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{{quote|''I dream of the day when I will learn to stop asking questions to which I will regret learning the answers.''|'''Roy Greenhilt''', ''[[The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|Order of the Stick]]''}}
 
A character hears something that end up [[Squick|Squicking]] the hell out of them. Such as the sex lives of people they desperately try not to think about in the same sentence as the word "sex", such as [[Parental Sexuality Squick|parents]] or grandparents. Other bodily functions are the other most common variant, such as anything to do with bowel movements or a woman's menstrual cycle. Especially while the speakee is eating.
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* In the ''[[Full Metal Panic]]!'' novels, during TSR, [[Big Bad|Gauron]] tells Sōsuke that he fantasized dragging his dead body out of his AS and fucking it up the ass. Sōsuke is horrified, to say the least. And Gauron has the audacity to ask why he's making a face at him. It's made all the funnier by how Gauron attributes Sōsuke's worried and disgusted face to a [[Heroic BSOD]], instead of the more obvious and immediate reason....
* In ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'', [[Ambiguously Gay|Poland]] will just tell people how he has to pee as he goes to relieve himself.
* Lampshaded in ''[[Excel Saga (Animeanime)|Excel Saga]]'' with Aesop, who has "sporadic anal enlargement syndrome". On the toilet, writhing in agony, he shouts, "Oh, it's big!". Excel immediately runs away. Hyatt, oblivious, asks "What is big?" Excel drags her away and tells her not to ask. The toilet appears out of nowhere in the middle of a baseball field just to make this joke.
* It's a well known fact in the ''[[Durarara]]'' universe that Shinra Kishitani is a kinky little bugger. About 90% of this can be attributed to the fact that Shinra is happy to tell ''anyone'' about whatever dirty thought comes to mind. [[Vitriolic Best Buds|Shizuo]] and [[Tsundere|Celty]] have both tried to beat this habit out of him. [[Too Kinky to Torture|This only encourages him]].
** Erika Karisawa has no problem with telling her friends that she fantasizes about them having gay sex.
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== Fan Works ==
* Used twice in one episode of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: theThe Abridged Series]]'':
{{quote| '''Joey:''' I gotta go take a whiz.<br />
'''Yugi:''' Too much information, Joey.<br />
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'''Joey:''' I also learned that I'm secretly a furry.<br />
'''Yugi:''' Once again, too much information, Joey. }}
* In ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero (Fanfic)|Kyon Big Damn Hero]]'', Koizumi explained at Kyon's request that he gained his ESP powers when both Haruhi and him were undergoing puberty. At the beginning, he found it extremely difficult separating their feelings at first, which led to highly awkward situations. Kyon realizes his mistake and declares that he never wants to clarify that.
* ''[[Aki Chans-chan's Life (Webcomic)|Aki Chans Life]]'', when Ritsuko points that Asuka may be a virgin mother… [http://jimmywolk.studenten-froendenberg.de/eng/aki.php?browse.2.30\]
 
 
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'''Mia:''' That was a little bit more information than I needed Vince, but go right ahead. }}
** From the same movie, Christopher Walken's character didn't really have to tell young Butch ''how'' his father hid the watch from the Vietcong, but decided to leave [[Ass Shove|that detail intact]]. And mentioned it many times. Then mentioned that he hid the watch in much the same way once Butch's father passed.
* From ''[[Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade (Film)|Indiana Jones and Thethe Last Crusade]]'':
{{quote| '''Indy:''' How did you know she was a Nazi?<br />
'''Henry Jones:''' She talks in her sleep. ''(followed by a shocked look from Indy)'' }}
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'''Missy:''' [[All Men Are Perverts|Making money from guys oogling my goodies]].<br />
'''Cliff:''' Aww, I didn't need to hear that. That was an overshare. }}
* In ''[[Easy A (Film)|Easy A]]'', Olive has the following conversation with her mother:
{{quote| '''Rosemary:''' I had a horrible reputation.<br />
'''Olive:''' Why?<br />
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'''Soleta:''' Captain, request permission to forget what I just heard.<br />
'''Calhoun:''' Granted, and I'll join you. }}
* Nutt, from ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Unseen Academicals|Unseen Academicals]]'', generally speaks in lectures, and at one point gives Ponder a taste of his own medicine. He also tells the woman he has [[Just Friends|a bit of a crush on]] that he is in fact staring at her arms, because they're such remarkably nice arms; this doesn't seem intended as flirting but rather a friendly compliment combined with wishing to clear up what he was doing. He also shares pertinent but wholly unnecessary details about his bodily functions, which is seen as part of his habit of being "precise but odd".
* One of Daniel Waterhouse's relatives in ''Quicksilver'' by Neal Stephenson
* Gregory draws comic strips in ''[[Diary of a Wimpy Kid]]'' and suggests giving improvements to other peoples' behaviours; and one of them was telling people not to discuss incredibly private and personal matters ''in the middle of a fast food restaurant''.
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'''Lennier:''' ... I am going to take a vow of silence about this entire conversation. }}
** Commander Ivanova also suffers from these periodically, including from ''Vir'' of all people, explaining how Centauri "bases" work. And helping Ambassador Delenn adjust to life as a partially human female.
* In the ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' episode "Looking for ''Par'mach'' in All the Wrong Places", Bashir's reaction to Quark and the Klingon chick and then Worf and Dax's explanations of how they acquired their collections of bruises and cuts they come in to have treated at the end of the episode. The exact phrasing is more like, "I didn't really need to have that image running around in my head right now," and at the end he comments that [[Crowning Moment of Funny|he ''really'' needs to stop asking people what they have been doing.]]
* ''[[I CarlyICarly]]'': Despite the subtleties, innuendos may be lampshaded in the show time by time.
** In "iCarly Awards":
{{quote| '''Carly:''' You know, it's always been a dream of mine to host the iCarly Awards.<br />
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{{quote| '''Murphy:''' I'm a mother, for God's sake; I've got stretch marks.<br />
'''Eldin:''' ''Too much information! Too much information!'' }}
* In the documentary ''Worst Jobs In History'', a scientist gives the host and [[Butt Monkey|hapless participant]], Tony Robinson <ref>In a role oddly reminiscent of his role in ''[[Black AdderBlackadder]]''</ref>, an unpleasant overview of a food-taster's duties, including what would happen if the food was poisoned with arsenic. Around the time the scientist starts talking about "purging," Robinson gives in and says "that's enough."
* Tying in with the [[Real Life]] medical examples below, the opening sequence of ''The Commish'' showed the title character absent-mindedly munching a pepperoni sandwich while reading a book titled ''Tissue Decomposition: A Homicide Primer''. In the pilot episode, the protagonist squicks out an evaluation board (sent to evaluate him for a high-ranking position in another city) by nervously babbling on about the above topic while they're all having lunch.
* There's an episode of ''[[Cheers]]'' where Carla says something like: "I thought about asking Cliff what he meant, but then I realized -- he might ''tell'' me!"
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'''Miley:''' I could've gone my whole life not knowing that. }}
* "[[SNL|The Lov-ahs]]." Dear ''God'', "[[Sickeningly Sweethearts|The Lov-ahs]]."
* ''[[Baggage (TV)|Baggage]]'' turns this into a [[Game Show]], by having potential dates hope that their embarrassing personal secrets don't leave too much of a negative impression on a potential bachelor(ette). It's even got Jerry Springer.
 
 
== Music ==
* In [["Weird Al" Yankovic|Weird Al's]] song, "Trapped in the Drive-thru", the husband's voice reminds the voice box lady of a guy named Paul she cheated Geometry test answers off of last year. The husband replies and talks another Paul he knew. Paul was his plumber, who is bald, has a bladder problem, and has a toe infection. The voice box lady says, "Mr, please! You can stop right there! That's more than I needed to know!" Yes, this is a song!
* [[Toshimitsu Deyama|Toshi]] doing an MC for [[X Japan]] at the Wiltern in Los Angeles: "We've gained a lot, but we've lost a lot too. We've been fucked and we've been sucked."
 
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'''Captain Donnie:''' Well, I was drinking rubbing alcohol mixed with gunpowder and cinnamon when...<br />
'''Player Character:''' I'm leaving now. }}
* In the third ''[[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]]'' game, Mr. Grossburg's "gut feelings" about how the case is going come from a lot lower than his gut. And he tells you about it every five minutes. {{spoiler|It's his hemorrhoids.}} After the case, Mia asks him to stop talking about them.
* ''[[Ratchet and Clank 3]]: [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|Up Your Arsenal]]'':
{{quote| '''[[Fake Ultimate Hero|Captain Qwark]]:''' I thought we agreed to put that jungle business behind us!<br />
'''[[Everything's Better Withwith Monkeys|Skrunch]]:''' [MONKEY NOISE]<br />
'''Qwark:''' It was mating season! How could I have known she was your sister?<br />
''(notices Ratchet and Clank, laughs nervously)''<br />
'''Qwark:''' How long have you two been standing there?<br />
'''Clank:''' Too long. }}
* ''[[Mass Effect 1 (Videovideo Gamegame)|Mass Effect 1]]'': "Some krogan believe that testicle transplants will improve their virility, counteract the effects of the genophage. It doesn't work, but that doesn't stop them from buying. They'll pay ten thousand credits for each one -- [[Bizarre Alien Biology|that's forty thousand for a whole set.]] [[Cut Lex Luthor a Check|Someone's making a killing out there.]]"
** Shepard says this to [[Mass Effect 2 (Video Game)|Thane]] when he's describing the drell race's ability to perfectly recall any memory.
{{quote| '''Thane:''' Thinking about a moment brings back the smell of cut grass, the warmth of another hand on yours, the taste of another's tongue in your mouth. Wouldn't you rather lose yourself in such a memory, rather than spend a night alone?<br />
'''Shepard:''' Isn't that a rather personal memory to talk about? }}
** In [[Mass Effect 3 (Video Game)|the third game]], Liara has this reaction to her father {{spoiler|Matriarch Aethyta}} reminiscing about her mother "Nezzy"'s [[Buxom Is Better|magnificent rack]], complete with [[Wolf Whistle]].
{{quote| '''Liara''': You don't need to tell me everything.}}
** This is also James' reaction to being told by EDI that [[Interspecies Romance|Shepard and Tali got together]] in the last game (if that's the case). Followed by a sarcastic [[Stop Helping Me!|"Thank you, EDI"]] from Shepard.
* [[Dragon Age II (Video Game)|Dragon Age II]] has a conversation where Anders and Isabela realize that they were once part of the same orgy in the first game's brothel. Hawke or Varric will cut the conversation short when Isabela mentions Anders' "electricity thing".
** Hawke also walks in on [[Really Gets Around|Isabela]] exiting her appointment with [[Combat Medic|Anders]] (who runs a clinic) for STD treatment.
* [[Poker Night At the Inventory (Video Game)|Poker Night At the Inventory]]: [[Penny Arcade (Webcomic)|Tycho]] has a bad habit of inserting his highly detailed [[But You Screw One Goat!|animal fetishes]] into the conversation.
{{quote| '''Strong Bad:''' ''(singing)'' Too much information, man. You're Too-Much-Information Man.}}
 
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* [http://www.vexxarr.com/archive.php?seldate=022009 This] [[Vexxarr]] page.
{{quote| "Thank you. You put me in the happy position of realizing that I really don't want to know...yet spared me the burden of knowing exactly why."}}
* [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20010617.html This strip] in ''[[Schlock Mercenary (Webcomic)|Schlock Mercenary]]'', where the narrator keeps changing the scene because everybody are talking about things you REALLY don't want to hear about. Finally, he ends up with Schlock explaining the inner workings of Carboscilicate Amorph Reproduction to Admiral Breya -- or rather, him wrapping up such an explanation. The narrator comments: "That was either too much, or too little information. Either way, it's disturbing." The last one was arguably too little information. It turns out not to be disgusting at all -- just a bit creepy.
** [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2000-11-30 Gerbils are better than rats]. On the next page Schlock describe the differences he noticed and Tagon gets "disturbed in a visceral way".
** "[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2007-11-21 Objection, Your Honor. Too much information.]"
* There's also [http://www.gpf-comics.com/d/20010905.html this strip] from ''[[General Protection Fault]]'' where Uncle Wisebottom is telling Nick about the physical side-effects of the Inventor's Gene (Read: [[Science-Related Memetic Disorder]]), and mentions the effect it may have on the sex-life. Noticing Nick and Ki's facial expressions, he archly comments "So... which is more embarrassing: Me talking about YOUR future sex-life, or the thought of ME having sex?"
* Largo's [http://www.megatokyo.com/strip/992 "damage assessment"] in ''[[Megatokyo]]''.
* [http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_867.php These] [http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_869.php two] ''[[Dan and MabsMab's Furry Adventures]]'' strips, and many, many more.
* [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2005/12/15/episode-635-secret-ingredient/ This little incident] in ''[[8-Bit Theater (Webcomic)|Eight Bit Theater]]'' Where the "Light Warriors" find the horrifying reason why Bahumut wants a Rat Tail.
** While his individual examples cannot possibly exceed the above, Red Mage's constant presense makes him the number one source for TMI in the comic. [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2006/03/18/episode-674-a-natural-progression/ Behold the horror] [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2006/03/21/episode-675-clarifications/ with your own eyes]!
* ''[[Turn Signals Onon a Land Raider]]'': Did you know that when Frep runs, his combat thong runs up on him? Did you ''want'' to?
* [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/7/30/ This] ''[[Penny Arcade (Webcomic)|Penny Arcade]]'' strip is very much TMI.
** Also [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/3/21/ this one].
* On [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=322 this page] of ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court (Webcomic)|Gunnerkrigg Court]]'', Antimony would rather not hear the details of how Ysengrin helped Red "[[I Cannot Self-Terminate|pass her test]]".
* ''[[The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|Order of the Stick]], [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0188.html as seen in the page quote].
** Likewise, the prequel book ''Start of Darkness'' includes a scene where the still-human [[Big Bad|Xykon]] is telling [[The Dragon|Redcloak]] and his brother Right-Eye that he needs to "drain some charges from the wand" because these days his prostate is "the size of a baby's head". Redcloak (and the reader) really, really didn't need that mental picture.
* ''[[Questionable Content]]'' breathes this trope. Nothing is spared the characters, not even their parents' sex life.
** [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1672 "Jesus Christ, you're like a goddamn Predator drone. You wait for Dora to set you up, and then you come in outta nowhere and drop a fuckin' tactical TMI on my head."]
* Artax gets a little too descriptive in [http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/gamespyarchive/index.php?date=2002-02-20 this] ''[[Nodwick]]'' strip.
* There is a [[Too Much Information (Webcomicwebcomic)|webcomic]] named ''[http://tmi-comic.com Too Much Information]'' that lives up to its name.
* Aeris's reaction to Leo explaining the problems with being a Tauren in ''[[VG Cats (Webcomic)|VG Cats]]'':
{{quote| '''Aeris:''' ''I don't need to know these things!''}}
* In ''[[Misfile]]'', Ash's father sometimes indulges in this, being the local gynecologist.
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* ''[[Miscellaneous Error]]'': [http://miscerror.thecomicseries.com/comics/2/ sometimes, you just don't want to know what your children do at school].
* In [http://wapsisquare.com/comic/fringe-paranormals/ this] (warning! spoilers) strip of ''[[Wapsi Square]]'', Justin goes into a little too much detail about something that a previous girlfriend had him do.
* ''[[Eerie Cuties (Webcomic)|Eerie Cuties]]'' occasionally have things like this. When Mrs. Delacroix, with a nostalgic [[Luminescent Blush|blush]], [http://www.eeriecuties.com/d/20110126.html mentions] her... fond memories of Chloe's mother, following by a mass [[Jaw Drop]] and Brooke covering Nina's ears. For that matter, Chloe's mother, as an adult [[Succubus]], have some good pointers, even [http://www.eeriecuties.com/strips-ec/What%20is%20it%20succu-bun hints on which] make Chloe's face a little off.
{{quote| '''Adora''': ...can be used as a fun grown-up game for your... uh...}}
 
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== Western Animation ==
* Ed on ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]'' does this from time to time (like randomly announcing "I forgot to wear underwear, guys" in "Shoo Ed").
** "I know my sensitive side because it has a rash!"
* The Mayor in ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'':
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