History Main / FakeHigh

* In {{Persona 4}}, Yukiko and Rise get utterly smashed at a nightclub while on a school trip... except Naoto informs you that the club doesn't even ''serve'' alcohol.

* In {{Persona 4}}, Yukiko and Rise get utterly smashed at a nightclub while on a school trip... except Naoto informs you that the club doesn't even ''serve'' alcohol. Naturally, you don't get told this until after the potentially-humiliating King's Game.

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* One [[HomestarRunner Strong Bad e-mail]] has Strong Bad performing a science experiment of the effects of caffeine on Strong Sad. So he slips a spoonful of Sanka — instant ''decaf'' — into Strong Sad's orange juice, and Strong Sad instantly goes into a caffeinated blitz.

* Referenced in ''OrderOfTheStick'', explaining why [[spoiler:Vaarsuvius is starting to behave in an evil manner, even though the soul splices can't actually affect his/her alignment. According to the fiends, "A good way to get a good person to do something horrible is to convince them they're not responsible for their actions."]] It's compared to someone drinking beer they didn't know was non-alcoholic and feeling drunk anyway because they expected to be.

-->'''Niles:''' You must feel pretty silly, being the only one here who isn't toasted!
-->'''Frasier:''' Oh, give it a rest, you're as sober as I am!

* Spider-Man getting drunk at Aunt May and Jonah Jameson ''Senior's'' wedding was retconned into this several issues later.

* An episode of AbsolutelyFabulous has the characters travel to France. Patsy gets bored and does some coke, which loosens her up enough to tolerate Saffron's presence and play table tennis. On the way back home, the drugs are found by airport security, but they determine that they were fake all along. Patsy is horrified, not because she spent a fortune on phony drugs, but because this meant she ''actually enjoyed playing table tennis''.

* Happens at least twice in QuestionableContent.

* In one episode, BeavisAndButthead got drunk on non-alcoholic beer. They knew it was non-alcoholic. They just didn't know alcohol is the part that makes you drunk.

The trope of characters consuming/smoking what they think is a drug, they start acting accordingly, but turns out to be a placebo.

* Inversion/parody/whatever of this trope happens to Candace in the ''PhineasAndFerb'' episode "The Ballad of Badbeard." She touches Orange Moss in the woods, which she was told causes wild hallucinations and begins acting insane, "thinking" [[EverythingsBetterWithPlatypi Perry]] is a spy, imagining a sassy, anthropomorphic zebra speaking to her, and confusing a self-destruct button for a vending machine. At the end of the episode, after her "recovery," her grandmother explains that it is actually ''Blue'' Moss that causes hallucinations, and that the only reason Candace was "crazy" was because of the "power of suggestion." Just then, Candace touches some Blue Moss.

The trope of characters consuming/smoking what they think is a drug, they start acting accordingly, but turns out to be a placebo. Often a marijuana joint that turns out to be oregano, or a pill that's just aspirin or something completely harmless. The redirect FakeBuzz is the same thing, but with Alcohol.

The trope of characters consuming/smoking what they think is a drug, they start acting accordingly, but turns out to be a placebo. Often a marijuana joint that turns out to be oregano, or a pill that's just aspirin or something completely harmless.

** Well, ''human'' drugs anyway.

** Only SethRogan noticed the difference, and used it to his advantage to [[DidNotDoTheResearch win a ton of money at Quarters]]

* In one episode, BeavisAndButthead got drunk on non-alcoholic beer. They didn't know alcohol is the part that makes you drunk.

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* Raj on the ''TheBigBangTheory'' needs alcohol before he can talk to women. In one episode he starts hitting on Summer Glau, until Howard points out the beer was non-alcoholic, and Raj can't continue.

The specific subtrope for alcohol is DrunkOnMalts.

See also: [[{{Ptitlemd299wh0}} I Can't Believe It's Not Heroin]].

May happen with alcohol as well.

* A RunningGag in ''Discworld/TheTruth''; Mr. Pin is constantly snorting various substances, but none of them are actually drugs.