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A character has suffered an [[Amusing Injuries|amusing injury]], usually of the blunt force to the head variety. Dazed, he will say something really random and [[Non Sequitur]], normally either before going out like a light or [[Waking Non Sequitur|after being awakened]]. It seems that with proper application of blunt trauma, the human skull becomes a radio receiver tuned to a random station somewhere in the world. Three [[Stock Phrases|common phrases]] used are "[[How Many Fingers?]] am I holding up?" (helpful bystander), "I don't wanna go to school mommy" and "Anybody get the license number of that truck?" (victim)

Overlaps with [[Intoxication Ensues]] when caused by drugs or alcohol.

 

 

The corresponding situation where a character says something random while regaining consciousness, is [[Waking Non Sequitur]]. If a character says something random while unconscious, that's [[Talking in Your Sleep]].

 

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPRscxQZs8E One commercial] has a football player get hit a little too hard. The coach makes sure his marbles are all there:

'''Player:''' "You don't understand! I'm [[Batman]]!" }}

** The player then goes on to act like Batman for the rest of the commercial as the sales pitch is going on.

 

** Once when Kuno hit Ranma with his sword he said "I'm a little teapot short and stout".

* In the ''[[Digimon Adventure 02]]'' episode "Guardian Angel", Andromon hits Pegasusmon, causing the latter to de-digivolve and land in TK's arms. When he lands, Patamon says "I'll have two cheeseburgers and a large order of fries".

 

* In one issue of ''[[Donald Duck]]'' comics, Donald's nephews cut him loose from a hanging vine that had entangled his leg. Don ends up landing head first on a rock, and as Huey, Dewey, and Louie check on him, he babbles "Yes, Mr. President, I got the license number of that broccoli... it wasn't armed..."

** [[Don Rosa]]'s "Incident at McDuck Tower" had Donald fall in a very cartoonish manner from a building, finally landing in a display in a grocery store. As a clerk helps him out he asks "St. Peter... why is heaven full of parsley?"

* A common gag in [[Nodwick]] when the gang (usually [[Butt Monkey|Nodwick]] himself) sustains head injuries.

 

'''Calvin:''' Darkness? It is I, [[Pajama Sam]]! I have come to vanquish you! }}

 

* In the football movie ''[[Little Giants]],'' a kid gets tackled, and mumbles "Did I pass the spelling test?" before losing consciousness.

* In ''[[Space Jam]]'', after getting knocked for a loop during the Big Game, Daffy Duck clings to one of the Monstars and babbles "But Mommy, I don't want to go to school today! I want to stay home and bake cookies with you."

* ''[[Hot Shots]]'' features Jon Cryer slamming headfirst into an ambulance door. When he's congratulated for showing up, he says, "Thank you, Andre. I'll have the veal piccata." Splat. Similarly, in the sequel, Charlie Sheen gets one: "That's right, Lindsay, it's 20 minutes past the hour, and now here's the Buckinghams with 'Kind of a Drag'." Thud.

* A rare non-comedic example occurs in ''[[Walk the Line]]''. As he loses consciousness after collapsing onstage, Johnny mutters, "Fortunately, I keep my feathers numbered for just such an occasion" (an old [[Looney Tunes|Foghorn Leghorn]] line).

* In ''[[Oliver and Company]]'', Einstein does this during a diversion by Dodger and his gang. He bumps into Jenny's limo and says, "Go on, Sparky! Find Bumper!"

* Dark Helmet from ''[[Spaceballs]]'' when he does this after the ship comes out of Ludicrous Speed, and Helmet - who was not restrained in any capacity - gets catapulted forward and smashes his giant helmet-covered head into a computer terminal, smashing it, his helmet, and his glasses. When asked for orders after he got up, he goes, "Well, why don't we take a five minute break? Smoke if you got 'em!" and collapses. It's actually a subversion, since what he was saying made ''perfect sense'', even after the head trauma.

** Later in the film, while Lone Star and company are lost on the desert planet, Barf gasps "Oh, waiter... [[Check, Please!]]!" before collapsing from exhaustion.

* ''[[A Kid in King Arthur's Court]]'':

'''Sir Kane:''' "Just a little off the top. Keep the sideburns." }}

* In ''[[Veggie Tales|Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie]]'', Bob and Mr. Asparagus utter these after their van hits a rock and the air bags deploy in their faces:

'''Mr. Asparagus:''' Smells like... Wisconsin! }}

** Not so random: that line is probably an allusion to a scene from ''Field of Dreams'':

''No, it's Iowa.'' }}

** The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z8i7ALYTmc "outtakes"] include alternate versions of this scene with even-more-random lines.

** Though it's hardly a non sequitur in context - more like a [[Catch Phrase]].

* ''[[Scary Movie|Scary Movie 4]]'' While attempting to save their van from a mob, Tom gets socked in the jaw.

* In ''[[Robots]]'', Mr. Bigweld says several odd things after being hit in the head with a telephone.

'''Bigweld:''' [[Shout-Out|Daaaiiisy... Daaaiiiisyyy...]] [[2001: A Space Odyssey|give me your answer doooo...]] }}

* Q in ''[[Tower of Terror]]'', after he receives a shock.

* ''[[The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother|The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes Smarter Brother]]''. After receiving a (giant) [[Groin Attack|boot to the groin]], Moriarty's unnamed assistant (Roy Kinnear) calls out "Oh taxi!" and collapses.

* In ''[[Silent Movie (film)|Silent Movie]]'' when the studio chief falls victim to an unexpected [[Slapstick]] gag, he responds with "Who am I? Where am I? Who ordered the veal cutlet?"

** In [[Babes in Toyland]], the villain konks Stan over the head... Stan looks confused, turns to Ollie, and says "Did he hit me?" Ollie nods, and Stan collapses.

 

* Happens in a chapter of one of [[Tamora Pierce]]'s ''[[Tortall Universe|Protector of the Small]]'' books, appropriately titled 'Tilt Silly.' Kel received a massive blow while tilting and winds up giggling to her former, stern training master.

'''Wyldon:''' Go lie down, Mindelan. You're tilt-silly. }}

** Different books have it being different things, but he always has a non-sequitur thud. She beats him up multiple times, and he usually has one each time.

* In the seventh book, ''[[Captain Underpants]]'' lands on his head. When Harold and George rush to his side to see if he's okay, he mutters "Mommy, my train went swimming in the piano."

* Tobias smacks into a window during a mission in one ''[[Animorphs]]'' book. The rest of the mission is interspersed with his random comments about ''[[Clue (game)|Clue]].''

* In the ''[[Star Trek: New Frontier]]'' novel "Martyr", Commander Shelby had just been badly injured in a planetside attack, but she's well enough to take over command in a fight. After a crazy (but ingenious) plan to use the local star as a deadly weapon, she congratulates everyone, then stops and yells "Oh look! The colors!" before passing out again.

** In ''Imzadi II,'' written by the same author, who is one of the creators of [[Space Cases]], Lwaxana is stuck and delivers the quote below from that show.

 

* In one episode of ''[[Police Squad!]]'', "The Champ" gets knocked out during a boxing match, and when his manager asks him "How many fingers am I holding up?", The Champ answers "Thursday" and passes out.

* In ''[[Veronica Mars]]'', Sheriff Lamb murmurs "I smell bread" just before he passes out after a suspect has hit him with a baseball bat. This example gives the trope a more dramatic and poignant spin: {{spoiler|Lamb, a regular series antagonist, is lying in a pool of blood when he mutters the phrase, and later in the episode we find out he has died from his injuries.}}

* In ''[[Hogan's Heroes]]'', a scheme to rescue Tiger from the Gestapo nearly goes bad when the Russian man they have playing Himmler hits his head on a pipe and collapses. He abruptly sits up a moment later, salutes, and says, "Long live our glorious leader, the Czar!" before passing out again.

* In ''[[Doctor Who]]'', physical trauma (especially post-regenerative stress) often causes the Doctor to get mixed up and refer to former companions and adventures.

Why is a mouse when it spins? }}

* Lester in ''[[Beakman's World]]'', far to many times to count. Sometimes he even ''initiates'' the [[Amusing Injuries|amusing injury]] that leads to the thud. For example, hitting himself with a gavel, then yelling "Sustained!" ''Thud!''

* The android Kryten from ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' has suffered a couple of these. In "White Hole", after being used as a battering ram, he responds "I'm fine thank you, Susan" when Lister asks if he's all right. Later, in ''Quarantine'', he gets a fire-axe embedded in his back, causing him to spout gibberish and ram his head into a convenient pillar in order to fix it:

** What really sells this is Mulder's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKciFkoykYA reaction].

* In an early episode of ''[[The A-Team]]'', Face takes one to the... well, face. When Hannibal asks how many fingers he's holding up, the bleary commando volunteers "Gargh... Blue... TREE!"

* Effy in ''[[Skins]]'', immediately upon being shot up with an overdose of (probably) heroin:

* A non-cranial injury version of this trope occurred during the ''[[Babylon 5]]'' episode "Parliament of Dreams", in which Londo Mollari spouts a bunch of nonsense and collapses, being utterly smashed. The scene is also an ''epic'' [[Chewing the Scenery]] moment for the Centauri ambassador.

'''Vir:''' That too. }}

* [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Consciously]] used by the titular ME in ''[[Crossing Jordan]]''. Trying to ignore that she'd been diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, Jordan eventually suffers a seizure at work. When she comes around, Doctor Macy checks her mental status with the 'how many fingers?' test, and Jordan pranks him by slurring "Friiiday!"

* On ''[[Space Cases]]'', the android Thelma has been sent over to retrieve a data crystal from another ship with automated defenses, which have fired at her. When the crew expresses the desire to examine it...

* A scene-long one occurs on ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'' when Rodney returns to Atlantis {{spoiler|hopped up on the Wraith enzyme.}} His rant is long and confusing, especially for Weir, who doesn't know any of the context. This quickly turns into a [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]] when it's later revealed that he's in serious danger.

* ''[[Firefly]]'', after [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAGtq7XktnY Jayne is drugged]:

'''Simon:''' *regretfully* I ''told'' him he should lie down... }}

* On the [[Discovery Channel]] documentary ''Two Weeks In Hell'', a would-be Green Beret became disoriented during an exercise. When asked if he knew where he was, his answer was "Hash browns?" at which point they wisely stuck him in a truck going back to the base's medical station.

* In the first episode of ''[[Black Books]]'', Manny accidentally swallows the Little Book of Calm and spends the rest of the day as a Jesus-figure spouting extracts from the book at anyone who'll listen. When he gets punched in the face by a skinhead he jumbles them up;

* From Chuck:

'''Jeff:''' [tranquilizer dart] ...I think my water just broke.[Thud!] }}

* ''[[Glee]]'': April tricks Kurt into drinking cough syrup containing alcohol. When Emma questions him about it, he stares at her and says "Oh, [[Bambi]]... [http://vimeo.com/7768835 I cried so hard when those hunters shot your mommy!]" before throwing up on her shoes. It doesn't help that Emma ''does'' [[Deer in the Headlights|look like a scared deer most of the time]].

* In one episode of ''[[Seinfeld]]'', Kramer gets kicked in the head by Crazy Joe Davola. He happened to be wearing a helmet at the time, but still ended up with a concussion. The next time we see him, he has one pant leg on, only shaved the right side of his face, and is completely unaware of both. The first real non-sequitur however, is when he yells "YO-YO MA!" in mid-conversation with Jerry and George. After that he answers the phone speaking [[Gratuitous Italian|Italian-sounding gibberish]].

* In an episode of ''Victorious'', Tori ends up becoming extremely woozy after giving too much blood, and while trying to perform in the school play ends up speaking gibberish while trying to speak her lines.

* In one episode of ''[[WKRP in Cincinnati]]'', Andy Travis gets his by some flying debris and is knocked unconscious. The first thing he says to anyone when they bring him around is, "Has anyone seen my dog?" Andy doesn't have a dog.

 

* Pro Wrestler Ric Flair will often take a few steps and act completely normal, maybe even letting out a "Woooo!" before suddenly collapsing face first after receiving an especially strong hit. Known as the Flair Flop.

* Another funny example came from Perry Saturn. After being clocked in the head with a frying pan in a back-stage vignette, he screamed out, "YAHTZEE! You're welcome!" and went out cold.

** That was actually his gimmick for quite some time. He also began carrying a mop to the ring with him as his "valet", even choosing it over Terri Runnels.

 

* A recurring line when people are knocked out in the first ''[[Discworld]]'' video game is "Did anyone get the number of that donkey cart?" This actually plays into a puzzle, as later on in the game you {{spoiler|1=get a donkey arrested by giving a recently KOed assassin its registration.}}

* In the third ''[[Sly Cooper]]'' game, after Carmelita shoots Muggshot repeatedly with her [[Stun Gun]], he mumbles, "Mudda, is that you? I'm sorry... I didn't know they were yours.." before toppling unconscious.

** ''[[Tales of Monkey Island]]'', shortly before {{spoiler|Guybrush dies from a sword to the gut}}:

* In ''[[Psychonauts]]'', the [[Comically Serious]] Sasha Nein has the misfortune of being clonked on the head by one of his own [[Ghost in the Machine|Censors]], who believe him to be a dangerous thought. He mumbles dazedly every time he gets clobbered.

* From ''[[Mother 3]]'', just before a ([[Nightmare Fuel|rather unnaturally terrifying]]) maid robot explodes in a small mushroom cloud. The gibberish it spouts in full:

* In ''[[Marathon Infinity]]'' when {{spoiler|you deactivate Durandal in the level Hang Brain}} there are some mighty gibberish when you read one of the computer terminals. Go [http://marathon.bungie.org/story/hangbrain.html here] and scroll down to "Hang Brain (Terminal 1: 1st Message)" to read it.

* ''[[Metal Gear Solid]] 2'' gives us the {{spoiler|malfunctioning Robo-Colonel}} and the infamous line "I need scissors, 61!"

** The full line is one of the weirdest things ever heard.

* After being short-circuited by [[Villainous Harlequin]] Dimentio, malfunctioning mechanical dragon Fracktail from [[Super Paper Mario]] tries to reboot his system. It doesn't work out so well:

** It also appears to be a rather beautiful [[Take That]] aimed at Nintendo's competitor Microsoft.

* In ''[[Beyond Good & Evil (video game)|Beyond Good and Evil]]'', when you first return to IRIS HQ with Double H, he tries to deliver a report of his findings...after spending several days in what appears to be some kind of torture device and in such desperate need of medical attention that you've been given a time limit of less than five minutes. He almost gets there, but rapidly degrades into incoherence before crashing ''through'' a banister onto the couch next to the stairs.

* In the Xbox party game ''Whacked!'', each playable character has their own assortment of quotes that the game randomly chooses for them to say when dying or picking up weapons. One of the characters, Otto, is asleep throughout the entire game. When dying, two of his many quotes are "Avenge me, Spartacus!" or "Please, sir, may I have another?". When grabbing a weapon, he might say "Launch the torpedoes!" or "Seize the castle!".

* ''[[House of the Dead]]: OVERKILL'', in the intro to the "Fetid Waters" chapter, starts as the protagonists crash the motorcycle they were riding on at the end of the previous chapter. Washington gets up just fine, but he has to kick G awake, who mumbles "[[Brick Joke|Stop calling me Gwendolyn]]" before waking up.

* An odd example: In many games featuring [[Deadpool]], such as ''[[Marvel Ultimate Alliance]]'' or ''[[Marvel vs. Capcom]]'' upon being taken out the mouthy merc will issue what would seem non-sequiturs to the other characters but make perfect sense to the player by [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]], such as "You pressed the wrong button!"

** His [[MUGEN]] incarnation does the same thing.

 

* On ''[[Homestar Runner]]'', in the Strong Bad email "[http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail101.html car]", after Strong Bad punches Homestar in the face with his "tricked-out fist", Homestar is [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php/car seen] half-conscious, babbling about pies and pie people.

** Hard to say for sure, but it may be a shout-out to ''[[Weebl and Bob]]''.

 

* Haley sings "I'm Henry the 8th, I am, I am..." after receiving a stunning kick in [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0200.html this] strip of ''[[The Order of the Stick]]''.

** In [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0186.html another strip,] V's Disintegrate spell isn't powerful enough to produce its [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|usual effect]] when cast on a dragon, at least the first time; instead it's stunned and singing "the wheels on the bus go round and round".

** Happens to Belkar in [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0748.html this strip]:

'''Guard:''' That boy got his ass [[RPG Mechanics Verse|knocked back to Basic]]! }}

** It takes a rather dark turn when Lord Manpower's Uncroaked corpse still mutters about "pie..."

** Also, possible [[Fridge Brilliance]], as brain damage can cause synesthesia in some cases.

* Some pretty hilarious ones in ''[[The Last Days of Foxhound]]'', such as Mantis' in [http://gigaville.com/comic.php?id=200 this comic].

** Also an earlier one from Ocelot [http://gigaville.com/comic.php?id=139 here].

* In ''[[Looking for Group]]'', [http://www.lfgcomic.com/page/82 Richard] spouts the following after getting an axe in his head:

* Eddie from ''[[Emergency Exit]]'' talks like this ''all the time''...and it's eventually revealed that {{spoiler|it's because he has a portal ''in his head''. Because he ''[[Body Horror|forced it through his own skull]]'' to keep the villain from getting it.}}

* In ''[[Three Panel Soul]]'': "Jes, get your damn oatmeal off me!"

'''Ken:''' Don't you asking of meaning of the words I said. You already knew because kick ass of course not, damnit! [[Unsound Effect|*Falling*]] }}

* Seen [http://www.webcomicsnation.com/eddurd/everydayheroes/series.php?view=single&ID=167865 here] in ''[[Everyday Heroes]]'' after a particularly vigorous [[Hyperspace Mallet]] attack.

* After ramming a monolith in ''[[Turn Signals on a Land Raider]]'', "Jack" the Land Raider Machine Spirit responds to "how's it going?" with "do you have an appointment"

** Rather earlier, Claire gets one after saying [[I Need a Freaking Drink]] - and [http://www.bitemecomic.com/?p=456 drinking a stein of vampire blood.]

 

* From ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'': "Mommy? Daddy? Sasquatch? Why is the world all spinny and magnets?"

* As well as straight examples with several characters, ''[[AH Dot Com the Series]]'' has a variant where perpetual drunkard Grey Wolf will come out with a statement of this type when prompted for a response but not necessarily pass out.

* In ''[[Comic Fury Werewolf]]'', Cyborg does this during Game 12 after surviving a Mercenary attack during the night. The resulting post is extremely amusing, as he acts as if he's BSoDing and rapidly fires off votes for all of his suspects, before loading up an emulation of a Yeti upon being given a "baby frog".

 

** And later - [groans] "I'm not well, Mum..."

** And then there was the time he got hit so hard, he spent the rest of the episode thinking he was "The Duchess".

'''Daffy:''' ''(dazed)'' ... then the lights went out all ''over'' the world... }}

** ''Rabbit Hood'': "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qtgm5g5Gyo London Bridge is falling down, falling down, falling down, London Bridge is falling down... falling down, falling down... London Bridge is falling down...]"

** In one Wile E. Coyote/Roadrunner cartoon, after the Coyote has been hit by a falling piano, he gets up with a mouth full of piano key "teeth" on which he is able to play a couple of bars of Taps before collapsing.

** Putting the two together, in "Operation: Rabbit" (a rare Bugs vs. Wile E. pairing), at the start, Wile E. erects a door in front of Bugs's hole to declare his intent to eat him. After spending the episode trying and getting clobbered and blown up, he has just enough energy and sanity to repeat the erect-the-door routine. This time, when Bugs answers, Wile E. goes, "Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Mud." Only ''then'' does he collapse.

** In "Russian Rhapsody" after the gremlins sabotage Hitler's plane and they drop it on top of him, after they sing a song he pops up out of the ground laughing and says in a goofy voice "Nazies is the cwaziest peoples".

** Not quite played straight in "[[Duck Amuck]]", because it actually makes sense, [[It Makes Just As Much Sense in Context|but not within the context]]: Daffy quotes Longfellow's ''The Village Blacksmith'' after the artist turns his parachute into an anvil.

With large and sinewy... ''[shell explodes when hit]'' [[Funny Moments (Sugar Wiki)|hAaAnDs...]] }}

** In "Deduce, You Say", another Daffy short, this one with Porky Pig, this little exchange takes place, after Daffy, as [[Sherlock Holmes|Dorlock Holmes]], gets beaten up by the Shropshire Slasher:

'''Daffy:''' (dazed) Elementary, my dear Watkins... Elementary... }}

* In the Disney short ''[[The Prince and the Pauper]],'' Goofy, disguised as an executioner, inadvertently knocks out a weasel guard with his axe while trying to save Donald and the Mickey look-a-like. The weasel guard babbles "Thank you, I had a lovely evening" and kisses Goofy before passing out.

* ''[[A Goofy Movie]]'' had this exchange take place when Goofy and Max were spending a night in the their car:

'''Goofy:''' ... ''*thud*'' ZZZZZ... }}

* The ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' episode "Frankendoodle", when Spongebob and Patrick go to catch "Doodlebob" and end up falling into a pit. While they're down there, Doodlebob drops a wrench on Patrick, and Pat goes "Where's the leak, ma'am?" before falling over. Shortly thereafter, Patrick is hit in the head with a bowling ball, and when Spongebob asks if he's okay, he shouts "Finland!" in response.

* ''[[Jimmy Neutron]]'': Sheen has just been conked on the head, and Jimmy asks "How many fingers am I holding up?" Sheen replies "November?" before passing out.

** Also after Carl falls to the ground:

''[[Subverted Trope|(Giant Chicken shaped Yolkian ship appears)]]'' }}

** In fact, many of Ed's lines are non sequiturs since he has the attention span of buttered toast, wandering off into his own thoughts and coming back to reality to say something off-the-wall.

** Edd, after being in Eddy's Brother's bed-fridge in ''O-Ed Eleven'':

** Eddy has more of those, often mention his granddad.

** Jimmy, after Jonny's house collapses in ''Rent-A-Ed'': Rubber baby buggy bumpers.

** Nazz only got one in ''High Heeled Ed'' after a fence fell on top of her. All she did after that was laugh.

** ''[[Ironic Echo|Uuuuuuunnnnncllllle]]''

* ''[[Total Drama World Tour]]'': "Why is the purple meatball playing the piano?"

'''B''': I'll have the fried pickles. }}

* In an episode of ''[[Family Guy]]'', a Wall Street trader is on the phone to his company relaying some important information about the state of the financial market and is hit on the head by a stray golf ball causing him to say: "The Fed is going to be lowering rates, so take your money out of T-bills and put it all into [blow to the head, suddenly cross-eyed] Waffles! Tasty waffles with lots of syrup!" Cue a scene of Wall Street traders shouting "waffles!" and then, oddly, Japanese traders going crazy screaming "Waffur!".

** Peter does this in ''The Thin White Line'' when he gets hit with too many tranquilizer darts.

'''Peter''': Here, kitty, kitty, kitty... (thud) }}

* Waspinator, of ''[[Beast Wars]]'', gets a long string of this after getting a crate dropped on him:

'''Waspinator''' ''(after getting blasted)'': [[Shout-Out|More than meets the eye]]...'''*thud* ''' }}

* Alfred gets one in an episode of ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]'': after a rough landing in the Bat-plane, he mutters "I claim this land for ''Spain!''" as he stumbles out of the cockpit.

** "Brain, are you all right?" "Yes, Phaedo, but why are you wearing that llama?"

* The Slappy and Skippy cartoons in ''[[Animaniacs]]'' featured this quite a lot.

'''Slappy:''' ...Time for a little sit down, Skippy. }}

** In another after Slappy has been caught in a bus explosion she says to Skippy "Hello Huey, Dewey, and Louie, I haven't seen you since Daisy's Bat Mitzvah".

** In "Osama Bin Laden Has Farty Pants" in a shout out to "Russian Rhapsody" as mentioned above after getting blown up by a stick of dynamite his teeth play like piano keys and he say "Terrorists is the cwasiest peoples".

* In ''[[Dan Vs.]] Technology'', Dan and Chris end up in a car crash on the way to Silicon Valley, making Dan mutter, "[[Ow, My Body Part|It's just my lizards]]. [[Department of Redundancy Department|Rainbows are nature's rainbows]]."

* After being flattened in one epsiode, [[Darkwing Duck]] once popped up and sang, off-key, [[Simon and Garfunkel|"And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson..."]] before falling back on his face.

* Used occasionally in ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]''

* Literally in ''[[The Spectacular Spider-Man]]'': one of Mysterio's bats starts saying "Non sequitur" repeatedly after being attacked (though they tend to throw them around anyway).

** ("The Chips are Down") Jeremie: Hey, Ulrich, how are you? ''[Ulrich tries to snap Jeremie to his senses]''* Because I'm not doing so great. ''[passes out again]''

** ("I'd Rather Not Talk About It") Jim: ''[to Jeremie]'' Yeah, uh, sure how's the other guy?

* Probably one of the few serious examples in the ''[[King of the Hill]]'' episode "Peggy Hill: The Decline and Fall" when Peggy's parachute fails to open and crashes into a field many feet below. Ehen Hank finds her she deliriously says "Hey hey hey, I'm fine!" before passing out.

* [[The Haunted World of El Superbeasto]], after getting clobbered by some retro movie monster, the title character spouts "Fred Savage, is that you?" then gets clobbered again.

* In ''[[The Cleveland Show]]'' episode "The Hurricane!", a tree falls on Cleveland and he temporarily thinks he's Walter Cronkite.

* ''[[Transformers Prime]]'' has a lot of fun with this trope and Agent Fowler when he gets incapacitated. It's happened twice so far, and shows every sign of becoming a running gag.

'''Fowler:''' And beavers, and ducks, and walnuts, and grandma! *Thud* }}

 

* In medicine, doctors or EMTs will assess a patient's mental status by asking four questions: Who are you, where are you, what day is it, and what were you doing (as seen in the Advertising example above). If they answer all four questions appropriately, the patient is alert and oriented times four (A&Ox4). If they answer any of the questions inappropriately, then they have to start looking at reasons for the patient to have an altered mental status (head trauma, shock, blood sugar, drug intoxication, etc). In short, in real life [[Dude, Not Funny|this trope isn't funny at all]] as it implies that the victim may have ''brain damage''.

** People who have problems with the urinary tract, including the kidneys, can more easier be mentally compromised in this manner. It's not uncommon for elderly UTI patients to act this way.

* Extremely dark real life case: in 1919 a boxing match took place between Jack Dempsey and champion Jess Willard. Some people though it was a mismatch, as Willard towered over Dempsey and looked twice his size. (Willard stood close to 6'7 and 250 pounds, Dempsey about 6'1 and 185.) And it ''was'' a mismatch, but not the way people expected. From the opening bell Dempsey swarmed Willard and delivered the single most vicious, brutal, and ruthless beatdown in boxing history. Willard was knocked down 7 times in the first round alone. (The fight went 3 rounds before being stopped.) Willard's list of injuries read more like the results of a car accident: nose completely smashed, jaw broken in seven places, broken ribs, four teeth knocked out, etc. As Willard was carried from the ring to the hospital, those carrying him heard Willard mutter to himself over and over "I have a farm in Iowa and $100,000 in the bank. I have a farm in Iowa and $100,000 in the bank. I have a farm in Iowa..."

 

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