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If Bob's duties involve being at the wheel of a vehicle, see also [[Drunk Driver]].
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== Film ==
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* In the opening sequence of ''[[Final Destination]] 2'', one of the irresponsible drivers seen just before [[Hilarity Ensues|everything goes to hell]] is a trucker taking a pull from a beer bottle.
* It is heavily implied that Commissioner Loeb in [[The Dark Knight]] often drinks on the job when dealing with death threats. {{spoiler|This is ultimately how he dies, in fact, because [[The Joker]] had one of his goons lace his bottle with poison.}}
* ''[[
== Literature ==
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* In [[Michael Crichton]]'s ''[[Sphere]]'', Petty Officer Fletcher is discribed as having a noticable odor of alcohol on her breath during the first squid attack.
* Protagonists in the ''[[Redwall]]'' series often ply vermin sentries with alcohol to make them fall asleep.
* In [[Robert E. Howard]]'s [[Conan the Barbarian]] novel "The Hour of the Dragon", how Zenobia gets the keys from the guards.
* In the [[Tom Clancy]] novel ''[[The Hunt for Red October]]'', the incident which provokes Ramius to defect was the death of his wife at the hands of a surgeon who had been drinking while on call - who went unpunished because of his political connections. Similar incidents occur in other novels, most often by Russian guards and/or soldiers who are classically known for such behavior.
* [[Rudyard Kipling]]'s poem "The Shut-Eye Sentry" is about an officer on night duty (in garrison) who had a few too many this particular night. He's sober enough to remember he should make the rounds checking sentry posts, but not sober enough to realize he shouldn't let people see him like this. Since the consensus of the enlisted and noncoms is that he's usually a good officer, they cover for
== Live Action TV ==
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* ''[[Babylon 5]]'': In season 5, Garibaldi started drinking again, cumulating in him drinking on duty. Zack Allen quickly discovers the warning signs, but President Sheridan didn't believe it at first. After the Centauri war, Sheridan calls Garibaldi out on it, and suspends him until it is resolved.
* Mason from ''[[Dead Like Me]]'', all the time, with [[This Is Your Index On Drugs|various substances]], alcohol included. And he's a [[Don't Fear the Reaper|Reaper]].
* One of the deaths on ''[[
* In ''[[Scrubs]]'' Turk and JD get ripped a new one and suspended for the evening for turning up drunk by Dr Cox. Later in the run Cox himself turns up drunk although in his case it is evidence of a nervous breakdown after several patients die due to his treatment. The Janitor and Kelso have also been shown as been drunk at work, but for them it is played for laughs as part of their [[Comedic Sociopathy]]
* ''[[Battlestar Galactica
* Gene Hunt from ''[[Life On Mars]]'' is hardly ever ''sober'' on duty.
* This is part of the backstory for at least two ''[[Law
** And of ''[[Law and Order Special Victims Unit]]'''s Don Cragen.
** One of the early ''[[Law
* Everyone, constantly (except perhaps Bert Cooper), on ''[[Mad Men]]''. Along with [[Everybody Smokes]], it's part of the series' [[Signature Style]]. Freddy Rumsen, however, had such a bad case that he got fired for it...passing out and peeing your pants during a sales pitch to a major potential client will do that to you.
* On ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'', Damar is [[Drowning My Sorrows|drowning his sorrows]] so much that he can't keep away from the kanar while plotting the demise of the Federation, something that disturbs his handler Weyoun a bit. Weyoun is genetically engineered for diplomacy; you have to be doing something insanely scary to bother someone like that....
* Randy Disher once drank on duty in the ''Monk'' episode "Mr. Monk Gets Married". However, when Sharona and Monk, not to mention the audience, learns that certain circumstances involving his mother getting married and spending her honeymoon at a marriage counseling center with a guy significantly younger than her and she isn't even rich were the reason why he is doing so, it's kind of hard to blame Disher for drinking on duty.
* On ''[[ER]]'' Carter just passed his medical boards exams and went to celebrate the fact with some of his friends. However, he was still on-call for the ER and was paged to come in during an emergency. He showed up late and it was clear that he had been drinking. He faced serious disciplinary action because of this and almost derailed his medical career. He was denied residency positions in all the major hospitals and the only reason Chicago General hired him was because he agreed to essentially work for free (he was independently wealthy).
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== Music ==
* In [[Stan Rogers]]' folk tune about the titular fictional transport, the captain of the ''Mary Ellen Carter'' had been... Y'know what? Here are Stan's own words:
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Too close to three-mile rock and she was dealt her mortal blow,
And the Mary Ellen Carter settled low. }}
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* Invoked in [[Okamiden]] when [[Badass Adorable|Chibiterasu]] has to bring one of the imps in Orochi's lair some sake in order to get him drunk enough to allow him to pass.
* ''[[
* [[World of Warcraft]] has a hilarious
* The fact that one guard regularly drinks on duty is an important clue in an early investigation in ''[[Batman: Arkham Asylum]]''.
* ''[[Time Splitters]]'': "I am.....BEST guard. Numbar one!"
* Encounters with drunken, singing-off-key guards are not uncommon in the ''[[Thief]]'' games. Though they're easier to sneak past, if they spot you, they're no less formidable than other guards.
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* One of Kevin's teacher's (Mr. Czelanski) on ''[[Mission Hill]]'' has an endemic case of this. Perhaps the most notable instance is when he has to do a parent teacher interview:
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Andy: No, not really.
Mr. Czelanski: Well, we still have 14 minutes left. (He promptly pulls out a bottle of scotch and two glasses form his desk) If only more parents were like you. }}
* On the finale for ''[[Daria]]'', Lindy, a friend Quinn had made while working as a hostess at a restaurant, get's fired when their boss finds Lindy's screwdriver at their post. This later causes Quinn to develop the courage to confront Lindy about her drinking problem.
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** Unless of course, your profession involves drinking. Also, kinda subverted as many people whose jobs involves drinking tend not to drink when ''not'' on duty.
* [[Winston Churchill]] was well sloshed more than a few times when he took decisions in [[World War II]].
** As was [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], mostly under Churchill's influence when the latter spent much of the winter of 1941-42 as a guest in [[The White House]]. These decisions were also typically taken very early in the morning.
* Any UK politician or public figure described in the press as "[
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'''Jim Hacker:''' "Just overwrought? Nothing about being drunk?"
'''Bernard:''' "Just overwrought."
'''Sir Humphrey:''' "Overwrought as a newt, actually." }}
* In UK Politics, former leader of the Liberal Democrat party Charles Kennedy. It was his chronic alcoholism that led to the "former" part.
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** During the 1863 election, John A showed up completely hungover to a debate, and threw up during his opponents' speech. He recovered nicely by proclaiming that [[Take That|his opponent was so abysmal it made him sick.]]
* Canadian Forces regulations allows for a maximum of two standard drinks while on duty. This is subject to further regulation by the local commanders though, so it's rare to see this fully permitted, unless you're in the Navy.
* Speaking of Her Majesty's Navies, there's the old quote about the [[Brits With Battleships|Royal Navy]] (often [[Beam Me Up, Scotty|wrongly attributed]] to [[Winston Churchill]]):
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* In the lead-up to the 1984 general elections in [[New Zealand]], then-Prime Minister Robert Muldoon [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLDve40cxlk drunkenly called a snap election] after one of his MPs threatened to dissent over key legislation. This became known as the '[[Just for Pun|schnapps election]]'.
** Speaking of New Zealand, former MP Nandor Tanczos made the accusation in 2000 that he had seen politicians "drunk in charge of a country".
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