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Everybody loves a speech, especially when it helps sort out the life or relationships of the characters you've been following for the last hour and a half. But wait... isn't this a bit inappropriate for the context of the speech? Why is Bob talking about his rocky relationship with Alice and the zany adventures they'd been through in the last week, when the audience is here for the Annual Refrigerator Salesman Awards? It doesn't matter that Bob should have been pulled offstage before the often-lengthy speech could end, everyone still bursts into Spontaneous Applause at the end (whether Alice responds favorably or not).
Common in valedictorian speeches, where the student is expected to make their own speech but tends to forget about anything that doesn't have to do with the plot of the film, College Movies where the protagonist gives a [[What Have I Become?|What Have We Become]] speech, and romantic comedies/dramas, as in the example above. Differs from [[Character Filibuster]] in that the character is ''supposed'' to be giving a speech, but what he says has little to nothing to do with the speech's official purpose.
Contrast [[Disorganized Outline Speech]], where the speaker is on topic, but can't seem to get to the point. Compare [[Holding the Floor]], where the speaker is digressing deliberately to buy time.
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== Film ==
* The musical version of this is used in ''[[Music and Lyrics]]'', with the song ''Don't Write Me Off Just Yet'', but then again it's [[Truth in Television]] that this happens all the time with songwriters, and justified since the girl whose concert it was loves stuff like that and shoehorned it in at the last minute.
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* Plot Point #1 in ''I Love You, Beth Cooper''.
* Elle's speech to Congress in ''[[Legally Blonde]] 2''.
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* The end of ''[[The American President]]'' juuuust about pulls off combining an [[Anguished Declaration of Love]] with a political press conference.
* Marisa Tomei's scene as an expert witness at the end of ''[[My Cousin Vinny]]'', which doubles as a resolution to her lover's tiff with the title character.
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'''Lisa:''' They WUH!
'''Vinny:''' Thank you, Ms. Vito. No more questions. Thank you very, very much. You've been a lovely ''[kiss]'', lovely ''[kiss]'' witness. }}
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== Literature ==
* In ''[[Dave Barry]] Slept Here'', Thomas Jefferson, who is writing the Declaration of Independence in an all-nighter, lets the document's subject wander to people flushing inappropriate objects down toilets, among other things.
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== Live Action TV ==
* In ''[[Malcolm in
* In ''[[3rd Rock
* [[Sesame Street
* The ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' episode "Erizabeth L" has a police inspector (from the Film Fraud Division) who's apparently incapable of arresting a dangerous criminal who's impersonating famous directors without digressing into a lengthy biography of the director in question.
== Web Original ==
* The song "All About the Art", in ''[[Commentary!
== Western Animation ==
* Mocked in an episode of ''[[
* Happens quite often to Bruce from ''[[Family Guy]]''.
** Happens to hilarious effect during ''Blue Harvest'' with the "[[Opening Scroll|runaway paragraphs in space]]" as it starts talking about the story but ends up talking about [[Angelina Jolie]] in the movie ''[[Gia]]''. The narrative then uses this line to get back on subject:
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