Waking Non Sequitur: Difference between revisions

* Beans in ''[[Rango]]'' tends to freeze up at random (it's a survival trait for her species, but "her switch is broken"). When she recovers... no one is sure ''what'' was going through her mind while she was frozen, but it was probably interesting.

* ''Bandits'' has Billy Bob Thornton's character waking up shouting "Beavers and ducks!".

 

== Literature ==

* ''Word Smart Junior'' has one scene where Barnaby, waking from a nightmare about his parents forcing him to take ballet lessons, starts muttering incoherently:

{{quote|"Tights. Tight-fisted fish in a peddle of pickles. I said don't to be glimming my tulip, pilgrim. No and no again! Time to pay the spleen!"}}

* ''[[Artemis Fowl|Artemis Fowl: The Atlantis Complex]]'' has Foaly waking up [[It Makes Sense in Context|after Holly knocked him out]] saying, "Not the stripy ones! They're just little babies." As soon as he realizes he's awake he asks Artemis if [[Did I Say That Out Loud|he said that out loud.]]

* In the [[Lord Peter Wimsey]] novel ''Clouds of Witness'', Parker falls asleep in front of the fireplace while waiting for Wimsey. As Wimsey enters, Parker wakes up and says: "The glass-blower's cat is bompstaple". In the dream that Parker just had, this is the solution to the mystery. Awake, he can't even remember what "bompstaple" meant.

* In book 7 of [[Ranger's Apprentice]], Will wakes up after nearly dying of thirst to find Umar bent over him, pouring water down is throat. Struck by the man's physical appearance, all he can say is, "...That's a big nose."

 

* [[I'm Alan Partridge|Alan]] [[Knowing Me, Knowing You... with Alan Partridge|Partridge]] usually says something odd when waking up from his...well, just watch the show.

* In an early episode of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', Willow has been sleeping over an open book and suddenly bolts upright, crying, "Don't warn the tadpoles!" When Giles expresses surprise, she sheepishly admits, "I... I have a frog fear."

{{quote|"I was having a dream, and all I remember was a curious lack of crocodiles, so I began calling out for them."}}

* In an episode of ''[[Criminal Minds]]'', Reid wakes up after {{spoiler|being poisoned by anthrax and nearly dying}} and asks Morgan, "Are you eating jello?"

 

== Newspaper Comics ==

* In ''[[Peanuts]]'', whenever Peppermint Patty is sleeping in class, she often wakes up shouting something like "I'm awake, I'm awake! The answer's twelve!"

 

== Video Games ==

* ''[[Ratchet and Clank Going Commando]]'' - Clank's being held captive and tortured by the Thief. When Ratchet rescues him Clank's saying "The last digit of Pi is..."

 

== Web Original ==

* In Volume 2 Chapter 2 of ''[[RWBY]]'', Nora blurts "Pancake!" upon being awakened from a doze.

** Several episodes later, Jaune mumbles "Waffle!" when Ruby's scroll call almost but not quite wakes him up.

 

== Web Comics ==

{{quote|'''Gremlin:''' What's the matter, bunny rabbit? Speak to me! Why don't you say something?!

'''Bugs:''' ''(childish voice)'' I'm only thwee and a half years old! }}

 

== Real Life ==