History Main / OldWindbag

--> '''Jannes.''' The blessings of the God Amon-Ra be upon you, Great Prince! He has brought down the pride of Ethiopia! He has set his foot upon the crown of the south, he has raised Egypt to her greatest glory... blah blah...
--> '''Sethi.''' The old windbag.
--> '''Nefretiri.''' I ''agree'' with him.

* Sheldon from ''Series/TheBigBangTheory''.

* Cilan in ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' qualifies. When he starts on one of his Pokémon connoisseur speeches, Iris usually gets annoyed and makes comments to the "there he goes again" effect.
** Jessie calls one of the judges in ''Pokémon Advanced'' a "windbag" when he starts making a long, boring speech.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' episode "Memory Melons", the titular Memory Melon records Selwyn saying that he needs to "get rid of that bag of wind", which Tallulah thinks it means her and not something else entirely (like an actual bag of wind). This starts the marital spat between the couple.

--> '''Téa: I know, what do we do?'''

--> Mai: You can't win, so do me a favor and stop yapping.
--> Téa: I will not stop yapping, you selfish, pompous, bleach-blonde, know-it-all windbag! Do us a favor and get lost, right Joey?!
--> Joey: Just ignore her, Téa. Yugi's in trouble!
--> Téa: I know, what do we do?
--> Joey: No idea. But it would be great if we could trade Mai in for life points.

--> Téa: I wish!

* Jonathon Higgins in ''Series/MagnumPI'' could qualify. Subverted in that he's told stories those around him (and the viewer) are supposed to find poignant, and once when he starts to tell a story, his sound is turned off, and when his sound is turned back on the people realize it could have been very entertaining. This tendency is mocked in the RashomonStyle episode "I, Witness"; in T.C.'s recounting of a robbery Higgins spends the whole thing trying to come up with a previous incident that this reminds him of.

* Jannes the High Priest of Egypt and court announcer in ''Film/TheTenCommandments1956''. This is exactly what Pharoah Sethi kept calling him..."the old windbag".

* [[MeaningfulName Wendy Oldbag]] from ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'', of course.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'': Yakko, Wakko & Dot are at a Hollywood party where they meet Pip Pumphandle, who gives one long labourious story as he shakes Yakko's hand; Yakko passes Pip off to Dot, who passes him off to Wakko, who passes him off to his own fake disembodied hand as they try to get away... but no matter where they go, there Pip is continuing his pointless story. Ironically, when he ''finally'' gets to the point of his story the following morning and leaves, they find the silence deafening and run after him, begging to hear another story.

* Commander [=McBragg=] in ''WesternAnimation/TennesseeTuxedoAndHisTales''. At first, [=McBragg's=] guest attempts to avoid another long, boring tale, but eventually gets sucked into it... and utters the inevitable IncrediblyLamePun at the end.

* Jannes the High Priest of Egypt and court announcer in ''Film/TheTenCommandments''. This is exactly what Pharoah Sethi kept calling him..."the old windbag".

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* Discussed in ''Film/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen.'' A fellow named Nigel poses as "Allan Quatermaine" and spins tall tales about his exploits, while the ''real'' Allan shies away from story-seekers. All goes well until Her Majesty's representative, Sanderson Reed, shows up to recruit Allan into the League.

* [[KnowNothingKnowItAll Owl]] in ''Literature/WinnieThePooh'' is the TropeCodifier.
-->"Half-an-hour," said Owl, settling himself comfortably. "That will just give me time to finish that story I was telling you about my Uncle Robert..."

* Purdy in the ''Literature/WarriorCats'' series. When he starts to tell a story, characters often find excuses to leave. Some of them fall asleep in the middle of his stories. Once, he actually did realize that the other cat fell asleep, and when they woke up, he informed them that they missed a lot of the story and so he'd better just start over at the beginning.

* Miss Bates from ''Literature/{{Emma}}'' frequently launches into rambling monologues that other characters barely pay attention to.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' TOS episode "Hocus-Pocus and Frisby". Frisby loves to tell {{tall tale}}s about his past, much to the disgust of the regulars in his store.

* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'': In the Digital Short "The Tangent", a man and a woman meet on the sidewalk and he goes into a long tangent after she asks him about a restaurant he went to the previous night. During his digression she leaves, he gets discovered as a new comic hit, goes onstage, films a movie, appears on ''Conan'' and his movie bombs. All this time he never stops talking.

* Father Austin Purcell in the ''Series/FatherTed'' episode "Think Fast, Father Ted" has a long rambling monologue about boilers, lagging, and how much he's saved on his energy bills, which continues into the ending credits, long after everyone else has abandoned the conversation.

* [[MeaningfulName Wendy Oldbag]] from ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'', of course.
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'' has a sweet old grandmother who loves to tell stories. You need the help of a magical mask for Link to stay awake through that. To give an idea, the first story takes two hours to tell. The second takes an ''entire half a day''.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'': Yakko, Wakko & Dot are at a Hollywood party where they meet Pip Pumphandle, who gives one long labourious story as he shakes Yakko's hand; Yakko passes Pip off to Dot, who passes him off to Wakko, who passes him off to his own fake disembodied hand as they try to get away... but no matter where they go, there Pip is continuing his pointless story. Ironically, when he ''finally'' gets to the point of his story the following morning and leaves, they find the silence deafening and run after him, begging to hear another story.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' has Buzz Killington, a GayNineties socialite who fits this bill with the joke being that he would be considered cool in his own era.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' episode "Memory Melons", the titular Memory Melon records Selwyn saying that he needs to "get rid of that bag of wind", which Tallulah thinks it means her and not something else entirely (like an actual bag of wind). This starts the marital spat between the couple.

* According to his ''Series/TopGear'' co-hosts, James May is very much this. The production crew have even started getting in on the act. When James starts one of his digressions they often cut away to a card saying something along the lines of 'Much later' and then cut back to him still talking.

Compare BlahBlahBlah, MotorMouth, and RamblingOldManMonologue. The character doesn't necessarily have to be really old (as in retirement age), but if a child or [[ManChild childlike character under the age of forty]] exhibits such behavior, will come across not as this trope but as the somewhat similar ConstantlyCurious. Subtrope of TheBore. Sister trope of WindbagPolitician.

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