History Main / UnsuspectinglySoused

* In ''Literature/AnneOfGreenGables'', Anne gives her friend Diana what she thinks is raspberry cordial. Anne herself doesn't drink it (and a stuffy nose prevents olfactory identification), so she doesn't realize Diana's been chugging currant wine. Diana gets ''very'' drunk as a result, and this incident makes Diana's mother forbid Anne from being friends with her until Anne redeems herself by treating Diana's little sister when she's ill with croup.
* Bill tries to get out of Morris dancing at the next village festival in exchange for helping Peggy Kitchen get rid of the archaeologist in ''[[Literature/AuntDimity Aunt Dimity Digs In]]''. Peggy offers mead judging as a less time-consuming alternative; when Bill protests that he knows nothing about mead, she has publican Dick Peacock offer him samples--of '''twelve''' different kinds of mead. Derek Harris has to persuade Bill off the pub floor, off Bill's bicycle, and into his pickup truck to get Bill home. Next morning, Bill is still green about the gills and occasionally vomiting, and Derek's wife Emma brings homemade thyme honey and strawberry leaf tea for his hangover.

A variation that's come up more in recent years (mainly around the late 2000s) due to the increasingly relaxed societal attitudes toward marijuana is a character eating some kind of treat that they don't know is infused with cannabis and getting high as a kite as a result.

* In ''Webcomic/LeftoverSoup'', Ellen accidentally gets intoxicated with nutmeg after bingeing on Jamie's "pumpkin bomb" nutmeg cookies.

* As reported by [[https://www.yahoo.com/video/yall-drunk-south-korea-tiktoker-175842107.html Yahoo news]] a Website/{{TikTok}}er tried Korean Soju for the first time. This trope is in full effect as Soju is stronger than beer by volume. Twitter users, many former [[UsefulNotes/YanksWithTanks American service members who were stationed in Korea]] chimed in with their experiences with Soju.

* ''Series/ILoveLucy'': Vitameatavegimin. Take one somewhat alcoholic "supplement", repeated filming takes, and a sample consumed each take.[[note]]This apparently happened in RealLife as well, where a reporter took a sip of mead and then began his report -- on one hand, he knew he was drinking something alcoholic. On the other, he didn't expect to require repeated takes, in which he got increasingly inebriated.

* ''Anime/SailorMoon'': This happens to Usagi twice, in both cases because she mistakes alcohol for juice. What's even more hilarious about these incidents is that Usagi normally takes no more than a couple of sips of the drink in question. Either that's some strong wine they're having or she's an utter lightweight.

** The second time occurs in the third season; this time she goes completely la-la at an upscale party for promising international students, and begins speaking gibberish in both Japanese and English. The American guests find her, and her "unique and refreshing" take on the intellectual subject matter they were discussing, delightful.

* In an episode of ''Series/TheCloser'', Charlie makes "special brownies" ([[spoiler:laced with marijuana a friend of hers gave her]]) which Brenda proceeds to eat. She gets [[spoiler:'''very''' stoned]]. Fritz is not amused, [[BerserkButton to say the least]], when he finds out.
* ''Series/{{Frasier}}'': One episode sees Niles, upset at being called a stick-in-the-mud, decide to "get high on reefer." He buys a brownie laced with marijuana, but Martin, who's recently been put on a no-sweets diet, sneaks it as a snack (without realizing that it's full of pot) then hastily replaces it with a regular brownie. This leads to Martin getting completely stoned; Niles, having eaten the other brownie, thinks that Martin's antics are just a result of his ''own'' inebriation.

* On the ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'' episode "The Fight", Tom creates a drink called "Snake Juice", which turns out to be [[GargleBlaster 140 proof alcohol]] and very highly caffeinated, leading to everyone getting much more intoxicated than they intended.

* In the first ''Anime/SoundOfTheSky'' OVA, the whole platoon gets drunk on spiked tea, with only the resident [[OnlySaneMan straight-man girl]] avoiding the effects (to her dismay).

* ''Fanfic/ACrownOfStars'': In chapter 40 Shinji has a drink, not knowing that it is rum. Then he has another glass. Then he has another. And then a third one. It is then that Asuka mentions she never would have figured him for a rum guy. Shinji gets shocked, prompting her to ask "Are you seriously telling me you did not know it was alcohol?" That is when he realizes he is feeling fuzzy and floaty and his head is buzzing.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheAristocats'': When the cats meet the geese Abigale and Amelia Gabble the sisters tell them they are planning to meet their Uncle Waldo at a restaurant in Paris, when they get there they discover the chef had been trying to serve Uncle Waldo as the daily special before the gander escaped and whilst Waldo is enraged he's also completely inebriated as he'd been based in white wine.

[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]

* This trope turns up in a couple Creator/BusterKeaton movies.
** In the short ''Film/HardLuck'', Buster chugs a bottle labeled "POISON" which is actually whisky.
** In the feature ''Film/ThreeAges,'' Buster is at one point unaware that he's imbibing someone else's [[DiscreetDrinkDisposal discreetly disposed of drink]].

* In ''Film/GlassOnion'', [[spoiler:Helen]], who doesn't drink, keeps downing kombucha out of nervousness... that turns out to be Jared Leto's hard kombucha, which Blanc discovers contains 9% alcohol. It ends up giving her the courage to tell off the other disruptors.

Someone drinks a drink they expect to have little, if any, alcohol. Instead, it turns out to be not only alcoholic, but [[GargleBlaster very much so]], resulting in the character getting ''plastered''. This is TruthInTelevision, as some cocktails are formulated to minimize the alcohol flavor and can thereby catch an unsuspecting drinker off-guard -- an oft-used player in this trope is the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Island_Iced_Tea Long Island Iced Tea]], which not only has an innocuous-sounding name but is also sweet enough to hide a usual alcoholic concentration of 22% and served in large but quickly-disappearing quantities (pint glasses or large highball glasses are the usual drinkware).

* ''Anime/SailorMoon'': This happens to Usagi twice, in in both cases because she mistakes alcohol for juice. What's even more hilarious about these incidents is that Usagi normally takes no more than a couple of sips of the drink in question. Either that's some strong wine they're having or she's an utter lightweight.

--->'''Usagi:''' ''[butting into a discussion on the theory of relativity]'' The pudding of relativity? Let's see... Well, in other words, you take milk, eggs and sugar, and stir it all up. Then you put a lid on it, and for about 30 minutes, you steam it... Oh! And if you forget the whipped cream, you're no good as a woman. Yeah.

* In one ''Franchise/StarTrek'' comic, Kirk insists that no alcohol be served at a party because of tensions on the ship; Scotty, [=McCoy=], and Chekov all think this is unreasonable and each independently spike the drinks. As a result, two crewmen who normally don't drink at all get completely hammered and end up in a fistfight.
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'': Just being around Dionysus can make humans feel tipsy, so drinking around him, no matter the supposed alcohol content, is a good way for humans to become quickly ill, lose all inhibitions and if they survive [[WhatDidIDoLastNight remember very little]]. He can of course control this if he wants to, he just doesn't have much interest in doing so.

* As the title of ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7524001/1/The-Alcoholic-Adventures-of-Team-Satisfaction The Alcohol Adventures of Team Satisfaction]]'' implies, there is a lot of high-percentage alcohol involved, but [[Anime/YuGiOh5Ds Yusei]] seems to be the only one who has gotten drunk without realizing it. The real unexpected sousing comes from the fact the the drinks have been spiked with [[LovePotion some sort of aphrodisiac]] by a mysterious third party. [[IntoxicationEnsues Things]] [[KissingUnderTheInfluence escalate]] [[AlcoholInducedIdiocy pretty quickly]].
* In the ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' fic titled ''Grudge Match'', Damian eats banana bread at his stepmother Selina's baby shower, unaware it's the one Harley Quinn baked with marijuana. He acts giggly, loses his sense of personal space, and becomes rather obsessed with releasing animals from the zoo, freaking the hell out of the guests. InVinoVeritas is also in effect, since Damian-under-influence can admit to Dick that [[spoiler:he's scared the new baby will take his place in the family]].
* ''Fanfic/ACrownOfStars'': In chapter 40 Shinji has a drink, not knowing that it is rum. Then he has another glass. Then he has another. And then a third one. It is then when Asuka mentions she never would have figured him for a rum guy. Shinji gets shocked, prompting her to ask "Are you seriously telling me you did not know it was alcohol?" That is when he realizes he is feeling fuzzy and floaty and his head is buzzing.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}}'' accidentally drinks champagne when a bottle of it falls in his water bucket. How one gets drunk enough on diluted champagne to see [[MushroomSamba pink elephants]] is difficult to say. Dumbo's a baby and took a big gulp, but he's a baby ''elephant''.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAristocats'' when the cats meet the geese Abigale and Amelia Gabble the sisters tell them they are planning to meet their Uncle Waldo at a restaurant in Paris, when they get there they discover the chef had been trying to serve Uncle Waldo as the daily special before the gander escaped and whilst Waldo is enraged he's also completely inebriated as he'd been based in white wine.

** Subverted in ''Literature/WitchesAbroad''. The witches are drinking absinthe, because Magrat recognizes the name as meaning wormwood and thinks it's a herbal drink. Afterwards Granny Weatherwax says, "I'm sure there was alcohol in that. [[NeverGetsDrunk I definitely felt a bit woozy after the third glass]]."

* An episode of ''Series/ThirtyRock'' had Liz go out with her recovering alcoholic ex-boyfriend on the eve of his wedding. He orders salmon with sauce on the side, and soon starts acting drunk. Liz realizes that the sauce contains whiskey, which would normally be burned away during cooking, but because it was on the side he unknowingly got drunk. When she mentions this to an employee, he muses that it's a very popular dish with teenagers...

* ''Series/{{Bones}}'' does this with a quasi-NoodleIncident: it's implied that Hodgins and Zack had spiked the punch at the July 4th party with (presumably very high-proof) alcohol they distilled in their lab, and that an embarrassing form of this was the result. Of course, it's a NoodleIncident, so exactly ''what'' happened is unclear.
* In an episode of ''Series/CafeAmericain'', a character sleeps overnight in a winery on a catwalk above the vats and ends up in inhaling wine fumes all night. He wakes up completely tanked. PlayedForLaughs as he was at the winery as part of an attempt to impress his finacee's family, who owned the winery.
* In an episode of ''Series/{{Campion}}'', the title character is made very drunk in an attempt to murder him. His enemy treats him to a sherry, then invites him to dinner and orders a magnificent wine -- but neglects to mention that ''all alcohol must be out of the system before trying it''. We are treated to several minutes of Campion reeling around London, laughing wildly, before he is pushed in front of a train.

* ''VideoGame/MassEffectAndromeda:'' A variant comes up at one point. Peebee decides to sample angaran liquor, and gets herself some wine. She drinks a lot of it, assuming it's just got a low alcohol content. It does not. What it ''does'' have is a slow absorption rate. By the time Ryder finds her after her little drink, Peebee's having a hard time simply standing.

* It happens in the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoon "Naughty but Mice", with [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter Sniffles the Mouse]] (making his debut). He has a cold and wanders into a drug store looking for medicine. Unbeknownst to him however, the medicine he takes contains alcohol, and ends up drunk for the rest of the cartoon.

-->The popular Korean beverage is traditionally made from ingredients such as rice, wheat or barley. It also comes in different fruity flavors such as apple, plum, lychee and peach, and its ABV (alcohol by volume) is typically around 20%. To put this into context, a bottle of soju is stronger than 12 ounces of regular beer, which typically has an ABV range of around 5%, and 5 ounces of table wine, which typically has an ABV range of around 12%.\\\

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* Part of the appeal and mystique of the popular Zombie cocktail is in both it's strength (containing a full 3 oz of standard proof rum as well as 1 oz of 151 proof rum), as well as it's sweet fruity flavor, as the drink contains fruit juices and various flavored syrups that help conceal the amount of booze. The drink's inventor, Don the Beachcomber, limited customers to no more than two as a result.

* Donna on ''Series/That70sShow'' drank a Long Island Iced Tea thinking it was non-alcoholic.

* On ''Series/{{Glee}}'', April Rhodes tries to get on Kurt's good side by giving him crantinis (and vintage muscle mags) and telling him that they'll give him all the courage he needs. He doesn't seem to realize what he's drinking, although he learned enough by the end of the episode to become one of the only two non-drinkers in Glee.

* One episode of ''Series/GetSmart'' had a KAOS agent (a master of disguise) pretending to be the Chief, with some...entertaining...results when he and the real chief were both in Smart's apartment at the same time. The two confusing buttermilk and brandy scenes (one Chief asks both Smart and 99 independently for a glass of buttermilk to settle his stomach, the other asks both independently for a glass of brandy to settle his nerves, and the one that asked for buttermilk keeps getting brandy).

* Sort of happened to Belldandy once in ''Manga/AhMyGoddess''. Of course, what she was drinking wasn't alcoholic at all (she had already consumed enough sake to drink everyone else at the party under the table without even getting buzzed) -- [[DrunkOnMilk it was cola]].
* ''Anime/SailorMoon'':
** This happens to Usagi twice in in both cases because she mistakes alcohol for juice. First in the first season in an episode based directly on a [[Manga/SailorMoon manga]] chapter she winds up KissingUnderTheInfluence (bad Mamoru!). The second time occurs in the third season; this time she goes completely la-la at an upscale party for promising international students, and begins speaking gibberish in both Japanese and English. The American guests find her, and her "unique and refreshing" take on the intellectual subject matter they were discussing, delightful.
---> '''Usagi:''' ''(butting into a discussion on the theory of relativity)'' The pudding of relativity? Let's see... Well, in other words, you take milk, eggs and sugar, and stir it all up. Then you put a lid on it, and for about 30 minutes, you steam it... Oh! And if you forget the whipped cream, you're no good as a woman. Yeah.
** What's even more hilarious about these incidents is that Usagi normally takes no more than a couple of sips of the drink in question. Either that's some strong wine they're having or she's an utter lightweight.
* In ''Manga/GirlsLastTour'', Yuuri and Chito discover three bottles with amber liquid. The setting being a CozyCatastrophe post-apocalyptic world, the young girls have never seen such a thing and think nothing of drinking the strange stuff labeled "beer". The two quickly wind up drunk and dancing in the moonlight.
* ''Manga/GrandBlue'': Before you drink any offered Oolong Tea and Water, make sure to test it with a lighter. It could be as benign as a vodka, a mixture of Vodka and whisky, or even Spirtyus (96%)
* In ''Manga/TheDemonGirlNextDoor'', when Lilith can communicate with the Yoshida family, Seiko gives her a can of drink to shut her up. Lilith originally thought it was some orange soda... until [[CantHoldHisLiquor she gets tipsy]]. Seiko explains it's actually highball, a Japanese alcopop.
* In ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'', during the visit to the Hex Food World, the Four Heavenly Kings and Komatsu end up in a pub drinking the local alcohol, except for [[CantHoldHisLiquor Coco]] who decides to drink a "Ghost Au Lait" instead. Unfortunately for him, it contained enough alcohol to make him sick, and, as Brunch pointed out, a PoisonousPerson about to throw up is trouble!

[[folder:AudioPlays]]

-->'''Woman from Planetary Temperance League''': Come, come, Mr. Godot, you don't think I'd allow you ''alcohol'' do you?
-->'''Buck''': It's milk.
-->'''Woman from Planetary Temperance League''': Mr. Godot, what kind of idiot do you think I... ''(Sips from glass)'' Why...it ''is'' milk. ''(Eyes dilate and she collapses)''
-->'''[[HookerWithAHeartOfGold Louisa Dem Five]]''': Vrang Beast milk?
-->'''Buck:''' The very ''best'' [[BizarreAlienBiology Vrang Beast milk!]]
-->'''[[TheBartender Asteroid Al]]''': Only kind I serve.
-->'''Woman from Planetary Temperance League''': [[AlcoholHic *hic*]]

* ''ComicBook/HackSlash'': In ''Girls Gone Dead'', one of the party-goers feeds Cassie a Long Island Iced Tea, telling her that it's nonalcoholic. As a result, she gets plastered and winds up flirting and dancing with boys, and is in less than great shape for the final showdown when the slasher shows up.
* Grant of ''ComicBook/BlackScience'' takes a sip of wine immediately before his formal apology speech to the convened tribes. Turns out the gorb'd wine of the Mountain Queen is ''fantastically'' strong relative to humans.

* ''Fanfic/ACrownOfStars'': In chapter 40 Shinji had a drink, not knowing that it was rum. Then he had another glass. Then he had another. And then a third one. It was then when Asuka mentioned she never would have figured him for a rum guy. Shinji got shocked, prompting her to ask "Are you seriously telling me you did not know it was alcohol?" That was when he realized he was feeling fuzzy and floaty and his head was buzzing.

* As the title of ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7524001/1/The-Alcoholic-Adventures-of-Team-Satisfaction The Alcohol Adventures Of Team Satisfaction]]'' implies, there is a lot of high-percentage alcohol involved, but [[Anime/YuGiOh5Ds Yusei]] seems to be the only one who has gotten drunk without realizing it. The real unexpected sousing comes from the fact the the drinks have been spiked with [[LovePotion some sort of aphrodisiac]] by a mysterious third party. [[IntoxicationEnsues Things]] [[KissingUnderTheInfluence escalate]] [[AlcoholInducedIdiocy pretty quickly]].
* In the ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' fic titled "Grudge Match," Damian eats banana bread at his stepmother Selina's baby shower, unaware it's the one Harley Quinn baked with marijuana. He acts giggly, loses his sense of personal space, and becomes rather obsessed with releasing animals from the zoo, freaking the hell out of the guests. InVinoVeritas is also in effect, since Damian-under-influence can admit to Dick that [[spoiler:he's scared the new baby will take his place in the family]].

[[folder:Films -- Animated]]

* ''Film/PoisonIvy: The New Seduction''. The villainess spikes a non-alcoholic drink with alcohol to make her targeted victims drunk. Then one of the victims adds even more alcohol without knowing the drink is already spiked. Both of the victims end up bombed out of their skulls.
* The ''Film/CruelIntentions'' films made this into something of a running gag, wherein a naive girl gets hammered drinking Long Island Iced Tea, which despite its name contains no tea, but does have an alcohol concentration of about 22 percent. TruthInTelevision as despite its high alcohol content it tastes and smells rather innocuous, leading to people unused to such strong drink getting drunk very quickly.
* In ''Film/PetticoatPlanet'', Steve gets plastered when the mayor secretly pours a shot of redeye into his glass of milk.
* In ''Film/AJollyBadFellow'', Bowles-Otterly's PerfectPoison causes intoxication and euphoria in its victims before it kills them. As a result, his victims act uproariously drunk before keeling over dead.

** Subverted in ''Literature/WitchesAbroad''. The witches are drinking absinthe, because Magrat recognizes the name as meaning wormwood and thinks it's a herbal drink. Afterwards Granny Weatherwax says "I'm sure there was alcohol in that. [[NeverGetsDrunk I definitely felt a bit woozy after the third glass]]."
** Played straight in ''Literature/TheLastContinent'', when Rincewind downs several Ecksian beers in quick succession. He'd assumed that its clarity meant it couldn't possibly be as strong as Ankh-Morpork beer, and was 100% wrong.
* Bill tries to get out of Morris dancing at the next village festival in exchange for helping Peggy Kitchen get rid of the archaeologist in ''[[Literature/AuntDimity Aunt Dimity Digs In]]''. Peggy offers mead judging as a less time-consuming alternative; when Bill protests that he knows nothing about mead, she has publican Dick Peacock offer him samples—of '''twelve''' different kinds of mead. Derek Harris has to persuade Bill off the pub floor, off Bill's bicycle, and into his pickup truck to get Bill home. Next morning, Bill is still green about the gills and occasionally vomiting, and Derek's wife Emma brings homemade thyme honey and strawberry leaf tea for his hangover.
* In the novel ''Literature/AKissInTime2009'', a princess who's just arrived from the 18th century goes to a party and doesn't realize that Jello shots are alcoholic.

* In ''[[Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar Winds of Fury]]'', the infiltration team tries to invoke this trope when the town their carnival is visiting turns out to have a garrison of Ancar's elite guards. They urge the guards to drink as much of Firesong's "Magic Cure-All" (brandy with some herbs added) as possible, on the assumption that the guards aren't used to anything with that high an alcohol content. It works ... unfortunately the guards are mean drunks.

* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' Sheldon falls for the Long Island Iced Tea version, [[spoiler:to the point that he wakes up Creator/WilWheaton to, "fight for my lady's honor."]]

-->'''Kurt''': (Slurring) Oh WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}... I cried so hard when those hunters shot your mommy.

* ''Series/ILoveLucy'': Vitameatavegimin. Take one somewhat alcoholic 'supplement', repeated filming takes, and a sample consumed each take.
** This apparently happened in RealLife as well, where a reporter took a sip of mead and then began his report--on one hand, he knew he was drinking something alcoholic. On the other, he didn't expect to require repeated takes, in which he got increasingly inebriated.

* Inverted in an episode of ''Series/MamasFamily.'' Upon finally achieving her lifelong dream of going to Hawaii, Thelma's first act upon getting off the plane is to immediately hit the fruity frozen drinks. When a friend comments how many she's drinking, she casually mentions how she's always been able to hold her liquor. Hearing this, the waitress mentioned how all the beverages the hotel serves are non-alcoholic. This angers Thelma, who feels ripped off that she's been paying $4 a piece for nothing but fruit juice and chipped ice.

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* ''Theatre/GuysAndDolls''. Dulce de Leche has alcohol in it? "Only enough to act as a preservative," says Sky, but he's got Sarah [[ButLiquorIsQuicker already hooked]] by the time she asks. [[FridgeBrilliance Enough alcohol to preserve or purify liquid may be enough to get you hammered.]]
* Inverted in ''Theatre/TheRealInspectorHound''. Two critics are watching a play. During intermission, one of them sneaks on stage to help himself to the liquor in the drawing room. He takes a gulp, and does a giant spit-take, exclaiming to the other critic, "It's tea!"

* A side mission in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity'' involves you getting a little too close to a pot full of very potent "boomshine". Not only is it so potent it explodes, blowing off one of Phil Cassidy's arms, but the very ''smell'' plasters you. Which isn't good, because ''you'' have to drive Phil to the doctor...[[TimedMission before he bleeds out]]...[[InterfaceScrew while your view is all sloshed out and your car's handling is just as sloshed]]...''and'' likely with a cop car chasing you [[DrunkDriver because you're driving drunk]].
* In ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'', Niko can take one of the early girlfriends, Michelle, out on a date to a bar, and will invariably emerge absolutely twunted, commenting that the drinks were a lot stronger than he'd usually expect, with Michelle by contrast being stone cold sober. [[spoiler:Most likely because she's a government agent, hoping that Niko will blurt out something about his and his cousin's criminal activities and associates.]]

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* ''Webcomic/{{Twokinds}}'': Strangely enough, the animal-like keidran have a low-alcohol tolerance. Maybe it has to do with their short lifespan/soldier genetics.

* ''Webcomic/{{Archipelago}}'': Riley recounts a time when Tuff was given medicine with alcohol in it. The results... were hilarious (except to Tuff).
** Happens to Tuff again in book 6, but this time, his [[CantHoldHisLiquor inability to hold his liquor]] is deliberately being used to keep him out of the bad guys way (and kill him). [[spoiler:This backfires and results in a blood bath for the villains. BewareTheNiceOnes.]]
* ''Webcomic/DemonFist'': If Rory has a few drinks, and so do his [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demon]] [[HeroicHost symbionts]] Shaise and Crag, [[http://demonfist.com/?p=903 and then they recombine...]]
* In ''Webcomic/LeftoverSoup'', Ellen accidentally gets intoxicated with nutmeg after bingeing on Jamie's "pumpkin bomb" nutmeg cookies.
* The magical wine in ''Webcomic/BetweenTwoWorlds'' brings vivid visions, which on the outside looks like this trope.

** Later, Bart spikes [[ApatheticTeacher Mrs. Krabappel's]] coffee with alcohol to get her to mellow out. It ''did'' get her drunk...[[DeadlyPrank and fired]].
* PlayedForDrama in ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman''. When [=BoJack=] is in rehab, one of his fellow patients smuggles in water bottles full of vodka. After bonding with her, he keeps one as a souvenir with no intention of drinking it himself. Unfortunately, he drops it out a window and it gets mixed in with actual water bottles, and it winds up in the hands of the rehab's director, Dr. Champ, himself a recovering alcoholic. When he recognizes the sensation of drunkenness, he gives up on sobriety and subsequently blames [=BoJack=] for falling off the wagon.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'', Jake and Helen reconnect with two college friends, Willow and Coyote Yeager, who are still hippies in contrast to the Morgendorfers' yuppie ways. Jake and Coyote start bonding over some berry juice, only to get drunk. The Yeagers' son informs them that the juice has fermented.
* It happens in the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoon, "Naughty But Mice" with [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter Sniffles the Mouse]] (making his debut). He has a cold and wanders into a drug store looking for medicine. Unbeknownst to him however, the medicine he takes contains alcohol, and ends up drunk for the rest of the cartoon.
* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPugwash'': In "Island of the Dodos", Tom feeds the crew of the ''Black Pig'' doughnuts soaked in rum causing them to fall into a deep sleep so he can sail the ship away and convince them that the dodos were just a dream.

* As reported by [[https://www.yahoo.com/video/yall-drunk-south-korea-tiktoker-175842107.html Yahoo news]] a [[{{Website/TikTok}} TikToker]] tried Korean Soju for the first time. This trope is in full effect as Soju is stronger than beer by volume. Twitter users, many former [[UsefulNotes/YanksWithTanks American service members who were stationed in Korea]] chimed in with their experiences with Soju.
-->''The popular Korean beverage is traditionally made from ingredients such as rice, wheat or barley. It also comes in different fruity flavors such as apple, plum, lychee and peach, and its ABV (alcohol by volume) is typically around 20%. To put this into context, a bottle of soju is stronger than 12 ounces of regular beer, which typically has an ABV range of around 5%, and 5 ounces of table wine, which typically has an ABV range of around 12%.''

-->''Soju, which is typically consumed in shots and not straight from the bottle, can pack a mean punch and knock moderate drinkers out of their senses, as shown by some Twitter users.''

* Sort of happened to Belldandy once in ''Manga/AhMyGoddess''. Of course, what she was drinking wasn't alcoholic at all (She had already consumed enough sake to drink everyone else at the party under the table without even getting buzzed) -- [[DrunkOnMilk it was cola]].
** [[JustifiedTrope Justification]]: Belldandy is based on Verdandi: a ''Norse'' goddess. Like most mythos, Norse myth is based on traditions, and since Vikings enjoyed their drink, it's understandable that their gods and goddesses would be [[NeverGetsDrunk inhumanly tolerant]]. Cola was invented after their time, so she lacks experience with it. Her sister Urd on the other hand can get drunk on moderate amounts of alcohol.