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[[File:Webs.jpg|thumb|350px|The webs that spiders spin when high. See, kids? Not all drugs are the same...]]
{{quote|'''Kip:''' So um, How high were you when you made this map?
'''UEAKCrash:''' I was actually very drunk for most of it.
'''Kip:''' Alright.
'''UEAKCrash:''' It was very alcohol fueled.
|[https://youtu.be/XP3sVWux4uI?t{{=}}1m8s Trainsawlaser on Tip of the Hats with Crash, Jerma, Star, and more!]}}
A work which is subject to this trope was made, at least in part, under the influence of drugs stronger than caffeine.<ref>Quite honestly, if we included caffeine, we'd have to list just about ''every'' work created in the West for the last few hundred years, and for several centuries further back in the East.</ref> Ironically, a work subject to this trope doesn't necessarily ''look'' like it was written on drugs, and [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made on Drugs?|some works that ''do'', weren't]].
In order for a work to qualify for this trope, the creator has to be ''known'' to have created at least part of it while ingesting mind-altering substances, or when inspired by an experience had under their influence. (Sleep deprivation may cause similar effects, but does not count for the purpose of this trope.) Usually this requires [[Word of God]] or his close associates<ref>Secondhand sources are better than none.</ref>; simple speculation or "everyone knows" opinions will ''not'' be sufficient to justify the use of this trope. Citations and other evidence are, while not mandatory, ''strongly'' encouraged. Examples should include specific works and specific drugs (where known); just putting down something like "(Band name) were known to take LSD" is a [[Zero Context Example]] and will be subject to deletion.
Also, when a creator ''denies'' having used drugs when creating a certain work, ''we take their word on it.''
It probably goes without saying, but some creators do use mind-altering substances, but ''not'' while creating. A prime example would be [[Ernest Hemingway]]. He was a heavy drinker -- but not while writing; he wrote in the morning and early afternoon, and only began drinking in the middle of the afternoon when he had accomplished the writing he had set out to do that day. The work he and others like him created would not qualify for this trope.
[[In-Universe]] examples from works of fiction are welcome, and have their own section in the examples.
Contrast [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made on Drugs?]], which is when the work ''looks'' like it was created under the influence, but demonstrably wasn't.
Please note, by the way, [[Our Lawyers Advised This Trope|that this page explicitly does ''not'' endorse or recommend the use of mind-altering substances as a part of the creative process]] -- it just documents it. The actual impacts that drugs may have on the creative process can vary wildly from creator to creator, and to be honest, it's likely that the more drugs a creator does, the less likely the resulting work will be worth experiencing. Or even completed.
Not to be confused with [[This Is Your Premise on Drugs]].
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== Straight Examples ==
===Advertising===
* [[Tim and Eric]]'s [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7PD4f5uTOU ads for Old Spice] featuring Terry Crews. Being Tim and Eric, little more needs to be said other than, "''Yes'', it was made on drugs, you idiot!"
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====Anime====▼
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* The staff of ''[[Gurren Lagann]]'' had a trip and got drunk when that show was over. Much of ''[[Panty and Stocking With Garterbelt]]'''s shell was made, or at least voiced (perhaps for the first time), during this trip.<ref>As cited in [[wikipedia:Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt#Development|this Wikipedia article.]]</ref>
* Pirates, We are by Walid Feghali. <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gOCQLaacrA&feature=youtu.be&t=41s] (annotations need to be on)</ref>▼
* ''[[Madlax]]'' is a prime example of how strange you can get in a plot. The [[Koichi Mashimo|director]] and writer conceived the series ending during an intoxicated brainstorming session.
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* Artist [http://bryanlewissaunders.org/drugs/ Bryan Lewis Saunders] purposely took drugs and then created self portraits, to see the effect the substances would have on his art.
* The ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)]]'' map maker behind infamous [[Everything Is Trying to Kill You]] Custom map Koth trainsawlaser stated much of it was made under the influence of alcohol.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-j90z2N8OA&feature=youtu.be&t=19m33s][https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP3sVWux4uI&feature=youtu.be&t=1m08s]</ref>▼
=== Comic Books ===
* [[Grant Morrison]] has said some of his work on ''[[Doom Patrol]]'' was influenced by shrooms.
=== Fan Works ===
* ''[[William Country]]'' is a ''literal'' [[Crack Fic]] in that the animator reportedly [[Made on Drugs|did drugs while making it]]. The plot itself is fairly straightforward (although it ''does'' involve a character in a relationship with an [[Original Character]] who [[Selfcest|looks like himself]]), but there are countless unusual moments, related to the plot or otherwise, and bizarre background events (such as a bunch of buses flipping around while Chris is narrating). All in all, it's somewhat surreal.
=== Literature ===
* So that nobody has any doubts, [[Hunter S. Thompson]]'s books and articles were made on drugs. ''All of them.''<ref>All of his works. And all of the drugs.</ref>
* According to Tom Wolfe in ''[[wikipedia:The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test|The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test]]'', [[Ken Kesey]] wrote several passages of ''[[One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]]'' on LSD and/or peyote.
* Nineteenth-century British author [[Wilkie Collins]] was addicted to laudanum and later opium during the period during which he wrote what have been called "the best and most enduring novels of his career": ''[[The Woman in White]], No Name, Armadale'', and ''The Moonstone''. By the 1870s, though, his opium addition (along with a general decline in his health and a growing problem with his eyesight) began to adversely affect his writing; it's hard to point to any particular feature of his later work which can be definitively attributed to the drug use, though.
* The poems of [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]] were written while on drugs. One of his most famous works, [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/43991 "Kubla Khan, Or, A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment"], is ''explicitly'' the result of an opium-influenced dream.
* Portions of the ''Don Juan'' books by [[Carlos Castaneda]] are first-hand accounts -- written during or shortly after -- peyote trances. Depending on where you stand on the disputed subject of their authenticity, these books may actually belong under [[In-Universe]] examples.
* At least some accounts attribute the waking nightmares that inspired Mary Shelley to write ''[[Frankenstein (novel)|Frankenstein]]'' to opium, by way of laudanum.
* ''[[Illuminatus]]'' trilogy author [[Robert Anton Wilson]] is well-known to have taken drugs, and supported their legalization under his libertarian philosophy. He also has a book called ''[[wikipedia:Sex, Drugs and Magick|Sex, Drugs and Magick]]'' which details his own personal experiences with a variety of substances.
* Part two of [[Allen Ginsberg]]'s "[[Howl]]" (Moloch! Moloch!) was written in the throes of a vivid mescaline hallucination, which is no easy task.
===Live Action Films===
* John Boorman admitted that he was high on drugs when he was directing ''[[Zardoz]]'', and it definitely ''shows.''
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* [[Ozzy Osbourne]], in his own words "for the last God-knows how many years, I've been a major practicing drug addict and alcoholic", now claims to be completely drug-free, and that his 2007 album ''Black Rain'' was the first one he's ever recorded while sober.
===Video Games===
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* Michael Kirkbride created some of ''[[The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind]]'''s stranger bits of lore while under the influence of peyote.
===Web Original===
Someone designed an ekranoplan<ref>Like an airplane, but is supposed to more or less fly over water at very low altitude</ref> while drunk.<ref>http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/07/michigan-tech-student-drunk-designed-plane-twitter-viral-mark-keith</ref>▼
* [[YouTube Poop]]. In fact one maker answered the question "Did any of your ideas for Poops come from recreational drugs or alcohol?" with a "Yes."
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== In-Universe Examples ==
=== Literature ===
* [[Henry Kuttner]]'s series of stories about Gallegher. He's a [[Gadgeteer Genius|genius inventor]] for hire, but can work only while very drunk, and is really good only on the right sort of alcohol at that. The problem with this is that [[What Did I Do Last Night?|Gallegher is unable to remember what he did while drunk]]. And his approach tends to be so far out of the box that the hard part is figuring out what his new toy does and how this can possibly do the intended job - or is it something he built for fun (which can be ''even more'' arcane and roundabout) and there's another device somewhere else. Most of the plot is the process of self-investigation - once he hears the request again, thinks about it, studies his invention again... but this takes a while, and not all the clients are patient, especially since most people deal with a drunk genius only if quite desperate. It gets worse if he takes several requests, because he tries to find a solution for several at once - which may end up in [[Mad Scientist]] grade weirdness - but does not know ''which'' job(s) it performs, if any.
* Anything in the least bit creative manifested by [[Reality Warper|anyone under the effects of the Reality Pill]] in ''[[The Butterfly Kid]]''.
=== Stand-Up Comedy ===
* Invoked by [[Robin Williams]] during the comedy tour that became his 1979 album ''Reality... What A Concept'':
{{quote|“And now a poem written on acid entitled 'Ahhabulaguhala'...”}}
:which he then recites, a stream of warbling liquid vowels that ends with a clearly-enunciated "[[Eve Arden]]".
=== Web Comics ===
* ''[[Questionable Content]]'' has a "[[Heavy Mithril|Fantasy Metal]]" band [http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=420 Mythic Slaughterbeast], whose lyrics "read like Tolkien on PCP". [[Shaped Like Itself|And they should]], because...
{{quote|'''Dora''': According to the band's website, massive amounts of both were involved in the recording process. }}
=== Western Animation ===
* A bunch of kids in the ''[[South Park]]'' episode "Quest for Ratings" get high on cough syrup to brainstorm for a show. It doesn't work.
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