I was a little surprised, upon a recent viewing of ‘The Empire Strikes Back’, to discover that Yoda’s trademark speech patterns were less mangled than in his most recent appearances. (He still sounded pretty much like Grover, though.) The little green Jedi isn’t the weirdest speaker in the annals of pop culture, though, as the Scissormen from Grant Morrison’s Doom Patrol were as verbally disorienting as they were visually disturbing and the title character of V For Vendetta’s vernacular vaguely vexes vigilant viewers via voraciously variant vocabulary. And imagine how much worse Ted Striker’s day might have gotten had Beaver’s mom not been fluent in jive!
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) talks funny, but yo, I’m makin’ money, see, asking: The most strangically funniest pop-culture talking is from who, hmm?
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Dr. Mordin Solus from Mass Effect 2 & 3. He’s a super genius medical researcher who talks like he’s taking shorthand notes. And don’t get me started when he starts performing Gilbert and Sullivan musicals.
Mass Effect definitely had its share of strange talkers. My favorite was the big snuffleupagus-without-trunk Elcor, though the Hanar were a close second.
Probably my all-time favorite is HK-47 of KOTOR fame. Meatbags indeed!
Yoda,hands down it is.
Matthew Peterson. What the heck is a framastat?
Frammistat. Spelling is important…
That is tru.
The person who said, “This man is being in trouble”
Doctor Dinosaur from Atomic Robo. To paraphrase Doctor Dinosaur (Because I don’t remember the exact quote off the top of my head): “Aside from everything going catastrophically wrong, everything is going exactly as planned!”
Atomic Robo himself isn’t too shabby, either, what with sayings like: “I used my violence on it!” and “You brought a gun to a robot fight!”
Baxter from Anchorman. “You pooped in the refrigerator?!” “You know I don’t speak Spanish.”
Phillip J. Fry, who brought us such gems as “scare-roused” and made the big brain say such things as “I am the greetest” and “Now I am leaving Earth for no raisin!”.
“Shut up and take my money!”
Pootie Tang could get Chewbacca to sine id onda runny kine.
I would say Mr. T. Because he pittys the fool!
The denizens of the Okeefenokee Swamp, see Pogo article elsewhere on this page
How about the adults in the animated Peanuts cartoons. The muffled trombone still cracks me up, for no apparent reason, every time I see/hear it. And the occasional reference made to this in other shows or media, usual in the context of a character ignoring another character’s dialogue is even funnier to me.
Leaving off a one shot like “All your base are belong to us,” I’d have to say the Groaci from the Retief stories. Five eyestalks, sticky fingers, short legged, long torsoed Argyle socks and Bermuda shorts wearers. Their language allows only nouns, nominalizations, and infinitives. “The admission of defeat,” or “To put one’s hands up, to attempt no hasty actions.”