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Talkativeness that takes the form of a single phrase repeated ''ad nauseam'' is a [[Madness Mantra]].
Note that this sort of behavior is [[Truth in Television|a real symptom of certain real mental illnesses,]] particularly schizophrenia (psychiatrists call this kind of talk from a schizophrenic patient "Word Salad") but it is far from universal, even in schizophrenics. In the real world, the insane do not, as a general rule, identify themselves quite so easily and conveniently. Of course, they might not be crazy. Just brain damaged and might be suffering from aphasia.
See also [[Word Salad Philosophy]], [[Cloudcuckoolander]], and your average porn spam. If they're the main character, try [[Through the Eyes of Madness]]. A similarly disjointed title is a [[Word Salad Title]]; the musical equivalent is [[Word Salad Lyrics]]. Can often be caused by an [[Intoxication Ensues]]. The babble they spit out might include an [[Ice Cream Koan]] occasionally.
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* The main character of the [[Doom (Comic Book)|Doom comic book]]. Sample quote: "Knock knock who's there ME! Me me me me me me me me." It gets worse.
** "At this particular moment in time I don't think I've had a healthier or more deeply felt respect for any object in the universe than this here shotgun..."
* A story arc in [[Tintin]] ''(Cigars of the Pharaoh/The Blue Lotus)'' had the bad guys shooting people with poisoned darts to make them go mad; pretty much all the victims became this.
== [[Fanfic]] ==
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*** Flipping it around, HEX once managed to get a lucid remark out of the Bursar during one of his downswings when Ponder programmed it to behave like one of those "therapist" computer programs, and it repeated the Bursar's gibberish as though it was a coherent statement it wanted the Bursar to expand on. The Bursar accused it of making fun of him, and Ridcully cheerfully declared that it had "out-Bursar'd the Bursar".
** Also, Mrs. Tachyon from ''[[Johnny and The Bomb]]'', who used Ole Ron's catchphrase on at least one occasion ('course, she wasn't actually mad. It's just that her mind is everywhere and everywhen at once. Her thoughts are apparently perfectly lucid).
* The Weavers in [[China Mieville]]'s ''[[Bas-Lag Cycle]]'', in addition to being gigantic spidery [[Eldritch Abomination|Eldritch Abominations]] with a thought process no human can truly understand, talk like this all the time.
* There was a darkly hilarious [[Stephen King]] short story, ''Lunch At The Gotham Cafe'', about a waiter who starts talking like this and trying to stab the diners.
{{quote|That dog of yours is so much rage. All the radios of Coney Island don't make up to dat dog, you motherfucker!
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* Drusilla (and, briefly, Spike) on ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''. Also the ward full of Glory's "brain-suck" victims in the Sunnydale hospital, {{spoiler|and Tara, who got brain-sucked late in the season and was later restored}}. All three examples also had some degree of prophetic or otherworldly knowledge.
** Though Spike, when he was crazy, also showed tendencies to self-mutilation - trying to "cut" his soul out, hugging the cross in ''Beneath You'', and hitting himself in ''Help''. Hmm.
** And a lot of babbling was actually just him talking to the First, who nobody else could see or hear but him.
** Joyce also did this in the episode ''Listening to Fear''.
* River on ''[[Firefly]]'' ''seems'' like a Talkative Loon, but her [[Waif Prophet]] nature means that the seemingly-random statements are actually prophetic -- she just has trouble rendering her insights into something comprehensible to everyone else. (Of course, sometimes she really ''is'' just being crazy.) Also interesting in that River tends to wander around, act compulsively, and suffer violent outbursts, in addition to her rambling.
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* The people of Trinity struck by [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|Merlyn]]'s plague on ''[[American Gothic]]'' suffered from this as well.
* Arguably, Livia on ''[[Rome]]''. There's a scene where she and Octavian have S/M sex, and once they're finished Livia starts talking. "''I like birds. But I don't like eggs. There's something quite sordid about eggs.''"
** Or she was just bored while Octavian had sex with her. And there is something sordid about eggs. You do know where they come from, right?
* The various shopkeeper/hairdresser/other-occupation characters played by [[Stephen Fry]] in [[A Bit of Fry and Laurie]]. "Good day!" "One of a goodness it is indeed!" is just a start...
** "Mr. Dalliard? Mr. Dalliard, I've gone all peculiar now!"
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'''Warden:''' Oghren, you're ''wearing'' your pants.
'''Oghren:''' But the ''dog'' doesn't know that. It'll be his sodding ''downfall.'' }}
* Tom Redwood a.k.a. [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"|"Red"]] from the ''[[Penumbra (video game series)|Penumbra]]'' series.
** And Dr. Richard Eminiss. But he quickly [[The Reveal|turns out to be]] [[Our Zombies Are Different|anything but humorous...]]
* In ''[[Odium]]'', this happens to {{spoiler|Medusa}} when he goes insane. The beginning of his rant is actually a quote from "The End" by [[The Doors]].
{{quote|''Ride the snake, ride the snake, the snake is long, seven miles, ride the snake, ride the snake.''}}
* Part of the fun of playing a Malkavian in ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines]]'' is that all your dialog options turn you into this, with a sprinkle of [[Mad Oracle]] if you pay attention to what you're saying to people.
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== [[Web Animation]] ==
* On ''[[Homestar Runner]]'', in the Strong Bad Email "[http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail91.html caffeine]", Strong Sad becomes a hyperactive Talkative Loon after Strong Bad slips coffee into his orange juice, saying things like "I don't even watch football! I can't remember my legs!" and rambling about "wood-davers".
** Another ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' character, Homsar, is like this all the time:
{{quote|'''Homsar:''' Hi, Wonder Mike! I'm Homsar, the captain of the gravy train. Climb aboard -- I've put my best foot flowered. Pshoooooo!}}
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* In ''[[A Modest Destiny]]'', {{spoiler|Morris}} becomes one of these when {{spoiler|he falsely believes he committed a mass murder in his sleep, and refuses to sleep afterward.}}
* While Doctor Hobo in ''[[VG Cats]]'' is not an example, his [[Good Angel, Bad Angel|Chaotic Neutral angel]] most definitely is. In the one strip we saw him: "Woof! I'm a cow!"
* [[Megatokyo|Largo]] comes off as this quite a lot, between his l33t sp34k, technobabble, and constant paranoid beliefs that zombies will be taking over the area (which later turns out to be more or less true). All of this coupled with the fact that he doesn't speak any Japanese usually leads to him being arrested by the police (it was also implied to have [[Noodle Incident|have something to do with being handcuffed by mounties and deported from Canada]]).
* Lok of [[Juathuur]] tend to talk and whine a lot to whoever visits him in his realm. This happens rarely.
* Enor in ''[[Order of the Stick]]'', when Elan casts Lesser Confusion:
{{quote|'''Enor:''' Variable-speed corn muffins! Peanut butter fish filets! Hey, that sounds good.}}
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]'', The Joker inadvertently creates the [[Diniverse]] version of [[The Creeper]], a [[Superhero]] who's yellow, super-strong, agile, and crazy enough to scare even the Joker.
* Blitzwing's [[Multiple Personalities|Random face]] in ''[[Transformers Animated]]''. The rest of him's more coherent.
* Played for comedy in ''[[The Critic]]'', by Jay Sherman's father Franklin: "I didn't '''ask''' to be Secretary of Balloon Doggies. The Balloon Doggies demanded it!"
** "I've just invented the Fishmobabywhirlymagig. It'll be bigger than the Badgerblaster!"
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* Cheese of ''[[Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends]]'' (''"I like cereal!!"'').
* Brak, in ''[[Space Ghost Coast to Coast]]'' and ''[[The Brak Show]]'' (the full title of which is ''Brak Presents the Brak Show Starring Brak'', which gives you a pretty good idea what he's like). Some of his favorite topics are his own name, beans, and encouraging people to "Hail Brak!", a request with which they comply with astonishing consistency.
** In a previous show (''Cartoon Planet''), Brak is also infamous for his bizarre songs, like "I'm driving down highway 40 in my pick-up truck" - which is just this line, repeated over and over in various ways - and naturally, a song dedicated to beans of all kinds.
* GIR, from ''[[Invader Zim]]'', with gems like "Can I be a mongoose-dog?" and "Why is his head so big? ''Whyyyyyyyyyyyyy'' is his head so big?"
** "It was me! I was the turkey all along! ''Meeeeeeee!''"
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* After drinking bad cactus juice, Sokka from [[Avatar: The Last Airbender]] becomes this in his [[Mushroom Samba]].
** "It's a GIANT MUSHROOM! Maybe it's friendly!"
* A few old [[Looney Tunes]] cartoons employed this trope, particularly the ones featuring [[Daffy Duck]]. He sometimes was more of a musical loon, either singing something completely out of nowhere ("Oh I'm jutht wild about Ha-rry, and Harryth wild about meeee!") or making up his own lyrics to songs ("Oh when they say I'm nutsy, it sure givth me a pain, puh-leath path the ketchup, I think it'th going to rain!")
* In [[Back at the Barnyard]], we have a strange flashback from Abby, after Otis compares another character to the 'crazy uncle they've never had'.
{{quote|'''Abby(lying):''' Right...I never had a crazy uncle...
A young Abby stands there, staring at her uncle.
'''Abby's Uncle:''' Mr. Bunny has betrayed me! We gotta close the beaches! We can't close the beaches, we're a summer town! GET THESE TURTLES OUT OF MY HEAD PLEASE! Aaand, Lindy! }}
** We later see him singing and dancing in another flashback.
* Quite a few animated shows have depicted [[Kids Say the Darndest Things]]-era [[Bill Cosby]] as one, including [[The Simpsons]], [[Family Guy]], and [[The Boondocks]] (where he gets kidnapped for about 5 seconds before the kidnappers just bring him right back because he ''will not shut up.'')
{{quote|'''Bill Cosby on The Simpsons''': Kids, they listen to the rap music, which gives them the brain damage. With their hippin' and-a hoppin' and-a bippin' and-a boppin', so they don't know what the jazz is all about! You see, jazz is like Jello Pudding...no, actually it's more like Kodak Film...no, actually jazz is like the New Coke. It'll be around forever!
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