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** ''Film/TheLifeAquatic'' and ''Film/TheGrandBudapestHotel'', in keeping with the general performance aesthetic of Creator/WesAnderson films. It especially applies to the latter, in which he plays a lawyer with a very precise method of speaking.

* The page quote references the fact that Creator/JeffGoldblum has this as his CharacteristicTrope whether he's playing a scientist or not -- but especially when he ''is'' playing someone who works in the sciences. The first character of that type he played was the developer of an artificial heart in 1981's ''Threshold''. Five years later, Goldblum's StarMakingRole turned out to be the DoomedProtagonist of ''Film/TheFly1986'' -- a reclusive quantum physicist who has created teleportation technology -- earmarking him as a go-to actor for similar roles. (That film also plays with the trope in that the character becomes even gabbier once he starts mutating into a HalfHumanHybrid of human and housefly.) It's easier to list significant roles in which he ''isn't'' this:
** ''Film/TheLifeAquatic''

** ''Film/{{Nashville}}'' in which he plays a silent motorcyclist who appears periodically in the background, and in transitions between scenes.
** ''Film/TheGrandBudapestHotel'', where he plays a lawyer with a very precise method of speaking.

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* Creator/JeffGoldblum has this as his CharacteristicTrope. It's easier to list the films where he ''doesn't'' do this:

** ''Film/EarthGirlsAreEasy'' arguably because he doesn't have much dialogue.
** ''Film/ManOfTheYear'' where he portrayed a ''very'' fast-talking corrupt CEO's assistant. No stuttering, no tripping over words, and he's speaking about twice as quickly as he does anywhere else.

** ''Film/TheGrandBudapestHotel'' where he plays a lawyer with a very precise method of speaking.

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* Mumbles on ''WesternAnimation/TheDickTrackyShow'' sounds like he swallowed a malfunctioning vocoder but he's quite the sharpie. He and Stooge Viller are holding the Retouchables (Hemlock Holmes' charges) for ransom, and he comes up with the idea to collect the ransom ''and'' rub them out. Stooge loves the idea.

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* Professor Mordin Solus does this constantly in ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' to the point where, at times, the player is given the option to interrupt him (two Paragon interrupts and a Renegade one in his first appearance).

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* Rick from ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty''. Granted, that show makes a point of averting RealisticDictionIsUnrealistic in general, but even ''then'', Rick gibbers a lot more than anyone else, often stopping only in order to belch, drink or fall asleep.

* Delbert in ''Disney/TreasurePlanet'' is an astrophysicist and constantly stammers. Considering he's played by DavidHydePierce that's unsurprising, though (apparently the role was written for him).

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** ''Film/TheGrandBudapestHotel''

If they're using a lot of big words, it's SesquipedalianLoquaciousness. If they're tossing out [[HollywoodTourettes swear words]] or slang just as frequently, they're SophisticatedAsHell. The opposite of this, where a character speaks in highly-calculated terms, is SpockSpeak.

** ''TheLifeAquatic''
** ''EarthGirlsAreEasy'' arguably because he doesn't have much dialogue.
** ''ManOfTheYear'' where he portrayed a ''very'' fast-talking corrupt CEO's assistant. No stuttering, no tripping over words, and he's speaking about twice as quickly as he does anywhere else.

** ''TheGrandBudapestHotel''

If they're using a lot of big words, it's SesquipedalianLoquaciousness. If they're tossing out [[TourettesShitcockSyndrome swear words]] or slang just as frequently, they're SophisticatedAsHell. The opposite of this, where a character speaks in highly-calculated terms, is SpockSpeak.

* Gaius Baltar of the ''[[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Battlestar Galactica]]'' remake. The SanitySlippage didn't help.

* Delbert in ''TreasurePlanet'' is an astrophysicist and constantly stammers. Considering he's played by DavidHydePierce that's unsurprising, though (apparently the role was written for him).

* Rick from ''RickAndMorty''. Granted, that show makes a point of averting RealisticDictionIsUnrealistic in general, but even ''then'', Rick gibbers a lot more than anyone else, often stopping only in order to belch, drink or fall asleep.

* Delbert in ''TreasurePlanet'' is an astrophysicist and constantly stammers. Considering he's played by DavidHydePierce that's unsurprising, though (apparently the role was written for him).

* Professor Mordin Solus does this constantly in ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' to the point where, at times, the player is given the option to interrupt him.
** Two PARAGON interrupts (and a Renegade one) in his first appearance.

* Many characters on AMC's ''{{Rubicon}},'' especially Will, Miles, and Ed.

* JeffGoldblum has this as his CharacteristicTrope. It's easier to list the films where he ''doesn't'' do this:

** This then carries over to ''MassEffect3'' when his patient calls him out on it, due to his rambling tendencies interfering with her sleep.