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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 ''[[Discworld
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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* 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.
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== [[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!"
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{{quote| '''Faye''': I think you're confusing bisexuality with substance abuse.<br />
'''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.]
{{quote| Eben: Tell me you didn't actually SNORT an entire box of Pixie Stix from 1987.}}
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** 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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