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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''Ptraci didn't just derail the train of thought, she ripped up the rails, burned the stations and melted the bridges for scrap.''
|[[Terry Pratchett]]|''[[Pyramids]]''}}
This is what happens when you try to have a conversation with a [[Cloudcuckoolander]]. You try to talk to them about the weather, and then they get started on pink unicorns and that website with all those strange literary devices. In essence, the Wiki Talk is when one character becomes so sidetracked by one train of thought that he completely forgets about the original topic.
Characters prone to this include the [[Cloudcuckoolander]] (as mentioned above) and [[The Ditz]]. The [[Only Sane Man]] (who is often subject to this) can respond with a facepalm, some form of internal monologue expressing his disbelief, or an attempt to remind the invoker of this trope what they were talking about in the first place. Occasionally, the subject material brought up in the
Sometimes, the invoker of this trope may not be a [[Cloudcuckoolander]], but is extremely embarrassed and, as such, wants to turn the subject to something different. Or it could be a [[Cloudcuckoolander]] who also happens to be extremely embarrassed.
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{{quote|''What we need is some way to stay in contact over long distances. Some sort of communication or "telephonic" device which is "mobile"... Of course! That's it! We'll train messenger pigeons!''}}
In
{{quote|''Alice: We'll need something to stay in contact over long distances. I think a cell phone should work, how about you?''
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{{examples}}
== [[Advertising]] ==▼
▲== Advertising ==
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAwUUgnBhCU This Series of Videos] by Microsoft's Bing Search engine.
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]'': Osaka,
* In the ''[[Bleach]]'' anime, Orihime manages to produce the epic [[Memetic Mutation|Leekspin]] meme in an Epic Tangent resulting from a crash-in with Ichigo in their school hallway. He asks if she's okay, this results from her embarrassment of bumping into him.
* In ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'', Ed would rather recite the periodic table than talk about his potential love for Winry.
* ''Everyone'' who tries to talk to [[Baccano!|Isaac and Miria]]. ''' ''Everyone''.'''
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* Played with in the
* In ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'', Calvin often goes off into these. Watterson, apparently, based Calvin's tangents off of his own wife.▼
* Happens briefly to Lightning
▲* Played with in the 4th ''[[Lethal Weapon]]'' movie, where Chris Rock and Joe Pesci go off on a huge tangent about cell phones, for no apparent reason.
▲* Happens briefly to Lightning [[Mc Queen]] at the beginning of [[Cars]] when pysching himself up for the race.
{{quote|'''Lightning''': I eat losers for breakfast... Should I have had breakfast?}}
== [[Literature]] ==
* Luna Lovegood of ''[[Harry Potter]]'' often manages to turn a conversation into something about the magical equivalent of Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster. Many of the conversations she starts begins with her saying something completely ordinary, and then turning it into this trope.
* [[Neal Stephenson]]'s ''[[Anathem]]'' seems to do this several times, but [[Chekhov's Armory|every single one of them]] turns out to be a [[Chekhov's Gun]] of some sort.
* The narrator of [[Mark Twain]]'s "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" asks an old man about someone named Leonidas W. Smiley. The old man says he has never heard of anyone named Leonidas W. Smiley, but he ''has'' heard of someone named Jim Smiley. The rest of the story comprises a [[Rambling Old Man Monologue]] about Jim Smiley and his jumping frog.
== [[Live
* In ''[[Seinfeld]]'', George's boss, Mr. Steinbrener, always gets sidetracked by one thing or another when George tries to talk to him.
* The Tenth Doctor, on ''[[Doctor Who]]''.
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{{quote|'''The Host''':That was In the summertime by Mumbo Jerry and it's about the summer, in the summer people like having ice-cream. Personally I'm fond of 88:an. 88:an has crushed nuts in it so therefore [[Groin Attack|Pungspark]] goes on vertical no. 13.}}
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▲* In ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'', Calvin often goes off into these. Watterson, apparently, based Calvin's tangents off of his own wife.
* English teachers who actually don't hate their job seem to be rather fond of doing this in [[Real Life]].▼
* The News sometimes segues into new stories using incredibly strange logic.▼
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Many of [[Seth MacFarlane]]'s works are prone to this. ''[[Family Guy]]'' and ''[[The Cleveland Show]]'' employ 10-second shorts to provide comedy, connected only to the dialogue by a "Just Like X" statement made by one of the characters.
* [[Invader Zim]]- Don't even ''try'' to have a coherent conversation with [[Cloudcuckoolander|Gir]]
== [[Real Life]] ==
▲* English teachers who actually don't hate their job seem to be rather fond of doing this
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