CLEVELAND ― Late Monday night, journalist Jarrett Hill was the first to flag some striking similarities between Melania Trump’s speech at the Republican National Convention and one delivered by Michelle Obama at the Democratic National Convention in 2008. Almost immediately, the RNC media pen was consumed by a plagiarism scandal.

Trump’s campaign team was quick to deny the allegations. But even if it did have the gumption to boost a few passages from the first lady and pass them off as Melania’s, it was far from the most remarkable occurrence on the RNC’s kickoff day. Here are a handful of episodes that were significantly wackier than Mrs. Trump’s appropriation at the podium.