This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
fleb: Candidate for a new pagequote? From the BFRG
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- Nutty: (Also, how else could we get notions like Star Trek Voyager: Blake's Seven on Valium! Farscape: Blake's Seven on acid! ''Firefly: Blake's Seven on — well, I don't know; I've never actually seen Blake's Seven.)
Cassy: Dude, Ninjacrat, why did you delete all this stuff without even putting it in the discussion? Not fun. In case you haven't noticed, crack is the point of this entry. Well of course it doesn't mean we should get out of control, but you just deleted quite a few comments that really contributed to the fun.
- OK, here's the stuff that Ninjacrat deleted indiscriminately, saved from the page history:
- And the manga is the anime with even more borderline schizophrenia. Possibly opium and crack??
- To be fair, I think Gankutsuou was written and animated by people who were actually taking hallucinogens at the time. This is one of only two explanations for the show's existence, the other being, "The creators are fucking JAPANESE."
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- Drugs and withdrawal from Prozac would definitely explain the manga. It has smoked everything but garlic and wooden stakes and it has probably also drunk Hannibal Lecter's exquisite wines.
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- This entry cannot be complete. That is because pages on a wiki are open to editing indefinitely, and are thus never "complete". However, we should take the chance to mention Katamari Damacy. It's like no other game in existence, but it's still on one or more recreational drugs.
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- Then, Hellsing is Chrno Crusade off its meds.
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- This troper heard it was written after a 3-day acid trip.
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- A Ranma 1/2 Fan Fic example, from The Memoirs of Ito Takahashi by G.L. Sandborn:
- Any Distaff Counterpart or Gender Flip could be described as their Expy on hormone therapy. Try it, it's funnier that way.
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- Add a lot of drugs (think of every drug you can, and have one person overdose on them all at the same time, and that's just one character), psychosis, sociopathy, and other disorders, and you have Ansem Retort.
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- Having known the EN crew, this troper thinks Sonic, Warhammer, and alcohol are more likely.
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- Much steampunk is a potpourri of various works on crack... Take That, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
- A drug comparison!: Jimsonweed is weed on cough syrup (DXM, DUDE! But seriously, this troper has never experimented with drugs and the only information he knows is research on the internet. I Am Not Making This Up.)!
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- Wild Wild West must be a Western on crack.
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- In Maxim's 25 Worst Movies of All Time list, its entire entry (somewhere in the mid-to-low 20's) is, paraphrased: "According to data from the United States Department of Agriculture, there is not enough arable land on the planet Earth to grow the amount of pot you would have to smoke for the plot of this movie to make sense. There just isn't enough room."
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- This troper has friends that break down to 3 anime fans on yaoi crack, one racer on weed, one gamer on pretty much everything, 5 kids with tourette's on crack, and one person that is normal on crack (meaning he's way too normal.) This troper fits in as the idiot on LSD.
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- This troper is you after three day's sleep deprivation and a few minutes in Room 101.
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- This makes you the biggest addict in the world.
- Please, That's Encyclopedia Dramatica.
- WANT EVEN LESSEEEER!
- Oh, and you're also lucid dreaming.
Cassy: More stuff that Ninjacrat deleted without putting in the discussion (it's not personal, dude, but you could show some respect to the stuff people wrote even as you remove it from the main entry, unless it's trolling or flamewars of course):
- From what this troper's heard, Alice In Wonderland was actually supposed to have been written while the author was high, which actually explains a lot
- I would say what you heard was wrong. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, which is more commonly known as Alice In Wonderland was written by a British Reverend (Christian Deacon) in 1865. It is highly unlikely he used any hallucinogens and LSD was not invented yet.
- Actually, Charles Dodgson/Lewis Carroll took laudanum for his headaches (which was normal back then -most of London was addicted to it!). We know now that laudanum contains a small quantity of opium. (The more sinister explanation of Alice is that it's an expression of childhood trauma, as Dodgson underwent chronic ill-treatment as a child (which was also normal in Victorian England...), which left him a reclusive stutterer for his whole life. For example, some psychiatrists believe the Queen of Hearts represents his unaffectionate mother. Of course both interpretations aren't mutually exclusive...)
Man Without A Body: In Ninjacrat's defense, a lot of that is natter.
Looney Toons: I would give a Made Of Win point to whoever used "revendicates" in the William Gibson entry, because I had to go look it up to make sure it was a real word before editing it, but I won't because whoever it was used it wrong. It doesn't mean, as the context seemed to require, "admit" or "acknowledge", but "to reclaim; to demand the restoration of."
Cassy: Thanks for the Made Of Win point, but it actually also means "to lay claim to," which is the meaning in which I used it. And yes, it was ironical.
Is it just me, or is this page really starting to look like it's on drugs itself? The first section should almost certainly be wiped out of existence (as it's not "Films" as the header says... A mix-match of everything, after the first little bit, not to mention the other "Film" section halfway down the page), including the little gem of "Anonymous are hackers on steroids.", which (aside from not being any movie I can find), is terribly inaccurate if it refers to the internet 'group' anonymous (as they're, at best, script kiddies, when it comes to 'hacking'). Er, anyway, after that aside, I think this page needs to be cleaned up significantly. If no one has any responses, I might get to work on it myself a bit later on.
- Patsy the whole 'hackers on steroids' thing is an internet joke since the phrase was used on Fox News, it's not meant to be taken seriously.
- Hm, didn't realize that (being Canadian, and avoiding Fox News). Those sort of things don't really belong in here without some sort of note, in my opinion, since they're rather, uh, as the troper below noted, misinformed hyperbole (without a note as being such).
- Patsy the whole 'hackers on steroids' thing is an internet joke since the phrase was used on Fox News, it's not meant to be taken seriously.
Lale: Would any other artists say that the thrill of creating (read:writing or filming or drawing) something gives you the "high" feeling usually attributed to drugs? In which case...
Entity325: I'd say it's more like giving birth: I have this idea in my head, and it wants OUT! Granted, I've never actually given birth, so the analogy might be lacking...
Inkblot: This page is going a bit overboard. If a show is even slightly surreal, the page says "SHOW X WAS WRITTEN ON PEYOTE AND CLEANING PRODUCTS, IT'S SO EFFING WACKY!!!".
Nornagest: Indeed. I'm starting to think it'd do well as a no-examples page; at the very least, we could get rid of the overused "drugs are on this show" gag.
Houdini: Couldn't decide whether to put the pic here or What Do You Mean, It Wasn't Made on Drugs?.
High Five: I'm thinking it should go in Everythings Better On Drugs, to be honest.
Nineteen Eighty Four's final draft was written basically on a deathbed in bare cabin on a Scottish island. Not drugs but certainly mind-altering, right?
Man Without A Body: While I don't object to putting our declarations on Troper Tales, I think the main page really ought to contain examples of this trope in other media. The Salvador Dali entry, for example.
