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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'': After getting punched by Nessus the centaur, Hercules has a dazed smile on his face as he is sent flying and rammed headfirst into a rock jutting out of the water.


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* ''WesternAnimation/HerculesTheAnimatedSeries'': There are several instances where teenaged Hercules develops a dazed smile.
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* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': At the end of "Hobby Show", Miss Brooks breaks into an involuntary smile from the stress of trying to play with model trains, fix broken toys, fingerpaint, play chess and knit ''all at the same time''. A SoundToScreen remake of "The Work Horse".

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* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': At the end of "Hobby Show", Miss Brooks breaks into an involuntary smile from the stress of trying to play with model trains, fix broken toys, fingerpaint, play chess and knit ''all at the same time''. A SoundToScreen remake SoundToScreenAdaptation of "The Work Horse".
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* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': At the end of "Hobby Show", Miss Brooks breaks into an involuntary smile from the stress of trying to play with model trains, fix broken toys, fingerpaint, play chess and knit ''all at the same time''. A SoundToScreen remake of "The Work Horse".
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* In the ''Series/IDreamOfJeannie'' episode "Who Are You Calling a Jeannie", Jeannie has one of these after getting hit in the head by a door, which causes her to [[EasyAmnesia lose her memory]].
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' episode "Mother May-Eye" the Titans sport large mindless smiles while under the effects of the titular villain's mind-controlling pie.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'' episode "Mother May-Eye" May-Eye", the Titans sport large mindless smiles while under the effects of the titular villain's mind-controlling pie.
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And yet, there are moments in life where you smile after being subjected to something that incapacitates you. You might smile involuntary because what incapacitates you could end up affecting your mental welfare.

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And yet, there are moments in life where you smile after being subjected to something that incapacitates you. You might smile involuntary involuntarily because what incapacitates you could end up affecting your mental welfare.
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* ''WesternAnimation/AlphaAndOmega'': Kate and Humphrey each do this when they are tranquilized by hunters.

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* ''WesternAnimation/AlphaAndOmega'': Kate and Humphrey each do this when they are tranquilized [[TranquillizerDart tranquilized]] by hunters.



** Later, when the other animals get hit with tranquilizer darts, they have big smiles on their faces and [[NonSequiturThud start rambling until they pass out.]]

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** Later, when the other animals get hit with tranquilizer darts, {{tranquilizer dart}}s, they have big smiles on their faces and [[NonSequiturThud start rambling until they pass out.]]



* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' has a ChristmasEpisode where at the end, Lois is tranquilized after she goes on a rampage through town and she ends up smiling after falling asleep as she slides off the Christmas tree she climbed on to destroy a star, [[CrossingTheLineTwice and this was after she was brought back to her senses after seeing Stewie play baby Jesus in a Christmas pageant.]]

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* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' has a ChristmasEpisode where at the end, Lois is tranquilized [[TranquilizerDart tranquilized]] after she goes on a rampage through town and she ends up smiling after falling asleep as she slides off the Christmas tree she climbed on to destroy a star, [[CrossingTheLineTwice and this was after she was brought back to her senses after seeing Stewie play baby Jesus in a Christmas pageant.]]



* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad Marge", when Marge gets a tranquilizer dart to the neck, she gets a dopey smile before passing out.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad Marge", when Marge gets a tranquilizer dart TranquilizerDart to the neck, she gets a dopey smile before passing out.
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Related to ConcussionsGetYouHigh. Compare OhCrapSmile. Contrast GoOutWithASmile, where a character smiles out of contentment as he or she dies or is killed. See also CirclingBirdies when cartoon symbols fly around the head of an injured or drugged character. This may also be doubled with a NonSequiturThud. Can result from AlcoholInducedIdiocy, IntoxicationEnsues, and being DrunkOnMilk.

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Related to ConcussionsGetYouHigh. Compare OhCrapSmile. Contrast GoOutWithASmile, where a character smiles out of contentment as he or she dies or is killed. See also CirclingBirdies when cartoon symbols fly around the head of an injured or drugged character. This may also be doubled with a NonSequiturThud. Can result from AlcoholInducedIdiocy, IntoxicationEnsues, and being DrunkOnMilk.
DrunkOnMilk. SuperTrope to LaughingGas.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'', Dexter's mom ends up with a blissful smile on her face when she is placed in a [[PeopleJars People Jar]] after she is kidnapped by BigBad Mandark.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'', Dexter's mom ends up with a blissful smile on her face when she is placed in a [[PeopleJars People Jar]] after she is kidnapped by BigBad Mandark.
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* ''WesternAnimation/AlphaAndOmega'': Kate and Humphrey each do this when they are tranquilized by hunters.
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There are many things that make you smile; flowers, sunshine.

And yet, there are moments in life where you smile after being subjected to something that incapacitates you. You might smile involuntary because what incapacitates you could end up affecting your mental welfare.

Examples of these dire situations include being brainwashed, getting on some kind of drug high (or in a show for all audiences, some kind of high that isn't a drug), being knocked unconscious, etc.

There is some TruthInTelevision here; people who are drugged do this lazy sort of smile because they are in a relaxed state and therefore can't control their muscles as well as when they were fully conscious.

Related to ConcussionsGetYouHigh. Compare OhCrapSmile. Contrast GoOutWithASmile, where a character smiles out of contentment as he or she dies or is killed. See also CirclingBirdies when cartoon symbols fly around the head of an injured or drugged character. This may also be doubled with a NonSequiturThud. Can result from AlcoholInducedIdiocy, IntoxicationEnsues, and being DrunkOnMilk.

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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'': In one comic, Archie slips on some ice and falls down, [[InjuredLimbEpisode injuring his ankle in the process]]. He looks up with a dazed smile and Veronica lampshades the trope by saying, "Stop smiling and answer me!"
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* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'': In one arc, Garfield tries to grab a pie by jumping from a chair to a table, but he just falls to the floor, leading to his EasyAmnesia. He looks up with a dizzy smile on his face.
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* ''Fanfic/JuniorOfficers'': In "Happy Birthday, Shellington", Shellington is noted to have become "giggly" during his fit of AlcoholInducedIdiocy.
* The MLP: FIM fanfic ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/193141/bad-therapy Bad Therapy]]'' has some of the victims of the VillainProtagonist, Dr. Sprial Swirl, smile involuntarily when she hypnotizes them.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'':
** [=LeFou=] gets a dazed smile three times-- first when Gaston bonks him on the head, second when he gets smacked in the face by a tree branch that Gaston had been holding back, and third when Gaston drops a table on him.
** Stanley gets a dazed smile when two [[AnimateInanimateObject drawers]] hit him in the head.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}}'': When Dumbo unknowingly drinks from a barrel full of water laced with liquor, he [[AlcoholHic lets out a hiccup]] and starts to lie down as a smile appears on his face. Shortly afterwards, Timothy has some of the beer and comes out of the barrel, equally wasted, and he's smiling contentedly.
* PlayedForLaughs in ''WesternAnimation/HomeOnTheRange'', where all the cows who are susceptible to [[BigBad Slim's]] [[MindControlMusic hypnotic singing]] give a goofy grin when they fall under his control.
* ''WesternAnimation/Incredibles2'': When Elastigirl confronts Evelyn on a jet plane, Evelyn steers the plane up high enough for Elastigirl to become affected with hypoxia. The delirious Elastigirl grins and starts to spout some [[NonSequiturThud non sequiturs]].
* Many if not all of Kaa's victims develop a dopey smile in ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook'' franchise when he mesmerizes them.
* ''WesternAnimation/Madagascar3EuropesMostWanted'':
** Julien gets [[ShotInTheAss a tranquilizer dart to the ass]] and starts speaking in slow motion with a grin on his face.
** Later, when the other animals get hit with tranquilizer darts, they have big smiles on their faces and [[NonSequiturThud start rambling until they pass out.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}'': Hal gets a big, goofy grin after Minion whacks him with [[LaserGuidedAmnesia the Forget-Me Stick]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'', one frog-hunter accidentally clubs his fellow frog-hunter on the head while aiming at BewitchedAmphibians Tiana and Prince Naveen. The clubbed frog-hunter has a dazed and goofy grin on his face as he collapses from the clubbing.
* In ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan'', Captain Hook gets one when Smee hits him with a hammer. Smee even mistakes the smile for one of genuine happiness.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'': When Flynn enters Rapunzel's tower, she knocks him out with her FryingPanOfDoom, and he briefly gets a dizzy grin on his face before he collapses to the ground.
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* ''Film/AlexanderAndTheTerribleHorribleNoGoodVeryBadDay'': Emily gets a bad cold on the day of a Peter Pan play, so she dopes herself up on cough syrup and [[IntoxicationEnsues ends up completely hammered]]. By the time she gets to the theater, she's babbling and chuckling. When it's her time to come onto the stage, she comes out and crashes into stage props, grinning and rambling the whole time.
* ''Film/DocSavageTheManOfBronze''. Ham has a cane which can extend a short blade coated with an anesthetic drug. During the fight aboard the yacht with Captain Seas' thugs, Ham stabs two of them with the cane's blade. In each case, the thug smiles and falls unconscious.
* ''Film/{{Hook}}'': crossed with a BrickJoke; after seeing Jack hit a home run at the pirates' baseball game (and sending the ball into the stratosphere), Peter goes back to the Lost Boys' island in despair... and the ball falls out of the sky and conks him in the head. Peter laughs and falls on his face.
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* ''VideoGame/TheyBreathe'': When frogs are captured by jellyfish and incorporated into their bodies, the frogs' facial expression gradually changes from terrified to happy, indicating how quickly the jellyfish take over their minds.
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* ''WebVideo/CalebCity'': In the video "When Your Soul Gets Punched out of Your Body", a character taunts someone offscreen, which results in him getting punched so hard that his body crumples to the ground with a serene smile upon his face.
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* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'': In the [[AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle Sonic Sez segment]] in "Hero of the Year", Scratch briefly gets a dazed smile after he has shares a bottle of beer with Grinder, and [[CantHoldHisLiquor they both end up collapsing]].
* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' has an episode where Roger the Alien fills his mouth with frosting and ties an airless balloon around his arm before suddenly gurgling with a smile on his face and falling unconscious.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Bluey}}'': In "Sleepover", Muffin is [[ExhaustionInducedIdiocy out-of-it due to skipping her nap]] (which is [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything portrayed similarly to being drunk]]) and keeps grinning deliriously.
* In ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'', Dexter's mom ends up with a blissful smile on her face when she is placed in a [[PeopleJars People Jar]] after she is kidnapped by BigBad Mandark.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' had an episode where the cruel babysitter Vicky is rendered unconscious after [[AnAlienNamedBob Mark Chang, an alien]] who has a crush on her, sprays her with KnockoutGas and she smiles before going into a coma.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' has a ChristmasEpisode where at the end, Lois is tranquilized after she goes on a rampage through town and she ends up smiling after falling asleep as she slides off the Christmas tree she climbed on to destroy a star, [[CrossingTheLineTwice and this was after she was brought back to her senses after seeing Stewie play baby Jesus in a Christmas pageant.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/GetAHorse'': When Mickey controls the screen to [[AmusingInjuries comically injure Pete]], Pete lets out a few [[NonSequiturThud random statements]] with a large smile before collapsing.
* In a ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' episode that centered on the Y2K incident, Hank gets high on varnish fumes while fixing up an old grandfather clock and gives a goofy grin to boot.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': In "Applebuck Season", Applejack, in a fit of ExhaustionInducedIdiocy, grins widely while she's staring at her reflection in a trophy.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheOctonauts'': In "The Cone Snail", after the titular cone snail harpoons Kwazii in the hand with a toxic stinger, Kwazii starts smiling and chuckling.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls2016'': In "The Stayover", during a flashback, Buttercup (who is [[DrunkOnMilk drunk on sugar]]) defeats a bull and the audience throws roses at her. She grins, comments that it's raining roses, and falls backwards.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'' episode "Bedlam in the Bigtop", the MonsterOfTheWeek hypnotizes [[DamselInDistress Daphne Blake]], who ends up closing her eyes and giving a blissful smile when the villain starts programming her.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad Marge", when Marge gets a tranquilizer dart to the neck, she gets a dopey smile before passing out.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': In "Frankendoodle", Patrick gives [=DoodleBob=] a rock as a "present". [=DoodleBob=] smashes Patrick's head with it, and Patrick grins, looking dizzy.
--->'''Patrick''': You're welcome.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' episode "Mother May-Eye" the Titans sport large mindless smiles while under the effects of the titular villain's mind-controlling pie.
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