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Hmm, about the Lum example - are you sure that wasn't just a Frothy Mugs of Water and/or Americanitis working? See, in Japan the most common place to find pickled plums is in plum wine.
Adam850: Nope. She'd get drunk off of just one pickled plum, and from a bento box, not wine.
Dok Enkephalin: I've known people who claimed to get drunk off of soft drinks, and behaved as if they were not sugar rushing but intoxicated. I'm just a little skeptical to call it Truth in Television; these people were pretty much spazzes the rest of the time. Is it real, or just a cry for attention?
Ununnilium: Sounds just like them being silly.
- Family Guy had high-schoolers getting high by licking toads.
- This actually comes from an urban legend with some basis in reality
- This actually comes from an urban legend with some basis in reality
Yeah, this is a real (or supposedly real) but obscure drug, not a non-drug substance treated like one.
- The plot of "Quest For Ratings" involves the kids getting high on cough syrup.
- Which actually has a base in reality, in cough syrup based on the drug DXM, which is highly hallucinogenic when taken in large doses.
- The plot of "Quest For Ratings" involves the kids getting high on cough syrup.
Similar.
- It was heavily implied though that it wasn't water in the Little Land of Duff ride, but rather alcohol.
I don't see it. Lisa's experiences after drinking some seemed more hallucinogenic than drunken.
Of course, after the commercial, kids decided to actually try it. (SLOMing not weed).
- It was supposed to illustrate that just because you're peer pressured (several of the kids explicitly state that they wouldn't SLOM if other kids weren't doing it) doesn't make it a good idea. Also it was supposed to illustrate that just because your addiction involves an actual altered experience doesn't make it any less stupid. Of course, the reaction of real life kids to the PSA shows the effectiveness of the message, and the effectiveness of anti-drug propaganda in general.
- I saw this lampshaded a couple of times, incidentally. Once in Red Vs. Blue, after Grif and Simmons had been drugged by an unknown assailant, when Simmons demanded Donut shut up because the only thing his anti-drug propaganda and third-grader scandalized tones were doing was giving him the urge to try drugs. And once in Soul Music, when Imp y Celyn arrives at the Musicians' Guild HQ and sees a sign thanking him for not smoking. Something about the sign gives Imp a near-irresistible urge to take up smoking, even though he'd never been particularly inclined before.
- It was supposed to illustrate that just because you're peer pressured (several of the kids explicitly state that they wouldn't SLOM if other kids weren't doing it) doesn't make it a good idea. Also it was supposed to illustrate that just because your addiction involves an actual altered experience doesn't make it any less stupid. Of course, the reaction of real life kids to the PSA shows the effectiveness of the message, and the effectiveness of anti-drug propaganda in general.
Yes thank you ha ha anti-drug commercials don't work we get it.
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- Though "dizziness" evokes more thoughts of... Angry Milk to me.
- Which, since coffee can't really be completely decaffeinated (I don't pretend to understand how, but it works mostly by brewing one batch of beans until the beans are completely freaking white and drained of coffee-ness, and then brewing more beans in that, removing the caffeine but not the coffee-ness), leads one to wonder how he'd react to a full dose of caffeine.
- Though "dizziness" evokes more thoughts of... Angry Milk to me.
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