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A character is contemplating about something they should do. They end up thinking of something smart that they should say, or something stupid that they should avoid saying. When it seems like everything will go well, they end up saying something stupid instead. Why the character says something stupid will vary, but the most common reason is for comedy. You can also expect a follow-up monologue of them scolding themselves. This is a close relative of the Gilligan Cut, and they can easily occur together if the thought comes before the cut and the speech after. Can also overlap with Ignore the Disability, if the character is mentally reminding themself to not mention some awkward topic, only to blurt it out as soon as they open their mouth. May have some relation to Did I Just Say That Out Loud?. Gibberish of Love is a Sub-Trope to this for verbal blackouts caused by a hormone shock. Some instances of I Need to Go Iron My Dog can result from this trope. |
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In one The Far Side comic, Tarzan swings through the jungle, rehearsing a number of ways to introduce himself to Jane. Upon actually seeing her, however, his far more eloquent introductions collapse into "Me Tarzan! You Jane!" much to his chagrin. | |
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Drew Gooden: In one video, Drew pokes fun at a YouTube channel with staged To Catch a Predator-style videos. In one, a woman is caught trying to assault a young girl (actually an adult woman playing the role). When it's pointed out that she knew the girl was 14 years old, she quickly claims that she said she was "some other age". Drew laughs at this, imagining what her thought process must've been. | |
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Happens a few times in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia POV episode, "Being Frank". | |
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The Simpsons: This is a Running Gag with Homer, whose relationship with his own brain is... shall we say, adversarial. A classic example from "Brother from the Same Planet". "Treehouse of Terror VI" segment "Homer Cubed": Homer is awed by the sight of the Third Dimension. In "Marge in Chains", Mr. Burns finds Homer sitting in a secret private chamber eating a sandwich. Burns furiously demands to know who he is. Even Bart goes through this. In "Teenaged Mutant Milk-caused Hurdles", he has a crush on the new teacher. Sometimes a reversal of this trope occurs, like in "Mr. Plow". In "Simpsorama" (the Crossover with Futurama), Marge is introduced to Leela: |
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Whose Line Is It Anyway?: One "Party Quirks" game has Colin Mochrie practicing clever pick-up lines—and then when he comes face-to-face with Kathy Greenwood, all he can say is "Nice boobs!" and immediately cringe at what he just said. | |
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Borderlands 2: Krieg does this quite a lot, as the good personality inside him that thinks of smart things is almost entirely a prisoner of his outer personality (which is basically a slightly more coherent Psycho, meaning he talks almost exclusively in bloodthirsty gibberish). | |
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In 8-Bit Theater, when Black Mage meets White Mage, the first thing out of his mouth is some Gibberish of Love. He then thinks, "Snap out of it, you fool! The most gorgeous woman in the universe is talking to you! Time to turn on the patented Black Mage charm and make a good first impression." He then says, "I am the Black Mage! I casts the spells that make the peoples fall down!" In an interesting twist, BM doesn't seem to realize how stupid he sounded. | |
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Total Drama: Tyler asks Lindsay to go on a walk with him. Lindsay thinks to herself "Have to say no. Have to say no." because Heather doesn't want her getting cuddly with anyone on the other team. She ends up saying okay and goes on the walk. | |
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In Stars And Time: After looping back for the first time, Siffrin attempts to act normal. Key word: tries. | |
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In Sword Art Online Abridged, Asuna asks Kirito what they should do next with their relationship. Kirito doesn't have the faintest idea, but he's on the spot and his brain tells him to come up with something. Anything. So long as he says it with confidence. Kirito says 'We should get married'. | |
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Phineas and Ferb: When trying to covertly investigate the titular brothers' invention of the day in "Undercover Carl" due to mistakenly thinking it's actually an evil antigravity device, when asked his name, Carl thinks to himself, "Say a cool name, like Nitro Dax or Steel", and then when actually introducing himself, just says "My name... is Carl." | |
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse: Miles, confronted by a security guard about leaving campus without permission, tells himself to play dumb. His verbal reply has him chastising himself for it being too dumb. | |
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OverSimplified: While France is receiving a "The Reason You Suck" Speech from Austria, it thinks to itself that it needs to say something to defuse the situation immediately. France announces a declaration of war, only heating things up. | |
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Dick Figures: In one episode where Red switches into Blue's body, he's going to a job interview at a stock market. When he's asked "What are your interpretations of last quarter's stock returns?" He thinks to say "We are undervaluing our fiscal stock remainders", and instead says complete gibberish. His brain decides to give him amnesia as revenge. | |
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The Amazing World of Gumball: In "The Hug", Gumball and Hot Dog Guy find themselves stuck in the school's broom closet together and both awkwardly try to leave each other when they hear the lunch bell ring. It doesn't work out smoothly for either of them. | |
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In the Marvel Comics Omega Effect crossover, Spider-Man meets up with The Punisher. When he sees that Frank Castle has a female sidekick, Spidey thinks to himself◊ that cracking a joke about it will just piss Frank off—but he can't stop himself from saying it. | |
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Robot Chicken: In a Dora the Explorer-themed sketch, Dora is sick of Boots saying he loves everything and asks him if there's anything he doesn't love. | |
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In El Goonish Shive, The Rant below a sketchbook strip has Dan failing to avoid making a hog heaven joke about the dead boar. In the EGS NP storyline "Who is Ellen?" when Rich refuses to believe Ellen found GMing a certain RPG easy, Ellen's internal monologue considers the situation, points out that she was playing casually with friends who went easy on her and Rich most likely had a different experience, and decides she should explain this to de-escalate the situation. Then she yells "Maybe it's hard for you, but I found it easy!" and her internal monologue says "Oh we're going in this direction okay then." |
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Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: Scott, suddenly finding himself having to explain his previous relationship with Knives to Ramona, mentally spins a wheel of responses that enable him to avoid answering, landing between feigning ignorance ("Who, her?") and escaping to the bathroom ("I gotta pee."). The result? | |
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The Demesne Of The Reluctant Twilight Sparkle: Twilight's reaction to her "gift". | |
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Family Guy: At a job interview, Peter is asked where he sees himself in five years. | |
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Luca: In what is later revealed to be a Nightmare Sequence, Luca's mother asks him where he's been. He thinks, "Don't say surface, don't say surface..." but then casually blurts out, "Surface". | |
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John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme: One sketch has a man on a date asked what he likes to do, causing him to panic as he can't think of anything he enjoys doing, or that is actually unique. After a minute or two of panicking he just blurts out "ice cream!" Then he remembers he's a mountaineer. | |
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In Friends, when Ross attempts to kiss his attractive cousin after misreading her signals as flirtatious and she angrily demands an explanation, he spends an agonisingly long time trying to first think of something clever to say to relieve the tension, and then to think of anything to say at all. After landing on "I haven't had sex in a really long time" and she storms off in disgust, he reflects that he'd have been better off saying nothing. | |
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