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As the [[Real Life]] section shows, this is a [[Don't Try This At Home|VERY bad idea]] in [[Real Life]], regardless of the legality or illegality of the substance in question. It ignores the concepts of "set and setting" that are essential to any ''good'' experience with a substance and essential to avoiding doing things - like driving or interacting with police for example - that could lead to a very dangerous situation, may induce fear and terror in someone who ''does not know'' what is happening to them - which is almost a guaranteed recipe for a "bad trip" with some drugs and for a generally bad day with everything. Finally, with some drugs (everything from alcohol to ecstasy and sedatives) this can set someone up for [[Date Rape]].

 

== Anime and Manga ==

 

** The dub sadly changes this as much as possible into her getting sick from drinking too much juice. [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|She still seems pretty drunk, though.]]

* At the beginning of ''[[The Tyrant Falls in Love]]'', Souichi unknowingly drinks a bottle of alcohol that's actually a powerful aphrodisiac. It doesn't change his personality (which is as bad-tempered as ever), but it does make him painfully turned on and severely immobilized to the point where he's unable to relieve it by himself. Morinaga, who's wanted him for years, decides to help him in a way that goes far beyond [[Kissing Under the Influence]]. What happens in the morning after the drug wears off is not a pretty sight.

* In ''[[Hidamari Sketch]]'', Hiro wrongly bought alcoholic juice at Yuno and Miyako's welcoming party, and the two freshmen got drunk. While Miyako is still [[Cloudcuckoolander|herself]], the generally innocent Yuno started ranting about [[It Just Bugs Me|It Just Bugs Me's]]... and Sae uttering an [[Engaging Conversation]] even she [[Ship Tease|was not drunk]]...

* Rock Lee's sake induced drunken kung fu in ''[[Naruto]]''.

** Not helped at all by Akio finding the whole situation hilarious, and going out of his way to make it worse.

*** Until Sanae cheerfully tells him that she wasn't entirely joking about her attraction to Tomoya. He didn't find it so amusing after that.

* In the first ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' Deadzone movie, Gohan eats a delicious looking apple from Garlic Jr.'s personal orchard. Turns out that "Children mustn't eat those". Cue the [[Mushroom Samba|drug trip montage]].

* ''[[Seto no Hanayome]]'' has all the female cast and Saru drinking Uoihatsu, a mermaid drink that makes a person "act on their instincts". This leads to a group of drunken junior high schoolers running around a movie set, and hilarity ensues.

** This is actually "Suppi-chan's" ''normal'' reaction to anything that has sugar with it, and the reason that he's not allowed sweets. Nakuru and Kero-chan, both lovers of all things sugary, find it utterly hilarious when they're not the targets of the resulting mouth lasers.

* ''[[Genshiken]]'' has a "New Member Party" in the first season, where one potential member gets soused and wanders the restaurant signing the theme song from [[Show Within a Show|''Kujibiki Unbalance'']] loudly. Granted, his character type is one that may do things like that anyway, regardless of alchohol consumption or public exposure.

* In one episode of [[Inuyasha]], the party is exposed to an alcoholic vapor which intoxicates those who breathe it. Several members of the party cannot [[Can't Hold His Liquor|hold their liquor]], apparently. Sango, in particular, starts behaving in a [[Mad Love|very]] [[Almost Kiss|interesting]] way towards Inuyasha. Cue the cries of "[[Restraining Bolt|Sit!]]"

* A chapter of ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler]]'' holds this, when Nagi and Sakuya enter a hot spring that has differing effects on people, presumably because a meteor crashed nearby. Nagi gets into the water and begins to act drunk, while Sakuya seems to be unaffected and begins to go find help. When [[Chaste Hero|Hayate shows up]], she tries to hide, but Nagi still acts drunk until he lifts her from the water. She quickly recovers, then realizes she's being held by her butler, who she has a crush on, and was formerly in a hot tub.. She isn't happy.

* In [[Detective Conan]] Heiji gives Conan some chinese wine as a medicine, and is scolded by Ran when he becomes totally wasted. Made funnier in the dub because Conan starts hitting on Ran.

* In Jeff Smith's ''[[Bone]]'', Thorn and Fone Bone get tipsy from hiding in the woods and eating nothing but berries. The berries could have fermented. This happens in [[Real Life]], and birds get drunk from the juice and fly into things. [[Hilarity Ensues]]

* A drug which does this appears in the early ''[[Tintin]]'' albums. In "The Blue Lotus", even Tintin does show the effects after a villain drugs him, although we later find out the drug was exchanged for water. (He was just faking in order to escape.)

* In [[Stone Soup]], the eldest daughter tastes parts of the batter for a cake her grandma was making for the holidays. She then proceeds to slur her words (more specifically, she starts slurring "few"), with the grandmother being unaware until after she starts slurring. Then it cuts to the grandmother's daughters expressing shock that the grandmother let the eldest granddaughter taste the batter for the rum cake she was making, and wondered how much she ended up tasting as the grandmother looks sheepishly while the granddaughter is stating she loves her grandma in a very loopy manner.

 

* In ''[[Harry Potter]]'' fanfic ''The Well of Shadows'' Professors Hillary and Gregory Proteus, {{spoiler|who are Harry and Ginny's future selves}} do this to Severus Snape. The first we hear about this is when Snape greets his class with a bright "Good mornin' all you happy people!". [[Hilarity Ensues|Hilarity and disbelief ensue]].

* A ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'' fanfic ''Purple High'' is entirely this, when Kurama attempted to breed a Makai plant capable of curing burn wounds, and instead creates a powerful hallucinogen that, among other things, prompts Kurama to reveal his stash of green spandex, gives Hiei the munchies, compels Botan to prostrate herself before Kurama to learn his hair-care techniques, and turns Yukina into an [[Ax Crazy]], [[Cloudcuckoolander]] [[Card-Carrying Villain]].

* The [[DC Nation]] plot "The Lotus Eaters," the Titans come to a planet used as a place of healing and vacation spot for Tamaranians when Starfire fails to check in. While [[Government Drug Enforcement|it turns out Blackfire sent some mercs to turn the place into a soma factory]], a snoot-ful of the toxin in question sends Gar and Kon into giggly, happy drunk territory, complete with the "I love you man." Best line ever from Superboy when Beast Boy changes into a squid, "I am NOT a Japanese Schoolgirl!"

* In the ''[[X-Men]]'' fan fic, ''[http://www.comicfic.net/fic/alicia/coffee.htm The Shi'ar Coffee Story]'', a sleepy Cable accidentally drank some experimental brew that happened to be in a coffee maker. Cable ended up running around, singing, and apparently had to be knocked out by Jean after a while.

* In the [[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series]] fanfic ''[[Decks Fall, Everyone Dies|Decks Fall Everyone Dies]]'', Tristan gets drunk on "[[Parody Name|Abysmalinth]]," not realizing how strong it is until he starts hallucinating.

 

== Film ==

* ''[[Joe Dirt]]'': Joe gets the idea to ask a police sketch artist to make a portrait of his missing parents. He raises the money, but... "Somethin' happened to my head. See, I spent the night in what I ''thought'' was an abandoned circus tent... I guess there was no circus." Cue the gibberish singing and crazy nudity as Joe is whacked out on bug bombs. Needless to say, this throws off the sketch artist considerably.

* In ''Dick'', the two [[The Ditz|air-headed]] female leads, who are working as White House interns during the Nixon administration, use their older brother's "secret ingredient" - which they don't realize is marijuana - when making brownies. Nixon loves the brownies and serves them during an important meeting with officials from the Soviet Union. (It goes rather well.)

* Subverted in ''[[Eurotrip]]'', sort of. The characters eat brownies at a Jamaican-like shop in Amsterdam, which they believe to be laced with marijuana - but in fact aren't. This doesn't stop them from acting all loopy until the owners point out that they're completely drug-free. (Then there's the time when the brother and sister make out after taking absinthe for the first time...)

* In ''[[Bad Boys]] II'', Marcus accidentally ingests Ecstasy, and starts acting weirdly - just as he and Mike get to their boss' house to report progresses in investigation...

(beat)

Su-Chin: "I heard that was you." }}

* [[Harry Potter (film)|Harry Potter]] on Felix Felicis - probably [[Crowning Moment of Funny|the funniest moment of the entire Half Blood Prince movie]].

** What about Ron after he ate chocolates filled with a love potion?

* In ''[[Bon Cop, Bad Cop]]'', our heroes barely escape from a house that was set on fire by a booby trap in the marijuana farm in the basement. Once they get out, catch their breath, and look on the destruction, they start giggling uncontrollably, and continue to do so through the entire next scene as [[Da Chief]] chews them out for burning down said house.

* In ''[[Young Guns]]'', When Chavez gets the other main characters to drink Peyote to get them in touch with the "spirit world", they start talking in slow motion and keep seeing chickens. This also leads into a hilarious scene where they ride through an Indian settlement, high as a kite.

{{quote|Stoned Soldier: Do you care if it falls?

Stoned Soldier: What?

* In one of [[P. G. Wodehouse|PG Wodehouse]]'s [[Jeeves and Wooster (novel)|Jeeves and Wooster]] stories Gussie Finknottle (a teetotaler and all-around spinelesss goof) gets roped into giving a speech for the award ceremonies at a local grammar school. To 'stiffen his fibers', he drinks a great deal of whiskey, and then a jug-full of OJ which both Bertie and Jeeves have spiked with alcohol. Cue [[Hilarity Ensues|hilarity]].

* In [[David Foster Wallace]]'s ''[[Infinite Jest]]'', one of Michael Pemulis' favorite methods of revenge ([[Best Served Cold|served pleasantly chilled]]) is spiking your drink with something mind-altering. Preferably a psychedelic or deliriant.

* In ''[[The Wise Man's Fear]]'', Ambrose attempts to sabotage Kvothe's admissions exam by slipping him a {{spoiler|"[[A Worldwide Punomenon|plum bob]]," a concoction that lowers a subjects inhibitions but otherwise leaves them seeming clear and coherent.}}

* In ''[[Hilary Tamar|The Shortest Way To Hades]]'' by Sarah Caudwell, Julia and Selena eat pot-laced fudge while at [[A Party - Also Known as an Orgy]], leading them to "cast off all conventional restraints and devote [themselves] without shame to the pleasures of the moment." For Selena, this means reading a copy of ''[[Pride and Prejudice]]'' while ignoring anyone who tries to talk to her; for Julia, it means trying to explain the effect of Section 478 of the Taxes Act.

* In the episode "Vital Signs" on [[White Collar]], the usually composed Neal is drugged after [[It Makes Sense in Context|breaking into a medical clinic]], and ends up singing Frank Sinatra, confessing to past crimes, and just acting [[Crowning Moment of Funny|high as a kite in general]]. Peter is not amused.

* ''[[iCarly]]'': Sam gets high from the dentist's nitrous oxide, and loses the ability to censor herself.

* ''[[Seinfeld]]'', Elaine takes too many pain pills, laughs at everything, yells "[[A Streetcar Named Desire|Stella!]]" a lot.

* ''[[Friends]]'', Ross takes too many pain pills, accuses Chandler of being gay, declares his love for Rachel, passes out. On Rachel.

** Hilariously, this is because Niles wanted to get high and ''thinks'' he succeeds, his hash brownie being switched with his dad's.

** In another episode, Niles overdoses on allergy medication while in a restaurant and starts hallucinating and speaking nonsense. He ends up accidentally knocking over the fishtank and, as Frasier puts it, "sprawled out on a bed of live Koi, weeping and desperately trying to revive that little plastic diver."

** Another episode of ''[[That '70s Show]]'' had Donna order a few iced teas while at dinner with Eric. The waiters brought her ''Long Island'' iced teas. Donna tried to drag Eric under the table for a "private rendezvous."

* ''[[Coupling]]'', Jane takes a couple of mystery tablets, reinvents herself as a children's entertainer, creates a sock puppet who insults everybody including her.

{{quote|"That is ''so'' not fair."}}

** Also, when Booth hurts his back in "The Princess and the Pear," Vicodin "makes the furniture feel friendly"

* In ''[[Malcolm in the Middle]]'', Lois refuses to take her painkillers on the grounds that they make her 'loopy'. Reese spikes her milk with them. There follows an odd, disjointed conversation with the high, giggly, mellow Lois and her husband, who hasn't even noticed.

* In the ''[[Three's Company]]'' episode "Up in the Air", Jack unintentionally mixes tranquilizers and alcohol and winds up dancing with a plant in a pot on his head.

* Spike, in his first appearance in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', recounts an incident where he "fed off a flower person" at Woodstock. ("...and I spent the next four hours watching my hand move.") Vampires in the Buffyverse are especially susceptible to unwittingly taking drugs by drinking the blood of users, and one episode depicts a designer drug meant to be shared by a human and a vampire.

* In a darker inversion, a lonely movie star on season one of ''[[Angel]]'' gives Angel a happiness inducing drug without him realizing it. What she doesn't know is that she doesn't want Angel to get happy, as he (this time temporarily) turns evil and tries to kill her.

** In the episode "Reverend Jim: A Space Odyssey", Jim slips a tranquilizer (or at least something that is ''not'' a Chiclet) into Louie's coffee while the others are trying to figure out how to get Jim a job at the taxi company. It takes effect almost immediately, causing Louie to act significantly nicer than he usually is, start singing, pass out on the hood of one of the taxis, ''and'' agree to giving Jim a job when Bobby asks him.

** In a third episode, Alex is given some uppers and told that they are a headache remedy. He is then summoned to see the boss to explain a minor accident he had been involved in earlier while talking a million miles an hour.

{{quote|'''Jayne:''' Now we're finishing this deal, and then maybe, ''maybe'' we'll come back for those morons... got themselves caught... and you can't change that by getting all... bendy.

'''Wash:''' All what?

* In an episode of ''[[Spaced]]'', Daisy buys a packet of rare Chinese spices and it then gets mixed up with cannabis while they're in a club, resulting in 'very moreish' stew.

* A variant from ''[[Perfect Strangers]]'': suffering from a terrible cold on the eve of a big date, with all other options exhausted, cousin Larry agrees to take "the Mypos Cure." Balki mixes up a batch of the [[Gargle Blaster|awful potion]] for Larry, who forces himself to gulp it down when Balki leaves the room... and returns with a tiny spoon, the intended dosage for a single person. Larry just has time to declare to Balki "I can see ''through'' you" before he [[Non Sequitur Thud|passes out]]. He awakens several days later, his date long missed - but hey, his cold is gone!

{{quote|"You have your math but he has ''the'' math. I see numbers! And five is very angry. Come back, five!"}}

* ''[[That's My Bush!]]'' - After a drug bust, the President takes three hits of ecstasy, which were indistinguishable from run-of-the-mill aspirin.

{{quote|"Marijuana is illegal in the United States, yes, even when baked into a blueberry muffin, that someone might mistakenly eat for breakfast, before leaving for their job as a TV newscaster. 'This just in, look at my hand, how weird is my hand?' is not an appropriate thing to say on the air."}}

** At the end of the episode 'Hooked', Barney takes some of the 'purple pills' the pharmacy girls left behind and ends up saying really random things to Ted and Robin and possibly hallucinating; obviously high.

* ''[[My Family]]'' had a joint {{spoiler|that actually turned out to be made of cinnamon and oregano powered by the placebo effect}} shared by Ben and Susan. Effects range from [[Lethal Chef|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, and the immortal phrase (on an egg-smashing demonstration of "this is your brain on drugs") "She's killed our brain!"

* ''[[Dead Like Me]]'', "Reapercussions." Mason starts smuggling drugs as a mule to raise cash... but the balloon breaks. Since he's a reaper, the overdose won't kill him, but he still spends most of the rest of the episode complaining about how he can't feel his arms, freaking out, and talking about ''The Crying Game''.

{{quote|'''Jack:''' ''(very rapidly, drinking iced coffee)'' Hey, friends, lovers, mothers, and other strangers. You're never going to believe what happened to me. ''(almost trips)'' Oh, my gosh! Did you see that? I almost did the half nelson. I almost bruised my delicates, my delicates, my domo arigato Mr. Tomatoes. ''(takes a huge belt of coffee)'' Huge news! I have met--are you ready for this? Mr. Right. Well, Mr. Right-Now, anyway. Ba-da-bum! Good night, folks, I'm here all week. Jack 2000! He works over at the Jumpin' Java. You know that coffee shop on 72nd? And his name is Paul. He is cute with a capital "Q"! And the busier it gets, the hotter he gets. And the hotter he gets, the sweatier he gets. And the sweatier he gets-- I forgot where I'm going with this, but the point is... ''(drinks again)'' Me likey he, and he likey me. And the best part is--shaZAM--he gives me free iced coffee every time I go in, which is every hour on the hour. Thank you very much! And occasionally on the half hour! ''(sing-song)'' Bah-da-da-da-da! Blblblbt! ''(exits, to much applause from the studio audience)''}}

** Also lampshaded in another episode where Will becomes 'addicted' to his painkillers in the course of a weekend after falling off his "man-clog," exhibiting laid-back behavior which disturbs Grace: "Okay, now you're freakin' me out!! There are crumbs on the carpet, your robe doesn't match your socks, and, oh, my God, there's no product in your hair! I'm calling 9-1-1!" (Episode also features the line "oooh, crackwhores are sneaky!", which this troper finds very quotable.)

* A mild case is in the 'Criminal Incarcerated' episode of ''[[Life Unexpected]]'', where Cate starts speaking her mind on air after having eaten some of the banana bread Ryan's sister made... which is laced with pot.

* On [[Law and Order Special Victims Unit|Law and Order: SVU]], Olivia accidentally breathes in toxic mushroom fumes which cause her to become confused... to say the least.

* Chuck from ''[[Pushing Daisies]]'' had been sending her aunts pie laced very mildly with drugs. Olive tastes one of the pies and decides that there isn't enough "vanilla" and that said vanilla isn't particularly strong. She adds lots of it.

* During the Bolivia special on ''[[Top Gear]]'', the trio purchase some caramelized coca leaves (which are legal and used as a mild stimulant). Richard Hammond has "about six." Cut [[Description Cut]] to Hammond in his car, [[Motor Mouth|chattering away with barely a pause for breath]].

* In a christmas-themed episode of [[Two and A Half Men]] (specifically, the one where Charlie ends up sleeping with someone who might be his sister), Jake Harper has a sip of some eggnog made for the christmas party. Then he spends most of his time in the background doing things such as (somehow) getting from the hallway to the porch in a somewhat loopy manner, which eventually cumulates in him vomiting in his parents car on the way back from the party while attempting to recite [[Twas the Night Before Christmas]].

** In another episode, Jake also locks himself in the bathroom and is unwilling to come out due to him experiencing something weird with his body. He then mentions that the weirdness started when he ingested some items from Charlie's medical box. His description of it being a blue pill implies that he had unknowingly ingested Viagra, and likewise the weird reactions in his body was his getting an erection.

* In ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'', Antimony and Kat eat enough cherries from a tree taken from Gillitie Wood to stain their hands and clothes red. They get tipsy, and [[Mood Whiplash]] or two ensues.

** Much later Annie looked suspiciously like this after the [[Cuddle Bug|warm welcome]] of Foley kids in Chapter 36. It's not quite clear whether this happens because she let her emotions run free in a [[Heartwarming Moment]] or because she was {{spoiler|[[Astral Projection|out-of-body]]'ed in a crowd of ex-fairies}}.

* In a Christmas arc in ''[[PvP]]'', Skull gets stoned on a bad orange julius and ends up taking a job as a [[Mall Santa]].

* ''[[Girl Genius]]'' had [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070625 some] ''really'' good coffee from Agatha Heterodyne.

* The title character of ''[[Mulberry]]'' went crazy after drinking the contents of [[Paula Abdul]]'s ''[[American Idol]]'' Coke glass.

 

** The essence of pure flavor is nothing more than water. Water laced with LSD.

* An episode of ''[[Dexter's Laboratory]]'' has him and Dee-Dee try coffee to see what all the fuss is about. They end up consuming all the coffee in the house and going on a hyperactive bender. Meanwhile their parents learn that they are out of coffee and go through the effects of withdrawal. Interesting fact: while Dee-Dee spent her excessive energy playing plenty of different games and activities, Dexter keeps tightening the same bolt for possibly ''hours'', all while smiling like a stoner.

** In one episode the characters see an ad for non-alcoholic beer, which excites them when they find out you don't have to be 21 to buy it. After purchasing a pack, they sit on a sidewalk and try to become drunk ("We're fhit-saced!"). A cop comes by and gives them a test ("I'm too drunk to take a test!") which they naturally fail. The cop eventually sees that the beer isn't alcoholic, and tells them that they aren't drunk; they're just stupid. Disappointed that they aren't drunk, the two decide that all they need to do is drink more beer.

** There's also [[The Movie]], in which Beavis takes a bite of peyote in a desert and experiences [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A95qnv-oIuo a musical trip.]

'''Moltar''': That's for where you were trying to fix the gas leak, and you made it leak.

'''Space Ghost''': Is that where I got all these ideas? 'Cause they're brilliant! Hey, Break all the pipes in the sub for more good ideas! Dive! Dive! Suck on the pipes! }}

** Also the episode where Bart and Milhouse drink raw Squishee syrup and go on a sugar-induced 'bender'.

** And, of course, the infamous Guatemalan insanity peppers which begin Homer's vision quest.

** Immediately after he comes down from this, he decides to try the goop on the wall of a cave the group stumbled into. He begins seeing giant [[Mix-and-Match Critters|"buzzards"]]. The good news is that they are actually there, the bad news is that he is pointing in the opposite direction.

*** Of course, in this case it is possible it was because he was still under the influence of the cactus juice, just able to form coherent sentences.

** In an earlier episode, Aang is trying to unleash the Avatar State so the Earth Kingdom can attack the Fire Nation. He is given a tea that's supposed to stimulate his energy. He becomes very [[Caffeine Bullet Time|hyper.]]

* The first episode of ''[[Clone High]]'' had what amounted to the entire student body getting drunk on non-alchoholic beer. Even better is Gandhi, who got drunk (and acted the craziest) even though he knew what it was in the first place, since he helped buy it.

 

* An Austrian reporter got drunk while doing a report on mead, having to take a sip of the stuff before speaking. Several takes later, and he was ''hosed''.

* Sex columnist Dan Savage wrote in one of his books that something like this happened to his mother once. Dan's partner was making margaritas at a family gathering and Dan's mother was acting loopy after just one glass. It turns out the margarita "mix" ''already had tequila in it,'' and Dan's partner hadn't realized this (only wondered why the "mix" was so expensive) and had bought a whole bottle to add to it...

* This is how [[The Beatles]] got introduced to acid. John and George were visiting their dentist/friend for dinner one night in April 1965, and he spiked their coffee with the stuff. They liked it enough to share it with Ringo. Paul was reluctant, holding out for about a year before breaking down and trying it. He still preferred weed.

* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14770359 This happened to several people in an office] in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada in 2011, when one woman who worked there brought some brownies from home that she had found in her freezer. The folks who ate them thought that they had been poisoned; it turns out that the woman's son had baked pot brownies some time ago, tossed them in the freezer, and forgotten about them.

* This can happen to people when they drink on planes or just before getting on them. Travelers who turn out to be mean drunks often end up forcing the pilots to turn the plane back so the person causing the disturbance can be removed. In the [[The War on Terror|post-9/11 era]], they might find themselves facing terrorism charges when they sober up.

 

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