Note: This thread was proposed by nw09.

Widget Series is supposed to be for series that come across as unusual due to cultural differences. The title does not indicate this; it comes from "Weird Japanese Thing" but most people won't recognize this, and the trope is not exclusive to Japanese works. Instead, it's misused for anything unusual. According to Widget Series Wick Check, only 6 out of 50 examples are accurate, and even those aren't always specific on how the audience reacts to it. Can use a rename.

• Marie And Gali: The episodes are about five minutes each, which is enough to leave you wondering what the heck you have just been watching.
• Osomatsu-san: Though Osomatsu-kun wasn't without its own surreal humor, this series takes it up a notch.
• PaRappa the Rapper: There was one episode where the characters mistakenly believe that this happened to PaRappa. It's that kind of show.
• Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt: Aided by their immortal dog-like thing Chuck (Takashi Nakamura) and guided by Father Garterbelt (Kouji Ishii), a black priest with a titanic afro and a variety of sexual fetishes, the sisters fight ghosts in sexy, exciting, and just plain old weird ways.
• Genre-Busting: 90% of the time, you will find Mind Screw within them, with the other 10% just weird.
• Genre Mashup: Teen Titans is a superhero action cartoon whose animation is often more inspired by Tex Avery or the weirder side of Anime than anything in U.S. Comic Books, yet often has very dark, dramatic storylines and, on a few occasions, will have an episode focus almost entirely on character interactions, with the obligatory supervillain battle relegated to a minor B-plot.
• Game-Breaking Bug: Remember that part about physics engines messing you up by sending important things flying where they're not supposed to go? Jazzpunk (guess it fits here) has possibly the ultimate version of this: It's possible to accidentally launch yourself high in the air and land outside the field of play. Jim Sterling managed to do this in the first mission area and wound up on the street between the park and the sidewalk, unable to get back to either because of the fences.
• Gainax Ending: Compare No Ending and Ambiguous Ending, which also contain an at least partial lack of resolution, Trippy Finale Syndrome, which has similar imagery but actually makes sense (it's explicitly a Dream Sequence, a Battle in the Center of the Mind, takes place in Another Dimension, etc), Esoteric Happy Ending, an ending that is considered happy despite all the evidence to the contrary, and Mind Screw (and associated tropes), or a Widget Series, where it's not simply the ending but the work overall that evades explanation.
• Widget Series (a type of show built around Japanese popculture jokes)
• Mona Lisa Smile: One episode of the weird Cho Aniki shooter series has a floating Mona Lisa that shoots Eye Beams. No, really◊.
• Level Ate: In "Operation: C.H.O.C.O.L.A.T.E.", it seems that the planet Mars is covered with giant marshmallows resembling huge rock formations. (Why? It's a weird cartoon.)
• Licensed Game: This case shows a straight different variety of games (usually loosely) based on popular video game franchises.
• An interesting variation comes in the form of the animation website Go Animate, ostensibly a tool designed to help businesses create promotional videos. However, the software became inordinately popular with... a different kind of demographic. For reasons only they understand, these people used the simplistic software to create *
• Periphery Demographic: all kinds of bizarre nonsense, which was almost always related to cartoon characters getting in trouble (the "X gets grounded" videos are the most well-known of the crop). This had the side effect of turning the website into the laughingstock of the animation community. Eventually the staff tried to save face: first by more-or-less deleting their forums, which had become a hotbed of stupidity, and then by removing the casual subscription plans, leaving only the prohibitively expensive subscription plans as a way of trying to get their original demographic back on track. Even its Periphery Demographic has a Periphery Demographic as there's a strange circle of the video makers of the "Grounded" videos who like the videos made of those who mock their videos and vice versa.
• Parody Sue: Nabeshin, the Author Avatar of director Shinichi Watanabe from Excel♡Saga, Puni Puni☆Poemi, and Nerima Daikon Brothers who even has his own ongoing B-Plot in the former. Not that these shows take themselves seriously anyway....
• Signature Style: If you play a game by Treasure it's either going to be really weird, really hard, or both at once. Their games thrive on strange Japanese humor, intense and over-the-top action, spectacular boss fights and brutally difficult arcade-style gameplay. Their games also often have a colorful and exaggerated anime art-style.
• Silly Simian: In another episode, Robin temporarily moves to Japan, where the co-host of her news show is a chimp.
• The Movie: Greeny Phatom's has a feature-length movie that is particularly bizarre (even by the show's usual standards). It was subsequently plagiarized and remade as Go Animate: The Movie.
• The Prankster: Haré+Guu: Guu is a Deadpan Snarker who spends most of her time pulling various pranks on Hale using her seemingly unlimited powers. With Hare + Guu being a rather screwy anime in the first place, the fact that one of the main characters is this is to be expected.
• BadassBookworm.Live Action TV: Tucker from Danger 5 leads a team that fights Nazis, Nazi dinosaurs, Nazi robots, and all manner of dangerous monstrosities. He relaxes in-between missions by reading a good book or stuffy magazines like Sensible Chuckles.
• [adult swim]: The block is notable for its idiosyncratic commercial bumpers (bumps), its strange and cynical yet hilarious original programming, its habit of openly teasing and/or bashing those fans who complain about its near-weekly- and never advertised- schedule changes (especially when April Fools' Day is concerned), and being nearly the only place on American basic cable TV to run anime not aimed at children.
• Laconic.Regular Show: A blue jay, a raccoon, and their coworkers have surreal adventures.
• Laconic.Tetsuo The Iron Man: Japanese Cyberpunk Eraserhead.
• Laconic.Space Sheriff Shaider: An armored space cop and his sidekick defend the Earth from an evil Space Cult. Weirdness ensues.
• WebVideo.Filthy Frank: The show is truly surreal, frequently indulging in Stylistic Suck and Random Events Plots.
• Donkey Kong Country: La planète de Donkey Kong (especially its final years under the DKTV title) is pretty weird by design: it's basically a post-modern sketch show featuring an handful of the Donkey Kong characters, who behave very differently from their portrayals in any other media, and features humour and subject matter raunchier than what you'd espect for something based on a Nintendo property. What pushes it in Widget territory is the frequent references to French pop culture and that most of the skits are built around untranslatable puns.
• Gofrette: Gofrette is a very silly French-Canadian show, based on the books by Doris Brasset and Fabienne Michot.
• YMMV.Afterlife 1996: Lead designer Michael Stemmle admitted that his idea only flew because Lucasarts was "a rather experimental studio at the time", leading him to go "whole hog goofy" and make the game filled to the brim with wacky descriptions and structures, all of them described in a Hurricane of Puns. No surprise that in spite of being a small project, it still didn't turn a profit. This is also describing behind-the-scenes trivia more than an audience reaction
• Anodyne: Oh boy. Not only do the visuals get pretty surreal, but characters like the Cubes will often babble cryptically, and the man before the first dungeon who talks about how he was afraid a maintenance crew installed a hidden camera in his mirror. Sometimes this is played for laughs. Other times it is not.
• YMMV.Bottle Fairy: The frequent Imagine Spots, cute characters, and slice-of-life story make it unusual. Those just sound like normal things
• YMMV.Catherine: It's a block puzzle game about infidelity. That's Widget even by Atlus standards.
• YMMV.Epic Meal Time: Averted. Although plenty strange, its over-the-topness is way more American in inspiration than Canadian.
• YMMV.Eien No Filena: A gladiator woman who is not very good at looking like a man and her concubine rebel against an evil empire!
• YMMV.Jellystone: This show is what happens when you combine the H-B library with Chowder, Regular Show, and Nichijou. Choice plots include Yogi voring everyone, Cindy turning the entire town into gelatin, El Kabong transforming into a guitar, evil animatronics at a pizza arcade, a destructive VR game, and a random Animesque battle sequence.

• Japandering: A trope that exists in the behavior of celebrities (actors/singers/etc.), and is also picked up readily by those in the industry and reflected in the works they make: A celebrity goes over to Japan, possibly somewhere else, and then does a fairly embarrassing job clearly made only for the cash and in the belief that, due to the language barrier and the lack of appeal of a Widget Series, nobody back home will see it.
• Chrome: A WAT (Weird American Thing) band: spacey, chopped-up Acid Punk that could only come from San Francisco's psychedelic underground.
• YMMV.Engine Sentai Go Onger: This series basically runs on "Japanese Humour", is chock-loaded with Rule of Funny in basically all of its episode, everything hilariously makes no sense and it's a lot Lighter and Softer than the previous seasons before it. What do you get? A comically nonsensical Super Sentai series which some may hardly make any sense overseas.
• YMMV.Kuukiyomi: There are a lot of Japanese cultural references, shout-outs and humor in the series, though some people may not understand them and don't know whether their in-game actions are correct. Fortunately, the developers manage to downplay this by adding a subtitle in some situations (such as adding "In Tokyo" and "In Osaka" for those who don't understand Japanese culture, etc.) and adding a Cultural Translation such as remodeling the ghost in the English version. And yes, this game has 2 sequels which made it overseas.
• YMMV.Katamari Damacy: One of the premier examples of Japanese weirdness out there. A game where you roll up everything you can in a giant ball is weird enough already, but the bizarre characters (especially the King of All Cosmos) and trippy imagery will probably make you go "WTF?!" at least once. Seems okay but isn't specific on audience reactions
• YMMV.Moemon: A series where every Pokémon is replaced by Cute Monster Girls? Totally Japanese.

• It's Not Supposed to Win Oscars: Used on occasion by the producers behind Teen Titans Go!, which is heavily disliked by some adults, especially fans of the 2003 Teen Titans series. The creators have noted multiple times that the juvenile, Widget Series nature of the cartoon is the entire point, and that it isn't supposed to be the story arc-heavy action/drama that its predecessor was. Some episodes use the "kids show" defense when poking fun both at itself and at its massive Hatedom. Though, in an ironic example of this trope, this show actually managed to get two Primetime Emmy nominations.
  Robin (to Control Freak): "Ooh, I'm so sorry that you didn't get any precious golden statues or industry accolades, BUT WE DON'T CARE!"
• Multiple Demographic Appeal: The Persona series, particularly after breakout hit Persona 3, has transcended its status as a Widget Series to become a hit with players of different genders, ages, demographics and nationalities and a critical and commercial success both in Japan and abroad. Here's how it works: the strategic battle system, stat management and extensive customization features appeal to the usual Atlus audience of hardcore RPG enthusiasts, the art style and setting appeal to anime fans, and the social sim element appeal to female players (so much so that the PSP Enhanced Port of Persona 3 introduced a new female main character and respective campaign).
• Mundane Fantastic: Anime uses this very frequently, which probably contributes to the perception of "inherent strangeness" for that visual medium. Doesn't describe cultural differences specifically
• Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: This is also an issue for niche games (e.g. a Widget Series). For example, some argue that several Fire Emblem games outside of Japan could have sold better had they got the promotion and advertising that Fire Emblem: Awakening received. In other words, a niche game remains a niche game (and is doomed to obscurity) because publishers treated it like a niche game, not trusting their advertising dollars to make it sell any better.
• Self-Parody: Parodius, to Gradius. As the Laconic entry for Parodius states, it's "Gradius on acid", featuring an aesthetic that would not be out of place in a kid-oriented Widget Series. Many moments spoof specific elements of the Gradius series, such as bellydancers mimicking Gradius crab walker bosses and a bald eagle in American patriotic garb replicating the Stage 1 boss of Gradius II.
• Shakespeare in Fiction: My Name Is Will by Jess Winfeld (of the Reduced Shakespeare Company), in which a young Shakespeare is a character— and so is Willie Shakespeare Greenburg, a 21st century grad student and shrooms mule trying to prove Shakespeare was a secret Catholic. It... must be read to be believed; it's rather a Weird Shakespeare Nerd Thing. Not sure if "Shakespeare Nerd" counts as a culture
• Living Statue: Zunzunkyou No Yabou (a widget game) have you playing as a sentient Jizo statue on a mission from god to spread the word of Buddha... by firing projectiles at skeletons, disco dans, Chinese chefs, punk rockers, and assorted oddities. It's as ridiculous a game as it sounds. Not unlikely to apply, but the example doesn't specifically indicate it
• Sleeper Hit: Of the Day One original productions of Disney+, the lighthearted Edutainment Widget Series The World According to Jeff Goldblum was the most-hyped of the unscripted/nonfiction productions because of the presence of the eccentric actor, who became the "face" of the National Geographic brand on the service and did plenty of morning/talk show appearances to promote it. Still, it saw far less advertising (especially offline) than Killer App The Mandalorian and the service's extensive back catalog of Disney, Pixar, Marvel, and Star Wars movies and shows, all of which had more obvious appeal to kids/families. While reviews were mostly favorable, even positive notices warned that it wouldn't appeal to viewers who weren't Goldblum fans... but by the time the first season ended it quietly became the service's third original production to be renewed for a second season (after The Mandalorian and High School Musical: The Musical: The Series).
• Musical Episode: Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo's 48th episode had them defeat a foe by singing him into submission. Even by Bo-BoBo's standards, it's amazingly crazy.
• All Guardsmen Party: Most of the group has this opinion of the not-Anime the Tau make about them. The first storyline was a politically-sanitized version of their real adventures with the Tau, but according to a brief recap by the members who actually enjoy it and watch it regularly it brought in Dark Eldar witches and Gender Bender plots pretty quickly.

• Pani Poni Dash! Just the trope name
• YMMV.Edna And Harvey The Breakout: This is a Weird German Thing, after all.
• YMMV.Lazy Town: Between this and Björk, many in the US are convinced that Iceland is an absolute cradle of lunacy.
• YMMV.Moi Renart: It is a weird French thing.
• YMMV.Monty Pythons Flying Circus: The series established the U.K.'s reputation as a purveyor of weird comedy.

As the description for What Do You Mean, It Wasn't Made on Drugs? says, the very concept of this trope is actually kind of insulting to creatives. It implies that anything that's not slavishly realistic can only be the product of a drug-addled mind, undervalues people's innate creativity, and subtly insults the authors for having thought up something that this critic thinks only a druggie could create or appreciate. Almost every example of this trope is subtly bashing authors for their creative choices, and are frequently ZCEs just saying "this is trippy". The trope sounds somewhat innocuous, but it's really just used for Complaining About Trippy Imagery You Don't Like.

Furthermore, this trope is frequently misused for when creators have admitted to actually having been on drugs during the creative process. That's not this trope. It's never been made clear if it should count if the creatives had made no statement whether drugs were involved or not, but it has been said that if the creators have said drugs were involved then WDYMIWMOD doesn't apply, much as when the authors have said a work has a political message, then What Do You Mean, It's Not Political? isn't applicable. It's been suggested that authors admitting psychoactive drugs made an impact on a work could be a Trivia trope.

I feel like the primary pushback against deleting this will be "it's a legitimate reaction to a work", and I'm going to argue that it's not a wholesome one. We've pulled

Also, I don't think anyone would mind if another "What Do You Mean, It's... trope gets thrown into the trash.

1. ShoutOut.The Humongous Mecha RP
   1. Multiple references to Neon Genesis Evangelion are made all around the place. Included, but not limited to:
      1. Hans watching the End of Evangelion along with Emil, Dan, Summer and Faith.
   Emil: "Was the director intoxicated when he made this?"
   Dan: "No, he was very depressed and hated the concept of Otakus I think. I hear he's a lot healthier and saner these days. (...)" People discussing the trope.
2. YMMV.Rockos Modern Life
   1. What Do You Mean, It Wasn't Made on Drugs?: Addressed by series creator Joe Murray: "What most people fail to appreciate is that if I was on drugs I never would've gotten anything done."
3. YMMV.Deagle Nation
   1. What Do You Mean, It Wasn't Made on Drugs?: Unlike most examples, Deagle Nation is not a Mind Screw in the traditional sense of the term. However, Most of the performers seem to be on at least one substance at any given time. According to Jan Rankowski, though, he was never high when performing as Jace and he doesn't even use drugs in real life.
4. YMMV.Off The Air
   1. What Do You Mean, It Wasn't Made on Drugs?: The series' main producer, David Hughes, has actually expressed some frustration with this notion, arguing that the show does not need such things to be interesting. This has not diminished its popularity among those who actually are stoned, though.

1. YMMV.Maka Maka
   1. What Do You Mean, It Wasn't Made on Drugs?: Bosses and enemies include giant human heads and walking noses, there's an alien princess who eats people and attacks by farting, and the entire game in general is very, very weird.
      1. To drive the point home—Part of the Big Bad's evil plot? To turn the world's populace into giant water fleas! Which he is able to do to the protagonist's parents at the very beginning of the game for some reason, which starts the game off. Fine, I guess.
2. YMMV.Three Big Men
   1. What Do You Mean, It Wasn't Made on Drugs?: Many scenes, and Spidey's new personality count, but arguably the most qualified would have to be Spider-Man and Nadia's sex scene, freaky puppets and all.
3. Aliens Steal Cattle
   1. MOO!, a disturbing video by Cyriak, features cows being abducted for mutilation and converting their body parts into musical instruments. The aliens even clone them in test tubes until one turns into an incredibly freaky mutant which spawns more... Mutant cows which fight back with the aliens and team up with them later when another group of aliens invade Earth. Yeah... It has to be seen to be believed.
4. YMMV.Katamari Damacy
   1. What Do You Mean, It Wasn't Made on Drugs?: "Katamari Damacy: not LSD, but an incredible simulation!" Lampshaded by VG Cats
5. Idiosyncratic Wipes
   1. The short "Pikachu's Vacation" has pretty lengthy and trippy transitions, showing various Pokémon performing some actions. The first time, it's easy to think that it's part of the actual short, and not a transition.
6. YMMV.Hollow Knight
   1. What Do You Mean, It Wasn't Made on Drugs?
      1. Analysis of the lore will make one realize that the backstory and plot of Hollow Knight can be just as dark and depressing, underneath all those simple and cute insect character designs, with some fans even claiming that there are a lot of symbolisms and aesops that are harsh when taken literally. The YouTuber named "mossbag" even said something along the lines of "Whatever Team Cherry is having there in Australia, they're having the good stuff!".
      2. Monomon the Teacher's Archives are filled with lore tablets that are seemingly composed of random or made-up English words, some even archaic, that they do not appear to make any sense when taken at face value, and requires a lot of research or word-by-word analysis just to understand what Monomon is trying to write. Other fans claim that this is just one of Team Cherry's attempts at encouraging a community ARG in decyphering the text. Seriously, Not making this up!
      -THIR-YOLK-ABA-ABSENCE-OUTER-SHELL-O-GATE-CONTAIN LIGHT-EM-VESSEL-EM-EGG-EM-SEAL-THIR-WITHDRAW EXTERIOR-O-SEAL-WITHIN-DREAMER-INTWIXT-ATWIXT

1. YMMV.The Three Caballeros:
   1. What Do You Mean, It Wasn't Made on Drugs?: The Three Caballeros is so flashy, so thrown-together, so explosively colorful and so fast-paced that it makes Fantasia look like Steamboat Willie in comparison. The "Thrown-together" part makes me think the troper was taking a jab at the film's quality, which was affected by WWII and how many people who had worked on previous Disney films were either fighting overseas or working on more pressing homefront issues during the making of this movie.
2. YMMV.My Little Pony Equestria Girls Holidays Unwrapped
   1. What Do You Mean, It Wasn't Made on Drugs?: The third short focusing on the Apple family and the Flim Flam Brothers is just plain bizarre in its logic, like the idea the Apples don't notice that the "party guests" standing a few feet behind them are just wooden cut-outs, or Twilight somehow thinking that tunnelling through the Apples' yard and through the foundation of their barn is necessary for her over-complicated plan.
3. YMMV.Tigtone
   1. What Do You Mean, It Wasn't Made on Drugs?: The elf sitting in the man-faced tree with bat wings is one of the most rational things about this series.
4. YMMV.Super Milk Chan
   1. What Do You Mean, It Wasn't Made on Drugs?: There's a scene in the Anime that falls straight in to Deranged Animation that ends with (in the Gag Dub) Hanage declaring the only explanation for the scene is "These drugs are fuckin' AWESOME".
5. YMMV.Love Live Sunshine
   1. What Do You Mean, It Wasn't Made on Drugs?: The MV for Ruby's second solo, "Cotton Candy Ei Ei Oh!", quite possibly the single weirdest piece of media ever released in the franchise. If you thought "Love Live" and "Deranged Animation" didn't belong in the same sentence, oh boy...
6. Cross-Cast Role:
   1. Rogan from Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky is played by actress Yukari Oshima, presumably because no actual man was pretty enough. This is probably the least insane thing in the whole movie. Potshot pothole.
7. Anime.Puni Puni Poemy:
   1. "One thinks that the Earth's standards for its representative could use some reviewing." I'm familiar with this show enough to know it's a Widget Series, but the description preceeding this didn't really make it seem much weirder than any other Magical Girl show.
8. Haiku.The Marvelous Misadventures Of Flapjack
   1. Thurop Van Orman, What drugs have you been taking? This show is insane!
9. Funny.Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure Battle Tendency
   1. What terrifying weapon does Joseph use against Wamuu the vampiric Physical God? Why, the toy known as Clackers. As the cherry on top, it is thought of as completely silly and hilarious in-universe which is really saying something.
10. Funny.The Nostalgia Critic 2011 Episodes
    1. The entire portion on the Slim Suit: "Specialists also recommend these magic beans, mixed with a placebo, and brought to you by the Tooth Fairy... When you're in Oz."
11. YMMV.Tonic Trouble
    1. What Do You Mean, It Wasn't Made on Drugs?: Seriously, did you even read that story summary? Or the rest of the page? There's even a character called Magic Mushroom.
12. Clueless Aesop
    1. Pee-Wee Herman gives a serious (yet somehow hilarious) message about not doing crack. Of all the people to do an anti-drug message, it's children's TV's king of "What Do You Mean, It Wasn't Made on Drugs?" Any message would probably be garbled by the question of whether he's doing a bit or not.
    2. There was another odd set of anti-drug ads where a girl high on weed is shown (through icky special effects) to have melted into the couch. Doug Benson has a terrific deconstruction of how clueless this ad was in Super High Me: if your reaction to an anti-drug PSA is "Whatever they were smoking, I want some", it has failed.

1. YMMV.Carols Really Gay Story
   1. What Do You Mean, It Wasn't Made on Drugs?: Quite possibly one of the weirdest pieces of fanfiction ever.
2. YMMV.Monster Party
   1. What Do You Mean, It Wasn't Made on Drugs?: There is no proof that it wasn't.
3. YMMV.Den Noh Coil
   1. What Do You Mean, It Wasn't Made on Drugs?: How else would you explain the beard episode?
4. YMMV.Panzer Front
   1. What Do You Mean, It Wasn't Made on Drugs?: The story mode.
5. WMG.One Direction
   1. Because the video... What Do You Mean, It Wasn't Made on Drugs?
6. YMMV.Rick And Morty
   1. What Do You Mean, It Wasn't Made on Drugs?: Although the show as a whole does have enough ground in reality to be relatable, the alternate dimensions that are explored are almost always filled with things straight from the deepest depths of this trope.
7. YMMV.Ninja Scroll The Series
   1. What Do You Mean, It Wasn't Made on Drugs?: The series's ninja cast seems frankly to be the result of, at least, some wild brainstorming sessions.
8. YMMV.Ruby Spears
   1. What Do You Mean, It Wasn't Made on Drugs?: Some of their more...outlandish...concepts. In particular, Rubik, the Amazing Cube; Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa, and Turbo Teen make one question the sanity of the studio staff.
9. YMMV.Lasagna Cat
   1. What Do You Mean, It Wasn't Made on Drugs?: The scenes after the comic re-creations are weird, to say the least. And that's not to mention the ending of Sex Survey Results.
10. WebVideo.Best Of The Worst
    1. What Do You Mean, It Wasn't Made on Drugs?:invoked Mike theorizes that Santa Claus was the result of a fateful bender which ended with everyone awakening on a beach in wizard costumes, surrounded by unconscious children and empty bottles, and with a film reel mysteriously sitting nearby.
11. Characters.Hells Kitchen Seasons 4 To 5
    1. What Do You Mean, It Wasn't Made on Drugs?: The exotic tartare. Ramsay even asked if Matt smoked - and he wasn't talking about cigarettes.
12. Funny.Jon Tron Season One
    1. The face Jon makes when actual gameplay is shown for the first time.
13. YMMV.Digimon
    1. What Do You Mean, It Wasn't Made on Drugs?: Not the plots of the franchise, but some of the Digimon designs are just surreal, along with the paths of their evolved forms.
14. Literature.Eighth Doctor Adventures
    1. These books, commonly referred to as the EDAs, were notable for fleshing out the character of the Eighth Doctor after his short run in the television movie, for having a very compelling cast of characters, for having several interconnected Story Arcs, and for having been seemingly written on drugs.
15. YMMV.The Peanut Butter Solution
    1. What Do You Mean, It Wasn't Made on Drugs?: Again, it's just...so weird....
16. YMMV.Super Mario Maker
    1. What Do You Mean, It Wasn't Made on Drugs?: Aside from the various ways creators can arrange pieces and SFX, there's also some of the Mystery Mushroom costumes (like a talking Mahjong tile).
17. VideoGame.Dancing Monster
    1. Yeah, it's that kind of game.
18. YMMV.I Carly
    1. What Do You Mean, It Wasn't Made on Drugs?: Seriously, look at some of their skits... More true of the skits on iCarly.com.
19. YMMV.ISP Presents A Midsummer Nights Dream
    1. What Do You Mean, It Wasn't Made on Drugs?: Whether it was Shakespeare, the director, or half the cast… but someone was high while making this.

1. Literature.Dangerous Visions
   1. Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: "Novocain; morphine; curare; vlut, a rare Central Asian poison which induced temporary blindness; olfactorcain, a top-secret smell-deadener used by skunk farmers; tympanoline, a drug which temporarily deadened the auditory nerves (used primarily by filibustering senators); a large dose of Benzedrinel lysergic acid; psilocybin; mescaline; peyote extract; seven other highly experimental and most illegal hallucinogens; Eye of Newt and toe of dog." Misuse as clearly drugs are involved in this concoction; it's also on a Main page about events that actually happen in the book. Perhaps it could also be an insulting potshot?
2. Surprise Creepy
   1. Dumbo is a somewhat depressing story of a young elephant who is mocked for the size of his ears, but it's still presented in a cute and lighthearted fashion. Then Dumbo gets drunk and starts to hallucinate, resulting in twisted, bizarre visions of ghost-like apparitions straight from Hell. Potshot pothole.
3. DarkerAndEdgier.Anime And Manga:
   1. Yu-Gi-Oh! GX achieved this via Cerebus Syndrome. It started pretty silly, with dueling monkeys and whatnot, with elements of a darker plot going in the background. After that, it went from the brainwashing cult of Season 2 to the way darker tone of Season 3. It started out with new main characters as usual and a seemingly tame (at least compared to Season 2) villain until he gets defeated relatively quickly and then the series gets much darker including the characters dying when they lose a duel, at least that's what they are told, the main character getting tricked into releasing his Superpowered Evil Side and killing some of his remaining friends, and the The Man Behindthe Man / Stalker with a Crush / Hidden Agenda Villain possessing people and making everyone suffer even more because they're a Yandere of epic proportions. The fourth season, which many think was made on drugs, features an Assimilation Plot orchestrated by the embodiment of darkness and despair. Simply states that some people think it must have been made on drugs. Not knowing Yu Gi Oh, this sentence doesn't give me the impression that the plotline (an Assimilation Plot orchestrated by the embodiments of darkness and despair) are trippy by Yu Gi Oh standards.
4. AtopTheFourthWall.Tropes Q To Z
   1. What Do You Mean, It Wasn't Made on Drugs?:invoked Pretty much Linkara's entire reaction to Snowflame and the New Guardians... and he thinks Snowflame is either the worst or the greatest thing ever because of it.
      1. Some of the other stuff he looks at would likely leave the viewer thinking this. Exhibit A:The Giant Flea Market-Eating Flea, a literal Giant Space Flea from Nowhere from a Hostess Pie ad.
      2. 2001 A Space Odyssey #2 when Vera is taken away by the monolith:
   Linkara: HOLY CRAP, I'M TRIPPING BALLS!
5. Website.Addventure
   1. The original intention was to see what kind of a story would come out of this. We'll spoil it for you: the results are utter madness.
6. WMG.Lady Gaga
   1. Off her Anti-depressants and on LSD? Why do we keep letting her hang out with that Shinji Kid I tell you nothing good can come of that.
7. Characters.The Spoony Experiment
   1. A parody of Professional Wrestler the Ultimate Warrior, played by Spoony, who shows up in Linkara and Spoony's joint reviews of his bizarre and horrible tie-in comic, and occasionally in Spoony's other reviews. Somehow gained a Red Lantern ring, and is now working for the evil interdimensional god, the Guardian.

1. Literature.Naked Lunch
   1. What Do You Mean, It Wasn't Made on Drugs?: invoked Well, actually, it was. Burroughs claimed, in the original foreword, that he wrote the first draft in a drug-cocktail haze and had no recollection of actually writing it — although he later admitted that he was exaggerating.
2. Prison Rape
   1. In a VG Cats strip we have the creators of Katamari Damacy going on trial because it is assumed that they were partaking in the use of illegal substances while making the game. Leo, the judge, is playing his game in excitement before realizing that the term 'roll a Katamari' can sound a lot like a slang term for doing drugs