History Main / WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs

* ''TheApple'' is a hideously decadent, [[SoBadItsGood So Bad It's Good]] disco musical that even includes a dreadful musical number called "Speed", about America's drug addiction or something. Described by NathanRabin at the [[TheOnion AV Club] [[http://www.avclub.com/articles/my-year-of-flops-case-file-79-the-apple,10385/ here.]]

* J.R.R. Tolkien faced much the same assumptions about the ''TheHobbit'' and ''{{The Lord of the Rings}}'' from the exact same hippie/stoner fans, particularly a widespread belief that Gandalf's pipeweed is really pot. That's in spite of the prologue to ''The Fellowship of the Rings'' saying that "it was a variety, probably, of Nicotiana" and Bilbo himself calling it "tabacco" at the end of ''The Hobbit''.

* A show produced for {{Nickelodeon}} that was picked up by CartoonNetwork called ''[[WesternAnimation/AdventureTime Adventure Time with Finn and Jake]]'' appears to be massively influenced by drugs. The show's creator even has it listed as a question on his FAQ. He says, no, that he is just a weird, [[YourMilageMayVary funny]] guy.

** Children's television hasn't got any less insane for being contemporary. Remember how odd ''{{Teletubbies}}'' was first time you saw it? Imagine upping your crack dose and getting Sir Derek Jacobi involved. Behold -- ''{{In the Night Garden}}''! Peculiarly charmingr:Video Games]]
* There was some platformer back in the 80's that featured the main character consuming mushrooms; whereupon he would immediately believe himself to have grown gigantic like [[AliceInWonderland Alice]], or, if it was a green mushroom, that he would be revived upon death! He would also take frequent trips through pipes and could collect leaves that created a puff of smoke that would transform him into a [[strike:raccoon]] [[strike:tanooki]] tanuki. Then there was the surreal imagery of winged turtles, turtles flying around on little clouds, and walking mushrooms with angry little faces. In fact, there were faces, or at least eyes, on just about everything: mushrooms, stars, clouds; the hills themselves, even, in the sequels that would follow. [[spoiler:SuperMarioBros.]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eIipKZMw5g Normal Super Mario Bros.]] is essentially what happens when you take an [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs already surreal premise and increase the LSD levels]] [[BeyondTheImpossible to unprecidented, horrific new heights]]. It starts of quite like the original ''SuperMarioBros.'', but then you touch the [[VideoGame/YoshisIsland Fuzzy]] and [[NightmareFuel everything goes straight to Hell]]. Mario starts to sporadically grow and shrink, the Goombas are replaced by, but it takes several episodes to convince your brain you really ''are'' seeing what it thinks you're seeing.
*** Both Teletubbies and In The Night Garden are created by a company called Ragdoll Productions Limited, who also created Boohbah and Brum. Beginning to see the pattern there?

* It's pretty obvious that SethMacFarlane smokes a fat pound before every ''WesternAnimation/Family Guy'' recording. Interstingly though, he claims to have cut down a bit starting in 2008, which might explain all those aggresively weed friendly episodes at that time. Poor bastard must have had the Junkie Itch.

* TheThiefAndTheCobbler (particularly the Recobbled Cut) is a prime example. Think of it as Disney's Alladin on Vicodin, LSD, and a little bit of marijuana. (but mostly LSD)

* YTv's [[{{Series/Sidekick}} Sidekick]] and [[{{WesternAnimation/ScaredySquirrel}} Scaredy Squirrel]] also has similar elements from Tak. Other than living in a mess-up city, not only only that both shows BigBad characters are voiced by Harold Green, but they look (and sound) like there on crack.

* The Gene Deitch TomandJerry shorts they have very wild wonky animation that's all over the place, ugly character designs, and trippy and psychedelic sound effects.

* The Fleischer Brothers early shorts and their early {{BettyBoop}} cartoons the animation and plots are very bizarre, almost everything is alive and singing including buildings and objects, stretchy limbs, wild facial expressions,etc.
* Pick any episode of TheTwistedTalesOfFelixTheCat. You'll think the animators were high on acid that day.

* Pick almost anything made by MikePatton. For an example, watch [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbBwFdKDaKw this]] piece of pure NightmareFuel and remember the man wrote it takes nothing stronger than caffeine.
** If you ever get a chance to play the video game ''TheDarkness'', the titular demon/spirit/pure bloody evil Darkness is voiced by none other than MikePatton. His HighOctaneNightmareFuel [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7JofEjNxeI&feature-related vocal performance]] was done ''entirely without effects'' in his home studio.

* TheyMightBeGiants are often mistaken for drug addicts because of the surreal nature of their songs. They drink a metric shitload of coffee, but that's it.

* Elton John had a history of fighting drug addiction. Nowadays his outfits and certain lyrics are the only part of him that trips balls.
* Ozzy Osbourne, in his own words "for the last God-knows how many years, I've been a major practicing drug addict and alcoholic", now claims to be completely drug-free, having even stopped taking a powerful anti-seizure medication that he says was largely responsible for his speech impediment. He says all he's on now is "lots of coffee" and that if they ever make coffee illegal, "I'm fucked."

* Cartoonist John Kricfalusi, who is best known as the creator of ''RenAndStimpy'' which is known for its DerangedAnimation was asked in an interview if he used drugs. He replied, "Of course not, I don't need them".
* When asked if he had ever smoked marijuana, TomLehrer cheekily replied: "I have never done an illegal substance in my life... and I have never told a lie."
* Comedian BillBailey is eager to point out that watching someone on acid is ''boring'' in response to TV show pitches along the lines of "It's X, but on acid!").
* SethMacfarlane used to smoke pot, but stopped because it made him paranoid. He once got so high that he was convinced one night that if he stopped moving his body, he would die.

* The German comedian, actor, director, author and musician Helge Schneider uses non-sequiturs, absurdistical actions and statements, weird behaviour and voices, exaggerations, purposefully bad playing, sheer stupidity and mundanity mixed with rather insightful contents. He stopped taking drugs as his career went upward.

* Some {{Troll Fic}}s. Particularly, LightAndDarkTheAdventuresOfDarkYagami.

** Quite a few entries on this page were inspired by- or were recreations of dreams the author had. Salvador Dali also induced dream-like hallucinations on himself by going without sleep for extended periods of time, then painted the results.

-->-- ''TheSimpsons''

* Several creations by J.J. Abrams. Most notably ''{{Lost}}'' and ''{{Fringe}}''.

* The 1980s sketch show ''Fridays'' on ABC. For those who've never heard of the show, think ''SaturdayNightLive'', then move the show out to Los Angeles and add sketches where characters smoke weed, abuse prescription drugs, sniff glue, or make references to snorting cocaine, drinking alcohol, or taking Quaaludes. Of course, not all of ''Fridays'' sketches featured characters ''doing'' drugs, but a lot had ideas that made you wonder if the writers were users themselves (or were so obsessed with being the SpiritualSuccessor to ''SNL'' that they simply made batshit insane sketches), like the seventeen-minute ''RockyHorrorPictureShow'' parody with John Roarke as Ronald Reagan dressed as Tim Curry's Dr. Frank N. Furter.

* Series/{{Supernatural}} started off as a perfectly normal show, with dark undertones and occasionally humourous episodes. And then came season 5, with giant men dressed up as the toothfairy, the characters starring in a Japanese quiz show and Paris Hilton as a pagan god.

* Almost anything by ToriAmos. Particularly the albums ''From the Choirgirl Hotel'', ''Boys for Pele'', and ''To Venus and Back''. ESPECIALLY ''To Venus and Back''.

* Many people feel JethroTull, in particular writer/singer/flutist Ian Anderson, were on drugs given Ian's jumping around on stage and his crazy, wide-eyed expressions. However, Anderson rarely drinks, smokes little (or none at this point) tobacco, and does not do drugs at all. In fact, he once said that his few experimentation experience actually hindered his creativity.

** According to ThatOtherWiki, "Just Dance" was written in ten minutes ''during a hangover''. Does that count as under the influence of alcohol?

* It's worth noting that CaptainBeefheart claimed that none of his music was made under the influence of drugs. However, his band members have refuted this.
* Reportedly the only drug MikePatton uses is caffeine, which can be surprising given the stranger moments of FaithNoMore and especially his work with Mr. Bungle and Fantomas. Yes, despite Faith No More having an album called ''Angel Dust'' (a few songs on that album ''were'' things he wrote during a sleep deprivation experiment though). ''Adult Themes For Voice'', his bizarre a capella sound collage of a solo debut, was inspired by nothing more than fits of boredom during a lengthy Faith No More tour that he happened to pack his tape recorder for.

* The video for the PetShopBoys song "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNBjMRvOB5M Go West]]". My first thought on watching it was ''"magic mushrooms"''. Really, it has to be seen to be believed. Some of the characters even ''look'' like mushrooms.

* Genesis before PeterGabriel pursued a solo career. Strangely enough, [[http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/29259363/Genesis+Peter+Gabriel.jpg he]] [[http://mitkadem.homestead.com/files/genesis_petergabriel_live.jpg did]] [[http://www.leaveitopen.com/petergabriel/PeterGabriel1974.jpg not]] [[http://mitkadem.homestead.com/files/Genesis_PeterGabriel_Foxtrot_Paris_Januar1973.jpg take]] [[http://www.worleygig.com/wp-content/images/peter-gabriel.jpg hallucinogenic]] [[OverlyLongGag drugs]].

* "Their Satanic Majesties Request" by The Rolling Stones. Mick Jagger has admitted that the band was on acid throughout the entire recording of the album. KeithRichards claims he has no memory of the sessions at all.

* AphexTwin, {{Autechre}}, and other IDM. [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel Not to mention the videos...]]

* The Norse Myths have their moments. A notable example is the tale of the death of Baldur. While enjoying the Asgardian pastime of throwing any object at his body and watching them bounce off of him harmlessly, Baldur gets killed from a spear thrown by a ''blind guy'' named Höðr, who received it from Loki. The spear is made out of mistletoe, which is fatal to Baldur because mistletoe was apparently too young to swear an oath to ''not'' be able to kill Baldur. Everyone is upset that their favorite god is dead, so Odin knocks up a giantess named Rindr and they have a son named Vali who grows up in a day and exists for the sole purpose of killing Höðr dead, then promptly does so. Afterwards, they give Baldur a VikingFuneral with all his possessions (including his still living horse) and to lighten the mood, Thor kicks a random passerby dwarf ( who was given a name for no clear reason; Litr) into the fire. Comic relief, I guess. There are a few different versions with a few minor changes (like that Loki guided the spear) but the majority of it remains the same. Hard to tell if it was mead-induced or if it was just bad storytelling.

* The [=~Let's Play~=] of ''[[SonicTheHedgehog2SpecialEdition Sonic the Hedgehog 2: Special Edition]]''. Of course, the game itself [[MindScrew is drugs]], pretty much.

** Jim Henson in general. Check out ''Time Piece'' and ''The Cube'' if you don't believe me.
** And then there's the rejected original pilot for ''TheMuppetShow'' entitled "Sex And Violence" (they may as well dropped the other shoe and called it, "Not For Kids"). Highlights include a convention for horrifying Muppet versions of the Seven Deadly Sins and a very strange early versions of the Swedish Chef among other characters.

* Speaking of [[TheLegendOfZelda Zelda]], one cannot forget MajorasMask. A giant, [[spoiler:sentient]] lunar body with a [[NightmareFuel creepy expression]], [[spoiler: with the inside of said lunar body being a lone tree in the middle of a field with children running around it.]] In addition, there are creatures that spit rocks under the rule of a monarchy, cows getting abducted, reliving the [[GroundhogDayLoop same 3 days]] over and over, a terrifying, unsettling mask salesman who's always grinning, a temple that requires you to FLIP THE UNIVERSE UPSIDE DOWN to complete, an opening sequence right out of AliceInWonderland, [[MindScrew it's all there]]. Oh, and the final boss is [[spoiler: a world-destroying, psychotic child-like demon that ''clucks like a chicken and does the moonwalk [[FridgeBrilliance inside the moon.]]'' ]]

* "Touch Fuzzy, Get Dizzy" in ''[[SuperMarioBros Yoshi's Island]]'': The bizarre drug-like distortion of both the level map and the background music is quite creepy.

* ''MetalGearSolid''? There are probably a million articles on this, go read any of them. And see if you agree.

** ''SonicTheHedgehog'' in general, really, most notably with Colors. Try to explain Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity, Sonic and the Secret Rings or Sonic '06 to someone who's not familiar with the games. Go on, try.

* Given the frequent appearance of of "blue mushrooms" in ''[[CollegeRoomiesFromHell College Roomies From Hell!!!]]'', and the [[PlanetEris overall surreal nature]] of the series, it is hard not to think that Maritza Campos has some experience with 'shrooms herself, but at the same time, [[YourMileageMayVary the artwork and storytelling seem too tight]] to have been ''produced'' while tripping.

* ''{{Pokey the Penguin}}'': A [[CutAndPasteComic barely "drawn"]] [[DadaComics surreal comic]] about [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins penguins]] [[PolarBearsAndPenguins living in the Arctic]], chronicling their adventures which commonly consist of a string on non-sequiturs.
* ''QuestionableContent'' presents the "[[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=420 Mythic Slaughterbeast]]" band:

* Let's see. ChannelAwesome has a nostalgic reviewer that led a takeover of a micronation in Nevada, a hobo reviewer who ''openly admits'' to being on drugs, one video game reviewer who lives in a space station with a clone army, another who's a clone of his dead Black Lantern true self and a comic book reviewer that has Sentai powers. The last two, plus one anime/cartoon reviewer, have evil dopplegangers. Anyone who tunes into this site for the first time is going to guess the creators are on really heavy drugs or are a bunch of uber-dorks. [[spoiler:It's the latter.]]

* The web series ''BattleForDreamIsland'', which is apparently a reality series where the contestants are anthropomorphic versions of common everyday household and/or natural objects.

* Pretty much every AdultSwim original show could go on here, except maybe ''HarveyBirdman'' and ''TheVentureBrothers''. Especially ''12OunceMouse'', which is [[StylisticSuck deliberately horribly drawn]] and features heavy drinking and drug use.

* Quite a few episodes of SpongebobSquarepants, but notably the episode where Squidward demands a locker to store his clarinet in at work. It soon delves into the locker becoming a HyperspaceArmory, some weird giant eagle head in a land of clarinets, Squidward in a pinball machine and being immediately afterwards found by a giant Patrick, etc...

* David Cross has noted that he's offended when people ask him how high he was when he wrote a piece of comedy. He insists that all his comedy comes from hard work, not drugs.

Any work whose creation seems to have involved large amounts of hallucinogens, cocaine, crack or any other illicit substance that makes [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible people think really weird ideas are also really good ones]]. The plot hinges on bizarre transformations, freakish-looking creatures, and nonsensical actions that only seem to make sense in realms of logic ''far'' removed from your own. That it was the product of a deranged mind looks like a foregone conclusion.

Commonly uttered in response to a WidgetSeries, BigLippedAlligatorMoment, or DadaAd. Compare with MindScrew and of course ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs. Can also overlap with BetterThanItSounds. And enjoy this ''[[{{TheOnion}} Onion AV Club]]'' inventory of [[http://www.avclub.com/articles/welcome-to-the-altered-state-of-druggachusettes-25,28599/?utm_source=channel_inventory notably trippy children's shows]].

* ''BoboboBoBobobo''. Most of the "jokes" are Japanese puns, so the English dub appears as a series-long BLAM. [[ItMakesSenseInContext It really does make some kind of sense in Japanese]], but something was definitely LostInTranslation. It's still a pretty wacky, spontaneous and tripped-out series regardless. It's because of the very nature of the anime that the constant disorientation caused by the altered jokes in the dub never feels out of place.

* ''RevolutionaryGirlUtena''. ''Especially'' TheMovie, but a good 75-80% of the series in total is just... ''weird''.

* Some of the... ''[[WidgetSeries odder]]'' things in ''OnePiece'' can lead one to conclude it wasn't only the ''characters'' eating magic fruit.
* The latter half of ''TsubasaReservoirChronicle''. Every time you think you're starting to understand it, Clamp adds more [[MindScrew complexity]] to the story.
* ''{{FLCL}}''. It's the only show where you see a robot getting pulled out from a kid's forehead!... among other things.
* Some of the wackier scenarios in ''KyoKaraMaoh''.
* ''SuperMilkChan'' is made of this...
* {{Neon Genesis Evangelion}}, the last third, at least, as well as the movie "The End of Evangelion."

* {{Dead Leaves}} By the people who brought you FLCL, but with an extra dose of methamphetamines. Just you go ahead and try to make any sense of the climax.
* PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt creator's have admited they ''were'' drunk when they came up with the idea.

* The opening for episodes in the second season of DeathNote, even more so when compared to the first season.
* The Mochis storyline from Manga/AxisPowersHetalia. Just... what the hell is Himaruya smoking?

** Also the HetaliaBloodbath2010,which starts out as a relatively normal webcast by Finland, turns into a creepy survival story that spawned a truly incredible amount of WildMassGuessing, and then the big reveal: [[spoiler:the culprits were actually the cat-eared inhabitants of a parallel world where walking around naked is the norm, who need to find a nation with a certain mark on either their chest or butt to keep their world from [[EarthShatteringKaboom exploding]]. In this world there are apparently 123 Frances, and America is kinkier than all of them.]]

* Almost any anime produced by ''StudioShaft'', especially those by AkiyukiShinbo, reeks of this in varying levels of weirdness and randomness.

* {{Madlax}} is a prime example of how strange you can get in a plot. Funny enough the [[KoichiMashimo director]] and writer conceived the series ending during an intoxicated brainstorming session.

* [[{{DororonEnma-kun}} Dororon Enma-kun Meera Mera]]. ''Especially'' episodes 9, 10 and 11.
* BludgeoningAngelDokuroChan is this in a nutshell. Seriously the show's premise is a psychopathic YanDere angel who repeatedly bludgeons people to death and brings them back to life, also transforming characters' heads into animal heads. I mean seriously WHAT?
* ExcelSaga is designed to be this kind of series. As its page quote says: "Excel Saga: For when crack isn't enough."

* Salvador Dali­, despite what one might think from his paintings, made a point of not using psychoactives of any sort. He simply stayed up until he started hallucinating from sleep deprivation, then painted what he saw.

* Many, many comics published by DC during the SilverAge. Prime examples are [[http://superdickery.com/index.php?view=article&catid=29%3Aconfounding-comic-covers-index&id=1200%3Athe-lady-and-the-lion&option=com_content&Itemid=24 any Superman-related comic from the 1950s]] or anything involving [[http://the-isb.blogspot.com/2006/01/blue-blazes.html Bob Haney]]. Not to mention [[http://www.comicsalliance.com/2010/09/29/best-jimmy-olsen-comics/ the Jimmy Olson series]], (which, according to this list, also contained vast galloping herd of UnfortunateImplications.)
** Marvel, on the other hand, did in the inside art what DC did in the covers. Artists like SteveDitko (who doesn't even consume alcohol), Jim Steranko (whose stories even contained some veiled anti-drug elements) and, to a lesser extent, JackKirby, famously created some trippy concepts.

* GrantMorrison's ''{{Arkham Asylum A Serious House on Serious Earth}}'', a highly symbolic story illustrated by [=~Dave McKean~=] that features very weird and unusual versions of {{Batman}} and several of his villains and was primarily written late at night after long periods of no sleep, as Morrison was very straight-edge at the time.

** That being said, read ''{{Batman RIP}}'' and tell me that it wasn't made on drugs. It contained a full issue of Batman getting high off of weapons-grade heroin, dressing up in a red and purple Batsuit and calling himself "The Batman of Zurr-en-Arrh" while beating criminals up with a baseball bat and talking to Bat-Mite, who may or may not have been a product of said weapons-grade heroin. Of course, this was an elaborate throwback to an obscure SilverAge-era story about Batman getting superpowers on Planet X, which was equally as trippy.
** And then there were his runs on DoomPatrol, AnimalMan and TheInvisibles, which were most definitely made on drugs. A lot of drugs.

* See the bit immediately above about Grant Morrison? Same deal with anything by AlanMoore, but with added gnostic theory, obscure literary references and erotica.

* Marvel ''[[StarWarsExpandedUniverse Star Wars]]'' comics were all over the place in quality, and some issues were... out there. Many, ''many'' [[CatGirl cat aliens]], the psychic energy-eating rabbits called Hoojibs, the eight-foot green Lepus Carnivorous, a rather [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Shawken_Device inane superweapon]], and just in general some very odd plots and characters.

** Actually, it's a parody of ''{{Daredevil}}'', ''NewMutants'', ''{{Cerebus}}'', and FrankMiller's ''Ronin'', all of which were really big at the time.

* ''[=~We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story~=]'', while having already made the NightmareFuel page, also looks as if it had been written and produced on several drug trips. To quote ThatGuyWithTheGlasses as [[FearAndLoathingInLasVegas Raoul Puke]], "This is 'Land Before Time' on crystal meth."
* ''{{Fantasia}}''. Cossack-dancing flowers? Water-carrying brooms? Ballerina hippos?! An animator (responsible for ''dancing mushrooms'') stated the only drugs he took were "Ex-Lax and Feenamint".
** Disney's later and lesser known film ''TheThreeCaballeros'' makes ''Fantasia'' look positively mundane in comparison.
** Both of these films, along with ''AliceInWonderland'' (unsurprisingly) became popular "trip movies" during TheSixties. This did nothing to help their reputations.

* ''[[Film/HeavyMetal Heavy Metal]]'' is essentially a series of loosely connected and animated sequences that frequently get extremely trippy.

* FelixTheCatTheMovie.

* ''Film/{{The Wizard of Oz}}'' film: There's a scene where Dorothy falls asleep due to magical poppies only to be woken by magical snow, for heaven's sake! The depressant opium is made from poppies, from which we get sedatives such as heroin and morphine. "Magical snow" is presumably a reference to the stimulant cocaine. The original book was written in 1900, smack dab in a period that historians call "The Great Binge", in which most of todays narcotics were legal and easily obtainable. The trippiness of ''The Wizard of Oz'' is made more legendary by the pop culture habit of using ''Dark Side of the Moon'' as an alternate soundtrack and getting totally stoned.
* ''[=~2001: A Space Odyssey~=]'', the movie. It has been claimed that drug-users would sneak into theaters just to ''watch'' [[EverythingsBetterOnDrugs the climax while stoned]]. The producers capitalized on it when they re-released it in the 1970s with the tagline, ''still the ultimate trip!''

* ''[=~Synecdoche, New York~=]''. It starts off mildly conventional, but after we've encountered the family living in a house that's perpetually on fire for 30 years, the bizarre fake city in a warehouse, the play with 3 million actors, and the diary that updates daily even though the girl writing in it is apparently on the other side of the planet... man, Charlie Kaufman's one weird guy.

** The movie is like stepping into a [=~Dave McKean~=] painting, as that's who was in charge of the visuals. Most of the "Helena's" drawings were actually done by [=McKean=]. Also remember that [=McKean=] was responsible for most of the ''{{Sandman}}'' covers. Yeah. It's kinda like that.

* The 1988 Dan Aykroyd/Kim Basinger movie ''{{My Stepmother Is an Alien}}''. Apart from being Alyson Hannigan's film debut, the entire movie plays like a hallucinogen-fueled rewrite of ''MyGirl'', except that ''MyGirl'' came out three years later.

* ''{{The Cabinet of Dr Caligari}}'' is like something made by Dr. Seuss' EvilTwin. In fact, anything titled ''The [noun] of Dr. [name]'' is liable to end up here.
** ''The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus''. It's directed by Terry Gilliam, stars TomWaits as {{Satan}}, and has HeathLedger morphing into JohnnyDepp, JudeLaw, and ColinFarrell.

* ''{{We Are the Strange}}'': A doll boy who lives alone in a forest wants to go get ice cream, but he sees no point unless he has someone to enjoy it with. He befriends a girl who just broke up with an abusive boyfriend and the two of them set off for the ice cream parlor... which happens to a spooky town haunted by monsters... and then the doll-boy dances with Mega Man and Pac-Man... and then he plays ''VideoGame/{{WarioWare}}'' while inside a HumongousMecha...

* ''Avatar''. The main character transfers his consciousness to a 10-foot-tall blue alien-human hybrid that looks like a big blue cat. The aliens all have what can best be described as USB braids that can have them commune with animals and their god which takes the form of a glowing tree. Said god has seeds that look like Jellyfish. Almost all the plants on the planet glow in the dark.

* ''{{The Men Who Stare at Goats}}''. Go forth, young Jedi.
* Let's not forget ''WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'' and its infamous [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zail7Gdqro psychedelic boat trip]].

* ''Michael Jackson`s {{Moonwalker}}''. The entire movie makes no sense. Part of it are a lot of different music videos with {{Disney Acid Sequence}}s and the main story it`s about how Michael Jackson fights with some drug dealers who want him dead because he listened to their secret plan of making children become drug addicts. His powers in the movie include becoming a [[TransformingMecha Transformer]]-like robot by wishing upon a star.

* [[NeilGaiman Neil Gaiman's]] [[TheSandman Sandman]] series has a good few stories like this. Especially Despair and Delirium's chapters in Endless Nights.

* '''Tommy''', the 1975 film based on the 1969 [[TheWho Who]] "rock opera" album of the same name. Most of the film is very bizarre, and doesn't make a whole lot of sense unless you're either very familiar with the album or very stoned. Some standout scenes include a MarilynMonroe-worshipping church congregation wearing Marilyn Monroe masks (with EricClapton as the preacher nonetheless), Tommy spinning in an iron maiden covered with needles that inject red liquid into him, Tommy following a hallucinated clone of himself around a junkyard, among others. Sprinkle a trippy synth-laden soundtrack on top and you've got quite a film.

* The ''[=~The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy~=]'' scene after Ford and Arthur are improbably rescued by the Heart of Gold and are suffering various side-effects of the Infinite Improbability Drive: Ford briefly turns into [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins a penguin]], Arthur's limbs start to detach from his body, and later the two encounter "an infinite number of monkeys" who want to show them their version of a {{Shakespeare}} play. What do you mean, it's not a MushroomSamba?

** His most famous novel, ''{{Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep}}'', and its movie adaptation, ''BladeRunner'', is one of his LEAST messed up works, yet can still be hard for many people to follow. This lead to the studio basically forcing HarrisonFord to record rather horrible narration to explain what was going on. Except that half the time it explained something completely different, making the movie even trippier if you actually pay attention.

** There are many MANY [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation Interpretations]] of those books. One says it's a satire of Victorian society, another says it's a Freudian tract disguised as a children's book. One says it was actually meant to be horror story [[StealthParody disguised]] as a children's book. The list goes on and on and on. That's how messed up it is. Or how messed up we are.
** There is a marvelous book titled ''The Annotated Alice'' that gives footnotes and references for all the analogies, allegories and logic puzzles in the Alice stories, edited by famed mathematical puzzles dude Martin Gardner. Suffice to say, the annotations contain nearly as much text as the original stories.
** Also 'Alice in Sunderland', which shows how merely growing up in the city of Sunderland could cover it all; local legend, people and history.

* ''JasonX: Death Moon''. The author had a habit of going on nonsensical rants that have nothing to do with what little story there is. There's one part that's just pages and pages talking about nothing but ''{{Bride of Frankenstein}}'' star Elsa Lanchester in a disjointed fashion...

* In the late 1960s-early 1970s, when a ''lot'' of mainstream film and TV was going trippy, the style filtered down to kiddie entertainment. Sid and Marty Krofft's works, as well as the film ''{{Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory}}'', are prime examples of this trope in action as a result.

* ''Pee-Wee's Playhouse'', especially [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKcYGOIJhqo the theme]].

* ''{{Bananas in Pajamas}}''. Even the ''title'' sounds like it was made on drugs.

* The danish The New Talkshow with Anders Lund Madsen. The show basically relies on Anders Lund Madsens [[CloudChuckooLander weirdness]] and HilarityEnsues.

* Queen. With the exception of Freddie Mercury in the 70s, and his cigarette smoking, the band's songs were not written under the influence of anything stronger than tea and alcohol. Brian May, the guitarist, actually goes so far as to ban smoking from his most recent concerts and any building he owns.
* Music/TheBeatles claim that "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" was inspired by a picture John Lennon's son drew about a girl named Lucy, not the drug "LSD". Currently, the most accepted explanation is that although parts of the song are probably drug-inspired, it's equally inspired by the drawing, and the title's "LSD" acronym is a complete coincidence.

*** (The others: George Harrison said that "I Me Mine" is not just about selfishness is general but also about how selfish people get when they're on acid, and John Lennon said that "Dr. Robert" was about a real man who was a doctor in both senses of the expression.)

* RedHotChiliPeppers. Particularly "Behind the Sun." And considering that between them they've probably done enough illicit substances to kill a herd of buffalo, it really is hard to believe it wasn't made on drugs.

* Everything done by Genesis while headed by Peter Gabriel, especially [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lamb_Lies_Down_on_Broadway The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway]].

* ''Close to the Edge'' by {{Yes}} (all three tracks, not just the title track) hovers tantalizingly on the border of ''almost'' making sense, but not ''quite''. Whether this indicates anything about the process of creation...

* Somewhat subverted by {{Rush}}. While they've made no secret of their heavy use of hallucinogenics in the 70s (Hemispheres...), they've apparently been straight since then, yet the only apparent change is their songs have gotten shorter. Listen to Grace Under Pressure sometime...

* {{Beyonce}}'s music video for "Video Phone". Featuring Music/LadyGaga. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGkvXp0vdng Yep, this definitely qualifies]].

* PinkFloyd. Especially The Wall and its movie.

* WeirdAlYankovic. It's been said if he ever ''did'' use drugs, he'd probably turn normal.

* The late FrankZappa had a well known dislike of drugs, yet wrote songs such as "The Return of the Son of Monster Magnet" and "Billy the Mountain", which is about how you shouldn't try to persuade a mountain to fight in 'Nam, and gave his children names like Moon Unit, Dweezil, and Diva.

* Some artists are just so weird that everything they do can invoke this trope, such as {{Beck}}, {{Bjork}}, CocteauTwins, Modest Mouse, ImogenHeap, and FrouFrou.

* ''Push Th' Little Daisies'' by {{Ween}}.

* Subverted by {{Hawkwind}}, in that they ''were'' on drugs most of the time. Try listening to Douglas in the Jungle sometime and try to find an explanation that isn't drugs.
* Aversion: DavidBowie has said that he doesn't even remember recording 1976's ''Station to Station'' because he was so strung out on cocaine at the time (this was soon after the filming of ''TheManWhoFellToEarth'', mentioned under Films: Live Action!). And "[=TVC15=]" is apparently about a hallucination Iggy Pop had about his then-girlfriend being swallowed by a [=TV=]-set.

* {{Kesha}}, subverted in she's very honest about her drinking past in her music.

* A number of episodes of ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans''. Almost any episode with Mad Mod in it, and especially ''Fractured''.

* ''PhineasAndFerb'' has a RunningGag involving a giant baby alien from another dimension that eats things, usually Doofenshmirtz's inventions.

* ''SouthPark''. In early interviews during the show's first season, creators Parker and Stone cheerfully confessed that they were either drunk or stoned or both when they came up with the idea for "Chef", and that he needed to be voiced by someone like Isaac Hayes.

* It's pretty obvious that [[FamilyGuy Seth Macfarlane]] smokes a fat pound before every Family Guy recording. Interstingly though, he claims to have cut down a bit starting in 2008, which might explain all those aggresively weed friendly episodes at that time. Poor bastard must have had the Junkie Itch.

* [[Tropers/Whitewings This troper]] does not smoke, drink, or do drugs. He does not in any way encourage or advocate any of these behaviours. Nonetheless, having seen the film, it is his duly and carefully considered opinion that ''LiquidSky'' is best watched when profoundly stoned, as this is the only way the viewer is likely to be able to approximate the state of its creators' minds during it making.

* Come to mention her, Music/LadyGaga, period. Especially ''The Fame Monster'' and the video for "Bad Romance". She has done cocaine in the past.

** Discussed with Music/LadyGaga as she has simultaneously confirmed using drugs while creating and denied it as she saw fit.

* Kesha, Your Love Is My Drug kinda fitting.

* The danish The New Talkshow with Anders Lund Madsen. The show basically relies on Anders Lund Madsens [[CloudChuckoolander weirdness]] and HilarityEnsues.

* The danish The New Talkshow with Anders Lund Madsen. The show basically relies on Anders Lund Madsens weirdness and HilarityEnsues.

* The danish The New Talkshow with Anders Lund Madsen. The show basically relies on Anders Lund Madsens weirdness and Hilarity Ensues.

* The danish The New Talkshow with Anders Lund Madsen. The show basically relies on Anders Lund Madsens weirdness and ''hilarity ensues''.

* The danish The New Talkshow with Anders Lund Madsen. The show basically relies on Anders Lund Madsens weirdness and [[hilarity ensues]].

* [[MoralGuardians Jack Thompson]]'s head on legs, and [[InterfaceScrew the screen starts to look all kinds of messed up and random]]. Oh, and did I mention the random things that emerge from the item blocks (including, but not limited to, Miyamoto's head and a realistic mushroom) and the string of {{Big Lipped Alligator Moment}}s such as a battle between you and Sub-Zero from ''MortalKombat''? Eventually, the effects seemingly wear off, but then [[spoiler: the foot from MontyPython squashes you after you reach the flag]]. And you know what? It's [[CrazyAwesome Awesome!]]
*** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldFZik-4BFs&feature=related The]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDBkRBAxXL0&feature=related Sequels]] are even worse. Each start off like their respective games (''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2'' and ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3'') but once again, the horrifying power of the Fuzzy strikes again. The sequels contain such oddities such as most of the enemies in 2 being replaced by [[TheLegendOfZelda Tingle]] [[TheScrappy (and rightfully so)]] to even more InterfaceScrew than it's [[BeyondTheImpossible predessessors COMBINED in 3.]]

** "I take insult when people attribute my creative work to drugs. Drugs are for people who can't create." [[http://twitter.com/TenNapel/status/10525068883]]

** How about anything Doug Tennapel does

** Synesthesia is an actual medical condition, although your description of what it entails is correct (being able to "smell" music or "hear" colors, etc.). But yes, hallucinogens often cause temporary synesthesia.
*** In an interesting inversion, some natural synaesthetes who have experimented with hallucinogens have found that the drugs cause their synaesthesia to temporarily vanish.

*** Kandinsky suffered from Synesthesia, he tried to convey the things he saw through his artwork, but he was never satisfied with it.

** It should be noted that Mickey's a badass of exactly this same type in the comic books, too, which are a major industry for Disney [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff everywhere but North America]]. Check YouTube for cartoons lke ''Shanghaied'', ''Gallopin' Gaucho'', ''Two-Gun Mickey'' and others where this portrayal (actually the original one) is seen again.

** By the way, this scene would be genuinely chilling if every single line wasn't A-class [[MemeticMutation meme-bait]] {{Narm}}.
*** "Nnnooo! ''Not'' into the ''pit''! It BURRRRRNS!"
*** "Mah boy, this peace is what ALL true warrior strive for!"
*** "You've killllllllllllllllllllled meeeeeeeeee!"
*** "Oh boy! I can't wait to bomb some Dodongos!"

** That sounds a lot like Andrew W.K.'s song that showed up a lot in one episode.

* This tendency was [[SubvertedTrope lampooned]] by ThatGuyWithTheGlasses contributor Benzaie in a sketch in his review of ''[[http://benzaie.blip.tv/file/1725796/ Magical Drop 3]]'', showing a game designer snorting cocaine...and still not being able to come up with anything. Then his assistant hands him a cup of coffee and suggests making a VideoGame/{{Tetris}} clone.

* Oddly enough, ''[[{{PokemonGoldAndSilver}} Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver]]'', at least when compared to the rest of the series (and most notably, [[UpdatedRerelease the games that they are a remake of]]). Some of the dialogue is just... well... [[{{Narm}} comparable to the type of stuff found in the]] ''MetalGearSolid'' series. Other things involve rematches in which a trainer's team is oddly unbalanced in terms of levels, a trainer with three level 50+ ''Metapod'' (who also reveals in the post-battle conversation that he initially mistook you for a giant Venonat), and a man who seems downright mentally unstable (see: [[Funny/VideoGames Crowning Moment of Funny]]). Yeah...I think Game Freak was taking the second half of their name a bit too literally when they made this one.

* ''Bard's Tale''. In it, you have to go through the towns before you get to a dungeon. There's only one command for getting past the doors - "K" for kick. So here you are, the small band of adventurers who wander through town kicking people's doors in to steal their stuff, or occasionally battle monsters, or play a piece of music (possibly while battling monsters). Except of course when your bard can't play the piece of music until he has a drink.

* ''{{Killer7}}'' and ''NoMoreHeroes''.
** And pretty much anything else made by SUDA51. The man's a walking drug trip. Depending on the game, sometimes it's a ''bad'' trip.
*** The cover of ShadowsOfTheDamned explicitly calls it a "SUDA51 trip".

* Good ''god'', LSD. The name of the game and the opening scene really shows the outright trippiness of the game. Mind you, it's based off a 10-year dream journal, so that's to be expected.

* ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU7Nxy_g75o Garden Gnome Carnage]]''''. Just, Garden Gnome Carnage''. It numbers among the FreewareGames, so you can [[http://www.remar.se/daniel/ggc.php check it out for yourselves]].

* ''MrShow'' co-creator and admitted pot-smoker David Cross has commented on how frustrated he gets when stoners assume that writers for the show were perpetually stoned, rather than simply hard-working and creative.
** MrShow also parodied HRPufnstuf as being 100% about drugs.

* ''MysteryScienceTheater3000''. Joel Hodgson in particular has been thought to be a stoner due to his sleepy eyes.
** Hodgson has repeated in interviews that the idea that his character was a stoner was his own fault, as he had stayed up all night the night before the taping of the pilot building the robots, and as a result, he ''was'' sleepy when they filmed it. It can be especially bad during Season 1, when the staff were working 12-hour days 7 days a week. Hodgson has also mentioned pretending to be sleepy helped him manage his stage fright, which he slowly managed to alleviate (but never get 100% over) as the show progressed.
* Several creations by J.J. Abrams. Most notably ''{{Lost}}'' and ''{{Fringe}}''. Need I say more?

** And then there was the episode where the aforementioned Andy Kaufman guest-starred...
* [[TheMightyBoosh Noel Fielding and Julian Baratt]] have refuted this claim by saying they attempted to write on acid once, only to end up staring at a spider on the floor for six hours.

* ''Film/{{The Wizard of Oz}}'' film: There's a scene where Dorothy falls asleep due to magical poppies only to be woken by magical snow, for heaven's sake!
** The depressant opium is made from poppies, from which we get sedatives such as heroin and morphine. "Magical snow" is presumably a reference to the stimulant cocaine.
** The original book was written in 1900, smack dab in a period that historians call "The Great Binge", in which pretty much anything you wanted, you could get with what are currently considered dangerous drugs in it, from children's cough syrup with heroin (which, in passing, was a ''trademark'' then, based on "heroic" and owned by Bayer. Yup, the aspirin people, who advertised heroin as [[YouFailPharmacologyForever a non-addictive opium substitute!]]) to cocaine-flavored wine, of which [[ThePope Pope Leo XIII was a big fan]], reportedly keeping a flask of it on him at all times-- to say nothing of Coca-Cola itself. During the first world war, you could even buy care package-style boxes to send to your loved ones at the front, complete with cocaine, laudanum, heroin, a small alcohol lamp, a spoon, and ''a syringe''. The odds are ''very'' good that whatever drug reference you pick up in that sequence, it is at least partially valid.
** Someone should at least point out the Wizard of Oz, Dark Side of the Moon, and Stoner trifecta.
* ''[=~2001: A Space Odyssey~=]'', the movie. It has been claimed that drug-users would sneak into theaters just to ''watch'' [[EverythingsBetterOnDrugs the climax while stoned]].
** Which the producers capitalized on when they re-released it in the 1970s with the tagline, ''still the ultimate trip!''
** ArthurCClarke himself tells of an anonymous young person stuffing an envelope in his hand containing a note of thanks... together with a powdery substance and an assurance that it was "the best stuff". He immediately flushed it.
** Even better if you [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f88NZ1sxWX0 sync up Pink Floyd's "Echoes" to it]].

* The works of DavidLynch, including ''{{Eraserhead}}'', ''TwinPeaks'', ''{{Dune}}'', ''BlueVelvet'', and even ''{{The Angriest Dog in the World}}''. Notably averted by the appropriately titled ''TheStraightStory''.
* Any musical filled with {{Disney Acid Sequence}}s and {{Busby Berkeley Number}}s, especially ''MoulinRouge''!
** To be fair, early Disney and Busby Berkeley films were made under the influence of Technicolor, which got everyone excited when it was new. In those years, film productions were encouraging each other and competing for the most spectacular use of colors they pack onto celluloid.
*** Busby Berkeley only worked in color a handful of times; the vast majority of his production numbers are in black and white. He was much more into geometric shapes and patterns.
** This is also something of a trademark of BazLuhrmann, who directed ''MoulinRouge''.
* ''[=~The 5,000 Fingers Of Dr. T~=]''. It's bizarre even for ''DrSeuss''.
** "Bart, hand me some of that pickle juice." "Jeepers, are you sure? That's some powerful stuff!" "I won't let some Siamese twins on rollerskates make a monkey of me!"

** Then somebody futzed with Richard Kelly's dosage and we got ''SouthlandTales''.

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