Waking Non Sequitur: Difference between revisions

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Alice is in a coma, is sleeping or is otherwise unconscious. Upon waking, a non sequitur bursts from her lips.

* In ''[[Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home|Star Trek IV the Voyage Home]]'', as they're bringing Chekov out of unconsciousness, Bones asks him his name and rank to see if he's all there. Slightly unfocused, he gives them "Pavel Chekov" as his name, then gets a big grin on his face and says, "Rank: Admiral..."

* ''[[Bananas]]'' - as [[Woody Allen]] is roused after being knocked out, he's moaning "...no more Polish women!"

{{quote|'''Ron''': ''(suddenly sits up awake in bed)'' [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Spiders... want me to tap-dance... I don't wanna tap-dance.]]

'''Harry''': ''(deadpans)'' You tell those spiders, Ron.

* 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 ==

** The first book has another example: When Hagrid comes to the hut on the rock to pick up Harry, he announces his presence with loud knocks. Dudley is startled awake. "Where's the cannon?"

* ''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 ==

** While not entirely proven to be true, Homsar may have suffered from this ''permanently''. In his first appearance (made by a misspelling of "Homestar"), Strong Bad drops a [[Anvil on Head|Heavy Lourde]] on him. His only line before that is "What is it Strong Bad?", a simple greeting that makes perfect sense in context. When TBC decided to bring him back as a source of comic relief, everything he's said after the Heavy Lourde incident makes little to no sense at all.

* ''[[Atop the Fourth Wall]]'': After {{spoiler|Missingno suicides}} the now-unpossessed {{spoiler|90s Kid}} is heard singing the theme song to ''[[Care Bears]]''.

* 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 ==

* Very much [[Truth in Television]]. In the time between being asleep and fully awake, the line between dreams and reality can be blurred, causing you to try and continue a conversation with someone present in the dream.

 

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[[Category:Absurdity Ascendant]]

[[Category:Comedy Tropes]]

[[Category:Sleep and Wakefulness Tropes]]