History Main / TalkativeLoon

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrIPLAo0_iQ This]] video, featuring the voice of Dan Deacon watching TV with the sound off and complaining about what he's watching in a thick Long Island accent. It led to a lot of rumours that [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs he was on acid when it was recorded.]]

* Eilonwy from ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfPrydain'' has shades of this: a smart, strong-willed, witty and romantically attractive girl, who nevertheless rambles away a lot, uses [[TalksLikeASimile strange similes]], [[DoesNotLikeShoes likes to walk around without shoes]] and is generally a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}.

* Anyone with a mic in an online game falls into either this, actually trying to play the game, being an idiot, being a douche, mic spamming, or being drunk/high. Loons are generally the best ones to encounter.
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* In '"Series/{{CSINY}}'''s episode about Bermuda Triangle-like events happening around the Empire State Building, a metally disturbed young man is wandering the streets, having a conversation with himself about hearing frequencies. Later, the investigators spot him interacting with a suspect on video camera footage and track him down. While Stella & Danny question him, he jabbers away. When they're done, he wanders off having his frequency conversation again.

* UsefulNotes/CharlesManson was notorious for uttering inane, incomprehensible gibberish and dissolving into manic fits during his parole hearings which ultimately cost him every chance to convince the parole board to ever let him walk out of prison for the rest of his life.

* Graham Specter from ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'', who combines this with WarriorPoet. Damned if we know what the hell he was talking about half the time.

* ''LightNovel/DanganronpaZero'': This is how [[spoiler:Junko Enoshima]] is portrayed. [[spoiler:Since her varying sprites from [[VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc the game]] would be difficult to describe in prose, the light novel supplements this with this trope.]] She talks in really strange stream-of-consciousness rants that change subjects every few sentences. She can go from talking about how she just murdered someone to how a recent summer blockbuster underwhelmed her to the kind of people who fixate on her bust to the economy… all in words that even she herself has some trouble following.

* Caboose from ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' -- actually, thinking about it, everyone in ''Red vs. Blue'' fits this trope.

* {{Invoked|Trope}} in a ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'' story in which the BigBad tries to poison Holmes. Holmes takes to his bed, refuses to eat, and starts rambling incoherently in front of Watson. [[spoiler:It's all play-pretend on Holmes part, justified by "Watson, [[WeWouldHaveToldYouBut I had to make you believe I was truly sick]], or you wouldn't have been able to play your part convincingly in my little BatmanGambit".]]
* In "The Hunt" by Creator/StanislawLem, a lunar mining robot is damaged by a meteor shower, causing it to go on a berserker rampage. It also broadcasts a radio signal, which consists of random mining-related phrases:

* Taco in ''WebAnimation/InanimateInsanity'' is initially introduced as one such loon, screaming "SOUR CREAM!" and other incoherent saying on a regular basis. [[spoiler:Then it turns out that she was ObfuscatingInsanity to win audience sympathy]].

When TV characters are meant to be completely, irretrievably unhinged, and it's inconvenient (as it would be in 95% of television scenes) to have them exhibit typical deranged behavior such as detached wandering, violent outbursts or obsessive drawing/crocheting/self-mutilation/etc, the general method for conveying their insanity is to have them constantly spout rambling incoherent phrases, e.g. "The avenue is clear and we must use it to convert the extra limbs - not yet though, not until the pastor has been distracted, or do they have the right parts? White fish elephant man which was lettuce matrix!"

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 "word salad" or "schizophasia") 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, the character exhibiting this might not be crazy at all — just brain damaged, perhaps suffering from aphasia. The Neurologists Broca and Wernicke, working separately, both identified specific types of aphasia at around the same time, and proposed that they resulted from damage to very specific areas of the brain, which was confirmed by later work; those areas of the brain now bear their names, and were the earliest scientific proofs that specific neurological functions are localised in specific areas of the brain rather than being distributed throughout. (Although it has also been discovered that if damage to Broca's area is slow-acting, as in the case of, say, a tumour as opposed to trauma, nearby regions can take over the specialisation, which lends some support to the contrasting idea of neuroplasticity.) In short, if someone you know suddenly struggles to understand or form meaningful sentences, ''rapidly'' getting them to a stroke specialist and/or neurologist is a ''far'' better idea than an involuntary psychiatric hold.

--->Umbrellas are incredible. I daresay I respect them, yes. Think about it: The umbrella is the pinnacle of mankind’s collective wisdom, the result of its effort to block the great natural phenomenon known as rain. More than any other part of technology, this must be a clear symbol of defiance against nature. I suppose clothes might be up there too, as a way of fighting against nature’s changes in temperature, but they’re seen as so essential that they don’t feel very defiant, wouldn’t you agree? But the ''umbrella!'' Now, ''that’s'' a different matter entirely. Can’t you ''feel'' the will of the person who made it, shouting ‘I ''shan’t'' let you get me wet, you damn rain!’ at the heavens? And so efficient as well! Who would have thought a frame of wire and a little bit of cloth would be able to stand against rain, that which soaks everything on Earth?
* Shiro from ''Manga/DeadmanWonderland'' exhibits this often enough.
* In ''Manga/TheFiveStarStories'' Paltenon combines this with JiveTurkey. It must be seen to be believed.
* [[CloudCuckoolander Kaizo]] from ''Manga/KatteniKaizo'' has a tendency to spout weird and ridiculous things that only pertain slightly to the situation at hand.

* EVERYONE in ''Manga/BoboboboBobobo''...except when they aren't.[[note]]Well, with the exception of [[OnlySaneMan Beauty]], and occasionally Heppokomaru / Gasser.[[/note]] [[WidgetSeries It's just that kind of a show]][[note]]Regardless if it's in Japanese, English, Spanish, or any other language.[[/note]]

* The main character of the [[Comicbook/{{Doom}} Doom comic book]]. Sample quote: "Knock knock who's there ME! Me me me me me me me me." It gets worse.
** "At this particular moment in time I don't think I've had a healthier or more deeply felt respect for any object in the universe than this here shotgun..."
** At least in the first few pages of the book the Space Marine had the excuse of being under the influence of a berserker pack. The rest of it, not so much.
* [[DependingOnTheWriter Some incarnations]] of ComicBook/TheJoker are like this to some degree. The more harmless versions of the character tend to fall into this a lot, while the DarkerAndEdgier versions [[ObfuscatingInsanity exploit it]] to lull their victims into fatally underestimating them.
* A story arc in ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'' (consisting of ''Recap/TintinCigarsOfThePharaoh'' and ''Recap/TintinTheBlueLotus'') had the bad guys shooting people with poisoned darts to make them go mad; pretty much all the victims became this.

* ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}, who ever since losing his sanity ''and'' [[BreakingTheFourthWall gaining knowledge of the reader]], is always rambling to the point of confusing other people.
* [[Comicbook/TheUnbelievableGwenpool Gwenpool]], being a comics fan actually transported into the Marvel universe, is a [[MetaGuy meta gal]] who is always talking to the audience, no matter if it's some observation of what happens or just some weird randomness.

* ''FanFic/ThirtyHs'' takes this UpToEleven.

** John babbles random nonsense in the Hungry Sea; George is concerned, but Ringo dismisses it as “Just John bein' John.” [[spoiler: He's wrong.]]
** And the Last Wizard is cursed to be incoherent until someone tells her that she's cursed to be incoherent. The previous two examples were her manipulating [[spoiler: the Con Fusion, the telepathic {{MMORPG}} that the four were unknowingly in,]] so that once the four found themselves [[spoiler: back in the real world,]] they would figure out the nature of her curse and how to break it.

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* The TwistEnding to ''Film/TheCabinetOfDrCaligari'' reveals [[spoiler: that the entire story up to this point has been the insane babbling of one of these.]]
* Jeffrey Goins from ''Film/TwelveMonkeys'', a former mental hospital patient that never shuts up and is so unhinged he forms a terrorist group. [[spoiler:Or rather, an AnimalWrongsGroup who releases the inhabitants of a zoo, showing that indeed he's crazy.]]

* In ''Film/ReturnToOz'': Tik Tok becomes this when his thinking runs down.
-->"Little girls and talking hens make chickens fly the coop!"[[note]]Billina: "Coop"?[[/note]]
* In ''Film/DISCO2017'', Rudy has a habit of rambling and jittering like a spastic weirdo, especially funny since he gets nervous about socializing. Definitely fits [[Creator/DougWalker Doug's]] usual HamAndCheese performances.
* Packer, the serial rapist, in ''Film/Firestorm1998'' is a motormouth. He infuriates Shaye to point where he asks Packer if her ever shouts up.

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}''
** Foul Ole Ron’s {{catchphrase}} "Millennium hand and shrimp" (the result of feeding a travesty generator with a Chinese restaurant menu and Music/TheyMightBeGiants lyrics) became something the books are famous for. Due to his talking dog that [[WeirdnessCensor no one believes isn't him talking]], he has occasional [[InfallibleBabble lucid comments]] in the gibberish.

** Hex, a ''machine'', can go into such nonsense typing whenever he's not working right - including error messages like "+++ Divide By Cucumber Error +++ Please Reinstall Universe And Reboot +++"
*** Its catchphrase "+++ Redo From Start +++" ''looks'' like another example of this, but is actually a ShoutOut to a very obscure and badly-worded error message that was occasionally returned by 1980s home computers. (That would be Microsoft Basic, when you feed it invalid input.)

* The Weavers in Creator/ChinaMieville's ''Literature/BasLagCycle'', in addition to being gigantic spidery {{Eldritch Abomination}}s with a thought process no human can truly understand, talk like this all the time.
* There was a darkly hilarious Creator/StephenKing short story, ''Lunch At The Gotham Cafe'', about a waiter who starts talking like this and trying to stab the diners.
-->That dog of yours is so much rage. All the radios of Coney Island don't make up to dat dog, you motherfucker!
-->I rot you, you abominations! I rot you and all your trulls!
** A less funny example occurs in [[Creator/StephenKing King's]] ''[[Literature/FourteenOhEight 1408]]'': [[spoiler: Enslin]] briefly becomes this while in the room.
* Brandon Sanderson's ''Literature/AlcatrazSeries'' has a character whose [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower magic power is to talk in utter nonsense.]] It makes him an excellent spy, since he can arrange to be literally unable to reveal information no matter the torture without actually having to kill himself. [[spoiler:No one knew he was sometimes delivering prophesies, and can be understood by someone wearing the proper pair of glasses.]] Rutabaga.
* ''Literature/FinnegansWake.'' The entire book is one long TalkativeLoon rambling.

* Eilonwy from ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfPrydain'' has shades of this: a smart, strong-willed, witty and romantically attractive girl, who nevertheless rambles away a lot, uses [[TalksLikeASimile strange similes]], [[DoesNotLikeShoes likes to walk around without shoes]] and is generally a CloudCuckoolander.
* Invoked in a Literature/SherlockHolmes story, where the BigBad of the episode tries to poison Holmes. Holmes takes to his bed, refuses to eat, and starts rambling incoherently in front of Watson. [[spoiler:It's all play-pretend on Holmes part, justified by "Watson, [[WeWouldHaveToldYouBut I had to make you believe I was truly sick]], or you wouldn't have been able to play your part convincingly in my little BatmanGambit".]]
* In "The Hunt" by [[Creator/StanislawLem Stanis]]ł[[Creator/StanislawLem aw Lem]], a lunar mining robot was damaged by a meteor shower, causing it to go on a berserker rampage. It also broadcasts a radio signal, which consists of random mining-related phrases:
-->"Aximo-portable talus! A wall with encystation--repetition from the headland unnecessary--the access at an azimuth of--multicrystalline metamorphism..."
* In Creator/{{Piers Anthony}}'s ''Prostho Plus'' a number of important citizens from an alien race started talking like this when a tarnish buildup on their fancy new gold inlays interfered with the electronic signals sent by their silicon teeth.

* The anonymous poem "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_o%27_Bedlam Tom o' Bedlam]]," described by one literary critic (Paul Fussell, Jr.) as embodying "a happy, harmless, and verbally inventive brand of insanity." The most often-quoted passage borders on the visionary:
-->I know more than Apollo,\\

In the wounded welkin weeping.
* In Creator/CharlesDickens' ''Literature/LittleDorrit'', [[NoNameGiven Mr. F's Aunt]] speaks entirely in non sequiturs. People can sometimes figure out what she means, such as that she has taken an intractable dislike to Mr. Clennam.

* Poor Mark Smeaton in ''Literature/WolfHall''. Thomas Cromwell doesn't torture him into confessing an affair with Anne Boleyn in this narrative, but he does have his PsychoSidekick shove Mark into a dark closet full of pointy things[[note]]which are actually his Christmas decorations[[/note]] and leave him there all night to [[NothingIsScarier imagine worse]]. When they haul him out in the morning to ask who her other lovers are, Mark babbles out the name of every Englishman he knows--he winds up accusing her of adultery against Henry, ''with Henry''.

* The people of Trinity struck by [[WellIntentionedExtremist Merlyn's]] plague on ''Series/AmericanGothic1995'' suffered from this as well.
* In the ''Series/AshesToAshes2008'' finale, [[spoiler: Jim Keats flirts very closely with Talkative Loonacy. He suddenly gets incredibly chatty and incredibly baffling.]] Likewise, in episode 6 of series 3, [[spoiler: Thordie comes across as either a chatty, deranged Sam Tyler, or a very clever man. Although, you'll have to wait until the finale to find out which.]]
* Sometimes the Hybrids on ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'' just babble: "Mists of dreams drip along the nascent echo and love no more. [[Film/{{Tron}} End of line]]."

** Sometimes NoFourthWall: "Throughout history the nexus between man and machine has spun some of the most dramatic, compelling and entertaining fiction."

** "Mr. Dalliard? Mr. Dalliard, I've gone all peculiar now!"
* ''Actual'' WordSalad is used in ''Series/BostonLegal'', when Alan Shore has a breakdown. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wkZfq86kgY He doesn't even realize he's doing it, and looks up at everyone's confused faces and asks, "What?"]]

** Though Spike, when he was crazy, also showed tendencies to self-mutilation - trying to "cut" his soul out, hugging the cross in ''Beneath You'', and hitting himself in ''Help''. Hmm.
** And a lot of babbling was actually just him talking to the First, who nobody else could see or hear but him.
** Joyce also did this in the episode ''Listening to Fear''.
** In the season six premiere, ''Bargaining: Part One'' the Buffybot that Willow programmed to impersonate Buffy [[spoiler: since she's dead]] says "That'll put marzipan in your pie plate, Bingo!" after she slays a vampire. When asked about it, Willow replies ""I don't know, I was trying to program in some new puns and I kinda ended up with word salad."
* ''Series/BurnNotice'': In "Signals and Codes", Michael is approached by a schizophrenic man named Spencer who, despite being a pattern-seeing computer genius also believes that Michael is a member of a secret group of guardian aliens fighting against the forces of darkness. At the end of the episode [[spoiler: he's on medication and Sam's gotten him a job with a cryptographer friend of his, so the babbling is a bit lessened]].

** The Doctor occasionally comes across as this, particularly the [[Characters/DoctorWhoFourthDoctor Fourth]], [[Characters/DoctorWhoTenthDoctor Tenth]] and [[Characters/DoctorWhoEleventhDoctor Eleventh]].
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E12TheStolenEarth "The Stolen Earth"]]: Dalek Caan has been reduced to a babbling lunatic due to [[spoiler:his warping back into the Time War to rescue Davros; the trauma destroyed his mind]].

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E4TheDoctorsWife "The Doctor's Wife"]]: Idris does a bit of this. She's not crazy, though; she's just [[spoiler:the soul of the TARDIS trying to deal with being human, having a body, experiencing time in a linear fashion for the first time in forever, ''and'' trying to not fall victim to House.]]

* River on ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' ''seems'' like a Talkative Loon, but her WaifProphet nature means that the seemingly-random statements are actually prophetic -- she just has trouble rendering her insights into something comprehensible to everyone else. (Of course, sometimes she really ''is'' just being crazy.) Also interesting in that River tends to wander around, act compulsively, and suffer violent outbursts, in addition to her rambling.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNkcK2toExY They say the snow on the roof is too heavy. They say the ceiling will cave in. His brains are in terrible danger.]]"
* On ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', Hiro starts speaking in just fanboy references after getting his memories jumbled up. He's just about to be committed to the loony bin until Ando realizes that Hiro is attempting to tell him something and pieces the references together.

%%* Speaking of Stephen Fry, Peter Kingdom's half-sister Beatrice (on ''Series/Kingdom2007'') has been characterized as this. Of course, she's just as likely to be eerily silent.
* [[MonsterClown Papa Lazarou]] on ''Series/TheLeagueOfGentlemen''. He [[AccidentalMisnaming calls everyone "Dave"]], keeps offering to sell you pegs, adeptly speaks [[SpeakingSimlish gibberish]], spouts bizarre non sequiturs like "This is just a saga now," and will haunt your dreams forever.

* Arguably, Livia on ''Series/{{Rome}}''. There's a scene where she and Octavian have S/M sex, and once they're finished Livia starts talking. "''I like birds. But I don't like eggs. There's something quite sordid about eggs.''"
** Or she was just bored while Octavian had sex with her. And there is something sordid about eggs. You do know where they come from, right?
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babel_(DS9_episode) An episode]] of ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' has the entire cast succumbing one by one to a virus which causes them to speak this way. At first it's just funny, until they can no longer run the station properly due to being unable to communicate with each other, and it's also revealed that the virus is potentially deadly.

* Hugo Miller from the ''Series/{{Warehouse 13}}'' episode "13.1" is like this, as the result of a combination of LiteralSplitPersonality with BrainUploading.
-->'''Myka''': Do you know, every former Warehouse agent we meet is either crazy, evil, or dead?\\
...\\
'''Hugo''' ''(on first meeting them)'': I know who you are. You're President UsefulNotes/UlyssesSGrant and the snowman. You've come because it's Arbor Day, and there aren't enough zippers to go around.\\
'''Myka''': Well, at least he's not evil or dead.

* The Xaositects, or Chaosmen, one of the factions in the ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}'' setting for ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', talk in "Scramblespeak", where all the words are mixed up. Except when they don't - if they ''always'' did something, that wouldn't be [[ChaoticNeutral chaotic]].

* Lucky from Creator/SamuelBeckett's [[{{Absurdism}} absurdist play]] ''Theatre/WaitingForGodot''. There ''is'' a thread of logic running through his one monologue, but his point gets so lost in tangents, digressions, lists, PurpleProse, and general nonsense that he makes next to no sense and [[SuckinessIsPainful causes actual physical revulsion]] in his listeners.
** See also Beckett's ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNti7qCn-kg Not I]]''. Justified that the subject is, in fact, a mute woman who has a lot to say about her traumatic life, but who would understand that from the rantings alone?
* Blanche from ''Theatre/AStreetcarNamedDesire''.
* [[TheOphelia Ophelia]], from ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}''.
** Interestingly, some of what Ophelia says ''does'' mean something. When she hands out her flowers, each one is symbolic of various things. For example, violets were symbolic of innocence and she explains that they all vanished when her father died.
*** Also, see [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0uVGCYRP4I this clip]] from the Canadian series ''Series/SlingsAndArrows'', in which director Geoffery Tennant attempts to explain to actress Claire that her dialogue is not merely a bunch of "nonsense songs".
** Hamlet himself invokes this trope while feigning madness.
* Subverted and played straight in ''Theatre/KingLear''. Edgar protects himself from a mistakenly vengeful father by pretending to be a mad-man and raving about "the foul fiend!" Lear begins to babble as his daughter's abuse drives him farther into madness. The Fool is the "OnlySaneMan" except perhaps Edmund.

--> '''Vezon''': Where are we going? Why are we going? Are we going at all, or just sailing in a big circle? Or is it a spiral? I went down a spiral once: a big stone tunnel that went down and down and down, and ended in Zyglak. Whoever built it had no decorating sense at all.

* [[spoiler:Dr. Higgenbotham]] is one of these in ''VideoGame/LittleBigPlanet 2''.
* This happens to the Colonel [[spoiler:generated by the AI GW]] at the end of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid 2'':

* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls''
** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]'' has [[EvilSorcerer Mistress]] [[AxeCrazy Therena]], a councilor of [[TheMagocracy House Telvanni]]. She has "[[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld not aged well]]" according to her associates. She's prone to long, rambling, incoherent rants about random stuff from her early years. This can be entertaining, unless you need to get something out of her, such as her quest reward of Daedric equipment or [[spoiler:her vote to make you Telvanni Hortator during the main quest]].

* On ''VideoGame/EternalDarkness'', this is the eventual fate of [[spoiler: Maximillion Roivas]].
* One of [=GLaDOS=]' personality cores in ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' is the Curiosity Sphere: "Hey, look at that thing! No, that other thing! Eww, what's wrong with your legs? Where are we going?"
** [[TooDumbToLive "Ooh what's in here?" "Do you smell something burning?"]]

** And from the sequel, we have the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVn1oQL9sWg Space Sphere]] ("Space! Space! Wanna go to space! Space! Space! What's your favorite part about space? Mine's space!") and the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iAUwamHTM4 Fact Sphere]] ("[[LittleKnownFacts The square root of rope is string. At some point in their lives, one in six children will be abducted by the Dutch.]] [[KnowNothingKnowItAll The Fact Sphere is the most intelligent sphere.]]")
* The BigBad of ''VideoGame/EarthBound'' turns out to be a Talkative Loon, having [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity literally gone mad with power]] by the time of the endgame. And since he still is an imposing villain, they actually made this trope [[NightmareFuel creepy]] instead of [[{{Narm}} funny]].
--> [[spoiler: '''Giygas:''' Ness! Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness, Ness...]]
* Liz and Ard from ''VideoGame/{{Wild ARMs 2}}'', although arguably this is due to an abysmal translation rather than the characters actually being crazy. This is particularly the case for Liz; his(?) dialogue was a stylistic choice created by translating his dialogue ''literally'' from Japanese. The result is nonsensical and even confuses the main characters.

-->"Which... PORCH swing? Tell me which porch swing. Growl... Where's... The Pope?"
* In ''VideoGame/{{Baroque}}'', the Horned Girl at first appears to be a Talkative Loon, saying random things, like accusing the seemingly-mute lead character of saying what she's thinking, or complaining about her twitching eye. [[spoiler: It's actually something much, much more disturbing. She's actually saying what the main character thinks in her presence; she doesn't have any thoughts of her own or a sense of self.]]

* The EnemyChatter of the unhinged, ADAM-addled Splicers in ''VideoGame/{{BioShock|1}}'' ranges from [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments hilarious]] to [[NightmareFuel disturbing]]. [[spoiler:Dr. Gilbert Alexander/"Alex the Great"]] in ''VideoGame/BioShock2'' makes them look sane.
* Anyone with a mic in an online game falls into either this, actually trying to play the game, being an idiot, being a douche, mic spamming, or being drunk/high. Loons are generally the best ones to encounter.

-->'''Oghren:'''...But that dog ruined it when he stole my pants. Well, ''I'll show him!'' I don't ''need'' my pants anyway!
-->'''Warden:''' Oghren, you're ''wearing'' your pants.
-->'''Oghren:''' But the ''dog'' doesn't know that. It'll be his sodding ''downfall.''
* Tom Redwood a.k.a. [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep "Red"]] from the ''VideoGame/{{Penumbra}}'' series.
** And Dr. Richard Eminiss. But he quickly [[TheReveal turns out to be]] [[OurZombiesAreDifferent anything but humorous...]]

-->[[HelloInsertNameHere DERP]]! DRUG
-->BAG FUCK

-->''Ride the snake, ride the snake, the snake is long, seven miles, ride the snake, ride the snake.''

-->"I'm not Dev/Null. I am a rock! Am a rock!"
* Boyd Cooper of ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}''. While perfectly capable of carrying on a lucid conversation, when he's not actually doing that, he's constantly muttering to himself, because he's trying to work out all the connections in his conspiracy theory, and the inside of his head is the only place he's got left to write on.
** Boyd's rambles are actually the result of a lot of separate phrases being randomly selected. Stand there long enough in idle and you probably won't hear him make the same connection twice.
* In ''Videogame/JablessAdventure'', the majority of the mushrooms in the forest spout nonsense like "If your hand is bigger than your face, you can go to outer space!" But a few of them are a little more helpful, like the one who informs you, "Contrary to popular belief, mushrooms don't make you super, they make you crazy. [[LaughingMad Ahahahahahaha!]]"
* Jack Lupino in ''VideoGame/MaxPayne'' is like this due to being stoned out of his mind on designer drug Valkyr.
* ''VisualNovel/HatofulBoyfriend'' character Anghel Higure hallucinates and talks purely in fantasy-cliches, imagining himself to be a fallen angel and the player character to be a reincarnated goddess pursued by demons, particularly the [[DeadlyDoctor evil wizard]] in the infirmary. [[spoiler: A surprising number of the things he says are [[InfallibleBabble accurate]] [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight metaphors]] for the plot points of the "Bad Boys Love" route.]]

** In ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'', they reach ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} levels of crazy, being able to [[BreakingTheFourthWall break the fourth wall]], shouting things like "I WANT MY HIT POINTS BACK!" and [[SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud "Death gurgle!"]], as well as evidence that [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes the bandits do care for each other]]...somewhat.
-->'''Bandit:''' WHATSYOURNAME! NOOOOO!

-->'''Krieg''': Look at me when I scream at your soul! You loud sacks of filth and sour cream can hit me with your pain pinatas all day, but you'll never take the jellied fantasies of my wasted youth! My stomach is clear, and '''MY MIND IS FULL OF BACON!'''

* Creator/{{Dynamix}}'s HumongousMecha simulator ''VideoGame/{{Starsiege}}'' has a Cybrid campaign, neatly averting NoCampaignForTheWicked, where you and three of your fellow AI pilot giant robots against humans. Unlike most of the human pilots, though, your fellow Cybrids are a bunch of weirdos and highly chatty ones at that. The peak in both talkativeness ''and'' looniness goes to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAmjijoomCM pLaGUe-DoG]], an advance scout who got captured by humans, analyzed and experimented on, then dumped on a garbage rocket fired into Cybrid space. As a result of all this, he is a complete mess and a WordSalad-spewing ShoutOut machine, described as "very loyal, but very random." Suffers from FunnySchizophrenia, AttentionDeficitOohShiny, and loads of CloudCuckoolander moments. Imagine the mind of a hyperviolent [[Franchise/TransformersGeneration1 Junkion]] in the body of a death-dealing terror machine, and you pretty much have [=pLaGUe-DoG=].
* In ''VideoGame/DarkestDungeon'': heroes suffering from the Irrational affliction will act randomly while spouting nonsensical (and often alarming) things.

** In the WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail "[[http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail91.html caffeine]]", Strong Sad becomes a hyperactive Talkative Loon after Strong Bad slips coffee into his orange juice, saying things like "I don't even watch football! I can't remember my legs!" and rambling about "wood-davers".
** Homsar and Senor Cardgage even indulged in a competition on that very topic in [[http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail188.html fan club]]. Following a contest to see who sold more merchandise in the Homestar Runner Store, Homsar was officially declared the "Non Sequitur Champion", and [[http://www.videlectrix.com/storeflash/nonsequitur.swf Senor Cardgage had to try and make a coherent statement]] on "The Show". It took him three tries.

* [[WebAnimation/{{Blockhead}} Introducing Tongs!]]

* An essential part of many DadaComics. [[http://cad-comic.com/comic.php?d=20061014 Chef Brian]] from ''Webcomic/CtrlAltDel'', for example.
** Curiously, Chef Brian is actually somewhat comprehensible in this comic, in a completely roundabout way. Mostly.
* ''Webcomic/{{Narbonic}}'' had Dana, the last of the insane superintelligent gerbils.
** Also, [[spoiler:Dave]] was briefly a TalkativeLoon after [[spoiler:his ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder finally caught up with him. It did not last very long, however. And [[InMysteriousWays he still remembered to fill the pool]]. ItMakesSenseInContext.]]

* The Sheep in ''Webcomic/MrSquare'' is a TalkativeLoon. Most, if not all of his speech falls into this pattern. [[http://revfitz.com/comic/issue296/ In this comic]] he declares that the main character (who is right in front of him) was kidnapped and taken to "the twenty third century to fight the trees".

* In ''Webcomic/AModestDestiny'', [[spoiler:Morris]] becomes one of these when [[spoiler:he falsely believes he committed a mass murder in his sleep, and refuses to sleep afterward.]]
* While Doctor Hobo in ''Webcomic/VGCats'' is not an example, his [[GoodAngelBadAngel Chaotic Neutral angel]] most definitely is. In the one strip we saw him: "Woof! I'm a cow!"

--->'''Belkar''': Be very quiet, Mr Scruffy! If we make any noise, the magical Cart Fairy might not take us on the enchanted trip to Happy Fun Sunshine Land!

* {{Downplayed}} with Emperor Palpatine in ''WebComic/DarthsAndDroids'', in the part corresponding to ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'': It might seem at first that his lines are just navel-gazing existential angt, but really he's insane (due to [[spoiler: being haunted by the ghost of Anakin Skywalker]]) and spouting things like Creator/HPLovecraft quotes -- not inherently incoherent, but borderline to completely NonSequitur in context.

* Caboose from ''Machinima/RedVsBlue''' actually, thinking about it, everyone in ''Red vs. Blue'' fits this trope.
* AWW [[UnusualEuphemism BOB SAGET]]!! [[WebVideo/TheTourettesGuy THESE FISH STICKS ARE HARD AS TITS!]]
* Some people on Twitter.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkwiQmGWK4c This cat]], who is popular on the Internet due to his constant mumblings which apparently sound like if he's saying "Oh, Long Johnson..." as well as other random stuff like "Oh, Don Piano" and "All the livelong day."
* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic is normally an insightful, eloquent if swear-happy reviewer. Not the case when something works him up though; chipmunk noises are often formed.
* WebVideo/JonTron often throws in completely incoherent ramblings in a pseudo-Bill Cosby fashion to the reviews. Even going so far as to rate Donkey Kong Country Returns six golden bananas plus out of Shigeru Miyamoto. And this is meant to be an accurate description of what is 'Like the best game for the Nintendo Wii like ever'.
* The {{Website/Reddit}} forum [[http://www.reddit.com/r/nocontext/ /r/nocontext]] evokes this by taking Redditors' comments [[ItMakesSenseInContext out of context]]. Of course, often ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext.

--->''"Would you just JUMP!? For the love of Franchise/{{Batman}}... JUMP! Creator/BillCosby! Is angry! [[WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow Stimpy!]] I need... SPACKLE!"''

* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', The Joker inadvertently creates the Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse version of ComicBook/TheCreeper, a SuperHero who's yellow, super-strong, agile, and crazy enough to scare even the Joker.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkJoRjnMhdA ''He's a lunatic!!!'']]
** The Creeper was just as crazy in his appearance in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' with him saying old catchphrases and TV Memes in-between jabs.
--->'''The Creeper:''' Knock, knock! Who's on first? Third base! To cross the road! Newman! That's what she said!

* Played for comedy in ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic'', by Jay Sherman's father Franklin: "I didn't '''ask''' to be Secretary of Balloon Doggies. The Balloon Doggies demanded it!"
** "I've just invented the Fishmobabywhirlymagig. It'll be bigger than the Badgerblaster!"
* Gibson gets his worst fear in ''WesternAnimation/SuperRobotMonkeyTeamHyperForceGo'' ... which is to be a Talkative Loon.
* Cheese of ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' (''"I like cereal!!"'').
* Brak, in ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGhostCoastToCoast'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheBrakShow'' (the full title of which is ''Brak Presents the Brak Show Starring Brak'', which gives you a pretty good idea what he's like). Some of his favorite topics are his own name, beans, and encouraging people to "Hail Brak!", a request with which they comply with astonishing consistency.
** In a previous show (''WesternAnimation/CartoonPlanet''), Brak is also infamous for his bizarre songs, like "I'm driving down highway 40 in my pick-up truck" - which is just this line, repeated over and over in various ways - and naturally, a song dedicated to beans of all kinds.

** "I'm dancin' like a monkey!"
** "Hi Floor! Make me a sammich!"
** "[[TrademarkFavoriteFood Taquitos!]] And a clown with no head!"
* Happens to Eddy quite a lot in ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'', and is pretty much [[CloudCuckooLander Ed's]] default mode post-{{Flanderization}}.
** This is hilariously subverted in one episode, when Ed finds himself with no pants on and makes a shockingly mature and insightful comment on the complexities of women. When Eddy asks if he's feeling alright, Ed promptly go back to his crazy state, shouting "HUG ME!"
* In the ''WesternAnimation/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.

* A few old WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes cartoons employed this trope, particularly the ones featuring WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck. He sometimes was more of a musical loon, either singing something completely out of nowhere ("Oh I'm jutht wild about Ha-rry, and Harryth wild about meeee!") or making up his own lyrics to songs ("Oh when they say I'm nutsy, it sure givth me a pain, puh-leath path the ketchup, I think it'th going to rain!")

-->'''Abby:''' Right... [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial I never had a crazy uncle...]]\\
(''Flashback to a young Abby standing there, staring at her uncle'')\\
'''Abby's Uncle:''' The Easter Bunny has betrayed me! [[Film/{{Jaws}} We gotta close the beaches! We can't close the beaches, we're a summer town!]] GET THESE TURTLES OUT OF MY HEAD PLEASE! Aaand, Lindy!

-->'''Bill Cosby on The Simpsons''': Kids, they listen to the rap music, which gives them the brain damage. With their hippin' and-a hoppin' and-a bippin' and-a boppin', so they don't know what the jazz is all about! You see, jazz is like Jello Pudding...no, actually it's more like [[Creator/EastmanKodak Kodak]] Film...no, actually jazz is like the New Coke. It'll be around forever!\\
'''Bill Cosby on Family Guy''': Here I go, down the slope! Oooh, I'm goin' zip zop zoopity bop!

* SelfDemonstrating/TheEvilMidnightBomberWhatBombsAtMidnight from "WesternAnimation/TheTick vs. The Tick"
-->'''EMBWBAM:''' And so he says to me, he says: "You wanna be a baaaad guy?" and I go: "Yeah baby! I wanna be bad!" I says, surf's up space ponies! I'M MAKING GRAVY WITHOUT THE LUMPS!!! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
* Pinkie Pie of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' can veer into this, to the point that it's actually weaponized in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E14TheLastRoundup The Last Roundup]].
--> '''Pinkie Pie:''' [[InherentlyFunnyWords Pickle barrel, kumquat]], pickle barrel, kumquat, pickle barrel, kumquat, chimicherrychanga!
--> '''Applejack:''' ''Make it stop!''
* Pinky from ''{{WesternAnimation/Animaniacs}}'' and ''[[WesternAnimation/PinkyandtheBrain Pinky and the Brain]]'' is like this quite often, especially when Brain asks "Are you pondering what I'm pondering?" Examples can be found [[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pinky_and_the_Brain#Are_You_Pondering_What_I.27m_Pondering.3F here]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlack'', the telltale sign that [[ExpendableClone a quick clone]] [[ImMelting is about to break down]] is that [[DeterioratesIntoGibberish they begin babbling nonsensically]].

-->"Diddle diddle fiddle piddle poodle piddle poodle racky sacky [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQs7zdVmPDg want some seafood mama.]]"
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/ChalkZone'' has Mother Tongue, a talking tongue who turns her audience into this when she licks them; anything they try to say afterwards comes out as vaguely-similar-sounding word salad[[note]]for example, "really?" becomes "rutabaga?" and "I love you" becomes "olive juice"[[/note]]. Licking them again makes them go back to normal.
-->'''Random audience member''': My poodle's cleaning my belly button?

-->'''Julia''': I have been manipulated by a tyrant ''ZAP'' but isn't the real tyrant high-fructose corn syrup? That's why my platform is to ''ZAP'' '''EAT THE CHILDREN!''' ''feral scream''

* Omar White from ''Series/{{Oz}}'', although much is insanity and how much is just an inability shut up is open to debate. Even so, the inability to stop talking even when you know what you're about to say is going to land you in trouble is probably indicates some kind of mental problem.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}'': Spamton G. Spamton is a living spam email who takes the form of a [[PerversePuppet puppet-like]] [[HonestJohnsDealership sleazy salesman]]. He seemingly-randomly pops out of a dumpster and accosts Kris with a [[ElectronicSpeechImpediment twisted, stuttering, typo-laden]] rant that alternates between [[WordSaladHumor hilarious]] and [[WordSaladHorror disturbing]], offering to [[DealWithTheDevil make them a [=[[BIG SHOT]]=]]] in exchange for their [[OurSoulsAreDifferent [=[[HeartShapedObject]]=]]].

-->'''The Creeper:''' Knock, knock! Who's on first? Third base! To cross the road! Newman! That's what she said!

-->'''Abby:''' Right... [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial I never had a crazy uncle...]]
--> (''Flashback to a young Abby standing there, staring at her uncle'')
-->'''Abby's Uncle:''' The Easter Bunny has betrayed me! [[Film/{{Jaws}} We gotta close the beaches! We can't close the beaches, we're a summer town!]] GET THESE TURTLES OUT OF MY HEAD PLEASE! Aaand, Lindy!

--> '''Bill Cosby on The Simpsons''': Kids, they listen to the rap music, which gives them the brain damage. With their hippin' and-a hoppin' and-a bippin' and-a boppin', so they don't know what the jazz is all about! You see, jazz is like Jello Pudding...no, actually it's more like [[Creator/EastmanKodak Kodak]] Film...no, actually jazz is like the New Coke. It'll be around forever!
--> '''Bill Cosby on Family Guy''': Here I go, down the slope! Oooh, I'm goin' zip zop zoopity bop!

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E4TheDoctorsWife "The Doctor's Wife"]]: Idris does a bit of this. She's not crazy, though; she's just [[spoiler:the soul of the TARDIS trying to get used to being human and having a body.]]

* The Boss in ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2'' talks a lot more than what they did in the [[VideoGame/SaintsRow1 first game]], but talks even more in ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird''.

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 "word salad" or "schizophasia") 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, the character exhibiting this might not be crazy at all — just brain damaged, perhaps suffering from aphasia.

* Invoked in a SherlockHolmes story, where the BigBad of the episode tries to poison Holmes. Holmes takes to his bed, refuses to eat, and starts rambling incoherently in front of Watson. [[spoiler:It's all play-pretend on Holmes part, justified by "Watson, [[WeWouldHaveToldYouBut I had to make you believe I was truly sick]], or you wouldn't have been able to play your part convincingly in my little BatmanGambit".]]

* Film/DayOfTheEvilGun'': This is the act Jimmy Noble puts on as part of his ObfuscatingInsanity: aimlessly rambling and randomy repeating and pluralizing certain words.