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Related to [[Magic Feather]] (which is what The Placebo Effect is called around here).
See also [[I Can't Believe It's Not Heroin!]] and [[Drunk
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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== [[Film]] ==
* Happens in ''[[
* ''[[Go (
* In ''Blotto'', [[Laurel and Hardy]] get drunk off a bottle of liquor that's actually tea put there by Stanley's wife.
* In ''[[
* In ''[[The Birdcage]]'', Albert believes that the "Pirin tablets" that Agador gives him actually calm him down. Guess what two letters Agador scratches off the tablets? That's right, they're really just aspirin.
== [[Literature]] ==
* A [[Running Gag]] in ''[[
== [[Live
* ''[[My Family]]'' had a marijuana joint that actually turned out to be made of cinnamon and oregano powered by the placebo effect shared by Ben and Susan. Effects range from Susan overcoming her habitual mental block as to how horrible her cooking is, Ben correcting the lyrics to Jimi Hendrix songs at the top of his voice.
* ''[[Frasier]]'' combines this with [[Mushroom Samba]] (the inversion). Niles gets a hash brownie, but Martin eats it without realising what it is, and replaces it with a normal brownie. And even when Frasier actually explains what happened, Niles ''still'' doesn't realise:
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'''Frasier:''' Oh, knock it enough, you imbecile! You're as sober as I am! }}
* Raj on the ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'' needs alcohol before he can talk to women. In one episode he starts hitting on [[Summer Glau]], until Howard points out the beer was non-alcoholic, and Raj [[Centipede's Dilemma|can't continue.]]
* In ''[[Burn Notice]]'', pretending to get drunk is one of the spy skills Michael has cultivated.
* ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'': Maeby drinks some virgin martinis and thinks she's drunk. George Michael tries to explain that "virgin" means non-alcoholic, but the venture is fruitless.
** There was also an incident where they drank several bottles of Gob's fake wine. It ends with {{spoiler|the two of them getting to second base}}
* ''[[Freaks and Geeks]]'' after the geeks swap the beer at the freak's [[Wild Teen Party]] for non-alcoholic beer. Only [[Seth Rogen]] notices the difference, and used it to his advantage to win a ton of money at Quarters.
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* In ''[[The Inbetweeners]]'' Will swallows a quantity of hash without first preparing it for consumption. Despite this it still has some strange effects on him, mostly making his arms twitch.
* In ''[[Degrassi the Next Generation]]'' JT gets hold of some but Sean swaps it for aspirin before they notice (another character really takes it...)
* An episode of ''[[
* An episode of the 90s talk show parody ''[[Night Stand With Dick Dietrick]]'' had host Dick and his assistant Mueller trying out a new drug that was all the necessary drugs for a day in a single pill. Not knowing he took a placebo, Dick's first words after taking the pill: "Whoa! Did anyone else just see a cow fly be here?" Needless to say, it gets better.
== [[Recorded and Stand Up Comedy]] ==
* The subject of a comedy routine by [[Adam Sandler]] in which a partying guy keeps telling the host how ''awesome'' his (acid/weed/beer) is, only to be told it's none of those things (the beer was nonalcoholic).
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[Persona 4]]'' Teddie, Yukiko, and Rise get utterly smashed at a nightclub while on a school trip... except Naoto informs you that the club doesn't even ''serve'' alcohol.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In one ''[[Dork Tower]]'' strip, Matt's stoner brother thinks he is high after smoking Matt's basing floc.
* Referenced in ''[[The Order of the Stick
* Happens at least twice in ''[[Questionable Content]]''.
** Raven says she got drunk at a party by having seven Shirley Temples. "You can't even taste the alcohol in them!"
** Later she relates the story of how her female friends in college would get so drunk they'd make out with each other, all the time.
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'''Raven''': No, but I think they were. }}
* ''[[Girls
* [[Two Lumps|Snooch]] made the mistake of watching a special on rock stars and copying their cocaine use ... [http://twolumps.net/d/20070801.html sort of.]
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== [[Web Original]] ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* At least twice on ''[[Family Guy]]'': once in a [[Manatee Gag]] where Stewie thought he had drunk some alcohol but it was only grape juice; and once when all the family were beating each other up Brian gave everyone some of his "prescription" Happy Pills and everyone blissed out, but once Brian revealed that they were only sugar pills they went back to fighting each other.
* Happens twice in ''[[Clone High]]'', which parodied [[Very Special Episode
** First, when Abe buys non-alcoholic beer for the [[Wild Teen Party]]:
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'''Abe:''' Probably not.
'''Cleo:''' But I think you're ''hot.'' }}
** Also happens in the episode "Raisin the Stakes," which is about teens going wild and hippie after smoking... raisins.
* ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'': Unfortunately the victim of the prank was allergic to oregano.
* Inversion/parody/whatever of this trope happens to Candace in the ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' episode "The Ballad of Badbeard." She touches Orange Moss in the woods, which she was told causes wild hallucinations and begins acting insane, "thinking" [[Everything's Better
* In one episode, ''[[Beavis and Butthead]]'' got drunk on non-alcoholic beer. They knew it was non-alcoholic. They just didn't know alcohol is the part that makes you drunk.
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'', "Deep Space Homer": To prove that space travel is within reach of the common man, NASA selects Barney and Homer to go through a training course before one of them gets an actual rocket trip. Once deprived of alcohol, Barney passes with flying colours and is given a congratulatory glass of champagne. He immediately goes nuts ("It begins!"), chugs the rest of the bottle, grabs a jetpack and flies off. The scientists don't understand, as it was non-alcoholic champagne.
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[[Category:Comedy Tropes]]
[[Category:This Is Your Index On Drugs]]
[[Category:Infauxmation Desk]]
▲[[Category:Fake High]]
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