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* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' has an episode in which everyone is warned not to touch the orange moss that grows on the Jume Jume tree. Candace does so inadvertently and begins acting strangely as well as [[MushroomSamba hallucinating.]] When found she is told that it is in fact the blue moss that is dangerous which leaves one to wonder how her hallucinations became so vivid...

* "Holy Ghost intoxiation" is usually written off as this by critics of this religious teaching, suggesting that the recipients of this so-called "blessing of God" are actually falling for a placebo effect through autosuggestion.

* ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' combines this with MushroomSamba (the inversion). Niles gets a hash brownie, but Martin eats it without realising what it is, and replaces it with a normal brownie. And even when Frasier actually explains what happened, Niles ''still'' doesn't realise:

* In the ''Series/XFiles'' episode "Babylon", Agent Mulder convinces a clearly sceptical Agent Einstein to give him magic mushrooms so he can commune with a guy in a coma. After Mulder wanders the streets of Texas in a MushroomSamba VisionQuest, he wakes up in a hospital bed and Einstein tells him she was ''so'' sceptical, she didn't give him magic mushrooms at all but a placebo. This being ''The X-Files'', however, it still worked.

* An episode of ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' has Raj using liquid courage to talk to ''Creator/SummerGlau''. In the middle of their conversation, his best friend points out that the beer is non-alcoholic, and Raj immediately clams up.

* In one episode, ''WesternAnimation/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.

* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': Peter getting drunk at Aunt May and Jonah Jameson ''Senior's'' wedding was retconned into this several issues later. He had about half a glass of actual champagne, but was so nervous about seeing Mary-Jane again that he never noticed his amused roommate was filling his glass with soda.

* ''Film/{{Go}}!'' had the characters selling fake ecstasy, with a scene where people are faking the high.

** Later she relates the story of how her female friends in college would get so drunk they'd make out with each other, all the time.

-->'''Raven''': No, but I think they were.

** Also happens in the episode "Raisin the Stakes: A Rock Opera In Three Acts" which is about teens going wild and hippie after smoking... raisins. Unusual for this trope, the raisins are actually sold by an AggressiveDrugDealer, who turns out to be [[spoiler: Special Guest Star Jack Black, who had been hired to raise sales for raisins]].

** Also happens in the episode "Raisin the Stakes: A Rock Opera In Three Acts" which is about teens going wild and hippie after smoking... raisins. Unusual for this trope, the raisins are actually sold by an AgressiveDrugDealer, who turns out to be [[spoiler: Special Guest Star Jack Black who had been hired to raise sales for raisins]].

-->'''Abe:''' Probably not.

** Also happens in the episode "Raisin the Stakes," which is about teens going wild and hippie after smoking... raisins.

* Referenced in ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' when [[spoiler: Soul-Splice Vaarsuvius starts 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.

See also ICantBelieveItsNotHeroin and DrunkOnMilk, for when this isn't an accident.

* An episode of ''Series/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''.

* One [[WebAnimation/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.

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* One [[WebAnimation/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.

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* In an episode of ''CelebrityDeathmatch'', Nick Diamond gets some hemp clothing from Woody Harrelson; unfortunately, the clothes catch fire, and after inadvertently getting a face full of smoke, Nick spends the rest of the episode stoned out of his gourd. Hemp, of course, is not the same thing as marijuana and does not contain THC, and when Harrelson points this out at the end of the episode, Nick is very embarrassed (he is naked and playing the bongos at this point).

* Happens in ''Film/{{Eurotrip}}'' when two characters walk into a Jamaican coffee shop in Amsterdam and order what they think are hash brownies.

* ''FreaksAndGeeks'' after the geeks swap the beer at the freaks' WildTeenParty for non-alcoholic beer. Only Creator/SethRogen notices the difference, and used it to his advantage to win a ton of money at Quarters.

* In ''TheInbetweeners'' Will swallows a quantity of hash without first preparing it for consumption. Despite this it still has some strange effects on him, mostly making his arms twitch.

* In one episode of ''PeepShow'' Sophie and her new friends from Brighton take Mark to a gay club and they all do pills... except Mark, who merely pretends to swallow his and then pretends to be feeling its effects. He gives himself away when he claims "I think I'm getting the famous munchies!"

* On one episode of ''NightCourt'', Roz takes Christine to a bar to bond and Christine gets really drunk on the drink she orders. At the end of the episode, Christine asks Roz what was in the drink. Roz reveals that the drink contained absolutely ''no'' alcohol.

* One American sitcom had the older sister pull this on her younger brother. She was a former delinquent that was making up for it. However her younger brother wanted some Ectasy for a party. She was going to tell him off, but then got a Imagine Spot of him dying from getting bad ecstasy from a drug dealer. So she gave him midol and told him it was ecstasy.

* ''MyFamily'' had a marijuana joint that actually turned out to be made of cinnamon and oregano powered by the placebo effect shared by Ben and Susan. Effects range from Susan overcoming her habitual mental block as to how horrible her cooking is, to Ben correcting the lyrics to Jimi Hendrix songs at the top of his voice.

* ''Series/BobsBurgers'' - Tina's new friend, 'bad girl' Tammy, invites herself over when the parents are out, along with Jimmy Jr. and Zeke. She sneaks a bottle of margarita mix from the liquor cabinet and proceeds to party. The kids are getting high, but mostly from a sugar buzz - Louise says her mom uses the stuff as hummingbird food.