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{{quote|''"I suspect it would be like most cartoons. You know, we'd start to go nuts after a while and I would look at Homestar and he would look like a big steak. And then Homestar would look at me and I'd look like, you know, some kinda brownie sundae. So we'd chase each other around the island, trying to eat each other. And at some point, my foot would look like a sandwich, and I would put salt on it and try to eat it, and it's like 'Oh, it's my foot!'"''|'''Strong Bad''' on living on a desert island with Homestar, ''[[Homestar Runner]]''}}

 

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== [[Advertising]] ==

* An Oh Henry ad showed a hungry university student seeing his English Literature professor as a giant Oh Henry bar ... and chasing said professor down the hall.

 

* Happens in ''[[One Piece]]''. Most egregorious example: Luffy and Sanji chasing Chopper (even if he wasn't part of their team yet, they at least seemed to notice it was an intelligent creature, and they didn't care).

* In the manga version of ''[[Heat Guy J]]'', Kyoko is dieting (read: starving herself), so that she can look good in a bikini at a pool party her crush has been invited to. She's working at her computer, and visions of ice cream and cakes come out from the keyboard.

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* In ''The Crab with the Golden Claws'', when [[Tintin]] and Captain Haddock are lost in the middle of a desert, Captain Haddock sees Tintin as a mirage of a champagne bottle, and throttles him, trying to remove the "cork".

* The heroes of ''[[Gorsky and Butch]]'', a [[Salt and Pepper]] pair of policemen suffer this when in the desert, seeing each other as a bottle of mineral water and cola respectively.

 

== [[Film]] ==

* Film example: ''[[Madagascar]]''. An interesting twist, in that the character in question (a lion) is looking this way at a zebra, which in the wild ''would'' have been among its prey, but they're from the zoo and don't seem to know that.

* In ''[[James and the Giant Peach]]'', a starving Centipede first sees the Grasshopper as cheese and a drink bottle, then the Earthworm as a hot dog, and finally a seagull as a roast chicken. He almost eats the last one.

* In another live action example in a ''[[The Little Rascals|Little Rascals]]'' short where Stymie and Spanky are living on the streets Stymie briefly imagines Petey the dog as a hotdog.

* ''[[Strange Brew]]'': When Bob and Doug forget to feed their dog Hosehead, the dog sees the duo dressed as giant steaks.

 

== [[Literature]] ==

{{quote|You love your wife. Your beautiful wife. Your beautiful, succulent wife. Your beautiful succulent delicious wife. Your succulent delicious steak. You love your steak so much. Rare.

Hang on a second. Were you just imagining your wife as a steak? You should know better then that. You should never imagine your steak as a steak. Steak. Eat steak.[...] }}

 

* Played with in an episode of ''[[Father Ted]]''. For Lent, Ted tries to give up cigarettes, and makes Jack give up alcohol and Dougal give up rollerblading. About halfway through, Ted sees Jack as a giant cigarette, Jack sees Dougal as a giant pint of Guinness, and Dougal sees Ted as a giant rollerblade.

** Also averted in another episode "The Mainland" - when Ted and Dougal are lost in the caves, and Dougal declares "Ted! I'm so hungry I'm beginning to hallucinate". Ted then steps into the shot having turned not into food but [[Historical Hilarity|Abraham Lincoln]].

* In ''[[It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia]]'', Frank starts to hallucinate with hunger and see Mac as a rum-soaked ham after they find themselves adrift at sea. About [[Jerkass|30 seconds after they find themselves adrift at sea]].

 

* In the music video for "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BieVgyrfglQ Learn To Fly]" by Foo Fighters, a fat woman on an aeroplane looks at another passenger and his head turns into a hamburger.

 

** In addition, an early episode of ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'' features Garfield playing with a cardboard box in various scenarios. When he imagines the box to be a lifeboat adrift on the ocean, he imagines Odie as a club sandwich. He briefly imagines onion rings, too, but he changes his mind.

 

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

** In [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0124.html another comic], Belkar is ticked off that he's the only member of the team not to gain a level and starts killing rats in order to make up the difference. Elan points out that he needs to kill something closer to his level...at which point Belkar sees his head as the letters "[[Experience Points|XP]]"...

* This ''[http://catandgirl.com/?p=744 Cat and Girl]'' strip might be considered a subversion. As much as a trope like this is subvertable.

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* In a ''[[Ren and Stimpy]]'' episode in which they are trapped in a log cabin buried beneath the snow imagine each other as various food items, and in another one where Ren lives in a cave he imagines bats as a pair of cow's udders which he starts sucking on before one of them smacks him away.

* ''[[Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi]]'' "Tsunami Yumi", while lost at sea Ami imagines Yumi as an enormous sushi roll, because they're Japanese of course.

* ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' had a subversion in "Fear of a Krabby Patty" where SpongeBob develops a fear of Krabby Patties, and sees Mr. Krabs and the customer as them.

* In one episode of ''[[CatDog]]'', Dog suffers this [[Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere|after going on a diet.]]

* In an episode of ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' Bart has been sent to his room without any dinner, and eventually feels so hungry he begins to visualize Santa's Little Helper's head as a pizza box, with his tongue as a slice.

** "Marge Vs. The Monorail" has a variation; Homer is trapped on the out-of-control monorail train and needs to find an anchor. He looks to Bart, and visualizes him as a large ship's anchor. Bart, for understandable reasons, urges him to think harder.

* In one episode of ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]'', the neighborhood is flooded, and after having gone without food for a while, Rolf imagines Johnny's head as a turkey.

{{quote|'''Rolf:''' If we do not find dry land soon, I will be forced to feast upon your succulent noggin!

'''Johnny:''' O-kay... }}

** Even though there was a cow, goat, pig, and several chickens on board the raft with them.

* In an episode of ''[[Oggy and the Cockroaches]]'', one of the roaches gets a snootful of mushroom spores and hallucinates that Jack is giant roast chicken. And then tries to eat his leg.

* In ''[[Peter Pan (Disney film)|Return to Neverland]]'', after the [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute|kraken]] has a taste of Captain Hook for the first time, it sees him as [http://magicalscreencaps.com/images/returntoneverland/gall/returntoneverland144.jpg a big red codfish]{{Dead link}}.

* The smurf-colored glasses that Handy created in the eponymous ''[[The Smurfs|Smurfs]]'' episode, which enabled Smurfs to see anyone as handsome and harmless, allows Bigmouth to see Gargamel and Azrael as a pair of walking delectables, which caused Bigmouth to chase Gargamel and Azrael into the forest while the Smurfs make their escape.

* In ''[[Bob's Burgers]]'', Bob becomes obsessed with winning an arcade game where the player battles food items. While high on pain killers, he hallucinates that two boys in the arcade are enemies from the game and chases after them shouting "Chicken leg!"

 

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