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* [[Keroro Gunsou|Sergeant Keroro]] gives one of these about how kids can't deal with the cold in one of the manga chapters. Before he begins Fuyuki groans that they're about to lose fans as the manga has only just been turned into an anime (well only just at the time the chapter was written). When he's done (2 pages later) he finds Fuyuki and Natsumi have stopped listening to him and snuggled back under their ''kotatsu''.
* Happens at least [[Once an Episode]] in ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei]]'', with Itoshiki's ramblings about the episode's theme. Usually punctuated at some point with his [[Catch Phrase]] about how whatever he was rambling about "has left him in despair".
* [[Darker Thanthan Black|November 11's]] first appearance begins with him giving a rather lengthy rant about secondhand smoke, which has [[Ironic Echo|gotten repeated]] twice now and is threatening to become a [[Running Gag]].
* Professor Itsuki of ''[[Moyashimon]]'' sometimes goes off on [[Wall of Text|lengthy]] and philosophical speeches about science and fermentation processes. [[Justified]] by the fact that he is a professor lecturing to his seminar students.
* [[Hellsing|The Major's]] famous speech in which he details how he [[Blood Knight|loves every last aspect of war]]. The version in the OVA clocks in at more than six minutes long. Tends to be tolerated (if not outright enjoyed) due to how [[Crazy Awesome]] it is.
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== Radio Drama ==
* In the [[Big Finish Doctor Who]] story ''Caerdroia'', there's a particularly odd example: the Doctor gets a [[Literal Split Personality]] and, [[Literal -Minded|bothered by the phrase "safe as houses"]], his [[Cloudcuckoolander]] side explains that it probably comes from a 19th-century economic depression, in which only real estate didn't lose its value. In other words, houses were a safe investment. Now you know. It comes across as particularly silly because he's speaking in a slow, [[Erudite Stoner]]-type voice (without all the [[Erudite Stoner]] ''uh''s, ''like''s, and ''man''s), is freshly separated from two-thirds of himself, and just popped out of a weird time-space portal thing. But he's apparently too [[Sidetracked by the Analogy]] to notice he's literally beside himself.
 
 
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** This continues throughout the game as necessary. In particular, at the end, Kotomine talks quite a bit about the [[Hannibal Lecture|nature of good and evil]], but at that point the [[Shut UP, Hannibal|"Shut up, Kotomine" changes in nature a little]].
** It even gets lampshaded in an early Tiger Dojo (one of the ones for making a [[Too Dumb to Live]] choice) where Ilya claims to have been using the ctrl key to fast-forward through all the exposition, and Taiga says that it may be boring, but you do need to listen to it, sadly.
* ''[[BioshockBioShock (series)]]'' features a number of these from Andrew Ryan. They're intentionally meant to be provocative.
** Given [[Ayn Rand|whom]] the game is paying homage/parody too, that's not too surprising.
* Poor Medoute gets saddled with delivering a lot of these in ''[[Blaze Union]]'', since as the [[Cool Big Sis]] of the team, the writers seem to have decided that she should always explain and summarize the Aesop of the day. This gets obnoxious after the route divide, where her heritage is dealt with using a nearly-identical speech ''every time''.
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