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When a character tries to recount an anecdote or tell a story, usually related to the situation their friends are experiencing, they will get carried away with unnecessary exposition and go off in absurd and comedic tangents. By the time they have reached the ending, the intended moral or theme of the story is lost. The Cloudcuckoolander is often prone to this, as are talkative old men. May overlap with No Sense of Humor. Compare Metaphorgotten, Ice-Cream Koan, Disorganized Outline Speech. Also compare Fractured Fairy Tale, in which it's due to the author's deliberation, and Sidetracked by the Analogy, when it's the listener who takes the meaning of the story off its course. Contrast "Shaggy Dog" Story, where the story does go somewhere— it's just not impressive once it does. |
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In Betrayal at Krondor, the book Thiful's Bird Migrations starts with a discussion on birds, but since the author simply cannot keep on topic, it becomes the only book to provide bonuses to every skill in the game. | |
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El ChapulÃn Colorado: Trying to discourage a boy from his habit of telling lies, Chapulin says the kid might end up like the boy from "Peter and the Wolf". After the boy says he doesn't know the story, Chapulin, who doesn't know it either, makes up one on the spot about a wolf that liked to tell lies to the point that, when he met the three little pigs, he claimed to be Little Red Riding Hood. In the end, he forgets to include Peter in his version and, when called out for this, he says Peter wrote the tale. | |
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Deponia. The entire game. Both the opening and closing songs establish that the whole thing's being told by the singing narrator to explain why he shouldn't have to do chores... but in the closing song, he admits he doesn't really understand how it establishes this and claims the moral is that "The chorus guys rule." | |
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Mater's Tall Tales is, as it suggests, Mater telling stories about how he supposedly met aliens, was a firetruck and a matador, amongst other things. Hilariously, around half-way through each retelling; | |
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The Simpsons: In episode "Itchy and Scratchy: The Movie", Homer tries explaining to Bart why his punishment is for his own good. In a similar vein, in the episode "Marge Be Not Proud", Homer is attempting to explain to Bart why he can't have the video game he covets. Homer had a few actually, including this one from "Homer the Heretic": Pretty much everything Grandpa Simpson says, including one time he deliberately invoked this: And then there's Reverend Lovejoy's sermon following Homer's supposed alien encounter: When convincing Bart to donate blood to Mr. Burns in hope of a reward, Homer ends up telling a rambling, confused story that seems to be a mix of Hercules' defeat of the Nemean Lion, Androcles' Lion and King Arthur pulling the sword from the stone, which ultimately doesn't clarify a darn thing: In "Homer to the Max", Abe explains to Homer that he shouldn't have changed his name with a Lineage Ladder: |
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In Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Otacon takes over as Snake's Voice with an Internet Connection, and takes all the roles of Snake's former team. However, he does not that great of a job imitating Mei-Ling's quoting of Chinese proverbs. Call him enough and Mei-Ling hijacks his feed to tell him to shut up. | |
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One of the more classic Looney Tunes episodes, "Foney Fables", plays on an alteration of the The Grasshopper and the Ants; initially, it seems to play the fable straight, showing the Ant diligently stocking up for winter while the Grasshopper lounges nearby, but when the Ant chides him for not preparing, the Grasshopper reveals that he did prepare—by buying War Bonds! | |
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On Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Meatwad attempts to explain why they need a new TV. | |
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In Double Homework, Henry attempts to recount what he was told about planning the protagonist’s “appreciation party.� He tries to start from his birth date... and then, from when he got his first email account. The protagonist defies this, however, and gets the real and relevant story out of his friend. | |
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Discworld: Granny Weatherwax tries to tell the joke about the man who orders an alligator sandwich and says "and make it snappy!" but she can't remember the punchline, so she keeps coming up with things like "And I want it quickly!" It's explained at some point that, while she's not entirely missing a sense of humour, she tends not to understand why a certain joke is funny. In this case, she's simply repeating one she's heard, and doesn't understand why no-one laughs when she tells it. Pyramids has the Greatest Storyteller in the World, who is unfortunately hampered by a bad memory and short attention span, so all his stories turn into this. |
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In PandoraHearts Retrace LXXVII, Echo tries to tell one of these to an emotionally fragile Oz in order to cheer him up while he's locked up in Pandora's dungeon, awaiting execution at the hands of the Baskervilles. It works because Echo forgets the ending of the story, as it reminds Oz of something Gil would have done. From what we get of the story, it was definitely already this trope with or without an ending: | |
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The Muppet Show once did a reading on the Aesop of the Ant and the Grasshopper. Only in this version, when winter fell, the grasshopper drove his sports car to Florida and the ant got stepped on. The reader, Sam the Eagle, responds accordingly once he realizes what he's read. | |
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Done hilariously in Freakazoid!. | |
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In an episode of Just Shoot Me!, Finch goes into great detail when explaining how he pranked Maya. This is relevant to the episode, but then Finch throws in the part about how he played Twister with supermodels while the others were out. | |
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Played for drama in Gravity Falls: Lost Legends: In "Face It", it's revealed Pacifica's abusive mother drilled into her head from a young age that looks were everything, including telling her a version of The Ugly Duckling where the duckling grew up alone and miserable instead of learning he was a swan. | |
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Crystal from The Order of the Stick gives one of these to Haley in "Don't Split the Party": | |
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xkcd What happens if a math professor starts dozing off while reading fairy tales: "Short Selling": An analogy used to explain shorting stocks starts with "It's like when you promise your firstborn to a witch for five magic beans." You can probably guess this isn't going to be a very clear or helpful analogy. |
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American Dad!: From "White Rice": When Stan makes an offhanded reference to Ghostbusters, Roger angrily responds with a story: Roger attempts to reassure Stan that he's the perfect person to manage Stan's new restaurant: |
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Stargate SG-1: There's this example from Col. O'Neill: "Haven't you guys heard the story about the dog and the dancing monkeys? It's about getting along and... dancing." This a throwback to an earlier exchange between O'Neill and an old man who likes using proverbs and fables. The exchange is peppered with this. | |
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Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc's Yasuhiro Hagakure starts a story intending to show how his fortune-telling is different from 'occult' matters, and ends up explaining how aliens proved his 'all-beef' hamburger was 70% pork. Nobody else could follow it, either. | |
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Poker Night at the Inventory sees Tycho asking Max where he learned to play cards. Max starts recounting an adventure in Atlantic City, but by the time he finishes the anecdote he's forgotten there was a question he was supposed to answer. | |
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Our Miss Brooks: In the episode "Friday The Thirteenth", Mrs. Davis tries to assure Miss Brooks her troubles with Mr. Conklin are merely psychological. Mrs. Davis relates how her brother Victor was afraid to enter a yard because of a dog that was always barking. Victor went to a psychiatrist who told him that the only reason the dog was barking was because the dog was afraid Victor would kick him.... | |
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Paranatural: Johnny gives Max this sage advice: More recently: |
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Kaeloo: In one episode, Kaeloo tries to give a speech on equality in the style of "I Had A Dream": | |
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As with the above example, Will's boss Ben Doucette on Will & Grace tells him a story about a passionate sexual encounter on the beach. When Will asks him what his point is, he answers, "No point, I just like telling that story. Now get back to work and stop listening to pointless stories." | |
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The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius: When out hunting the Retroville Lake Monster, Captain Betty is asked how he got his name. He tells them a chilling tale about a shipment of sea monkeys got attacked by the monster and ate up all of the sea monkeys. He ends it with a happy "And that's why they call me Betty!" | |
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Mr. James from NewsRadio is fond of these. For example: "There's a saying, 'I cried because I had no desk, until I met a man who had no feet, and the no feet guy explained there was no such thing as a budget and WNYX was way, way over it, uh, the end.' Did you ever hear that story?" | |
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Pyramids has the Greatest Storyteller in the World, who is unfortunately hampered by a bad memory and short attention span, so all his stories turn into this. | |
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Happened more than once on Futurama, mostly through the... wisdom of Fry, as the page quote brilliantly demonstrates. | |
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A lampshaded example in Grumpier Old Men, Grandpa Gustafson (Burgess Meredith, in his final role) tells his son John (Jack Lemmon) about his daily dietary habits, which involve waking up with a cigarette and then eating copious amounts of bacon for every meal. Despite his habits, he's managed to outlive multiple doctors who've told him that it's a medical miracle that he didn't died thirty years ago, with his only justification being that "God forgot about me" before he shrugs it off and says "Well, it just goes to show you." John points out that ending a story with this implies that there's a moral, but Grandpa says there wasn't a point, he just liked telling that story. | |
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The Amazing World of Gumball: In "The Transformation," Gumball tries to settle the Fitzgerald family's differences by telling a long sequence of Nested Shaggy Frog stories. Strangely, it works, as the Fitzgeralds see the pointless stories as a symbol for their mindless squabbles. | |
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This was the shtick of Saturday Night Live character Roseanne Roseannadanna. She would answer a letter about a current topic, which would inevitably lead to an anecdote about meeting a celebrity doing something gross. When asked what does that have to do with the topic at hand, Roseannnadanna would respond with the catchphrase "It just goes to show, it's always something." | |
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In Major Payne, the eponymous character is a Veteran Instructor at a Military School. In an attempt to inspire a student, he tells the story of "The Little Engine that Could"... but before he gets far, his Vietnam flashbacks kick in and the tale rapidly devolves into a vivid war story full of gore, explosions and ripped-off limbs. Stopped before he gets to the end, he later uses the threat of telling the tale again to discipline the students. | |
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Fairy Tail: Natsu tries explaining to Gajeel why he shouldn't be surprised that Lucy can put up a fight: | |
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Deadly Rooms of Death There a man in The City Beneath who you find just after he finishes nailing every chair in the Rooted Empire to the floor. When asked to explain, he starts to go off on a long rambling story about a cheesemonger who was distracted by something a gossiper had said. Allegedly, it would all make sense if he actually got to finish, but Beethro gets bored and cuts him off, leaving it as a Noodle Incident. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: This absolute gem in "Mermaid Man & Barnacle Boy VI: The Movie". When SpongeBob despairs about his lack of movie-making skills, Mermaid Man tries to cheer him up thusly: "Something Smells": In this episode, Spongebob becomes convinced he's extremely ugly due to everyone avoiding him, not being aware that the reason for their aversion is the fact he actually had really bad breath that day. Patrick (who, not having a nose, is completely unaware of Spongebob's bad breath), attempts to make Spongebob feel better: |
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Team Fortress 2: The Soldier has a memorable one in "Meet the Soldier" | |
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Invoked by Cross in This Bites! when Ms. Valentines Day demands to know the source of his world-shaking knowledge, and he ends his explanation with the American Civil War. | |
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The climax of Billy Madison has the eponymous character trying to compare the changes in literature brought on by the Industrial Revolution with a children's story called "The Puppy Who Lost His Way". We never get to hear most of it but what is heard appears to be pretty impressively mangled. | |
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The Upright Citizens Brigade' episode "The Story of the Toad", about the titular toad who left bread crumbs in the forest so he could find his way back … and then runs into one of his friends, Harry the Hornless Unicorn. | |
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The Looney Tunes Show: When Bugs asks Lola how she broke her leg, she goes into a long story about trying to save a baby, while going through several dangerous events, where she could've broken her leg, but didn't. In fact, that wasn't even how she broke her leg. She just fractured it, trying to get up on the doctor's table. | |
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When Stan makes an offhanded reference to Ghostbusters, Roger angrily responds with a story: | |
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The Golden Girls: All of Rose's St. Olaf stories, or when Sophia talked about her life in Sicily. | |
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John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme: One Storyteller's sketch has him asked for a story involving the phrase "that robot weasel might just be Prince Albert". He tells a story about Queen Victoria's brain, and robot hedgehogs, only at the end to realise he misheard the question. Many of the Storyteller's stories are like this. One is a long, rambling ghost story, which he only realises after he's finished doesn't actually have a ghost in it. |
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In How I Met Your Mother, Barney Stinson will tell a story allegedly to illustrate a point that ends up merely highlighting his sexual prowess. | |
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In Kingdom of Loathing, most of what Grandpa Sea Monkee has to say is some variation of this. The wizard Fernswarthy's letter to his future grave-robber starts out with threats of a terrible curse for desecrating his grave, segues into a discussion about the merits of a career in chartered accountancy, segues again into a letter to an unnamed friend in the Distant Lands, and ends up as a shopping list. The curse also fails to work properly. Fernswarthy wasn't all there in his old age. |
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Osomatsu-san's take on the Honest Axe trope follows as such: Jyushimatsu drops his fishing pole into the river. Choromatsu, posing as a water spirit, asks him which of two statues of Asura he dropped. When he answers neither, he gets none of the items, and Choromatsu instead rewards him with a small man to be used as a family heirloom. | |
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