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{{quote|''"Carrageenan, Monteljohn. Can you detect me to the nearest bus stamp?"''|'''Senor Cardgage''', [[Homestar Runner (Web Animation)|Homestar Runner]]}}
 
Using [[Inherently Funny Words]] or random gibberish to humorous effect. Often used in [[Surreal Humor]].
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* The song "Hubba Hubba Zoot Zoot" by Carumba.
* Comedy music act Worm Quartet's lead singer (and sole member) Shoebox has numerous songs that consist entirely of syntactically correct gibberish. If you listen long enough, things like "my prostitute has evaporated" almost start to make sense.
* "Drinking Out Of Cups" by Dan Deacon, a spoken word piece that later became better known when [[Sifl and Olly|Liam Lynch]] made a short animation to go with it. Passages like "Who's this guy? Mr. Balloons? Mr. Balloon hands?" and "I'm in love with the seahorses. They're fuckin' unreal. I love them, they're like all the clocks..." were the result of him acting like a macho Long Islander stereotype and spontaneously responding to things he saw while watching a TV on mute (although some people [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made Onon Drugs?|have other ideas about its origins]]).
 
== [[New Media]] ==
* ''[[Homestar Runner (Web Animation)|Homestar Runner]]'', full stop, with characters often inserting bizarre malapropisms randomly into perfectly normal dialog. There are also the characters Homsar and Senor Cardgage, who only ever speak this way.
* [[LOLcats]] seems to revolve around extracting humour from posting pictures of cats alongside AOL-speak.
** The earliest "Caturday" pictures had proper language and were still plenty funny, making this ''another'' instance of [[Flanderization]].
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Occurs frequently in ''[[White Ninja Comics]]''
* The Chef Brian strips from ''[[Ctrl +Alt +Del]]'' most definitely qualify as this.
* Twisp and Catsby from ''[[Penny Arcade]]'' are basically Chef Brian as two people. (Or possibly Chef Brian is them as one, depending on which came first. This led to accusations of [[Plagiarism]] against Tim Buckley, though Chef Brian came first).
* Known as Random-Access Humor in ''[[Sonichu]]''. It's horrendously unfunny, even when compared to other examples of [[Word Salad Humor]].
* ''[[Ozy and Millie (Webcomic)|Ozy and Millie]]'', occasionally. Usually from Millie. "Armadillo! Armadillo! The cheese from Zimbabwe has lugubriously flattened my popcorn!"
* [[Thinkin' Lincoln|George Washington]] tried this once just to see if it's funny. It was.
 
== [[Web Original]] ==
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