Alien Catnip/Playing With

Basic Trope: An alien gets high on a mundane substance.

• Straight: Alice gets high on vinegar.
• Exaggerated: Alice gets high on water and oxygen.
• Justified: Alice has Bizarre Alien Biology.
• Inverted:
  • Alice takes Marijuana and doesn't get high.
  • Drinking olive oil sobers Alice up.
• Subverted: Alice is given vinegar for this reason, but it doesn't work.
• Double Subverted: ...because Alice has some weird recessive gene, and it would work like that on anyone else of her species.
• Parodied: Alice gets high on fine wine and lobster, but doesn't think to mention it until she happens to attend a banquet.
• Deconstructed: Alice gets high on vinegar, and it's presented in the same way as an actual drug addiction would be, complete with dishevelled appearance and damage to her brain.
• Reconstructed: Alice realises she has a problem, attends a clinic and then from then on is able to use vinegar in moderation with the addictive side-effects.
• Zig Zagged: Alice drinks vinegar and gets high, but it is revealed this was just an act. Later she eats cinnamon and gets high, but only because she has a special condition that makes this effect only in her, not the rest of her species. Another alien mentions that Jello is what really gets to them.
• Averted: Alice gets high only on human drugs and nothing else.
• Enforced: The main characters need a clue that Alice is not as human as she seems to be.
• Lampshaded:
  • "Alice is acting really weird after drinking that vinegar; what is she, an alien?"
  • "You know you're not supposed to drink that, right?" "...But it makes me feel all sparkly inside..."
• Invoked: Evil humans serve food with vinegar in at a banquet, knowing that Alice will be intoxicated and no one else will.
• Exploited: Bob keeps a small bottle of olive oil on his person whenever Alice is nearby, just in case.
• Defied: Alice consciously sticks to food and drink from her own planet, knowing the possible side-effects human food may have on her.
• Discussed: "Hey guys do you have any vinegar around here?" "No...not since Alice moved in".
• Conversed: "Hey look the strangely human alien is looking at the vinegar, I bet HIJINCKS are about to ensue!"

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