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In real life, concussions have a number of unpleasant symptoms. These include, but are not limited to headache, nausia, and dizziness. They also involve minor brain damage in addition to those. Fortunately for our protagonist, this is fiction. Here, one need only worry about getting a little high, or, at worst, experiencing a NonSequiturThud. And multiple head injuries will never make the problem worse, ever.

** In a ChipAndDale short "Working For Peanuts", DonaldDuck chases the two chipmunks until slamming his head into a wall after they escape through a hole. He then sits there with swirly eyes and a toothy grin on his face; later on in the short the elephant he was taking care of finds him [[OverlyLongGag still like this]].

* * ConcussionsGetYouHigh: In the ''YoungBlades'' episode "Rub-a-Dub Sub," a character gets an anchor dropped on his head. The episode tag features him in a dungeon, delirious and spouting random nonsense.

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* An episode of RenAndStimpy features Stimpy excusing himself because "It's time for my appointment". He walks over to a door in the wall, inserts a quarter, and the door lifts to reveal a horse. The horse kicks him in the head, sending him flying. His reaction to this is almost orgasmic.

* A Sega GameGear ad involves someone hitting his head with a squirrel to see colour: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBLr4wbiR6E

* A Sealab2021 episode had the crew trapped in a malfunctioning storage closet. Beard Guy comes in to fix the problem but Captain Murphy beats his head in. Upon breifly regaining consciousness, he displays this trope.

* A Sega Game Gear ad involves someone hitting his head with a squirrel to see colour: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBLr4wbiR6E

See also CirclingBirdies and SeeingStars

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In just about every LooneyToons episode ever, a smack on the head will cause the victim to hallucinate images of small birds.

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* A Sega Game Gear ad involves someone hitting his head with a squirrel to see colour: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBLr4wbiR6E

In real life, concussions have a number of unpleasant symptoms. These include, but are not limited to headache, nausia, and dizziness. They also involve minor brain damage in addition to those. Fortunately for our protagonist, this is fiction. Here, one need only worry about getting a little high, or, at worst, experiencing a NonsequiterThud. And multiple head injuries will never make the problem worse, ever.

In real life, concussions have a number of unpleasant symptoms. These include, but are not limited to headache, nausia, and dizziness. They also involve minor brain damage in addition to those. Fortunately for our protagonist, this is fiction. Here, one need only worry about getting a little high, or, at worst, being knocked out. And multiple head injuries will never make the problem worse, ever.

In fiction there are all sorts of symptoms of post concussive syndrome. In addition to the occasional accurate conditions such as a splitting headache and nausea, PCS can be manifested as IdentityAmnesia or culminate in a NonSequiturThud. Or sometimes it just makes you act like you're on drugs. Characters may stumble about in a giddy delirium, that could have an unaware viewer thinking the PCS suffering character is drunk, high or both. Its a wonder that self induced concussions haven't become the hot new drug craze of a Dateline NBC special.

This trope is especially common in comedic fiction particularly cartoons.

In fiction there are all sorts of symptoms of post concussive syndrome. In addition to the occasional accurate conditions such as a splitting headache and nausea, PCS can be manifested as IdentityAmnesia or culminate in a NonSequiturThud. Or sometimes it just makes you act like you're on drugs.

* In Tales of the Abyss, the main character, Luke, experiences regular headaches. It is originally thought that these started after he was kidnapped as a child. It turns out that [[spoiler:this was a side effect of fomicry, which created a replica of Luke from the original, who became Asch]].
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Click the edit button to start this new page. In fiction there are all sorts of symptoms of post concussive syndrome. In addition to the occasional accurate conditions such as a splitting headache and nausea, pcs can be manifested as IdentityAmnesia or culminate in a NonSequiterThud. Or sometimes it just makes you act like you're on drugs.

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In the Boy Meets World Episode "Easy Street" Erik gives himself a concussion trying to escape from a car that was buried in the snow. Upon recovering Erik is loopy, cheerful and generally appears pleasantly intoxicated.

On The Office, jerkass Dwight starts acting uncharacteristically nice after crashing his car. The others eventually realize that he has a concussion and take him to the hospital. During this bout of identity amnesia Dwight also shows absentmindedness and compulsive behavior not unlike fictional portrayals of being high on marijuana.

A Sega Game Gear ad involves someone hitting his head with a squirrel to see colour: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBLr4wbiR6E

Click the edit button to start this new page. In fiction there are all sorts of symptoms of post concussive syndrome. In addition to the occasional accurate conditions such as a splitting headache and nausea, pcs can be manifested as IdentityAmnesia or culminate in a NonsequiterThud. Or sometimes it just makes you act like you're on drugs.