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See also [[I Can't Believe It's Not Heroin!]] and [[Drunk On Milk]], for when this isn't an accident.

* ''[[Persona 4 (Anime)|Persona 4: The Animation]]'' uses this in the club of episode 15. Half the characters start acting as if they're drunk, even after it's confirmed that there's no alcohol served there. Carries over to the next day, [[Your Mind Makes It Real|where the ones who acted drunk don't seem to remember much of the previous day.]]

* Happens in ''[[Euro Trip]]'' when two characters walk into a coffee shop in Amsterdam and order what they think are hash brownies.

* ''[[Go (Film)|Go]]!'' had the characters selling fake ecstasy, with a scene where people are faking the high.

* In ''[[Fifty First Dates]]'' [[Adam Sandler]]'s [[Casanova|character]] will often give his dates large drinks which he ''says'' are alcoholic, but really aren't. He's found that this way the women [[But Liquor Is Quicker|get just as slutty as they would if they were actually drunk]], but still retain all their motor skills when having sex.

* A [[Running Gag]] in ''[[Discworld (Literature)/The Truth|The Truth]]''; Mr. Tulip is constantly snorting various substances, but none of them are actually drugs. Many of them are quite unhealthy household chemicals, however.

* ''[[Arrested Development (TV)|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.

* An episode of ''[[Absolutely Fabulous (TV)|Absolutely Fabulous]]'' has the characters travel to France. Patsy gets bored and does some coke, which loosens her up enough to tolerate Saffron's presence and play table tennis. On the way back home, the drugs are found by airport security, but they determine that they were fake all along. Patsy is horrified, not because she spent a fortune on phony drugs, but because this meant she ''actually enjoyed playing table tennis''.

* Referenced in ''[[Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|Order of the Stick]]'' when {{spoiler|Soul-Splice Vaarsuvius starts to behave in an evil manner, even though the soul splices can't actually affect his/her alignment. According to the fiends, "A good way to get a good person to do something horrible is to convince them they're not responsible for their actions."}} It's compared to someone drinking beer they didn't know was non-alcoholic and feeling drunk anyway because they expected to be.

* ''[[Girls With Slingshots]]'': After Hazel gets uncharacteristically prudish while accompaniying Jamie and her younger sister, Fiona on a trip to a lingerie store, Fiona offers Hazel a pull from her [[Victoria's Secret Compartment|hidden flask]]. Hazel goes from mortified to [[Genki Girl]] after a couple of swallows. Fiona confesses to Jamie that her flask [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-1294/ was just water.] [[I Have Boobs - You Must Obey!|Her boobs are just that awesome.]]

* 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 With Platypi|Perry]] is a spy, imagining a sassy, anthropomorphic zebra calling her "Kevin", and confusing a self-destruct button for a vending machine. At the end of the episode, after her "recovery," her grandmother explains that it is actually ''Blue'' Moss that causes hallucinations, and that the only reason Candace was "crazy" was because of the "power of suggestion." Just then, [[Here We Go Again|Candace touches some Blue Moss]].