Talkative Loon

""My name's Millions and I'm a son of a chipwich!""

- Homsar (the Patron Saint of Talkative Loons), Homestar Runner

When a TV character is 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!"

Quite transparent and distracting, for the most part.

Talkative Loons can sometimes actually be misunderstood Waif Prophets; it can be hard to tell the difference between the two. If the talkative loon happens to be a beautiful young woman, she may also be The Ophelia. Occasionally some Infallible Babble might slip out of them, but Sturgeons Law applies to the remaining ninety percent, and there's no way to tell which is which.

Talkativeness that takes the form of a single phrase repeated ad nauseam is a Madness Mantra.

Note that this sort of behavior is a real symptom of certain real mental illnesses, particularly schizophrenia (psychiatrists call this kind of talk from a schizophrenic patient "Word Salad") 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 might be suffering from aphasia.

See also Word Salad Philosophy, Cloudcuckoolander, and your average porn spam. If they're the main character, try Through the Eyes of Madness. A similarly disjointed title is a Word Salad Title; the musical equivalent is Word Salad Lyrics. Can often be caused by an Intoxication Ensues. The babble they spit out might include an Ice Cream Koan occasionally.

Anime and Manga
""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?”"
 * Several points in Paprika, when characters are being pulled into dreaming even while awake, they recite non sequitur phrases in a loud and usually delighted voice. When the dreams get out of control, this phenomenon affects part of a city, driving its members to form a parade.
 * Shiro from Deadman Wonderland exhibits this often enough.
 * In The Five Star Stories Paltenon combines this with Jive Turkey. It must be seen to be believed.
 * Graham Spectre from Baccano, who combines this with Warrior Poet. Damned if we know what the hell he was talking about half the time.
 * His friend Ladd Russo, who is even more insane, falls into this category, spitting out a stream of nonsense about boxing while repeatedly punching a random Lemure so hard he has no face left when Ladd's finally done. When the two actually encounter each other later in the series, they spend the whole fight shouting loopy monologues at each other.
 * The Light Novels introduce Christopher Shouldered, a murderous homunculus prone to melodramatic monologues on innocuous things like nature and umbrellas.

"Excalibur: My mornings begin with a cup of coffee with cream at the café. My afternoons begin with a cup of hot tea, with two lumps of sugar. And my evenings-
 * Excalibur from Soul Eater. Trying to hold a conversation with him is not only an exercise in futility, but also highly frustrating.

Black☆Star: -Let me guess, booze? Sounds right for an old guy like you-

Excalibur: FOOL! In the evening, I change into my pyjamas!"


 * There's also some of Crona's ramblings.
 * Kaizo from Katteni Kaizo has a tendency to spout weird and ridiculous things that only pertain slightly to the situation at hand.

Comic Books

 * Happy Noodle Boy from Jhonen Vasquez's Johnny the Homicidal Maniac can often be found standing in the middle of a park, yelling nonsense at anyone he comes across.
 * The Sandman: Delirium of the Endless. Always.
 * Starman of the Justice Society of America (formerly Star Boy of the Legion of Super-Heroes), 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.
 * Marvel antihero Deadpool is one of these; it's at least partially due to Medium Awareness and it's one of his combat tactics. Opponents get distracted because he never stops talking.
 * Another part of it is due to him being a Crazy Awesome Cloudcuckoolander who deliberately overplays his "lunatic" role...some of the time.
 * Just how much of it is deliberate and how much is him actually drifting off varies from writer to writer, but it's almost invariably some combination of the two.
 * Daredevil villain Typhoid Mary, especially when written by Brian Bendis, has lines such as "No, you're the shmoopie," and "it's the spiders that make me horny." She also sings a chilling rendition of Monday Monday while slaughtering mobsters.
 * Incidentally, when she got a crush on Deadpool in his first ongoing, she freaked him out.
 * The Green Goblin. Especially when written by Bendis.
 * I own your soul now!
 * Circles! Circles of life, circles of death, circles of pain, circles of love, circles of power, circles of fire, Tell him about the circles! Bood Lood Cellar Door! The null mutant will be inactive at all temperatures!
 * Of course, that was Ultimate Green Goblin who is not only psychotically insane but at the time was also completely fucked up on his own Oz formula. Half of the above dialogue was him ranting at Spider-Man, the other half was the voices in his head talking to him.
 * The main character of the 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..."
 * A story arc in Tintin (Cigars of the Pharaoh/The Blue Lotus) had the bad guys shooting people with poisoned darts to make them go mad; pretty much all the victims became this.

Fanfic
""I don't like limpid tears and I have to, invoke the ass," Xaldin shook his amazing voice.."
 * The Stealth Parody Kingdom Hearts fanfic "Lexaeus Loves Hot Topic" consists of nothing but random gibberish.


 * Thirty Hs takes this Up to Eleven
 * Mocked in the Demyx chapter of the Kingdom Hearts-based parody fic Those Lacking Spines as a crutch which many authors rely on for "random" humor.

Film

 * The daughter in Dark Floors is one of these, having been driven insane by
 * The Twist Ending to The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari reveals
 * Jeffrey Goins from 12 Monkeys.
 * Out Cold has Stumpy, who constantly spouts off rants and anecdotes that are self-contradictory, nonsensical, or otherwise insane.

Literature
"That dog of yours is so much rage. All the radios of Coney Island don't make up to dat dog, you motherfucker!
 * Foul Ole Ron of Discworld, with his Catch Phrase "Millennium hand and shrimp" (the result of feeding a travesty generator with a Chinese restaurant menu and They Might Be Giants lyrics) becoming something the books are famous for. Due to his talking dog that no one believes isn't him talking he has occasional lucid comments in the gibberish.
 * The Bursar of Unseen University has been known to turn into a talkative loon after overdosing on his nerve medication, saying things like "Why, certainly, I'll have your whelk! How do we do it? Volume!" while waging war on The Fair Folk.
 * 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 +++"
 * Flipping it around, HEX once managed to get a lucid remark out of the Bursar during one of his downswings when Ponder programmed it to behave like one of those "therapist" computer programs, and it repeated the Bursar's gibberish as though it was a coherent statement it wanted the Bursar to expand on. The Bursar accused it of making fun of him, and Ridcully cheerfully declared that it had "out-Bursar'd the Bursar".
 * Also, Mrs. Tachyon from Johnny and The Bomb, who used Ole Ron's catchphrase on at least one occasion ('course, she wasn't actually mad. It's just that her mind is everywhere and everywhen at once. Her thoughts are apparently perfectly lucid).
 * The Weavers in China Mieville's Bas-Lag Cycle, in addition to being gigantic spidery Eldritch Abominations with a thought process no human can truly understand, talk like this all the time.
 * There was a darkly hilarious Stephen King short story, Lunch At The Gotham Cafe, about a waiter who starts talking like this and trying to stab the diners.

I rot you, you abominations! I rot you and all your trulls!"

""Aximo-portable talus! A wall with encystation--repetition from the headland unneccesary--the access at an azimuth of--multicrystalline metamorphism…""
 * Brandon Sanderson's Alcatraz Series has a character whose 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. Rutabaga.
 * Finnegans Wake. The entire book is one long Talkative Loon rambling.
 * Eilonwy from Chronicles of Prydain has shades of this: a smart, strong-willed, witty and romantically attractive girl, who nevertheless rambles away a lot, uses strange similes, likes to walk around without shoes and is generally a Cloudcuckoolander.
 * Invoked in a Sherlock Holmes story, where the Big Bad of the episode tries to poison Holmes. Holmes takes to his bed, refuses to eat, and starts rambling incoherently in front of Watson.
 * In "The Hunt" by Stanisław 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:

Live Action TV
"Doctor: Do you understand what we're saying?
 * In Monty Python's Flying Circus, the E. Henry Thripshaw's Disease sketch. "And the thing about saying the wrong word is, A, I don't notice it, and B, sometimes orange water given bucket of plaster."
 * Drusilla (and, briefly, Spike) on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Also the ward full of Glory's "brain-suck" victims in the Sunnydale hospital, . All three examples also had some degree of prophetic or otherworldly knowledge.
 * 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.
 * River on Firefly seems like a Talkative Loon, but her Waif Prophet 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.
 * "They say the snow on the roof is too heavy. They say the ceiling will cave in. His brains are in terrible danger."
 * Bridge from Power Rangers SPD slips into this from time to time. Sometimes it even seems intentional like when he uses it to interrogate a prisoner. We love him for it.
 * Perhaps Exidor on Mork and Mindy qualifies as well.
 * Stark from Farscape was a 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.
 * Also, the rest of the universe considers Crichton to be one as well, and upon learning that there is an entire planet where he's considered to be normal ("Erp"), Moya's crew resolves to avoid it like the plague.
 * In the episode "Signals and Codes" of Burn Notice, 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
 * Sometimes the Hybrids on the new Battlestar Galactica Reimagined just babble: "Mists of dreams drip along the nascent echo and love no more. End of line."
 * Sometimes they're prophetic: "Find the hand that lies in the shadow of the light. In the eye of the husband of the eye of the cow."
 * Sometimes No Fourth Wall: "Throughout history the nexus between man and machine has spun some of the most dramatic, compelling and entertaining fiction."
 * The people of Trinity struck by Merlyn's plague on American Gothic suffered from this as well.
 * Arguably, Livia on 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?
 * The various shopkeeper/hairdresser/other-occupation characters played by Stephen Fry in A Bit of Fry and Laurie. "Good day!" "One of a goodness it is indeed!" is just a start...
 * "Mr. Dalliard? Mr. Dalliard, I've gone all peculiar now!"
 * Speaking of Stephen Fry, Peter Kingdom's half-sister Beatrice (on Kingdom of, course) has been characterized as this. Of course, she's just as likely to be eerily silent.
 * Papa Lazarou on The League of Gentlemen. He calls everyone "Dave", keeps offering to sell you pegs, adeptly speaks gibberish, spouts bizarre non sequiturs like "This is just a saga now," and will haunt your dreams forever.
 * Actual Word Salad is used in Boston Legal, when Alan Shore has a breakdown. He doesn't even realize he's doing it, and looks up at everyone's confused faces and asks, "What?"
 * On 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.
 * 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.

Patient: Of golf!"

"Myka: Do you know, every former Warehouse agent we meet is either crazy, evil, or dead?
 * One of these shows up in the fourth episode of The Pacific, pacing back and forth all night and flying an imaginary plane.
 * The Doctor occasionally comes across as this, particularly the Fourth, Tenth and Eleventh.
 * Also, from "The Stolen Earth", Dalek Caan has been reduced to a babbling lunatic, due to.
 * In the Ashes to Ashes finale,  Likewise, in episode 6 of series 3,
 * Hugo Miller from the Warehouse 13 episode "13.1" is like this, as the result of a combination of Literal Split Personality with Brain Uploading.

...

Hugo (on first meeting them): I know who you are. You're President Ulysses S Grant 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."


 * Though one could arguably describe Hawkeye of M*A*S*H of being this all along,.

Tabletop Games

 * The Xaositects, or Chaosmen, one of the factions in the Planescape setting for Dungeons and Dragons, talk in "Scramblespeak", where all the words are mixed up. Except when they don't - if they always did something, that wouldn't be chaotic.

Theater

 * Lucky from Samuel Beckett's absurdist play Waiting for Godot. There is a thread of logic running through his one monologue, but his point gets so lost in tangents, digressions, lists, Purple Prose, and general nonsense that he makes next to no sense and causes actual physical revulsion in his listeners.
 * See also Beckett's 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 A Streetcar Named Desire.
 * Ophelia, from 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 this clip from the Canadian series Slings and Arrows, 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 "King Lear." 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 "Only Sane Man" except perhaps Edmund.

Toys
"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."
 * Vezon from Bionicle:

Video Games
""I hear it's amazing when the famous purple-stuffed worm in flap jaw space with the tuning fork does a raw-blink on Hara-kiri Rock. I need scissors! 61!""
 * is one of these in Little Big Planet 2.
 * This happens to the Colonel at the end of Metal Gear Solid 2:

""The pickle nation will rise again! The chickens will perish!""
 * Advisor Glade from Beyond the Beyond flies into this after the heroes show him up by proving the identity of Big Guy Samson:


 * The daedric prince Sheogorath, ruler of the Shivering Isles in The Elder Scrolls IV is a decent example. While he's capable of somewhat coherent conversation (He's the one giving you missions, so the specifics are usually decipherable), he's prone to outbursts on completely random tangents.
 * Worth pointing out that Sheogorath is the daedric Prince (Read: God) of madness. Many of the residents of the Shivering Isles (his realm) are Talkative Loons. In fact, check the entire Madness Tropes section, theres likely someone embodying it in the Isles. The Talkative Loon of the Isles, in this case, would be the beggar Bolwing. ("I'll kalikrak the findoo, I will. You terratet it! Gal bursten it...Raney Roo! Raney Roo!") Unless you get Big Head's fork or, in which case he becomes comprehensible, and indeed, quite eloquent.
 * Also, Morrowind has Telvanni Councilor Therana, prone to incoherent, mind-numbingly long ramblings about random stuff from her early years. Entertaining... only problem is, . )
 * On Eternal Darkness, this is the eventual fate of.
 * "Hey, look at that thing! No, that other thing! Eww, what's wrong with your legs? Where are we going?"
 * "Ooh what's in here?" "Do you smell something burning?"
 * And then there's the Intelligence Sphere's 'Ingredients List'...
 * And from the sequel:
 * "Space! Space! Wanna go to space! Space! Space! What's your favorite part about space? Mine's space! Orbit. Space orbit..."
 * "Space, trial, put the system on trial, in space, space system, on trial, guilty! No being in space! Go to space jail!"
 * "Dad, I'm in space! 'I'm proud of you, son.' Dad, are you space? 'Yes. Now we are a family again.'"
 * SPAAAAAAAAAAAAACE! YEEEEEEEHAAAAW!
 * The Big Bad of Earthbound turns out to be a Talkative Loon, having literally gone mad with power by the time of the endgame. And he's still is an imposing villain, they actually made this trope creepy instead of funny.

""Which... PORCH swing? Tell me which porch swing. Growl... Where's... The Pope?""
 * Liz and Ard from 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.
 * Some hobos in Kingdom of Loathing, especially Hodgman the Hoboverlord, whose dialogue is randomly generated. A sample:

"Oghren:...But that dog ruined it when he stole my pants. Well, I'll show him! I don't need my pants anyway!
 * In 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.
 * Albedo from Xenosaga. He makes many biblical and literary references on varying topics, particularly in the infamous "Ma Belle Pêche" sequence. What's worse is that he actually has a point and it is not entirely mindless ramblings when looked deep enough.
 * The Enemy Chatter of the unhinged, ADAM-addled Splicers in Bio Shock ranges from hilarious to disturbing.
 * 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 from Dragon Age may not actually be a loon, but damned if he doesn't sound like one on many of his drunken tirades.

Warden: Oghren, you're wearing your pants.

Oghren: But the dog doesn't know that. It'll be his sodding downfall."

"Ride the snake, ride the snake, the snake is long, seven miles, ride the snake, ride the snake."
 * Tom Redwood a.k.a. "Red" from the Penumbra series.
 * And Dr. Richard Eminiss. But he quickly turns out to be anything but humorous...
 * In Odium, this happens to when he goes insane. The beginning of his rant is actually a quote from "The End" by The Doors.


 * Part of the fun of playing a Malkavian in Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines is that all your dialog options turn you into this, with a sprinkle of Mad Oracle if you pay attention to what you're saying to people.
 * Boyd Cooper of 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 Jabless Adventure, 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. Ahahahahahaha!"
 * Jack Lupino in Max Payne is like this due to being stoned out of his mind on designer drug Valkyr.
 * Hatoful Boyfriend 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 evil wizard in the infirmary.

Web Animation
"Homsar: Hi, Wonder Mike! I'm Homsar, the captain of the gravy train. Climb aboard -- I've put my best foot flowered. Pshoooooo!"
 * On Homestar Runner, in the Strong Bad Email "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".
 * Another Homestar Runner character, Homsar, is like this all the time:

"Senor Cardgage: Alonzo Mourning to you, Myrtlebeth. Say hello to my tacklebox."
 * There's also Senor Cardgage (with the 'Senor' deliberately mispronounced), who's basically a malapropism-prone creepy old homeless guy who resembles a tall, pot-bellied version of Strong Bad with a bad combover:

"Senor Cardgage: Grape....Soda...Banked?"
 * The aforementioned Homsar and Senor Cardgage even indulged in a competition on that very topic in fan club. The loser, following a contest to see who sold more merchandise in the Homestar Runner Store, was
 * The penalty for losing was having to make a coherent statement.
 * He finally made a coherent statement on his third try.


 * Strong Bads Cool Game for Attractive People has a different take. After tinkering with some ancient artifacts, Strong Bad is able to have an actual conversation with Homsar, and it turns out the loon is actually an eloquent speaker and quite intelligent in his native tongue. Strong Sad, however, just hears both talking in gibberish.
 * Another such character could be the Drive-Thru Whale, a disembodied drive-through speaker that spouts nonsense like "Sever your leg, please, it's the greatest day," and "Pour gravel on your stump please, ma'am." (over a bunch of static, naturally).
 * petey is like this on the toad show. He is always yelling random words that only he knows what they mean like "I can flack the majjiger" and "i derfted macow".
 * Introducing Tongs!

Web Comics
"Enor: Variable-speed corn muffins! Peanut butter fish filets! Hey, that sounds good."
 * An essential part of many Dada Comics. Chef Brian from Ctrl Alt Del, for example.
 * Curiously, Chef Brian is actually somewhat comprehensible in this comic, in a completely roundabout way. Mostly.
 * Narbonic had Dana, the last of the insane superintelligent gerbils.
 * Also, was briefly a Talkative Loon after
 * Penny Arcade has Catsby and Twisp, as seen in this comic. This may help explain their unexpected popularity.
 * No Need for Bushido has a blind Taoist potentially world-ending priest, who often speaks in platitudes like, "Just as the snake, once stripped of its slippers, is helpless to defend itself from the ever-growing Viking threat."
 * Girl Genius has Tarvek Sturvoraus babbling in the grip of a deadly fever.
 * In A Modest Destiny, becomes one of these when
 * While Doctor Hobo in VG Cats is not an example, his Chaotic Neutral angel most definitely is. In the one strip we saw him: "Woof! I'm a cow!"
 * Largo comes off as this quite a lot, between his l33t sp34k, technobabble, and constant paranoid beliefs that zombies will be taking over the area (which later turns out to be more or less true). All of this coupled with the fact that he doesn't speak any Japanese usually leads to him being arrested by the police (it was also implied to have have something to do with being handcuffed by mounties and deported from Canada).
 * Lok of Juathuur tend to talk and whine a lot to whoever visits him in his realm. This happens rarely.
 * Enor in Order of the Stick, when Elan casts Lesser Confusion:

Web Original

 * This Tales From the Pub sketch, from the creators of The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra. This one, too.
 * Caboose from Red vs. Blue, actually, thinking about it, everyone in Red vs. Blue fits this trope.
 * Time Cube. The whole thing.
 * AWW BOB SAGET!! THESE FISH STICKS ARE HARD AS TITS!
 * Some people on Twitter.
 * This cat, who is popularized on the Internet due to his constant mumblings which apparantly sound like if he's saying "Oh, Long Johnson..." as well as other random stuff like "Oh, Don Piano" and "All the livelong day."

Western Animation
"Abby(lying): Right...I never had a crazy uncle...
 * In Batman the Animated Series, The Joker inadvertently creates the Diniverse version of The Creeper, a Superhero who's yellow, super-strong, agile, and crazy enough to scare even the Joker.
 * Blitzwing's Random face in Transformers Animated. The rest of him's more coherent.
 * Played for comedy in The Critic, 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 Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go ... which is to be a Talkative Loon.
 * Cheese of Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends ("I like cereal!!").
 * Brak, in Space Ghost Coast to Coast and The Brak Show (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 (Cartoon Planet), 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.
 * GIR, from Invader Zim, with gems like "Can I be a mongoose-dog?" and "Why is his head so big? Whyyyyyyyyyyyyy is his head so big?"
 * "It was me! I was the turkey all along! Meeeeeeee!"
 * Perhaps not good examples, considering they are actually rather on topic to what was being said. Which should tell you something about the show.
 * The fact that he was disguised as a turkey for the last one makes it abundantly clear where the "loon" part of this trope appeared.
 * "I'm dancin' like a monkey!"
 * "Hi Floor! Make me a sammich!"
 * "Taquitos! And a clown with no head!"
 * Happens to Eddy quite a lot in Ed, Edd n Eddy, and is pretty much 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 Legion of Super-Heroes episode "Brain Drain," Brainiac 5 spends most of the episode spouting Word Salad 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.
 * After drinking bad cactus juice, Sokka from Avatar: The Last Airbender becomes this in his Mushroom Samba.
 * "It's a GIANT MUSHROOM! Maybe it's friendly!"
 * A few old Looney Tunes cartoons employed this trope, particularly the ones featuring Daffy Duck. 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!")
 * In Back At the Barnyard, we have a strange flashback from Abby, after Otis compares another character to the 'crazy uncle they've never had'.

A young Abby stands there, staring at her uncle.

Abby's Uncle: Mr. Bunny has betrayed me! 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 Kodak Film...no, actually jazz is like the New Coke. It'll be around forever!
 * We later see him singing and dancing in another flashback.
 * Quite a few animated shows have depicted Kids Say the Darndest Things-era Bill Cosby as one, including The Simpsons, Family Guy, and The Boondocks (where he gets kidnapped for about 5 seconds before the kidnappers just bring him right back because he will not shut up.)

Bill Cosby on Family Guy: Here I go, down the slope! Oooh, I'm goin' zip zop zoopity bop!"

"Cornholio: "I have a portfolio in my bunghole! With my holio!""
 * From Beavis and Butthead, Beavis' alter-ego, the Great Cornholio.

Real Life
""Would you just JUMP! For the love of Batman... JUMP! Bill Cosby! Is angry! Stimpy! I need... SPACKLE!""
 * Kenneth, what is the frequency?
 * Wernicke's aphasia.
 * Raocow's Let's Plays are filled with some of the most bizarre and surreal commentary one would ever hear. It's compounded by the fact that he's a Quebec native for whom English is a second language (although he is reasonably fluent, he does have some odd turns of phrase) and is highly prone to Buffy Speak.
 * Though he seems to drop it the more frustrated he gets.
 * Also from the Let's Play world, ProtonJon during his LP of Kaizo Mario World Special Stage 2, a combination of this and Angrish:


 * An example on this very wiki.
 * The Ultimate Warrior. What makes it really scary is, it's hard to tell how much is Kayfabe and how much is serious. The reason Spoony's parody version is so damn funny is because it's pretty accurate (with the possibly exception of the random pop culture references - "You'll need an Energon cube the size of Wyoming to defeat my Autobots, Hoakogan!").
 * Jon Tron , a recent emergence in the game reviews community, 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'.
 * In the field of mental health, this is known as schizophasia, sometimes called "word salad". It is usually symptomatic of other serious mental conditions, including schizophrenia. Schizophasia also falls within the broader term of formal thought disorder, or FTD.
 * Macaws usually become this if they learn how to speak.