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* ''Fanfic/TheHeroesOfLegend'' has a few members of the Rising Sun Company get into an argument over whether a circle has no corners or infinite corners. Hilda is the one who starts the argument (by saying her constant corner-cutting is justified because life, [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing being a circle]], shouldn't have any to begin with), but Linhardt and Annette are the ones who seem to actually care about determining what the answer is. Meanwhile, [[StraightMan Teba]] is thoroughly unimpressed.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'': Most of Henchmen 21 and 24's conversations fall into this category. (Read: All)

* Nearly all of the dialogue in ''Film/Ghostbusters2016'' was improvised by the actors, and so most conversations in the movie end up being this, which is one of several reasons the movie didn't do well with viewers or critics with a common criticism being that converations in the film go on far too long without actually being funny or establishing anything plot-relevant.

* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind'' has two started up by Guido Mista, one about the lifestyles of vegan and the other about how humans would taste terrible because they eat meat.

* In ''VisualNovel/{{Misericorde}}'', Sister Hedwig's first luncheon with the other nuns has Sister Eustace mention that she helped prepare the meal by killing the duck. After explaining that she does this so Sister Darcy--who raises, names, and cares for the abbey's ducks--won't be saddened by having to kill the duck herself, the conversation shifts to a hypothetical discussion of how many ducks it would take to overwhelm Eustace in a fight, with Eustace eventually claiming that she could hold her own against an infinite number of ducks.

* ''VideoGame/BattlefieldBadCompany'':
-->''"So, you're saying that the rainbow sprinkle is the way forward with the jelly doughnut?"''

%%* Anything Barris says in ''Film/AScannerDarkly''.

* The prologue of ''[[Literature/{{Baccano}} Baccano! 2002: Bullet Garden]]'' goes meta when several members of the Mask Makers have a rambling conversation about rambling conversations in Creator/QuentinTarantino flicks, which devolves into an argument over which one of them gets to be Steve Buscemi.

* Almost every episode of ''Anime/CuteHighEarthDefenseClubLOVE!'' opens with this, or these conversations are involved in the episode. Often times, the pointless deep philosophizing about foodstuffs or other things [[spoiler:can double as foreshadowing.]]

* ''Literature/{{Bakemonogatari}}'': The majority of the show is nothing but this trope, occurring over a selection of gorgeous backgrounds. When characters actually ''act'' on the results of these conversations, it sometimes feels out of character (especially since many problems can in fact be solved by talking).

* ''Fanfic/FantasyOfUtterRidiculousness:'' An encounter between [[VideoGame/{{Touhou}} Alice, Marisa, Patchouli and Reisen]] degenerates into a drawn-out argument, the topics of which range from Marisa's thieving tendencies to Reisen's memetic "useless little bunny" status.

* ''FanFic/ManehattansLoneGuardian'': Gray and Leviathan get into a discussion[[note]]''not'' an argument[[/note]] as to whether the white undersuit the latter wears is a unitard or a bodysuit, a discussion that goes all over the place and makes on-lookers think they're taking part in impromptu vaudeville.

* In ''Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'', when Zaphod's about to plummet to his death, Ford tries to engage him in a conversation about the etymology of one of Zaphod's exclamations.

* Most conversations in ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' are this, mostly due to ZUN's incorrigible desire to include as many {{Shout Out}}s and mythology references as physically possible.

-->'''Bodyguard #2:''' If there is, I don't wanna hear it.

-->'''Carla:''' Today it's how many bolts are in the floor at Boston Park, tomorrow it'll be "if the ''Brady Bunch'' crashes in the Andes and has to eat each other to survive, who'll they eat first?

* In ''Film/CarryOnMatron'' when Ernie, Sid and Freddy are coming up with a plan to rob the hospital, Ernie mentions how his mother gave birth to him on top of a bus "Number 73. bang in the middle of Brixton high street". They begin arguing over which buses go where.

* ''LightNovel/{{Bakemonogatari}}'': The majority of the show is nothing but this trope, occurring over a selection of gorgeous backgrounds. When characters actually ''act'' on the results of these conversations, it sometimes feels out of character (especially since many problems can in fact be solved by talking).

* The prologue of ''[[LightNovel/{{Baccano}} Baccano! 2002: Bullet Garden]]'' goes meta when several members of the Mask Makers have a rambling conversation about rambling conversations in Creator/QuentinTarantino flicks, which devolves into an argument over which one of them gets to be Steve Buscemi.

* The titular character of ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'' often engages in these during otherwise heated moments, overlapping them with CasualDangerDialog. He'll quite frequently spend good portions of a firefight attempting to remember an obscure piece of pop-culture trivia, roping in his colleagues who couldn't care less.

* Happens often in ''Series/RedDwarf''. One example is the discussion between Cat and Lister about [[PerverseSexualLust who out of Wilma Flintstone and Betty Rubble is more attractive]]. This scene was used more or less verbatim in [[AlternateContinuity the novels]], only {{justified}} because Lister and Cat were both tripping balls on painkillers at the time.

* The game ''VideoGame/DeadlyPremonition'' starts off with protagonist York driving to his latest case while talking with someone on the phone about how Tom and Jerry are in a co-dependent relationship, though we only ever hear ''his'' side of the conversation. This also pops up during the main game, as when the player is driving somewhere without using fast-travel York will often strike up a conversation with his [[spoiler:not-so]] imaginary friend Zach about one obscure movie or another. In this case it's more a Seinfeldian Monologue.

* The parody novel ''The Dragon With The Girl Tattoo'' has a chapter where Helltrik Vagner talks about how, after the human civilisation was overthrown, "Several decades passed before proper intensive factory farming of goats, sheeps and pigs was established." Kaal corrects him on the pluralisation of "sheep", leading to [[OverlyLongGag a three-and-a-half page argument on the subject.]] Of course, anyone familiar with ''Literature/TheMillenniumTrilogy'' can spot the {{foreshadowing}} here.

* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD25aAsDqZ8 "animal crackers" segment]] in ''Film/{{Armageddon}}''.

* In ''Film/JudasKiss'', just about any conversation with Ruben is guaranteed to go off an a tangent that makes sense to no one but Ruben, and usually leaves his partners wondering how they ended up here. One example of this is when Junior and Ruben are driving back from the ransom pickup and Junior tries to make a point about TheCaper by referring to the Creator/ErrolFlynn picture ''Film/ObectiveBurma''. Before he can finish his point, Ruben interrupts to ask if Errol Flynn as gay. This then segues into a long story about his mother and why he hates old movies ever since her learned Creator/RockHudson and Creator/CaryGrant were gay. [[spoiler:Especially poignant as it is Ruben's last conversation, as Junior shoots him the head partway through.]]

* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' loves this trope. It is incredibly telling that for all that occurred, episode 100 ended the same way episode 1 began, with one character asking another "why are we here?" and receiving a rambling answer with no relevance whatsoever to the question.

* In an earlier episode of ''Machinima/ChronicleOfTheAnnoyingQuest'', the male members of the group have a heated discussion about Series/DoctorWho.

* ''VisualNovel/AceAttorney'': Through the entire series, the PlayerCharacter lawyer and his partner are often prone to going into strange tangents every once in a while; the most common of these being [[RunningGag the eternal ladder vs stepladder debate]].