grown a little mondo-bizarro around the old ballpark, it is time to take notice.
 * He claims that when Jackson became best friends with ‘Webster’ star Emmanuel Lewis.., they had an innocent, although mondo bizarro relationship.
 * 1998, Ed Bark, "South Park May Have Met Its Match", Sun-Sentinel, 19 August 1998:
 * Premiering tonight in tandem with the first of six new South Park episodes, it's an exceedingly strange, yet bracingly inventive series starring a freaky four-member comedy troupe. Very mondo bizarro. Sort of like featuring Marilyn Manson on a very special episode of Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood.
 * 2000, Liz Langley, "The height of folly", Orlando Weekly, 5 February 2000:
 * The Bindlestiffs prove that even in the most mondo-bizarro town, it's worth it to seek out serious freakdom.
 * If you are a fan of mondo-bizarro programs such as ‘Survivor’ and ‘Big Brother’, you have another choice.
 * 2006, Martin Farkus, Blue Notes, AuthorHouse (2006), ISBN 1425923623, page 21:
 * The tape, I was told, was the most mondo-bizarro music in human history.
 * 2011, James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales, Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN, Little, Brown and Company (2011), ISBN 9780316125765, unnumbered page:
 * All very exciting—but nothing compared to the most gripping, most talked about, most mondo bizarro unscheduled event of the year, a kind of nonsanctioned NASCAR competition in which the cars moved at a mysteriously pokey, rush-hour rate.
 * 2012, Kabembo Chinku, Common Nonsense: The New "Golden" Age of Unreason: Chronicles of Dumb Statements and The Dumbasses (Mostly Politicians) Who Make Them, Xlibris (2012), ISBN 9781479708413, page 114:
 * But we are talking about two people who exist in a kind of mondo bizarro world where ignorance is a virtue.
 * 2012, Bill Missett, Soul Surfer Johnny Rips: Surfing the Edge of Reality ... in Puerto's Grinding Barrels, AuthorHouse (2012), ISBN 9781477268599, page 72:
 * There were only about a dozen folks present to see this rare display, and everyone agreed it had been one of Puerto's more mondo bizarro suddenly surreal Fellini moments.
 * 2013, Buzz Bissinger, "'Going to North Korea Was the Smartest Thing Dennis Rodman Has Ever Done'", Newsweek, 26 March 2013:
 * Rodman and the Vice film crew became the first known Americans to meet Kim [Jong-un] since he inherited power from his father.
 * It was completely mondo bizarro. Of course it was mondo bizarro. Maybe it was ill advised.
 * 2012, Kabembo Chinku, Common Nonsense: The New "Golden" Age of Unreason: Chronicles of Dumb Statements and The Dumbasses (Mostly Politicians) Who Make Them, Xlibris (2012), ISBN 9781479708413, page 114:
 * But we are talking about two people who exist in a kind of mondo bizarro world where ignorance is a virtue.
 * 2012, Bill Missett, Soul Surfer Johnny Rips: Surfing the Edge of Reality ... in Puerto's Grinding Barrels, AuthorHouse (2012), ISBN 9781477268599, page 72:
 * There were only about a dozen folks present to see this rare display, and everyone agreed it had been one of Puerto's more mondo bizarro suddenly surreal Fellini moments.
 * 2013, Buzz Bissinger, "'Going to North Korea Was the Smartest Thing Dennis Rodman Has Ever Done'", Newsweek, 26 March 2013:
 * Rodman and the Vice film crew became the first known Americans to meet Kim [Jong-un] since he inherited power from his father.
 * It was completely mondo bizarro. Of course it was mondo bizarro. Maybe it was ill advised.