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1%% Trope was declared Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease via crowner by the Real Life Maintenance thread: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/crowner.php?crowner_id=g3b7mhvj
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3->''"Wonderful! Time for a celebration!'' '''''Cheese for everyone!''''' ''Wait, scratch that! Cheese for no one! That could be just as much of a celebration if you don't like cheese, true?"''
4-->-- '''[[MadGod Sheogorath]]''', ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion''
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6When TV characters are meant to be completely, irretrievably unhinged, and it's inconvenient (as it would be in 95% of television scenes) to have them exhibit typical deranged behavior such as detached wandering, violent outbursts or obsessive drawing/crocheting/self-mutilation/etc, the general method for conveying their insanity is to have them constantly spout rambling incoherent phrases, e.g. "The avenue is clear and we must use it to convert the extra limbs... not yet, though, not until the pastor has been distracted, or do they have the right parts? White fish elephant man which was lettuce matrix!"
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8Quite transparent and distracting, for the most part.
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10Talkative Loons can sometimes actually be misunderstood {{Waif Prophet}}s; it can be hard to tell the difference between the two. If the talkative loon happens to be a beautiful young woman, she may also be TheOphelia. Occasionally some InfallibleBabble might slip out of them, but SturgeonsLaw applies to the remaining ninety percent, and there's no way to tell which is which.
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12Talkativeness that takes the form of a single phrase repeated ''ad nauseam'' is a MadnessMantra.
13Note that this sort of behavior is [[TruthInTelevision a real symptom of certain real mental illnesses]], particularly schizophrenia (psychiatrists call this kind of talk from a schizophrenic patient "word salad" or "schizophasia") but it is far from universal, even in schizophrenics. In the real world, the insane do not, as a general rule, identify themselves quite so easily and conveniently. Of course, the character exhibiting this might not be crazy at all -- just brain-damaged, perhaps suffering from aphasia. The neurologists Broca and Wernicke, working separately, both identified specific types of aphasia at around the same time, and proposed that they resulted from damage to very specific areas of the brain, which was confirmed by later work; those areas of the brain now bear their names, and were the earliest scientific proofs that specific neurological functions are localised in specific areas of the brain rather than being distributed throughout. (However, it has also been discovered that if damage to Broca's area is slow-acting, as in the case of, say, a tumour as opposed to trauma, nearby regions can take over the specialisation, which lends some support to the contrasting idea of neuroplasticity.) In short, if someone you know suddenly struggles to understand or form meaningful sentences, ''rapidly'' getting them to a stroke specialist and/or neurologist is a ''far'' better idea than an involuntary psychiatric hold.
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15See also WordSaladPhilosophy and {{Cloudcuckoolander}}. May sometimes overlap with MotorMouth if they both talk too fast and too much. If they're the main characters, try ThroughTheEyesOfMadness. A similarly disjointed title is a WordSaladTitle; the musical equivalent is WordSaladLyrics. Can often be caused by [[IntoxicationEnsues Intoxication Ensuing]]. The babble they spit out might include an IceCreamKoan occasionally.
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17Not to be confused with what you get if you cross [[WesternAnimation/TheMrMenShow Miss Chatterbox]] with [[WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures Shirley the Loon]].
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24* Graham Specter from ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'', who combines this with WarriorPoet. Damned if we know what the hell he was talking about half the time.
25** His friend [[AntiHero Ladd Russo]], who is even more insane, falls into this category, spitting out a stream of nonsense about boxing while [[CurbStompBattle repeatedly punching a random Lemure so hard he has no face left when Ladd's finally done.]] When the two actually encounter each other later in the series, they spend the [[HamToHamCombat whole fight shouting loopy monologues at each other.]]
26** The LightNovels introduce Christopher Shouldered, a murderous homunculus prone to melodramatic monologues on innocuous things like nature and umbrellas.
27--->''"Umbrellas are incredible. I daresay I respect them, yes. Think about it: The umbrella is the pinnacle of mankind's collective wisdom, the result of its effort to block the great natural phenomenon known as rain. More than any other part of technology, this must be a clear symbol of defiance against nature. I suppose clothes might be up there too, as a way of fighting against nature's changes in temperature, but they're seen as so essential that they don't feel very defiant, wouldn't you agree? But the ''umbrella!'' Now, ''that’s'' a different matter entirely. Can't you ''feel'' the will of the person who made it, shouting 'I ''shan't'' let you get me wet, you damn rain!' at the heavens? And so efficient as well! Who would have thought a frame of wire and a little bit of cloth would be able to stand against rain, that which soaks everything on Earth?"''
28%%* Shiro from ''Manga/DeadmanWonderland'' exhibits this often enough.%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample
29* ''Anime/DragonBallSuper:'' Zamasu often preaches long dialogues or makes long boasts about how awesome he is. This goes so far that when his quotes are adapted into video games, they go on way longer than any other character.
30* In ''Manga/TheFiveStarStories'', Paltenon combines this with JiveTurkey. It must be seen to be believed.
31* [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Kaizo]] from ''Manga/KatteniKaizo'' has a tendency to spout weird and ridiculous things that only pertain slightly to the situation at hand.
32* Several points in ''Literature/{{Paprika}}'', when characters are being pulled into ranting at Spider-Man, the other half was the voices in his head talking to ''him.''
33* ''Everyone'' in ''Manga/BoboboboBobobo''... except when they aren't.[[note]]Well, with the exception of [[OnlySaneMan Beauty]], and occasionally Heppokomaru / Gasser.[[/note]] [[/folder]]
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36* The main character of ''ComicBook/{{Doom}}''. Sample quote: "Knock knock who's there ME! Me me me me me me me me." It gets worse. At least in the first few pages of the book, the Space Marine had the excuse of being under the influence of a berserker pack -- the rest of it, not so much.
37-->''"At this particular moment in time I don't think I've had a healthier or more deeply felt respect for any object in the universe than this here shotgun..."''
38* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': [[DependingOnTheWriter Some incarnations]] of [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker the Joker]] are like this to some degree. The more harmless versions of the character tend to fall into this a lot, while the DarkerAndEdgier versions [[ObfuscatingInsanity exploit it]] to lull their victims into fatally underestimating them.
39* ''ComicBook/TheNewGuardians'' has Snowflame, a blathering lunatic whose words tend to blur together thanks to his addiction to cocaine. And this isn't any mere street-level addiction either, this is "inhales [[ItsSnowingCocaine a mound of cocaine the size of a pillow]] and [[AddictionPowered proceeds to emit psychic fire]]" levels of addiction. He is actually remarkably coherent when he's ''not'' high, but the more he partakes, the more he talks and the weirder said talk gets, probably due to the real-life side effects of cocaine (including hyperactivity, uncontrolled chattiness, and erratic behavior).
40* A story arc in ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'' (consisting of ''Recap/TintinCigarsOfThePharaoh'' and ''Recap/TintinTheBlueLotus'') has the bad guys [[ChemicallyInducedInsanity shooting people with poisoned darts to make them go mad]]; pretty much all of the victims become this.
41* In ''Comicbook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'', when [[spoiler:Eggman]] goes insane, he tends to do this, combined with a Madness Mantra of [[spoiler:"I hate that hedgehog!"]].
42* ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}, who ever since losing his sanity ''and'' [[BreakingTheFourthWall gaining knowledge of the reader]] is always rambling to the point of confusing other people.
43* ''ComicBook/TheUnbelievableGwenpool'': Gwenpool, being a comics fan actually transported into the Franchise/MarvelUniverse, is a [[MetaGuy meta gal]] who is always talking to the audience, no matter if it's some observation of what happens or just some weird randomness.
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47* The StealthParody ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' fanfic [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4307278/1/Lexaeus_Loves_Hot_Topic "Lexaeus Loves Hot Topic"]] consists of mangled conglomerations of text from ''Fanfic/MyImmortal'' and the belowmentioned ''Fanfic/ThoseLackingSpines''. How ironic.
48-->''"I don't like limpid tears and I have to, invoke the ass," Xaldin shook his amazing voice..''
49%%* ''FanFic/ThirtyHs'' takes this up to eleven.%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample
50* Mocked in the Demyx chapter of the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts''-based parody fic ''Fanfic/ThoseLackingSpines'' as a crutch which many authors rely on for "random" humor.
51* The Riddler in ''Fanfic/ChallengeOfTheSuperFriendsTheEnd'' becomes this after an encounter with the story's EldritchAbomination.
52* In ''Fanfic/TheKeysStandAlone: The Soft World'', there are three examples:
53** The Pyar gods sound like this as the power of the white key fades.
54** John babbles random nonsense in the Hungry Sea; George is concerned, but Ringo dismisses it as "Just John bein' John." [[spoiler:He's wrong.]]
55** And the Last Wizard is cursed to be incoherent until someone tells her that she's cursed to be incoherent. The previous two examples were her manipulating [[spoiler:the Con Fusion, the telepathic [[MassivelyMultiplayerOnlineRolePlayingGame MMORPG]] that the four were unknowingly in,]] so that once the four found themselves [[spoiler:back in the real world]], they would figure out the nature of her curse and how to break it.
56* In ''Fanfic/TodayTomorrowAndForever'', Derpy has a disability where she speaks in incoherent sentences. This is enough for Child Services to take her daughter Dinky away.
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60* The daughter in ''Film/DarkFloors'' is one of these, having been driven insane by [[spoiler: living the same horrible loop again and again.]]
61* The TwistEnding to ''Film/TheCabinetOfDrCaligari'' reveals that [[spoiler:that the entire story up to this point has been the insane babbling of one of these]].
62* Jeffrey Goins from ''Film/TwelveMonkeys'', a former mental hospital patient that never shuts up and is so unhinged he forms a terrorist group. [[spoiler:Or rather, an AnimalWrongsGroup who releases the inhabitants of a zoo, showing that he is indeed crazy.]]
63* ''Film/OutCold'' has Stumpy, who constantly spouts off rants and anecdotes that are self-contradictory, nonsensical, or otherwise insane.
64* In ''{{Film/Shine}}'', David, to an extreme extent. As an adult, he is constantly rambling on about random things.
65* In ''Film/ReturnToOz'', Tik-Tok becomes this when his thinking runs down.
66-->''"Little girls and talking hens make chickens fly the coop!"'' [[note]]'''Billina:''' "Coop"?[[/note]]
67* In ''Film/DISCO2017'', Rudy has a habit of rambling and jittering like a spastic weirdo, especially funny since he gets nervous about socializing. Definitely fits [[Creator/DougWalker Doug]]'s usual LargeHam performances.
68* ''Film/Firestorm1998'': Packer the serial rapist is a motormouth, and infuriates Shaye to point that he asks Packer if he ever shouts up.
69* ''Film/FrankensteinIsland'': Jason, who is being kept imprisoned as a [[HumanResources permanent blood donor for Van Helsing]], has gone mad from the isolation, and starts rambling anytime someone talks to him; usually ending up quoting long passages of Creator/EdgarAllanPoe.
70* Film/TheViewaskewniverse's Jay, who never shuts up and is often out of his mind ([[TheStoner weed]] is probably to blame).
71* ''Film/DayOfTheEvilGun'': This is the act Jimmy Noble puts on as part of his ObfuscatingInsanity: aimlessly rambling and randomy repeating and pluralizing certain words.
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75* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
76** Foul Ole Ron's catchphrase "Millennium hand and shrimp" (the result of feeding a travesty generator with a Chinese restaurant menu and Music/TheyMightBeGiants lyrics) became something the books are famous for. Due to his [[TalkingAnimal talking dog]] that [[WeirdnessCensor no one believes isn't him talking]], he has occasional [[InfallibleBabble lucid comments]] in the gibberish.
77*** Another talkative loon is Mrs. Tachyon from unrelated series ''Literature/JohnnyAndTheBomb'', who used Ole Ron's catchphrase on at least one occasion (though she isn't actually mad. It's just that her mind is everywhere and everywhen at once. Her thoughts are apparently perfectly lucid).
78** The Bursar of Unseen University has been known to turn into a talkative loon after overdosing on his nerve medication, saying things like "Why, certainly, I'll have your whelk! How do we do it? Volume!" while waging war on TheFairFolk.
79** Hex, a ''machine'', can go into such nonsense typing whenever he's not working right, including error messages like "+++ Divide By Cucumber Error +++ Please Reinstall Universe And Reboot +++"
80*** Its catchphrase "+++ Redo From Start +++" ''looks'' like another example of this, but is actually a ShoutOut to a very obscure and badly-worded error message that was occasionally returned by 1980s home computers. (That would be Microsoft Basic, when you feed it invalid input.)
81*** Flipping it around, HEX once managed to get a lucid remark out of the Bursar during one of his downswings when Ponder programmed it to behave like one of those "therapist" computer programs, and it repeated the Bursar's gibberish as though it was a coherent statement it wanted the Bursar to expand on. The Bursar accused it of making fun of him, and Ridcully cheerfully declared that it had "out-Bursar'd the Bursar".
82* The Weavers in the ''Literature/BasLagCycle'', in addition to being gigantic spidery {{Eldritch Abomination}}s with a thought process no human can truly understand, talk like this all the time.
83* Creator/StephenKing:
84** The BlackComedy short story "Lunch At The Gotham Cafe" is about a waiter who starts talking like this and trying to stab the diners.
85--->''"That dog of yours is so much rage. All the radios of Coney Island don't make up to dat dog, you motherfucker!"\
86"I rot you, you abominations! I rot you and all your trulls!"''
87** A less funny example occurs in ''Literature/FourteenOhEight'': [[spoiler:Enslin]] briefly becomes this while in [[EldritchLocation the room]].
88* Brandon Sanderson's ''Literature/AlcatrazSeries'' has a character whose magic power is to talk in utter nonsense. [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower It makes him an excellent spy]], since he can arrange to be literally unable to reveal information no matter the torture without actually having to kill himself. [[spoiler:No one knew that he was sometimes delivering prophesies, and can be understood by someone wearing the proper pair of glasses.]] Rutabaga.
89* ''Literature/FinnegansWake'': The entire book is one long Talkative Loon rambling.
90* ''[[Literature/SixteenThirtyTwo 1635: The Eastern Front]]'': When [[spoiler:the head of the USE]] gets a severe concussion during a battle, he starts speaking gibberish like this.[[note]]Given the injury, he probably has one of the fluent aphasias, possibly Wernicke's.[[/note]] This sets in motion the events in ''The Saxon Uprising''.
91* Eilonwy from ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfPrydain'' has shades of this: a smart, strong-willed, witty and romantically attractive girl, who nevertheless rambles away a lot, uses [[TalksLikeASimile strange similes]], [[BarefootLoon likes to walk around without shoes]] and is generally a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}.
92* {{Invoked|Trope}} in a ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'' story in which the BigBad tries to infect Holmes with a deadly tropical disease. Holmes takes to his bed, refuses to eat, and starts rambling incoherently in front of Watson. [[spoiler:It's all play-pretend on Holmes part, justified by "Watson, [[WeWouldHaveToldYouBut I had to make you believe I was truly sick]], or you wouldn't have been able to play your part convincingly in my little BatmanGambit".]]
93* In ''[[Literature/TalesOfPirxThePilot The Hunt]]'' by Creator/StanislawLem, a lunar mining robot is damaged by a meteor shower, causing it to go on a [[MurderousMalfunctioningMachine berserker rampage]]. It also broadcasts a radio signal, which consists of random mining-related phrases:
94-->''"Aximo-portable talus! A wall with encystation -- repetition from the headland unnecessary -- the access at an azimuth of -- multicrystalline metamorphism..."''
95* In Creator/PiersAnthony's ''Prostho Plus'', a number of important citizens from an alien race started talking like this when a tarnish buildup on their fancy new gold inlays interfered with the electronic signals sent by their silicon teeth.
96* Solomon Shafto from ''Literature/ThePyrates'', with a hey-diddle-die-hey-diddle-fol-derol-do.
97* The anonymous poem "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_o%27_Bedlam Tom o' Bedlam]]," described by one literary critic (Paul Fussell, Jr.) as embodying "a happy, harmless, and verbally inventive brand of insanity". The most often-quoted passage borders on the visionary:
98-->''I know more than Apollo,\
99For oft, when he lies sleeping,\
100I see the stars\
101At bloody wars\
102In the wounded welkin weeping.''
103* In ''Literature/LittleDorrit'', [[NoNameGiven Mr. F's Aunt]] speaks entirely in non sequiturs. People can sometimes figure out what she means, such as that she has taken an intractable dislike to Mr. Clennam.
104* In ''Literature/VampireAcademy'', Alice, the oldest human feeder in the Academy, tends to ramble on and is thought to be crazy.
105* Poor Mark Smeaton in ''Literature/WolfHall''. Thomas Cromwell doesn't torture him into confessing an affair with Anne Boleyn in this narrative, but he does have his PsychoSidekick shove Mark into a dark closet full of pointy things[[note]]which are actually his Christmas decorations[[/note]] and leave him there all night to [[NothingIsScarier imagine worse]]. When they haul him out in the morning to ask who her other lovers are, Mark babbles out the name of every Englishman that he knows -- he winds up accusing her of adultery against Henry, ''with Henry''.
106* The usual reaction of characters in ''Literature/MalazanBookOfTheFallen'' to Iskaral Pust is stunned silence, since he just won't stop babbling nonsense, interspersed with important information. Even Shadowthrone, ''his personal patron deity'', can't shut him up during an audience.
107* ''Literature/DanganronpaZero'': This is how [[spoiler:Junko Enoshima]] is portrayed. [[spoiler:Since her varying sprites from [[VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc the game]] would be difficult to describe in prose, the light novel supplements this with this trope.]] She talks in really strange stream-of-consciousness rants that change subjects every few sentences. She can go from talking about how she just murdered someone to how a recent summer blockbuster underwhelmed her to the kind of people who fixate on her bust to the economy… all in words that even she herself has some trouble following.
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111* The people of Trinity struck by [[WellIntentionedExtremist Merlyn]]'s plague on ''Series/AmericanGothic1995'' suffer from this.
112* In the ''Series/AshesToAshes2008'' finale, [[spoiler:Jim Keats flirts very closely with Talkative Lunacy. He suddenly gets incredibly chatty and incredibly baffling]]. Likewise, in episode 6 of series 3, [[spoiler:Thordie comes across as either a chatty, deranged Sam Tyler, or a very clever man -- although you'll have to wait until the finale to find out which]].
113* Sometimes [[MadOracle the Hybrids]] in ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'' just babble: "Mists of dreams drip along the nascent echo and love no more. [[Film/{{Tron}} End of line]]."
114** Sometimes they're prophetic: "Find the hand that lies in the shadow of the light. In the eye of the husband of the eye of the cow."
115** Sometimes LeaningOnTheFourthWall: "Throughout history the nexus between man and machine has spun some of the most dramatic, compelling and entertaining fiction."
116* The various shopkeeper/hairdresser/other-occupation characters played by Creator/StephenFry in ''Series/ABitOfFryAndLaurie''. "Good day!" "One of a goodness it is indeed!" is just a start...
117-->''"Mr. Dalliard? Mr. Dalliard, I've gone all peculiar now!"''
118* ''Actual'' word salad is used in ''Series/BostonLegal'', when Alan Shore has a breakdown. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wkZfq86kgY He doesn't even realize he's doing it, and looks up at everyone's confused faces and asks, "What?"]]
119* [[TheOphelia Drusilla]] (and, briefly, Spike) on ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. Also the ward full of Glory's "brain-suck" victims in the Sunnydale hospital, [[spoiler:and Tara, who got brain-sucked late in the season and was later restored]]. All three examples also had some degree of prophetic or otherworldly knowledge.
120** However, when Spike was out of it, some of his babbling was actually just him talking to the First, who nobody else could see or hear but him.
121** In the season six premiere, "Bargaining: Part One", the Buffybot that Willow programmed to impersonate Buffy [[spoiler:(since she's dead)]] says "That'll put marzipan in your pie plate, Bingo!" after she slays a vampire. When asked about it, Willow replies "I don't know, I was trying to program in some new puns and I kinda ended up with word salad."
122%%** Joyce also does this in the episode "Listening to Fear".%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample
123* ''Series/BurnNotice'': In "Signals and Codes", Michael is approached by a schizophrenic man named Spencer who despite being a pattern-seeing computer genius also believes that Michael is a member of a secret group of guardian aliens fighting against the forces of darkness. At the end of the episode, [[spoiler:he's on medication and Sam's gotten him a job with a cryptographer friend of his, so the babbling is a bit lessened]].
124* In ''Series/{{CSINY}}'''s "[[Recap/CSINYS05E10 The Triangle]]," about Bermuda Triangle-like events happening around the Empire State Building, a mentally disturbed young man is wandering the streets, having a conversation with himself about hearing frequencies. Later, the investigators spot him interacting with a suspect on video camera footage and track him down. While Stella & Danny question him, he jabbers away. When they're done, he wanders off having his frequency conversation again.
125* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
126** The Doctor occasionally comes across as this, particularly the Fourth, Tenth and Eleventh.
127** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E12TheStolenEarth The Stolen Earth]]": Dalek Caan has been reduced to a babbling lunatic due to [[spoiler:his warping back into the Time War to rescue Davros; the trauma destroyed his mind]].
128** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E1TheEleventhHour Amy Pond]] gets like this a bit on her first exposure to the [[BiggerOnTheInside inside]] of the TARDIS.
129** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E4TheDoctorsWife The Doctor's Wife]]": Idris does a bit of this. She's not crazy, though; she's just [[spoiler:the soul of the TARDIS trying to deal with being human, having a body, experiencing time in a linear fashion for the first time in forever, ''and'' trying to not fall victim to House]].
130* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'':
131** Stark was a Talkative Loon who later claimed that he was only ''pretending'' to be crazy, though he was still pretty unhinged for the rest of the series.
132** Also, the rest of the universe considers Crichton to be one as well, and upon learning that there is an entire planet where he's considered to be normal ("Erp"), Moya's crew resolves to avoid it like the plague.
133* River from ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' ''seems'' like a Talkative Loon, but her WaifProphet nature means that the seemingly-random statements are actually prophetic -- she just has trouble rendering her insights into something comprehensible to everyone else. (Of course, sometimes she really ''is'' just being crazy.) Also interesting in that River tends to wander around, act compulsively, and suffer violent outbursts, in addition to her rambling.
134-->''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNkcK2toExY "They say the snow on the roof is too heavy. They say the ceiling will cave in. His brains are in terrible danger."]]''
135* In ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', Hiro starts speaking in just fanboy references after getting his memories jumbled up. He's just about to be committed to the loony bin until Ando realizes that Hiro is attempting to tell him something and pieces the references together.
136* In the ''Series/{{House}}'' episode "Failure to Communicate", a patient finds himself suffering from aphasia after hitting his head, saying a bizarre combination of synonyms, rhymes, loosely-connected words and similar-sounding words instead of the words he intends to say.
137-->'''Doctor:''' Do you understand what ''we're'' saying?\
138'''Patient:''' Of golf!
139* Pappy [=McPoyle=] from ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' is quite obviously insane, as his first appearance consists of him ranting incoherently about how [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext all the [=McPoyles=] sprung from his loins]], and although one of his babies tried to eat him, [[EatsBabies he ate him first]]. Things somehow get even weirder the second time he shows up.
140%%* Speaking of Stephen Fry, Peter Kingdom's half-sister Beatrice (in ''Series/Kingdom2007'') has been characterized as this. Of course, she's just as likely to be eerily silent.
141* [[MonsterClown Papa Lazarou]] from ''Series/TheLeagueOfGentlemen'' [[AccidentalMisnaming calls everyone "Dave"]], keeps offering to sell pegs to people, adeptly speaks [[SpeakingSimlish gibberish]], spouts bizarre non sequiturs like "This is just a saga now", and will haunt the viewer's dreams forever.
142* ''Series/TheManInTheHighCastle'': After his capture, [[spoiler:the Man in the High Castle]] produces an endless stream of random gibberish while in his cell, causing the Nazis to wonder if he's actually speaking in code.
143* Though one could arguably describe Hawkeye of ''Series/{{MASH}}'' of being this all along, [[spoiler: he became this, in spades, for the first few parts of the series' finale. At one point, B.J. realizes Hawkeye's past talking to once he starts rambling about kids' booties]].
144* In the ''Series/MastersOfHorror'' episode "Incident On and Off a Mountain Road", Buddy has clearly lost his mind after being Moonface's captive for so long, joyfully asking Moonface's new victims if they want to sing with him or brought any candy with them before Moonface comes back. [[spoiler:Ellen eventually shuts him up with a well-placed blow to the head.]]
145* In ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'', the E. Henry Thripshaw's Disease sketch. "And the thing about saying the wrong word is, A, I don't notice it, and B, sometimes orange water gibbon bucket of plaster."
146%%* Perhaps Exidor on ''Series/MorkAndMindy'' qualifies as well.
147* Omar White from ''Series/{{Oz}}'', although how much is insanity and how much is just an inability shut up is open to debate. Even so, the inability to stop talking even when you know what you're about to say is going to land you in trouble is probably indicates some kind of mental problem.
148* One of these shows up in the fourth episode of ''Series/ThePacific'', [[TheInsomniac pacing back and forth all night]] and flying an imaginary plane.
149* Bridge from ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'' slips into this from time to time. Sometimes it even seems intentional, like when he uses it to interrogate a prisoner.
150* Arguably, Livia on ''Series/{{Rome}}''. There's a scene where she and Octavian have S/M sex, and once they're finished Livia starts talking. "I like birds. But I don't like eggs. There's something quite sordid about eggs."
151* ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'':
152** Dr. Cox's often gives long rants whenever he is criticizing/insulting someone, and they go so long that a few characters even get bored and sidetracked when he's still ranting.
153** In "My Last Chance" Dr. Cox is ordered by Dr. Kelso to do 24 hours of community service and he gets getting paired with Denise Lemmon, a very talkative paramedic who can't shut up, often bringing up her son as the topic. It's initially PlayedForLaughs, and Dr. Cox later rants to her about how she can't stop talking, it's then PlayedForDrama when he realizes shortly after that Denise's son has been dead. Feeling remorseful, Dr. Cox feels compelled to listen to her and he later visits her with his own son as well.
154* The ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "Babel" has the entire cast succumbing one-by-one to a virus which causes them to speak this way. At first it's just funny, until they can no longer run the station properly due to being unable to communicate with each other, and it's also revealed that the virus is potentially deadly.
155* Woody, the main protagonist of the series ''Series/SunTrap'' has a talent for aggravating people no-end with his incessant nonsense. A recurring theme is that he can get away with almost anything by bewildering anyone in his way. His jabbering has even been weaponized and can cause heart attacks in people suffering from stress, as demonstrated in the final episode of the first season.
156* Hugo Miller from the ''Series/Warehouse13'' episode "13.1" is like this, as the result of a combination of LiteralSplitPersonality with BrainUploading.
157-->'''Myka:''' Do you know, every former Warehouse agent we meet is either crazy, evil, or dead?\
158''[...]''\
159'''Hugo:''' ''[on first meeting them]'' I know who you are. You're President UsefulNotes/UlyssesSGrant and the snowman. You've come because it's Arbor Day, and there aren't enough zippers to go around.\
160'''Myka:''' Well, at least he's not evil or dead.
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164* Crazy Mary Dobson promos tend to be coherent. Crazy Mary matches tend have a constant stream of squeals and grumbles that may or may not be related to anything she's doing.
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168* The Xaositects, or Chaosmen, one of the factions in the ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}'' setting for ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', talk in "Scramblespeak", where all the words are mixed up. Except when they don't -- if they ''always'' did something, that wouldn't be [[ChaoticNeutral chaotic]].
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172* Some of Creator/SamuelBeckett plays naturally have a bit of this, being {{absurdis|m}}t works.
173** Lucky from ''Theatre/WaitingForGodot''. There ''is'' a thread of logic running through his one monologue, but his point gets so lost in tangents, digressions, lists, PurpleProse, and general nonsense that he makes next to no sense and [[SuckinessIsPainful causes actual physical revulsion]] in his listeners.
174** See also ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNti7qCn-kg Not I]]''. The subject is, in fact, a mute woman who has a lot to say about her traumatic life, but who would understand that from the rantings alone?
175%%* Blanche from ''Theatre/AStreetcarNamedDesire''.%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample
176* [[TheOphelia Ophelia]], from ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}''. Interestingly, some of what Ophelia says ''does'' mean something. When she hands out her flowers, each one is symbolic of various things. For example, violets were symbolic of innocence and she explains that they all vanished when her father died. Hamlet himself invokes this trope while feigning madness.
177* {{Subverted|Trope}} and played straight in ''Theatre/KingLear''. Edgar protects himself from a mistakenly vengeful father by [[ObfuscatingInsanity pretending to be a madman]] and raving about "the foul fiend!" Lear begins to babble as his daughter's abuse drives him farther into madness. The Fool is the OnlySaneMan, with the possible exception of Edmund.
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181* Vezon from ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'':
182--> '''Vezon:''' Where are we going? Why are we going? Are we going at all, or just sailing in a big circle? Or is it a spiral? I went down a spiral once: a big stone tunnel that went down and down and down, and ended in Zyglak. Whoever built it had no decorating sense at all.
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186* ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}'': Spamton G. Spamton is a living spam email who takes the form of a [[PerversePuppet puppet-like]] [[HonestJohnsDealership sleazy salesman]]. He seemingly-randomly pops out of a dumpster in Chapter 2 and accosts Kris with a [[ElectronicSpeechImpediment twisted, stuttering, typo-laden]] rant that alternates between [[WordSaladHumor hilarious]] and [[WordSaladHorror disturbing]], offering to [[DealWithTheDevil make them a [=[[BIG SHOT]]=]]] in exchange for their [[OurSoulsAreDifferent [=[[HeartShapedObject]]=]]].
187-->'''Spamton:''' IF YOU'VE [[Lost Control of Your Life]] THEN YOU JUST GOTTA GRAB IT BY THE [[Silly Strings]]! WHY BE THE [[Little Sponge]] WHO HATES ITS [[$4.99]] LIFE WHEN YOU CAN BE A [[MadnessMantra [=[[BIG SHOT!!!]]=] [=[[BIG SHOT!!!!]]=] [=[[BIG SHOT!!!!!]]=]]] THAT'S RIGHT!! NOW'S YOUR CHANGE TO BE A [[BIG SHOT]]!! AND I HAVE [[PunctuatedForEmphasis JUST... THE THING... YOU NEED...]] THAT'S... [[TongueTied [=[[Hyperlink Blocked]]=]]].
188* There's a guy outside one of the safehouses in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'' who can rant for quite a while without repeating himself. "They put robots in the drinking water!"
189%%* [[spoiler:Dr. Higgenbotham]] is one of these in ''VideoGame/LittleBigPlanet 2''.%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample
190* This happens to the Colonel [[spoiler:generated by the AI GW]] at the end of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'':
191-->''"I hear it's amazing when the famous purple-stuffed worm in flap jaw space with the tuning fork does a raw-blink on Hara-kiri Rock. '''I need scissors! 61!'''"''
192* Advisor Glade from ''VideoGame/BeyondTheBeyond'' flies into this after the heroes show him up by [[ClearMyName proving the identity]] of [[TheBigGuy Big Guy]] Samson:
193-->''"The pickle nation will rise again! The chickens will perish!"''
194* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'':
195** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]'' has [[EvilSorcerer Mistress]] [[AxCrazy Therena]], a councilor of [[TheMagocracy House Telvanni]]. She has "[[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld not aged well]]" according to her associates. She's prone to long, rambling, incoherent rants about random stuff from her early years. This can be entertaining, unless you need to get something out of her, such as her quest reward of Daedric equipment or [[spoiler:her vote to make you Telvanni Hortator during the main quest]].
196** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]'': Sheogorath, [[MadGod Daedric Prince of Madness]], is this in the ''Shivering Isles'' expansion. While he's capable of somewhat coherent conversation (He's the one giving you missions, so the specifics are usually decipherable), he's prone to outbursts on completely random tangents. Many of the residents of the Shivering Isles (his realm) are Talkative Loons. In fact, check the entire MadnessTropes section, there's likely someone embodying it in the Isles. The most Talkative Loon of the Isles, in this case, would be the beggar Bolwing. ("I'll kalikrak the findoo, I will. You terratet it! Gal bursten it...Raney Roo! Raney Roo!") Unless you get Big Head's fork or [[spoiler:become Sheogorath]], in which case he becomes comprehensible, and indeed, [[EloquentInMyNativeTongue quite eloquent]].
197** There's a particular GameMod for ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'' that replaces all the loading screen tips with... [[http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/12234/ Uncle Sheogorath's Really Helpful Hints and Tips]]. Which are about as absurdly nonsensical as you'd expect from "help" offered by the Daedric Prince of Madness.
198* In ''VideoGame/EternalDarkness'', this is the eventual fate of [[spoiler:Maximillion Roivas]].
199* ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'':
200** One of [=GLaDOS=]' personality cores in ''VideoGame/Portal1'' is the Curiosity Sphere: "Hey, look at that thing! No, that other thing! Eww, what's wrong with your legs? Where are we going? [[TooDumbToLive Ooh what's in here? Do you smell something burning?]]"
201** And then there's the [[BreadEggsMilkSquick Intelligence Sphere's 'Cake Ingredients List']]...
202** And from ''VideoGame/Portal2'', we have the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVn1oQL9sWg Space Sphere]] ("Space! Space! Wanna go to space! Space! Space! What's your favorite part about space? Mine's space!") and the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iAUwamHTM4 Fact Sphere]] ("[[LittleKnownFacts The square root of rope is string. At some point in their lives, one in six children will be abducted by the Dutch.]] [[KnowNothingKnowItAll The Fact Sphere is the most intelligent sphere]].")
203* The BigBad of ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994'' turns out to be a Talkative Loon, having [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity literally gone mad with power]] by the time of the endgame. And since he still is an imposing villain, he's [[NightmareFuel creepy]] instead of [[{{Narm}} funny]].
204-->[[spoiler:'''Giygas:''' Ness! Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness...]]
205* Liz and Ard from ''VideoGame/WildArms2'', although arguably this is due to an abysmal translation rather than the characters actually being crazy. This is particularly the case for Liz; his(?) dialogue was a stylistic choice created by translating his dialogue ''literally'' from Japanese. The result is nonsensical and even confuses the main characters.
206* Some hobos in ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'', ''especially'' Hodgman the Hoboverlord, whose dialogue is randomly generated. A sample:
207-->''"Which... PORCH swing? Tell me which porch swing. Growl... Where's... The Pope?"''
208* In ''VideoGame/{{Baroque}}'', the Horned Girl at first appears to be a Talkative Loon, saying random things, like accusing the seemingly-mute lead character of saying what she's thinking, or complaining about her twitching eye. [[spoiler:It's actually something much, much more disturbing. She's actually saying what the main character thinks in her presence; she doesn't have any thoughts of her own or a sense of self.]]
209* Albedo from ''VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}}''. He makes ''many'' biblical and literary references on varying topics, particularly in the infamous "Ma Belle Pêche" sequence. What's worse is that he actually has a point and it is not ''entirely'' mindless ramblings when looked deep enough.
210* The EnemyChatter of the unhinged, ADAM-addled Splicers in ''VideoGame/BioShock1'' ranges from [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments hilarious]] to [[NightmareFuel disturbing]]. [[spoiler:Dr. Gilbert Alexander/"Alex the Great"]] in ''VideoGame/BioShock2'' makes them look sane.
211* Oghren from ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' may not actually be a loon, but damned if he doesn't ''sound'' like one on many of his drunken tirades.
212-->'''Oghren:'''...But that dog ruined it when he stole my pants. Well, ''I'll show him!'' I don't ''need'' my pants anyway!\
213'''Warden:''' Oghren, you're ''wearing'' your pants.\
214'''Oghren:''' But the ''dog'' doesn't know that. It'll be his sodding ''downfall.''
215* Tom Redwood a.k.a. [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep "Red"]] from the ''VideoGame/{{Penumbra}}'' series, as well as Dr. Richard Eminiss (who quickly [[TheReveal turns out to be]] [[OurZombiesAreDifferent anything but humorous]]).
216* In ''VideoGame/PokemonVietnameseCrystal'', a BlindIdiotTranslation of ''[[VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver Pokemon Crystal Version]]'', every single NPC is one, especially your rival. They all ramble on about god knows what in sentences full of grammatical errors, spelling errors, and SesquipedalianLoquaciousness.
217-->''[[HelloInsertNameHere DERP]]! DRUG\
218BAG FUCK''
219* In ''VideoGame/{{Odium}}'', this happens to [[spoiler:Medusa]] when he goes insane. The beginning of his rant is actually a quote from "The End" by Music/TheDoors.
220-->''"Ride the snake, ride the snake, the snake is long, seven miles, ride the snake, ride the snake."''
221* Part of the fun of playing a Malkavian in ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'' is that all your dialog options turn you into this, with a sprinkle of MadOracle if you pay attention to what you're saying to people.
222* ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeRedemption'' has Dev/Null.
223-->''"I'm not Dev/Null. I am a rock! Am a rock!"''
224* Boyd Cooper from ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}''. While perfectly capable of carrying on a lucid conversation, when he's not actually doing that, he's constantly muttering to himself, because he's trying to work out all the connections in his conspiracy theory, and the inside of his head is the only place he's got left to write on. Boyd's rambles are actually the result of a lot of separate phrases being randomly selected. Stand there long enough in idle and you probably won't hear him make the same connection twice.
225* In ''VideoGame/JablessAdventure'', the majority of the mushrooms in the forest spout nonsense like "If your hand is bigger than your face, you can go to outer space!" But a few of them are a little more helpful, like the one who informs you, "Contrary to popular belief, mushrooms don't make you super, they make you crazy. [[LaughingMad Ahahahahahaha!]]"
226* Jack Lupino in ''VideoGame/MaxPayne'' is like this due to being stoned out of his mind on [[PsychoSerum Valkyr]].
227* ''VisualNovel/HatofulBoyfriend'': Anghel Higure hallucinates and talks purely in fantasy-cliches, imagining himself to be a fallen angel and the player character to be a reincarnated goddess pursued by demons, particularly the [[DeadlyDoctor evil wizard]] in the infirmary. [[spoiler:A surprising number of the things he says are [[InfallibleBabble accurate]] [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight metaphors]] for the plot points of the "Bad Boys Love" route.]]
228* ''VideoGame/Left4Dead2'': Ellis, who tends to talk about his friend Keith while blowing the brains out of zombies.
229* The psycho bandits from the ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' games spout semi-nonsensical threats like "Time for my pound of flesh!" or "You're going to be my new meat bicycle!" as they attack.
230** In ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'', they reach ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'' levels of crazy, being able to [[BreakingTheFourthWall break the fourth wall]], shouting things like "I WANT MY HIT POINTS BACK!" and [[SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud "Death gurgle!"]], as well as evidence that [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes the bandits do care for each other]]... somewhat.
231--->'''Bandit:''' WHATSYOURNAME! NOOOOO!
232** As a Psycho himself, Krieg pretty much speaks in nonsense by default. With Raving Retribution however, he'll end up going on some rather lengthy and utterly nonsensical rants. His short film shows that he is seemingly unable to communicate his thoughts into coherent sentences, to the great frustration of his sane side.
233--->'''Krieg:''' Look at me when I scream at your soul! You loud sacks of filth and sour cream can hit me with your pain pinatas all day, but you'll never take the jellied fantasies of my wasted youth! My stomach is clear, and '''MY MIND IS FULL OF BACON!'''
234** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFiTU4br394 Here is a video of Krieg's quotes.]] It's basically twenty-seven minutes of complete nonsense, meat, and blood, interspersed with rare moments of sanity from his inner voice and a few incoherent screams and insane laughter.
235* ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' features Mordin Solus, a brilliant medical professional who is "like a hamster on coffee".
236* ''VideoGame/{{Starsiege}}'' has a Cybrid campaign, neatly {{avert|edTrope}}ing NoCampaignForTheWicked, where you and three of your fellow AI pilot giant robots against humans. Unlike most of the human pilots, though, your fellow Cybrids are a bunch of weirdos and highly chatty ones at that. The peak in both talkativeness ''and'' looniness goes to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAmjijoomCM pLaGUe-DoG]], an advance scout who got captured by humans, analyzed and experimented on, then dumped on a garbage rocket fired into Cybrid space. As a result of all this, he is a complete mess and a word-salad-spewing ShoutOut machine, described as "very loyal, but very random", and suffering from FunnySchizophrenia, AttentionDeficitOohShiny, and loads of {{Cloudcuckoolander}} moments. Imagine the mind of a hyperviolent [[Franchise/TransformersGeneration1 Junkion]] in the body of a death-dealing terror machine, and you pretty much have [=pLaGUe-DoG=].
237* In ''VideoGame/DarkestDungeon'', heroes suffering from the Irrational affliction will act randomly while spouting nonsensical (and often alarming) things.
238-->'''Houndmaster:''' [[ConsultingMisterPuppet Of course the hound talks]], it's the one that told you it could!\
239'''Jester:''' [[LaughingMad MWU-HA HA HAAAAAA!]]\
240'''Leper:''' [[WordSaladPhilosophy Return of Spring. Call down the galleons. Nightly.]]
241* The Boss in ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2'' says a number of silly things when high or drunk.
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245* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'':
246** Homsar is like this nearly all the time:
247--->'''Homsar:''' Hi, Wonder Mike! I'm Homsar, the captain of the gravy train. Climb aboard -- I've put my best foot flowered. Pshoooooo!
248** There's also Senor Cardgage (with the 'Senor' deliberately mispronounced), who's basically a malapropism-prone creepy old homeless guy who resembles a tall, pot-bellied version of Strong Bad with a bad combover:
249--->'''Senor Cardgage:''' Alonzo Mourning to you, Myrtlebeth. Say hello to my tacklebox.
250** In the ''WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail'' "[[http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail91.html caffeine]]", Strong Sad becomes a hyperactive Talkative Loon after Strong Bad slips coffee into his orange juice, saying things like "I don't even watch football! I can't remember my legs!" and rambling about "wood-davers".
251** Homsar and Senor Cardgage even indulge in a competition of this very topic in [[http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail188.html fan club]]. Following a contest to see who sold more merchandise in the Homestar Runner Store, Homsar was officially declared the "Non Sequitur Champion", and [[http://www.videlectrix.com/storeflash/nonsequitur.swf Senor Cardgage had to try and make a coherent statement]] on "The Show". It took him three tries.
252--->'''Senor Cardgage:''' Grape... Soda... Banked?
253** ''VideoGame/StrongBadsCoolGameForAttractivePeople'' has a different take on Homsar. After tinkering with some ancient artifacts, Strong Bad is able to have an actual conversation with Homsar, and it turns out the loon is actually [[EloquentInMyNativeTongue an eloquent speaker and quite intelligent in his native tongue]]. Strong Sad, however, just hears ''both'' talking in gibberish.
254** Another such character could be the Drive-Thru Whale, a disembodied drive-through speaker that spouts nonsense like "Sever your leg, please, it's the greatest day," and "Pour gravel on your stump please, ma'am." (over a bunch of static, naturally).
255** In "Strong Bad Classics", Strong Sad babbles nonsensically while high on anesthetic after having his wisdom teeth removed.
256--->'''Strong Sad:''' You can't brother me down, Mrs. Strong Fast. I favorited you on my Facebroach!
257* ObjectShows
258** Taco in ''WebAnimation/InanimateInsanity'' is initially introduced as such, screaming "SOUR CREAM!" as her catchphrase and other incoherent sayings on a regular basis. [[spoiler:Then it turns out that she was ObfuscatingInsanity to win audience sympathy]].
259** ''WebAnimation/ObjectConnects'' has two examples, Journal and Lantern with the former going on nonsensical tangents about her [[CannotTellFictionFromReality make-believe world]] while the latter deliberately invokes WordSaladHumor which sounds so forced and on-the-spot because he's faking it like Taco and both exclusively use funny, equally insane nicknames for everyone such as "Meanypants", "Orge" and "Pizza Shoe-Box".
260** Baguette from ''WebAnimation/EpicJungleShow'''s ShowWithinAShow "Fight or Fall" constantly drifts from one completely random and unrelated topic to another in a MotorMouth fashion. This was due to EnforcedMethodActing on Baguette's voice actor since they weren't given a script for the character and had to make up lines on the spot in [[TheOner one take]].
261* Petey is like this on ''The Toad Show''. He is always yelling random words that only he knows what they mean like "I can flack the majjiger" and "I derfted macow". [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyAuHzpJzjE See here.]]
262%%* [[WebAnimation/{{Blockhead}} Introducing Tongs!]]%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample
263* In ''WebVideo/UltraFastPony'', Discord is perfectly capable of making sense when he needs to, but he just prefers to spew gibberish.
264-->'''Discord:''' I've taken the liberty of impending sobriety!\
265'''Celestia:''' Okay, look, Discord, I get that chaos is your thing, but can you please just make sense this one time?\
266'''Discord:''' Make sense? Oh, why make sense when you can make ''pan trees!'' That's trees that are shaped like pans, not actual pantries, because that would just be ''silly!''
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270* An essential part of many DadaComics. [[http://cad-comic.com/comic.php?d=20061014 Chef Brian]] from ''Webcomic/CtrlAltDel'', for example. Curiously, Chef Brian is actually somewhat comprehensible in this comic, in a completely roundabout way... mostly.
271* ''Webcomic/{{Narbonic}}'' has Dana, the last of the insane superintelligent gerbils. Also, [[spoiler:Dave]] briefly becomes a Talkative Loon after [[spoiler:his ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder finally catches up with him. It doesn't last very long, however. And [[InMysteriousWays he still remembered to fill the pool]]. ItMakesSenseInContext]].
272* ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'' has Catsby and Twisp, as seen in [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/04/07/ this comic]]. This may help explain their [[SpringtimeForHitler unexpected popularity]].
273* ''Webcomic/MrSquare'': Most, if not all of the Sheep's speech falls into this pattern. [[http://revfitz.com/comic/issue296/ In this comic]], he declares that the main character (who is right in front of him) was kidnapped and taken to "the twenty third century to fight the trees".
274* ''Webcomic/NoNeedForBushido'' has a blind Taoist potentially world-ending priest, who often speaks in platitudes like, "Just as the snake, once stripped of its slippers, is helpless to defend itself from the ever-growing Viking threat."
275* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' has Tarvek Sturvoraus babbling things like "We must stop the moon from eating the mushrooms" in the grip of a deadly fever.
276* In ''Webcomic/AModestDestiny'', [[spoiler:Morris]] becomes one of these when [[spoiler:he falsely believes that he committed a mass murder in his sleep and refuses to sleep afterward]].
277* While [[CrazyHomelessPeople Doctor Hobo]] in ''Webcomic/VGCats'' is not an example, his [[GoodAngelBadAngel Chaotic Neutral angel]] most definitely is. In the one strip we saw him: "Woof! I'm a cow!"
278* Largo in ''Webcomic/MegaTokyo'' comes off as this quite a lot, between his l33t sp34k, technobabble, and constant paranoid beliefs that zombies will be taking over the area (which later turns out to be more or less true). All of this coupled with the fact that he doesn't speak any Japanese usually leads to him being arrested by the police (it was also implied to have [[NoodleIncident have something to do with being handcuffed by mounties and deported from Canada]]).
279* Lok of ''Webcomic/{{Juathuur}}'' tends to talk and whine a lot to whoever visits him in his realm. This happens rarely.
280* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'':
281** Enor, when Elan casts Lesser Confusion:
282--->'''Enor:''' Variable-speed corn muffins! Peanut butter fish filets! Hey, that sounds good.
283** This turns out to be one of the symptoms of Belkar's Mark of Justice, between "throwing up everywhere" and "collapsing into unconsciousness".
284--->'''Belkar:''' Be very quiet, Mr. Scruffy! If we make any noise, the magical Cart Fairy might not take us on the enchanted trip to Happy Fun Sunshine Land!
285* ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge'': George, after being trapped intangible in his own past through time travel shenanigans with no way out except ''more'' time travel shenanigans, engages in what Rush refers to as "incoherent babbling".
286-->''"Bad monkey! No I don't want your canteloupe! Sell your crack to another puppet, Snoop-Doopy!"''
287* {{Downplayed|Trope}} with Emperor Palpatine in ''Webcomic/DarthsAndDroids'', in the part corresponding to ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'': It might seem at first that his lines are just navel-gazing existential angt, but really he's insane (due to [[spoiler:being haunted by the ghost of Anakin Skywalker]]) and spouting things like Creator/HPLovecraft quotes -- not inherently incoherent, but borderline to completely NonSequitur in context.
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291* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YTnPpVDZkc This]] ''Tales From the Pub'' sketch, from the creators of ''Film/TheLostSkeletonOfCadavra''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyYHWUdHZOg This one]], too.
292* Caboose from ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'' -- actually, thinking about it, everyone in ''Red vs. Blue'' fits this trope.
293* AWW [[UnusualEuphemism BOB SAGET]]! [[WebVideo/TheTourettesGuy THESE FISH STICKS ARE HARD AS TITS!]]
294%%* Some people on Twitter.%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample
295* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkwiQmGWK4c This cat]], who is popular on the Internet due to his constant mumblings which apparently sound like if he's saying "Oh, Long Johnson..." as well as other random stuff like "Oh, Don Piano" and "All the livelong day".
296* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic is normally an insightful and eloquent, if [[SirSwearsALot swear-happy]], reviewer. Not the case when something works him up though; chipmunk noises are often formed.
297* WebVideo/JonTron often throws in completely incoherent ramblings in a pseudo-Creator/BillCosby fashion to the reviews. Even going so far as to rate Donkey Kong Country Returns six golden bananas plus out of Shigeru Miyamoto. And this is meant to be an accurate description of what is 'Like the best game for the Nintendo Wii like ever'.
298* The Website/{{Reddit}} forum [[http://www.reddit.com/r/nocontext/ /r/nocontext]] evokes this by taking Redditors' comments [[ItMakesSenseInContext out of context]]. Of course, often ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext.
299* Javafrog on ''WebVideo/TheFundayPawpetShow'' is a weirdo who says things that, while sometimes topical, are not always coherent. His ratio of rational things to outright nonsense is skewed heavily in favor of the nonsense.
300* LetsPlay/{{raocow}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/raocow Let's Plays]] are filled with some of the most bizarre and surreal commentary one would ever hear. It's compounded by the fact that he's a Quebec native for whom English is a second language (although he is reasonably fluent, he does have some odd turns of phrase) and is highly prone to BuffySpeak. However, he seems to drop it the more frustrated he gets.
301* Also from the LetsPlay world, LetsPlay/ProtonJon during his LP of VideoGame/KaizoMarioWorld Special Stage 2, a combination of this and {{Angrish}}:
302-->''"Would you just JUMP!? For the love of ComicBook/{{Batman}}... JUMP! Creator/BillCosby! Is angry! [[WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow Stimpy]]! I need... SPACKLE!"''
303* WebVideo/{{Caddicarus}} can be like this in his videos, as he's a TriggerHappy, non-sequitur-spewing, {{Sensory Abus|e}}ing, rapid-fire reviewer.
304* Flamingo is one of these, as he's basically the american Platform/{{Roblox}} Youtuber equivalent of WebVideo/{{Caddicarus}}.
305* LetsPlay/PewDiePie will at times lapse into nonsensical rambling or even singing during his Let's Plays, especially during moments of nervous tension in a game, while being chased by an enemy, or after a particularly effective jumpscare.
306* Chapter 2 of ''Literature/TheTimTebowCFLChronicles'' features [[Music/{{Drake}} the drake]], who lives in the Toronto Opera House and speaks in a mix of banalities, pointless anecdotes, and {{Unsound Effect}}s while constantly shifting team loyalties.
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310* In the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "[[Recap/TheNewBatmanAdventuresE23BewareTheCreeper Beware the Creeper]]", the Joker inadvertently creates the Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse version of the Creeper, a superhero who's yellow, super-strong, agile, and crazy enough to scare even the Joker.
311-->''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkJoRjnMhdA "He's a lunatic!"]]''
312* The Creeper is just as crazy in his appearance in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'', with him reciting old catchphrases and TV memes in-between jabs.
313-->'''The Creeper:''' Knock, knock! Who's on first? Third base! To cross the road! Newman! That's what she said!
314* Blitzwing's [[MultiplePersonalities Random face]] in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated''. The rest of him's more coherent.
315* PlayedForLaughs in ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic'' by Jay Sherman's father Franklin: "I didn't '''ask''' to be Secretary of Balloon Doggies. The Balloon Doggies demanded it!"
316-->''"I've just invented the Fishmobabywhirlymagig. It'll be bigger than the Badgerblaster!"''
317* Gibson gets his worst fear in ''WesternAnimation/SuperRobotMonkeyTeamHyperForceGo''... which is to be a Talkative Loon.
318%%* Cheese of ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' (''"I like cereal!!"'').%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample
319* Brak from ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGhostCoastToCoast'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheBrakShow'' (the full title of which is ''[[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Brak Presents the Brak Show Starring Brak]]'', which gives you a pretty good idea what he's like). Some of his favorite topics are his own name, beans, and encouraging people to "Hail Brak!", a request with which they comply with astonishing consistency.
320** In a previous show (''WesternAnimation/CartoonPlanet''), Brak is also infamous for his bizarre songs, like "I'm driving down highway 40 in my pick-up truck" -- which is just this line, repeated over and over in various ways -- and, naturally, a song dedicated to beans of all kinds.
321* GIR, from ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'', with gems like "Can I be a mongoose-dog?" and "Why is his head so big? ''Whyyyyyyyyyyyyy'' is his head so big?"
322** "It was me! I was the turkey all along! ''Meeeeeeee!''" The fact that he was disguised as a turkey for the last one makes it abundantly clear where the "loon" part of this trope appeared.
323* Happens to Eddy quite a lot in ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'', and is pretty much [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Ed]]'s default mode post-{{Flanderization}}.
324** This is hilariously {{subverted|Trope}} in one episode, when Ed finds himself with no pants on and makes a shockingly mature and insightful comment on the complexities of women. When Eddy asks if he's feeling alright, Ed promptly go back to his crazy state, shouting "HUG ME!"
325* In the ''WesternAnimation/LegionOfSuperHeroes2006'' episode "Brain Drain", Brainiac 5 spends most of the episode spouting word salad after an update of his cybernetic systems goes awry. Some of his babbling actually references bits of ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' mythology still unknown to Superman himself. Some of those are further obscured by word-substitutions. Other parts, however, are purely random.
326* After trying to get water from a cactus which turns out to be hallucinogenic, Sokka from ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' becomes this in his ensuing MushroomSamba. "It's a GIANT MUSHROOM! Maybe it's friendly!"
327* A few old ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoons employ this trope, particularly the ones featuring WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck. He sometimes is more of a musical loon, either singing something completely out of nowhere ("Oh I'm jutht wild about Ha-rry, and Harryth wild about meeee!") or making up his own lyrics to songs ("Oh when they say I'm nutsy, it sure givth me a pain, puh-leath path the ketchup, I think it'th going to rain!").
328* In ''WesternAnimation/BackAtTheBarnyard'', we have a strange flashback from Abby, after Otis compares another character to the 'crazy uncle they've never had'.
329-->'''Abby:''' Right... [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial I never had a crazy uncle]]...\
330''[{{Flashback}} to a young Abby standing there, staring at her uncle]''\
331'''Abby's Uncle:''' The EasterBunny has betrayed me! [[Film/{{Jaws}} We gotta close the beaches! We can't close the beaches, we're a summer town!]] GET THESE TURTLES OUT OF MY HEAD PLEASE! Aaand, Lindy!
332** We later see him singing and dancing in another flashback.
333* Quite a few animated shows have depicted ''Series/KidsSayTheDarndestThings''-era Creator/BillCosby as one, including ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', and ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' (where he gets kidnapped for about 5 seconds before the kidnappers just bring him right back because he ''will not shut up.'')
334-->'''Bill Cosby:''' ''[in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'']'' Kids, they listen to the rap music, which gives them the brain damage. With their hippin' and-a hoppin' and-a bippin' and-a boppin', so they don't know what the jazz is all about! You see, jazz is like Jello Pudding... no, actually it's more like [[Creator/EastmanKodak Kodak]] Film... no, actually jazz is like the New Coke. It'll be around forever!\
335'''Bill Cosby:''' ''[in ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'']'' Here I go, down the slope! Oooh, I'm goin' zip zop zoopity bop!
336* From ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead'', Beavis' alter-ego, The Great Cornholio.
337-->'''Cornholio:''' "I have a portfolio in my bunghole! With my óleo!"
338* ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'': SelfDemonstrating/TheEvilMidnightBomberWhatBombsAtMidnight from "The Tick vs. The Tick"
339-->'''EMBWBAM:''' And so he says to me, he says: "You wanna be a baaaad guy?" and I go: "Yeah baby! I wanna be bad!" I says, surf's up space ponies! I'M MAKING GRAVY WITHOUT THE LUMPS! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
340* Pinkie Pie of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' can veer into this, to the point that it's actually weaponized in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E14TheLastRoundup The Last Roundup]]".
341-->'''Pinkie Pie:''' [[InherentlyFunnyWords Pickle barrel, kumquat]], pickle barrel, kumquat, pickle barrel, kumquat, chimicherrychanga!\
342'''Applejack:''' ''Make it stop!''
343* Pinky from ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'' is like this quite often, especially when Brain asks "AreYouPonderingWhatImPondering". Examples can be found [[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pinky_and_the_Brain#Are_You_Pondering_What_I.27m_Pondering.3F here]].
344* In ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlackTheSeries'', the telltale sign that [[ExpendableClone a quick clone]] [[ImMelting is about to break down]] is that [[DeterioratesIntoGibberish they begin babbling nonsensically]].
345-->'''Quick Clone Jay:''' That's right! Don't want none of the king's men putting egg shell in my little red tugboat. When flapjacks fly, yum-yum, gotta clip the toenails, the tweet-tweet...
346* Heffer turns into this in the ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' episode "Boob Tubed" after he sits too close to Rocko's new TV and it literally eats his brain: "Makes a great meat substitute for undershorts!"
347* Similar to the ''Rocko'' example above, Stimpy of ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' becomes one in "Blazing Entrails".
348-->''"Diddle diddle fiddle piddle poodle piddle poodle racky sacky [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQs7zdVmPDg want some seafood mama]]."''
349* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/ChalkZone'' has Mother Tongue, a talking tongue who turns her audience into this when she licks them; anything they try to say afterwards comes out as vaguely-similar-sounding word salad.[[note]]For example, "really?" becomes "rutabaga?" and "I love you" becomes "olive juice"[[/note]] Licking them again makes them go back to normal.
350-->'''Random audience member:''' My poodle's cleaning my belly button?
351* In a ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'' segment from ''WesternAnimation/Animaniacs2020'', Julia is attempting to participate in a presidential debate while being controlled by Brain's short-circuiting MindControlDevice and FightingFromTheInside.
352-->'''Julia:''' I have been manipulated by a tyrant ''[ZAP]'' but isn't the real tyrant high-fructose corn syrup? That's why my platform is to ''[ZAP]'' '''EAT THE CHILDREN!''' ''[feral scream]''
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356->The mosquito zaps a kumquat into pawns.

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