History Main / TalkativeLoon

* The Weavers in China Mieville's ''Bas-Lag Cycle'', in addition to being gigantic spidery {{Eldritch Abomination}}s with a thought process no human can truly understand, talk like this all the time.

** His friend [[AntiHero Ladd Russo]], who is even more insane, falls into this category, spitting out a stream of nonsense about boxing while [[CurbStompBattle repeatedly punching a random Lemure so hard he has no face left when Ladd's finally done.]]

* Hobos in KingdomOfLoathing.

-> Breaking news! And if you broke it, you have to pay for it. And now the weather: partially gaga with a fifty percent chance of schizophrenia!

* Graham Spectre from ''{{Baccano}}!''. Damned if we know what the hell he was talking about half the time.

* Brandon Sanderson's ''AlcatrazVersusTheEvilLibrarians'' has a character whose magic power is to talk in utter nonsense. [[spoiler:No one knew he was actually prophesying, and can be understood by someone wearing the proper pair of glasses.]] Rutabaga.

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* Starman of the JusticeSocietyOfAmerica (formerly Star Boy of the LegionOfSuperHeroes), who actually lives in a sanitarium, though he has his moments of lucidity. Apparently he'd been schizophrenic from the start, but had the benefit of 31st-century medicine when he was a Legionnaire that completely suppressed it. It doesn't help that he has knowledge of the 21st century from a historic perspective, or that Dream Girl filled his head with prophetic information, or that time travel can screw with the sanest minds. [[spoiler:Or that he's one of the few people who can navigate the newly formed multiverse.]]

* In the ''Series/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' episode "Brain Drain," Brainiac 5 spends most of the episode spouting WordSalad after an update of his cybernetic systems goes awry. Some of his babbling actually referenced bits of Superman mythology still unknown to Superman himself. Some of those are further obscured by word-substitutions. Other parts, however, are purely random.

See also {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, and your average porn spam. If they're the main character, try {{In The Mouth Of Madness}}. A similarly disjointed title is a WordSaladTitle; the musical equivalent is WordSaladLyrics. Can often be caused by a IntoxicationEnsues.

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* In the {{House}} episode "Failure to Communicate," a patient finds himself suffering from aphasia after hitting his head, saying a bizarre combination of synonyms, rhymes, loosely-connected words and similar-sounding words instead of the words he intends to say.

* {{raocow}}'s [[http://www.youtube.com/raocow Let's Plays]] are filled with some of the most bizarre and surreal commentary one would ever hear. It helps that he's a French-Canadian for whom English is a second language.
** Also from the Let's Play world, [=ProtonJon=] during his LP of Kaizo Mario World Special Stage 2.
-->''"Would you just JUMP! For the love of {{BATMAN}}... JUMP! BillCosby! Is angry! [[RenAndStimpy Stimpy!]] I need... SPACKLE!"''
*** Of course, raocow is a fluent English speaker, anyway, and, in [=ProtonJon=]'s case, it's more that he was trying to [[{{Angrish}} prevent himself from swearing.]]

* Stark from ''{{Farscape}}'' was a [[TalkativeLoons Talkative Loon]], who later claimed that he was only ''pretending'' to be crazy, though he was still pretty unhinged for the rest of the series.

* One of these shows up in the fourth episode of ''ThePacific'', [[NoRestForTheWicked pacing back and forth all night]] and flying an imaginary plane.

->''"I don't know what I'm saying! I never know what I'm saying!"''
--->-- '''River Tam''', ''[[{{Firefly}} Serenity]]''

->''"I am Ed! Cheese and macaroni!"''
--->-- '''Ed''', ''EdEddNEddy's Big Picture Show'' (to kick off the car chase)

See also {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, and your average porn spam. If they're the main character, try {{In The Mouth Of Madness}}. A similarly disjointed title is a WordSaladTitle; the musical equivalent is WordSaladLyrics. Can often be caused by a LemonWackyHello.

Note that this sort of behavior is [[TruthInTelevision a real symptom of certain real mental illnesses,]] particularly schizophrenia (psychiatrists call this kind of talk from a schizophrenic patient "WordSalad") but it is far from universal, even in schizophrenics. In the real world, the insane do not, as a general rule, identify themselves quite so easily and conveniently. Of course, they might not be crazy. Just brain damaged and be suffering from aphasia.

See also {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, and your average porn spam. If they're the main character, try {{In The Mouth Of Madness}}. The musical equivalent is WordSaladLyrics. Can often be caused by a LemonWackyHello.

*** Of course, raocow is a fluent English speaker, anyway, and, in [=ProtonJon=]'s case, it's more that he was trying to [[{{Angrish prevent himself from swearing.]]

-->"Aximo-portable talus! A wall with encystation--repetition from the headland unneccesary--the access at an azimuth of--multicrystalline metamorphism…"

-->''"Would you just JUMP! For...the...love...of...BATMAN, JUMP! BillCosby!"''

-->"Aximo-portable talus! A wall with encystation--repetition from the headland unneccesary--the access at an azimuth of--multicrystalline metamorphism…"

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[[caption-width:180:My name's millions and I'm a son of a chipwich!]]

* Mocked in the Demyx chapter of the KingdomHearts-based ParodyFic ThoseLackingSpines as a crutch which many "authors" rely on for "random" humor.