Does Not Illustrate: Does This Remind You Of Anything

Current image on Does This Remind You of Anything? was voted on just a couple of months ago but I just noticed that it depicts G-Rated Drug, a named subtrope, and it's not advisable to use images of subtropes on the supertrope page for the risk of misdirection.

It's one of those supertrope pages that is hard to find an image for which is not already covered by a subtrope (same as Glamour Failure). I am cool with BUPKIS if nothing else comes along.

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edited 23rd Apr '18 4:16:11 AM by Willbyr

I'm confused. I thought G-Rated Drug was about real drugs (legal or not) but having effects staged up or down for famlly friendly programming and I Can't Believe It's Not Heroin! for when something that isn't a drug is being treated as if it were one.

This signature says something else when you aren't looking at it.

I think you are right. Got confused, mostly because the examples on G-Rated Drug don't seem to belong there. The trope description tries to cover two things at once: Unnamed drugs and soft drugs with vastly exaggerated effects. I believe the term "soft drug" has to be defined. Dough certainly doesn't count but does sugar and chocolate? Coffee and Marijuana already have their own tropes. May be a case for TRS.

edited 23rd Apr '18 2:11:48 AM by eroock

I asked this in the previous thread, and got this response: "That trope is about "unnamed drugs in a ominous-looking context" whereas 8 is something we can clearly see is not a drug to humans but is to this character, like catnip to cats."

I totally missed that discussion on the thread. Lois' drugs from the Cookie monster clip seem to fit that definition of G-Rated Drug quit well. IMO, the trope description has not evolved well and tries to cover ground which has been comprehensively covered by other tropes in the meantime.

Back on topic: Current on Does This Remind You of Anything? seems to be depicting I Can't Believe It's Not Heroin! closest which already has an image. Should we vote on the better image for Does This Remind You of Anything??

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