What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made on Drugs?/Western Animation

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What Do You Mean These Western Animation Works Weren't Made on Drugs?

  • The 1984 claymation film The Adventures of Mark Twain, especially the part where Satan shows up.
  • Every Adult Swim original show could go on here, except maybe Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law and The Venture Brothers. Especially 12 oz. Mouse, which is deliberately horribly drawn and features heavy drinking and drug use.
  • For a show based on things your parents would tell you to do as a child, Stoppit and Tidyup was completely and utterly batshit.
  • The better part of episode 20 of Wakfu. Thank God it was All Just a Dream.
  • The Magic Roundabout. The visuals are trippy enough, but the UK Gag Dub turns it Up to Eleven. And it's hard to argue that Dylan the Rabbit isn't intended to be an Erudite Stoner.
  • Xavier: Renegade Angel, like you wouldn't believe.
  • A show produced for Nickelodeon that was picked up by Cartoon Network called Adventure Time with Finn and Jake appears to be massively influenced by drugs. The show's creator even has it listed as a question on his FAQ. He says, no, that he is just a "weird, funny guy."
  • Quite a few episodes of SpongeBob SquarePants, but notably the episode where Squidward demands a locker to store his clarinet in at work. It soon delves into the locker becoming a Hyperspace Armoury, some weird giant eagle head in a land of clarinets, Squidward in a pinball machine and being immediately afterwards found by a giant Patrick, etc...
    • A notable example from one of the first several seasons of the show is an episode when Squidward, forced to work a late-night shift with Spongebob, taunts him with a story about the ghost of a fry cook. Eventually, all the aspects of the story start to happen in real life and are duly explained, with the exception of flickering lights. It turns out that Nosferatu was standing in the corner playing with the light switch the whole time. And yes, I mean the freakishly deformed version from the 1922 film. The episode ends with the cast scolding the vampire affectionately for his antics.
    • And in the episode where Squidward uses an elevator to get back from the future (kind of a long story), he ends up in a completely blank world and all gets trippy from then on.
    • Yet another example of this happening to Squidward is when he is kicked off The Flying Dutchman's ship. Two words: Spaghetti Hell.
  • Chowder and The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack are marginally so. In fact, it's safe to say that as Cartoon Network continues to produce original animated programming, it becomes more and more like you're watching some drug-fueled hallucination.
    • This isn't the first time though, before that CN had Cow and Chicken, which is about the title characters who have parents who are only legs and no other bodies.
  • A number of episodes of Teen Titans. Almost any episode with Mad Mod in it, and especially "Fractured".
  • The Ren and Stimpy Show could count as a standout example. A whole 20-minute episode dedicated to a talking fart or cheese transforming into a princess don't convince you? The intro alone screams "This is the most fucked up thing you'll ever see".
  • Rainbow Horse on BabyFirst. The creator probably shared the same belief as above-mentioned creator of The Ren and Stimpy Show. To babies and viewers hopped up on crack it's probably a interesting trip. To others, it only makes them go LOLWTF?
  • Phineas and Ferb has a Running Gag involving a giant baby alien from another dimension that eats things, usually Doofenshmirtz's inventions.
    • Speaking of giant babies, may we mention the giant baby heads, another running gag?
  • South Park. In early interviews during the show's first season, creators Parker and Stone cheerfully confessed that they were either drunk or stoned or both when they came up with the idea for "Chef", and that he needed to be voiced by someone like Isaac Hayes.
    • Though they have admitted to a fair amount of later seasons being conceived during more than one hotboxing session.
  • The "World Of Oz" shorts Rankin Bass produced in the early 60's. The nostalgia network Retro TV runs them and other trippy interstitials between the shows on the Filmation block (which are probably a trope in themselves). With flat weird characters, jerky animation, and psychedelic backgrounds, they're like four-minute acid trips.
  • Krantz Studios produced some trippy series in the late sixties and early seventies, namely Spider Man 1967 and Rocket Robin Hood.
  • Courage the Cowardly Dog. Deranged Animation with most of the plots and images being scary. Even the humor is quite bizarre to say the least.
  • It's pretty obvious that Seth MacFarlane smokes a fat pound before every Family Guy recording. Interstingly though, he claims to have cut down a bit starting in 2008, which might explain all those aggresively weed friendly episodes at that time. Poor bastard must have had the Junkie Itch.
  • Invader Zim, anyone? The series was made by Jhonen Vasquez. This is the same person who wrote and drew Johnny the Homicidal Maniac and Squee, about a serial killer and a phobic and abused little boy respectively. They let a show made by this guy air on Nickelodeon - for kids. Pretty sure ANYTHING Jhonen makes fits this trope.
  • The Problem Solverz is loaded with flashy neon colors and utterly weird character designs. The pilot episode Neon Knome has even more Surreal Humor and random trippy moments.
  • Kidd Video, especially in its second season. So much that even Robbie Rist, who played Whiz on the show, commented on it.

Robbie Rist: I don’t know what they put in the water cooler in the animation department, but it became this crazy thing that... it was like Lidsville. It was this acid-influenced, crazy animation. It became something like Alice in Wonderland, and I was in my twenties and watching these second-season episodes, going, “Is this for kids?” It was just a little bit too weird.

  • Perfect Hair Forever, which in fact seems exceedingly unlikely to have not been made on drugs.
  • The Thief and the Cobbler (particularly the Recobbled Cut) is a prime example. Think of it as Disney's Aladdin on Vicodin, LSD, and a little bit of marijuana. (but mostly LSD)
  • Spliced. The cast of characters include an unidentifiable orange animal with a weird blob where his legs should be, a two-legged rhino with a bird head on his back, a blob with a pig's nose, chicken wings, a rooster's comb, a shrimp's tail and an udder which makes up the lower half of his body, a gorilla with a pony's head, an Evil Genius miniature blue-and-black dolphin with monkey arms, a cat-headed octopus, and a platypus.
  • The Caliph-Stork and other Russian treats were shown on local American television in the 1950s and early 1960s, influencing a generation.
  • Anything by this lady.[context?]
  • That tv show version of Tak and the Power of Juju is discribe as Conker's Bad Fur Day for kids. Other than that the characters looks they out from an openings to one the Katamari Damacy. There voices also sound like a couple fighting violently.
  • YTV's Sidekick and Scaredy Squirrel also has similar elements from Tak. Other than living in a mess-up city, not only only that both shows Big Bad characters are voiced by Harold Green, but they look (and sound) like there on crack.
  • KaBlam!
  • The Gene Deitch Tom and Jerry shorts they have very wild wonky animation that's all over the place, ugly character designs, and trippy and psychedelic sound effects.
  • The opening sequence to Birdz has the cast dancing against a kaleidoscope background while the most obnoxiously funny cover of "Surfin' Bird" plays.
  • The Fleischer Brothers early shorts and their early Betty Boop cartoons the animation and plots are very bizarre, almost everything is alive and singing including buildings and objects, stretchy limbs, wild facial expressions,etc.
  • Pick any episode of The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat. You'll think the animators were high on acid that day.
  • What a Cartoon Show half of all cartoons shown.
  • Pearlie, a Qubo show. Believe it or not.
  • Squirrel Boy has a lot of stuff that doesn't make any sense.
  • The Cartoon Network series, Regular Show, is, if the prequel short 2 in the A.M. P.M. is any indication, an acid-trip of J. G. Quintel's in which he turns into an anthropomorphic blue-jay after eating LSD-infused candy.
  • Yakkity Yak: It hardly makes sense, but they managed to put it on US television.
  • Shuriken School
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