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This usually happens with works [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made Onon Drugs?|supposedly made when the creators were under the influence of the same substances]] regardless of their actual sobriety. Most often it's [[Stoner Flick|Stoner Flicks]]s that get this or if it just has a [[The Stoner|stoner]] character, especially an [[Erudite Stoner|erudite one]]. Works that use [[Faux Symbolism]] also receive this. It also happens with works that involve swirls of bright colors, strobe lights, laser lights, [[Mushroom Samba|mushroom sambas]], or [[Disney Acid Sequence|Disney Acid Sequences]]s. Frequently, the work just has to involve something strange or out of the ordinary, so this is very common with fantasy and science fiction as well as works involving a [[Mind Screw]]. Also possible with works that are supposedly aimed at kids but the [[What Do You Mean It's for Kids?|content calls this into question]].

Whether or not the creators intentionally make it this way varies, as will whether or not [[Word of God|they admit to it]] for several reasons. Doing so can lead to backlash from [[Moral Guardians]] and can cause problems for people under [[Contractual Purity]] because [[Drugs Are Bad]]. However, this can be affected by [[Values Dissonance]] which can lead to a [[Flip -Flop of God]]. It can also lead to a [[Misaimed Fandom]], which can lead to the aforementioned problems but can also help how successful the work is leading to a [[Shrug of God]].

Oddly enough, this only occasionally overlaps with [[This Is Your Premise Onon Drugs]]. However, it almost ''always'' overlaps with [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made Onon Drugs?]]

=== '''[[In -Universe]] Examples Only: ===!'''

{{quote| '''Enhancement Smoker''': You ever see the back of a twenty dollar bill... on weed? Oh, there's some crazy shit, man. There's a dude in the bushes. Has he got a gun? I dunno! RED TEAM GO, RED TEAM GO.}}

* Used in-story in ''[[Knocked Up]]'' -- when—when the guys go to Las Vegas, Pete brings along some psychedelic mushrooms and they deliberately save them for when they go to see [[Cirque Du Soleil]]'s ''[[Mystere]]''. The experience ''is'' awesome at first, but by the end the drugs turn on Ben and he freaks out. (The commentary on the DVD notes that [[Cirque Du Soleil]] had no problem with their work being used in the context of this trope!)

* Woody Allen displays a dim view of this in ''[[Annie Hall (Film)|Annie Hall]]'' when a California party guest says "You ever see Renoir's ''Grand Illusion''? It's hilarious when you're stoned!"

* Ironically averted by ''[[Fear and Loathing Inin Las Vegas]]''. [[Mind Rape|Never make the mistake of thinking otherwise]].

* All four [[Beatles]] have admitted that they were stoned throughout the ''entire'' filming of ''[[Help!]]''. Well, that explains it.

* Beaten to a bloody pulp in ''[[Requiem for Aa Dream]]''. {{spoiler|At the end of the film, the main character is imprisoned with an amputated arm, whilst his [[Black Best Friend]] is locked in a Southern prison without a trial, his girlfriend is a mere street whore, and his mom is locked up in the loony bin.}} Remember kids, [[Drugs Are Bad]].

* ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' annoyed author [[JRRJ. TolkienR. (Creator)R. Tolkien|JRR Tolkien]] in the 1960's and 70's when it became extremely popular with the hippie counter culture for this reason.

== [[Live -Action TV]] ==

* The 4/April 20/10, 2010 episode of [[The Colbert Report]] subverted this hard. [[Sarcasm Mode|Angry at stoners for celebrating their decadent lifestyle]], the show lays out a series of frightening stimuli for the stoned viewer, including: loud banging noises as if the police were at your door, Stephen asking "Are you ok? Everybody's been saying you're acting weird.", and a police officer yelling at the screen.

* [[Genesis (Musicband)|Genesis]] used to get annoyed in the early 1970s when people thought that you had to be on drugs to appreciate their music, because they had to be perfectly sober to play it. Except for [[Phil Collins]], their [[All Drummers Are Animals|then-drummer]], who was happily high on marijuana during almost all of the depressing "Lamb" tour<ref>Ironically, the guy everybody ''thought'' was on drugs was [[Peter Gabriel]] as the frontman/flutist, who says he only tried pot once and didn't like it. Easy enough mistake to make, since [https://web.archive.org/web/20140216180823/http://www.121musicblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/petergabriel.jpg he was] [http://mitkadem.homestead.com/files/genesis_petergabriel_foxtrot_paris_januar1973.jpg kind of odd]</ref>

* [[The Nostalgia Critic (Web Video)|The Nostalgia Critic]] occasioanlly invokes this such as in his list of the "Top Ten Worst [[Drugs Are Bad|Anti-Drug]] PSA's" or in his review of ''[[The Super Mario Bros Super Show]]'' and [[The Legend of Zelda (Animationanimation)|animated series]].

* ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]'' - [[Alice in Wonderland (Disney film)|the Disney version]]. Many theatres (possibly Disney itself) showed the movie during the 60's solely to capitalize on its popularity with drug users. One poster for the '60s re-release actually used the phrase "[[Go Ask Alice]]" in its tagline.

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