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* The Auguste Escoffier Cookbook is set up in such a way that many recipies cross-refference each other (which is apparently how he managed to fit so many recipies into a single portable book). For example, it takes reading about five different recipies to make Poires Condé (that is, pears poached in vanilla syrup in a bed of rice pudding with chocolate sauce).

** He makes the point again in the alt-text of [[http://xkcd.com/903/ this]] comic. Apparently if start with any article and click the first non-italicized link not in parentheses in every subsequent article, you'll eventually end up at philosophy. One route that works is to start with ''Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1978'' [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_%28radio_series%29 radio series]].

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* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDemYnCLDpA this]] Natalie Tran video, one of the featured comments from the previous video claims it takes three clicks to get from the Wikipedia page about her to the one about [[GodwinsLaw Hitler]]. She says she'd like to see proof of this. Viewers were only too happy to oblige. [[JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife You are hereby challenged]] to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie_Tran try]] without first looking at [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OHm_W8Qf9Q the multiple solutions]].

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* A website, [[https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/ the Six Degrees of Wikipedia]], has been coded that will allow you to put in two pages in Wikipedia, and find the shortest path from one to the other. thus taking a Wiki Walk for you.

* ''Literature/TheSalvationWar'' has a gorgon in "Armageddon" (Book 1 of 3) learn of the "invocations of 'goo gul' and 'wiccan pee-dee-ah'" only to fall victim to this effect:
-->"The last was protected by an insidious spell that caused her to constantly lose track of what she was looking for, flipping from page to page until she was reading irrelevant nonsense about 'collectible card games' and 'sonic the hedgehog'."

* ''WebAnimation/ExtraCredits'' suggested invoking this as a method to get students to link ideas together in their "Gamifying Education" episode. Of course, they also suggested making sure the students explain why each leap in the walk was valid.

* Links on Website/NobodyHere will often contain more links within them, connecting the stories together and making the reader stray from their starting point. Each page also contains a "random" button at the bottom for more chaos.

* In ''Literature/{{Durarara}}'', Shizuo decides to ask his new Russian [[SenpaiKohai Kohai]]/human encyclopedia, Vorona, about Siberia. This somehow morphs into a lecture on cakes.

* Aki in ''LightNovel/BakaAndTestSummonTheBeasts'' does this several times, the most notable one being in the second OVA. The viewer is shown a long series of thoughts--none of which makes any sense--while the other characters are left wondering how Shimada saying that [[CuteBruiser Himeji]] might change schools has anything to do with whether [[DudeLooksLikeALady Hideyoshi]] would still love [[BookDumb Aki]] if he had a mohawk.

* In ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'', Shizuo decides to ask his new Russian [[SenpaiKohai Kohai]]/human encyclopedia, Vorona, about Siberia. This somehow morphs into a lecture on cakes.

* In ''Literature/CopCraft'', a clue of a bulldog tattoo on the elbow comes up in episode 11. When one of the cops identifies the bearer as likely a US Marine who got it before new regulations, citing Wikipedia, her partner responds with a 3-step Wiki Walk from the starter page (M4 Carbine). What she responds with is more like 30 steps.

* In ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'', Shizuo decides to ask his new Russian [[SempaiKohai Kohai]]/human encyclopedia, Vorona, about Siberia. This somehow morphs into a lecture on cakes.

* The main character of ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'', JD, experiences daydreams that cause him to go on three-part wiki walks. The trigger comment, the daydream, and his verbal response. Amusingly lampshaded in later seasons, where they show the trigger comment but the camera stays "in the real world", where JD's friends comment on how he's about to snap out of it with a completely off-the-wall comment. He doesn't disappoint.
--> "We're gonna need a whole lotta gnomes!"
* Doug the drug rehab man does this frequently with names of drugs in ''Series/LittleBritain''.

* An episode of ''Series/StepByStep'' had Cloudcuckoolander Cody give advice for dealing with a hickey through a crazily meandering chain of word associations, before finally coming back around to "Wear a turtleneck!".
* ''Series/{{QI}}'' is more a televised Wiki Walk than anything else.
* Constable Frank Gladstone from ''Series/TheThinBlueLine'' is a master of this, often omitting the intervening steps and just announcing his seemingly random conclusions to his perplexed comrades. For example: His theory behind rampant graffiti?...[[InsaneTrollLogic Fridge magnets and the parents who use them to put their toddler's childish drawings on the fridge as adorable mementos, which causes the now teen kids to use graffiti as a method of gaining that familiar adoration from standing around the fridge.]]
* In a flashback episode of ''Series/TheWestWing'', Press Secretary C.J. Cregg uses this to remember a reporter's name.

* The Flemish TV-show ''Iedereen Beroemd'' has a segment called "Clickipedia", which is, in principle, a televised version of the ''VideoGame/TheWikiGame'', where two couples compete every weekday in getting from one Wikipedia page to another in the fewest amount of clicks.