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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })It is a commonly understood fact that when a doctor believes a patient requires a particular regimen of drugs to treat their condition, they will use a particular type of form to indicate what this patient should be given. However, something else may be prescribed instead:
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On Chuck, Devon makes the discovery that Jeff has slept in his van with the engine running for years. After bringing Jeff in for examination and determining he does indeed have carbon monoxide poisoning, Devon whips out his prescription pad. Jeff is eager to receive drugs, but the prescription just says Stop sleeping in your van!
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The Simpsons: In a Treehouse of Horror episode when Maggie starts growing tentacles, they take her to see Dr. Hibbert.
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In the Harry Nilsson song "Coconut" a woman puts lime in the coconut and drinks them both up, and gets a bellyache. She calls her doctor (wakes him up) and the doctor prescribes... lime in the coconut, drink them both together. Then she'll feel better.
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Multiple times on Scrubs, usually by Dr. Cox (although Turk once wrote his wife Carla a prescription for himself, suggesting she "apply him to a sensitive area").
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In King of the Hill, during marriage counseling, the councilor prescribes Hank and Peggy a motorcycle, because they had been planning on buying a pair of motorcycles and riding around the country together.
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House, M.D.:
House offers to write a woman a prescription for a wet cloth after she'd brought her son into the clinic for "rashes" (it was red dye).
Another episode has House filling a prescription bottle with candies in order to get an annoying patient without a real problem to leave. Later, the patient comes back and asks for a refill because it worked so well.
In the episode "Damned If You Do", House gives a mall Santa a prescription for cigarettes as a treatment for inflammatory bowel disease. He claims it should alleviate his symptoms, but warns his insurance probably won't cover it.
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In The Most Happy Fella, Tony's doctor prescribes him (in song) "love and kindness from the nurse."
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In Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Wolf In The Fold", Doctor McCoy had Scotty visit a club with a bellydancer saying it was prescription. In the films, Bones drinks Romulan Ale for "medicinal purposes".
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One Archie Comics story has Archie's dad, Fred, begin to excessively worry about every possible little thing that could go wrong. The doctor he visits prescribes watching The Three Stooges to help him get over it all.
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What About Bob?. Bob hunts down his psychiatrist Dr. Leo Marvin, who's on vacation in New Hampshire. Dr. Marvin makes Bob promise to go home, then writes Bob a prescription advising Bob to "Take a vacation... from your problems". This backfires, because it inspires Bob to take his vacation right there in New Hampshire, and he becomes The Thing That Would Not Leave in the Marvin household.
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Saturday Night Live: Christopher Walken has a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell.
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On Good Eats, in the episode "Gills Gone Wild," a doctor writes Alton a prescription for an expensive statin-type drug, as well as a prescription for salmon. When Alton questions what kind of salmon the doctor wants him to eat, the doctor replies that it doesn't matter. Alton is angered, because the doctor won't let him take a generic version of the medication but doesn't think there's a difference between farmed Atlantic salmon and the many types of wild Pacific salmon.
In another episode, Alton is working behind the pharmacy counter, and hands bottles of blueberries to an old woman concerned about memory loss, a teenage boy who wants to keep himself looking young, and a middle-aged man suffering from impotence, while explaining blueberries' alleged health-and-beauty benefits.
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Dave Seville of Alvin and the Chipmunks fame had a 1958 song titled "Witch Doctor," in which the Doctor "prescribes" Ooh Eeh Ooh Ah Aah Ting Tang Walla Walla Bing Bang.
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In the Monty Python's Flying Circus episode "The Cycling Tour" Mr Pither goes to a doctor to ask for directions to Iddesleigh. "Normally I would have asked a policeman or a minister of the Church, but finding no one available, I thought it better to consult a man with some professional qualifications, rather than rely on the possibly confused testimony of a passer-by." The doctor writes something down and tells Mr Pither to take it to a chemist (pharmacy in the US). The next shot is a chemist looking at the paper and giving Mr Pither the directions.
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In the book Ramona Forever, a doctor diagnoses Ramona with "siblingitis" (that is, jealousy over the attention her parents are giving her newborn sister) and hands her father a prescription for more attention.
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In strip 196 of Sexy Losers, a doctor prescribes a destitute woman oral sex... not to cure her depression, but to pay for the actual therapy.
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In Daisy Owl Steve is prescribed a dose of "don't die".
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In Chapter 1 of Three Men in a Boat, J. tells of going to his doctor after having convinced himself that he has every disease known to mankind (except housemaid's knee). His doctor gives him one of these:
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Super Smash Bros.: "Dr. Mario is in the house! His prescription? KOs!"
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