History Main / StimulantSpeedtalk

** Halfway through the road trip to San Francisco in "Recap/StewieGriffinTheUntoldStory", Stewie gets hold of some "West Coast Turnarounds" from a trucker to keep him awake on the journey to San Francisco. Unfortunately, after being advised to only take one, Stewie takes the entire bottle, then goes offroad. Consequently, Brian finds him so hopped up on amphetamines that he can only communicate by screaming at the top of his lungs at an absolutely furious pace, rambling on about how they share the Manifest Destiny spirit of the pioneers.

-->'''Strong Sad''': I feel great! I feel great! I feel great! I don't even watch football. I don't even watch football. I can't remember my legs!

Darker, more realistic portrayals of stimulants like meth may emphasize other notable symptoms alongside the ranting, namely aggression, emotional instability, paranoia, or even psychosis. A hallmark of the AddledAddict, the drug-fueled screeds are not automatic but prompted by something that happens to draw the user's ire, and is accompanied by anger, mean-spiritedness, and even violence.

* ''Film/LayerCake'': [[LondonGangster The Duke]] and [[DarkMistress Slasher]] are both encountered doing lines of coke early in the film, and probably do more offscreen given that both are prone to going on extremely loud, fast-paced rants at the slightest provocation. Mounting stress only makes them even more coke-addled and mouthy, especially once the Serbian gang they robbed sends an assassin after them. In their emergency meeting with Gene, Slasher goes off on a screaming rant that ends with her loudly and repeatedly threatening to go to the police, almost sounding like she's stuck on a loop. [[spoiler:It gets her shot in the head by Gene's bodyguard, who then guns down the Duke for good measure.]]

* In the ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'' novel "Brothers In Arms", Miles is captured by Komarran freedom fighters and interrogated under [[TruthSerum fast-penta]]. The drug ends up making him talk, but instead of about answering questions, it ends up making him speak of any subject that comes to mind from what he hears his interrogators say. Finally one person comments that this will take all winter, Miles connects that to the phrase "Now is the winter of our discontent", and ends up reciting the entirety of ''Theatre/RichardIII'' from memory, at which point they throw him back in his cell. Note that fast-penta is actually a ''sedative'', Miles just has messed up drug reactions from his screwy medical history.

* ''Series/{{House}}'': In "[[Recap/HouseS3E22Resignation Resignation]]", House spikes Wilson's coffee with amphetamines, resulting in him conducting conversations at a thousand miles an hour, being unable to stay on one topic, and frequently getting tripped up by what word to use. It's not until he belatedly notices his own erratic behavior that he takes stock of things, finds that he now has a heartrate of ''185 bpm'', realizes what's happened and goes to confront House about it -- resulting in the now-memetic line "I'm not on antidepressants, I'm on speeeeeeeeeed!"

* ''Series/{{Spaced}}'' bicycle messanger Tyres O'Flaherty is a raver, who suffers from side effects of long term stimulant abuse, which iclude dancing to random repeating sounds like ronging phones and traffic light beeps, and of course, talks like a storm.

* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'': In the sbemail "caffeine," a viewer suggests to Strong Bad that he slip Strong Sad some caffeine to make him less whiny. He stirs a few heaping spoonfuls of Sanka into Strong Sad's orange juice, which makes him hyperactive, twitchy and chattery.

* ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'' the review for ''New Guardians #2'' introduced the short-lived comic villain Snowflame, whose superpowers are fueled by cocaine. A version of the character, played by Linkara's friend then became a recurring character on the show, doing bombastic, nonsensical rants, often starting or ending with a dramatic [[ThirdPersonPerson "SNOWFLAME!"]]

** In "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS3E1TheThinWhiteLine The Thin White Line]]," Brian ends up accidentally getting exposed to cocaine while working as a police sniffer dog, and quickly descends into addiction. Consequently, he shows up at dinner while high and fires off a thirty-second-long monologue that begins with the awful things he saw at work and ends with a bizarre digression on "a damn oil spot on your cracked driveway, staring at you", resulting in a StunnedSilence.

---> '''Rosa:''' ''[rapidly]'' I don't think we're going fast at all in any way whatsoever. I feel like we're going slow in ''every'' way whatsoever.

-->'''Pinkie Pie''': You know what I can't stand?! Internet piracy! How would you like it if musicians stole from ''you? (to a green pony with sunglasses)'' What if Music/CannibalCorpse stole your precious glasses? ''(to Octavia)'' And you! What would you do if Music/RingoStarr just waltzed into your house and stole your...um...favorite dress?

-->'''Bullock''': Charlie. Charlie. Charlie. Charlie. Charlie. Listen to me. Charlie? CHARLIE! ... what was your name again?

In fiction, stimulants - especially illegal ones like speed, cocaine, and methamphetamine - are popularly stereotyped as magical conversation starters for drug addicts, inducing an irresistible urge to talk non-stop at high speed for hours on end, often about the most inconsequential things on the face of the Earth. In users who have been hit hard by the surge of confidence that comes with all that energy, it's not uncommon for them to rant grandiosely about their plans for the future - especially if the user has no intention of acting on these plans once they're sober. And sometimes, if high enough, the user might end up getting [[InVinoVeritas more honest than they'd have liked]].

* ''Film/TheBlackPhone'': Max has been doing his own coke-fueled amateur investigation of the Grabber child abductions, and babbles off his theories to the cops, who ignore him. It takes him a while, but [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight he's spot on]], and is happy to ramble through how he solved the case [[spoiler: only to get an axe in the head from his brother, who was the Grabber all along.]]

* ''Film/LayerCake'': [[LondonGangster The Duke]] and [[DarkMistress Slasher]] are both encountered doing lines of coke early in the film, and probably do more offscreen given that both are prone to going on extremely loud, fast-paced rants at the slightest provocation. Mounting stress only makes them even more coke-addled and mouthy, especially once the Serbian gang they robbed sends an assassin after them. In their emergency meeting with Gene, Slasher goes off on a screaming rant that ends with her loudly and repeatedly threatening to go to the police, almost sounding like she's stuck on a loop. [[spoiler: It gets her shot in the head by Gene's bodyguard, who then guns down the Duke for good measure.]]
* ''Film/RequiemForADream'': Anxious to fit into her red dress for a TV appearance, Sara Goldfarb tries losing weight with some heavy-duty diet pills [[NotUsingTheZWord heavily implied to be amphetamine]]. Consequently, when Harry comes to visit her, he can't help noticing just how exuberant and talkative she seems, asking him if he wants anything to eat or drink so quickly that he can barely keep up with her. Less amusingly, [[InVinoVeritas while still under the influence]], Sara ends up confessing to how lonely, purposeless, and miserable she is without something to hope for. As she ups her dosage over the next few weeks, she becomes more and more talkative, even when people clearly aren't interested, until [[spoiler: she's finally taken to a mental hospital with amphetamine psychosis.]]

** Tony Montana himself begins to exhibit this once he starts GettingHighOnTheirOwnSupply, though he substitutes high-speed conversation for protracted rambling and screamed diatribes. In particular, after taking a bump just prior to the car-bombing mission from Sosa, Tony begins quietly ranting [[spoiler: once he realizes that [[WouldNotHurtAChild there are two children]] in the car]] until he loses composure and starts screaming at Alberto. [[spoiler: Then he shoots Alberto in the head before he can trigger the bomb and ''continues'' shouting at the man's corpse.]]

** Very early on, [[MorallyBankruptBanker Mark Hanna]] attributes success as a stockbroker mainly to cocaine because it allows him the energy to talk non-stop for hours on end, and true to form, he can very suddenly amplify his volume and speed when properly fueled - even leading Jordan Belfort on a bizarre warmup exercise in the middle of a restaurant, scant minutes after availing himself to a tiny minispoon of coke.

* ''Series/OneThousandWaysToDie'': In "Micro-Whacked", Dennis the junkie tried a [[UndiscriminatingAddict random combination of drugs]] every night, including cocaine and crystal meth. After taking a drug cocktail that drastically slows down his perception of time, Dennis is shown talking on the phone at high speed. The Narrator even comments that people couldn't keep up with him. [[spoiler: Astonishingly enough, it's not the drugs that kill him, but his attempts to make his lava lamp go faster by heating it up in a microwave, resulting in an explosion.]]

* ''Series/CSIMiami:'' In "[[Recap/CSIMiamiS01E18 Dispo Day]]" [[spoiler: Calleigh]] begins talking non-stop after accidentally inhaling cocaine [[spoiler: while working a crime scene where the drug has been hidden]]. She even answers a polygraph examiner who asks if her name is [[spoiler: Calleigh Duquesne]] with "Yes. And my nickname is 'Lambchop'. But only my Dad calls me that!" then apologizes, saying she knows she's only supposed to give "yes" or "no" answers.

* ''Series/{{House}}'': In "[[Recap/HouseS3E22Resignation Resignation]]", House spikes Wilson's coffee with amphetamines, resulting in him conducting conversations at a thousand miles an hour, being unable to stay on one topic, and frequently getting tripped up by what word to use. It's not until he belatedly notices his own erratic behavior that he takes stock of things, finds that he now has a heartrate of ''185 bpm'', realizes what's happened and goes to confront House about it - resulting in the now-memetic line "I'm not on antidepressants, I'm on speeeeeeeeeed!"

[[folder: Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII'': The drug "SPANK" appears to be a stand-in for both cocaine and methamphetamine, and one of its side-effects appears to be diarrhea of the mouth: one addict calls ''[[Radio/GTARadio Chatterbox]]'' with a claim that SPANK isn't bad for you at all, only to demand why Lazlo hasn't answered him in the space of a second and call him a pansy, before ranting about how toothpaste is used to control the masses. [[spoiler: Less amusingly, the mission "Kingdom Come" features the player being attacked by SPANK-crazed suicide bombers who scream nonsense as they swarm you from all angles.]]

* ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'': the ''Citadel'' DLC reveals that Kaiden Alenko turns out to be a tad dependent on coffee in the mornings, and [[NotSoAboveItAll in sharp contrast to his sober, responsible usual self]], the caffeine makes him babble at high speed to anyone else who might want coffee - interspersed with queries of "am I being too loud?"

* ''WebVideo/WhatTheFuckIsWrongWithYou'': In the "Rainbow Cringe" episode, Nash and Tara cover an incident in which a man was caught smuggling twenty-three pounds of cocaine through an airport via his wheelchair. While reflecting on [[StupidCrooks how stupid the guy must have been]] to think that TSA personnel wouldn't search his wheelchair, Nash speculates that he must have been ''on'' cocaine when he came up with the idea ''and'' when he went through the airport - and was probably caught because he was trying too hard to look sober. Nash and Tara then provide their best impression of the perpetrator babbling on about the colour of his wheelchair and sniffing loudly.

-->--'''Creator/RobinWilliams,''' ''A Night At The Met''

Darker, more realistic portrayals of stimulants like meth may emphasize other notable symptoms alongside the ranting, namely aggression, emotional instability, paranoia, or even psychosis. A hallmark of the AddledAddict, the drug-fueled screeds are not automatic but prompted by something that happens to draw the user's ire, and accompanied by anger, mean-spiritedness, and even violence.

* ''Series/BoardwalkEmpire'': Al Capone is seen snorting coke at various points in the series, and as his usage increases, he can frequently be found ranting on at high speed, usually accompanied by several loud sniffs. By the time of his meeting with Luciano in "[[Recap/BoardwalkEmpireS5E04Cuanto Cuanto]]", Capone can barely stop sniffing or stop talking, even while showing off a newsreel of his most famous crimes, indicating his mind is beginning to suffer as a result. [[note]] In the real world, Capone's use of cocaine is still debated: he was diagnosed with a deviated septum and his behavior did become more volatile over the years, but both symptoms can be attributed to his untreated [=STIs=] and prison doctors claimed to have found no evidence of narcotics abuse during his routine physicals.[[/note]]

* Creator/BillBailey will infrequently joke about cocaine usage, which usually feature the intoxicated character talking about everything at high speed, usually while going on insanely energetic walks. In ''Cosmic Jam,'' his version of the Nativity features Mary and Joseph's donkey doing a line of cocaine, getting them to Bethlehem in record time, and spending the rest of the stay with a massive nosebleed, all while holding a sheep in a headlock and repeatedly babbling "You're family, you are!"
* Creator/GeorgeCarlin had a routine about big pharma making drug use socially acceptable. Diet pills marketed to housewives had a stimulant side-effect that caused rapid speech. Carlin mimics a son wondering why his mother is behaving oddly: "What's this, Mom? Shopping at midnight?" The reply is a flurry of syllables that explain everything, including contingencies, in less than ten seconds. Then, *zip* Mom's out the door and gone.

* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'': In the sbemail “caffeine,” a viewer suggests to Strong Bad that he slip Strong Sad some caffeine to make him less whiny. He stirs a few heaping spoonfuls of Sanka into Strong Sad’s orange juice, which makes him hyperactive, twitchy and chattery.

-->'''Strong Sad''': I feel great! I feel great! I feel great! I don’t even watch football. I don’t even watch football. I can’t remember my legs!

* Website/CollegeHumor's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP_aGGgR4Vs The Roast Of Weed]]" gives us a depiction of a bag of cocaine, personifying the drug as a very fast talker and taking deep breaths in between sentences. After being well for about 20 seconds, it eventually faints after the rapid fire roasting it gives weed.