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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.''
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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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''Bob: That would work. Say, have you ever thought about how a cell phone and a cell could be related? Maybe the cells in our body have little cell phones implanted in their DNA. Speaking about DNA, have you...'' }}
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== [[Advertising]] ==▼
▲== Advertising ==
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAwUUgnBhCU This Series of Videos] by Microsoft's Bing Search engine.
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[
* 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
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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 ''[[
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* The Swedish comedy show Hipp Hipp had Melodikrysset, a musical crossword aired on radio, wherein the host would play a song and then explain whet you were supposed to write. After playing In the summertime the explanation is as follows.
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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
* [[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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