- The Amazing World of Gumball: In the episode "The Matchmaker", Carrie begrudgingly brews a love potion to make Darwin and Teri fall for one another after Gumball wrongly assumes the girl his brother was referring to during a heartbreaking musical number was the latter (he was actually referring to Carrie, something Gumball only finds out about after the potion has already taken effect). After finding out the truth Gumball attempts to help Carrie in trying to break them up, to no avail, until Darwin sees Carrie cry, which cancels the potion's effect. Among other gags Sexophone music plays as it's being brewed, much to Gumball's mortification.
- Happens with Cupid's arrows in the American Dragon: Jake Long episode "The Love Cruise". When Cupid goes on vacation, he leaves his magical bow and love arrows in Grandpa's care. Jake can't resist borrowing Cupid's equipment and using it to play matchmaker on his school's "Love Cruise", including pairing himself with Rose, who he feels no longer has feelings for him. Chaos ensues, including Fu falling in love with himself, the captain of the ship falling in love with the Statue of Liberty and abandoning his post and Rose hating Jake because of what happens when the person hit by the arrow already loves the first one they see.
- Angel's Friends: When Reina was an angel she tried to make her human, Malachia fall in love with her using his own love potion on himself. It doesn't work...
- Archie's Weird Mysteries: In "Zombies of Love", Veronica gets love potion that resembles salt from a witch to try to win Archie over, and she puts it in his food. Unfortunately, it works too well. Archie becomes hopelessly devoted to her and won't leave her alone, driving her crazy. Even worse, he's so devoted that he won't eat or sleep, making him get sick, and he makes Veronica a pillow and stuffs it with his own hair. Veronica learns the only cure is to ring the school bell within two days or the effects will become permanent. The salt gets into more food and several people eat it, including Betty, causing them to be hopelessly devoted to Veronica too. They all form a mob and manage to capture Veronica, but she convinces Archie to prove his love by ringing the bell, curing everyone.
- Beverly Hills Teens: An episode called Potions of Love. The effects are hilarious.
- Ember of Danny Phantom uses Magic Music to get the main character to fall madly in love with Sam as a means to distract Danny from her plans to conquer the world (Sam was supposed to be affected, too, but she was wearing special ghost-earphones that protected her from the sound-effect love spell.)
- Gosalyn makes one in the "My Valentine Ghoul" episode of Darkwing Duck, intending to use it on the eponymous Super Hero and his estranged girlfriend. She only succeeds in making a spider fall in love with a bat and making Darkwing, herself, and two bats fall in love with Negaduck. Fortunately, Morgana uses the love potion to defeat the episode's villain.
- Di-Gata Defenders: In the episode "Mel On My Mind," a small creature has a defence mechanism where it sprays a pink goop into the eyes of Brackus and Rion which causes them both to fall in love with Mel. Later on, Mel gets hit with the goop as well and falls in love with her reflection.
- The Donkey Kong Country episode "A Thin Line Between Love and Ape" had Bluster Kong, with help from the Crystal Coconut, mix up a love potion to win Candy Kong's affections. Unfortunately, K.Rool gets his hands on it. However, the potion wears off, and a second dose causes the subject to feel hate instead of love, and back to love the next dose. As Cranky Kong says, "There's a thin line between love and hate!"
- The Valentine's Day special of Ed, Edd n Eddy turns Sarah and Jimmy into a pair of trouble-making cupids, who make Edd and May (and later others) fall in love with each other. The spell is broken when Rolf soaks the cupids and couples with dirty mop water.
- The Fairly Oddparents:
- Cupid's love arrows. They eventually wear off unless they're specifically made to last forever.
- The first time Timmy became Norm's "master", he tried to use the second wish to make Trixie fall in love with him, he believed to have outwitted Norm by wording his wish to make Trixie Tang fall in love with "Timmy Turner". Trixie then started loving and kissing everyone named Timmy Turner. To Timmy's displeasure, the wish he made to undo Norm's other disasters made the wish on Trixie wear off right when it'd be Timmy's turn to be kissed.
- The potion used on Rava in Galtar and the Golden Lance works fine. It was when the potion's effect wore off that it hit the fan.
- George of the Jungle: The tail plumes of the Oo-oo bird make the women wearing them appear like a movie star to men. At a fancy ball, a plume-wearing society matron walks by and:
- Two of the Ghostbusters have fallen victim to love spells: Peter, when a Musical Assassin made him fall in love with her to hinder his team's attempts to stop her; and Egon, when Janine received Three Wishes (or so she thought) from a "genie" and, naturally, wished for Egon to fall in love with her, only to become so annoyed by how he spent the rest of the episode staring soppily at her that she was as relieved as everyone when the spells were broken.
- Mabel from Gravity Falls ends up stealing one of these from a Love God in "The Love God" to use on Robbie and Tambry. The Love God also has several varieties of potions for such loves as Summer Love, Interspecies Love, and an Anti-Love Potion to reverse the affects of the previous types. It's also a rare example where the characters end up simply letting the characters remain in love rather than try to reverse it to solve any problems it caused (which mostly ended up taking care of itself).
- Any moral quandaries of this are given an Author's Saving Throw in Gravity Falls: Journal 3, which reveals that love potions only work for a few hours; if the subjects are still together after that, then the potion has successfully "nudged" them into real love.
- Inverted in Hey Arnold! when Helga buys a Fall-Out-of-Love Potion... of course, turns out it was just some grape soda.
- A Pluto short on the House of Mouse has Pluto finding Magical Love Arrows in a dumpster. As it turns out, there's a reason those arrows were in the trash: they don't fly straight and Pluto ends up hitting the wrong target.
- In The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius, Jimmy creates a love potion that makes males fall in love with the first female they see…in an attempt to study and create an antidote for it. Of course, they get exposed and the first females they see happen to be girls who the boys already had hidden feelings for, or develop feelings for later.
- Inevitably, Heloise on Jimmy Two-Shoes tried this, making not only a sweater for Jimmy that would make him fall in love with her, but a fear sweater that would make Beezy afraid of her. It goes wrong twice: first, the two decide they like the other one's sweater the best, causing Jimmy to be absolutely terrified of her and Beezy to drag her on a Captive Date. She eventually gets the right sweaters on them, only to have a terrified Beezy become determined to protect Jimmy from Heloise, whether he wants it or not.
- Kaeloo: In Episode 80, Pretty buys a love potion so she can get Mr. Cat, who absolutely despises her, to fall in love with her. She puts it in a glass and asks Mr. Cat if he is thirsty and wants a drink. Unfortunately, Stumpy, who is extremely thirsty, walks up behind her, snatches the potion and drinks it up. To Pretty's disgust and horror, Stumpy falls in love with her instead of Mr. Cat.
- Kim Possible:
- While not a love potion, Wade creates a modern love laser beam that causes the much older Monique to fall in love with him. It works exactly as planned, until the effect wears off and she's pissed at him. Later, the villain comes in possession of the love laser beam and uses it for massive annoyance.
- At the end of the episode Wade is seeing a genius girl his own age — who turns out to have invented a Love Beam of her own. Wade's ten.
- Another example could be of the Moodulators which caused Kim and Shego to fall for Ron and Drakken respectively. Of course, the Fandom speculate that this only brought out feelings that were already there.
- King Arthur's Disasters: In "The Surprise Quest", Arthur's loyal magician, Merlin, has discovered a potion which makes the person you give it to fall head-over-heels in love with you. Arthur plans to catapult the potion at Guinevere so she'll finally marry him, but he accidentally hits her chaperon, Petal.
- An episode of Lilo & Stitch: The Series had an hummingbird-like experiment called Hunkahunka, who anyone pecked by it would fall in love with the next person they saw. The 'antidote' was being sprayed with water.
- My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In the episode "Hearts and Hooves Day", the Cutie Mark Crusaders, in an attempt to play matchmaker with their teacher Cheerilee and Apple Bloom's brother Big Macintosh, find a recipe for a love potion in a history book on the holiday and serve it to them in the guise of punch. When they actually read what the potion did, they realize the formula is not a love potion, but a "love poison". After drinking it, both of the targets are unable to do anything other than stare each other in the eyes and call each other annoyingly exaggerated pet names... forever. The potion supposedly toppled an entire kingdom in the ancient past. The only antidote is to forcibly separate them for one hour. Though successful, the process goes about as smoothly as you'd expect.
- In the Rick and Morty episode "Rick Potion #9", Morty has Rick cook up a love potion so that he can woo the girl he has a crush on. Unfortunately, due to the fact that the girl has the flu, she ends up transmitting the effects of the potion to the entire school and within a few hours the entire world (save for Morty's family due to the effects not affecting people with his DNA) wants to have sex with Morty. Near the end of the episode, the morality of the love potion is actually discussed as Rick outright compares it to slipping someone a roofie.Morty: How could you be so irresponsible, Rick!?
Rick: Me irresponsible!? All I wanted you to do was hand me a screwdriver, Morty! You're the one who wanted me to buckle down and make a roofie juice serum, so you could roofie the poor girl at your school! You kidding me, Morty? You're going to try and take the high road on this one? - An unusual variation shows up in Sabrina: The Animated Series: The potion in question (Salem's recipe) doesn't compel any attraction; it instead modifies the target's personality enough to make them compatible with the user. Thus, when Sabrina uses it to try to get along with her father's new girlfriend, said girlfriend gets the energy level, attention span, and interests of a preteen girl. Great BFF material... not so great on a date with an adult man.
- The Simpsons: In "Selma's Choice," Selma visits a New Age potioneer called Princess Opal who promises that one drop of her love potion will let Selma have any man she desires. Unfortunately for Opal, she tries to demonstrate it using the wrong bottle, causing her to blab that her love potion is made of "mostly corn syrup, a little rubbing alcohol. You'll be lucky if it doesn't make your hair fall out, actually."
- Partially subverted in the Star Trek: The Animated Series episode "Mudd's Passion". The potion Harry Mudd is selling, much to everyone's (not least Harry's) amazement, turns out to really work... albeit not for long, and has the nasty side effect of inducing hatred in the former lovers as it wears off.
- In the Thunder Cats 2011 episode "Recipe for Disaster," a Con Man convinces Lion-O to buy his love potion to try on Pumyra. Lion-O manages to sneak it into her cup... and Tygra instantly walks up saying, "Boy, am I thirsty..." (Hey, compared to his 1985 counterpart's track record with Fantastic Drugs, he got off easy!)
- Zeke's Pad: In "Brush With Love", Zeke draws himself as Cupid, trying to get Ida and Alvin back together with his love arrow. Pandemonium ensues as Zeke, being a terrible shot, ends up hitting everybody in the house with his poorly aimed arrows. For example, Rachel is lovestruck by Jay, and Ike and Chester the dog are together.
- In one episode of Zig & Sharko, to help Zig capture Marina, Bernie invents a love potion for him in the form of roll-on deodorant. Hilarity Ensues.
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