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{{quote| '''Leeron:''' Genetic diversity via sexual reproduction is the key to evolution.<br />
''(confused [[Reaction Shot]] from the Dai-Gurren Brigade)''<br />
'''Leeron:''' ''(makes a heart shape with his fingers)'' [[Layman's Terms|Love makes the world go 'round!]] [[Say It Withwith Hearts|<3]]<br />
"Oh!" "Of course!" }}
** Lordgenome's Head is pretty bad at this too.
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** It's a bit of a running gag that Reed is all too often explaining what a certain [[MacGuffin|plot-relevant piece of machinery]] does rather than actually putting it to use, which causes The Thing endless annoyance, since he's the one doing the heavy lifting when they could be done by now.
** Memorably [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] in [[Secret Wars]] just after the heroes were teleported into deep space by the Beyonder's machines. (Note: At the time of Secret Wars, Captain Marvel was the Monica Rambeau version, Iron Man was [[War Machine (Comic Book)|James Rhodes]] instead of Tony Stark, and the Hulk had Bruce Banner's mind.)
{{quote| '''[[Captain Mar -Vell|Captain Marvel]]:''' H-how'd we get here? I mean, one minute we're checking out this giant whatchamacallit in Central Park, then *POOF* the Final Frontier!<br />
'''[[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Mr. Fantastic]]:''' This much I can tell you, Captain Marvel--This device apparently caused sub-atomic particle disassociation, reducing us, as we entered, to proto-matter, which it stored until it teleported us here, to preset coordinates in space, where it reassembled us inside a self-generated life-support environment!<br />
'''[[Incredible Hulk|Hulk]]:''' That's obvious Richards!<br />
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* The Caged Demonwolf from ''[[Empowered (Comic Book)|Empowered]]'', with lots of [[Added Alliterative Appeal]]. (''"Like unto 80s action-cinema icon Michael Dudikoff, be you a fabled [[Ninja]] American, oh jingoistic jackanapes?"'')
** His [[Imagine Spot|Imagine Spots]] are readily identified because it carries over to ''everyone's'' dialogue (even mid-ravishing).
* Mammoth Mogul of the ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (Comic Bookcomics)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' comic is known for this, to the point that when told Mogul wants to talk with him, Sonic prays that he has a sore throat as he's got other things to do that day.
* One of the Kingpin's lieutenants speaks like this in ''[[Daredevil]]'': Born Again. Like the [[Sin City]] example above, this was ''[[Self Plagiarism|also written by]]'' [[Frank Miller]]. It predates it by a number of years, but still.
* In ''Major Bummer'', one of the people affected by EEMs develops an extremely advanced brain (so advanced that his head balloons to gigantic size to hold it), but this has the side effect of making his already vast command of the English language utterly incomprehensible to all but the most astute of listeners, and even then only those armed with a dictionary.
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* French comic book ''[[Achille Talon]]'' could have practically defined this trope. The [[Character Title|hero]] , a fat ''bourgeois'', adds verbosity to pedantry and pretentiousness to gullibility in an [[Hurricane of Euphemisms|incredible]] [[Hurricane of Puns|verbal]] [[Language Tropes|creativeness]].
* This is a prominent gimmick of [[Batman|The Penguin]] in almost all of his incarnations.
* In ''[[All Fall Down (Comic Book)|All Fall Down]]'', AIQ Squared suffers from this. He can't help it, it's in his programming.
 
 
== Non-canonical material created by enthusiasts of particular media (Fanfic) ==
* Dennis in ''[[The Luck of Dennis St. Michel, Viscount Stokington (Fanfic)|The Luck of Dennis St Michel Viscount Stokington]]'' does this a ''lot,'' even when [[Hypocritical Humor|decrying the same habit]] in his nemesis.
{{quote| "The ragged figure looming in the dusky storm-light bore little resemblance to the pompous young naif who delighted in using a type or kind of sesquipedalian loquaciousness to mock his foes. In truth, I had found his book-learning pretentious; I know a pretty word or two, but do not feel the need to flaunt them at every interval."}}
* Gohan in ''[[Dragon Ball Abridged]]'' delves into this occasionally. Piccolo usually responds with "NEEEEEEEEEERD!!" (The irony there is that in the original, Piccolo was the one with a tendency towards pompous speech patterns.)
* In one of Katieforsythe's [[Sherlock Holmes]] fanfictions Watson actually uses the word sesquipedalian to describe Holmes.
* The Hungarian Matrix abridged series ''Vektor'' has a particularly beautiful example from Konrad Lorentz - AKA the Architect - delivered in [[Creepy Monotone]]. Neon's response is a [[Flat What]].
* Octa in [[The Surprising Adventures of a Glaceon In Unova (Fanfic)|The Surprising Adventures of a Glaceon Inin Unova]] talks like this a lot.
 
 
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* Mr. Ray from ''[[Finding Nemo]]'': "Optical orbits up front. And remember, we keep our supraesophageal ganglion to ourselves. That means you, Jimmy."
{{quote| "Aw, man!"}}
* Wordy villain Cat R. Waul in ''[[An American Tail]]: Fievel Goes West'' is often wont to spit out long lines of English loquaciousness, and is often forced to describe his intent in simpler terms. He's voiced by [[John Cleese (Creator)|John Cleese]]. Coincidence?... No.
 
 
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'''Hellboy:''' What?<br />
'''Krauss:''' Ze central ganglion... Shoot it in ze head! }}
* [[Meaningful Name|Ulysses]] Everett McGill speaks almost entirely like this in ''[[O Brother, Where Art Thou?]]?'', as does villain [[Eyepatch of Power|"Big Dan" Teague]].
** At least in McGill's case, it's inverted in that the story makes it patently obvious that Everett is using the big words because he's ''trying'' to sound smarter, and because he ''does'' think he's smarter than his two less-inclined companions.
* V of ''[[V for Vendetta]]'' introduces himself like this, complete with [[Added Alliterative Appeal|oodles of alliteration.]] He calms down eventually, but still speaks very intelligently. It's pretty epic, and implies that somebody pillaged a thesaurus a few times, [[Captain Obvious|specifically,]] the sections of a thesaurus between the letters "U" and "W".
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* Hermione Granger in ''[[Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire]]''. One of the many reasons why the script was so awful is that it appears when writing Hermione's lines, they wrote them out normally before getting out a thesaurus and changing all the words to make her sound smart. Examples include "Viktor's more of a physical being. I mean, he's not particularly loquacious"; "Again obvious though potentially problematic". This isn't present in the other films though.
* In ''[[The Last Boy Scout]]'', the two heroes are getting pummeled by an unusually verbose Mook's large companion, leading [[Deadpan Snarker|Bruce Willis's character]] to exclaim, "Shit, we're being beat up by the inventor of Scrabble!"
* Can't forget ''[[I, Robot (Filmfilm)|I Robot]]''. Dr. Calvin is very much like this in the beginning, though she sort of thaws out.
{{quote| '''Detective Del Spooner:''' So, Dr. Calvin, what exactly do you do around here?<br />
'''Susan Calvin:''' My general fields are advanced robotics and psychiatry. Although, I specialize in hardware-to-wetware interfaces in an effort to advance U.S.R.'s robotic anthropomorphization program.<br />
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'''Detective Del Spooner:''' Now wasn't that easier to say?<br />
'''Susan Calvin:''' Not really. No. }}
* In ''[[Necessary Roughness (Filmfilm)|Necessary Roughness]]'' the coach is laid out with chest pains. He asks his doctor what he has:
{{quote| '''Doctor''': Hiatal Hernia. ''[describes his symptoms here]''<br />
'''Gennaro''': Well, is it fatal?<br />
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{{quote| ''Look! There's a rhythmic ceremonial ritual coming up!''}}
* The sleazy, pseudo-intellectual wannabe [[Southern-Fried Genius]] crook played by [[Tom Hanks]] in the [[Coen Brothers]] version of ''[[The Lady Killers]]''.
* The [[Coneheads]]' speech is a heavy mixture of this and [[Call a Rabbit Aa Smeerp]].
* ''[[No Strings Attached]]'': Used quite a bit in the jokes of the doctors.
* ''[[The Muppets|Muppet]] Classic Theater'' featured a particularly multiloquent gendarme in the included interpretation of "The Supreme Potentate's Neoteric Habiliments".
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** Also used in ''Dealing with Dragons'' of the same series, in regards to a book on the Caves of Fire and Night. At the end, Morwen says something about how the magic had worked, and Cimorene exclaims, "Just the way that impossible book says!" and Morwen responds, "Demontmorency? Yes, I suppose he is fairly impossible."
{{quote| "Thus these Caves of Fire and Night are, in some sense, indivisible, whereas the Caves of Chance are, by contrast, individual, though it is preposterous to claim that these descriptions are true of either group of caves in their entirety..."}}
* Ax gets into this on ''[[Animorphs (Literature)|Animorphs]]'', on account of being an alien.
* Walter "Ramses" Emerson in Elizabeth Peters' ''[[Amelia Peabody]]'' series tends to embody this trope through his younger years, though he (mostly) grows out of it by around age 20, as stated by Amelia in "Guardian of the Horizon". Amelia herself could actually fit this trope in many regards, although it may be more her old-fashioned manner of narration than excessive verbosity.
* The infamous ''[[The Eye of Argon]]'' uses absurdly obscure words whenever possible, sometimes whimsicorically making them up outright.
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* In [[Neil Gaiman]]'s ''[[Neverwhere]]'', Mr. Croup seems practically incapable of pronouncing any ''bon mot'' of less than polysyllabic length, much to the confusion of Mr. Vandemar. At one point he describes himself and Mr. Vandemar as having "funny clothes and convoluted circumlocutions", to which Mr Vandemar responds indignantly "I haven't got a circumlo..." Mr. Croup explains that the word means "a way of speaking around something. A digression. Verbosity."
** This was, however, a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] for them due to the particular circumlocution they were employing there.
** There's a heroic example with Mr. Ibis in ''[[American Gods (Literature)|American Gods]]'', which makes sense, since he's Thoth, the Egyptian god of wisdom. The protagonist, Shadow does this occasionally, in moments indicating that he's a [[Genius Bruiser]] and not just [[Dumb Muscle]] (i.e. referring to sleight-of-the-hand magic as prestidigitation).
* In the ''[[Young Wizards]]'' series, the wizardry manuals are given to [[Magi Babble|insanely complicated language]]; it's mind-boggling how an eleven-year-old girl can even hope to understand it. "Temporospatial claudication" indeed!
** Not unjustified, as these are English translations from a language which was designed from the ground up to describe the (actual, speculative, and alternative) workings of [[The Multiverse]]... or more accurately, reality reflects the ''language''. In the first book, said girl spends around a week of study trying to understand the Speech well enough to even cast a simple spell. I'd imagine a year or two spent seriously studying what's basically a truly comprehensive and utterly ''accurate'' multidisciplinary textbook whose contents constantly reorganize to be exactly what its owner is currently most suited to learn... could produce mind-boggling results, indeed.
* Anything written by [[China Mieville]], although ''[[Literature/King Rat|King Rat]]'' was much less verbose than the [[Bas-Lag Cycle (Literature)|Bas Lag]] novels.
* From ''[[At the Mountains of Madness (Literature)|At the Mountains of Madness]]'' by [[HPH.P. Lovecraft]].
{{quote| "The leathery, undeteriorative, and almost indestructible quality was an inherent attribute of the thing's form of organization, and pertained to some paleogean cycle of invertebrate evolution utterly beyond our powers of speculation."}}
** Legend, at least, has it that he once got stuck with nothing to read but a(n abridged) copy of the [[Oxford English Dictionary]]...
** At least this one had the excuse that it was supposed to be the recollection of a scientist printed in an attempt to prevent further exploration of Antarctica -- many scientists in real life tend to go for complicated expression even when they wouldn't need to, in subconscious belief that it'll give a more intelligent impression. Universities often try to discourage this, but with limited success.
** Would you believe he occasionally used this for [[Deadpan Snarker|deadpan snarking]]? From ''[[The Dunwich Horror (Literature)|The Dunwich Horror]]'': "But then, the homes and sheds of Dunwich's folk have never been remarkable for olfactory immaculateness."
* Continuing in the Lovecraft theme in ''[[The Laundry Series|The Laundry]]'', Charles Stross would often pay tribute to Lovecraft by jokingly describing eldritch-related things as "squamous and rugose". Of course, as his works take the [[Viewers Are Geniuses]] route, his own characters occasionally dip into this trope as well.
* ''[http://www.wetanz.com/holics/raygun-directory.php Doctor Grordbort's Contrapulatronic Dingus Directory]'' is a stimulating compendium of [[Cool but Inefficient|destructive devices]] for all enthusiasts of the genre known as "[[Steampunk|steam-punk]]", plus those gentlemen of leisure who feel that their masculinity would be grossly enhanced by the acquisition of an [[The BFG|Exterminator of Prodigious Dimensions]].
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* Pretty much anything written by [[Stephen Donaldson]] tends to veer into this trope at times; particularly the Thomas Covenant books, where he also has a tendency to utilize archaic or obscure definitions for many commonly used terms.
** Notorious, one group of characters in ''The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant'' were described as being "featureless and telic, like lambent gangrene."
** Then there's ''Mordant's Need'', a more "realistic" work than the Covenant series in almost every way... except the swearing. (When the local equivalent of a wizard snaps "Excrement of a pig!" he might just be pretentious, but when a couple of [[Jerk Withwith a Heart of Gold|rough private soldiers]] express their frustration by yelling "Fornication!" it's deeply jarring.)
* ''[[Redwall]]'''s hares and more [[Wicked Cultured]] villains occasionally drop into this. "So what happens when the bally precipitation ceases?" ''(blank stares)'' "Sorry, I mean what happens when the rain stops?" And another time:
{{quote| "What does he mean by 'arboreal verdance'?"<br />
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but time and chance happen to them all.'' }}
** Hell, on the subject of Orwell, the entire essay [http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm Politics and the English Language] is a tract against sesquipedalian loquaciousness.
* This trait is quite common among [[Jack Vance (Creator)|Jack Vance]] characters, generally as a sugar-coating on their jerkass behavior. Note that V, the page image is a character from a webcomic inspired by [[Dungeons and Dragons]], a series which itself was inspired by Vance's writings.
* Howard Hibble of the ''[[Jason Wander]]'' series is the leading expert on the aliens humanity is currently at war with, and occasionally lapses into this mode of speech. Lampshaded by Jason, who speaks normally but has good verbal skills, when discussing an alien device. Howard describes it as "a metallic, oblate spheroid." Jason translates this as "a tin football."
* In [[Tamora Pierce]]'s ''[[Immortals]]'' series, one of the characters (Numair Salmalín) is encouraged by his father to speak like this, to prove that he actually went away to school.
* Mart, one of [[Trixie Belden]]'s brothers. Other characters, such as Dan and Jim, pick this up from time to time to annoy Mart.
* Tehol Beddict of ''[[The Malazan Book of the Fallen]]'' does this as his tradition mode of parlance.
* Jupiter Jones, of ''[[The Three Investigators (Literature)|The Three Investigators]]'', employs this method of verbal communication habitually, although not necessarily invariably.
* In [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''[[Double Star]]'', the protagonist calls out this tendency as bad speechwriting.
{{quote| Now take this word 'intransigent,' which you have used twice. I might say that, but I have a weakness for polysyllables; I like to exhibit my literary erudition. But Mr. Bonforte would say 'stubborn' or 'mulish' or 'pigheaded.' The reason he would is, naturally, that they convey emotion much more effectively.}}
* [[PGP. G. Wodehouse (Creator)|PG Wodehouse]]'s [[Jeeves and Wooster (Literaturenovel)|Jeeves]] sometimes ends up talking like this, to the confusion and distress of everyone in the room. Despite being an [[Upperclass Twit]], his employer Bertie Wooster has picked up enough of a vocabulary from constant association with him to serve as his [[Translator Buddy]], and notes that this trope can be [[Got Me Doing It|catching]].
* Use to the point of tediousness in the [[Twilight (Literaturenovel)|Twilight]] series, where the narrator describes everything to death, repeats the description using synonyms, and never gets to the point without [[Viewers Are Goldfish|referring all over again to the things she's already described.]]
* In [[Gene Stratton Porter]]'s ''A Daughter of the Land'', Agatha.
{{quote| ''She could have written a fine book of synonyms, for as certainly as any one said anything in her presence that she had occasion to repeat, she changed the wording to six-syllabled mouthfuls, delivered with ponderous circumlocution. . . In his younger days, when discipline had been required, Kate once had heard her say to the little fellow: "Adam Alcibiades ascend these steps and proceed immediately to your maternal ancestor." ''}}
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== Non-animated episodic series produced for television networks (Live Action TV) ==
* Harry Morton on ''[[The Burns and Allen Show]]'', almost always lampshaded by [[George Burns]].
* Speech like this is the key joke in many ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus (TV)|Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' sketches. John Cleese is known to use this in other roles he has held since.
{{quote| "Frankly, I'm against people who give vent to their loquacity by extraneous bombastic circumlocution."}}
** In the "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3KBuQHHKx0 Cheese Shop]" sketch, the customer alternates between Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness and slangy Cockney speech.
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*** [[Tropes Are Not Bad|Raised to an art form]] with the audio drama ''...ish''.
** Couple the Sixth Doctor's vocabulary with Gilbert and Sullivan's music and the results are downright hilarious, as evidenced in Part 3 of the Big Finish audio drama ''Doctor Who and the Pirates''. Can anyone say [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIdDXQ2h1Pc "I am the Very Model of a Gallifreyan Buccaneer"]?
* This was part of the appeal (and [[Narm|Narmfuel]]) of ''[[DawsonsDawson's Creek (TV)|Dawsons Creek]]''.
** One ad for the show pretty much came right out and said this: "They're teenagers but they don't ''talk'' like teenagers. Watch ''Dawson's Creek'' at [time] on [day]."
* River Tam from ''[[Firefly (TV)|Firefly]]'' occasionally slipped into this, with a mix of [[Infallible Babble]] and a banquet's worth of [[Word Salad]].
** Zoe could be said to have done this once when she said she felt "sanguine" about an upcoming meeting. She justifies it by explaining that "sanguine" means hopeful AND bloody, which, as Mal notes, "pretty much covers all the options"
* Sir Humphrey Appleby in ''[[Yes Minister (TV)|Yes Minister]]'' / ''Yes Prime Minister'' speaks in an overly long and complex fashion in order to flummox his political masters and thus maintain the Civil Service status quo -- however, he's so used to speaking in such a fashion that he's incapable of speaking clearly even when he genuinely wants to make himself clearly understood.
** Not so much ''incapable'' as very, very reluctant. A short answer could generally be dragged out of him and usually formed the punchline to a joke. For instance, here's how Humphrey confesses his sins:
{{quote| '''Sir Humphrey Appleby:''' The identity of the official whose alleged responsibility for this hypothetical oversight has been the subject of recent discussion is not shrouded in quite such impenetrable obscurity as certain previous disclosures may have led you to assume, but, not to put too fine a point on it, the individual in question is, it may surprise you to learn, one whom your present interlocutor is in the habit of defining by means of the perpendicular pronoun.<br />
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** One time, Humphrey also stops speaking this way [[OOC Is Serious Business|to show that he is dead serious]], telling an absolutely, unbendably resolute Hacker, dead-set on a course of action that will help absolutely no-one, that "if you insist on doing this damn silly thing, don't do it in this damn silly way."
** In the ''Hacker Diaries'', the fictional diaries of Jim Hacker and novelization of the ''[[Yes Minister]]'' series, it is stated that he lived out the last of his days in a home for the elderly deranged when "advancing years, [[Talkative Loon|without in any way impairing his verbal fluency, disengaged the operation of his mind from the content of his speech]]."
* In ''[[How I Met Your Mother (TV)|How I Met Your Mother]]'', the group have a conversation about Robin's new Argentinian boyfriend who can't speak English that well. When he arrives at the bar, they continue the conversation, but with longer words so he doesn't understand (he doesn't: he thinks they're talking about baseball). Funny, because their responses weren't all that different from before:
{{quote| '''Barney:''' Come on Ted, back me up here.<br />
'''Ted:'''I'm just happy Robin's happy.<br />
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'''Ted:''' Yup.<br />
'''Barney:''' That's my boy! }}
* Billy on the original ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (TV)|Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'' spoke like this; every time he said anything, everyone looked expectantly at Trini until she translated. However, when the situation became truly dire, he sometimes lapsed into regular speech; whether this meant he used big words to show off intelligence or the show had bad writers was never explained. This tended to get phased out as the seasons went on, as if his hanging out with the other teens helped him pick up their speech habits (or possibly because Trini had left). Ironically, most people watching the show on TV could understand him fine, or at least guess the intent of his statements by context. It's only in-universe that anybody that's <s>not Trini</s> not equally as intelligent as him is left utterly confused.
** The best example of this is "Life's A Masquerade" when he gives the Morphing Call for the first time. Instead of the standard "It's Morphin' Time" Billy-Speak turns it into "It's time for Molecular Transmutation."
*** However, by Season 3, he called out a standard "It's Morphin' Time".
* Speaking of ''[[Power Rangers]]'', ''[[Power Rangers RPM|RPM's]]'' Dr. K does this on occasion (i.e. when she's not being blunt), including to hilarious effect in "Ghosts" when she threatens her leader, Colonel Truman, with inserting laxative into his coffee mug, which would lead to a case of explosive diarrhea.
* Data from ''[[Star Trek: theThe Next Generation (TV)|Star Trek the Next Generation]]'' occasionally did this, particularly when attempting humor or referring to an idiomatic expression. For Example: "I could be pursuing an untamed ornithoid without cause." (wild goose chase).
* [[Lampshaded]] in ''[[Friends (TV)|Friends]]'' when Joey uses a thesaurus on every single word of a letter he's writing in an attempt to sound intelligent.
{{quote| '''Monica:''' All right, what was this sentence, originally?<br />
'''Joey:''' Oh. "They're warm, nice people with big hearts."<br />
'''Chandler:''' And that became, "They're humid, pre-possessing homosapiens with full-sized aortic pumps?" }}
** [[No Kill Like Overkill|He even replaced]] ''[[No Kill Like Overkill|his own name]]'' [[No Kill Like Overkill|with "baby kangaroo."]]
* In the episode "Ink and Incapability" of ''[[Black AdderBlackadder]] the Third'', Dr. Samuel Johnson, author of the first English dictionary, speaks just like that ("I celebrated last night the encyclopedic implementation of my pre-meditated orchestration of demotic Anglo-Saxon."). Blackadder resorted to using [[Perfectly Cromulent Word|made-up long words]] to freak Johnson out in retaliation ("Oh, I'm sorry, sir. I'm anaspeptic, frasmotic, even compunctuous to have caused you such pericombobulation.").
* The "genius" types on ''[[Bones (TV)|Bones]]'', including the character nicknamed "Bones", do this often. [[Justified Trope|Justified]], in that those who do so outside of the professional circumstances in which it's expected show other signs of Asperger's as well, particularly Dr. Zack Addy.
** Brennan once agreed with someone by saying, "I concur. Vehemently!"
** And then there's this exchange from "The Titan on the Tracks":
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{{quote| '''Teal'c:''' I would prefer not to consume bovine lactose at any temperature.<br />
'''Teal'c:''' Undomesticated equines could not remove me. ''(although he was joking that time)'' }}
* [[Lampshade Hanging|Gibbs gets annoyed]] just about every single time it happens on ''[[NCIS (TV)|NCIS]]''. Ducky justified one instance by saying he ''likes'' the word "exsanguinate".
* Used frequently on ''[[A Bit of Fry and Laurie]]''. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3515_x8R9c This sketch] is a good example, as its use of gratuitous linguistics turns what would otherwise have been an unremarkable barber shop sketch into several minutes of hysterical laughter.
* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in ''[[The West Wing (TV)|The West Wing]]'' by the President, who says:
{{quote| "In my house, anyone who uses one word when they could have used ten just isn't trying hard."}}
* Spinelli on ''[[General Hospital]]'', though this seems to be because he's a [[The Rainman|Rain Man]].
* Judge Joe Brown often uses this trope, apparently in an attempt to try to add some class to his "folksy" image (and possibly to intimidate the clueless people who come on his show), but instead he usually ends up coming across as pompous.
* Sheldon from ''[[The Big Bang Theory (TV)|The Big Bang Theory]]'' talks like this all the time.
** Any of the four main geeks do this often, mostly between themselves or colleagues when discussing theories or projects, but are quick to drop it around Penny as to include her... well, except for Sheldon, but he expects people to accomodate ''him'' in any situation, and will complain about having to do so for others.
* [[Russell Brand]] would also use this trope frequently. Made all the more visible by that he'd only really be doing it to make a [[Nob Gag]]. On a show about [[Big Brother]].
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* [[The Dick Van Dyke Show|Rob Petrie]] tried to explain his brother's symptomatic somnambulance to Sally. She stared at him and said to Buddy, "Could you tell him not to talk to me like that?"
* ''Rome'' subverted this one; Pullo (a common soldier who was not the sharpest knife in the drawer) would occasionally come out with some big ol' Latinate word, which seemed out of place in his mouth...until you realized, hey, he's ''speaking Latin''.
* ''[[Married... Withwith Children (TV)|Married With Children]]'': Kelly Bundy manages to bust out some big words for such a "bombastic simpleton". She doesn't always use the right words, but sometimes she's spot-on.
* ''Buck Rogers in the 25th Century'' used this trope at times, especially in the earlier episodes. Often [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] by having Buck be increasingly irritated at having to stop and figure out the "simplistic" 20th-century equivalent for whatever the other characters are talking about.
{{quote| '''Guard''': "You'll need a delocking disk."<br />
'''Buck''': "A delocking disk..." (Blank look for a moment.) "Oh, you mean a ''key.''" (takes the disc from the guardr, grumbling under his breath) "Why do you people in the future have to make everything so complicated?" }}
* In the ''[[Just Cause (TV series)|Just Cause]]'' episode "The Last to Know," when Peggy tells Ted that her car was towed, he replies:
{{quote| '''Ted:''' Well, just another reason why I recommend bipedal modes of transportation.}}
** Note that Ted rollerblades everywhere. Even indoors.
* Wanda in ''[[Corner Gas (TV)|Corner Gas]]'' is prone to this.
{{quote| '''Lacey:''' Maybe people get put off by your big words...<br />
'''Wanda:''' You mean intimidated by my vocabulary? }}
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{{quote| '''Wanda:''' Restitution! Remuneration! I demand indemnification!<br />
'''Brent:''' Wow, you do a lot of [[Crossword Puzzle|crosswords]], huh? }}
* Pops up on ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' from time to time, with requests for a translation from 'Giles-speak'.
** Fred gets into it as well on occasion on [[Angel]]
* More than half of [[TV Genius|Dr. Spencer Reid]]'s lines on ''[[Criminal Minds (TV)|Criminal Minds]]'' are this.
 
 
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** Rakim
** Canibus: who admitted to reading a thesaurus.
** Most [[Wu -Tang Clan]] members like Method man, GZA (they call him "the genius" for a reason), The RZA, and Inspector Deck.
** [[Eminem]] to some degree has this as well, as his style is actually very eloquent and verbose at times, despite whatever the topic may be.
** If we're on the subject of rappers, Busdriver, just listen to any song of his from "Roadkillovercoat" onward
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== Transistor soundbox media (Radio) ==
* Eugene on ''[[Adventures in Odyssey (Radio)|Adventures in Odyssey]]'' speaks this way to the point of hilarity or exasperation, depending on who he's speaking to.
** Katrina has a vocabulary to match Eugene's, but is careful to limit her verbosity to when they are speaking to each other, although even this seems to have changed by the time she returned from her [[Put Onon a Bus|bus trip]].
* W.C. Fields made this into a career.
* The [[Bob and Ray|Bob & Ray]] character Dr. Eugene Stapley, the 'Word Wizard', is a broad parody of this trope... at times possibly just a bit broader than intended. After Bob suggests 'plunging straight into the mail': "Male and female serve only to differentialize one type of living creature from another. Now, undoubtedly some male members of the animal kingdom would be softer, say, to plunge into than others; but in any coincidence, the act of literally plunging into the male would in all probabilitiness be injureful!"
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== Non-electronic gaming media (Tabletop Games) ==
* Bad roleplaying character descriptions can invoke this trope as the result of their players evidently consulting a thesaurus every few words in an attempt to sound eloquent or [[Padding|pad]] out their description to hundreds of words. [http://community.livejournal.com/bad_rpers_suck/5107639.html This is just one example].
* The flavor text for the ''[[Magic: theThe Gathering]]'' card Uktabi Kong, apparently meant to convey that he's smarter than the average ape: "I desire the acquisition of a potassium-rich fruit comestible of ''substantial'' magnitude."<ref>"I want a big banana."</ref>
 
 
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* ''[[The Mikado]]'': Pooh-Bah "can trace [his] ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule."
** The [[Modern Major-General]] in ''[[The Pirates of Penzance]]'' does a bit of this too, though more on the loquacious side.
* Ralph Rackstraw in ''[[HMSH.M.S. Pinafore (Theatre)|HMS Pinafore]]'' speaks with exceedingly purple prose for a "humble sailor".
* Parodied to the extreme with Lucky's three page monologue in ''[[Waiting for Godot]]''. Read through it carefully and there is actually a philosophical point being made, but it is embroidered with so much verbal diaorreah, non-sequitors and just sheer nonsense words that it sounds like a complete load of gibberish.
* In one version of the ''[[Three Little Pigs]]'', the judge's page speaks this to a ridiculous extent.
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== Electronic gaming media (Video Games) ==
* The Engineer in ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]]'' frequently switches between this (when he's explaining his constructs or means of defending himself) and a comparatively more simple way of speaking.
{{quote| "Hey look buddy, I'm an engineer, that means I solve problems. Not problems like 'What is beauty?' because that would fall within the purview of your conundrums of philosophy. I solve practical problems. Fer instance: How am I gonna stop some big, mean [[Gosh Dang It to Heck|mother-hubbard]] from tearing me a structurally superfluous new behind? The answer...use a gun. And if that don't work? Use '''more''' gun."}}
* One character encountered early in ''[[BaldursBaldur's Gate]] II: Throne of Bhaal'' speaks like this, and uses it as evidence that he is more intelligent than everyone around him. If your own character has a high enough Intelligence score, you can insinuate (in a similarly roundabout, verbose way) that you think he does so to make up for a rather private "deficiency" on his part.
** Edwin too, IS this trope.
{{quote| '''Edwin:''' Marvelous work! You've obviously exceeded your lowborn heritage and surged to the vanguard of goonery!<br />
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* Sam of ''[[Sam and Max Freelance Police|Sam & Max]]'', a six-foot canine shamus, tends to express himself in this general manner. Said manner tends to annoy his partner. Perhaps his most elegant wordsmithing takes place in this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp94UERknaw promo]. Sam occasionally demonstrates that he is [[Sophisticated As Hell]].
{{quote| "An episodic sociopathic lagomorph. The mind boggles."}}
* Valve's Zero Point Energy Field Manipulator (Gravity Gun) from ''[[Half-Life]] 2'', and Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device (Portal Gun) from ''[[Portal (Video Gameseries)|Portal]]'', as well as many of the utterances of the Genetic Lifeform and Disc Operating System from the latter title. The latter partially comes from the Aperture Science folk wanting to stick their name in front of everything (Aperture Science Material Emancipation Grill, Aperture Science High-Energy Pellet, Aperture Science Vital Apparatus Vent, etc).
** Dr. Kleiner is likewise rather prone to communicating in this manner, especially when the nature of his audience makes it inappropriate.
{{quote| '''Dr. Kliener:''' For those so inclined, now would be an excellent time for procreation! Which is to say, in layman's terms, you should seriously consider doing your part for the revival of the species.<br />
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* Generation V of ''[[Pokémon]]'' gives us [[Perky Goth|Shauntal]] of the Elite Four, who talks like this until you beat her, at which point she simply proclaims you "awesome!". She reverts right back to her normal, diffuse speech right afterwords, though. Apparently she's a writer.
* In ''[[Fire Emblem]] 9'' and ''10'', Bastian is often known for this, and contrasted with Geoffery who often verbally plays [[The Stoic]].
* Ishi tends to do this in ''[[Bulletstorm (Video Game)|Bulletstorm]]''. His partner... doesn't.
{{quote| Ishi: "Shoot those tanks, the blast compression will create a-"<br />
Hunt: "Shoot the tanks, that's all you gotta say!" *BOOM* }}
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* Yvonne Barnes from ''[[In the 1st Degree]]'' engages in this. Of course, she is working for the mayor and she is a witness in a murder trial. Her reputation and image are important to her as a result.
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]: [[Skyward Sword]]'' brings us Beedle the shopkeeper. Talk to him in the day when he's doing his job, and he speaks like every other NPC out there. However, if talk to him at night, when he's not on duty, he suddenly talks in a highly affected accent and starts using words like "tenebrous." If you bring it up to him, he brushes you off.
* By the second ''[[Fantasy Quest (Video Game)|Fantasy Quest]]'' game, the narration turns into full-out parody, challenging you to "absquatulate with the Golden Cufflink of Fire"...
* Kei Nanjo of the original [[Persona (Videovideo Gamegame)|Persona]] sometimes lapses into bouts of this.
* In ''[[Ratchet and Clank Going Commando]]'', {{spoiler|Captain Qwark disguised as}} Abercrombie Fizzwidget does this... or at least ''tries'' to. However, he just comes off looking like a total moron as he constantly spews words that don't exist. {{spoiler|Because we only see him for a few seconds, it's unknown if the real Abercrombie Fizzwidget is like this, but given how... [[Cloudcuckoolander|not all there]] Qwark is, it's unlikely.}}
 
 
== Internet-originated sequential graphic media (Web Comics) ==
* Vaarsuvius from ''[[The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|Order of the Stick]]'', especially early on.
** In the prequel book ''On the Origin of PCs'', [[Genius Bruiser|Roy]] [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|has a go at it himself]] to [[Crowning Moment of Funny|convince Vaarsuvius]] that he's not just [[Dumb Muscle|a big, dumb fighter]] who wants to suborn the smart guy by hiring him.
** For [[Rule of Funny|obvious reasons]] Vaarsuvius is an exception to the usual [[Talking Is a Free Action]] rule.
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** This becomes even more noticeable when he's around Freckle, who rarely says more than a couple words at a time.
* Massey Reinstein in ''[[Schlock Mercenary (Webcomic)|Schlock Mercenary]]'' uses this trope to intimidate [[Heroic Comedic Sociopath|Schlock]] in one strip. [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20080824.html It works].
{{quote| '''Ebby:''' Well? How'd it go?<br />
'''Schlock:''' ''(close to tears)'' Massey beat me up with big words. }}
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* Kin, the yuan-ti from ''[[Goblins]]'' lapses into this when she's stressed.
{{quote| '''Kin:''' Yuan-ti have a high intelligence when compared to humanoids and in my case, it causes me to fall victim to an exponentially redundant vocabulary when I become nervous.}}
* ''[[Nature of NaturesNature's Art]]'' has almost every important character talk this way, thanks in large part to the very nature of the web comic, though it's eased up in the latter portions of the latest story.
* Rose Lalonde from ''[[Homestuck]]''. She wrote a game FAQ entirely using this and [[Purple Prose]], just for one example.
** An eventual character corresponding to her via IM services, Kanaya, has just as big of a vocabulary if not moreso, and applies it in a less purple and more literal way.
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{{quote| '''Ambrosia:''' Felicia, I'm '''''twelve'''''. Don't throw around big words.}}
* ''[[Exterminatus Now]]''. Professor Lewis [http://exterminatusnow.comicgenesis.com/d/20100613.html tries to explain] a concept to the (somewhat pro)tagonists, and fails utterly. Finally, he went in the ''exact opposite'' direction, and summed it up:
{{quote| '''Professor Lewis:''' [[Negative Space Wedgie|Shiny void rift]] plus [[Kill Sat|big space gun]] [[The End of the World Asas We Know It|make world go 'splody.]]}}
* In ''[[El Goonish Shive (Webcomic)|El Goonish Shive]]'', Grace's attempt to make a bit of a political statement in the sketchbook resulted in a bad case of [http://egscomics.com/sketchbook/?date=2010-12-09 this trope.]
* In ''[[Sinfest]]'', [http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4269 Fucshia teases Crimney about using "troglodyte."]
 
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** [[wikipedia:Maternal insult|Has anyone googled the Wikipedia explanation for "Yo Mom" jokes before?]]
Look up Eubonics, I mean African American Vernacular English on wikipedia, without grinning, its tougher than it sounds.
* The [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/joseph-ducreux-archaic-rap Joseph Ducreux] meme is pretty much this trope [[This Is Your Premise Onon Drugs|on drugs.]] It takes popular sayings or lyrics and changes every word, even modifying the grammar used, to an upper-class Victorian manner of speech. This ends up being the result.
* Lear Dunham from ''[[Broken Saints]]'' is guilty of this at times, especially in {{spoiler|the [[Grand Finale]].}}
* Ezekiel from ''BitF City''. His friend Bola "Translates".
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz_K1Gjrx8c How very charitable] [[Save the Princess|of Her Majesty]] [[Hotel Mario (Video Game)|to summon]] [[Super Mario Bros.|us]] to a social gathering of prepared foods and open-handed cordiality regardless of the immense difference in our societal statuses.
** This particular style has grown into a fad and been applied to [[Youtube Poop]] sources. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vRG2Bb6DYw To] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Yp5y4TDsM4 list] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-WVh_mXYSI a] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEBjMHABciM few...]
* A number of YouTube videos expand popular videos spoken in vernacular to long-winded pseudo-intellectual conversations backed with classical music, e.g. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBu83-0vJbg An encounter with the Entrepreneur of Sensory Shapeshifting with Purpose of Infiltrationary Actions], known originally as [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTj6tauY1JU Meet The Spy].
 
== Animated media originating in the various nations of the Occident (Western Animation) ==
* [[Evil Genius]] Plankton has a habit of speaking this way in ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants (Animation)|SpongeBob SquarePants]]''. His speaking this way in trying to recruit [[Mooks]] in a [[Bad Guy Bar]] doesn't end well for him.
{{quote| '''Plankton:''' Felicitations, malefactors! I am endeavoring to misappropriate the formulary for the preparation of affordable comestibles!}}
** WHO WILL JOIN HIM?!?!?!?!?
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{{quote| '''Patrick:''' The inner machinations of my mind are an enigma.}}
* Reggie Moonshroud from ''[[Gravedale High]]'' often talks like this.
* Dexter on ''[[DextersDexter's Laboratory (Animation)|Dexters Laboratory]]'' is fond of doing this. Notable examples include making a to-do list that included the chore "Aquatic Nutrifacation" instead of "Feed Fish". He also refers to the wheels on a car as "High Output Torquifiers".
** Unique in that this is how a young boy would actually do something like this, as "nutrification" and "torquifiers" are not actually words, just suffixes hastily slapped on thesaurus-poop.
* Fellow pre-[[Teen Genius]] Jimmy Neutron in ''[[The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: (Animation)Boy Genius|The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron]]'' is also fond of the trope.
* Wind Whistler on ''[[My Little Pony]]''. "This meteorological debabacle is quite anomalous." Peach Blossom too: "I will reconnoiter post-haste and ascertain what has transpired!"
** In the same vein, Twilight Sparkle from ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]''.
* Edd in ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]'', often to the annoyance of his less-educated peers.
{{quote| '''Edd:''' Yup? Is that all you have to say for yourself? YUP? No rash attempt to deprive Kevin of his fortune?<br />
'''Eddy:''' Scam Kevin. ...That's what he ''said,'' right? }}
* Tish in ''[[The Weekenders]]''. It becomes a plot point of an episode where the others refer to it as "Tishing" and it becomes a widespread saying.
* As Brainstorm (a "sea food platter with a rather high IQ", as he puts it), [[Ben 10: Alien Force (Animation)|Ben]] is prone to using extremely large words. [[Fake Brit|With a British accent.]] His previous "smart form", Greymatter, tended to use words of a more normal size unless referring to scientific principles.
{{quote| '''Grey Matter:''' What is your malfunction? Probably something stupid like the DNA splicing replicator copying a fragment of amino acid sequence.'' (Pause as Ben's mind starts to catch up)'' So this is what it feels like to be smart.}}
* One episode of ''[[The Simpsons (Animationanimation)|The Simpsons]]'' has Homer start talking like this after a [[Sleep Learning]] tape intended to curb his hunger is switched with a vocabulary builder. "Lamentably, no. My gastronomic rapacity knows no satiety."
** Later played with, when Homer loses his vocabulary without regaining his ability to communicate succinctly.
{{quote| '''Homer:''' Marge, where's that... metal dealy... you use to... dig... food...<br />
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*** Being the aesthete that he is, Sideshow Bob however rejected the sesquipedalian but inelegant "disembowel" in favour of a much shorter word when he wrote down what to do with Bart in ''Cape Feare'':
{{quote| '''Sideshow Bob:''' No, I don't like that 'bowel' in there. Gut him! ''Ah, le mot juste''.}}
* One episode of ''[[Word Girl (Animation)|Word Girl]]'' involves a villain using [[Applied Phlebotinum]] to cause random people to use large words in order to sell dictionaries.
* Doctor Octopus in ''[[The Spectacular Spider -Man]]'', especially post-[[Freak-Out]]. "I cannot believe I once lived in this anemic hovel."
* Perceptor, of ''[[The Transformers (Animationanimation)|The Transformers]]''. It's particularly bad when your fellow robots, all of whom would likely have the whole of a given language in their databanks, ask you to say something "in [language], please". It probably doesn't help that he has a habit of going into details WHILE using complex words, to the point where Optimus tires of it in seconds.
** Grimlock also does it when he get smart in the episode "Grimlock's New Brain".
*** [[Transformers Shattered Glass|I, Grimlock, also speak in this manner in the mirror universe.]]
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** Oddly enough, Brainstorm, who was the actual [[Smart Guy]] of the team, spoke fairly commonly unless he actually needed the jargon.
** You don't wanna get [[Genius Ditz]] Bulkhead from ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' talking about space bridges. You'll miss Perceptor.
** Across all series, [[Call a Rabbit Aa Smeerp]] is in effect and machine-related terms with elements of the Cybertronian life-cycle mixed in are always used. This can leave characters who are ''not'' supposed to be geniuses talking as if the X-Men's Beast taught them English on the way in. They're not parents, they're "protoform batch initiators." Even the show's tagline, "[[More Than Meets the Eye]]", can be given onscreen as "more than meets the optic sensors."
* The writers for ''[[Looney Tunes (Animation)|Looney Tunes]]'' sometimes had a fondness for big words. Mid-1940s, Daffy was quite fond of this. He once asked a crying dog, "Why the copious flow of lachrymal fluid, my garrulous canine?"
* In the 2003 ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003 (Animation)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' series more than any other incarnation, Donatello is guilty of this. He frequently geeks out about future technology or the chemical properties of things he runs across, and [[Techno Babble]] ensues. One of the others (usually Michelangelo, but occasionally Raphael) [[Lampshade Hanging|acknowledges this]], and usually asks him to repeat himself in English this time. Though sometimes the writers sacrifice snappier dialogue to remind us that he's the smart one:
{{quote| '''Donatello:''' If we take the south conduit, it'll ''intersect'' with the old drainage tunnel!}}
* In ''[[The Powerpuff Girls (Animation)|The Powerpuff Girls]]'' episode "[http://www.rowdyruff.net/transcript_ml.shtml Mo'Linguish]", Mojo Jojo teaches the whole town to speak like he does. The simple, straightforward word is intentionally neglected in favor of over-eloquence. Example from the Mayor, calling about a bank robbery:
{{quote| '''The Mayor:''' There is a stealing of sorts happening at the place where money is given and taken, that is to say deposited and withdrawn -- and sometimes redistributed and loaned. But currently the taker is taking that which is not his, thus performing an act of illegality, which could result in incarceration within the confines of a penal facility, that is to say prison, jail, hoosegow, et cetera.}}
* In an episode of ''[[Phineas and Ferb (Animation)|Phineas and Ferb]]'', Fireside Girl Gretchen ([[Meganekko|the one who wears glasses]]) earns her "Saying a Word No One Else in the Room Knows" accomplishment patch by actually saying the world "sesquipedalian".
* Spoofed in the ''[[South Park (Animation)|South Park]]'' episode "Woodland Critter Christmas", where Mousey the Mouse is a parody of the stock "Smart" character in cartoons, complete with comically large glasses and a slavish adherence to this trope.
* Same thing goes for Brain on ''[[Arthur (Animationanimation)|Arthur]]''. In fact, it's shown that his parents keep a large dictionary at the dinner table because of it.
* Don Karnage, the leader of the Air Pirates in Disney's''[[Tale Spin (Animation)|Tale Spin]]'', does this a lot.
{{quote| '''Don Karnage:''' My brilliant mind tells me that it may be time for a strategic withdrawal.<br />
'''Mad Dog:''' Say what?<br />
'''Don Karnage:''' RUN AWAY!! }}
* Dr. Emmett Lathrop Brown, a.k.a. The Doc, as portrayed in the ''[[Back to The Future (Animationcartoon)|Back to The Future]]'' animated series, is the '''king''' of this. The movie version, while prone to [[Techno Babble]], isn't nearly as bad. Jules is also a master at it.
* ''[[Futurama (Animation)|Futurama]]'': Good old Professor Farnsworth can have this affect when he actually is making sense
{{quote| '''Farnsworth:''' There. That space-time eversion has given us their box and vice-versa!<br />
'''Leela:''' So what you think you just explained to us is that -<br />
'''Farnsworth:''' Correct! This box contains our own universe! }}
* Mr. Longface Caterpillar from the 2009 ''[[Strawberry Shortcake]]'' movie peppers his speech with overly fancy words, which are [[Layman's Terms|translated]] by Blueberry Muffin. This is [[Inverted Trope|inverted]] at one point when he mentions fool's gold, and Blueberry "translates" this to its official name, iron pyrite.
* In the ''[[Pinky and The Brain (Animation)|Pinky and The Brain]]'' episode "TV or not TV" Brain has a brief career as a stand-up comedian involving him insulting the audience by phrasing his insults using [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]].
** The Brain does this constantly, even going so far as to rephrase common expressions with more advanced vocabulary ("The game does not conclude until the woman with the eating disorder ululates.")
* Egon Spengler's penchant for this in ''[[The Real Ghostbusters (Animation)|The Real Ghostbusters]]'' and ''[[Extreme Ghostbusters (Animation)|Extreme Ghostbusters]]'' is turned [[Up to Eleven]] from his movie counterpart.
{{quote| '''Peter''': "Egon, remember what I said. If you're gonna stay on our planet, you have to speak our language."}}
* Tom in ''[[The Amazing Chan and The Chan Clan (Animation)|The Amazing Chan and The Chan Clan]]'' is practically ''defined'' by this trope, to the point where his siblings have commented more than once about how they wished he'd speak English. Also in "The Greek Caper", Tom was about to offer his suggestion on how to search for missing statue and was gently told by Alan to "keep it simple".
* Moonrock on ''[[The Pebbles and Bamm -Bamm Show (Animation)|The Pebbles and Bamm Bamm Show]]'' would always do this. When the team went looking for a four-leaf clover to improve Schleprock's bad luck, he exclaimed, "Eureka! A Marsilea quadrifolia!"
* Gretchen on ''[[Recess]]'' commonly speaks like this.
* The Vreedle Brother of ''[[Ben 10: Ultimate Alien (Animation)|Ben 10 Ultimate Alien]]'' are a bizarre combination of erudite and slow-minded idiots.
** Ben's Brainstorm form does this often.
* In the [[Rankin Bass]] special ''[[Twas the Night Before Christmas]]'', the Mayor parodies this. Whenever he wants to sound important, he attempts this, then gives up partway through.
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* [[Russell Brand]] has made a veritable art-form out of blending [[Sophisticated As Hell|prolixity and profanity]]. Garrulously, he will pontificate, sermonize, and evangelize, interminably vociferating fustian rhetoric - and all for the sake of a [[Nob Gag]].
* In his interviews and [[F for Fake|documentaries]] [[Orson Welles]] somehow manages to be a [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness|Sesquipedalian Loquacian]] [[Deadpan Snarker]].
* [[Richard Feynman]], in his memoirs, recalled attending a lecture in [[Hard Onon Soft Science|some social science or other]] wherein he encountered the following sentence: "The individual member of the social community often receives his information via visual, symbolic channels." {{spoiler|"Feynman "translated" this sentence as follows: "People read."}}
* The preface to ''The United States Department of Defense Fact File'' admonishes readers against this trope. See the [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness/Quotes|Quotes tab]].
 
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