Line #130 Main/WordSaladHumor


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3	->''"Many combolations, Elizagerth! I hope you get all of my... particles."''
4	-->-- '''[[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner Senor Cardgage]]''', ''WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail'' #100 [[Recap/StrongBadEmailE100Flashback "flashback"]]
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6	Using InherentlyFunnyWords, NonSequitur or random gibberish to humorous effect. Often used in SurrealHumor. Contrast with WordSaladHorror (unless dealing with some extreme BlackComedy).
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8	The (usually derisive) phrase [[WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd "monkey]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RWdyjSutKQ cheese"]] is also sometimes used to describe such humor.
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10	Occasions in which Word-Salad Humor may be employed:
11	* DadaComics
12	* NonSequiturThud
13	* OrphanedPunchline
14	* SurrealHumor
15	* TalkativeLoon
16	* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible
17	* WordSaladLyrics
18	* YouTubePoop
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21	!!Please eat my delicious magnesium sandwich while reading the examples:
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23	[[foldercontrol]]
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25	[[folder:Advertising]]
26	* Rowntree's "Randoms" campaign had people dropping the names of the various shapes of the sweets into otherwise normal dialogue.
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29	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
30	* ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou'': Naddy claims to be a natural-born American and sprinkles her sentences with copious GratuitousEnglish to 'prove' it, but her actual grasp on English is... tenuous at best, making for this trope. The English translations (official and scanlation) choose to give her a ridiculously overblown and stereotypical American accent, but after chapter 118 the scanlation group gives an example of what it would look like if they translated her directly:
31	-->''From the life will oh my God unbelievable good morning. The mans will eventually HP gambler extreme smash brothers, but now the half and half blood are best fit double people. However, destiny hello because future is hyper crazy. By [[ClusterFBomb fuck you and fuck you the not fuck you fuck you]] is happy birthday.''
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34	[[folder:Comic Books]]
35	* The ''Happy Noodle Boy'' one-shot comics in ''ComicBook/JohnnyTheHomicidalManiac'' by Jhonen Vasquez.
36	** Jhonen Vasquez's works in general have a lot of this.
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39	[[folder:Fan Fiction]]
40	* In addition to his usual [[GrossOutShow gross-out humour]], the infamous [=ComicsNix=] also makes heavy use of this trope. Typically, he'll use a mish-mash of completely unrelated and often obscure words to describe something or someone, occasionally hiding exactly ''one'' relevant term among them.
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43	[[folder:Film]]
44	* In ''Film/OceansTwelve,'' the conversation between Danny, Rusty, Linus, and Matsui is a collection of gibberish that everyone understands... except Linus.
45	-->'''Rusty:''' A doctor, who specializes in skin diseases, will dream he has fallen asleep in front of the television. Later, he will wake up in front of the television, but not remember his dream.\
46	'''Danny:''' If all the animals along the equator were capable of flattery, then Thanksgiving and Hallowe'en would fall on the same day.
47	* Happens unintentionally in the AI-written short film ''Film/{{Sunspring}}''. The plot includes such gibberish lines as "Well, I have to go to the skull!" It's also quite hard to figure out the plot because of the word-salad dialogue. Pretty much all that is distinguishable is that there is probably a love triangle between the three characters, one may or may not have gone to space, and he at least contemplates suicide.
48	* ''Film/MarsAttacks'': The first attempt in translating the Martian language results in this. It's unclear if this was a case of TranslationTrainwreck or if the Martian leader was just messing with the Earthlings. The translation was "All green of skin... 800 centuries ago, their bodily fluids include the birth of half-breeds. For the fundamental truth self-determination of the cosmos, for dark is the suede that mows like a harvest."
49	[[/folder]]
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51	[[folder:Literature]]
52	* Dream, vision, hallucination, revelation and/or brainwashing sequences in ''Literature/{{Illuminatus}}'' and its spinoffs tend to be either this or WordSaladHorror, although they are frequently both simultaneously, combining imagery from everything from Literature/TheBible and Myth/ClassicalMythology to Masonic lore, {{Occultism}} and the UsefulNotes/{{Kabbalah}} to Creator/HPLovecraft, pornography and ComicStrip/KrazyKat with ArcWords chosen seemingly at random and very clever yet completely nonsensical wordplay.
53	* Several books have the Bursar of ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'''s Unseen University lapsing into this during particularly bad points in his Ridcully-induced mental instability.
54	-->"Why certainly, I'll have your whelk! How do we do it? Volume!"
55	** This is also the primary method of speaking of Foul Ole Ron, hence why he sometimes associates with Gaspode as a "thinking-brain dog." When ''not'' assisted by the dog, he says things like "Buggerit, millennium hand and shrimp." This also causes some puzzlement during Ron's short-lived attempt to work as a newsie in ''Literature/TheTruth'', as he calls out things like "Hoinarylup" and "Squidaped-oyt!"
56	[[/folder]]
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58	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
59	* Many of ''Series/TheMuppetShow'''s musical numbers were acapella non-verbals arranged for a song-like quality. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpcUxwpOQ_A&feature=related Especially funny when done with characters whose speech is incomprehensible.]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDFgtFXfnv0 Even moreso if the original is in a language the audience doesn't understand anyway.]]
60	* Taken to its logical conclusion by Eric Idle in the ''Series/RutlandWeekendTelevision'' sketch 'Gibberish', which takes a typical television interview, then simply removes the dialogue and replaces it with random silly words. The sketch with Henry Woolf was then reprised with Dan Aykroyd for American audiences on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''.
61	-->"I see. Rapidly piddlepot strumming Hanover peace pudding mouse rumpling cuddly corridor cabinets?"\
62	"Sick in a cup! Toejam whisper tap Sunderland shower-curtain, ice wallpaper cups grounchingly rubber king wrapped butter kissing-feathers definitely pheasantry daughter successfully douche dinner-bottom."\
63	"Machine wrapped with butter?"\
64	"Machine wrapped with butter."
65	* ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGhostCoastToCoast'' and ''WesternAnimation/CartoonPlanet'' just ''loved'' this trope, with segments featuring Space Ghost, Zorak, and Brak just saying a single word, such as "pants", back-and-forth to each other for no reason.
66	* From ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' (one of a vastly ''enormous'' number of examples):
67	-->'''Raymond Luxury-Yacht:''' That's not my name.\
68	'''Interviewer:''' I'm sorry, Raymond Luxury Yach-t.\
69	'''Raymond Luxury-Yacht:''' No, no, no. It's spelled Raymond Luxury-Yach-t, but it's pronounced 'Throat-Warbler Mangrove'.\
70	'''Interviewer:''' You're a very silly man, and I'm not going to interview you.
71	* In ''Series/GilmoreGirls'', after Lorelai has just pointed out to Emily and Rory that both "oy" and "poodles" are very funny words
72	-->'''Lorelai:''' In fact, if you put oy and poodle together in the same sentence, you'd have a great new catch phrase, you know? Like, oy with the poodles already. So from now on, when the perfect circumstances arise, we will use our favorite new catch phrase.\
73	'''Rory:''' Oy with the poodles already.
74	* The "Alex Trebek Has Gone Insane" segment of ''[[Creator/ConanOBrien Conan]]''. Through creative editing, Trebek ends up saying things like "J.Lo is slang for someone who communicates by extrasensory means with other Japanese yeast exports."
75	* The ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'' game "Foreign Film" revolves around this, combined with AsLongAsItSoundsForeign. Whatever the chosen language is, English loanwords will make their way into the ensuing word salad.
76	* Dawn Lazarus, a semi-recurring character on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'''s Weekend Update segments, is a meteorologist who speaks just intelligibly enough that you can sort of tell she's talking about weather while still making no sense whatsoever. It's generally implied that this is due to stage fright:
77	-->"[[VerbalTIC Hap!]] Pertipitations, gonna have it, and if I'm you, cancel it that picnic and get it lumbrella. Woo! And the map, we got it wet from here all the way and here. And... That's that sky!"
78	** A mock commercial, ostensibly promoting the official soundtrack album of early aughts SlasherMovie ''{{Film/Valentine}}'', took aim at how albums of this type usually featured a few well-known heavy metal / industrial metal bands surrounded by songs by complete unknowns with strange names - thus, it's mainly a list that starts out with a few actual groups before descending into [[{{Word Salad Title}} word salad band names]] like Motionless Z [[note]]probably a play on Music/StaticX[[/note]], Exquisite Mammals, Grab The Jester, and Half of 5445 North Park Drive Community Vigilance & Restoration Committee.
79	* The [[https://icarly.fandom.com/wiki/Penny-Tees "penny tees"]] worn by characters in ''Series/{{iCarly}}'' (and its SpinOff ''Series/SamAndCat'') display phrases such as "Rubber Toast," "Coffee Noodles," "Poodle Juice," and "Angry Towels."
80	* During an uncredited cameo appearance in the episode "I'm No Henry Walden" of ''Series/TheDickVanDykeShow'', Carl Reiner rattles off two solid minutes of hilariously unintelligible nonsense as intellectual Yale Sampson.
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83	[[folder:Music]]
84	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4onhPFyfrM Zabadak]]:
85	-->Zabadak,\
86	Karakakora kakarakak\
87	Zabadak\
88	Shai shai skagalak
89	* [[http://www.ferin.com/words.mp3/ Bulbous Bouffant by The Vestibules]] takes the surrealism inherent in the sound of words and eventually turns it into a kind of poetry.
90	* The song "Hubba Hubba Zoot Zoot" by Carumba.
91	* Comedy music act Worm Quartet's lead singer (and sole member) Shoebox has numerous songs that consist entirely of syntactically correct gibberish. If you listen long enough, things like "my prostitute has evaporated" almost start to make sense.
92	* "Drinking Out Of Cups" by Dan Deacon, a spoken word piece that later became better known when Liam Lynch (''Series/TheSiflAndOllyShow'') made a short animation to go with it. Passages like "Who's this guy? Mr. Balloons? Mr. Balloon hands?" and "I'm in love with the seahorses. They're fuckin' unreal. I love them, they're like all the clocks..." were the result of him acting like a macho Long Islander stereotype and spontaneously responding to things he saw while watching a TV on mute.
93	* "[[http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozs079hRq8c "Francium"]] sung by Hatsune Miku.
94	* GFOTY from Music/PCMusic loves revelling in this, with a portion of surreal-ness is her tendency to construct her imagery, lyrics, and even entire songs like [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny someone with an extremely low attention span]]. Her skits from her ''Dog Food'' mixes with fellow label-mate Spinee also run off this:
95	-->'''Spinee:''' [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext My leg's on fire, can you help]]? I absolutely thought that turkey neck was the perfect ingredient.\
96	'''GFOTY:''' Why didn't you hire the fireman? [[KickTheDog I hate your own leg anyway, this is your own fault]].\
97	'''Spinee:''' At least we're in the safe room. [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction I'm bleeding over the last vat of dog food]]! [[SkewedPriorities I think we can still sell it, I don't think anyone will notice]].
98	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tCjmdyjyoo "It's Dark!"]] by GHOST/Ghost and Pals is a Music/{{Vocaloid}} song whose lyrics largely consist of this.
99	--> Is it possible? Can it happen? \
100	Can’t have the crunch without the munch \
101	It’s like a good relationship \
102	You don’t want an unhealthy crumch \
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105	[[folder:New Media]]
106	* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'':
107	** In general, characters often insert bizarre malapropisms randomly into otherwise normal dialog.
108	** In the WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail "funny", Strong Bad's idea of answering an email in the "funniest way ever" is to tape a blank diskette to his forehead and dance around while talking gibberish like "the crazy squeaky guy".
109	--->'''Strong Bad:''' LEEKO LEEKO LEEKO! I'm a squeaky guy! I've got squeaky pants! Come check out my squeaky-pants dance!
110	** The characters Homsar and Senor Cardgage seem to only ever speak this way. The [=SBEmail=] "fan club" had a debate over which of them was the "non-sequitur champion".
111	--->'''Homsar:''' My name's Millions, and I'm the son of a Chipwich!\
112	'''Senor Cardgage:''' Carageenan, Montlejohn. Can you detect me to the nearest bus stamp?
113	* WebOriginal/LOLCats seems to revolve around extracting humour from posting pictures of cats alongside AOL-speak.
114	** The earliest "Caturday" pictures had proper language and were still plenty funny, making this ''another'' instance of {{Flanderization}}.
115	* This is the appeal of most YouTubePoop.
116	* [[http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/llama The Llama Song.]] Llama llama cheesecake llama tablet brick potato llama.
117	* [[http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/23/spam_poetry_compendium Spam poetry,]] composed of the randomized text which spammers use to trip up filters. The "Hello Muscle palace" message [[http://www.mugglenet.com/emails.shtml here]] is an example.
118	* ''Shitposting'' has become the generally accepted term for this sort of humor on the [[Website/{{Tumblr}} major]] [[Website/{{Twitter}} hubs]] [[Website/{{Facebook}} of]] [[ImageBoards social]] [[{{Website/Reddit}} media]].
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121	[[folder:Newspaper Comics]]
122	* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'':
123	** Calvin discovers this and his dad demonstrates his discovery.
124	--->'''Calvin:''' Hey Dad. Know what I figured out? The meaning of words isn't a fixed thing! Any word can mean anything! By giving words new meanings, ordinary English can become an exclusionary code! Two generations can be divided by the same language! To that end, I'll be inventing new definitions for common words, so we'll be unable to communicate. Don't you think that's totally Spam? It's lubricated! Well, I'm phasing.\
125	'''Father:''' ''[making the peace sign]'' Marvy. Fab. Far out.
126	** Another golden example is when Calvin is asked to explain Newton's First Law of Motion [[ExactWords in his own words]], and he writes, "[[LoopholeAbuse Yakka foob mog. Grug pubbawup zink wattoom gazork. Chumble spuzz.]]"
127	* ''Zippy'' has run on this trope for thirty years now.
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130	[[folder:Podcasts]]
131	* In one episode of the D&D podcast ''The Lucky Die'', [[DumbMuscle Greff]] asks for a book at the library: "Sword books! Sword master books. People book sword master books people."
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134	[[folder:Puppet Shows]]
135	* In satirical comedy puppet show ''Series/SpittingImage'', the "I never met a nice [[AmoralAfrikaner South African]]!" song is pretty well known. What has been forgotten are the sketches that book-end it to either side, about a truly not-nice South African called P.W. Botha, who at the time was Head of Government in UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra. President Botha is seen addressing a rally and delivering some truly nonsensical soundbites. The trope is weaponised by deliberately juxtaposing the utter nonsense with one ''sensible'' claim that [[BlatantLies nobody with a brain believes for a second]].
136	--> My fellow South Africans, I feel it is time for me to tell you the facts as they really are. One: Bananas are marsupials! ''(huge cheer)'' Two: cars run on gravy! ''(huge cheer)'' Three; Salmon live in trees and eat pencils! ''(huge cheer)'' Four: Reform in South Africa is on the way! ''(hugest cheer of all, segue to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CqdrbWVg_M That Song]])''
137	[[/folder]]
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139	[[folder:Stand Up Comedy]]
140	* Creator/GeorgeCarlin (in a list of everyday expressions that make no sense):
141	-->"In your own words." You know, you hear that a lot. In a court room or a classroom, they'll say "tell us... in your own words." Do you have your own words? Hey, I'm using the ones everyone else has been using! Next time they tell you to say something in your own words, say "Niq fluk bwarney quando floo!"
142	* Creator/SteveMartin suggested teaching a child to speak incorrectly as a prank. The child would then go to school and say things like, "May I mambo dog-face to the banana patch?"
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145	[[folder:Theatre]]
146	* In ''Dogg's Hamlet'' by Creator/TomStoppard, most of the characters speak a language called "Dogg", which consists of English words given different meanings.
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149	[[folder:Video Games]]
150	* Periodically used in ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'', where a staggering number of enemies and one playable character are classed as "Psychos". There's even a random bandit death line where the casualty will claim to have "made you a salad - out of words".
151	* In ''VideoGame/{{Drawful}}'', the object is to draw pictures based on a prompt, usually a bizarre one such as "magic smell" or "too many pies".
152	* One of the villains in superhero parody ''Spandex Force'' is the aptly-named Professor Aphasia. He weirds the player character out so much that after his first appearance, the box on the side which slowly reveals a picture of the current chapter's villain as you gather clues to their whereabouts remains ''blank''.
153	* ''VideoGame/{{Control}}'' introduces a character named Fra in the ''AWE'' DLC, a shapeshifting alien from the moon that hitched a ride to Earth before getting captured by the Federal Bureau of Control. It can speak in [[VoiceChangeling a passable human voice]] and seems to comprehend the idea of language and emotional inflection well enough, but its understanding of ''[[MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels syntax]]'' [[MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels is a hot mess]]. Much humor is derived from captors and interrogators getting frustrated with its incomprehensible sentences in spite of [[InnocentAliens its oddly chirpy, persistently friendly demeanor]].
154	-->'''Interrogator''': Where are you from?\
155	'''Fra''': Jumble grand! Up and loose and heavy treats sandwich!\
156	'''Interrogator''': Jesus Christ, does anyone have any idea what this thing is saying?\
157	'''Fra''': ''(mildly offended)'' Hotly! Dirt arrange you!
158	* ''VideoGame/{{Superliminal}}'': One of Dr. Pierce's messages is played with the words in the wrong order, but read out as if it's exactly the way it's supposed to be.
159	-->"Hello! [[{{Catchphrase}} Name is my Pierce Dr. Glenn.]]"
160	* ''VideoGame/TheJackboxPartyPack'': While a lot of games at least have the potential for this if things are going downhill or you forget what you were saying, ''Job Job'' leans particularly hard into it, since you have to assemble your answers from words other people used. This can lead to winning rounds on the strength of answers that consist of tangentially related gibberish, as long as the answer you're up against is ''worse''.
161	* Even though it was made by western developer Creator/{{Rare}} and not an example of BlindIdiotTranslation, the Platform/{{NES}} tarot-reading simulator ''VideoGame/TabooTheSixthSense'' is a gold mine of hilariously mangled English, because the template for your readings makes no effort to have the subject and predicate flow naturally, or even incorporate basic grammar and sentence structure. Despite not being a "game" in the classic sense, players are more likely to have fun trying to figure out what the hell their fortunes are even trying to ''say'' than they are to use it for actual fortune telling (e.g. "Your inner emotions sense or will shortly sense the experience brief happiness or pleasure and sadness or mourning.").
162	[[/folder]]
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164	[[folder:Web Comics]]
165	* Occurs frequently in ''Webcomic/WhiteNinjaComics''
166	* The Chef Brian strips from ''Webcomic/CtrlAltDel'' most definitely qualify as this. The phrases he says are sometimes almost comprehensible, so it's not entirely random, but altogether it makes no sense. The first one was apparently created as {{filler}}, and late at night, but it quickly became popular.
167	* There's a wizard in ''Webcomic/MandatoryRollerCoaster'' that sells bizarre ingredients with which to create even more bizarrely named spells.
168	* Twisp and Catsby from ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'' are a high class cat and demon ([[NonindicativeName respectively]]) who live in an absurd world, and Twisp manages to exhibit {{Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness}} while only saying one word at a time. They were originally created as a parody of nonsensical things, but again, the fanbase became instantly attached to them.
169	* Known as Random-Access Humor in ''Webcomic/{{Sonichu}}''. It's horrendously unfunny, even when compared to other examples of Word-Salad Humor.
170	* In ''Webcomic/MrSquare'' this is most everything "the sheep" says, but a prime example is when Mr. Square makes [[http://revfitz.com/comic/issue380/ "Gutter Muppet Glitter Cakes."]]
171	* ''Webcomic/OzyAndMillie'', occasionally. Usually from Millie. "Armadillo! Armadillo! The cheese from Zimbabwe has lugubriously flattened my popcorn!"
172	* The non-Anglosphere countries of ''{{Webcomic/Polandball}}'' [[IntentionalEngrishForFunny speak Engrish by default]], but some authors exaggerate it to make dialogue full-fledged world salad, as [[https://i.imgur.com/tfQPF4a.png seen here.]]
173	* ''Webcomic/ThinkinLincoln'': George Washington tried this once just to see if it's funny. It was.
174	* Used as a tactic in ''Webcomic/CrimsonDark'', when the Nargun Exchange Controller refuses to speak to Whisper. Whisper responds by [[https://www.davidcsimon.com/crimsondark/index.php?view=comic&strip_id=737 rattling off a crazy salad of terrorist and advertising keywords,]] creating a barrage of low-level alerts that the Controller finds too irritating to ignore.
175	[[/folder]]
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177	[[folder:Web Original]]
178	* [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/phonetic-translations Phonetic "translations"]] of foreign-language songs misheard into the listener's native language often fall into this. "My loony bun is fine Benny Lava!" "Distort that tart in my nub!"
179	* Speaking of "phonetic translations," Website/YouTube's auto-generated subtitles are an absolute goldmine of hilarious gibberish when used on videos done in different languages. To a lesser extent, it even does this with English as well.
180	* In the ''WebVideo/AIPajamaSam'' video, ''WebVideo/DougDoug'' programmed an A.I. to play through the children's game ''VideoGame/PajamaSamInNoNeedToHideWhenItsDarkOutside'', with it instructed to role-play as the titular child. However, due to programming limits, the A.I.'s responses would become increasingly [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness verbose]] and [[NonSequitur nonsensical]], oftentimes having little-or-nothing to do with the actual problem at hand. Doug had to frequently reset the program to keep the A.I. on track, until it would invariably start spouting incoherent gibberish again. One early reset was prompted when the A.I. gave a four-paragraph response to a simple logic puzzle, which included the phrase "how would levigate Mike Pence bail?"
181	* ''WebAnimation/WeeblAndBob'': "Badger, badger, badger, badger. [[http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/badgers Mushroom, mushroom! Snake!"]]
182	* [[http://kansattica.livejournal.com Awesome in Kansattica]] does this sometimes.
183	* [[http://botnik.org/studios.html Botnik Studios]] a series of reviews, scripts, and more using a predictive text emulator.
184	* Some of the answers in ''WebOriginal/TimsChemistryExam'' fall into this trope, such as "fork + shoe = spleen".
185	* Music/BadLipReading, a Website/YouTube channel that essentially does elaborate [[GagDub gag dubs]] of pop music videos (and later, also clips from films and TV shows), uses a lot of this kind of humor. Witness Music/RebeccaBlack singing about gang fights and chicken, Music/{{Ludacris}} claiming to be "a magic man with a magic goose", and Music/MileyCyrus wanting to "get dumb and bang a wizard".
186	* ''Blog/HorseEbooks'', [[https://twitter.com/Horse_ebooks at first glance]], is a {{Website/Twitter}} bot that tweeted random, broken sentences from ebooks. Initially, its tweets were about horses, with its creator running a number of similar bots that focused on other subjects (in a rather pathetic attempt at advertising a shady ebook website), but Horse_ebooks ended up being the only one still standing, as it seemed to have a talent for creating entertaining nonsense that inspired people [[http://horseebooks.tumblr.com/ to write]] {{fanfiction}}, [[http://horseecomics.tumblr.com/ draw comics]] and [[http://horseeposters.com/#34230786360 make posters.]] During its run, it was followed by over a hundred and fifty thousand people. It was eventually revealed to be part of a ViralMarketing campaign (along with ''ARG/PronunciationBook'') for the FMV adventure game ''Bear Stearns Bravo''.
187	** As it turns out, Horse_ebooks ''was'' originally a legitimate advertising bot, but after one of ''Bear Stearns Bravo''[='s=] creators bought the account from its original creator, the new owner preceded to personally come up with and type out ''every single tweet''. For over ''two years''.
188	* ''Music/SongsToWearPantsTo'': Andrew Huang and fellow Website/{{YouTube}}r Gunarolla have a series of shorts called "We Are What You Tweet", with dialogue submitted by viewers via twitter. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E3eGg85EKI Conversations full of wacky non-sequiturs ensue.]]
189	* LetsPlay/{{Raocow}} uses this all day. Less so now than in his earlier videos, which he thinks came off as forced.
190	* In WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic's review of ''Film/{{Godzilla 1998}}'', he was annoyed by the movie treating the line "[[CaptainObvious That's a lotta fish]]" as though it was a gut-busting joke, and declared even just having the line be "poppity pop pop pop" would have been a funnier joke.
191	* The Website/SCPFoundation has [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2337 Dr. Spanko.]] It's a talking corn crake that speaks entirely in word salad. As an added bonus, all of this word salad is spoken at 90+ decibels! The site describes it as speaking "a language tangentially related to English". As an example, it refers to gummy worms (its favorite food) as "stranglefruits". In addition, it randomly places in the word "cack'.
192	--->'''Dr. Spanko:''' Cack! Am christened Herr Doktor Spankoflex. Am colloquially namesplapped with Essy-Pee twothreethree and Steven, am complicate across the state.
193	** Dr. Spanko has a CharacterBlog! You can [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/askinate-herr-spankoflex find it here.]]
194	* The vast majority of the popular jokes on Website/{{Tumblr}} fall into this category. It's sometimes even used for ''insults'', which can and often does lead to {{Narm}}.
195	* [[http://i.imgur.com/fBYlrAo.png Bam Ham City]]
196	* [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/has-anyone-really-been-far-even-as-decided-to-use-even-go-want-to-do-look-more-like "Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"]] leading to a thread filled with {{Reaction Shot}}s from other posters trying to decipher it.
197	* ''WebVideo/UltraFastPony'' discusses this in the episode "So Random!" Pinkie considers it the ultimate form of humor, but Cranky isn't impressed.
198	-->'''Pinkie:''' What are you talking about? Everyone wants to be my friend, I'm hilarious! Chicken strudel!\
199	''[beat]''\
200	'''Pinkie:''' Why won't you laugh, you, uh, you stone-hearted... No, cold-hearted! No... you don't even have a heart! You have a stone... made of cold.\
201	'''Cranky:''' No, you're not funny. You're just saying random words in a funny accent and thinking that's the same as comedy.
202	* [[https://twitter.com/RoboRosewater Robo-Rosewater,]] a Twitter bot that creates random TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering cards. Some of them actually make some sort of twisted sense. Some of them...are this.
203	* [[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee]] opened his review of ''VideoGame/DriverSanFrancisco'' with one of these:
204	-->''Wanna hear [[ExactWords something crazy]]? Titty fuck labrador swimming up the Nile.''
205	* Cooper of ''WebVideo/SMPLive'' engages in this frequently, blurting out total nonsense that other server members refer to as "word vomit".
206	--> '''Cooper:''' I'm a fuckin' [[PerfectlyCromulentWord blapperborn]]. I'm a shit boy. I eat boxes.
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208
209	[[folder:Western Animation]]
210	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rejected}}'''s first sketch basically consists of a man saying "Mah spoon is too big" in various inflections, then an anthropomorphic banana appears and yells "I am a banana!", followed by a vacuum cleaner noise. It still manages to be hilarious.
211	** "Tuesday's coming. Did you bring your coat?" "I live in a giant bucket!"
212	** "Hey, do you want to go see a movie?" "I'm feeling fat and sassy."
213	** "I am the Queen of France."
214	* Pinkie Pie, a character in the cartoon series ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', is [[EstablishingCharacterMoment well-known]] for being prone to quirky, nonsensical, random behavior, sometimes resulting in Word Salad-esque lines. The trope appears in an obvious form during "The Last Roundup", in which Pinkie Pie tortures Applejack with inane babbling until she confesses.
215	-->'''Pinkie Pie:''' Isn't that just the funnest thing to say? Pickle barrel, pickle barrel, pickle barrel! Say it with me: pickle barrel kumquat, pickle barrel kumquat, [[{{Portmanteau}} chimicherrychunga]]!
216	* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' has examples like "If I'm lucky, one day Mr. Talent will rub his tentacles on my art!" (The title itself would probably count, if it wasn't a concise description of the protagonist.)
217	* ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'', being another Creator/JhonenVasquez work, has it all over the place. Radioactive rubber pants, anyone?[[note]]Ironically, that was actually [[ThrowItIn thrown in]] when Creator/RichardStevenHorvitz mispronounced "ants," which makes only slightly more sense.[[/note]] This is especially prominent with [[MinionWithAnFInEvil GIR]], who will blather on about whatever "thought" enters his "mind," often about food. And then there's Zim's [[EpicFail complete failure]] of an insult in "Backseat Drivers From Beyond The Stars."
218	-->"You stink, Dib! Go home and shave your [[BigStupidDooDooHead giant head of smell]] [[AcCENTUponTheWrongSylLABle WITH your bad SELF]]."
219	* Several [[RunningGag recurring gags]] in ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' began this way. Case in point: "Klimpaloon, the magical old-timey bathing suit that lives in the Himalayas."
220	* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'': The Plumbus, some kind of fleshy device/pet thing [[CowTools with no known function]], gets a How it's Made-esque video about its manufacture that amounts to a ''lot'' of this in quick sucession, as every step involves more and more words that make less and less sense.
221	* From the ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' episode "[[Recap/AdventureTimeS2E9TheOtherTarts The Other Tarts]]":
222	-->'''[[TheMentallyDisturbed Royal Tart Toter]]:''' This cosmic dance of bursting decadence and withheld permissions twists all our arms collectively, but if sweetness can win, and it can, then I'll still be here tomorrow to high-five you yesterday, my friend. Peace.
223	* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWaiT5fZHBs Floyd Wetherton,]] a "horribly disfigured" former boxer who provides "barely intelligible commentary."
224	-->'''Floyd Wetherton:''' Well... the match lasting up until about the particular inaccuracy, par-particular unusually that should be the ultimate determining factor in about the twelve-round experience. Heart of a champion, margarine hat.
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226
227	[[folder:Memetic Mutation]]
228	* A semi-legendary post at the Website/FourChan in response to a trailer for ''VideoGame/TheConduit'': [[http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/384/246/e45.jpg "Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"]]
229	** [[http://www.quickmeme.com/img/ee/eeb6f77115243bbee3c9499fe57776d45947f4cf8820c218e1603acec1ceb297.jpg You've got to be kidding me.]] I've been further even more decided to use even go need to do look more as anyone can. Can you really be far even as decided half as much to use go wish for that? My guess is that when one really been far even as decided once to use even go want, it is then that he has really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like. [[TheWalrusWasPaul It's just common sense]].
230	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZop90sIcT0 This infamous rant]] from a Mexican lady is a notable Spanish example. No one is sure of exactly what she was on, but the result is a nonsensical string of words that has been memed to no end. Even if you don't speak the language, the utterly confused look of the poor person translating the speech into sign language at the bottom tells you everything you need to know.
231	-->'''"Lady Coral":''' ''El coral... blanco, o el ambiente que estamos manejando lo estamos contaminando de una manera ignimi, im, inimi,inimaginablemente inigmante''[[labelnote:Translation attempt]] The white... coral, or the environment we are managing we are contaminating it in an ignimi, im, inimi[sic], unimaginably [[PerfectlyCromulentWord inigmant]] way [[/labelnote]]
232	* Shitposts. They range from this, heavily edited pictures[=/=]videos, [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs or a combination of the two]].
233	* ''[[https://youtu.be/D5ABLKgSHZI Steamed hams but all of the words are in a random order]]'' is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. It consists entirely of Word Salad, with about half the lines consisting of one word before another character talks.
234	--> '''Chalmers:''' I'm well ham. ''walks away from the house''
235	--> '''Skinner:''' Wonderful. Um,
236	--> '''Chalmers:''' Say
237	--> '''Skinner:''' Aurora Hamburgers
238	--> '''Chalmers:''' Were grilled
239	--> '''Skinner:''' Chalmers
240	--> '''Chalmers:''' Hams
241	--> '''Skinner:''' Steamed Exercise.
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243
244	[[folder:Other]]
245	* Creator/DurwoodFincher, a.k.a. "Mr. Doubletalk", has this as his main shtick. He pretends to be giving people serious interviews, but he mixes in NonSequitur phrases with complete gibberish. His interviewees are usually too polite to comment on the nonsense, so they try to give legitimate answers to the gobbledygook. Perhaps best illustrated by his CatchPhrase: "What, if any, and if not, how much?"
246	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7RgN9ijwE4 Have you ever had a dream like this?]]
247	[[/folder]]
248
249	[[folder:Real Life]]
250	* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorless_green_ideas_sleep_furiously Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.]] This was a sentence devised by linguist Noam Chomsky to illustrate a grammatically correct sentence that made no sense. It's also hilarious.
251	* Because they can speak human words and understand sentence syntax, but usually don’t quite get the context of words when used in longer sentences, parrots will often [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYpwOucI-f4 do]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNavxvvN9QI this.]]
252	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUNECHCKWBc This white cockatoo goes into a protracted rant]] consisting mostly of coherent nonsense and non-sequiturs that appear to have been constructed out of a combination of words and full sentences it had learned. Notably, despite how random the sentences seem to be, the bird makes it somehow combine together into a complete, albeit [[RandomEventsPlot bizarre]], narrative!
253	--->"I can't work, I got four bed rats! I CAN'T WORK! A bed rat. I like the coke, a dry coke, then call Sarah, FOOTBALL'S ON SARAH! [[FloweryInsults GO ON THEN, WALK FOREVER, PORK PIE!]] I thought I let them go, a dead rat, them four bed rats then called Sarah. I got angry! I punched Paul the rabbit, poor bed rat. 'FOOTBALL' said Paul, then Brian let roar! I won't get my bed by a bat. I can't talk, they can't blow a hairdryer. [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere I can't do it.]]"
254	** Petra the parrot figured out how to use Alexa, and gradually [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Exg5bJj6RBA made her own 36 item shopping list,]] which includes such things as trash, fire, Fed-Ex and chicken.
255	* People who [[TalkingInYourSleep talk in their sleep]] often do this.
256
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258	----
259	->[[TheStinger The fish walked on a toy store and ate a towel.]]

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