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A trope we can all relate to, and one of the most prominent reasons behind why TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Life. You're probably doing it right now, or if you aren't you will be by the time you finish this article. A Wiki Walk is a train of thought that has gone off the rails and is Riding into the Sunset. When going for a Wiki Walk you know where you begin, but no one knows where you'll end. Are you a Mad Scientist building an orbital death ray? Well, too bad, inspiration struck and now it's the world's biggest dancing dishwasher with a fully adjustable cup holder. You want to have a serious talk about the Middle East? Within ten minutes you'll be arguing whether Darth Vader could take Gandalf in a fight. Just want to check the Rule of Cool page? Before you know it you're adding examples to Bungling Inventor. You, my friend, have just had a Wiki Walk. The key feature of a Wiki Walk is that if someone were to see only the beginning and end of the Wiki Walk it would seem completely random, while in fact there was a series of thoughts that connected the beginning and end result, or it is at least implied that this is the case. Despite the name, the phenomenon itself has existed since long before wikis—computers and hyperlinking simply made it faster and easier. For example, in the days of paper book encyclopedias, a person would get distracted and sidetracked by articles they paged past on their way to what they were actually looking for. If in a mystery, it could easily cause a "Eureka!" Moment, or possibly a Bat Deduction depending on how out-of-nowhere it feels. A common version of this trope is when a Wiki Walk is still in progress at the end of a scene, and then we catch the end of the conversation, which usually takes the form of a Noodle Incident, at the beginning of a later scene. A Cloud Cuckoo Lander is particularly susceptible to these, though we mostly only hear the end result. This is most likely responsible for the stranger half of any Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? moment. If there is a database involved it will usually overlap with an Archive Binge, and is one of the reasons TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Life. A Sub-Trope of this is the Halfway Plot Switch when the plot seems to do this. Refers to how you could, in two or three links, end up at a trope seemingly unrelated to the page you started from. Definitely an example of Truth in Television. Often cannot be recreated, as anyone who has spotted an interesting trope en route, planned to come back to it, and then forgotten what it was, will attest. Doing it intentionally for fun is known as "playing Wiki Tag." Thankfully however there is the ever-helpful "open in new tab" function on your browser... People have turned this into a game! It's called The Wiki Game, and the objective is to get from one article to a completely different article in the fewest number of clicks. For an academic paper on the subject (although possibly not a peer-reviewed one—there is no title of an academic journal displayednote Although it was presented at the 2009 Workshop on Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing), go here. Here on TV Tropes, tropers are asked to not leave links to pages on or off the wiki in place of contextualized examples because (among other reasons) tropers are incredibly prone to the Wiki Walk. See also Schmuck Bait. |
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In Finding Nemo, Dory starts to go down this path several times, but she is usually stopped. | |
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The Salvation War has a gorgon in "Armageddon" (Book 1 of 3) learn of the "invocations of 'goo gul' and 'wiccan pee-dee-ah'" only to fall victim to this effect: | |
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Links on Nobody Here will often contain more links within them, connecting the stories together and making the reader stray from their starting point. Each page also contains a "random" button at the bottom for more chaos. | |
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Orihime Inoue's daydream in Bleach begins with her and the main character, Ichigo, on a romantic walk in the park, which turns into a race against an African-American athlete, ending in her victory (in a boxing match), and immediately followed by an attempted assassination. She is shown doing so from time to time. Example: once during the Rukia rescue arc, Ishida saw her crying, and she explained she was just looking at the sun, proceeding to compare the sensation to many other unrelated things—in order, sneezing, feeling like going to the bathroom while in a bookstore and feeling the gums bleeding while biting on an apple. By far the best is when she has to say goodbye to a sleeping Ichigo: |
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In one episode of The Simpsons, Marge is trying to find a way to bring culture to Springfield: | |
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Yuyushiki is basically Wiki Walk: The Anime with the three title characters forming a club to randomly look up words or phrases on the internet and following where their train of thought takes them. | |
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An old man in Nichijou manages an impressive one about how miserable his life is starting with how nobody came to his online chat party, to people leaving the bus when he got on, to a goof up on a school trip, to insomnia, to gaining weight, and ending on how his last birthday present was a roll. | |
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Some Looney Tunes cartoons wind up as something like this. One example is The Rabbit of Seville, where Bugs & Elmer Fudd's Escalating War starts with axes and ends with Fudd putting on a bridal dress and marrying Bugs. | |
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In Darkwing Duck, Mr Muddlefoot does this several times throughout the show. | |
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Of course the folks over at The Wiki Game have made a sport of exactly this phenomenon. | |
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The main character of Scrubs, JD, experiences daydreams that cause him to go on three-part wiki walks. The trigger comment, the daydream, and his verbal response. Amusingly lampshaded in later seasons, where they show the trigger comment but the camera stays "in the real world", where JD's friends comment on how he's about to snap out of it with a completely off-the-wall comment. He doesn't disappoint. | |
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Cracked has its own name for this phenomenon: Wikipedia Freefall. Cracked itself, despite not being a wiki, can very easily become one of these due to links in the text as well as "recommended" pages at the end of the text. #5 of 6 New Kinds of Anxiety the Internet Gave Us is "The Irresistible Impulse to Follow a Link Chain". |
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In Animaniacs, "Chairman of the Bored" a character goes on a long and boring Wiki Walk, he even manages to scare the titular characters with it. | |
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Browsing the SCP Foundation wiki can sometimes lead to this. Be warned, that site can turn creepy fast. It's quite possible to go from "A never-ending pizza box? That's pretty cool." to "Oh, eww, what is that?! Aagh! much quicker than you might think. | |
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In Cop Craft, a clue of a bulldog tattoo on the elbow comes up in episode 11. When one of the cops identifies the bearer as likely a US Marine who got it before new regulations, citing Wikipedia, her partner responds with a 3-step Wiki Walk from the starter page (M4 Carbine). What she responds with is more like 30 steps. | |
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In one episode of King of the Hill, Bobby joins a school club specializing in pop culture studies, and everyone quickly realizes he's a master of pop culture quizzes. But as pop culture study becomes work rather than play, he becomes more distressed. Then, during one moment while in a shopping center, his mind suddenly starts topic-linking lots of trivia in a continuous Wiki Walk tree of thought that doesn't stop, and this triggers a panic attack that causes him to pass out. | |
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Discworld has Leonard of Quirm, whose inventions are rarely what he initially intends because he gets distracted along the way. The man sketched instructions for a nuclear weapon in the margins of a sketch of a flower. He thought it might make a good mining tool, but had no military application because no one would be willing to use it (a Shout-Out to Nobel and dynamite). Lord Vetinari has, in fact, spent many a long afternoon speculating on the fate of the world if Leonard should ever maintain his focus on any one thing for longer than an hour. "Bloody Stupid" Johnson had the same habit, except he tended to mix up his links mid-Walk and end up with stuff like a pipe organ that interlocks with a bathroom's plumbing. The Discworld Roleplaying Game supplement has a special character advantage to reflect this sort of thing: it usually gives you a bonus to creative work, but every time you try for something original, there's a chance you might actually come up with something revolutionary but unrelated. |
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In Origins, a Mass Effect/Star Wars/Borderlands/Halo Massive Multiplayer Crossover, a villain actually gets started on a Heel–Face Turn from "wiki-walking" through a captured ship's computer core, exposing them to new concepts that begin to break down their simple view of the universe. | |
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Less Wrong is one of these for those who are interested in being rational. There are links in the text of posts to other posts. | |
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On an episode of the Martin/Molloy radio show, guest John Clarke opined that the internet was like the modern version of the dictionary. You'd open the dictionary to look up the word 'perspicacity', and three hours later you're discovering all of these new and interesting words but still haven't learned what 'perspicacity' means. | |
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In Strawberry Marshmallow, Miu had a train of thought that started with baseball and culminated with the realization that Nobue's birthday was the next day. It went something... like this (direction changed to limit confusion): | |
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Yuuki from Kanamemo at one point starts rambling about sneezing caused by curses, straw dolls, and wood shortage, indicating that something is not quite right with the usually quiet woman—and she indeed collapses from high fever shortly after. | |
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In Azumanga Daioh, Osaka doesn't just Wiki-walk, she Wiki-pole-vaults. In one beach episode, she has a one-sided conversation with Sakaki about dolphins, sea lions, and hemorrhoids. | |
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In The Outside, Yasira browses a database of information meant to be uploaded into angels' heads, organized in an associative manner that mimics the way thoughts are stored. She finds it hard to get used to, as she keeps getting sidetracked and forgetting the way back. | |
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In Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures Macy goes on a "public registry" walk when looking up Abel, then manages to stop herself on the fourth entry. | |
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The game Wikiball (starting at random page and getting to another) is basically one giant Wiki Walk. Nabhani (disambiguation) to Avatar: The Last Airbender? Nabhani → Oman → Education → Humanities → Internet → BBC → Broadcasting → DVD → Video → Film → Animation → Anime → Anime-influenced animation → Avatar: The Last Airbender Variants on this game put restrictions on what you're allowed to click on. It is also known as wikiracing, when it is played in a competitive form, with the aim being to get from one page to another either in less time or fewer clicks than your competitors. | |
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Lord Peter Wimsey's mother is famous for constantly going off on a tangent, whenever she speaks—and then on a tangent to the tangent, and so on. Back when the books were written, it was probably great fun to read, if you were reasonably educated and followed the news. These days, it's mostly confusing. | |
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Aki in Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts does this several times, the most notable one being in the second OVA. The viewer is shown a long series of thoughts—none of which makes any sense—while the other characters are left wondering how Shimada saying that Himeji might change schools has anything to do with whether Hideyoshi would still love Aki if he had a mohawk. | |
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Haruhi Suzumiya: The title character will occasionally fall into one of these. One episode of Haruhi-chan opened with Haruhi watching cherry blossoms fall and mumbling to herself about "hiding the bodies," and ended with an idea for a field trip/treasure hunt (mostly an excuse to have Kyon dig a hole). Luckily Itsuki was on hand to describe each stage in Haruhi's thought process, just from knowing the starting and ending points. |
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In the Lair of the Shadow Broker DLC in Mass Effect 2, files on Grunt reveal his web searches, in which he started looking for information on krogan history and wound up reading about dinosaurs. | |
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Pinky and the Brain: "The Pinky P.O.V.", an episode shown from Pinky's perspective (complete with his nose in the center of the camera view) reveals that his random responses to Brain's Catchphrase, "Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?" are the end result of Wiki Walking. note From a Watsonian perspective, anyways; from a Doylist perspective, it's the result of Rob Paulsen ad-libbing. | |
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Apparently Anthony Carver of Gunnerkrigg Court enjoys taking wiki walks in his spare time, although he calls it "networked learning." | |
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In The Office, Michael Scott uses this to demonstrate his technique for memorizing names in "Lecture Circuit". | |
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One episode of Haruhi-chan opened with Haruhi watching cherry blossoms fall and mumbling to herself about "hiding the bodies," and ended with an idea for a field trip/treasure hunt (mostly an excuse to have Kyon dig a hole). Luckily Itsuki was on hand to describe each stage in Haruhi's thought process, just from knowing the starting and ending points. | |
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Twisted Kaiju Theater makes an actual plot point out of this. | |
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At one point in Disney's Tarzan, Tarzan views a slide show of elements of modern (in 1882) British life, to "know about the strangers like me [him]". It is implied that he views every single slide Jane and her father brought because there's a dissolve to Tarzan still looking through slides while they're asleep. | |
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Captain B. McCrea from WALL•E receives some major character development using one of these. He starts by asking the computer to define "Earth," and ends on "Dancing," after passing through "Sea," "Farms," "Pizza," and "Hoedown." | |
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Extra Credits suggested invoking this as a method to get students to link ideas together in their "Gamifying Education" episode. Of course, they also suggested making sure the students explain why each leap in the walk was valid. | |
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In a flashback episode of The West Wing, Press Secretary C.J. Cregg uses this to remember a reporter's name. | |
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An episode of Step by Step had Cloudcuckoolander Cody give advice for dealing with a hickey through a crazily meandering chain of word associations, before finally coming back around to "Wear a turtleneck!". | |
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In Curvy, Susie gets lost in the depths of Wikipedia in the middle of a gunfight. She actually started by looking up how to fix a sucking chest wound. An unknown amount of time later, the victim is still bleeding out and Susie is reading up on Turkish oil wrestling and headbutts... | |
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Young Sheldon: In "A Tougher Nut and a Note on File", Sheldon was at first supposed to just catalog the comic books on the store, but he was dissatisfied with the way they were organized and decided to change that. Then when Nathan asks if his idea of an online database could be used for something other than comic books, Sheldon realizes that it could be used for scientific grants, and quickly leaves the store to sell the idea to the university, dropping the comic book database entirely. | |
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TV Tropes. It's a wiki, what else would you expect? Let's face it, you're probably in the middle of one right now. And that is why TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Life. | |
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Doug the drug rehab man does this frequently with names of drugs in Little Britain. | |
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In Disco Elysium, the Encyclopedia skill governs your ability to remember trivia. This can be very useful in some situations, but quite often it results in your thoughts getting hijacked by ruminating over fascinating fact after fascinating fact rather than focusing on the tasks at hand. | |
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Constable Frank Gladstone from The Thin Blue Line is a master of this, often omitting the intervening steps and just announcing his seemingly random conclusions to his perplexed comrades. For example: His theory behind rampant graffiti?...Fridge magnets and the parents who use them to put their toddler's childish drawings on the fridge as adorable mementos, which causes the now teen kids to use graffiti as a method of gaining that familiar adoration from standing around the fridge. | |
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Certain adult video websites that function in a similar way to YouTube can also cause this effect. Not like you would notice. | |
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The Discworld Roleplaying Game supplement has a special character advantage to reflect this sort of thing: it usually gives you a bonus to creative work, but every time you try for something original, there's a chance you might actually come up with something revolutionary but unrelated. | |
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QI is more a televised Wiki Walk than anything else. | |
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In the South Park episode "Canceled", the scientist (a parody of Jeff Goldblum's character from Independence Day) who helps the characters discover the purpose of the probe in Cartman's anus (which is a transmissions satellite) makes all his deductions by having an unrelated word or phrase pop into his mind, then linking seemingly arbitrary ideas together to form the correct solution. | |
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Manly Guys Doing Manly Things: Even the level-headed Commander falls prey to one when he and Jared try to learn how creatine health supplements work. | |
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Family Guy is good at this. One good example is the episode "I Dream of Jesus," which begins with lunch at a 1950s style diner, moves on to Peter becoming obsessed with a Trashmen song, and winds up being about the return of Jesus Christ. | |
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In Durarara!!, Shizuo decides to ask his new Russian Kohai/human encyclopedia, Vorona, about Siberia. This somehow morphs into a lecture on cakes. | |
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