Mushroom Samba / Western Animation

• American Dad!:
  • In "The Magnificent Steven", Stan buys Steve and his friends a small herd of cattle in an attempt to toughen them up, little does he know the cows are infected with Mad Cow Disease, during the course of events he make them slaughter the calf and only he eats the meat which causes him to hallucinate that owls are out to steal his meat (we don't see this), then he takes them to an alley where he hallucinates that he is in a bright more cartoony world and sings a Western song with a jack rabbit and prairie dog. We then cut to reality and he's dancing in his underwear with a beer pack and burger wrapper, he then orders them to cross a river which is actually a busy highway, and they end up having to save him from this. In real life he would've eventually died.
  • In "In Country... Club", after eating a rare bird Roger hallucinates that he's flying in a brightly colored CGI world with constantly changing shapes and floating in front of a singing gargoyle.
  • In "100 A.D.", after Roger puts some amphetamine droplets in his eyes and eats some expired cheese puffs he hallucinates that Klaus is Garfield in a bowl and Steve is a walrus in a Nazi uniform.
• Amphibia: In "Stakeout", Hop-Pop and Anne dare each other to try the other's respective pick-me-ups (a whole pot of Hop-Pop's "wart tea" and a bottle of energy drink Anne brought from the human world), the possibility that such drinks aren't biochemically compatible not occurring to them until it's too late. The result is a vivid shared hallucination that lasts for much of the rest of the episode.
• The Angry Beavers: In "Up All Night II", the two beavers both suffer from lack of sleep and begin talking weirdly, acting weirdly and eventually even hallucinate the more and more their rational thinking starts to suffer due to lack of sleep. The episode's even more hilarious if you watch it while you are tired yourself.
• During Don Hertzfeldt's "Intermission: In the Third Dimension!" sequence of The Animation Show, one of his signature cloud characters dons 3D glasses, and hallucinates in 3D! (A theoretical realm of space and time; where the laws of physics are meaningless!)
• Avatar: The Last Airbender:
  • In "The Desert", Sokka and Momo drink some cactus juice in order to quench their thirst while wandering around in the heat. The problem? The cactus was poisonous and had something in it (probably mescaline), causing them to hallucinate (among other things, Sokka believed Toph was on fire) and cause them to act just a little off-kilter.
  • The entirety of "Nightmares and Daydreams". Note to people with no knowledge of why one should not stay up for three days: sleep deprivation makes your brain self-produce DMT. The dreams that cause the sleep deprivation are pretty weird as well (Aang with a Badass Longcoat and Anime Hair?). The crazy comes to a head when Aang imagines that Momo, a tiny Team Pet, is talking to him. This is followed by Appa, who is a giant, six-legged bison, talking along with the other characters as if it's perfectly normal, to the point where Aang doesn't notice. After Momo and Appa suddenly don Samurai garb and start fighting with swords, Aang declares his desire to dive under a cold waterfall.
• Beavis and Butt-Head: Excessive caffeine or sugar was enough to turn Beavis into his psychotic alter ego "The Great Cornholio". Likewise, see Beavis and Butt-Head Do America in the main page.
• Bob's Burgers:
  • "Burgerboss" has Bob popping pain pills for carpal tunnel brought on by excessive videogame playing. He sees the bullies of his young mentor as characters in the 8-bit game and furiously chases after them.
  • In "An Indecent Thanksgiving Proposal", while cooking Thanksgiving dinner with his family posing as his landlord's family, Bob gets drunk on absinthe and has a glorious hallucinatory vision of a perfect holiday riffing off My Neighbor Totoro.
• BoJack Horseman:
  • This appears in "Downer Ending" when BoJack takes drugs in an attempt to get over his writer's block.
  • In "The Showstopper", as a result of BoJack abusing painkillers throughout the season, he's unable to distinguish reality from fiction for the entire episode, culminating in nearly strangling his co-star to death on set.
• Celebrity Deathmatch: When an accident sends Nick into a coma, he has a bizarre morphine-fueled dream of Elvis Presley and Jerry Garcia fighting in the Deathmatch ring to the tune of the song "Kung Fu Fighting".
• In the Clone High episode "Raisin the Stakes", an anti-drug speaker tricks the entire high school into believing that raisins are a hallucinogen. Many drug montages take place of varying degrees of weirdness. (The entire episode is a rock opera ripped off from The Wall and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat with traces of Godspell and Hair — very '60s-'70s.)
• Daria: "The Teachings of Don Jake" has the Morgendorffer family (except Daria) losing their marbles on a camping trip by eating psychotropic berries (which Quinn calls "glitter berries"). They'd probably still be chasing the spirit animal if Helen hadn't brought her cell phone...
• Drawn Together:
  • Toot, Wooldor and Xandir have one of these moments by licking Ling-Ling repeatedly. They try several things to make him "dis-ap-poin-ted", but eventually get bored and simply pass him back and forth. All three of them truly freak out when Ling-Ling's bodily secretions dry up.
  • In the second half of "Lost in Parking Space", Toot drinks the saltwater from a fish tank and claims she sees a polar bear with a scorpion tail. It turns out true later on.
• Family Guy:
  • A result of Peter and Lois smoking weed (again, as it turns out) to find inspiration to write a song for a contest. They end up licking Chris thinking he's a sundae in a magical world made of desserts and candies, lying naked on the couch together (on the FOX and syndicated version, the two are in their underwear), and thinking they sang beautifully during the talent show (when, according to Chris, they were so baked, that they thought their off-key screaming was beautiful music).
  • One occurs in "Seahorse Seashell Party" when Brian suffers nasty hallucinations after eating some bad psychedelic mushrooms.
• Final Space: In episode 3, Gary starts getting these hallucinations when he eats a Moonobump. Avocato saves him with an injection.
• Futurama:
  • "Hell is Other Robots" has Bender "abusing electricity", which is apparently that universe's robot-drug. Not only is it very addictive, but the first time he takes a hit he has a wonderful but brief hallucinatory trip.
  • Almost the entirety of "The Sting", combined with All Just a Dream. It's revealed in the end that the majority of the episode was Leela's dream while she was in a coma after getting a dose of venom on the bee's stinger that scratched her.
  • In "The Farnsworth Parabox", the crew visits Universe 420, a universe where everyone is on drugs. We don't get to explicitly see anything there, but the main story of the episode is mind-trippy enough in its own right. As Fry says about the situation: "It's like that drug trip I saw in that movie while I was on that drug trip."
• In the Gravity Falls episode "The Inconveniencing", Mabel eats bleventeen packets of a strange German confection called Smile Dip, which apparently got banned in America sometime shortly before the abandoned convenience store it was found in got, well, abandoned. It's never mentioned why the stuff is banned, but it's probably because it's capable of inducing vivid hallucinations (as she soon discovers). She spends much of the episode lying on the floor with her pupils dilated, hallucinating wildly and mostly unaware of what's going on around her.^note She does manage to answer a direct question -' "Mabel, how many of those did you eat?!" -' but is otherwise unresponsive to anything outside of her own psychedelic world.
  "The future... is in the past! Onwards, Aoshima!"
• The Great North:
  • In "Game of Snownes Adventure", when Beef starts catching a cold, Judy decides to give him some cold medicine. When Judy discovers the medicine is expired, Beef believes medicine can't expire and still drinks it in large doses, resulting in him seeing hallucinations while he tries to rescue Wolf and Honeybee. When he reunites with his family in the blizzard, he thought he left the house 30 minutes ago but they reveal he left three hours ago.
  • In "Dip the Halls Adventure", Beef and Jerry drink some Terry Claus' famous punch to give them confidences to mingle with the partygoers only to discover the punch has zero alcohol and is filled with hallucinogenic mushrooms and they start tripping out.
• Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi: In "Rock and Roe", after eating too much sushi at a cheap seafood restaurant, Ami and Yumi start hallucinating.
• Jason from Home Movies indulges in too much candy at Fenton's birthday party and begins behaving like a combative drunk. A concerned Melissa calls a cab for him.
• Inside Job Myc is a sentient Psilocybin mushroom from the hollow earth. When visiting inside the hollow earth, Glen gets a dose of psilocybin and has a series of very psychedelic hallucinations concluding in a cathartic emotional release over his own trauma and insecurities.
• Inspector Gadget: "NSF Gadget" involves hallucinogenic "crazy gas" being placed into the oxygen supplies of astronauts, causing them to see visions of space monsters, and one of Gadget's hallucinations involves gigantic literal mushrooms.
• King of the Hill:
  • In "To Kill a Ladybird", although we don't see his point of view, Dale, under the influence of wild mushrooms, describes cartoon characters dancing around his head when he closes his eyes, that harmless animals are out to kill him, and that Hank is spewing bugs from his mouth.
  • In "Hillenium", Hank accidentally inhales some varnish while working on a grandfather clock (Hank should have known better than to close the garage door when working with chemicals that can cause hallucinations and brain damage when used frequently and in a closed space) and he hallucinates that he, his family members, and his hero Tom Landry are mechanical moles in a whack-a-mole game.
  • "Returning Japanese" Part 1 has Hank and the guys in a sauna run by John Redcorn, who says that things might get a bit "trippy." Sure enough, Dale hallucinates being in bed with a praying mantis that beheads him, Bill sees himself riding a motorcycle naked and jumping into a pie, Hank just experiences his father finally coming to good terms with him and switching to propane, and Cotton sees the men he killed from World War II as zombies coming in and ganging up on him.
  • In "The Son Also Roses", the two stoners hallucinate that Hank has an enormous head, many mouths, and has a distorted voice.
  • In "Night and Deity", a pigeon's point of view after being fed a drug is briefly shown; it sees a distorted Bill and Boomhauer.
  • We even see a pig's hallucination in "Lost in MySpace". From his perspective, the colors of everything change from one palette to another.
• In The Legend of Vox Machina, during a journey through the Fey Realm, Keyleth and Vex get hit by spores from a slime monster that sends them on a wild trip. While Keyleth communes with the flowers, Vex ends up talking with her pet bear Trinket, who, in her altered state, sounds like Cheech.
  "Trinket": Dayum, girl! You are super fucked up!
• The Littles: In the episode "Prescription For Disaster", when Angela's mother drops her pill into the vent, it breaks open and lands in a pie Dinky is eating, he then hallucinates that his cousins are weird shapeshifting monsters and Grandpa Little is an abominable snowman, he runs away in fear while Grandpa chases after him, as he prepares his balloon to make his escape he sees it as a giant clown, he winds up in a cookie factory and sees the gingerbread cookies as members of his species and the oven as a giant fire monster that wants to eat him.
• Penny from Littlest Pet Shop (2012) has one of these when she eats too many sweets. Her friends, equally high on sugar, show other characteristic signs of being on drugs.
• The Terras cause this to happen to the Burners on Halloween in Motorcity. They release a special gas that forces them to see their biggest fears: comedic ones for Texas and Claire giant candy and being married to Chuck, respectively; serious ones for Mike and Julie his past working for Kane and her father finding out she's a Burner.
• Though not exactly a cause of drugs, one episode of My Life as a Teenage Robot had Jenny getting a dream chip installed so she can experience dreams. She starts to abuse it however and uses it during the daytime allowing her to see some pretty trippy stuff (all of her dreams are done in a different animation style). Things come to a head though when the chip gets damaged and she sees everything in a Dr. Seuss style and goes on a rampage believing the people are Greek monsters.
• In the OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes episode "Plaza Alone", KO, Rad, and Enid get trapped together in the bodega's break room. The scene that follows becomes surreal and mildly disturbing as they suddenly begin to hallucinate. Things intermittently take on a neon color scheme, Rad becomes a hot dog, KO eats him and turns into a horse, and Enid becomes a large floating head and explodes. And during all the weirdness, the characters panic and argue, and KO remembers a documentary he watched earlier involving a lonely hero losing their mind and becomes depressed.
  Documentary narrator: Fueled by fear and loneliness, they succumb to the mad visions...
• In the Phineas and Ferb episode "The Ballad of Badbeard", Candace starts hallucinating wildly thanks to some weird moss. She ends up following Perry on one of his missions, all along thinking she's just dreaming the whole thing.
  Candace: Why do my nostrils whisper to me...?
• Regular Show has one of these in "Weekend at Benson's" as the result of Mordecai, Rigby, and Benson drinking a super-spicy concoction known as "Mississippi Queen". The song of the same name even plays during the hallucinations.
• In the Rocko's Modern Life Halloween episode "Sugar-Frosted Frights", Filburt eats Halloween candy for the first time and enters a sugar-rush-induced fantasy inspired by the "Night on Bald Mountain" segment from Fantasia.
• In the Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated episode "Night Terrors", the gang stays at a mansion, and starts seeing terrifying hallucinations (also, Daphne sees Shaggy as Fred and kisses him). It turns out that the firewood the mansion was using was Terror Wood, which releases hallucinogenic chemicals into the air when burned.
• The Simpsons:
  • In "Selma's Choice", Bart dares Lisa to drink some of the "water" from a boat ride at Duff Gardens (which is so polluted, it doesn't really look like water anymore — either that or the "water" is actually beer, though its effects seem more like Hollywood LSD than beer). Once she does, she starts to hallucinate (starting with the Dutch dolls on the "Little Land of Duff" ride receding down a dark, endless hallway), becomes paranoid after seeing a monster grow from Selma's arm, tries to whack Bart and Aunt Selma with a boat oar, stumbles around the Duff Lite Parade commenting on how she can "see the music," and is found hours later after security saw her swimming naked in the Fermentarium, clad in only a towel and declaring herself "The Lizard Queen".
  • In "Last Exit to Springfield", under the influence of laughing gas, Lisa hallucinates that she is flying through the air and comes across a parody of Pepperland from Yellow Submarine and meets The Beatles in a purple submarine.
  • In "Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood" where Bart finds a twenty-dollar bill. He and Milhouse buy an "all-syrup Squishee," which causes them to behave drunk out of an extreme sugar rush and also causes the show to segue into one of the most memorable songs of the series. And towards the end of the song, it causes the boys to hallucinate. In reality, they end up joining the Junior Campers.
  • In "Homer Loves Flanders", Homer comments that Shelbyville threatened to spike Springfield's water supply after Springfield burned down their city hall, but they didn't have the guts. Cut to Marge drinking some water in the kitchen. Sitar music suddenly plays and Marge comments that the walls are melting again. A cooked turkey pops out of the oven and flies away.
  • In "Bart Gets an Elephant", after sniffing some ammonia fumes Homer hallucinates that the cleaning mascots come to life and start dancing around causing him to laugh. Suddenly they spring out and attack him causing him to scream, Marge hears this and tells him to stop screaming so loud.
  • In "Team Homer", Mr. Burns sees Homer as the Pillsbury Dough-boy while under the influence of ether, and since he's a big fan of his Homer uses this to get money for his bowling team from Mr. Burns. Burns then sees Hans Moleman as Lucky the Leprechaun, and tries to kill him and steal his brain to figure out the secret of his Lucky Charms.
    Hans: Oh no. My brains.
  • In "Homerpalooza", Otto hallucinates that his shoes are talking to him.
    Otto: Don't worry, I won't hurt you. I only want you to have some fun.
  • In "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)", after eating some of "the Merciless Peppers of Quetzalzacatenango" at a chili cookoff, Homer starts hallucinating wildly (which Marge mistakes for Homer breaking his promise about getting drunk) and goes on a journey to find his soulmate at the behest of a talking coyote. This is actually Truth in Television, as eating sufficently spicy foods can cause hallucinations.
    Homer: Man, this is crazy. I hope I didn't brain my damage.
    • One of the comics set during the same episode, but instead following Chief Wiggum has this happen to him as well, causing him to, among other things, go on a rampage through town, envision a statue as a giant criminal, and see a spirit animal whom he then spends several hours asking what The Matrix was all about.
      Chief Wiggum: "The merciless peppers of Quetzalzacatenango! Grown deep in the jungle primeval by the inmates of a Guatemalan insane asylum."
  • In "King of the Hill", when Homer is climbing the Murderhorn mountain, he starts feeling light-headed from the thinning atmosphere, then eventually says "Why should I climb when I can just take the escalator?" He then hallucinates that he's riding up the mountain on an escalator dressed in a suit and top hat, then leaping from peak to peak on the back of a blue mountain goat, then getting an elevator ride from the Abominable Snow-Monster from Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer. Back in reality, he's actually tumbling down the mountain all cut up with a big smile on his face.
  • In "D'oh-in' the Wind", when Homer becomes a hippie, Flanders starts seeing Grateful Dead-type bears, Pink Floyd's Marching Hammers and Rolling Stones-type lips after drinking carrot juice laced with peyote. Barney sees a fanged monstrosity from the same drink, but is quickly saved by a beer and his friend Pinky, the pink elephant, Grampa and Jasper begin giggling like Beavis and Butt-Head (while sitting on a park bench in the same manner as Beavis and Butt-Head on their couch) and Willy sees a beautiful woman whom he starts kissing (which is actually a rake and the kissing is actually Groundskeeper Willy scraping his face with the tines of the rake).
  • There's also a subversion in "Missionary: Impossible". When Homer becomes a missionary, he starts licking hallucinogenic toads out of sheer boredom; however, the only thing we can see is his dilated pupils and his unusual reactions.
  • In "Worst Episode Ever", Homer eats a box of ancient bicarbonate of soda (baking soda) ("I think it came with the house", comments Marge) on a dare from Bart, which causes him to have an "antacid trip" (and Bart to win $50).
  • In "I'm Goin' to Praiseland", Ned opens a Christian theme park and erects a statue of his late wife (the park was a lifelong dream of hers), and people who stand in front of it are hit with a vision of their idea of heaven, while onlookers see them writhing on the ground speaking in tongues. Everyone thinks it's something truly spiritual until Ned discovers a gas leak near the statue and that people were just "getting goofy off the gas fumes".
  • In "Weekend at Burnsie's", when Homer starts smoking medicinal weed, he opens his bathroom's door with a '60s-style happy face, grabs a razor with a happy face, sees rainbows coming out of his beard, and then he gets on his car (with a happy face too!), under a pink sky and the smiling sun, his car takes off, and he drives away — all with Donovan's "Wear Your Love Like Heaven" playing.
  • In "The Bart of War", Bart and Milhouse have some 40-year-old Beatles sodas, Bart, trying the "John Lemon" soda, imagines Milhouse as John Lennon in the different phases of his life, from Beatlemania to Sgt. Pepper to "Let It Be" to "Double Fantasy".
  • "The Good, the Sad and the Drugly" has Lisa put on anti-depressants, causing her to hallucinate smiley faces on everything. Maggie nearly gets her to kiss a fan under the influence.
  • In "Married to the Blob", Homer and Mr. Nakamura get drunk on potent rice wine and have a Hayao Miyazaki-inspired hallucination.
  • In "Bull-E", Otto hallucinates twice. First, he hallucinates about hitting the "I Choo-Choo-Choose You" train with a Ringo Starr-esque voice (parodying Thomas the Tank Engine), and at the end, hallucinates about the orange Magic School Bus, driven by Ms. Drizzle (a parody of Ms. Frizzle).
• South Park:
  • All the boys (including Jimmy, Butters, and Token, but not Kenny) take hits of cough syrup in "Quest for Ratings", assuming that the wild hallucinations are bound to give them plenty of ideas to improve their school news show. They certainly have fun with the hallucinations, but the only "ideas" they emerge with are some squiggly lines and a circle drawn by Cartman and all the lyrics to the Happy Days theme song written by Kyle.
  • "Major Boobage" has Kenny getting high off cat urine and tripping out into a Heavy Metal-style hallucination where there are breasts everywhere (even in the architecture!) Kyle's dad later takes a hit of cat pee, culminating in the two duking it out half-naked in a sandbox. At the end of the episode Kenny gets high on a bunch of flowers.
• Space Ghost Coast to Coast: "Flipmode" involves Space Ghost interviewing Busta Rhymes (who laughs at nothing in particular for most of the episode) and breaking open natural gas pipes. This leads to mostly-unseen hallucinations and freak-outs by the entire cast.
  Space Ghost: DIVE! DIVE! SUCK ON THE PIPES!
• Star vs. the Forces of Evil:
  • In "Star Comes to Earth", Star defeats Ludo's minion Buff-Frog by stunning him with a "Jellybean Hallucination Mist", which causes him to see faces appear on the palms of his hands.
    Buff-Frog: I'm freaking out!
  • In "Goblin Dogs", when Star, Marco and Pony Head finally eat the titular food, they're initially underwhelmed, thinking they're just ordinary hot dogs. Then they all experience a trippy rainbow-colored vision and agree that goblin dogs are the best hot dogs in the universe after all.
• Similar to the Real Life example below, in Star Wars: Clone Wars, Anakin Skywalker gets a blast of steam in the face in a cave on Nelvaan. As a result, he starts seeing the cave paintings move. Considering how well the vision summarizes and foreshadows his own fall to the Dark Side, The Force probably assisted the lack of oxygen. This sequence parallels Luke's experience in the cave in The Empire Strikes Back, where he receives a similar vision/warning about his own susceptability to the Dark Side. Not counting his fall(s) in the Expanded Universe, Luke would seem to have paid more attention to this warning.
• Teen Titans (2003):
  • In "Crash", Beast Boy accidentally gives Cyborg a computer virus. Cyborg then rampages crazily through town and eats everything in sight, while having strange food-related hallucinations.
    Cyborg: [tearing apart an ATM] You can keep your sprinkles, I need raspberry filling!
    [he punches the machine, which causes a bunch of dollar bills to spill out into his mouth; he spits them out]
    Cyborg: No! Not macaroni!
    • At one point, the team approaches him cautiously, and he sees them as giant eggs!
      Starfire: You remember who we are, yes?
      Cyborg: You're the nasty egg people who stole all my waffles!
    • Heck, earlier in the episode, he tries to eat Robin, seeing him as giant ribs!
      Robin: Cyborg, there's clearly something wrong with you!
      Cyborg: You bet there's something wrong! We need gravy AND PLENTY OF IT!
  • "Haunted" features a rare serious example. Robin accidentally inhales an unnamed hallucinogen from an old mask of Slade's. Unlike most examples, however, this Mushroom Samba leads to what most fans consider the darkest episode of the series. Robin hallucinates that Slade (believed dead at the time) is everywhere and goes on a rampage trying to stop him, even going so far as physically hurting Starfire (his best friend and love interest) and threatening to "take down" his team if they try restraining him. The drug manifests every blow on his body as though he really is battling someone, and so before he realizes that bright light disperses the visions, he's nearly beaten to death... by himself. The Titans are convinced Robin has gone insane until Raven mind-links with him and Slade punches her. The scariest part? The hallucinogen didn't activate on its own. It was triggered by someone using a remote from outside the tower.
• In the "No Sleep Sleepover" episode of Unikitty!, the battle between the heroes and the Sand Man is animated in a style similar to the infamous Pink Elephants scene due to their lack of sleep.
• VeggieTales in the House: In "Bob and Larry: Gettin' Angry", Bob and Larry refuse to fall asleep... which results in them seeing some rather strange things, like Jimmy Gourd walking across the ceiling and tiny versions of themselves dancing on each other.
• The Venture Brothers: Hank accidentally pokes himself with a drug-tipped shoe spike of Molotov Cocktease's, and starts hallucinating, finally attacking his dad with a papier-mache sword.
• One of the Shen Gong Wu in Xiaolin Showdown is the Woozy Shooter, a horn that produced a purple smoke that causes intense hallucinations and irregular behavior in anyone who inhales it.

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