The other day, while playing the Sims 2, one of my Sims appeared to go insane. She had a huge blow to her mood meter when she was rejected for Woo Hoo with her housemate Janet. Her meter was fully red, and she was doing very peculiar things like talking to brooms, etc. It was even funnier when out of nowhere a therapist (I guess that’s what he was) who looked like Albert Einstein showed up with a spinning hypnotic spiral and “cured” her. Quite bizarre, but that’s why I like the Sims - strange and funny things happen all the time. What about your odd or funny Sims experiences?
There was the time one of my pregnant Sims was having trouble staying awake long enough to do anything. She eventually went upstairs to bed; when she got up, she immediately wet herself then died of starvation. 
I exited without saving then tried again, making sure to at least keep her fed. 
The sims masturbate. One of the male sims was laying in bed and his fun bar was going up but his social and energy were going down while my roommate was playing last week.
I’m not recalling any surprising Sim behaviour right off the bat, but I was amused yesterday to see a penguin talking to a snowman that D’lyshiss had made (thanks to the Seasons expansion pack).
This occurred while I was playing Sims for my XBox: One of my family members attempted to cook a meal and the stove caught fire. The house began to burn and my Sims were burning to a crisp. In the midst of this, the maid came in to clean, apparently oblivious to all the fire and immolation.
Their crazy behaviors are different depending on their aspirations. I haven’t seen them all, but if they have the fortune aspiration and they don’t make money, they’ll panhandle in the street. If they have the family aspiration, and they don’t have children, they’ll care for a sack of flour like it was a baby.
I had a sim of Tom Cruise who I tortured and tortured with bottoming out his aspirations. He became so unbalanced (for a sim) that he started muttering to himself and rubbing his hands together like a villain.
I also had a lesbian couple where one of the partners got pregnant by the mailman. I kept waiting for a violent disagreement, or at least some wonderment from the other partner about this growing stomach, but nothing. Even when the baby was actually born, the cheated-on partner was overjoyed to have a baby in the family. Although, if either so much as flirted with any Sims, there would be an argument - go figure!
I still think it’s funny when male Sims get pregnant with alien babies…
My favorite moments involve intoxication…
In the original Sims, I installed a minibar and had one of the guys just continually drink. At first, he got a little social and talkative. After 20, he was woozy. After 30, he pissed himself and passed out for about 2 days, right at the foot of the bar.
In the Sims 2, with (I think) the College expansion, when you buy the “Bubble Blower” machine, what you’re really getting is a hookah. When you command your Sims to “blow bubbles” they sit, take a hose, and sure enough, some bubbles come out (with the sound effect) but the Sims themselves start floating (a la “Half Baked”) and giggling uncontrolably.
My favorite moment from the original Sims was whenever someone died. If the deceased had a spouse, I would have them beg the Grim Reaper to bring the person back to life. If GR was feeling particularly saucy, he would motion for the bereaved Sim to get up, and would engage him/her in a game of rock/paper/scissors. If the Sim won, GR brought his/her beloved back to life. If the Sim lost, the GR turned the deceased into a zombie instead, complete with green skin and null personality.
Sims 2:
One of my first sims got pregnant by her husband’s best buddy, with the husband never suspecting a thing. Later on, however, whenever the mom would start getting romantic with her husband, the kid would get upset that she was cheating on his dad. Somehow, he knew.
When the kid grew up, he and his half-sister moved out and started living together as roommates. He followed the politics career track while she stayed home as a freelance artist. Things were fine until she started up a romance with the maid; if they got busy while he was in the house, he’d throw a tantrum and get furious at both of them. He didn’t have any romance going on with either of them, so it wasn’t jealousy, and the sister didn’t care when he was getting it on with his girlfriend. I guess as an up-and-coming politician, he didn’t want anyone knowing he had a lesbian sister who was banging the help.
I made sims of two clients from work whom I despised. I started them as young adults and prevented them from going to class so they’d get expelled from college. Then I had them move in together in a small shack with nothing to do for fun, and gave them menial jobs for little pay while preventing them from raising their skills. Then I gave them cats that kept having kittens and peeing all over everything. Eventually they were spending all their time with bottomed-out aspiration scores, terrible moods, and were getting into fistfights with each other at least twice a day. After they turned into miserable, impoverished friendless elders, they got into another knock-down, drag-out fight outside in winter, and ended up both freezing to death.
Another Sims 2 event:
One of the early bugs was that visitors could pick up babies to cuddle them, then decide it was time to go home and walk off while still holding the baby. When this happened to one of my sims, she got a phone call the next day from the ‘kidnapper’. As they talked, her conversation balloons went “handcuffs - prison - bomb - house - fire - bomb - fire” which I guess was simlish for “bring back my kid or I’ll get medieval on your ass!”
The conversations and dreams can be hilarious. One of my sims was obsessed with his elderly neighbor – he’d spy on him with his telescope and giggle about him, and then dream about the neighbor and himself (but his own image had an X through it), and then he’d dream about fire. His subconscious must have been punishing him for being a voyeur and telling him he was going to burn in hell…but the next day he’d be right back at the telescope, snickering at the old man. It was like the line from St. Paul: “the evil I do not want is what I do.” Poor tormented Sim.
He would also often talk to the neighbor lady of money…and then kissing. Maybe he thought she was a high-class hooker. (Nice lady, though – she never got offended.)
Something I’ve noticed is that after your Sim (call him Ed) gets into a fight with another Sim (call him Frank), Ed will frequently have a new aspiration: “See Frank’s ghost”. I guess there’s no ‘no wishing death’ rule in Sim City!
I was a tester for the Open For Business expansion and a couple of the item packs. In between testing other things, I decided to try to have lots of girlfriends at once. I created a dark elf seductress who got it on with Titania, Juliet (after sending her through college), the maid, the pizza girl, the gardener, a neighbor, and some chick who worked at a diner. They would all tolerate each other at parties, as long as no cuddling or anything happened. But as soon as there was so much as a quick peck on the lips, one of the other girlfriends would get mad and there’d be a giant furball. Sometimes when the dark elf was banging one of her girlfriends in the bedroom, another one would stop by with flowers, see through the window, then kick over the garbage can and run off.
My boss verified that you can, in fact, make a robot love slave.
Yep, another of my sims, Joey Ludd, kept to himself with his books and telescopes and his robotics workbench. After building robots to handle all the various household tasks, he built a female android, whom he named Rosie. The two fell in love, got married, and enjoyed a loving, romantic relationship until Joey grew old and died.
After a suitable mourning period, Rosie then built five male robots as her work-slaves and opened up a highly successful robot shop.
I’m still running just the Nightlife expansion pack, i have no interest in the Uni pack, but OFB looks interesting…
anyway…
one of my Sims was visited by one of the Contessas (Master Vampiress) at his home, she took an instant dislike to him, insulting, poking and slapping him, it was “Hate at first sight”, then out of the blue, she bites his neck, turning him into a vampire…
…needless to say, since this Sim was a Family aspiration Sim, being Vampirized pushed him into Aspiration Failure and drove him completely insane, after the Psychiatrist “cures” him, the Contessa walks back over to him…
…and then proceeds to beat him up…
I’ve had Sim kids throw temper tantrums when their parents get romantic, these are parents that are completely faithful to each other, who never so much as looked at another Sim or even thought about cheating, for some strange reason the kids just didn’t like seeing their parents display affection for each other
since most of my Sims have “Vampirism” as a turn-on, it’s funny to watch them go Downtown at night, and make a beeline to the nearest Vampire sim and attempt to chat them up, totally ignoring all the available Mortal Sims…
And if you have a cow plant they will have a want to drink them.
Another fun thing i’ve been doing in the game has been trying to spread one particular genetic pattern in each town…
one problem with custom skintones is that they breed “pure”, the custom skintone is dominant and will completely overwrite any of the Maxis skintones the custom Sim breeds with, so what i do is create a Sim with the custom skintone and breed them off with a Maxis skintone Sim in the Create-A-Sim screen, i then use the offspring as the user-created Sim (for example, combining a Nebari skintone (gray-skinned with silvery hair and black eyes) and Maxis Skintone 1)
the resulting second-generation Sim will show the custom skin, as it is dominant, but they will also be carrying the Maxis skintone and as a result, won’t only pass down the custom skintone, but will also pass down the recessive Maxis tone
In the towns, i’m trying to propogate the following genotypes;
Pleasantview; one of my Sims (Skintone 1) is married to Chiana (Nebari skin is dominant, recessive Skintone 4) from Farscape, i’m trying to spread the Nebari genotype there, their child, Nerri (dominant Nebari skintone, recessive Maxis 1 and 4), is already putting the moves on Marylena Hamilton (Skintone 3), once Nerri is old enough to actually reproduce, the children produced by him and Marylena could be anywhere between tones 1-4, and Nebari, any children produced by them will also carry the Nebari genotype, even if it’s become recessive
Strangetown; Alien invasion time (green skin, large black eyes, no nose, narrow chin), my primary Sim there is a female Asian type Sim, that thankfully inherited her Mom’s nose (no Micheal Jackson-esque Alien nose condition there), Dad’s skintone and eyes, and Mom’s facial features, so far, she’s produced more Alien toned kids than normal, she carries Skintone 3 and Alien, oh and she’s also a Vampire as well, she’s my user-controllable “Master Vampire”, a green-skinned Asian Vampire
Veronaville; nothing special here, haven’t decided what genetics to introduce here, maybe Scarran/Sebecean (i have a custom Scorpius skintone that would work well here)
so far, the biggest success has been the Alien invasion of Strangetown…
Why are you so obsolete, my computer, why? weeps softly
My favourite WTF occurence: the bear in a pink bow that comes tiptoeing along to your garbage and starts rooting through it/flinging it about before prancing off (I could be misremembering here, but I’m fairly certain I saw this).
In one of the versions of the older Sims, Makin’ Magic, there was all sorts of insane stuff going on…