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* ''Series/{{Futurama}}'': In "Obsoletely Fabulous", Bender is stranded on a desert island without any alcohol. Seeing a gaggle of ducks with a six pack ring stuck round their neck. He hallucinates that they are a six pack of beer and attempts to drink them.

* In the ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'' story "A Haunted Christmas", Nabby started hallucinating seeing food everywhere, even his fellow Smurfs, when [[MarijuanaIsLSD he ate his stash of smurfnip]] during a Christmas famine.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheFlinstones'' where [[DietEpisode Fred was on a diet]], it was driving him so nuts, he couldn't sleep. He told Barney, "I tried counting sheep, but they kept turning into lamb chops!"

* Parodied by ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'', "Dinner Is Swerved", in which Bloo, lost with Mac in the seemingly endless hallways of Foster's, pursues a running chicken drumstick in a fit of delirious hunger... and it really ''is'' a chicken-drumstick-shaped imaginary friend instead of Mac (Kids stuck in diet camps can get rather single-minded, it seems).

** Weirdly averted in another episode, "The Mainland": when Ted and Dougal are lost in the caves, and Dougal declares "Ted! I'm so hungry I'm beginning to hallucinate". Ted then steps into the shot having turned not into food but [[HistoricalHilarity Abraham Lincoln]].

* In TheFreshPrinceOfBelair, Will discovers Ashley's singing talents, and briefly sees her as a giant singing dollar sign.

** The BugsBunny short ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wackiki_Wabbit Waikiki Wabbit]]''. The two men, one fat and and short and the other tall and thin, imagine one another as a hamburger and hot dog, respectively.
** ''Along Came Daffy'' and ''Holiday for Drumsticks'' (DaffyDuck)
** Many of the [[RoadRunnerVsCoyote Road Runner/Coyote]], Wolf/Sheepdog and Sylvester/Tweety shorts.

* Parodied by ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'', "Dinner Is Swerved", in which Bloo, lost with Mac in the seemingly endless hallways of Foster's, pursues a running chicken drumstick in a fit of delirious hunger... and it really ''is'' a chicken-drumstick-shaped imaginary friend instead of Mac (Kids stuck in Diet Camps can get rather single-minded, it seems).
* Toot, the show's ExtremeOmnivore, has these sometimes in ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'', like in "Wooldoor Sockbat's Giggle-Wiggle Funny Tickle Non-Traditional Progressive Multicultural Roundtable!" (the episode with the Terminator).

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' had one episode where Cyborg was infected with a computer virus and hallucinated that everything he looked at was food. This led to him eating everything from a stop sign to the cash right out of an ATM (and nearly the ATM itself). It stopped being funny when [[spoiler: he mistook a transmission tower for a giant lollipop, threatening to spread the virus to the entire city]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'', after fleeing from the annual "We Hate the KND Barbecue" and subsequently being stranded in a sea of asparagus, Numbuh Four starts seeing Numbuh Three's Rainbow Monkey as a cheeseburger. Before you suggest "eat the goddamned asparagus", [[StockYuck if any of them actually liked the prospect of eating the stuff]] we'd still be having this dilemma due to the sheer quantity of it all. And let's not forget that Wally STILL wants to go after the "cheeseburger" when the team comes under attack from a GREAT WHITE ASPARAGUS!!!
* Not necessarily because of desperation, but in ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'', when [[RobotGirl Jenny]] gets new eyes and flips through the settings, one of them is "Sausage Vison".
* In a ''WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpy'' episode in which they are trapped in a log cabin buried beneath the snow imagine each other as various food items, and in another one where Ren lives in a cave he imagines bats as a pair of cow's udders which he starts sucking on before one of them smacks him away.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Fairly OddParents}}'' did an interesting spoof. When Timmy's parents are given super-powers, Timmy's Dad gains "Meat vision" (to complement his wife's "heat vision") basically, he can now make meat products appear at will just by looking at some empty space and squinting. Instant hot dog! (When they were forced to give up their powers, Timmy's Dad said this power is what he would miss the most)
* ''WesternAnimation/{{SpongeBob SquarePants}}'' had a subversion in "Fear of a Krabby Patty" where [=SpongeBob=] develops a fear of Krabby Patties, and sees Mr. Krabs and the customer as them.

** "Marge Vs. The Monorail" has a variation; Homer is trapped on the out-of-control monorail train and needs to find an anchor. He looks to Bart, and visualizes him as a large ship's anchor. Bart, for understandable reasons, urges him to think harder.
** On another occasion, Homer fantasizes that Mr Burns is a giant ice cream cone and starts licking him.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/OggyAndTheCockroaches'', one of the roaches gets a snootful of mushroom spores and hallucinates that Jack is giant roast chicken. And then tries to eat his leg.
* Owen starts hallucinating that his teammates (and Chris) are food after his jaw is wired shut in ''TotalDramaAction''.

** ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wackiki_Wabbit Waikiki Wabbit]]'' (BugsBunny)

** In "ItsASpongeBobChristmas", Patchy the Pirate and Potty are stranded and hungry, and Patchy sees Potty as a plate of buffalo wings. Potty, in turn, sees Patchy as a cake of bird seed and starts pecking at his head.

* In ''JamesAndTheGiantPeach'', a starving Centipede first sees the Grasshopper as cheese and a drink bottle, then the Earthworm as a hot dog, and finally a seagull as a roast chicken. He almost eats the last one.

A character has been suffering from hunger for days or weeks, and begins to hallucinate. Is that a delicious steak dinner, a giant hot dog (or a large roast fowl) sitting right next to him? No, it's one of their friends, who is now staring back at him oddly, wondering "{{Why are you looking at me like that}}?"

This most often occurs with shipwreck survivors or castaways (especially if stranded on a FarSideIsland), but it can occur in less dire consequences too, such as fasting or dieting.

* Oddly enough, the first example of this trope was in live-action, in the 1925 Creator/CharlieChaplin film ''Film/TheGoldRush''.

* 'WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''

* Owen starts hallucinating that his teammates (and Chris) are food after his jaw is wired shut in ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaAction''.

* ''Film/StrangeBrew'': When Bob and Doug forget to feed their dog Hosehead, the dog sees the duo dressed as giant steaks.

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