Outline Stroke Behaving Strangely

[andrewcucco]

When I use outline stroke, it's creating points in a very strange way. In my image where I marked 1 and 2, you can see that it doesn't make sense why it would be placing the points in that order. I'm having a little trouble describing the issue but hopefully someone can get the idea from the images. In the last image I used the smooth line tool and you can see outline stroke is placing the points weird. It's never done this before.

[Monika Gause]

What is that? A calligraphy brush?

[andrewcucco]

I think it is, it's one of the default brushes, 5 pt. round. It doesn't do it with basic stroke, but it's also never done this before with that brush

[Monika Gause]

Then just assign a plain stroke instead of that brush before outlining. 

[andrewcucco]

I suppose I'll have to start doing that. It's just strange because those brushes have never done that before when outlining. I also figured out that pathfinder merge fixes the issue for the most part.