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'''Leela:''' It's ocean madness all right, the sailors call it "Aqua Dementia". The deep-down crazies, the wet willies, the screaming moist...\\

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-->'''Fry:''' Every time something good happens to me you say I have some kind of madness. Or I'm drunk. Or I ate too much candy.\\
'''Leela:''' It's ocean madness all right, the sailors call it "Aqua Dementia". The deep down crazies, the wet willies, the screaming moist...

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-->'''Fry:''' Every time something good happens to me me, you say I have it's some kind of madness. Or I'm drunk. Or I ate too much candy. Well, I saw a real mermaid and I wish just once my friends would have the decency and kindness to believe me.\\
'''Leela:''' Ocean madness. [Fry storms out of the room]\\
'''Farnsworth:''' He may have ocean madness, but that's no excuse for ocean rudeness.
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'''Leela:''' It's ocean madness all right, the sailors call it "Aqua Dementia". The deep down deep-down crazies, the wet willies, the screaming moist...\\
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* Referenced in ''WesternAnimation/TheRoadToElDorado'' after Miguel, Tulio, and their horse Al Tivo have been floating for God-knows how long and then suddenly wash ashore:

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* One of the most infamous examples is the claim that sailors in previous centuries thought they had seen mermaids while at sea. It's generally assumed that they actually just saw manatees who feed their young in a manner that resembles a human female breastfeeding her baby. Still, you have to be pretty insane to confuse a manatee for a human female, or at least imaginative and needing tales to awe landlubbers with. That, or [[SituationalSexuality very very desperate.]] Columbus wrote in his log "I have seen the mermaids, and they are not so beautiful as tales tell."

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* One of the most infamous examples is the claim that sailors in previous centuries thought they had seen mermaids while at sea. It's generally assumed that they actually just saw manatees who feed their young in a manner that resembles a human female woman breastfeeding her baby. Still, you have to be pretty insane to confuse a manatee for a human female, or at least imaginative and needing tales to awe landlubbers with. That, or [[SituationalSexuality very very desperate.]] Columbus wrote in his log "I have seen the mermaids, and they are not so beautiful as tales tell."
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--> I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
--> And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by,
--> And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking,
--> And a grey mist on the sea's face and a grey dawn breaking.

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And a grey mist on the sea's face and a grey dawn breaking.



-->'''Pyke:''' Bottom of the sea's the top of another world.

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* ''Film/TheMercy:'' Donald Crowhurst is taking part in a solo yacht race around the world, and, if all goes well, will be at sea for eight months, all by himself. All does not go well, and this does his mental health no good.

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* The living skeleton Brook from ''Manga/OnePiece''. After coming BackFromTheDead with his Devil Fruit power, Brook spent fifty years [[GoMadFromTheIsolation completely alone]] trapped in the Florian Triangle because of his ship's broken rudder leaving him stranded. He's not completely mad, but he has suffered SanitySlippage that left him with NoSocialSkills and occasional hallucinations before meeting the Straw Hat Pirates.



* The living skeleton Brook from ''Manga/OnePiece''. After coming BackFromTheDead with his Devil Fruit power, Brook spent fifty years [[GoMadFromTheIsolation completely alone]] trapped in the Florian Triangle because of his ship's broken rudder leaving him stranded. He's not completely mad, but he has suffered SanitySlippage that left him with NoSocialSkills and occasional hallucinations before meeting the Straw Hat Pirates.



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* ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'': Prince Eric wakes up on the beach and starts talking about being rescued by a girl, Grimsby replies, "I think you've swallowed a bit too much seawater."



* ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'': Prince Eric wakes up on the beach and starts talking about being rescued by a girl, Grimsby replies, "I think you've swallowed a bit too much seawater."



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* In the TV-movie of ''Noah's Ark'', after the rain ends, the ark drifts for weeks across a sun-drenched and scientifically impossibly ''dead calm'' sea, and Noah and his sons and daughters-in-law all gradually go around the bend. However, Noah's ''wife'', being the Mommeee, is supposed to be an infinite source of self-sacrificing nurturance, so when ''she'' starts to crack, all the other characters stare at her in shocked amazement and suddenly go sane again.






* ''Literature/TheRimeOfTheAncientMariner'' is essentially about a crazy old man accosting a random guy in the street and making him listen to an extremely gruesome experience of Ocean Madness. Hopefully. Because if he was actually sane when he saw all that stuff out there...
** The fact that [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld the Mariner might be close to a thousand years old]] would seem to corroborate his story, unless every single detail, including when it happened, is a hallucination.
* In Creator/ChinaMieville's ''Literature/TheScar'', Hedrigall decides to leave Armada, the floating city, and spends some time alone at sea. After he is found he has been driven mad by [[DoomedHometown seeing his entire city destroyed]].

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* ''Literature/TheRimeOfTheAncientMariner'' is essentially about a crazy old man accosting a random guy in ''Literature/BruceCovillesBookOf Spine Tinglers'': The crew of the street and making him listen to an extremely gruesome ''Jenny Nettles'' experience of Ocean Madness. Hopefully. Because if he was actually sane this when he saw they're stuck at sea, with no wind and all that stuff out there...
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their fresh water gone. The fact that [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld experience leads to most of them quitting the Mariner might be close to a thousand years old]] would seem to corroborate his story, unless every single detail, including when it happened, is a hallucination.
* In Creator/ChinaMieville's ''Literature/TheScar'', Hedrigall decides to leave Armada,
sea for good after the floating city, and spends some time alone at sea. After he is found he has been driven mad by [[DoomedHometown seeing his entire city destroyed]].voyage.



* Captain Wolf Larson, in Jack London's novel ''Literature/TheSeaWolf'', starts off as a sadistic NietzscheWannabe, but degenerates into a full-blown psychopath with a [[DeathSeeker death wish]].

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* Captain Wolf Larson, Creator/TerryPratchett mentioned the phenomenon in Jack London's novel ''Literature/TheSeaWolf'', starts off ''Literature/GoingPostal'', where he uses it as an analogy for what happens to clacks operators after a sadistic NietzscheWannabe, while.
* In ''Literature/{{Jam}}'', the main character, Travis, having managed to barely escape a small scale apocalypse
but degenerates into losing several friends in the process, finds himself stuck floating on a full-blown psychopath lifeboat with his only company being a spider he brought along in a box. It doesn't take long for Travis, who already struggles with a [[DeathSeeker death wish]].severe case of SurvivorGuilt, to crack completely and start talking to himself and even misattributing his own replies to his ''spider''.
* Likely happened to Pi in ''Literature/LifeOfPi'', becoming most of the conflict in the story (the rest being stuck on a boat with [[PantheraAwesome a tiger]].)
* ''Literature/MobyDick'': By the end of the tale, almost everyone has succumbed to this to varying degrees, even Ishmael. The only ''possible'' exceptions are Starbuck, by virtue of being the OnlySaneMan, and Ahab himself, who was already crazy before he even got on the boat.



* Creator/TerryPratchett had already mentioned the phenomenon in ''Literature/GoingPostal'', where he uses it as an analogy for what happens to clacks operators after a while.
* Likely happened to Pi in ''Literature/LifeOfPi'', becoming most of the conflict in the story (the rest being stuck on a boat with [[PantheraAwesome a tiger]].)

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* Creator/TerryPratchett had already mentioned the phenomenon in ''Literature/GoingPostal'', where he uses it as an analogy for what happens to clacks operators In ''Literature/ThePaintedCanoe'', Zachariah recounts how a friend of his named Seahorse went mad after being stranded at sea for a while.
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long period of time (then went even ''more'' insane on discovering upon his eventual arrival home that his girlfriend had hooked up with a younger man). Zachariah himself almost succumbs to Pi in ''Literature/LifeOfPi'', becoming most of this, but forcibly averts this by pointedly thinking about the conflict worst memory in his life, [[TearJerker the death of his infant daughter]].
* ''Literature/TheRimeOfTheAncientMariner'' is essentially about a crazy old man accosting a random guy
in the story (the rest being stuck on street and making him listen to an extremely gruesome experience of Ocean Madness. Hopefully. Because if he was actually sane when he saw all that stuff out there...
** The fact that [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld the Mariner might be close to
a boat with [[PantheraAwesome thousand years old]] would seem to corroborate his story, unless every single detail, including when it happened, is a tiger]].)hallucination.
* In Creator/ChinaMieville's ''Literature/TheScar'', Hedrigall decides to leave Armada, the floating city, and spends some time alone at sea. After he is found he has been driven mad by [[DoomedHometown seeing his entire city destroyed]].



* Captain Wolf Larson, in Jack London's novel ''Literature/TheSeaWolf'', starts off as a sadistic NietzscheWannabe, but degenerates into a full-blown psychopath with a [[DeathSeeker death wish]].



* In ''Literature/{{Jam}}'', the main character, Travis, having managed to barely escape a small scale apocalypse but losing several friends in the process, finds himself stuck floating on a lifeboat with his only company being a spider he brought along in a box. It doesn't take long for Travis, who already struggles with a severe case of SurvivorGuilt, to crack completely and start talking to himself and even misattributing his own replies to his ''spider''.
* ''Literature/MobyDick'': By the end of the tale, almost everyone has succumbed to this to varying degrees, even Ishmael. The only ''possible'' exceptions are Starbuck, by virtue of being the OnlySaneMan, and Ahab himself, who was already crazy before he even got on the boat.
* In ''Literature/ThePaintedCanoe'', Zachariah recounts how a friend of his named Seahorse went mad after being stranded at sea for a long period of time (then went even ''more'' insane on discovering upon his eventual arrival home that his girlfriend had hooked up with a younger man). Zachariah himself almost succumbs to this, but forcibly averts this by pointedly thinking about the worst memory in his life, [[TearJerker the death of his infant daughter]].
* ''Literature/BruceCovillesBookOf Spine Tinglers'': The crew of the ''Jenny Nettles'' experience this when they're stuck at sea, with no wind and all their fresh water gone. The experience leads to most of them quitting the sea for good after the voyage.



* In the TV-movie of ''Noah's Ark'', after the rain ends, the ark drifts for weeks across a sun-drenched and scientifically impossibly ''dead calm'' sea, and Noah and his sons and daughters-in-law all gradually go around the bend. However, Noah's ''wife'', being the Mommeee, is supposed to be an infinite source of self-sacrificing nurturance, so when ''she'' starts to crack, all the other characters stare at her in shocked amazement and suddenly go sane again.

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* In the TV-movie of ''Noah's Ark'', after the rain ends, the ark drifts for weeks across a sun-drenched and scientifically impossibly ''dead calm'' sea, and Noah and his sons and daughters-in-law all gradually go around the bend. However, Noah's ''wife'', being the Mommeee, is supposed ''Series/AltaMar'': Seems to be an infinite source of self-sacrificing nurturance, so when ''she'' starts to crack, all the other characters stare afflict Captain Santiago at her in shocked amazement and suddenly go sane again.least once a season.



* ''Series/AltaMar'': Seems to afflict Captain Santiago at least once a season.



* The background for the villain Cannibal from the Dark TabletopGame/{{Champions}} sourcebook ''Murder's Row'' involves him going mad while stranded on the ocean in a lifeboat and discovering he has [[IAmAHumanitarian taste for human flesh...]]

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* The background for the villain Cannibal from the Dark TabletopGame/{{Champions}} ''Dark TabletopGame/{{Champions}}'' sourcebook ''Murder's Row'' involves him going mad while stranded on the ocean in a lifeboat and discovering he has [[IAmAHumanitarian taste for human flesh...]]



* ''VideoGame/SunlessSea'', the ''VideoGame/FallenLondon'' spinoff. "Go Insane, Eat Your Crew" is one of its main slogans, and indeed one of the major challenges of the game is keeping the terror of the Unterzee - the vast underground windless waveless dark monster-infested sea said to be the skull of a dead god - from driving your crew violently insane. Venture up to the safer, choppier seas of the ''surface'' and something similar applies; you and your crew are too much part of the Neath now and sunlight is harmful, dazing everyone to the point that they aren't afraid as their fellows start dying of it.



* ''VideoGame/SunlessSea'', the ''VideoGame/FallenLondon'' spinoff. "Go Insane, Eat Your Crew" is one of its main slogans, and indeed one of the major challenges of the game is keeping the terror of the Unterzee - the vast underground windless waveless dark monster-infested sea said to be the skull of a dead god - from driving your crew violently insane. Venture up to the safer, choppier seas of the ''surface'' and something similar applies; you and your crew are too much part of the Neath now and sunlight is harmful, dazing everyone to the point that they aren't afraid as their fellows start dying of it.



* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Homer, Bart, Ned and Todd start to succumb to this after they get stranded out at sea in a raft.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Homer, Bart, Ned One episode subplot of ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'' has Carl, Sheen and Todd start to succumb to this after they get Libby stranded out at sea in Jimmy's hovercraft, after it runs out of gas. Before long, the subject of cannibalism is brought up, and Sheen tries to harm Carl when he finds out that he sneaked in candy bars. Libby, who was being the rational one up to that point, wants Carl alive because he might have more food and they gang up on him.
* In ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', after the hijacked ship Stan took over during his Jesus phase blows up due to Jeff not checking the temperature of the engines, Steve and Roger (with
a raft.wild wolf Roger picked up) are stranded on a boat in the middle of the ocean. Coupled with Roger's abysmal skills at survival, he is afflicted with insanity for drinking sea water and ends up skinning the wild wolf alive because it found out his "secret" whatever that was.



* ''WesternAnimation/XavierRenegadeAngel'' has a variant. (''SAAAAAAAND MADNESS!'')



* One episode subplot of ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'' has Carl, Sheen and Libby stranded out at sea in Jimmy's hovercraft, after it runs out of gas. Before long, the subject of cannibalism is brought up, and Sheen tries to harm Carl when he finds out that he sneaked in candy bars. Libby, who was being the rational one up to that point, wants Carl alive because he might have more food and they gang up on him.
* In ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', after the hijacked ship Stan took over during his Jesus phase blows up due to Jeff not checking the temperature of the engines, Steve and Roger (with a wild wolf Roger picked up) are stranded on a boat in the middle of the ocean. Coupled with Roger's abysmal skills at survival, he is afflicted with insanity for drinking sea water and ends up skinning the wild wolf alive because it found out his "secret" whatever that was.

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* One episode subplot of ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'' has Carl, Sheen In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Homer, Bart, Ned and Libby Todd start to succumb to this after they get stranded out at sea in Jimmy's hovercraft, after it runs out of gas. Before long, the subject of cannibalism is brought up, and Sheen tries to harm Carl when he finds out that he sneaked in candy bars. Libby, who was being the rational one up to that point, wants Carl alive because he might have more food and they gang up on him.
a raft.
* In ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', after the hijacked ship Stan took over during his Jesus phase blows up due to Jeff not checking the temperature of the engines, Steve and Roger (with ''WesternAnimation/XavierRenegadeAngel'' has a wild wolf Roger picked up) are stranded on a boat in the middle of the ocean. Coupled with Roger's abysmal skills at survival, he is afflicted with insanity for drinking sea water and ends up skinning the wild wolf alive because it found out his "secret" whatever that was.variant. (''SAAAAAAAND MADNESS!'')

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* Coffey in ''Film/TheAbyss'' quickly descends into ocean madness - High-Pressure Nervous Syndrome, to be precise.
* ''Film/CabinBoy'' has an extended ocean madness scene that involves a tobacco spitting, foul-mouthed cupcake.
* Tom Hanks again in ''Film/JoeVersusTheVolcano'', after days of solitude, dehydration, and exhausting the entertainment potential in his luggage.
* ''Film/TheLighthouse'' takes place on a tiny island. The two lighthouse keepers are [[ClosedCircle trapped by a storm]]. [[spoiler: Neither man seems especially sane to begin with]], and the madness that overwhelms them is characterized by oceanic themes and imagery.
* ''Film/MasterAndCommander: [[ColonCancer The Far Side of the World]]'' has a significant subplot concerning an officer who comes to believe he is a curse on the ship. [[spoiler: [[DrivenToSuicide He kills himself.]]]]



* Tom Hanks again in ''Film/JoeVersusTheVolcano'', after days of solitude, dehydration, and exhausting the entertainment potential in his luggage.



* ''Film/MasterAndCommander: [[ColonCancer The Far Side of the World]]'' has a significant subplot concerning an officer who comes to believe he is a curse on the ship. [[spoiler: [[DrivenToSuicide He kills himself.]]]]
* Coffey in ''Film/TheAbyss'' quickly descends into ocean madness - High-Pressure Nervous Syndrome, to be precise.



* ''Film/CabinBoy'' has an extended ocean madness scene that involves a tobacco spitting, foul-mouthed cupcake.

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* ''Literature/BruceCovillesBookOf Spine Tinglers'': The crew of the ''Jenny Nettles'' experience this when they're stuck at sea, with no wind and all their fresh water gone. The experience leads to most of them quitting the sea for good after the voyage.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', after the hijacked ship Stan took over during his Jesus phase blows up due to Jeff not checking the temperature of the engines, Steve and Roger are stranded on a boat in the middle of the ocean. Coupled with Roger's abysmal skills at survival, he is afflicted with insanity and ends up skinning a wild wolf alive because it found out his "secret" whatever that was.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', after the hijacked ship Stan took over during his Jesus phase blows up due to Jeff not checking the temperature of the engines, Steve and Roger (with a wild wolf Roger picked up) are stranded on a boat in the middle of the ocean. Coupled with Roger's abysmal skills at survival, he is afflicted with insanity for drinking sea water and ends up skinning a the wild wolf alive because it found out his "secret" whatever that was.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'': The StoryWithinAStory ''Tales of the Black Freighter'' is about a sailor who's marooned on a deserted island by pirates who killed everyone else aboard his ship and the increasingly desperate and insane things that he does to survive and get home to his wife and children. In the end, he make it home but almost murders his wife (after murdering a random stranger that he believed to be a pirate) only to realize that driving him to such insanity was the pirates' actual goal all along, and he voluntarily joins their crew.
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Related to SpaceMadness.

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Compare CabinFever, EldritchOceanAbyss (for when a trip to the bottom of the ocean drives you mad for more explicit reasons).

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* One of the most infamous examples is the claim that sailors in previous centuries thought they had seen mermaids while at sea. It's generally assumed that they actually just saw manatees who feed their young in a manner that resembles a human female breastfeeding her baby. Still, you have to pretty insane to confuse a manatee with a human female. Either that or [[SituationalSexuality very very desperate.]] Columbus wrote in his log "I have seen the mermaids, and they are not so beautiful as tales tell."

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* One of the most infamous examples is the claim that sailors in previous centuries thought they had seen mermaids while at sea. It's generally assumed that they actually just saw manatees who feed their young in a manner that resembles a human female breastfeeding her baby. Still, you have to be pretty insane to confuse a manatee with for a human female. Either that female, or at least imaginative and needing tales to awe landlubbers with. That, or [[SituationalSexuality very very desperate.]] Columbus wrote in his log "I have seen the mermaids, and they are not so beautiful as tales tell.""
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* One episode subplot of ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius has Carl, Sheen and Libby stranded out at sea in Jimmy's hovercraft, after it runs out of gas. Before long, the subject of cannibalism is brought up, and Sheen tries to harm Carl when he finds out that he was carrying candy bars on him. Libby, who was being the rational one up to that point, wants Carl alive because he might have more food and they gang up on him.

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* The living skeleton Brook from ''Manga/OnePiece''. After coming BackFromTheDead with his Devil Fruit power, Brook spent fifty years [[GoMadFromTheIsolation completely alone]] trapped in the Florian Triangle because of his ship's broken rudder leaving him stranded. He's not completely mad, but he has suffered SanitySlippage that left him with NoSocialSkills and occasional hallucinations before meeting the Straw Hat Pirates.
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* ''Series/AltaMar'': Seems to afflict Captain Santiago at least once a season.
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* In ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'' when Prince Eric wakes up on the beach and starts talking about being rescued by a girl, Grimsby replies, "I think you've swallowed a bit too much seawater."

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* In ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'' when ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'': Prince Eric wakes up on the beach and starts talking about being rescued by a girl, Grimsby replies, "I think you've swallowed a bit too much seawater."
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* Creator/TerryPratchett had already mentioned the phenomenon in ''Discworld/GoingPostal'', where he uses it as an analogy for what happens to clacks operators after a while.

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[[caption-width-right:350:"Don't drink the ocean, K'nuckles! Seawater makes you crazy! Look at me! I've been drinking it for hours!!! NYEHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"]]



->''"Don't drink the ocean, K'nuckles! Seawater makes you crazy! Look at me! I've been drinking it for hours!!! NYEHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"''
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[[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Note, however, that ocean madness is no excuse for ocean rudeness]].

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[[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Note, however, that ocean madness is no excuse for ocean rudeness]].
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* An anti-OceanMadness might be Jack's locker-induced madness at the beginning of ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd'' -- apparently, Hell for a pirate is an endless barren salt flat, far from any sea.

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* An anti-OceanMadness anti-Ocean Madness might be Jack's locker-induced madness at the beginning of ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd'' -- apparently, Hell for a pirate is an endless barren salt flat, far from any sea.



* Coffey in ''Film/TheAbyss'' quickly descends into ocean madness - High Pressure Nervous Syndrome, to be precise.

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* Coffey in ''Film/TheAbyss'' quickly descends into ocean madness - High Pressure High-Pressure Nervous Syndrome, to be precise.



* ''Film/CabinBoy'' has an extended ocean madness scene that involves a tobacco spitting, foul mouthed cupcake.

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* ''Film/CabinBoy'' has an extended ocean madness scene that involves a tobacco spitting, foul mouthed foul-mouthed cupcake.

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