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** "[http://dilbert.com/strip/2011-03-29 I'm writing a press release for imaginary new green energy technologies...]"
** An episode of the ''[[Dilbert (animation)|Dilbert]]'' animated series had his company killing people with herbal lozenges. "Anthrax is a bacterium, not a herb."
* Spoofed a number of times in ''[[Discworld]]'':
** In ''[[Discworld/Witches Abroad|Witches Abroad]]'', Magrat assumes that absinthe is good for you because it's made with herbs. She ends up with a good-sized hangover afterwards.
** In ''[[Discworld/Carpe Jugulum|Carpe Jugulum]]'', the Nac Mac Feegle convince King Verence to drink a bowl of "brose" by telling him it's got milk and herbs in it. What they don't tell him is that the Feegles, who can drink their weight in lamp oil with no ill effects, drink their "brose" to get their spirits up before going into battle, and Verence ends up briefly turning into a [[Screaming Warrior]].
** ''[[Discworld/Jingo|Jingo]]'' gently winds up the tendency of shampoos to use "herbs" when the Watch investigates {{spoiler|Snowy Slopes, the Man With the Steel-Toothed Comb, who has tried virtually every hair care product available in Ankh-Morpork to treat his horrendous dandruff, mostly on the virtue that they have herbs.}} Angua (who [[Our Werewolves Are Different|has some hair problems herself]]), muses that you stuff a bunch of weeds in a shampoo bottle, and you have herbs.
** In ''[[Discworld/Going Postal (Discworld)|Going Postal]]'', Tolliver Groat makes all his own medicines using natural ingredients... like, say, arsenic and sulfur. His throat lozenges dissolve walls.
*** Groat also puts [[wikipedia:Gunpowder|sulfur and charcoal in his socks, and soaks his trousers in saltpetre.]] After he's rescued from a fire, this leads to a doctor informing Moist von Lipwig "His trousers were the subject of a controlled detonation after one of his socks exploded."
*** He also has a chest warmer made of goose grease and bread pudding. Apparently he stuffs that down his shirt instead of down his throat but it keeps him going so whatever works.
** Numerous of his books refer to a drink called Scumble, which, as is innocently said, is made of apples - well, mostly apples. However, it is [[Gargle Blaster|one of the most strongly alcoholic liquors known on the Disc.]] Nanny Ogg's cooking contains numerous variations.
** And ''[[Discworld/Making Money|Making Money]]'' features Splot, a hot drink that picks people up,<ref>[[Footnote Fever|By their testicles, and throws them through the roof]]</ref> made from herbs and natural ingredients. "But belladonna is a herb, and arsenic is natural".
** The Discworld Companion has an entry on Jimkin Bearhugger's Homeopathic Sipping Whisky. Jim failed to understand why the slogan 'Every Drop Diluted 1 Million Times' failed to attract customers even though, in theory, even being in the same room as an uncorked bottle should have gotten you riotously drunk.
* An episode of ''[[Eureka]]'' revealed that all the victims had eaten the chicken which came from a chicken farmer (who actually ''cloned'' the birds because it was less cruel that way) who fed the poultry a certain nutrient solution. She had no problem using the nutrient because it was natural, and therefore safe to use. At least until a doctor pointed out it was known to ''degrade people's brains''. Note that this was an ''organic'' chicken farmer who cloned only ''parts'' of the chickens for human consumption. Yes, ''organically'' cloned chicken parts.
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