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Disorganized Outline Speech

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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })A character tries to present things in some kind of organized fashion, but they screw up or change their mind about the organization partway through.
This is almost inevitably played for comic effect. Often it is used to portray a character as being A. Pompous, IV. Both. 2. Absentminded or
Compare Metaphorgotten.
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Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): In this Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) fanfiction, when Alan Jonah's now-defected mercenary Tejada is listing "four" advice pointers to Sam Coleman regarding the Two Beings, One Body hybrid that San and Vivienne Graham have formed, she skips over the number three.
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Spencer in the lonelygirl15 episode "What Up Blogosphere!":
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In Lovely Little Losers, Balthazar can't tell a concise story to save his life. In particular, the video "Relatives and Reunions" is just two minutes of Balth telling a rambling story to Ben, to make the mildly interesting point that he is (kind of) related to Beatrice.
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In Whose Line Is It Anyway?:
During a playing of the Millionaire Show game, Greg Proops accidentally messes up when giving out the multiple choice answers:
Another playing of the same game has Colin listing the choices under A, C, C and D. Ryan does not let this go without comment.
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Into the Woods: In the "Your Fault" number, the characters' arguments get increasingly confused as the song goes on:
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Everett K. Ross from Black Panther seems constitutionally incapable of telling a story in a linear fashion.
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Elan of The Order of the Stick gives a truly epic one here.
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The Godfather has Luca Brasi's speech expressing his gratitude to Don Vito Corleone. He's so nervous he's seen rehearsing it beforehand, and still fumbles over it when he actually speaks to Vito.
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Necro Critic states three things that could've been done to fix Spider-Man 3 (paraphrased)
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On Peter, Paul and Mary in Concert their rendition of "Puff the Magic Dragon" is prefaced by Paul giving a pompous pretend speech about dragons. After stumbling and starting over several times, he ends up referring to dragons as having "four separate and distinct nostrils and one monstrous scale...with thousands of tiny legs?"
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Skulduggery Pleasant:
Skulduggery insists he used to be a great speaker, but the only speeches we ever hear from him either fail, or fail epically.
Vaurien Scapegrace is also bad at speeches, but he's a comic relief character, so that's to be expected.
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Big Hero 6: Cass gets lost in her scolding after picking up Hiro and Tadashi from the police station.
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Avatar: The Last Airbender:
In "The Day of Black Sun, Part 1", Sokka's attempt at outlining a specific battle plan goes so poorly that he gets confused, tries to start over "from the beginning" and starts recapping the entire series from the beginning instead of describing the plan, and finally is cut off by his father clarifying the actual battle plan.
In "The Western Air Temple", Zuko tries to outline his reasons for approaching the main protagonists. Emphasis on tries. His rehearsal is intensely awkward to begin with, and when he talks to them for real, his nervousness means that his already-awkward speech goes sideways immediately.
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Col. Chamberlain in Gettysburg, not so much for comedic effect, as it is also an effective Rousing Speech, but to hammer home just how awkward and out of place he is.
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Sports Night played with this trope:
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In The Spectacular Spider-Man, Flash Thompson does the usual A-then-2 speech to Peter Parker when convincing him to help him get a girl to notice him.
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Shows up once or twice in Cow and Chicken.
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Lilly gives one of these in Hannah Montana during a Bizarro Episode where she and Miley aren't friends:
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Solomon's list of seven things God hates in The Bible (Proverbs 6:16-19) begins:
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Ricky in the Trailer Park Boys episode "Take Your Little Gun and Get Out of My Trailer Park" gives this quick breakdown of the situation to the documentary crew:
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In The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), one of the players literally gets his outline (in this case, speech cards) disorganized. He starts off giving historical information about a play... and ends up giving the life story of Adolf Hitler.
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In The IT Crowd, when everyone thinks Jen has died, Denholm pulls one when giving a eulogy:
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Mad About You had a recurring joke where Paul would make a rambling speech where he would make his points as "Okay, A... and 2..."
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In Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Lex's speech at the Library Gala. It starts off well but soon becomes derailed as Lex's own philosophical musings and psychosis begin to rear their head, causing Lex to quickly cut himself off.
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Doctor Who: the Tenth Doctor does this periodically:
"Human Nature" has one of these. In the extended version of the scenenote which includes the portion which is fast-forwarded through in the episode itself, and was simply ad-libbed to fill time, the Doctor spends part of it babbling about irrelevant things. The part used in the episode, while on-topic, is still something of a mess, complete with a numbering error:
"Blink" gets it down to basics:
"Voyage of the Damned":
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From the Dudley Do-Right film:
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One of the central jokes in the Spanish Inquisition sketch on Monty Python's Flying Circus:
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Home Alone:
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The Stargate Atlantis episode "Letters from Pegasus" has various characters' funny, tear-jerking and heartwarming letters intercut with Rodney McKay sleep-deprived and babbling about who knows what. Every few sentences he'll stop and tell Ford (who was editing the videos they were sending home) to cut whatever he'd just said and start over. In the very end, he remembers his sister and gets his act together long enough to send a really touching message to her. He keeps percolating back to "Where was I? Oh yes...leadership."
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