History Main / GibberishOfLove

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* ''Spider-Man'': While the [[Film/SpiderManTrilogy original Raimi films]] merely had Peter too shy to talk to MJ until the night after he gained his spider-abilities, the [[Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan reboot]] instead depicts Peter [[RealisticDictionIsUnrealistic somewhat mumbly and messy with words]], which becomes worse when trying to talk to Gwen Stacy, to the point that he's almost unable to have a proper conversation with her at first; she finds it {{Adorkable}} and ends up asking him out.

* ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'' features the following love confession: "I'm in lesbians with you."

* This happens to Agnes Nitt in ''Discworld/CarpeJugulum'' when she meets Count de Magpyr's son, Vlad. Her SplitPersonality Perdita presses her to say something clever, and much to Perdita's frustration all Agnes comes out with is "Wstfgl?!"

* In ''Disney/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'', Kida takes off her sarong before getting in the water, rendering Milo a babbling mess when she asks him if he can swim:

He has been struck by gibberish of love. Sometimes caused by DistractedByTheSexy or a HelloNurse, it doesn't even have to be a sentence using words -- plain noises work just as well. Occasionally happens if TwiceShy-style love interests attempt conversation. If the man is TheCharmer -- or even TheCasanova -- it often indicates LadykillerInLove; sincerity of feeling kills his fluency dead.

* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': Marinette gets incredibly tongue-tied around her crush Adrien, to the point that, in earlier episodes, she can barely form a coherent sentence around him.

* In ''Disney/{{Mulan}}'', Shang acts like this, more than once, after he learns that Mulan is female.

* ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}'' has Lone Starr saying "On this ship, you are to refer to me as [[WrongNameOutburst 'Idiot', not 'You', Captain!]]"

** When he later dances with Yolanda, he again raps so fast she can't get a word in edgewise, leading him to believe she's "the strong and silent type". [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments In reality, she just doesn't speak English]].

When the gibberish is coherent, but {{unfortunate|Implications}}, they're often [[DiggingYourselfDeeper Digging Themselves Deeper]] afterward. If they're struck utterly dumb, they CannotTalkToWomen. [[AlwaysMale Usually male,]] and often happens to {{Adorkable}} characters. Sometimes immediately [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] with something along the lines of "[[CantBelieveISaidThat X...smooth...]]". If he has this problem with all women, perhaps he CannotTalkToWomen. May also be a habit of the ShrinkingViolet.

Subtrope of EmotionallyTongueTied. Compare LoveMakesYouDumb and LoveMakesYouCrazy. Compare and contrast {{Angrish}}. May lead to EvenTheSubtitlerIsStumped. See also IUhYouToo (for when the relationship's evolved a bit before the gibberish), CannotSpitItOut, and CrushBlush. Has definite overlaps with TongueTied.

--> '''Ranma:''' Th-That's the only... I'm not... If it weren't... I wouldn't... You got that?!
--> '''Random guy:''' I didn't get it, did you?

* Shining Armor falls victim to this in the ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' IDW comic storyline ''neigh anything'' (issues 11 and 12), for that's the storyline that tells us how he met Cadance.

--> "hE'''L'''L''o''"

--> '''Cadance:''' "Hello, Shining Armor."\\
'''Shining Armor:''' "Hur derp werp?"\\
'''Cadance:''' "[[LampshadeHanging I think, by the end of the night, we'll be able to work you all the way up to coherent sentences.]]"

'''Twilight Sparkle:''' Heh heh...bumped...into...always...doing!

* In ''WesternAnimation/HotelTransylvania3SummerVacation'', Dracula often devolves into this around Ericka, the cruise ship captain. [[spoiler: It becomes a BrickJoke towards the end of the movie, where ''Ericka'' is the one babbling when Drac proposes to her.]]

* ''Film/{{Black Panther|2018}}'', Downplayed, but Okoye teases him for "freezing" in front of his ex Nakia, which mostly consists of him being unable to do much more than say "hi" and smile at her. He's able to articulate his feelings better later on.

--> '''Jeeves:''' Mr. Fink-Nottle was overcome by a sudden nervousness, sir... He began to deliver a dissertation on the newt, its care in sickness and in health...

* In ''Literature/HeartOfSteel', Alistair's reaction to an AccidentalKiss from Julia--that soon turns into the real thing--is a stammered series of abortive attempts at a sentence, of which every third word is "wow".

-->'''Girls:''' We are Norma. We are a hair artiste.
-->'''Goodies:''' We are Cyril. We are a bank clerk.
-->'''Girls:''' That's interesting.
-->''({{Beat}})''
-->'''Girls:''' ''[awkwardly]'' Our vision is to own our own hairdressing salon.
-->'''Goodies:''' How interesting. Our ambition is to own our own bank.

** Xander does this when he meets Buffy. He [[SarcasmMode wittily]] remarks, "Maybe we could...hang out at school since we both...go there." He [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it immediately afterwards: "'We both go to school.' Smooth."

--> Ah! You can read... I mean, you are reading. Sorry. It's nice to see people reading. Not a lot of people read these days. People prefer to... hear. But all this 'hearing' is just reading for lazy people. Kids today should be prepared to pick up a book, and not just go around the whole time with all these modern... ears. Sometimes I just wanna rip people's ears off and say 'Read a book, for God's sake!'... Well, actually I'd probably say 'Read a book' first and then rip their ears off, otherwise, they wouldn't hear me, hehehe... Actually, I probably wouldn't rip their ears off at all, I'm not a violent person. I like ears! Especially women ears, they're my favorite. I don't mean I collect them or anything! I don't have a big bucket of women ears hidden away somewhere. No, No, No, I'm not after your ears really. Not that there's anything wrong with your ears! You know if I was some kind of mad ear person, your ears would be the pride of my... ear bucket.

--> Goodbye... Hang on, sorry, said that wrong. I didn't mean to say "goodbye" like that... I mean, don't be alarmed. It's not because I think you're about to die or anything... No, truly. I think you've got years yet! I mean, you look really healthy - and I'm sure you have regular check-ups in case you've got one of those terminal illnesses with no visible symptoms! Though who can tell these days, right? I saw a friend of mine once, looked the picture of health. A week later I went to see him being cremated - not that I'm going to go and see you being cremated, of course - Though, I mean, I would go to your funeral if you suddenly died for any reason. I'd love to... So, how are you...?

--> '''Ross:''' Hey, uh, you know that smell gas has? They put that in. The gas is odorless, but they add the smell so you know when there's a leak. A lot of other gas smells. Methane smells...\\
''[Afterwards, Rachel tries to explain it to the Pizza girl]''\\
'''Rachel:''' I am so sorry for Ross' flirting.\\

* ''Series/{{Chuck}}'': Happens a lot since the titular character and his best friend Morgan are quintessential nerds in dead-end retail jobs who just so happen to find themselves in close proximity to beautiful spy ladies, though even [[HollywoodHomely normal]] women are too much for them to handle.
** A prime example of this happens in the very first conversation between Chuck and Sarah with Morgan in tow when [[SelfDeprecatingHumor discussing]] the men's names by way of small talk.

--> '''Bernard:''' Do you eat? I do. Do you want to do it in the same room, sometime?
--> '''Kate:''' Umm well...
--> '''Bernard:''' You're busy! You're probably seeing one of your four million friends. Never mind.
* This happened to Series/{{Sherlock}} when [[{{Dominatrix}} Irene]] said brainy was the new sexy. John's face after Sherlock's verbal keyboard smash is priceless.

-->'''Miranda''': Frac... tions?
-->'''Gordo''': We're in ''English'' class.

-->'''Rory:''' I just don't want to do or say anything else that's gonna be remotely moronic.
-->'''Lorelai:''' I'm afraid once your heart's involved, it all comes out in moron.

-->''I tried to say "I love you" (love you)''
-->''But it came out kind of wrong, girl (wrong girl)''
-->''It sounded like "nunubididoo" (tongue tied) Nuh-mur-nuh-murh-ni-nong-nurl ''

-->Herp herp herp herp herp de derp\\

Herp de derp de derp de derp de derp derp derpy

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* When Usnavi and Vanessa go on a date in ''Theatre/InTheHeights'', he raps as fast as he does when he's running the store during the first big rush of the day - that is, [[MotorMouth extremely fast, with almost no pauses to breathe]], and Vanessa has to interrupt to tell him to slow down.
--->'''Usnavi''': [[BlatantLies Relax? Que relaxed? I'm relaxed!]]

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--> '''Akila''' "What? No! No, we're just... [[BlatantLies just friends]]. I mean, I can see why you thought that... but no. Just friends. [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend Nothing more.]]"

* ''WebComic/DumbingOfAge'': When Walky first meets Dorothy, his intelligence drops from "smart ass" to "buffoon", culminating in ''throwing a toy at her'' screaming "[[http://www.dumbingofage.com/2010/comic/book-1/02-uphill-from-here/throw/ I GIVE IT TO YOU!"]]''

* ''WebVideo/DoctorHorriblesSingAlongBlog'' has this during the song "[[FanNickname Laundry Day]]/My Freeze Ray".

* Cecil in ''Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale'' is very embarrassed when, despite his usual eloquence, he can only say "Neat!" when Carlos calls him with concerns of temporal anomalies.

-->'''Ed:''' Double D, my tummy feels all wiggly and crawly inside...
-->'''Edd:''' That's nice, Ed.
-->'''Eddy:''' I feel like the Nazzes on the back of my Nazz are standing on Nazz.
-->'''Edd:''' [[NotListeningToMeAreYou That's nice, Ed.]]

-->'''Lois:''' ''(still distracted)'' Oh, I was just seeing if the... driveway...
-->'''Brian:''' That wasn't even a sentence!
* One example in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'' - when Flash suddenly finds himself with an up-close view of his crush and fellow League member Fire, the usually-talkative Flash is reduced to an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcVUCidRUhU incoherent whimper.]] (around 3:05 in the clip.)

--> '''Asami:''' Oh no! I'm so sorry. I didn't see you!
--> '''Mako:''' How could you ''not'' see me? I mean, I was ''(sees her face)'' ju- ju-... I was- I- I- Wow. ''(coughs)'' That was- ''(clears throat)''
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'': In [[Recap/TheLoudHouseS1E26StudyMuffinHomespun "Study Muffin"]], Lincoln's sisters (minus Lily) all, at first, just stammer "Ba... ba... ba..." when they meet Hugh. Later on, Lincoln and his male classmates do the same thing when they see Ms. [=DiMartino=].

-->'''Jack:''' ''(very embarrassed and blushes deeply)'' Ashi! ''([[InopportuneVoiceCracking voice squeaks]])'' You're naked!\\

'''Jack:''' Here! ''(he covers her with his gi)''\\

'''Jack:''' ''(sheepishly and blushing madly)'' Me? Weird? ''Me??'' ''(chuckles nervously)''\\
'''Ashi:''' ''(awkwardly smiles)'' Ooookaaaaaaaay?

-->'''Bart's brain:''' ''She's beautiful! Say something clever.''
-->'''Bart's mouth:''' ''(meekly)'' I fell on my bottom.
-->'''Bart's brain:''' ''D'oh!''

* In ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Pahkitew Island,'' this is a RunningGag with Rodney -- [[InLoveWithLove he falls in love with at least one girl every episode]], and then becomes a sputtering mess around them. As a result, [[ObliviousToLove they never figure it out]] and just think that he's weird.

--->'''Alex:''' ''(to the gym instructor)'' I'm--Alex, and I don't know anything!

--->'''Sam:''' ''(to us)'' Today's topic is... how a smart girl can impress a boy! AsYouKnow, the brain is the major organ of the central nervous system and the control center for all of the body's activities. The brain is ''also'' an important tool that can be used to show that special someone that there is more to you than meets the eye!
-->'''Clover:''' ''(offscreen, to Sam)'' Sammy, it's your new hunky boyfriend Vincent!
-->'''Sam:''' ''(on the phone)'' V-Vincent! Ah, m-me, was waiting, you-call your phone to--me--thing--call, me? ''(snaps out of it)'' Uh-!! ''(to us)'' [[LampshadeHanging Hey, even a smart girl like myself can have a brain freeze every day!]]

--->'''Clover:''' ''(to the villain Kyle)'' You're such a dance gooder--I mean... you're such a good dancer.

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* "[[http://community.livejournal.com/metaquotes/5989568.html That'll give you, er, bees.]]"
* Creator/EddieIzzard had this:
--> "I had to chat up girls, and I'd only tagged them before. I didn't have the verbal power to be able to say, "Susan, I saw you in the classroom today. As the sun came from behind the clouds, a burst of brilliant light caught your hair, it was haloed in front of me. You turned, your eyes flashed fire into my soul, I immediately read the words of Dostoevsky and Karl Marx, and in the words of Albert Schweitzer, 'I fancy you.' " But no! At 13, you're just going, " 'Ello, Sue. I saw you in the room... I've got legs, have you? Oh yeah... Do you like bread? I've got a French loaf. ''[mimes smacking her with the loaf and dashing off]'' Bye! (I love you!)"
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* ''Fanfic/LastChildOfKrypton'': When he met Asuka for the first time, Shinji got so lovestruck that he had no idea what saying... so he resorted to talk to her about flight security.

'''Hobbes:''' Well... say the object of your affection walks by... First your heart falls into your stomach and splashes your innards. All the moisture makes you sweat profusely. This condensation shorts the circuits to your brain, and you get all woozy. When your brain burns out altogether, your mouth disengages and you babble like a cretin until she leaves.

And then Alice turns around. The screen goes [[GaussianGirl soft and hazy]], the romantic music starts up. Bob is amazed, and realizes that this may well be the single most momentous thing to happen in his life. He imagines minivans. He imagines children. Even a little white picket fence.

He has been struck by gibberish of love. Sometimes caused by DistractedByTheSexy or a HelloNurse, it doesn't even have to be a sentence using words -- plain noises work just as well. Occasionally happens if TwiceShy-style love interests attempt conversation. If the man is TheCharmer, or even TheCasanova, it often indicates LadykillerInLove; sincerity of feeling kills his fluency dead.

* DependingOnTheWriter, Peter Parker (i.e. ComicBook/SpiderMan) struggles to talk to girls, unless the topic is science. One notable occasion was during the opening chapter of ''American Son'', where he and Harry Osborn try to pick up two girls, but all he can say is he takes photos, then babbles how he doesn't mean he takes pornographic photos. Harry has to guilt trip the girls into giving him their numbers and excuse Peter's dorkiness.

* ''Fanfic/LastChildOfKrypton'': When he met Asuka for first time, Shinji got so lovestruck that he had no idea what saying... so he restorted to talk to her about flight security.

* In ''WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie'', Max mostly jibbers and stammers when he first meets Roxanne, and is very concerned about keeping a good image...and then comes the fatal "A-''hyuk!''".

* ''Spider-Man'': While the [[Film/SpiderManTrilogy original Raimi films]] merely had Peter too shy to talk to MJ until the night after he gained his spider abilities, the [[Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan reboot]] instead depicts Peter [[RealisticDictionIsUnrealistic somewhat mumbly and messy with words]], which becomes worse when trying to talk to Gwen Stacy, to the point that he's almost unable to have a proper conversation with her at first; she finds it {{Adorkable}} and ends up asking him out.

** Xander does this when he meets Buffy. He [[SarcasmMode wittily]] remarks, "Maybe we could...hang out at school, since we both...go there." He [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it immediately afterwards: "'We both go to school.' Smooth."

** In "Hush" Buffy complains that she has an urge to start babbling whenever she's about to kiss Riley Finn. Fortunately for her the MonsterOfTheWeek steals everyone's voices, so they cut to the chase.

* Jeff from ''Series/{{Coupling}}'' talks a lot of gibberish normally, but it gets oh-so much worse when an attractive woman is involved. In fact the trope DiggingYourselfDeeper used to be called "Bucket of Ears" after the following attempt at picking up an attractive girl at the bar:
--> Ah! You can read... I mean, you are reading. Sorry. It's nice to see people reading. Not a lot of people read these days. People prefer to... hear. But all this 'hearing' is just reading for lazy people. Kids today should be prepared to pick up a book, and not just go around the whole time with all these modern... ears. Sometimes I just wanna rip people's ears off and say 'Read a book, for God's sake!'... Well, actually I'd probably say 'Read a book' first and then rip their ears off, otherwise they wouldn't hear me, hehehe... Actually, I probably wouldn't rip their ears off at all, I'm not a violent person. I like ears! Especially women ears, they're my favorite. I don't mean I collect them or anything! I don't have a big bucket of women ears hidden away somewhere. No, No, No, I'm not after your ears really. Not that there's anything wrong with your ears! You know if I was some kind of mad ear person, your ears would be the pride of my... ear bucket.

* In ''Series/BlackBooks'' Bernard attempts to ask a women out with the words below. It actually works, in that she, after confirming that he was trying to ask her out, accepts.

* This happened to Series/{{Sherlock}} when [[{{Dominatrix}} Irene]] said brainy was the new sexy. John's face after Sherlock's verbal keyboardmash is priceless.

--> '''Richie:''' I've always found it rather fortunate that there isn't an animal called an "Ig", because it'd keep going to the toilet in their houses.

-->'''Bentley:''' The whole concept of "STUTTA" was that when you're insanely attracted to someone and they walk into the room, your mind goes blank, you have no idea what to say to them, and you just, you just stumble. You just fail, words fail you. And to emphasize the irony of that, I wanted to come up with [[MotorMouth this really fast, syncopated chorus that is just the opposite of that]]. Just cram in as many fast and articulate words as possible, and see how it goes. And because this was for one of my Japanese albums, and I was working in Japan at the time, I decided to take it one step further and [[GratuitousJapanese put the whole chorus in Japanese]], because why the hell not.

* ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'': Black Mage sees White Mage for the first time, and the first things out of his mouth are "Hubba flubba wabba zabba." He collects his thoughts to attempt to woo her, but fails again. "I am the Black Mage! I casts the spells that makes the peoples fall down!"

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', "Krusty Love": Mr. Krabs can't ask Mrs. Puff to a date without [=SpongeBob=] translating for him, and even he has a hard time making out what Krabs is saying.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Pahkitew Island,'' this is a RunningGag with Rodney--[[InLoveWithLove he falls in love with at least one girl every episode]], and then becomes a sputtering mess around them. As a result, [[ObliviousToLove they never figure it out]] and just think that he's weird.

-->'''Alex:''' ''(to the gym instructor)'' I'm--Alex, and I don't know anything!

-->'''Sam:''' ''(to us)'' Today's topic is... how a smart girl can impress a boy! AsYouKnow, the brain is the major organ of the central nervous system and the control center for all of the body's activities. The brain is ''also'' an important tool that can be used to show that special someone that there is more to you than meets the eye!

-->'''Clover:''' ''(to the villain Kyle)'' You're such a dance gooder--I mean... you're such a good dancer.

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'''Hobbes:''' Well...say the object of your affection walks by...First your heart falls into your stomach and splashes your innards. All the moisture makes you sweat profusely. This condensation shorts the circuits to your brain, and you get all woozy. When your brain burns out altogether, your mouth disengages and you babble like a cretin until she leaves.

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pr-xzajQo0 Herp de Derp]]" by Music/GregoryBrothers is this:

Compare LoveMakesYouDumb and LoveMakesYouCrazy. Compare and contrast {{Angrish}}. May lead to EvenTheSubtitlerIsStumped. See also IUhYouToo (for when the relationship's evolved a bit before the gibberish), CannotSpitItOut, and CrushBlush. Has definite overlaps with TongueTied.

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* Guybrush is reduced to gibberish in ''VideoGame/TheSecretOfMonkeyIsland'' when he first meets Elaine. He gets over it (barely) on his second chance.

-->'''Edd:''' That's nice, Ed.