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A Non Sequitur (Latin for "it does not follow") in fiction is an event or line of dialogue which comes out of nowhere and—PUPPIES! Ahem... and bears no relevance to the subject at hand. It is a staple of surrealism and humor, and often establishes a character as The Ditz or a Cloudcuckoolander. I like bananas anyways. Can also refer to a type of logical fallacy. The newspaper daily strip of the same name is here. Compare Red Herring, when a distraction is used to divert attention; related to Insane Troll Logic. Sub-Tropes include: Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? Big-Lipped Alligator Moment, a particular kind of non sequitur event. Breathless Non Sequitur, a non sequitur humorously inserted unexpectedly into otherwise normal dialogue, with no change to inflection or pacing to indicate it's coming Deliberately Different Description: A set of similar items have their descriptions be similar as well, except for these member(s) that are described differently. Joke Level, a jarringly out-of-place level in a video game. Missing Steps Plan Necro Non Sequitur Tomato paper, firework. Notable Non Sequitur, a non-comedic variation in which the seeming randomness of a line of dialogue in a detective story marks it as important. Non Sequitur Distraction Non Sequitur Environment Non Sequitur, *Thud*, which is brought by a concussive injury. Odd Name Out Waking Non Sequitur, which comes out after the character wakes up. Related to Word-Salad Humor and, when applied to the Rule of Scary, Word-Salad Horror. |
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The Sherlock episode "The Sign of Three" has Sherlock delivering a speech at John's wedding. While he's talking, he realises that someone in the room is about to murdered, and goes on a deductive rampage in his mind trying to figure out who it is and who's going to murder them while also trying to keep his speech going and not arouse too much suspicion from his audience. The result is a semi-coherent speech to a crowd of confused people that keeps dipping into non sequiturs before Sherlock manages to shakily work whatever he just blurted out from his train of thought into the speech. | |
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Adventure Time: At the end of "Power Animal", after Jake rescues Finn from the clutches of the gnomes, Jake randomly says "Let's go eat Cinnamon Bun!" | |
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Duck from Almost Naked Animals lives and breathes this trope, to the point where he has become the Ensemble Dark Horse. Every time he comes on screen he spouts these, much to the other character's confusion. but no doubt to anyone that this is the weirdest. | |
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The dialogue of The Eric Andre Show is made up of about 90% of these. Eric telling Demi Lovato, apropos of nothing, "You are my knight in shining armor...you are the wind beneath my wings...I think you're great...and I'm ready for some football," while eating a plate of spaghetti, is one of the least inexplicable examples. | |
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Beatrice the Golden Witch once wrote a book with a narrative entirely comprised of these. She wrote the thing in a time total of 24 hours, spread over a week, as a challenge. Since she had to be as fast as possible to get it done in under a week, it can be assumed she just wrote whatever came to her mind. This results in rapidly changing context and chapters that have nothing to do with each other. The title? "I wrote this Light Novel in like a day, it sucks and I hate it, but if it ever gets an Anime adaptation, I'll pretend it was a work of genius." She released it as an audiobook on Youtube, with her as the narrator. | |
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Nobody Here: The first thing that comes to Jogchem's mind upon stubbing his toe against the table in "Ouch"? "A pen, a pen, quickly!" | |
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Dazzle has quite a few of these, including: | |
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Cromartie High School outright lampshades it. | |
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In 2001 Perry Saturn adopted a gimmick where he had wrestled too many hardcore matches (in other words, took too many hard blows to the head) and became a total Cloud Cuckoo Lander. He would spout non-sequiturs and end by saying "You're welcome!"note In actuality, Saturn was punished for unprofessional behavior by working with the very stiff Bradshaw. After the match, Saturn walked over to the announcers and, with a dazed look, said "You're welcome." The WWF decided to run with it. | |
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The Simpsons: As the series went on, Ralph generally became increasingly prone to these. Nancy Cartwright, who voices Ralph, has even said Ralph practically is a "non sequitur" in one of her interviews. Somewhat lampshaded in the episode when Marge loses her memory. Homer suggests that they could restore her memory by... (starts whispering in her ear). After a second, Marge leans back and this exchange occurs: |
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Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. "I need scissors! 61!" Justified since the Colonel AI has been corrupted by a virus, causing it to spit out nonsense. | |
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Sasahara from Nichijou: | |
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Or when the unseen animator in Duck Amuck, who turns out to be Bugs Bunny, turns Daffy Duck into a bizarre 4-legged creature with a screwball flag on his tail. | |
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Scarface: The World Is Yours is stuffed with lines of dialogue that sometimes don't flow together quite well. Tony would ask a girl to clean his pool and she demands they go shopping. Then he asks why she hangs around all the time, even though he invited her to live there. Then Tony starts talking about murdering his enemies, sometimes even after they are dead. | |
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There were quite a number in the Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) at points where the group's sanity slipped, such as "UH-OH, I'M A TARD-ASS!", "I'M FULL OF OWLS!" and when the group began to sing Rocket Man during The End of the World. | |
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Homsar largely communicates in non sequiturs like "I'm a song from the sixties!" and "Caramel corn for president, please!" Oddly enough, he's able to form a coherent sentence over the phone, as seen in episodes 5 and 17 of Marzipan's Answering Machine, and episode 2 of Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People implies he's actually speaking some sort of Starfish Language. He was also able to complete a full sentence in his first appearance in the Strong Bad Email "homsar", so his condition might be the result of getting a Heavy Lourde dropped on his head. | |
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Every other word that comes out of the mouth of Xavier: Renegade Angel. | |
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On Clerks: The Animated Series, while trapped in the freezer Randal sees an old lady shoplifting and he yells "The weeds of crime bear bitter fruit, you old hag!" We then see a flashback to the last time he said that, where it comes out of nowhere and makes no sense. | |
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Kitboga is a scambaiter popular on Twitch and YouTube. He just loves to pepper conversations with scammers with non-sequiturs, both to waste their time and see how they react - if they will try to engage on the subject, or just ignore and try to move on with their script. | |
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Pretty much anything said by The Ultimate Warrior in The Spoony Experiment. In fact, pretty much everything the real Ultimate Warrior says counts. At one point Spoony's version says the entire page quote verbatim and it fits perfectly. |
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xkcd has several examples, mainly because of Cloudcuckoolander Beret Guy, who regularly says the most ridiculous things without warning. | |
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Nappa from Team Four Star's Dragon Ball Z Abridged says one of these with nearly every sentence. Much to the confusion and frustration of everyone around him. It is even lampshaded in the Dragon Ball Z Kai Abridged video. Goku, though not as frequent, at times does this as well. |
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One chapter of Kaguya-sama: Love Is War has Kaguya, Shirogane, and Ishigami turn into shojo parodies of themselves after they all binge read a romance manga and start acting out an Imaginary Love Triangle, only for Fujiwara to come bursting into the room and start talking about a sumo match she recently watched. Fujiwara's final focus chapter at the end of the series would retroactively turn this into a subversion when it's revealed that she dreams of one day marrying a sumo wrestler, meaning that her seemingly random comment was actually on topic the whole time. | |
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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas: CJ's girlfriends repeat the same non-sequiturs ad nauseum during car trips. CJ feigns interest. The pedestrians in the game can have conversations with each other. However, these conversations consist entirely of random voice clips, so they are literally nothing but a series of strung-together non-sequiturs. |
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In the Phineas and Ferb episode "Phineas and Ferb Interrupted", victims of Dr. Doofenshmirtz's Dull-And-Boring-Inator not only become...well, dull and boring, but also gain the tendency to talk like this. Examples include: Baljeet once creates a song on his computer called "Improbably Knot", which is supposed to demonstrate his difficulty with making decisions. However, while the lyrics make sense, the images that go along with them absolutely do NOT. There are dancing robots, people with fake horse heads, and flying cacti for some reason. |
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Mrs. Davis from Our Miss Brooks is the source of the occasional non-sequitur. Mrs. Davis is very absentminded and sometimes forgets what she's saying in the middle of a sentence. | |
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There's so many in Evaporate that it has It's own page for it. | |
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Kaeloo: In one episode, Stumpy develops an obsession with vampires, and Kaeloo decides to give him psychotherapy to deal with it. Lying on the Freudian Couch, Stumpy explains how he's been having recurring nightmares about... being eaten by a "were-dumpster". Kaeloo even lampshades how that has nothing to do with vampires. | |
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Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker liked to employ this. The Kentucky Fried Movie has one in "BIG JIM has satisfied women throughout the world! And the capital of Nebraska is Lincoln!", and Airplane! features just about every line by Johnny, such as "First the earth cooled. And then the dinosaurs came but they got too big and fat so they died and turned to oil. Then the Arabs came and they were driving Mercedes Benz's. And Prince Charles started wearing all of Lady Di's clothes. I couldn't believe it." | |
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Brittany from Glee is known for these. | |
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Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo: Bobobo's "Fist of the Nosehair" and Don Patch's "Hajike" fighting styles seem to entirely revolve around confusing one's opponent into submission with non sequitur puns and sight gags. | |
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Part 2 of Strange Times Are Upon Us opens with a 19th-century American boy going deer-hunting. Seems a perfectly normal Slice of Life scene until: | |
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In Sam, Bangs & Moonshine, when Bangs "warns" (actually in her imagination) Sam about the tide, she says, "Pardon me while I go to the moon". | |
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Played as a joke in Time Bandits when Robin Hood asks a dwarf bandit how long he's been a robber. The robber replies, "Four-foot-one!" A confused Robin stammers out, "Four-foot-one? That... that... that is a long time, isn't it?" before moving on. Since the bandit is an ageless, time-jumping angelic being, he apparently decided to simply supply his height rather then try to answer the question. | |
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Creative Release is prone to these. "AND THUS, recap episode. (not pictured: NSFW pictures of the author)". | |
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"Lone Star" by The Front Bottoms, is mostly a serious song about abortion. But it ends with a bit that's variants on the line "Because freshness is expected from any Hip Hop artist, I avoid using traditional techniques."note The Front Bottoms are not Hip Hop. The bit flows smoothly musically from the rest of the song, and the lyrics are sung with increasing anguish, but the lyrics don't make any sense with the rest of the song. | |
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Oversaturated World: Group Preciptation: "Launch Error, by FoME": An annoyed Scootaloo approaches Sunset, who prepares to hear a complaint and gets "I want to file a bug report." in response, Sunset responding with a blink and "What?" of confusion, leading to further explanation that makes sense of the out-of-place statement, since it's just taking a different look at things. The bug report is because Sunset was responsible for configuring the world's magic system, and that's what Scootaloo has a problem with. | |
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The Boy Who Cried Idiot: Clyde calls himself a guinea pig for no apparent reason when he's telling off Martin for calling him, Rusty, Zach, and Liam ugly. Then, Martin takes Lincoln away from Clyde and says it's because "guinea pigs eat mice", even though A.) they don't, and B.) Lincoln is not a mouse. Lincoln tells Chandler that "My name is Lincoln, not Larry", even though Chandler hadn't called him Larry. Martin randomly calls Lincoln a cucumber once. |
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VeggieTales: The verses in "The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything" by Larry the Cucumber, who follows two pirate-themed verses with lines about never having kissed a chipmunk or painted daisies on a big red rubber ball. The other two go on to lampshade the hell out of it. | |
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There are several in The Room (2003). The most infamous being this (which, depending on how much credit you give to the screenwriter, might qualify as a deliberate example of Hypocritical Humour): | |
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The "Captain Jim & Pablo" skits from early '90s Saturday Night Live come to mind, with just about everything Pablo (Adam Sandler) says qualifying: | |
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Armada - The REAL Story: Jolt responds to being told to accompany Hot Shot on his mission by saying he has articulation. Hot Shot declares "i eAt yOuR bAbIEs" as he drives out of the Autobot base. Unlike most of his dialogue, this statement has nothing to do with how he's feeling or what's happening around him. |
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Gir from Invader Zim does a lot of these. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants has some as well. One of them involves SpongeBob trying to get Mermaidman and Barnacle Boy out of the retirement home. He attempts to reason with them, then Mermaidman gets fed up with it and says the following: | |
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Welcome to Night Vale: Most episodes of the series. Cecil will report on a horrifying event before punctuating it with "And now, the Weather." Even then the weather is always a song from a guest artist, further pushing the trope | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Pinkie Pie is prone to blurting out comments that only make sense to her. For example, in "The Cutie Mark Chronicles" she ends her story with how she threw her first party and earned her Cutie Mark with "And that's how Equestria was made!" Then there's her tangent-filled commentary on the Running of the Leaves from "Fall Weather Friends": In "Princess Spike", Spike wakes a sleep-deprived Twilight Sparkle to ask her for advice, and she mutters "Just put the hay in the apple and eat the candle." |
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While the AI in AI Dungeon 2 is pretty good at about at least having some form of segway between events even if the plot of the original prompt goes Off the Rails pretty quickly, there are times when it'll randomly spit out a line that Makes Just as Much Sense in Context. | |
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In the Grand Finale of Generator Rex, right after the Obfuscating Insanity Van Kleiss explains how to do something spoilerrific, and not particularly relevant to the trope, he randomly asks if anyone has seen his socks. | |
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Fregley from Diary of a Wimpy Kid always opens with bizarre, disturbing lines whenever Greg walks by his house, such as "Wanna see my secret freckle?" | |
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About 50 percent of everything Ed from Ed, Edd n Eddy says is a non sequitur. Often, when he's asked a question, his response is "buttered toast" or "gravy" and he randomly shouts "I love chickens" even when there aren't any chickens present. | |
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Epic Meal Time "WE 'BOUT TO GET DRUNK OFF PANCAKES!!!" "We're about to die for this. What'you know about dyin'?" "What up, meat sauce?" "Sushi! Fast food! Sex!" |
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South Park, "Mr Hankey's Christmas Classics": | |
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Pokémon Reset Bloodlines: Anabel has a few of these during the Sabrina arc, due to randomly trying to teleport herself, Misty and Iris as they try to find Ash outside her telepathy range. This leaves her completely disoriented and upon landing, she says things like "Succotash" and "Buttermilk waffles". | |
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Countdown: In many Letters rounds (rarely Numbers) on the 8 Out of 10 Cats edition, whilst the clock is ticking, host Jimmy Carr would take part in a humorous activity, such as blowing up balloons (and then getting lifted up with them), drinking a potion to grow hair quickly or enticing a bird of prey to fly onto his arm. Rachel Riley (the arithmetician) and occasionally Susie Dent (the lexicographer) sometimes take part in these segments. | |
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Homestar Runner: Homsar largely communicates in non sequiturs like "I'm a song from the sixties!" and "Caramel corn for president, please!" Oddly enough, he's able to form a coherent sentence over the phone, as seen in episodes 5 and 17 of Marzipan's Answering Machine, and episode 2 of Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People implies he's actually speaking some sort of Starfish Language. He was also able to complete a full sentence in his first appearance in the Strong Bad Email "homsar", so his condition might be the result of getting a Heavy Lourde dropped on his head. Senor Cardgage is prone to non sequiturs as well ("Hey, Brethany. Are you came to fetch the Dodgers?"), though he lost The Championship to Homsar. |
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Groucho's speech at the engagement party in The Cocoanuts is another: | |
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Freedom Planet, during one of the hidden bloopers. | |
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Night and Day is full of these — a symptom both of the show's attempts at surrealism, and of the condensed night-time omnibuses, which cut many contextualizing scenes. Since the daytime episodes were axed fairly early in the UK run (though still produced in full and distributed to foreign markets), sometimes events that had occurred in axed scenes were alluded to in the omnibus or pre-titles recap, leading to confusion for viewers. Other events were simply unexplained altogether for stylistic reasons, leaving viewers to ponder on the ambiguities for themselves. These two factors combined to create an unsettling, disruptive effect which arguably added to the show's sense of mystery and atmosphere. For example: Holly admitted to having sent a series of poison pen letters to Roxanne, then weeks later admitted that she didn't send them after all, with very little by way of explanation for the earlier admission. In another episode, Natalie's assertion to Roxanne that she believes Danny — a character who has been absent for 18 years — to have killed Jane, and that he wants to 'destroy us all', seems to come entirely from nowhere. Josh's period of Demonic Possession and apparent vampire tendencies are played incredibly ambiguously, with no real attempt to define their cause or the reason for their resolution. |
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Dice Funk: Anne is the master of this trope. She just shouts out whatever comes across her mind, no matter how stupid, dangerous, or nonsensical the thought. | |
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An episode of Star Trek: Voyager is actually titled "Non Sequitur" and features an extreme example: Harry Kim is sucked through a Negative Space Wedgie and wakes up in an alternate universe. Not only is he 70,000 light years from where he was, but so much time has passed since he (in his reality) disappeared with Voyager that he doesn't even know what this version of himself is supposed to be doing. | |
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Can occur with the match commentary in WWE Video Games, especially in the early games in the series. The commentators will suddenly talk about wrestlers not in the match, a different type of match, a move that wasn't used, etc. This has gotten better over the years, but it still happens now and again. | |
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Friday Night Funkin': The little man songs from the Game Mod are full of non-sequitiurs, assorted memes, broken glass, and not-so-obscure references, which is what makes them so funny. | |
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When Tony the Talking Clock from Don't Hug Me I'm Scared is prompted on what time actually is (specifically "But when did it start?" "And when will it stop?"), he answers "Time is important and I am a clock," and moves on as if he addressed the issue at all. The floating saxophone teacher from episode 6: "BOO DOP A DOO-WOP, I TEACH YOU HOW TO BUY A CANOOOOOOOOOOOOE!" Context won't help. |
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The Gravity Falls episode "Society of the Blind Eye" features McGucket with the main cast. Hence, we get this gem: | |
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Short Circuit: shortly after Number 5 gains sapience and starts wandering around confused, its programmers are logged into its OS remotely and are trying to enter commands, to which it always just responds "Malfunction. Need input." Until finally it, out of nowhere, asks "Wouldn't You Like To Be A Pepper Too?", which completely baffles everyone. Newton guesses the robot is using its print scanner to read a sign somewhere, which turns out to be correct. | |
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Jack Vale Films has a whole series called "Nonsense", where he says nonsensical statements to random strangers. | |
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