History Main / KnowYourVines

* In an early issue of the Archie comics SonicTheHedgehog comic, Sonic was picking flowers to bring to Sally, only for a random background character to wander by and inform him that he's making his girlfriend a bouquet out of poison sumac. Then he starts scratching madly, which makes him swell up until he can't move. This, unfortunately, coincides with Robotnik making Pseudo Sonic, a robotic duplicate meant to infiltrate Knothole and discredit Sonic.

* TheAdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog used the same basic Pseudo-Sonic plot as the above-mentioned Archie Comics incidence (not sure which came first), although since in this incarnation Sonic has no girlfriend for whom he might be inclined to pick flowers, he just randomly blunders into an entire valley full of "Poison Flowers" while saving a character from a completely different threat.
* In the second season of AvatarTheLastAirbender, Iroh has a run-in with some of these.

* On ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', the mane six walk through a patch of bright blue flowers to stop Applebloom following Zecora. The next morning they wake with embarrassing changes, such as Pinkie's swollen tongue, that they blame Zecora for. Eventually it is revealed that the flowers were 'Poison Joke' and the effects were pranks. Played by the plant

* On ''{{Animaniacs}}'', in "Sound of the Warners", after using the bathroom in a bush, Dr. Scratchansniff gets an awful itch, because he was in a poison oak bush.

* On ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', the mane six walk through a patch of bright blue flowers to stop Applebloom following Zecora. The next morning they wake with embarrassing changes, such as Pinkie's swollen tongue, that they blame Zecora for. Eventually it is revealed that the flowers were 'Poison Joke' and the effects were pranks. Played by the plant

* In ''{{NCIS}}'', while investigating a murder in a national park Mc Gee has to search a patch of poison ivy for a murder weapon. Tony recognizes what the plant is, but decides not to tell him.
** To be fair, Tony had been telling McGee about searching in the outdoors, when McGee went off on him for treating him like a probie, and assures Tony that he learned plenty in Boy Scouts.

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* One ''{{Archie}}'' comic ended with the revelation that the corsage Archie gave Veronica to wear at the prom was poison ivy.

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* One ''SavedByTheBell'' fanfic, The One Gigantic Fix, riffed on by [[ToplessRobot Rob Bricken]] [[http://www.toplessrobot.com/2010/03/fan_fiction_friday_zack_morris_in_the_one_gigantic.php here]], uses poison ivy as the reason why Zack has a permanent erection and thus needs some DeusSexMachina to save him. Maybe.

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* On ''KickButtowski'', Kick and Brad are lost in the woods. While Kick, who likes to rough it, sleeps in the bare ground, Brad brags about how Kick wished he had a comfy blanket of natural foliage like him. "You're right, Brad. I wished I had a blanket of poison ivy."

* On ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' the mane six walk through a patch of bright blue flowers to stop Applebloom following Zecora. The next morning they wake with embarrassing changes, such as Pinkie's swollen tongue, that they blame Zecora for. Eventually it is revealed that the flowers were 'Poison Joke' and the effects were pranks. Played by the plant

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Note: These are generally played for laughs. If you're weak of stomach, do ''not'' Google the types of injuries these plants can create. (Unless you'd really like to see an example of a blister the size of football.) Oh, and poison sumac, if burned, releases a gas that causes allergic reactions that can kill. It really pays to know your plants before you go hiking.

* Stuart and Ann's camping misadventure on ''LALaw''. Remember the TP next time

* The early camping episode on ''HeyArnold'' ended with Big Bob Pataki rushing through a small bush to get back to his campsite after a disastrous hike. This bush, of course, was poison ivy, causing him more misery.

* On ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' the mane six walk through a patch of bright blue flowers to stop Applebloom following Zecora. The next morning they wake with embarrassing changes, such as Pinkie's swollen tongue, that they blame Zecora for. Eventually it is revealed that the flowers were 'Poison Joke' and the effects were pranks. Played by the plant.

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* On ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' the mane six walk through a patch of bright blue flowers to stop Applebloom following Zecora. The next morning they wake with embarrassing changes, such as Pinkie's swollen tounge, that they blame Zecora for. Eventually it is revealed that the flowers were 'Poison Joke' and the effects were pranks. Played by the plant.

* ''FanFic/ThelegendOfSpyroTheNewDawn'': After going awhile into the forest temple, Sparx begins getting an unpleasent rash. Ember identifies the plants in the bush he passed through as poison ivy, which she knows because her mother taught her about it (not because Dragons get poison ivy, which they don't, but because eating it is really dangerous).

Note: These are generally played for laughs. If you're weak of stomach, do ''not'' Google the types of injuries these plants can create. (Unless you'd really like to see an example of a blister the size of football. If you can be objective, it's actually pretty neat.) Oh, and poison sumac, if burned, releases a gas that causes allergic reactions that can kill. It really pays to know your plants before you go hiking.

* Early in the movie ''{{Coraline}}'', the title character brushes some leaves off a stick and uses it as a water rod. She meets Wybie, and has a fairly long conversation with him, and at the end he throws in that the stick she's holding is poison oak.

* In ''{{NCIS}}'', while investigating a murder in a national park Mc Gee has to search a patch of poison ivy for a murder weapon. Tony recgnises what the plant is, but decides not to tell him.

* In ''FoxTrot'', Jason and Marcus get sent on a night hike through poison ivy as part of an Escalating War of pranks with the girls. They compound the folly by deciding to use the leaves as camoflague.

* [[http://xkcd.com/443/ This]] ''{{XKCD}}'' comic should be the page picture.

* The early camping episode on ''HeyArnold'' ended with Big Bob Pataki rushing through a small bush to get back to his campsite after a disastrous hike. This bush, of course, was poison ivy, causing him more misery.
* Early in the movie ''{{Coraline}}'', the title character brushes some leaves off a stick and uses it as a water rod. She meets Wybie, and has a fairly long conversation with him, and at the end he throws in that the stick she's holding is poison oak.
* After a huge fight and emotional breakdown with an unrequited love interest in a forest, the title character of ''MalcolmInTheMiddle'' dries his tears with some leaves he found. The girl he is with tells him he's using poison oak. We see a rather disturbing shot of his face a little later, which resembles the character No-Face in Twisted Metal Black.

* On ''TheSimpsons'', in a three story episode about history, Lisa as Sacajawea is giving Lewis and Clark's expedition party quick advice, and tells one soldier that he's holding poison oak.
* ''TotalDramaIsland'' had Katie and Sadie both squat in poison ivy to pee. Hilarity Ensues.
* ''CalvinAndHobbes'': after Calvin utterly fails a report on plants, he angrily asks what good it does to identify plants while holding a branch. Hobbes then replies "I believe that's poison sumac you're holding."

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* [[http://xkcd.com/443/ This]] ''{{XKCD}}'' comic.

* TroperTales here:
-->"''What is this plant?''"\\
"''That's mint, it smells very nice.''"\\
(Sniffs it) "''I don't smell anything...''"\\
"''Ah, I guess it's poison ivy then.''"