Non Sequitur Thud: Difference between revisions

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* 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.}}

** This comes from the "auras" (hallucinations) that usually precede brain "episodes" such as seizures, aneurysms or, rarely, a stroke. "Smelling toast" is one of the most common olfactory hallucinations and has become a meme of its own. ([http://www.atforumz.com/archive/index.php/t-222393.html See this page for more information.]) It's possible that a head injury caused just such an event.

** The line was also used in ''[[M*A*S*H (television)]]''... not to mention [[Older Than They Think|just about every war movie made before the advent of color film]].

** The line was also used in ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|M*A*S*H]]''... not to mention [[Older Than They Think|just about every war movie made before the advent of color film]].

*** ''[[M*A*S*H (television)]]'' also featured an episode where Klinger got nailed in the head and spent several minutes wandering around speaking gibberish ''in Arabic''. (If it was the episode "Dear Sigmund", it's strongly implied that Klinger was only pretending to have a head injury in yet another scheme to get discharged from the Army.)

*** ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|M*A*S*H]]'' also featured an episode where Klinger got nailed in the head and spent several minutes wandering around speaking gibberish ''in Arabic''. (If it was the episode "Dear Sigmund", it's strongly implied that Klinger was only pretending to have a head injury in yet another scheme to get discharged from the Army.)

* 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.

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** After his regeneration into the 10th doctor:

{{quote|I've got something to say... something I have to tell you... something important, what was it? No hold on, hold on, hold on... Oh! I know! Merry Christmas! *thud*}}

** {{spoiler|Flesh!}}Eleven in The Almost People utters a few catchphrases of previous doctors, in their original voices. He also gets them a bit confused

** {{spoiler|Flesh!}}Eleven in "The Almost People" utters a few catchphrases of previous doctors, in their original voices. He also gets them a bit confused

* 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!''

* In the ''[[Married... with Children]]'' episode ''Cheese, Cues and Blood'', Al sells all of his blood to 9 blood banks in order to pay a man because Kelly has started working at the bar, shooting pool. Al spouted much nonsense throughout the rest of the episode, and at one point, Jefferson mentions that the former air-guitared to ''It's a Small World''.

* In the ''[[Married... with Children]]'' episode "Cheese, Cues and Blood", Al sells all of his blood to 9 blood banks in order to pay a man because Kelly has started working at the bar, shooting pool. Al spouted much nonsense throughout the rest of the episode, and at one point, Jefferson mentions that the former air-guitared to ''It's a Small World''.

{{quote|"[[This Page Will Self-Destruct|This pig will self-destruct in 5 seconds]]!"}}

* 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:

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{{quote|'''Tori''': And so I'm not a captain... I'm a... pretty little salmon... (''thud'')}}

* 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.

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