History Main / LoveIsInTheAir

* ''Series/LoisAndClark'' has the villain of the week, after causing limited chaos with her love potion, trying to invoke this trope by spreading a potent form of the potion over Metropolis in a crop duster. Fortunately, Superman is immune.

* In an episode of the animated ''WesternAnimation/{{Jumanji}}'' series... that one was the result of a Love Potion that was just a BIT too effective...

* In ''Series/FraggleRock'', Wembley makes friends with a girl Fraggle named Lou. Mokey, convinced that Wembley is in love, takes him to the Trash Heap to ask how to make sure Lou returns the sentiment. The Trash Heap gives Wembley a bottle of Love Potion #9 to use on Lou. Unfortunately, it spills into the pond, producing a gas that the whole Fraggle colony inhales. They immediately go berserk, mobbing Wembley with amorous attention. Fortunately, the potion works for only twenty minutes.

* The Creator/CirqueDuSoleil WidgetSeries ''Solstrom'' uses a variation on this concept as the premise for the episode "Wind of Romance". The "solar wind" blown about an Italian village has ''mostly'' positive effects, from bringing a bickering couple back together to bringing a painted poster of Columbine to life for a lonely fellow.

* A Creator/PhilFoglio comic that ''does'' play this trope straight is ''ComicBook/BuckGodotZapGunForHire'', in which [[HookerWithAHeartOfGold brothel-madam-porn-superstar]] [[AnythingThatMoves Louisa Dem Five]] has apparently had a procedure done enabling her to produce massive amounts of pheromones on cue. To the point of being able to charm both Buck, who is of a genetically-altered {{Heavyworlder}} subspecies and explicitly shouldn't be capable of finding low-grav women attractive, and a cyborg space pirate, who is mostly machine and shouldn't be finding her attractive. [[spoiler: This becomes a plot point; she can't turn on anyone else on the Gallimaufrey, leading to the discovery of a motivation-sapping bioengineered virus on the station...]]

* In Music/{{KylieMinogue}}'s music video for her song "All The Lovers", people in a large city interrupt what they are doing at the moment and suddenly begin to take off their clothes (but remain in underwear), then they search for any sexual partner to make out with. All the while, Kylie is singing the lyrics to the song, and a ''human pyramid'' of writhing, underwear-clad people begin to form under her, until it reaches the size of a skyscraper.

* Creator/BruceCoville's book ''Literature/JulietDoveQueenOfLove'' had the protagonist Juliet Dove come into possession of a necklace formerly owned by Helen of Troy. The necklace causes every boy in her school to fall in love with her (and cause a commotion by piling up in front of her house), and [[ClingyMacGuffin cannot be removed after being put on]].

* ''WesternAnimation/HarleyQuinn2019'': In "A Very Problematic Valentine's Day Special", Harley (hyped on on a sex spell) gives [[LivingAphrodisiac Poison Ivy]] the best orgasm she's ever had... resulting in Ivy's pheromone powers enveloping Gotham City and causing everyone to become horny for whoever's next to them.

* ''Film/{{Shivers}}'': A variation with the love plague being the result of a [[ParasiteZombie parasite that makes people lose all inhibitions]]. With very few exceptions (such as [[LipstickLesbian the lesbian couple]]), [[FanDisservice this is]] ''[[FanDisservice not]]'' [[FanDisservice sexy at all]]. Imagine people suddenly making out with everyone else, whether the other person wants to or not, and regardless of things like attractiveness, age, or relatedness.

* In Episode 15 of ''LightNovel/{{Inukami}}'', Keita obtained a "love" medicine that makes anyone he sees fall for him, but doesn't seem to work towards Yoko, his love interest.

* In ''Music/{{KylieMinogue}}'''s music video for her song "All The Lovers", people in a large city interrupt what they are doing at the moment and suddenly begin to take out their clothes (but remain in underwear), then they search for any sexual partner to make out with. All the while, Kylie is singing the lyrics to the song, and a ''human pyramid'' of writhing, underwear-clad people begin to form under her, until it reaches the size of a skyscraper.

* In ''Series/FraggleRock'', Wembley decides to get a dose of Love Potion #9 to win the heart of a female Fraggle he's smitten with. Unfortunately, he falls into the water, causing the potion to mix with it and vaporize into a gas that apparently the whole Fraggle colony inhales. They immediately go berserk mobbing Wembley with amorous intentions.

** In the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS3E15BloodFever Blood Fever]]", Vorik is undergoing [[MateOrDie pon farr]] and instinctively tries to MindMeld with B'Elanna Torres, the woman he's secretly attracted to. This causes her to start aggressively coming on to Tom Paris, the man she is secretly attracted to. This is played for drama rather than laughs, as Tom knows she's NotHerself and will hate him if [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything he takes advantage of her while her mind is impaired]].

{{Love Potion}}s are finicky, delicate beasts. It should come as no surprise that especially poorly made or potent ones combine the far reaching effects of the HatePlague and the LovePotion into a deadly smog that makes even the most ChasteHero and throngs of {{Innocent Bystander}}s fall for the drinker.

Has a friend in SmellsSexy; and the role of sex {{Pheromones}}, the purpose of which (in RealLife, that is) is to communicate one's biological availability to other members of the same species (and only that species), primarily useful if you only go into heat for a few days per year and don't know whether you'll survive the other 364 days to get another chance later. Compare LivingAphrodisiac, where a character emits Love Is In The Air naturally and {{Glamour}}, when this is caused by an alien or supernatural creature. Contrast HatePlague, which goes in the opposite emotional direction.

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* ''Literature/{{Perfume}}'' is about a sociopath who is trying to create the perfect smell. The catch? His perfume is made from the scents of murdered virgins. Once finished the perfume was so potent and delightful, that it induced a massive orgy in a enormous crowd, with just few drops.

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* A few ''Franchise/StarTrek'' episodes did this over the various series, notably also causing drunkenness as a symptom.
** "The Naked Time" in ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' had Sulu getting rather amorous for Uhura, though she wasn't so interested in him.
*** Later, this is further hinted to have been a repressed desire of his all along in "Mirror, Mirror" with his decidedly uninhibited MirrorUniverse counterpart sexually harassing her outright: "Still no interest, Uhura? I could change your mind..."
** "The Naked Now" in ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' followed up on this with a similar effect (on which the original cure from Kirk's time did not work, however) getting most of the crew drunk and horny to the point that Tasha Yar jumped Data (though he was also intoxicated at the time) and Dr. Crusher tried to seduce Picard in his office.
** In the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "Fascination", a virus grossly magnified everyone's attraction to each other. No actual horizontal lambada-ing was involved, by express order of the captain.
** ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''. In "Bride of Chaotica!", Captain Janeway is playing [[FemmeFatale Queen Arachnia]] in ''Film/TheAdventuresOfCaptainProton'' holoprogram, and tries using her vial of "irresistable {{pheromones}}" to make [[BigBad Dr Chaotica]] release her. Unfortunately Chaotica moves out of sniffing range, leaving her to get slobbered over by his [[NumberTwoForBrains ugly henchman Lonzak]] instead.
** In the VOY episode "Blood Fever", Vorik is undergoing [[MateOrDie pon farr]] and instinctively tries to MindMeld with B'Elanna Torres, the woman he's secretly attracted to. This causes her to start aggressively coming on to Tom Paris, the man she is secretly attracted to. This is played for drama rather than laughs, as Tom knows she's NotHerself and will hate him if [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything he takes advantage of her while her mind is impaired]].

** Xander tries to get Cordelia attracted to him again by casting a love spell; it backfires, and every female he gets near ''except'' Cordy starts throwing herself at him, including the person who cast the spell. Probably only 'didn't work' on Cordy because she already loved him.
** In another episode, a guy has a magic jacket that makes any girl who sees him wearing it fall madly in love with him, making Xander [[ContinuityNod fondly remember]] his own adventure years before. Made even more amusing because by this point, Willow has come out as a lesbian, and ''[[IncompatibleOrientation still]]'' [[IncompatibleOrientation falls for the guy]]. When this is pointed out to her, she tries to use a spell to turn him into a girl.
* In ''Series/RedDwarf'' Rimmer tries some of the 'sexual magnetism' virus that causes every female to be smitten with him. He is later seen limping round the corridors after having injecting his groin with anesthetic (and smacking it with a hammer) with women still looking at him suggestively. In the same episode, Lister tries some as well as a test for his ex- when she starts tearing his clothes off he quickly (and inadvertently) has some of the 'luck' virus to cancel the effect.

* Toby from Series/WickedScience creates [[{{Pheromones}} superpheromones]] in an episode aptly named "Love Potion Number 9".

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* In ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' Valentine's Day special, two cupids who resemble Sarah and Jimmy make Edd and May Kanker fall in love, and at one point defuse a food fight by making everyone in the room fall in love. This was finally counteracted by Rolf with dirty mop water: "The harsh realities of your miserable lives have been restored! Thank you."

* In the ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "Mudd's Passion", the crew of the Enterprise are affected by an airborne love potion.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' episode "Rick Potion #9", Rick creates a sci-fi [[LovePotion love potion]] for Morty (using Morty's own DNA as a template to target the attraction) that causes those affected by it to become obsessively in love with Morty to the point of wanting to have sex with him then and there. The problem though is that the person he uses it on - his school-crush Jessica - had the flu. The love potion somehow combines with the flu virus to become airborne and self-replicating, and before long, the entire town (except his blood-relations) was lusting after Morty, regardless of who they are, if they ever met Morty, or what their sexual orientation was before.

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* The US Army worked upon, but finally dropped, development of a weapon dubbed the "Gay Bomb" - a chemical weapon that would make enemy soldiers [[HoYay fall for each other]]. The reasoning was that it would not only incapacitate them, but also embarrass them enough to lower their fighting potential afterwards. Apparently they never thought about what might happen if they turned out like the [[strike:Spartans]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_Band_of_Thebes Sacred Band of Thebes]]...

* In ''Series/TheTenthKingdom'', Kissing Town makes this trope quite literal, since not only are there magical hearts floating everywhere around every happy couple getting married, but every time Virginia seems ready to dismiss Wolf as a love interest, in swoop the hearts to change her mind and turn her into a hopeless romantic. They even form a gigantic heart over the pair's heads when they share their first kiss.

* [[Literature/TheIdhunsMemories Memorias de Idhún]]: Wina, the [[FertilityGod life goddess']], manifestation [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm on the mortal world]] is essentially this, combined with [[RapidAging instant]] [[ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty maturity]] and [[ExpressDelivery accelerated pregnancy]].