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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.

* ''[[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 ==

* 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.

* 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?

{{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''.

* In ''[[Twokinds]]'', [[Petting Zoo People|Keidrans]] can get insanely drunk off a couple slugs of normal beer. Then they start to talk like [[LOLcats]].

* 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.

 

'''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.

 

* 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.

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