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{{quote|'''Frog:''' Hey, mister, this here's the [[Waxing Lyrical|stairway to heaven.]] Ya'll know that, don'tcha?
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* ''[[Empire Records]]'': Mark eats Eddie's "special brownies" and proceeds to hallucinate himself into GWAR's video for Saddam A Go-Go from the album This Toilet Earth, then getting eaten by the World Maggot (the same thing that ate Jerry Springer when GWAR was on his show). He seems to find all this very funny.
* ''[[Reefer Madness]]'', with the pot brownie scene.
* In the 1996 film ''[[William Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet]]'', Romeo ([[Leonardo DiCaprio]]) is given an ecstasy pill right before going to the Capulet masked
* In 1996's ''[[The Brady Bunch|A Very Brady Sequel]]'', conman Trevor Thomas is served hallucinogenic mushrooms in a plate of spaghetti by clueless maid Alice; the subsequent sequence features animation (including dancing pandas and a helicopter-tailed wizard bird from the [[Filmation]] ''[[The Brady Kids|Brady Kids]]'' cartoon) and the trippy Sixties anthem "Good Morning, Starshine" from ''[[Hair (theatre)]]''.
* ''[[Across the Universe (film)|Across the Universe]]'' uses this. It's also taken to a greater level with all the visual imagery used and the fact that the music used is the music of the Beatles...
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** On another episode, House uses psychedelic mushrooms to treat a particularly obnoxious teenager's cluster headaches... he mellows out some. (Cue Iron Butterfly and swirling colors.)
* ''[[The George Lopez Show]]'' features a drink involving a worm at the bottom of the glass. Drinking the worm induces an instant [[Dream Sequence]] episode.
* ''
* In the ''[[Coupling]]'' episode "Jane and the Truth Snake" Jane takes two paracetamol in a failed suicide bid, not having grasped the concept of an overdose. The pills actually aren't paracetamol but something she was given at a party, and [[Hilarity Ensues]] as her [[Split Personality|excessively straight-talking alter ego]] takes control in the form of a talking snake puppet.
* In an episode of ''[[My Name Is Earl]]'', Randy eats hippy face lotion and begins to see everything in claymation.
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* ''[[Super Mario Bros.|Yoshi's Island]]'' has an infamous level called "Touch Fuzzy, Get Dizzy." Touching one of the fuzzy monsters that float around in the area will cause Yoshi to stumble around like a drunkard for a minute, distorting the music and the game screen.
** Called "[[Fun with Acronyms|Lustiges Sporen Drama]]" in the German version.
** Stages
** Youtube user [[Lightning Wolf 3]] has made some videos based on the above mentioned "Touch Fuzzy, Get Dizzy," featuring [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzYq07N1YHU Mario], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR-Ij_DvUI4 Toad], and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfKUDqY3QA4 Luigi], all feeling the effects of touching fuzzy (or, in Luigi's case, a fuzzy ''mushroom''.)
* Well, hello there, ''[[Earthbound]]''. A woman in Summers allows Ness to eat "[[G-Rated Drug|Magic Cake]]", which allows Ness to have a vision of Poo.
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** To say nothing of the coffee a Mr. Saturn offers. Though really, {{spoiler|Speaking to your dad inside a Kaleidoscope}} is nowhere near as bizarre as...everything else in the entire game.
** What about Moonside? Or are we blaming that on {{spoiler|the Mani Mani statue}}?
** ''[[Mother 3]]'' continues the tradition when the party is forced to eat some strange mushrooms found in the
{{quote|'''Claus:''' Everyone's waiting, Lucas. Everyone's waiting to spit at you, throw rocks at you, and make your life Hell. Who's "everyone"?... ''everyone you love.''}}
** Thankfully for poor Lucas, his next
* ''[[Nethack]]'' has a hallucination status effect caused by (among other things) eating violet or yellow fungus, getting zapped by a black light, or drinking a [[Intoxication Ensues|potion of hallucination]]. It randomizes the appearance of every creature and item in the dungeon every time you take a step, and causes [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything|just about every in-game message]] to be rewritten in [[Surfer Dude]] speak.
** [[Z Angband]] has a similar effect. Monsters also receive new names so you don't know what your
* ''[[Jazz Jackrabbit 2]]'' has an afro-wearing caterpillar enemy, resting on a toadstool (inspired by ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]'') who blows out ring-shaped puffs of smoke. When the player hits one of these smokerings, the entire stage's colours start to cycle around psychedelically for a few moments, and the player's movement becomes distorted for a moment (Left is Right, etcetera).
* In the game ''[[Sprung]]'', in Brett's story, a hippie character gets him to eat some mushrooms for a 'ceremony'. It leads him to hallucinate loud flashing colours, come up with bizarre game overs, and visualise the hippie as a cow. Slowbeef's [[Let's Play]] of the scene gives Brett some surreal [[No Fourth Wall]] dialogue during the scene, even cribbing lines from other [[Intoxication Ensues]] and [[Mind Screw]] scenes as homage.
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** In "Homer Loves Flanders," Homer comments that Shelbyville threatened to spike Springfield's water supply after Springfield burned down their city hall, but they didn't have the guts. Cut to Marge drinking some water in the kitchen. Sitar music suddenly plays and Marge comments that the walls are melting again. A cooked turkey pops out of the oven and flies away.
** In "Selma's Choice", Bart dares Lisa to drink some of the water from a boat ride at Duff Gardens (which is so polluted, it doesn't really look like water anymore). Once she does, she starts to hallucinate (starting with the Dutch dolls on the "Little Land of Duff" ride receding down a dark, endless hallway), becomes paranoid, tries to whack Bart and Aunt Selma with a boat oar, stumbles around the Duff Lite Parade commenting on how she can "see the music," and is found hours later after security saw her swimming naked in the Fermentarium, clad in only a towel and declaring herself, "The Lizard Queen."
** And then, when Homer starts smoking medicinal weed, he opens his bathroom's door with a 60's-style happy face, grabs a razor with a happy face, sees rainbows coming out of his beard, and then he gets on his car (with a happy face too!), under a pink sky and the smiling sun, his car takes off, and he drives
** There was also a subversion: in the chapter where Homer becomes a missionary, he starts licking hallucinogenic toads out of sheer boredom; however, the only thing we can see is his dilated pupils and his unusual reactions.
** And then there's the episode where Ned opens a Christian theme park. He erects a statue of his late wife (the park was a lifelong dream of hers), and people who stand in front of it are hit with a vision of their idea of heaven, while onlookers see them writhing on the ground speaking in tongues. Everyone thinks it's something truly spiritual, until Ned discovers a gas leak near the statue and that people were just "Getting goofy off the gas fumes."
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** In the second half of "Lost in Parking Space" Toot drinks the saltwater from a fish tank and claims she sees a polar bear with a scorpion tail. [[Brick Joke|It turns out true later on]].
* ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]''
** The episode "Haunted" features a very unfunny example. Robin accidentally inhales an unnamed hallucinogen from an old mask of Slade's. Unlike most examples, however, this Mushroom Samba leads to what most fans consider the darkest episode of the
** Cyborg gets his turn when Beast Boy accidentally gives him a computer virus. He runs around crazily and eats everything in sight, while having strange food-related hallucinations.
*** That's a BIIIIG cherry!
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== Real Life ==
* [[Truth in Television]], possibly: Some scholars of Greek literature believe that the Ancient Greek Oracles obtained their visions and heard the voices of the gods because they inhaled steam from natural geothermal vents for hours every day.
* The hallucinogenic properties of lysergic acid diethylamide (better known as LSD or acid) were discovered by accident when its discoverer, research chemist Albert Hoffman, accidentally absorbed some ''through his fingertips''. Hoffman realized that he had made a significant discovery, and so three days later he deliberately took 250 micrograms of the drug, which he estimated would be a minuscule threshold dose. He was
* Ergot, a fungus which grows on some types of grain during wet winters... and is apparently not destroyed when baked into bread along with the rye, can have LSD-like effects (along with gangrene and/or dying). Some scholars believe that those who testified at the infamous [[Witch Hunt|Salem Witch Trials]] and similar events in Europe as having witnessed "witchcraft" and the Devil, had in fact been the result of a combination of religious fervor (i.e. they already believed demons and witches were everywhere)... and hallucinating due to eating ergot-infected rye bread. ([[It Gets Worse]]. Ergotamine is a potent vasoconstrictor and can cause necrosis in the fingers and toes.)
** It should be noted that Albert Hoffman was in fact researching ergot when he discovered LSD.
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