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*** To be fair, TAG will make your Girlfriend's ''mom'' want to do odd things to ''you''. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mambpzvJyYM\]
** In real life, expect to be made fun of.
* And of course, there were the ads for Impulse, a woman's body spray. Any woman wearing the product would become irresistable because "Men Can't Help Acting On Impulse." They even played with this concept in a '90s ad, where a woman wearing Impulse fails to score with a guy she bumps into ... because she is in the middle of a gay district.
* Consider also the subtext of the ads for BOD Man fragance spray. Wherein a youth applies the spray and proceedes to play shirtless basketball with his male compatriots, while women look on longingly from behind a chain link fence.
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* ''[[Ranma ½]]'', being a [[Love Dodecahedron]] played for comedy, featured a ''lot'' of [[Applied Phlebotinum]] that had some kind of effect equating to love magic. None of these ever solved anything, but they did make for good excuses for slapstick zaniness. We start with pills that cause whoever swallows one to fall for the first person of the opposite sex, with a duration of either one instant, one day, or the ingester's entire life. Then comes an actual [[Red String of Fate]]. An umbrella that enthralls whoever is [[Together Umbrella|sharing it]]. A bandaid impregnated with a potent potion that makes the wearer chase after girls/guys when it gets warm. Mushrooms that, when stewed, act as a love potion. And those are just a few examples- and we're still not even getting into all of the [[Mind Control Device]] items.
* Urd of ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]'' is well-known for her love concoctions that always backfire spectactularly - in at least one instance, they work ''too'' well. Peorth once tried to meddle with one of Urd's potions and through crazy technobabble (apparently divine medicine does not react well when placed in cola), makes Keiichi irresistible to any woman who looks at him. This unfortunately included his own sister but eventually it was all sorted out and Urd slipped Peorth a perfectly functional love potion in revenge that had her fall in love with a Tanuki statue. It should be noted that Peorth was aiming to alter a "first person you see" variety of love potion to "love only Peorth" potion.
** Part of the reason why it failed was because Peorth altered the 'Drop of koi' (affectionate, romantic love) potion to the 'Drop of ai' (passionate love) potion. As Urd explained, it didn't work on Belldandy because it 'was not crude enough' to
** As far as the love overeffect goes, Urd's analysis was simply "Potions are not something amateurs ought to mess with"
*** That said, Belldandy did get hit by a potion early in the manga that had her all but jump Keiichi right then and there. (un)Fortunately (depending on how you want to look at it), Keiichi was able to talk her down out of it (
* A love potion figures into episodes 2 and 3 of ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' - but unlike the usual potion, it makes the person who consumes it irresistible to the oppposite sex. Negi brews it to give to Asuna as an apology for embarassing her in front of Takahata-sensei, but because she's angry at him she pours it down Negi's throat before he can explain how it works, with [[Love Is in the Air|predictable results]].
** Later, in volume 7 of the manga, Asuna finds herself fighting off her uncontrollably growing feelings for Negi as she helps him deal with some business. Just as she's all but ready to give in (or kill herself), though, he innocently warns her about the fact that the chocolates on his desk, one of which she stole at the beginning of the chapter without him looking, was in fact a love potion of the "Fall in love with the first person you see" variety.
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