Intoxication Ensues: Difference between revisions

 

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]]''.

* 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''.

'''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.