Science as we know involves lots of interesting glassware filled with
bubbling fluids, condensing, perculating, spinning and being pushed through tubes.
A pan across such equipment establishes that we're in a laboratory.
When the pan ends with a scientist pouring the final product into a martini glass, adding an olive and drinking it, this is a
Science Cocktail.
There can be the magical version of this trope, replacing the scientist with a wizard or witch. The
Technicolor Science becomes
Technicolor Magic, but looks remarkably similar.
Examples
Anime and Manga
- In Gundam SEED, The desert tiger has many scenes where he makes coffee out of tubes and bubbling pots and whatnot.
Film - Animated
- In Corpse Bride, Elder Gutknecht creates a sorcerous variant.
Film - Live-Action
Literature
- Jake Stonebender, from Spider Robinson's Callahan series, owns a Rube Goldberg contraption that looks a bit like a 50s movie doomsday device. Its sole purpose is to make the perfect cup of coffee.
- Magical version: Potion class in Harry Potter. Blending exotic things in a caldron and make a drinkable mixture.
- The machine that makes the Everlasting Gobstopper in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
- Also the machine that makes the Amazing Three-Course Meal Chewing Gum.
Live-Action TV
- On MASH the still in the Swamp was originally this when it was first built.
- In one episode of NCIS, after spending hours manually distilling blood samples during a power outage, Abby uses the same apparatus to brew herself a shot of nonalcoholic whiskey.
Web Comics
Western Animation
- On the Looney Tunes short "Hot Crossed Bunny", Bugs Bunny threatens to blow up a Mad Doctor with a mixture of chemicals, but the scientist points out that all he did was prepare a chocolate malt. Bugs drinks it and declares, "I'm a better scientist than I thought."
- The introduction to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon has Donatello fiddling with a complex machine that makes him a drink.
Real Life
