I Can't Believe It's Not Heroin!/Playing With

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  • Basic Trope: A mundane substance is treated like an addictive drug
    • Straight: Bob gets high on milk
    • Exaggerated: Bob smokes condensed milk
    • Justified: Bob is an alien (Or otherworldly creature) that treats milk like an addictive drug
    • Inverted: Alcohol sobers Bob up
    • Subverted: Bob is given milk for this purpose but it doesn't work
    • Double Subverted: Because the milk he was given was skim milk, it needs to be at least 2 Percent for it to work.
    • Parodied: Milk is banned causing dairy farms to turn into speakeasies so people can get their 'Moo-Juice fix' The Mafia is caught smuggling cows across the border.
    • Deconstructed: Due to milk being an addictive drug, millions of school children throughout the country are now drug addicts.

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