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* {{Munchkin}}: Munchkins try to hunt for "XP for roleplaying" by being overly dramatic, and heaven help you if the game uses RitualMagic — everything will stop until the WordSalad cooked up by the Munchkin is resolved. Anything that gives more pluses will be used and abused to the nth degree.
* TerribleTicking: In one of the short stories from ''Literature/EverythingsEventual'', a maître d’hôtel flips out and starts killing people, while shrieking about a barking dog that only he can hear. Or possibly one that had barked at him once years ago. It's a little '''[[WordSalad word salad-y]]'''.
* ThisIsNotAFloor: Shows up twice in ''Literature/{{Paprika}}'', first from the outside, as a character rants about "'''[[WordSalad the fifth grade class with the photographic zoom lens]]'''" and runs through a full-length window, then from the inside, with the main character snapping out of it just in time to avoid going over a balcony.
* ThisIsNotAFloor: Shows up twice in ''Literature/{{Paprika}}'', first from the outside, as a character rants about "'''[[WordSalad the fifth grade class with the photographic zoom lens]]'''" and runs through a full-length window, then from the inside, with the main character snapping out of it just in time to avoid going over a balcony.
* Funny.BrainscratchCommentariesVideoGameCommentaries: And of course, the transcribe audio part.
** "Resident Evil" is somehow transcribed as "great seeing you"
** "'''[[WordSalad What in Ronald racquel"]]'''
** "Resident Evil" is somehow transcribed as "great seeing you"
** "'''[[WordSalad What in Ronald racquel"]]'''
* Funny.KirbyStarAllies: What’s funnier is the fact that thanks to a handy translation guide in the FlavorText, you can actually understand what Hyness is trying to say. Doing this, the message he blurts out in the Corrupt Hyness fight roughly translates to '''[[WordSalad “very tasty painful hope”.]]''' Hope he enjoys that painful hope.
* Funny.{{Yogscast}}: [[https://youtu.be/Va8GZDGkkjQ?t=563 "Zombie With A Portal Gun"]] includes this hilarious moment:
--> '''Sjin:''' It's like I always say, '''[[WordSalad "appreciate what you what, be are the make you appreciate what you dad."]]'''\\
''Everyone bursts into laughter''\\
'''Ben:''' Are you having a stroke?!
* LetsPlay.CrazyCommentaries: These two lapse into this very often. For example, during their outros, Jay does random gibberish.
* Funny.{{Yogscast}}: [[https://youtu.be/Va8GZDGkkjQ?t=563 "Zombie With A Portal Gun"]] includes this hilarious moment:
--> '''Sjin:''' It's like I always say, '''[[WordSalad "appreciate what you what, be are the make you appreciate what you dad."]]'''\\
''Everyone bursts into laughter''\\
'''Ben:''' Are you having a stroke?!
* LetsPlay.CrazyCommentaries: These two lapse into this very often. For example, during their outros, Jay does random gibberish.
* Manga.WastefulDaysOfHighschoolGirls: The "Moon! dass! cry!" all over the OP's refrain looks like WordSalad, but it's intended to emulate the "Mudazukai" in the title.
* Music.{{Miyavi}}: His English has improved ''immensely'' over the past decade. Since his overseas career has taken off, his marriage to Melody Ishikawa (a Japanese-American pop-star turned fashion designer) in 2009, and moving to Los Angeles in 2014, he's went from borderline-incomprehensible WordSalad [[GratuitousEnglish Gratuitous Engrish speaker]] to almost-but-not-quite fluent English speaker.
* Narm.TheKingOfFighters: One for the entire series is the...bizarre song names given to its many characters. One can't fail but laugh when they hear the awe-inspiring, dramatic and intimidating theme used for Goenitz only to find its official name is..."Trash Head" (the official version is that the title refers to his hairdo, but still). Additionally, Jivatma gets the very on-the-nose "Giving a Manicure to the Fingernails of Darkness", Verse has the really unfitting and WordSalad-y "Independence from an Aggregate" and before he got "Save the Universe", Igniz got a theme song simply named "[[BraggingThemeTune I'm the Strongest]]", a title that couldn't be any more arrogant and brutally to-the-point if it tried (and its only saved by Igniz actually being tough as nails) - unless, of course, you think of Antonov's "I'm THE KING OF FIGHTERS" (yes, capitalized and everything).
* PlayingWith.LastSecondWordSwap: His entire sentence gets randomly word-swapped into a WordSalad. '''Under parodied.'''
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* Narm.TheKingOfFighters: One for the entire series is the...bizarre song names given to its many characters. One can't fail but laugh when they hear the awe-inspiring, dramatic and intimidating theme used for Goenitz only to find its official name is..."Trash Head" (the official version is that the title refers to his hairdo, but still). Additionally, Jivatma gets the very on-the-nose "Giving a Manicure to the Fingernails of Darkness", Verse has the really unfitting and WordSalad-y "Independence from an Aggregate" and before he got "Save the Universe", Igniz got a theme song simply named "[[BraggingThemeTune I'm the Strongest]]", a title that couldn't be any more arrogant and brutally to-the-point if it tried (and its only saved by Igniz actually being tough as nails) - unless, of course, you think of Antonov's "I'm THE KING OF FIGHTERS" (yes, capitalized and everything).
* PlayingWith.LastSecondWordSwap: His entire sentence gets randomly word-swapped into a WordSalad. '''Under parodied.'''
* Recap.UnreallTempleOfVandora: '''[[WordSalad These ancient chambers sanctify examples of:]]'''
* WebAnimations.ButtonsAdventures: Happens with Button after he stays up all night playing a game.
--> '''Mother:''' ...Have you been up all night?\\
'''Button:''' No, it's okay. The cat's got it with the salad.\\
'''Mother:''' What?\\
'''Button:''' I already put-- I-- uh-- the-- wh-- the French toast.
--> '''Mother:''' ...Have you been up all night?\\
'''Button:''' No, it's okay. The cat's got it with the salad.\\
'''Mother:''' What?\\
'''Button:''' I already put-- I-- uh-- the-- wh-- the French toast.
* BizzareAlienPsychology: In ''Literature/PerdidoStreetStation'', the Weaver's weird mindset is represented by its non-stop, stream-of-consciousness WordSalad monologue. Its psychology becomes a key plot point, as it's perhaps the only living sentient in New Crobuzon whose consciousness the slake-moths can't consume.
* Archive.LostAndFound: I read a book where the narrator is a paranoid schizophrenic, and the voices in his head often interrupt him to make snarky comments. Their more '''[[WordSalad nonsensical]]''' lines are also written across the bottoms of the pages in a different font, e.g. "Squish-wish! Squish-wish! Don't you wish you could squish a wish?" First, what role do the voices serve? They're not representing the audience, so they're not a GreekChorus. Second, is there a trope for the unusual marginalia? '''If this is a consistent character trait, it's TalkativeLoon'''
* Archive.LostAndFound: I read a book where the narrator is a paranoid schizophrenic, and the voices in his head often interrupt him to make snarky comments. Their more '''[[WordSalad nonsensical]]''' lines are also written across the bottoms of the pages in a different font, e.g. "Squish-wish! Squish-wish! Don't you wish you could squish a wish?" First, what role do the voices serve? They're not representing the audience, so they're not a GreekChorus. Second, is there a trope for the unusual marginalia? '''If this is a consistent character trait, it's TalkativeLoon'''
* PsychopathicManchild.VideoGames: Professor Pyg from ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight''. His comics counterpart was no paragon of sanity either, but the video game swaps out his WordSalad insanity and exchanges it for childlike temper tantrums, simplistic speech, and references to a being called "Mother" that will be unhappy if Batman prevents him from making more of his kidnapped, brainwashed automatons called "Dollotrons". Said mother is a wooden carving hanging on his wall covered in nails and barbed wire. '''"WordSalad insanity''' seems to mean TalkativeLoon.'''
-->''"Pyg make you perfect."''
* Webcomic.TheSuperFogeys: The HumanAliens Star Maiden, now -- but not when younger. She has DarkAndTroubledPast involving two kinds of ParentalAbandonment, but she got better once she hit Earth and was treated far better by its inhabitants. You don't get to see it for the most part... but every now and then, she might let a little thing slip during her WordSalad. '''Again, if it's a consistent thing, I think it's TalkativeLoon'''
-->''"Pyg make you perfect."''
* Webcomic.TheSuperFogeys: The HumanAliens Star Maiden, now -- but not when younger. She has DarkAndTroubledPast involving two kinds of ParentalAbandonment, but she got better once she hit Earth and was treated far better by its inhabitants. You don't get to see it for the most part... but every now and then, she might let a little thing slip during her WordSalad. '''Again, if it's a consistent thing, I think it's TalkativeLoon'''
* DescendedCreator: Animator Sam Marin voiced '''[[WordSalad Celestabellebethabelle]]''' in the episode "The Last Mabelcorn". '''Not sure if a single-word character name counts...'''
* Funny.{{Etika}}: It takes him ''several'' minutes to get through ''one'' minute of Creator/JakePaul's "It's Everyday, Bro" music video. [[{{Narm}} He breaks down laughing to the point that he sinks into his chair]] after hearing the "And I’m selling like a '''[[WordSalad godchurch]]'''." lyric. '''That line is infamously bad, but I don't think it's WordSalad.'''
* Funny.{{Etika}}: It takes him ''several'' minutes to get through ''one'' minute of Creator/JakePaul's "It's Everyday, Bro" music video. [[{{Narm}} He breaks down laughing to the point that he sinks into his chair]] after hearing the "And I’m selling like a '''[[WordSalad godchurch]]'''." lyric. '''That line is infamously bad, but I don't think it's WordSalad.'''
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* GoodBadTranslation: Some {{Gag Dub}}s have been created based on these. For example, ''Lutheran Satire'' remade their video "St. Patrick's Bad Analogies" as "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9ItXr63LUk St. Patrick's Bad Closed Captioning]]" based on captions that rendered the original's "bad Irish accents and Trinitarian jargon" into near-WordSalad.
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** Music/{{Ministry}} usually made lyrics from sampled speeches or relatively sane lyrics, but apparently had some WordSalad pent up in their system. The result of getting it all out was the staggeringly incomprehensible "Jesus Built My Hotrod". Mind you, the following is just ''the song's spoken-word intro.''
--->Soon I discovered that this rock thing was true. Jerry Lee Lewis was the devil. Jesus was an architect, previous to his career as a prophet. All of a sudden I found myself in love with the world, so there was only one thing that I could do: Was ding a ding dang my dang a long ling long...
** Music/AnimalCollective's ''Feels''. All of it. They're all [[SillyLoveSongs quirky love songs]]. Or [[BreakupSong end-of-relationship songs]]. This said, each individual song has, beyond the underlying premise, ''plenty'' of WordSalad and/or MindScrew ([[RunningGag "Word Parsley"?!]]) to go around. Which is true of most of their material, frankly.
* Angrish.AnimeAndManga: In one chapter of ''Manga/SgtFrog'', Keroro gets sick, and Tamama tries to visit him with gifts, hoping that by this point he's getting sick of "that dumb broad" (Angol Moa, whom he regards as a rival for the Sergeant's attention) trying to minister to him. Instead, he finds Moa is merely sitting quietly with Keroro at his bedside, upon which Moa politely asks Tamama to be quiet so Keroro can sleep. The flabbergasted Tamama simply babbles "'''[[WordSalad My electrolytic quotient has been reduced to the laxity of damaged hair...]]'''"
** Music/{{Ministry}} usually made lyrics from sampled speeches or relatively sane lyrics, but apparently had some WordSalad pent up in their system. The result of getting it all out was the staggeringly incomprehensible "Jesus Built My Hotrod". Mind you, the following is just ''the song's spoken-word intro.''
--->Soon I discovered that this rock thing was true. Jerry Lee Lewis was the devil. Jesus was an architect, previous to his career as a prophet. All of a sudden I found myself in love with the world, so there was only one thing that I could do: Was ding a ding dang my dang a long ling long...
** Music/AnimalCollective's ''Feels''. All of it. They're all [[SillyLoveSongs quirky love songs]]. Or [[BreakupSong end-of-relationship songs]]. This said, each individual song has, beyond the underlying premise, ''plenty'' of WordSalad and/or MindScrew ([[RunningGag "Word Parsley"?!]]) to go around. Which is true of most of their material, frankly.
* Angrish.AnimeAndManga: In one chapter of ''Manga/SgtFrog'', Keroro gets sick, and Tamama tries to visit him with gifts, hoping that by this point he's getting sick of "that dumb broad" (Angol Moa, whom he regards as a rival for the Sergeant's attention) trying to minister to him. Instead, he finds Moa is merely sitting quietly with Keroro at his bedside, upon which Moa politely asks Tamama to be quiet so Keroro can sleep. The flabbergasted Tamama simply babbles "'''[[WordSalad My electrolytic quotient has been reduced to the laxity of damaged hair...]]'''"
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* Characters.DeltaruneSpamton: You first encounter him as he hops out of a dumpster while trying to pitch you a "deal" in electronic WordSalad, showing a manic fascination for your "[=[HeartShapedObject]=]". During his pitch, he flips to lamenting about "LIVING IN A GODDAMN GARBAGE CAN" and promptly ''punches it in rage'' before going right back to deal-brokering like nothing happened. You've only met him for about a minute and he already shows himself as a shady salesman who's not all that there.
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* Theatre.TheTrailToOregon: "Sometimes It Pays To Be an Animal" appears to be a [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman philosophical defense of eating meat]] garbled by Grandpa's senility into WordSalad. It seems to convince the Son through sheer intimidation.
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* Series.TwinPeaks: In-universe, the FBI uses a visual variant of this (seen in the form of Lil the dancing girl) and it is implied they utilize the phrase "Blue Rose" as a code for cases that may involve the supernatural or other bizarre phenomena. Also arguably one interpretation of Gordon Cole's bizarre WordSalad one-liners.
* VideoGame.AssaultAndroidCactus: All four Section Lords openly fear or hate Starch, as shown in their pre-fight banter with her. Starch's replies, in turn, are all seemingly WordSalad-esque ramblings about playing or toying with them.
* VideoGame.SunlessSea: One of the possible tips on a loading screen:
-->"In the [[EldritchLocation Iron Republic]], the red night favours the smokes of mind. Eat rain!
* VisualNovel.DokiDokiLiteratureClub: As a result of this, Yuri's last poems become a kind of self-parody too. Normally, she likes complex words and indirect metaphors. Her second to last poem is practically WordSalad in consisting of groups of fancy words creating obtuse potentially metaphorical images.
* VideoGame.AssaultAndroidCactus: All four Section Lords openly fear or hate Starch, as shown in their pre-fight banter with her. Starch's replies, in turn, are all seemingly WordSalad-esque ramblings about playing or toying with them.
* VideoGame.SunlessSea: One of the possible tips on a loading screen:
-->"In the [[EldritchLocation Iron Republic]], the red night favours the smokes of mind. Eat rain!
* VisualNovel.DokiDokiLiteratureClub: As a result of this, Yuri's last poems become a kind of self-parody too. Normally, she likes complex words and indirect metaphors. Her second to last poem is practically WordSalad in consisting of groups of fancy words creating obtuse potentially metaphorical images.
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* WesternAnimation.GoofTroop: Madame Zeldarina makes up WordSalad to tell Pete what his good luck charm is. It turns out this WordSalad perfectly describes Goofy, and Zeldarina is surprised Pete managed to find someone who fit that description.
* Wrestling.BillyGunn: Voodoo Kin Mafia had absolutely nothing to do with voodoo, kin, or mafia. Eventually, "Voodoo Queen" Roxxi Laveaux was added to the group ([[DistaffCounterpart basically a white female Papa Shango]]) but as time went on, the Voodoo element of Laveaux's gimmick became so watered down as to be non existent. Yet she remained with BG and Kip James until Kip "fired" her.
* Wrestling.BillyGunn: Voodoo Kin Mafia had absolutely nothing to do with voodoo, kin, or mafia. Eventually, "Voodoo Queen" Roxxi Laveaux was added to the group ([[DistaffCounterpart basically a white female Papa Shango]]) but as time went on, the Voodoo element of Laveaux's gimmick became so watered down as to be non existent. Yet she remained with BG and Kip James until Kip "fired" her.
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* YMMV.{{Sable}}: Back in 1993, Lady Victoria started getting popular in Mexico, working for both [[Wrestling/{{CMLL}} EMLL]] and Wrestling/{{AAA}}. One of her {{red baron}}s was "The Sable Luna", which was WordSalad in the sense "Sable" was associated with MaskedLuchador who had a swash buckling [[TheGimmick gimmick]] and while Luna Vachon was established, it would be hard to call miss Victoria a combination of the two. Five years later, as Luna feuded with a new female Sable, the title retroactively became very appropriate.
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* UsefulNotes.JoeBiden: Despite Trump's own tendency to say [[OpenMouthInsertFoot widely derided]] '''[[WordSalad nonsensical things]]''', his campaign tried to portray Biden as "senile" and "in cognitive decline", particularly honing in on Biden's less than fluent speech patterns. '''Putting this here due to ROCEJ concerns and the fact that I don't think anything Trump said actually qualifies as WordSalad.'''
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* Characters.PartiesAndParodies: After going insane from an encounter in the cultists' temple, this happens.
* VideoGame.{{Hylics}}: The entire first game and a final third of the second.
* VideoGame.{{Hylics}}: The entire first game and a final third of the second.
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* Funny.{{Heroes}}: Hiro's nerd-riffic WordSalad after he gets his brain scrambled.
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* WesternAnimation.{{Darkstalkers}}: Anakaris. Apparently, the writers took the "brain removal" part of mummification and ran with it, resulting in him being a TalkativeLoon who speaks primarily in WordSalad.
* YMMV.{{Beetlejuice}}: In the movie, civil servants and bureaucrats in general, are depicted as being short tempered, snarky professionals up to their eyeballs in paperwork who overcomplicate the situations at hand, and are unhelpful in general. Even the Handbook for the Recently Deceased, which is meant to help orient a ghost, is shown to be an overcomplicated WordSalad, which "reads like stereo instructions" to the Maitlands.
* YMMV.{{Beetlejuice}}: In the movie, civil servants and bureaucrats in general, are depicted as being short tempered, snarky professionals up to their eyeballs in paperwork who overcomplicate the situations at hand, and are unhelpful in general. Even the Handbook for the Recently Deceased, which is meant to help orient a ghost, is shown to be an overcomplicated WordSalad, which "reads like stereo instructions" to the Maitlands.
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* Webcomic.CaptainBroadband: When Captain Broadband explains anything.
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* RandomEventsPlot: Any {{Dada Comic|s}} counts, but ''Webcomic/ListeningTo11975Mhz'' deserves a special mention for [[MindScrew sheer incomprehensibility]]. The first few strips alone feature bizarrely-drawn characters spouting off WordSalad in several different languages, and Deco Blue's surreal adventures don't make any more sense than this.
* Characters.{{Daria}}: He and the other members of Mystik Spiral are intended to be horrible musicians. Though if you exclude the silly lyrics, "Freakin' Friends" is actually rather competent[[note]]According to the [[https://ew.com/tv/2017/04/03/daria-exclusive-see-what-daria-and-her-friends-look-like-today/ '20 years later']] video made in 2017 by the show's co-creator and character designer, it ended up being Mystik Spiral's OneHitWonder which brought them some brief financial success[[/note]]. Seems to be a trend with Trent; he's actually not a half-bad guitarist or singer, but his lyrics are pure WordSalad.
* Film.AlexanderNevsky: Scenes with the Teutonic Knights are accompanied by a sinister Latin chorus, which rises in a crescendo during the battle scene, to indicate that the Teutons were evil Catholics fighting the good-guy Russians. Prokofiev's scoring for this scene sounds similar enough to Carl Orff's ''Carmina Burana'' to have inspired, perhaps, the use of "''O Fortuna''" in subsequent movies. (The Orff piece was written earlier ―- by '''one''' year.) The chanted words "''Peregrinus expectavi pedes meos in cymbalis''" are themselves snipped from various places in Igor Stravinsky's ''A Symphony of Psalms'', quite possibly as a subtle TakeThat to his contemporary. Prokofiev evidently realized that practically no-one in the audience would know Latin: the assembled chant is WordSalad meaning something like "A pilgrim -- I awaited -- my feet -- on the cymbals."
* Literature.{{Quiller}}: Quiller is injected with a drug designed to make him high and therefore talkative; they get some facts out of the subsequent WordSalad, but not enough. Quiller does reveal too much about his obsession for a girl he's met, however, so they decide to use that angle to force his co-operation.
* Manga.{{Baoh}}: Some of Baoh's special abilities have some really WordSalad titles (with "phenomenon" added on the end) to them, including "Reskinharden Saber Phenomenon" (arm blades), "Shooting Bees Stingers Phenomenon" (razor sharp hair fired as projectiles from one's head) and "Meltedin Palm Phenomenon" (corrosive acid from the hands.)
* Music.BadLipReading: Due to the fact that the whole thing is WordSalad, a ''lot'' of things make no sense, or make sense but are brought up for no reason.
* Trivia.AlbertCampion: In ''The Fashion in Shrouds'', Lugg says "it's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide," which is hardboiled British slang for "it's crazy to bribe a police officer with counterfeit money." However, this comes across as a total WordSalad in [[SeparatedByACommonLanguage American English]], and was used as a RunningGag in ''Magazine/{{Mad}}'' for many years.
* RandomEventsPlot: Any {{Dada Comic|s}} counts, but ''Webcomic/ListeningTo11975Mhz'' deserves a special mention for [[MindScrew sheer incomprehensibility]]. The first few strips alone feature bizarrely-drawn characters spouting off WordSalad in several different languages, and Deco Blue's surreal adventures don't make any more sense than this.
* Characters.{{Daria}}: He and the other members of Mystik Spiral are intended to be horrible musicians. Though if you exclude the silly lyrics, "Freakin' Friends" is actually rather competent[[note]]According to the [[https://ew.com/tv/2017/04/03/daria-exclusive-see-what-daria-and-her-friends-look-like-today/ '20 years later']] video made in 2017 by the show's co-creator and character designer, it ended up being Mystik Spiral's OneHitWonder which brought them some brief financial success[[/note]]. Seems to be a trend with Trent; he's actually not a half-bad guitarist or singer, but his lyrics are pure WordSalad.
* Film.AlexanderNevsky: Scenes with the Teutonic Knights are accompanied by a sinister Latin chorus, which rises in a crescendo during the battle scene, to indicate that the Teutons were evil Catholics fighting the good-guy Russians. Prokofiev's scoring for this scene sounds similar enough to Carl Orff's ''Carmina Burana'' to have inspired, perhaps, the use of "''O Fortuna''" in subsequent movies. (The Orff piece was written earlier ―- by '''one''' year.) The chanted words "''Peregrinus expectavi pedes meos in cymbalis''" are themselves snipped from various places in Igor Stravinsky's ''A Symphony of Psalms'', quite possibly as a subtle TakeThat to his contemporary. Prokofiev evidently realized that practically no-one in the audience would know Latin: the assembled chant is WordSalad meaning something like "A pilgrim -- I awaited -- my feet -- on the cymbals."
* Literature.{{Quiller}}: Quiller is injected with a drug designed to make him high and therefore talkative; they get some facts out of the subsequent WordSalad, but not enough. Quiller does reveal too much about his obsession for a girl he's met, however, so they decide to use that angle to force his co-operation.
* Manga.{{Baoh}}: Some of Baoh's special abilities have some really WordSalad titles (with "phenomenon" added on the end) to them, including "Reskinharden Saber Phenomenon" (arm blades), "Shooting Bees Stingers Phenomenon" (razor sharp hair fired as projectiles from one's head) and "Meltedin Palm Phenomenon" (corrosive acid from the hands.)
* Music.BadLipReading: Due to the fact that the whole thing is WordSalad, a ''lot'' of things make no sense, or make sense but are brought up for no reason.
* Trivia.AlbertCampion: In ''The Fashion in Shrouds'', Lugg says "it's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide," which is hardboiled British slang for "it's crazy to bribe a police officer with counterfeit money." However, this comes across as a total WordSalad in [[SeparatedByACommonLanguage American English]], and was used as a RunningGag in ''Magazine/{{Mad}}'' for many years.
* Characters.{{Trainspotting}}: A dealer in Tollcross who serves as Johnny's sidekick. Known for his CloudcuckooLander behavior and for spouting '''[[WordSalad bizarre, nonsensical phrases]]'''.
* Machinima.ProfoundMomentsInLeft4Dead2: Archaon engages in one when the team takes the elevator in the mall. '''Not WordSalad so much as MotorMouth'''
-->'''Archaon:''' I have high respect for this game if you can drive a car...and, [[TheUnintelligible auerh]]...ifyoucandriveacaryoucangojustaboutanywhereyoulikeandyouknow, youcangoanywhereinlifeandbeaverysuccessfulmanandallthatfreshairandexercisewilldoyoualotofgood. 'K, let's go.\\
'''Aovnick:''' What the heck did you just say?
-->'''Archaon:''' I have high respect for this game if you can drive a car...and, [[TheUnintelligible auerh]]...ifyoucandriveacaryoucangojustaboutanywhereyoulikeandyouknow, youcangoanywhereinlifeandbeaverysuccessfulmanandallthatfreshairandexercisewilldoyoualotofgood. 'K, let's go.\\
'''Aovnick:''' What the heck did you just say?
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[[folder:A TalkativeLoon example under the wrong name]]
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[[folder:Misuse]]
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[[folder:ZCE/Potholes]]
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