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A character who speaks if not constantly then often so quickly that it's hard to make out individual words and with the appearance of not having to stop for breath which sometimes makes it sound as though the audio track has been set to Fast Forward, this is often a facet of the [[Genki Girl]] or [[The Ditz]] who seems to be able to redirect the oxygen destined for their brain to their mouth whereas if smart characters do this they often fall victim to [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]] usually this counts as the specific subtrope [[Gibbering Genius]] and it is also a trait of a character who is panicking upset afraid angry worked up or excited and launches into rapid-fire babble because of their emotional state.

 

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== Advertising ==

* In the area of commercials, the definitive Motor Mouth is no doubt actor John Moschitta, Jr, best known for his FedEx and Micro Machines commercials. He is ([[wikipedia:John Moschitta|according to Wikipedia]]) listed in ''The Guinness Book of World Records'' as the world's fastest speaker. Kids might remember him for the [[Micro Machines]] ads, but those who remember their childhood TV shows more clearly than the commercials may remember him as Blurr from the ''[[Transformers]]'' (listed below). In fact, he voiced ''both'' versions of Blurr. He's even worked with ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' [http://robotchicken.wikia.com/wiki/Micro_Machine_Man%27s_Life in a parody of his own Micro Machines ads] where he laments his failed marriage and describes his decided method of suicide... [[Soundtrack Dissonance|while Micro Machines cars drive about in playsets.]]

* UK example for the 1970s: "Lipsmackinthirstquenchinacetastinmotivatingoodbuzzincooltalkinhighwalkinfastlivinevergivincoolfizzin... Pepsi!"

* At the end of government ads and Public Service Announcements in Australia: "Authorisedbytheaustraliangovernmentcanberra"

 

 

* [[Megumi Hayashibara]]'s characters tend to have stints of Motor Mouthery. She's not the only Japanese voice actress to accomplish it on a regular basis, but she's arguably one of the best.

** Lime from ''[[Saber Marionette J]]'' and its various sequels, is one of the best examples.

* [[Kotono Mitsuishi]], Excel's voice actress in ''[[Excel Saga (anime)|Excel Saga]],'' is quite good at this, and Excel's English voice actress was almost as capable; however, [[Jessica Calvello]] nearly destroyed her voice after thirteen episodes (though that could have also been because of Excel's [[Chewing the Scenery|hoarse screech]] in Calvello's rendition). She was also the VA for [[Sailor Moon|Usagi Tsukino]], and was able to showcase her talent in later seasons, usually during comedic episodes.

** [http://es.doblaje.wikia.com/wiki/Rebeca_Aponte Rebeca Aponte] from Venezuela was able to do it too. [[Uncyclopedia|Some like to make jokes]] saying she was using [[This Is Your Premise on Drugs|amphetamines]], but mainly [[It Amused Me|For The Lulz]].

* The main character Poemi, in the ''[[Excel Saga (anime)|Excel Saga]]'' spinoff ''[[Puni Puni Poemi]]'' sometimes managed to be even faster. Fan translation subtitles would stack to the point where they cover half the screen. The English voice actress managed to survive the ordeal, though she blew her voice out on the second day of recording, according to the DVD commentary.<ref>Fun fact: The DVD commentary for ''[[Puni Puni Poemi]]'' is one of very few is 5.1 surround sound!</ref>

* Sana Kurata of ''[[Kodomo no Omocha]]'' can be a Motor Mouth Supreme when the mood strikes, far exceeding even [[Megumi Hayashibara]]'s characters. When your subtitles come in entire ''[[Wall of Text|paragraphs]]''...

** In the second season, ''Haré+Guu Deluxe'', the opening of each episode includes Haré spouting out of a rapid-fire stream of chatter, which varies from time to time while Guu dances.

** Haré's seiyuu, Rikako Aikawa, seems to specialize in this.

* ''Everyone'' in ''Gag Manga Biyori''.

* If you're going to watch the subtitled version of ''[[S-Cry-ed]]'', make damn sure you can speedread. Straight Cougar's dialogue approximates a blur at points.

* Graham Spector from ''[[Baccano!]]!''. Just... Graham.

* Kira Yamato from ''[[Gundam Seed]]'' mentally does this whenever he goes into programming a mobile suit, to demonstrate just how fast a Coordinator's mind works.

* ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'': [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg8xYZym9hI Hara-Hara Relay] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9SwYSKUmYU Hara-Hara-Hara-Hara Relay]. As for a character related example, Barry/Jun would likely fit this trope.

* Ahiru can be like this in ''[[Princess Tutu]]'', particularly when she's flustered. It's part of her "duck like" personality that she quacks out her words—since she's ''actually'' a duck magically transformed into a girl.

* Akane Mitamura from ''[[Kono Aozora Ni Yakusoku Wo]]''.

* [[Filler Villain]] [[Mad Scientist|Daphne]] in ''[[Fairy Tail]]''. Bonus points for frequently swinging from a cheerful and childish voice to a [[Evil Sounds Deep|creepy deep one]] frequently.

* The main character of ''[[The Tatami Galaxy|Yojo-han Shinwa Taikei]]'' speaks at such a rapid pace that the subs fly across the screen and reading them can be a little challenging.

* ''[[Speed Racer]]'': Where to even begin?

 

== Comic Books ==

* [http://marvel.wikia.com/Harley_Davidson_%28Earth-616%29 Harley Davidson a.k.a Motormouth], from [[Marvel Comics]].

* [[Cheerful Child|Pixie]] of the ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' drifts into this when she gets excited, nervous, or scared.

 

== Film ==

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* ''[[Last Action Hero]]'' when Lt. Dekker is yelling at Arnold in his office the second time. Steam comes out of his ears.

* Carl Showalter from ''[[Fargo]]''. Can't even pull off total silence.

* Actor James Lorinz plays this role in ''[[Frankenhooker]]'' and ''[[Street Trash]]''.

* [[Ferris Bueller's Day Off|My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with a girl who..."]]

* Another [[John Hughes]] example occurs in ''[[Weird Science]]''. When Wyatt's brother comes home and finds the house a total wreck, Wyatt [[I Can Explain|desperately tries to explain what happened]] with a rapid-fire summation of pretty much all of the movie's plot up to that point, delivered as one long run-on sentence.

 

== Literature ==

* The ''[[Dragonlance]]'' setting of ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' featured the tinker gnomes, an entire ''race'' of Motor Mouths. A gnome's full name consists of his entire family tree and a list of all notable accomplishments by his relations, and can take months to fully pronounce—though they usually refer to themselves by shortened versions that only take about half an hour. Three guesses as to why they call their ancestral home [[NameDar|"Mount Nevermind"]]...

** Also, a Second Edition fey race called Quicklings were apparently on fast forward all the time, to the point that they had to consciously slow down their speech to be intelligible to humans. [[Exclusively Evil|Not that they cared.]]

* [[Codex Alera|Tavi]] doesn't really come across as one to the reader, but Kitai does complain "do you ever stop talking?" after kissing him near the end of the second book.

* Hermione Granger from ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' was so excited to be going to Hogwarts in her first year, she talked very fast indeed.

* In ''[[Maximum Ride]]'', Nudge is the perfect example.

* La Falvine from ''[[Malevil]]'' is guilty of this. At best it's vocal white noise.

** Meredith, once she gets going. Some of her coworkers ''prefer examining tax returns'' to listening to her talk.

* Shulamith Ploni in one story by [[Ephraim Kishon]]. Combined with [[No Punctuation Period]].

* In the ''[[Warrior Cats]]'' book ''Crookedstar's Promise'', Crookedstar's apprentice Sagepaw.

* Tahiri in the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] was like this as a kid and young teenager; her best friend Anakin Solo even noted that her presence in the Force felt like someone talking very fast without pausing for breath. Following a [[Split Personality Merge]] and becoming a [[Half-Human Hybrid]] of sorts (long story) she became somewhat quieter, albeit still with a playfully snarky sense of humor.

 

* One of Vanessa's friends in the later seasons of ''[[The Cosby Show]]'' could—and did—talk so fast and without stopping for breath that Cliff referred to her as "Turbo Tongue", and responded to every outburst she made with the same non-comprehending, "Thank you."

* Two words: [[Jim Cornette]].

* The whole cast of ''[[Gilmore Girls]]'', especially Lorelai and Rory. The show's scripts were apparently twice the size of your standard television script due to this characteristic. Jared Padalecki once joked that the main requirement to work on that show was the ability to speak very fast.

* Peter Scolari's Michael Harris on ''[[Newhart]]''.

* Averted, big time, in the "Slow Talkers of America" skit by [[Bob and Ray]].

* Tyres on ''[[Spaced]]'', presumably a symptom of his somewhat excessive speed habit, which has also left him with [[Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny]].

** And then there's the time McKay gets stoned on Wraith enzyme.

* Carly from ''[[iCarly]]'' tends to do this, especially when she's feeling [[Large Ham|hammy]]. The best example would be her long rant about why she kissed bad boy Griffin in "iDate a Bad Boy".

* Martin Querly of ''[[Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide]]'' is this. In fact, he gets so into talking that someone's able to put a cardboard cutout in front of him and he won't even notice.

** This trait apparently runs in the family, since his sister is the same exact way.

** It may be worth noting that there's at least one live version of the song which [[Keep Circulating the Tapes|floats around on the filesharing networks]] which shows that the band themselves can't always get it right in their own performances.

*** IIRC, there's an entire verse to the song that appears in the CD booklet that is never actually sung in the song... So apparently, they didn't even get it right ''in the studio'', either.

** For that matter, the verses of "White and Nerdy" tend towards this, albeit due to the type of rap that Weird Al is parodying. Reportedly, the CD version was sped up, and Weird Al then spent several months [[Incredibly Lame Pun|getting up to speed]] before putting it in his concert lineup.

** Also "Jerry Springer" which is a parody of "One Week" above.

** The Scared Weird Little Guys' version has a section talking about South-East-Asia:

{{quote|I've been to Peking Nanking Chunking Hiroshima, Shengyang Kwaiyang Pyongyang Yokohama, Hang Chow Weng Chow Fu Chow the Gold Coast, Shanghai Samurai Lum Thai Fukiama, Hong Kong King Kong Yang Tong Sukiyaki, Nagasaki Hirosaki Takasaki I should be so lucky...}}

* Several of Lady Sovereign's songs on ''Public Warning'' show off her ability to do this. The title song even has her just saying huge incomprehensible sentences.

* Big Punisher was known for this in his earlier material. Not only did his Puerto Rican accent easily lend itself to this trope, his lyrics were positively tongue twisting. The song "Twinz" (a remake of "Deep Cover") is particularly memorable:

* Rubber Biscuit, by The Chips (and later covered by [[The Blues Brothers]], with Elwood performing the vocals). Most of it is all nonsensical scat singing, but for Elwood, it plays to a strength [[Dan Aykroyd]] has—his ability to motormouth off massive screeds of lyrics or words. The scat singing is interspersed with just as nonsensical stories from the author's week, e.g., "the other day, I had a coooool water sandwich, and a sunday go to meeting bun. Bow bow bow."

* The Meat Puppets' "Sam", where each verse is basically one run-on sentence without any pauses for breath.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ6UwkXmSDo City of Cold] by Raised Fist and a few others of theirs, what's more impressive is that, being Swedish, english isn't their native language.

* The [[Something Something Leonard Bernstein|mostly unintelligible]] chorus to Letters To Cleo's "Here And Now". For the record it's actually "The comfort of a knowledge of a rise above the sky above could never parallel the challenge of an acquisition in the here and now".

* The chorus to Stone Temple Pilots' "Trippin' On A Hole In A Paper Heart" involves Scott Weiland singing "So keep your bankroll lottery eat your salad day deathbed motorcade" with no pauses whatsoever.

* The Deathray Davies "Plan to Stay Awake". Possibly it's referenced with the line: "Never though I'd get this far". [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2bSb0n_lgg Take a listen]

** That's nothing. Try listening to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNUvQb2qMg8 "I Know Where You Sleep."] It's difficult to keep up on the album, if you're singing along. When she's singing live, though, she goes ''faster''.

* [[The Veronicas]], Untouched as an example of this trope.

* The conclusion of the studio version of "Une Valse à Mille Temps" by [[Jacques Brel]], which has to be heard to be believed. Even during concerts he was unable to match the speed of this studio delivery.

* The songs "Emancipate Myself" by Thirsty Merc:

{{quote|[[The Police|Every breath you t..]] As if I'd sing that song to you, you probably think you deserve it at the present time. But if only you knew how you treated me when we were together then you might understand.

Now I know our lives are changing and I've seen it coming for a while too, don't get me wrong.

And I've been going outta town baby it's gonna happen more, we gotta be strong but now }}

 

 

* In the musical ''[[The Witches of Eastwick]]'', Suki begins the song ''Words, Words, Words'' as a shy little stutterer. By the time she's halfway through the song, she's speedtalking/-singing.

* The [[Modern Major-General]]'s song in [[Gilbert and Sullivan]]'s ''[[The Pirates of Penzance]]'' gets a lampshade hung on by the end, with everyone excitedly calling for the General to do it ''even faster!''

** "The Speed Test" from ''Thoroughly Modern Millie'', which is to the tune of the Ruddigore song. And then they do a double-time reprise.

 

 

== Tabletop RPG ==

* The harpies (who are, unlike their mythical counterpart, anthropomorphic bats) in the Swedish game ''Gondica'' have a language that lacks stops between words, basically consisting of really meaningful shrieking. When they learn to speak the languages of non-harpies, they have a very hard time to actually make pauses, and a typical harpy quote is said to be "WhatdoyoumeanImspeakingtooquickly?".

 

== Video Games ==

* Marine the Raccoon from ''[[Sonic Rush Series|Sonic Rush Adventure]]'' is something of a Motor Mouth, while fitting in every single piece of [[Land Down Under|Australian slang]] ever conceived.

** Cubot from ''[[Sonic Colors]]'', especially near the end.

*** The game offers ''multiple'' paragon/renegade interrupts aimed at shutting him up.

** Tali also has a tendency to talk very quickly when she's nervous which she describes as being a defensive mechanism. If the player decided to pursue her romantically, her flustered, rapid-fire delivery is made very apparent and she acknowledges it this as being a defense mechanism in the moments that {{spoiler|lead up to the consummation of Shephard and Tali's relationship}}.

* Crunch Bandicoot tends to speak like this in the Radical Entertainment ''[[Crash Bandicoot]]'' games.

* Rufus from ''[[Street Fighter IV]]'' doesn't know when to shut up. Just look at his win quotes—while everyone else has up to two lines of text in big, easy-to-read font, Rufus has ''three'' lines of font ''half the size'' text that positively stuffs the text box to the point of bursting.

* [[Chrono Trigger|Lucca]]'s [[Cameo]] in ''[[Xenogears]]''.

* Colette in ''[[Wild ARMs 2]]''.

* ''[[Ancient Domains of Mystery|ADOM]]'' has quicklings. They spew out their chat lines without any spaces. That's as close to this trope as it's possible in a roguelike. It might be justified - in the game, a "speed" value is assigned to all beings. The base speed of a player character of any race is 100. A basic quickling's is 400, and it only goes up with rank.

* ''[[Pokémon Black and White]]'' has an odd example with the character N. In his first appearance, your childhood friend comments on how he talks too fast, but his actual speech is normally spaced, even with ellipses. In-game, his dialogue text just appears really fast, even when you have the message scrolling speed set to the maximum.

* Tobli from ''[[Final Fantasy X-2]]'' is definitely this.

* Merrill from ''[[Dragon Age II]]''. Several times throughout the game she says "I'm babbling again. [[Shutting Up Now|I'll shut up now.]]"

** The series may be full of [[Crowning Music of Awesome]] right down to their original soundtrack but wait when you hear the vocal arrangements by various doujin circles out there especially [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-N6YxVgjok these] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HlgDj-dQpY two]. Oh goodness!!! Have I ever been [[More Dakka|machinegunned]] with words from ever listening to them!

** This is also an ability noted for all [[Witch Species|magicians]] under [[Magic Librarian|Patchouli's]] entry in ''[[All There in the Manual|Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]''. The girl in question has a little trouble with that due to [[Ill Girl|her asthma]], though.

* [[Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures|DMFA]] / ''Abel's Story'': Abel appears to have acquired a [http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Ab_059.php new] [http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Ab_060.php friend]. And in the main story, Regina has exhibited this [http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_989.php on occasion].

* [[Genki Girl|Kiki]] from ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' when she gets a little too excited.

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YEAHHEREWEGOCANISEESOMEI.D.THANKSWOULDYOULIKETHATGIFTWRAPPEDYOURTOTALCOMESTOSOMEBIGASSNUMBERDON'TSHOOTYOUREYE-OUTMAN. }}

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* Miriam from ''[[Out There]]''

GeelookatthetimeIcantbelievehowlateitisIdontthinktheresanypointinlookingforanymorestuffgottagonowbye! }}

* ''[[Bob and George]]'' [http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/010421c Quickman] <s> on a sugar high</s> in his natural environment.

 

 

'''Porn Girl:''' Yeah. Uh huh. When someone asks "how are you doing", they don't actually care. }}

* [[Nigahiga|Ryan Higa]] is probably the crowning example of this trope. Especially in his parody advertisements like the "Big Bouncing Inflatable Green Ball".

* [[Nintendo Capri Sun]], while not normally a Motor Mouth, decides to try it in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ay9OnLBCrWM this video].

* Randy Hayes from [[My Way Entertainment]], better known to the internet as '''"OH YEAH IT'S THE JUGGERNAUT BITCH AND IMMA WHOOP THE SHIT OUTCHA ASS, BITCHASS MUTHAFUCKA!"'''

* As the title would suggest, this is a staple of ''[[Zero Punctuation]].'' Yahtzee edits out his pauses to achieve this effect.

* Ruby Rose in ''[[RWBY]]'' tends to ramp up into a full motormouth when excited.

 

== Western Animation ==

* Pepper Potts in ''[[Iron Man: Armored Adventures]]''.

* The radio from ''[[The Brave Little Toaster]]'' is a chatterbox who usually phrases his dialogue as radio broadcasts about Teddy Roosevelt.

** The baby eagle in ''My Favorite Duck''.

** Charlie Dog - topped by a scene in "A Hound for Trouble", while posing as a waiter at an Italian restaurant. A customer asks for a [[As Long as It Sounds Foreign|dish with a really long name]], building up to a potential [[Bluff the Impostor]] moment.

{{quote|'''Charlie:''' I'm-a sorry. We no got-a la bellatiaradelunocacciatoritetrozinacurobudemarinaradelapiazaregutinaemuzarellafina. *[[No Fourth Wall|Turns to the audience]], [[Subverted Trope|blows raspberry]]*}}

** Yakko, aka Mr. United States Canada Mexico Panama, also fits this trope.

* A ''[[Family Guy]]'' cutaway shows that Cleveland was a fast-talking auctioneer, until a totem pole fell on his head, causing his current slow speech pattern.

* Pinkie Pie from ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' is very prone to this:

{{quote|"Isn't this exciting? Are you excited? Because I'm excited! I've never been so excited! Well, except for the time I saw you walking into town and I went ''[[GASP]]!'', but I mean really, who can top that?"}}

* On the NSA profiles on ''[[The Incredibles]]'' DVD, the deceased heroine Blazestone was this.

* Everybody in the ''[[Dexter's Laboratory|Dexters Laboratory]]'' episode "Mock 5", seeing how it makes fun of ''[[Speed Racer]]'''s English dub.

* Niblet's little sister Rebound in the 2010 ''[[Pound Puppies]]'' series.

* ''[[The Legend of Korra]]'' gives us Ikki, is the middle child of three airbending children between a [[Little Miss Snarker]] older sister and a [[Cloudcuckoolander]] younger brother, but is the more energetic and talkative of the them to the point it annoys their father, Tenzin, and his rival, Tarllok. She never stops.

 

== Real Life ==

** What's even better is that, for [[April Fools' Day]], Yahtzee posted a video of his character sitting by a slow-ticking grandfather clock, while slowly reciting a few lines from from John Keats' poem ''Ode To Melancholy''.

* [[Benedict Cumberbatch]], though even he has some trouble keeping up with his character's lines in ''[[Sherlock]]''.

* Sir Ron Lionheart. See for example [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQkwI5bOEfI here].

* Watch a Policy/Cross-X Debate round. Try to understand what they're saying. On some national circuits, speeches sound less like words and more like a ''low hum''.

 

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