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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''"When you drink like that, it isn't for pleasure. It's because your thoughts have become diseases. You do it because it's the only easy cure you can find."''|'''Ginn Hale''', ''Wicked Gentlemen''}}
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A well-known [[Truth in Television]]. It is often played for sympathetic laughs, but it can also be dramatic, pathetic, embarrassing or angsty, especially if it goes with [[Off the Wagon]]. Characters who do this may also suffer from [[Bad Dreams]] and are prone to [[Forgets to Eat|not eating enough]], and it might lead to [[Sex for Solace|spending the night with somebody]] as the next step in "healing."
Men who undergo this for a period often grow a [[Beard of Sorrow]] during the time.
If a friend shows up, the [[Power of Friendship]] can convert this to [[To Absent Friends]]. Sometimes. If not? [[Nailed to the Wagon|A nail gun and a wagon]] can [[Going Cold Turkey|work wonders.]]
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If the depressed character recovers, it will probably lead to a [[He's Back]] moment.
{{examples}}
== Anime and Manga ==
* On ''[[Maison Ikkoku]]'', Godai and Mitaka have decided to duke it out once and for all for the hand of the fair Kyoko. Too bad this is Tokyo, where it seems like every street corner has a cop waiting to book you for causing a public disturbance. The guys end up at a beer vending machine drowning their sorrows.
* David from ''[[Blood
* {{spoiler|Lisa Kujoh aka}} Sumeragi Lee Noriega in ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]'' personally implies that her constant drinking is for this single purpose.
* In ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' one of Negi's fellow teachers [[Unsuspectingly Soused|accidentally gave him some sake]] while eating in Satsuki's restaurant. The scene quickly degenerated into this trope as a drunken Negi [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v09/c073/14.html cried out his troubles].
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* In ''[[Bleach]]'', Izuru Kira and Rangiku Matsumoto are seen drinking after Kira's captain and Rangiku's old friend, Gin Ichimaru, leaves Soul Society with the [[Big Bad]], Aizen. Also, Kira does the same with Shuuhei Hisagi, whose captain Kaname Tousen also left, and in the anime the aftermath of their drinking round is a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]].
** In the manga, he decides to have tea when Rangiku offers it to him.
** He's seen doing it again in the last episode of the anime, but it's now [[Played for Laughs]] since this happens [[spoiler: because he doesn't approve of Rose as his captain.]] Iba and Yumichika watch over him and are rather peeved.
* Roy Mustang in [[Fullmetal Alchemist (anime)|the 2003 anime version]] of ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' frequently goes to get himself drunk at local bars with best friend Maes Hughes. It's seen that he has a tremendous amount of angst over the things he did in Ishval (in this version {{spoiler|he's the one who killed Winry's parents under higher-orders, which back then almost drove him to [[Ate His Gun|eat his gun]] on the spot)}}, and one would assume that he usually gets drunk for that reason.
* Before she became the Fifth Hokage, Tsunade from ''[[Naruto]]'' is seen several times gambling/getting drunk from sake to get her mind off of having lost her brother Nawaki and boyfriend Dan, who both died horribly and (presumably) painfully.
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* Lampe and Kim san Kaku go out and get plastered at the end of the intro comic of ''[[Astro Boy (manga)|Astro Boy]]'' volume 5 after they learn they were both designed after [[Osamu Tezuka]]'s dorky elementary school classmates.
* A realistic occurrence takes place in ''[[Monster (manga)|Monster]]'', after Tenma is demoted and then dumped by his [[Rich Bitch|cold bitch of a fiancee.]] And said fiancee, Eva, does it as well... [[Lady Drunk|for years.]]
* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' features two examples. The first one is played straight, and it comes from in the ''R'' season,: Usagi notices that Mamoru has a "new" girlfriend {{spoiler|(he doesn't, but since he believes he cannot be with
* Sayoko from ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]'' does this
** Subverted by Urd, who ''needs'' to drink to {{spoiler|restore her powers.}}
* Jeanne takes to drinking vodka by the bottle in ''[[Rose of Versailles]]'' after the Affair of the Necklace. Oscar is also occasionally seen surrounded by empty wine bottles.
* [[Time Skip|Between the two seasons]] of ''[[Darker
** There's also Huang, who would love to do this [[Never Gets Drunk|if he could ever get drunk]].
* Tsuzuki in ''[[Yami no Matsuei]]'' during an especially angsty moment in the Kyoto arc when he starts questioning his own humanity.
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* Although we only see Yukiji's [[Bottle Fairy]] tendencies in ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler]]'', it's made very clear that she was doing this in regards to the debt her parents left with her and her sister, and her subsequent dealing with the issue, that led her down the path to the humorous path we see in the story.
* Kazehana, resident [[Bottle Fairy]] of ''[[Sekirei]]'' does this during a season two episode after {{spoiler|the death of Uzume}}. Much to her annoyance, she can't get drunk.
* In ''[[Skip Beat!]]'', Tsuruga Ren does this when {{spoiler|he is unable to fully understand his character, Katsuki.}}
* In ''[[Oniisama e...]]'', {{spoiler|Prof. Misonoo}} does this in his [[Backstory]] when {{spoiler|his first wife left him and she took kid!Takehiko along with her.}}
== Comic Books ==
* ''[[Iron Man]]'', already established as a recovering alcoholic, fell off the proverbial wagon hard when his company got taken over during
** Later, when Carol Danvers ([[Ms. Marvel]]) loses her power ''the second time'' (as Binary), she fell onto this and caused her to get expelled from [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|The Avengers]]. She manages to get out of this thanks to the counseling from Iron Man himself, as fellow alcoholic.
** He just did it again. In Fear Itself he started screaming at Odin and the other gods, yelling that if they wanted a sacrifce he'd give them the "only thing he could give worth anything": his sobriety, by taking a huge swig of alcohol. Even though it was a [[Narm]] scene, it was a total tearjerker to see him so broken.
* [[Spider-Man]] also did this in one issue. (Although, given [[Retcon|everything]], we should probably cut him some slack...)
* John Constantine does this at least twice in ''[[Hellblazer]]'', most notably in the ''Tainted Love'' arc where, after a painful breakup, he not only drinks constantly but lives on the street for months, refusing to "magic" his way out of it.
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* Katchoo does this a few times in ''[[Strangers in Paradise]]'', usually after a bitter argument with, or involuntary separation from, Francine or David.
* From ''[[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]]''.
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'''Brainiac 5:''' Are you kidding? I drink to forget you. }}
* In ''[[Blackest Night]] Titans'', Red Star was drinking in memory of his family (Pantha and Baby Wildebeest).
* Renee Montoya does this at the start of ''[[
** At least she learnes her lessons.
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'''Renee:''' Only if you added some bourbon to it.
'''Kane:''' I didn't. But I can. If you like.
'''Renee:''' No. Seems that all the problems I have when I start drinking are still there when I stop. }}
* It's hevaily implied (read: all but explicitly stated) that this is why [[Empowered
* [[Superman]] went to the bottle in response to losing all of his powers in ''[[JLA: Act of God]]''.
* This happens early in ''[[Savage Dragon]]'' continuity. After a love interest gets [[Stuffed in A Fridge]], the main character drowns his sorrows at a bar. A [[Bar Brawl]] soon follows after a supervillain decides to literaly [[Bullying a Dragon|bully a dragon]].
* In ''[[All Fall Down]]'', Portia resorts to this after the loss of her powers, as do several superhero wannabes after being disarmed by the Ghoul.
* Shift of the ''[[Batman and the Outsiders|TheOutsiders]]'' indulges in this after being forced to kill Indigo. Despite claiming that alcohol doesn't effect his physiology, he manages to get pretty damn hammered.
== [[Fan Works]] ==
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* Mark Printzen in chapter ten of ''[[The Ollivander Children|The Ollivanders At War]]''. By the time Andrew and Hector find him, he's reduced to singing angry songs about Dutch sailors and whores.
* In ''[[With Strings Attached]]'', Paul spends an unspecified amount of time stuck in a kind of goto loop of misery and drinking. [[I Just Want to Be Special|He's dying of jealousy]] because he's the only one of the four who didn't get any magic; he's lonely as hell, because the others are all playing around and ignoring him; and when he tries to learn magic on his own, he proves incapable. He does grow a [[Beard of Sorrow]], though the Fans end up making him shave it off. And he gets a [[He's Back]] moment when the Fans return from Winter Solstice Break and maneuver him into his long-awaited magic.
* Happens in the [[Fanfic|fan]][[Web Comic|comic]] ''[[Roommates 2007|Roommates]]'' because it's a [[Crossover]] and from a main cast of four characters two are romantic [[Villain
* Sirius Black tries this in [https://web.archive.org/web/20120503134047/http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3735743/117/The_Moment_It_Began Chapter 117] of ''The Moment It Began'' after {{spoiler|his brother Regulus dies.}}
== Film ==
* Mulder does this in the first ''[[The X-Files|X-Files]]'' movie.
* ''[[Back to The Future]] III'' has a subversion. Doc goes to get drunk after losing Clara and doesn't actually drink anything, but acts strangely anyway.
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'''Bartender:''' None. That's the first one and he hasn't touched it yet. }}
** Well, to the other patrons, he's acting weird. To the rest of us, he's just moping and rattling off common knowledge about 1985.
** When Marty gets him to leave, he actually ''does'' drink...and instantly passes out.
* Rick Blaine does this in ''[[Casablanca]]''. You know the quote:
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* In ''[[A Few Good Men]]'', Daniel Kaffee gets roaring drunk after an important witness for his case commits suicide.
* In the [["Weird Al" Yankovic]] vehicle ''[[UHF (film)|UHF]]'', George goes out drinking and orders something pink with a little umbrella in it. The drink clashes horribly with his somber mood.
** It's a blueberry daquiri. The commentary reveals that it was supposed to be much more flamboyant, but someone in the prop department missed the memo.
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'''George:''' Yeah, but I've been meaning to start. }}
* Inigo Montoya does it in ''[[The Princess Bride (film)|The Princess Bride]]''.
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* ''[[The First Wives Club]]'': Goldie Hawn's character bawls about how she would have been cast as the sexy lead character of Monique in a movie not five years ago, but now she's Monique's mother. She babbles about how other actors would be better suited to the role, ending in [[Sean Connery]], but counters the last, noting that Sean Connery would be Monique's boyfriend, as he's 500 years old but "still a stud..."
* Eddie Valiant in ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'', who still grieves over the death of his brother years earlier.
* ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]'' parodies this trope: Buzz Lightyear gets "drunk" at a little girl's tea set.
* ''[[The Punisher]]'' film has the titular character resort to drinking Wild Turkey Bourbon (TM) straight in his depression after the murder of his entire family. The way the bottle was clearly labeled and placed on the table facing the audience smacks of [[Product Placement]].
* Similarly, Harry Osborne in ''[[Spider-Man (film)|Spider-Man]] 2'' takes up drinking as he grieves over the death of his father in the prior movie. Harry's drink of choice is [[Product Placement|Makers Mark Whiskey]].
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* Tecate beer is common for this trope, as it is one of the few beer brands that will pay for product placement even when characters use it in this way:
** ''[[Hellboy (film)|Hellboy]] II''
** ''[[The Hammer]]''
* ''[[The Last Samurai]]'', starring Tom Cruise, has retired U.S. Army Captain Nathan Algren drunk for a good third of the movie, drowning his sorrows and being haunted by nightmares due to his role in the American Indian genocide around the time of General Custer.
* In ''[[Bat*21]]'', after a rescue mission has gone disasterously wrong, Captain Clarke walks in on Colonel Walker hunched over a chair holding a mostly empty bottle of whiskey. After the colonel finally notices the intrusion he says, "We lost six people today, Clarke. Kids, all of 'em. Just kids."
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* The reason Ron is the town drunk in ''[[The Warrior's Way]]''.
* The protagonist of British [[World War Two]] movie ''[[Ice Cold in Alex]]'' starts out the film drinking heavily as a result of the stress he's been put under during the campaign in Africa, and the plot is driven by his yearning for a cold beer 300 miles away.
* ''[[The Untouchables]]'' has two ironic examples, seeing as it centers around Prohibition:
** During the whiskey raid at the Canadian border, Oscar Wallace sneaks a mouthful from a shot-up barrel once the gunfire has stopped.
** In the final scene, with Al Capone finally behind bars, Eliot Ness is understandably exhausted as he packs up his office and thinks about Malone. When a reporter mentions that Prohibition is due to be repealed and asks Ness what he might do then. Ness responds, "I think I’ll have a drink."
== Literature ==
* In [[Dan Abnett]]'s ''[[Gaunt's Ghosts]] novel'' ''Honor Guard'', after a disaster, Gaunt takes to drowning his
* Aral Vorkosigan tries this in [[Lois McMaster Bujold]]'s ''[[Vorkosigan Saga|Shards of Honor]]'' before his fiancee shows up and invalidates the need. His son Miles does it too, on occasion; evidently, it's hereditary. Though his mother (that's the fiancee we mentioned) does also say it's partially Miles's attempt to uphold tradition.
* As mentioned in the [[Film]] examples, Athos of Dumas' ''[[The Three Musketeers (novel)|The Three Musketeers]]'' is prone to this. In the novel, it's depicted as habitual and inexplicable until he tells his [[I Have This Friend]] story.
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** Silk does this in ''[[The Belgariad]]'' after speaking with his mother for the first time in years. To elaborate, his mother used to be a beautiful woman, but caught a blindness inducing [[The Plague|illness]] that left her face horribly scarred, and nobody could ever bring themselves to let her know. The scene is powerful precisely because of the contrast with Silk's [[Jerkass Facade]] and the overall humorous tone of the series.
* [[Genghis Khan]] in Conn Iggulden's ''[[Conqueror|Bones of the Hills]]'' takes to the airag after Temulun is killed during a raid ({{spoiler|after being [[Moral Event Horizon|raped]] by Kokchu}}).
* [[Graham McNeill]]'s ''[[Warhammer
* In ''[[Discworld]]'', Sam Vimes was like this up until his marriage to Sybil Ramkin. In ''[[
** The Luggage, an animated chest whose sentience is debatable, [[
** Detritus, Gaspode and Thomas Silverfish all do this about halfway through ''[[
* ''[[The Vampire Chronicles]]'' has a fair amount of this going on. Louis in ''Interview with the Vampire'' not only drinks away his sorrows but picks fights and sleeps with prostitutes, hoping to get himself killed. Later in ''Blackwood Farm'' Quinn also drinks away his sorrows and his fears. In ''Queen of the Damned,'' this is slightly subverted, as Daniel Molloy tries to drink away his madness (from the knowledge that vampires are real).
* Averted and played straight in ''[[Star Wars|Starfighters]] [[Star Wars Expanded Universe|of]] [[X Wing Series|Adumar]]'' - Wedge heads to a bar mostly for privacy while he thinks through some questions of honor vs. the chain of command (he doesn't get very drunk, either). However, at the bar, he runs across {{spoiler|Admiral Rogriss}}, who decided the answer to his problem ([[Not So Different|basically the same as Wedge's]]) was to get stone drunk.
** Played straight in an earlier book of the series, when Ton Phanan, the [[Combat Medic]] of the squadron who is allergic to bacta and thus gradually becoming [[Emergency Transformation|more and more cybernetic]], drinks and tells his wingmate that he needs less and less to get drunk, because every year, less meat, more machine. He feels that his extensive cybernetics are an outward sign that his future [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul|has been destroyed]], and he has no one.
* Hagrid in ''[[Harry Potter and
** In ''[[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (novel)|Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]]'', Winky the house-elf drinks several bottles of Butterbeer a day after being fired by Mr. Crouch. Butterbeer is a very mild drink for humans (children can drink it without any problem) but it's pretty strong for house-elves.
* When ''[[The Little Prince]]'' visits a planet with no one but a tippler on it, he inquires why the man is drinking constantly:
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'''Prince:''' Forget what?
'''Tippler:''' Forget that I am ashamed.
'''Prince:''' Ashamed of what?
'''Tippler:''' Ashamed of drinking! }}
* In the first ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' novel, ''Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers'', Lister's response to finding out that [[Everybody's Dead, Dave]] is a [[Freak-Out|spectacular mental breakdown]] complete with massive alcohol abuse. It is ''not'' played for laughs.
* [[H. Beam Piper]]'s ''[[Little Fuzzy]]'' has a sad-whimsical description of the process:
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* Happens in the [[Night Huntress]] series. Three days after {{spoiler|Bones leaves her}}, Cat's apartment is littered with empty gin bottles and ice cream cartons.
* Lytol in the ''[[Dragonriders of Pern]]'' series drinks to unconsciousness whenever he is forcibly reminded of his dragon's death, as a way of easing the pain of the loss. This is considered better than the alternative; most riders who lose their dragons [[Driven to Suicide|kill themselves]].
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* In [[Michael Flynn]]'s ''[[Spiral Arm|The January Dancer]]'', a common reason to be in the Bar on Jehovah.
▲== Live Action TV ==
* Almost every (major) character has done this at least once on ''[[Scrubs]]''. Probably most notable is the occasion when Dr Cox spends around a solid week doing this after {{spoiler|killing three patients by causing them to have rabies-infected organs transplanted}} and needs babysitting by all the other characters.
* The Irish Drinking Song game in ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?|Whose Line Is It Anyway]]'' is based off this, and is sometimes played after the 'winner' is decided so the host can join in.
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*** The only more literal way would be if the episode had been called "Beer Bad", WHICH IT WAS.
*** Though given this exchange at the end of the episode, one gets the impression that [[Joss Whedon]] couldn't resist subverting the anti-alcohol message:
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'''Buffy:''' Foamy!
'''Xander:''' Good. Just as long as that's clear. }}
** And Anya tries to drown her sorrows at the Bronze, but as she looks outwardly like a teenage girl the bartender stubbornly insists on an I.D. "I'm 1,120 years old! Just give me a frickin' BEER!!!"
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* Damar of ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' spent several episodes getting drunk, to drown out first his unease and his conscience over dealing with the Dominion, his murder of Dukat's daughter, then his problems when promoted to leader of Cardassia. His snapping out of this and [[Heel Face Turn|becoming a good guy]] marks the beginning of his becoming truly [[Badass]].
** And he slips a bit of information to Quark, leading to a particularly entertaining scene in which he is trying to tell Kira and Odo what he learned while roaring drunk.
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* In ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'', it's shown that Sam and Bobby both drink a lot after {{spoiler|Dean's death}}. Bobby at least had been hinted at avoiding alcohol now, but with the whole apocalypse {{spoiler|Sam using his powers, and Dean in hell}} thing, the boys have still been drinking in a not-so-healthy way.
** After {{spoiler|finding out that God doesn't intend to do anything with the apocalypse}}, Castiel goes and drinks a whole liquor store.
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'''Sam:''' ...and?
'''Castiel:''' And I drank it!
later
'''Dean:''' Where have you been?
'''Castiel:''' On a bender. }}
* ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'' has this happen to several characters several times during the show's run. [[A Father to His Men|Bill Adama]] hits this trope hard in the fourth season, so much so that his best friend and second in command (and accomplished [[The Alcoholic|alcoholic]] himself) Saul Tigh has to snap him out of it.
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* A flashback in one episode of ''[[Frasier]]'' shows Niles hitting the (wine) bottle especially hard during his divorce with Marris, making a reference to the term when he said, "Who knew my sorrows were such strong swimmers."
* ''[[Babylon 5]]'': Vir, after {{spoiler|killing [[The Caligula|Emperor Cartagia.]]}} Notably, the scene manages to go from [[What Have I Done|dead serious]] to [[Rule of Funny|completely hilarious]] and back, mostly because Vir doesn't get drunk very often.
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** It's also a significant part of [[The Alcoholic|Garibaldi's]] [[Backstory]]. {{spoiler|Garibaldi restarts drinking when he realizes that he can't kill Bester for [[Mind Rape|brainwashing]] him into [[More Than Mind Control|accidentally betraying]] Sheridan.}}
** Londo is also a heavy drinker. First he drinks to the [[Vestigial Empire|lost glory of the Centauri Republic]], then to {{spoiler|[[Morality Chain|Adira]]}} and finally to {{spoiler|ruined Centauri Prime and to keep the [[Puppeteer Parasite|Drakh Keeper]] from ruining his [[Thanatos Gambit]].}}
* Probably the best way to explain Meredith's relationship with tequila, on ''[[Grey's Anatomy]]'', is through this delightful quote, by, of all people, Alex Karev, who wasn't exactly her BFF:
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* Just about every ''[[M*A*S*H (television)]]'' character was prone to this at some point or another.
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'''Margaret:''' No... just taking them out for a little swim. }}
* Modus operandi of [[Gossip Girl|Chuck Bass]].
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** Also, Olivia does this so often it's pretty much her nightly ritual now.
*** At this point, most of the cast has gotten in on this at one point or another.
* On ''[[Good Times]]'', Keith does this after feeling frustrated about not being able to play football, working part-time as a cab driver, and the lack of full-time work. The drinking escalates when his old college roommate (now a pro football player) comes to visit. Keith then starts insulting everyone around him and he slaps Thelma. Thelma packs his bags and tells him that he can either quit drinking for good and stop feeling sorry for himself or he can leave her for good. Keith chooses Thelma.
* Colleen McMurphy, on ''[[China Beach]]''.
* In ''[[Farscape]]'', Aeryn spends all of "The Choice" drunk while she mourns {{spoiler|Crichton's death.}}
* In ''[[Yes Minister]]'', Jim Hacker, at the end of "The Whisky Priest," seems at first to just [[I Need a Freaking Drink|Need A Freaking Drink]] (OK, several drinks). Then:
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'''Jim''': Whisky priest?
'''Annie''': That's right.
'''Jim''': Good. ''[[Beat]]''. Let's open another bottle.
'''Annie''': You haven't got one.
'''Jim''': That's what you think. *''Turns, opens a red box, which turns to be filled with bottles of whisky''* Who said nothing good ever came out of Whitehall? }}
* During the Las Vegas season of ''[[The Real World]]'', Frank drinks water ''in anger'' during Steven and Trishelle's first hook-up.
* Many [[Korean Drama
** In ''[[Best Love]]'', Ae Jeong drinks an entire bottle of wine in one gulp to make a point, Jae Suk gives a drunken confession of love to his boss, and Aw Hwan mumbles a request to Jenny not to drink red wine with anyone but him. And so on...
** Woo Ri and Min Sook get sloshed while male-bashing in ''[[Can You Hear My Heart]]''. Joon Ha does it one night which leads to his confession that he's the [[Long Lost Sibling]].
** The fusion historical drama ''[[Sungkyunkwan Scandal]]'' has [[Wholesome Crossdresser|Kim Yoon Shik]] giving a drunken Lee Seon Jung a [[Piggyback Cute|ride]] back to the school one night.
** ''[[Twinkle Twinkle]]'': Mostly serious sorrowful drinking, especially by the female leads.
** ''[[You Are Beautiful]]'': Go Mi Nam gets drunk on champaigne his first night and ends up throwing up on the lead singer of the band he just joined. This is after throwing up in a flower pot, {{spoiler|and before anyone knows he's a girl}}.
* In the ''[[Community]]'' episode "[[Community/Recap/S2
* [[Inspector Lynley]], after {{spoiler|his wife's death in the series five finale}}, which he believes is his fault, takes to this. His partner, [[Sarcastic Devotee|DS Barbara Havers]], is not amused, but even though she's his [[Most Important Person]], even ''she'' can't reach him. It takes an [[It's Personal]] case, [[It Makes Sense in Context|a near brush with arrest for murder]], and Barbara nearly being killed to [[He's Back|make him something remotely like himself]] again. The first thing he does after he comes to his senses is apologise to Barbara, after which she remarks, "You know, I probably shouldn't say this, but [[I Need a Freaking Drink|d'you fancy a drink]]?" Clearly, this time she trusts him not to go off the deep end.
* On ''[[Boy Meets World]]'', Cory does this once after his break up with Topanga in season five. In a later episode, Shawn does this after {{spoiler|he is unable to find his real mother.}}
* In the third episode of ''[[Black Mirror (TV series)|Black Mirror]]'' Liam ends up getting drunk after suspecting his wife was flirting with another man. Decides to get the babysitter involved before driving over and attacking the guy.
* On ''[[Lie to Me (TV series)|Lie to Me]]'' Foster gets totally smashed (on a bottle of Lightman's very, very expensive Scotch, no less, which she stole from his office). When he confronts her, she is both hilarious in her chattiness and heartbreakingly honest, as she displays her vulnerability and her love and loyalty for Lightman, while finally taking a stand against his aggressive personality.
== Music ==
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* The Irish folk song "Keg of Brandy" may qualify. The narrator seems to be a (rather sweet) alcoholic tramp who is very world-weary, especially on the subject of romance and marriage.
* For true bottom of the bottle sorrow:
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And all these conductors and porters, and I'm all out of quarters. }}
** What about [[Smile Empty Soul]]'s "Bottom of A Bottle"?
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I do it for the love.... that I find at the bottom of the bottle... }}
::That's [[Tom Waits]], "Bad Liver and a Broken Heart." Waits' voice is almost uniquely suited to this kind of song. He has quite a few other songs like this, including "The Piano Has Been Drinking", "I Hope That I Don't Fall in Love With You", "Invitation to the Blues", and "Saving All My Love for You".
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* "Russia on Ice" by Porcupine Tree
* "The Price of Love" by the Everly Brothers, with its laboured yet lovely rhyme:
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Drink all you can but you won't forget her. }}
* The Byrds' "An empty bottle, a broken heart, and ''You're Still on My Mind''".
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* "Whiskey Lullaby" by Brad Paisley, oddly by both the cheated-on soldier or his cheating girlfriend. It...doesn't help.
* Yowane Haku, the fan-made [[Anthropomorphic Personification]] of clumsy new users to the [[Vocaloid]] software, does this ''constantly'' because she feels she'll never be as good as [[Spotlight-Stealing Squad|Hatsune Miku]], the character on whom she was based. Because of this and her [[The Woobie|woobie]] tendencies, she's become just as [[Ascended Meme|popular]] as Miku herself.
** As of late, [[Ascended Fanon|she and Akita Neru]] eventually became official vocaloids and Haku's popularity led to a rise of instances she was shown to be much more capable of singing than she used to. If it isn't for the previous reason of her dreams of singing as beautifully as Miku being shattered that makes her drink herself into stupor, she does so for the fun or sake of it and usually is portrayed as sluggish, lazy and clumsy, [[Pet the Dog|but a little more happy than originally portrayed]].
*** Of course, this has in turn been met with mixed receptions, since Haku, as mentioned above, is supposed to be the Anthropomorphic Personification of people who fail to use the Vocaloid software effectively/correctly, and doing a bad Miku song/Haku song on purpose defeats, in itself, Haku's raison d'etre.
* "Slo Gin" by Tim Curry is a text book example with lyrics like "slo gin, gotta wash away the pain inside" and the somewhat infamous refrain, "I'm so fucking lonely and I ain't even high".
* "Whiskey Bottle" and "I Got Drunk" by Uncle Tupelo.
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* "Here Comes A Regular" by The Replacements
* [[Bob Dylan]] clocks in with "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues," ending with this verse:
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* "How You Remind Me" by [[Nickelback]] features elements of this.
* The appropriately-named "Drinking Song" by Jenny Owen Youngs. The chorus, "There's solace at the bottom of the bottle", is [[Lyrical Dissonance|oddly cheery.]]
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* "Tear in My Beer" by Hank Williams Sr (and a mashup duet created by his son)
* Invoked by Glaswegian [[Baroque Pop]] band [[Camera Obscura]] in the first verse of "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY_L_rafEs0&feature=related Let's Get Out of This Country]"
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* [[Nas]]'s "Drunk by Myself". What makes this song stand out is the fact that his drinking is accompanied by ''[[Drives Like Crazy|trying to get away from all his troubles in a speeding vehicle.]]''
* In [[Drake]]'s song "Marvin's Room", he is in a club drunk dialing one of his ex-girlfriends.
* "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)", a classic Harold Arlen/Johnny Mercer standard recorded by [[Frank Sinatra]], among others.
* "Death of a Clown" by [[The Kinks]]. ("I'm drowning my sorrows in whiskey and gin...")
* "Hurricane Drunk" by [[Florence
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* Brazil has "Garçom" ("waiter", the guy who the binge drinking protagonist speaks about his broken heart) and "Pinga Ni Mim" ([[Double Entendre]]: as it can be both "drops on me" - as the chorus mentions a leak - and "[[wikipedia:
== New Media ==
* In ''[[Descendant of a Demon Lord]]'' Zappy got pretty drunk after her employer won a siege, and not out of celebration.
== Theater ==
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** Note that this also depends on the production. Some will portray him as just having gotten angry...and some imply that he somehow managed to get a hold of actual alcohol.
* The song "Make It Another Old-Fashioned, Please" from ''[[Panama Hattie]]''.
== Tabletop Games ==
* In ''[[Exalted]]'', Demetheus accidentally killed a friend during a fight, and then proceeded to go on such an ''epic'' sorrow-drowning bender that the Goddess of Intoxicants herself, Burning Feather, came down from Yu-Shan to sober him up.
== Video Games ==
* Gorman in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask]]'' does this with milk, and somehow [[Drunk
** Played straight by an NPC in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess|Twilight Princess]]''. After you complete his quest, and leave his house, you can come back and find him missing. He's gone to the local tavern, and is seated at the bar, crying his eyes out because his girlfriend is seeing someone else.
* ''[[Escape from Monkey Island]]'' has Carla drinking at the microbrewery on Jambalaya Island to forget her time on Monkey Island. Unfortunately, Guybrush inadvertently reminds her of what she was drinking to forget, and she complains "Thanksh a load, Threepwood. Now I gotta shtart all over again."
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'''Carla:''' That depends on the question, doeshn't it? }}
* ''[[Wing Commander (video game)|Wing Commander]] III'': Halfway into the game, [[Colonel Badass|Col.]] [[Player Character|Blair]] drowns his sorrows {{spoiler|after discovering Angel's fate}}. After the cutscene showing {{spoiler|her fate}}, you're given a choice of talking with [[Wrench Wench|Rachel]] or drinking some more. Unless one is a masochist, talking is probably better than drinking.
** Especially because {{spoiler|of the scramble alert following shortly thereafter. Alcohol and spacecraft do not mix, and flying drunk will [[Interface Screw|make your ship behave erratically.]]}}
* Haku Yowane from ''[[Vocaloid
* The Japanese version and the DS retranslation of ''[[Chrono Trigger]]'' implies that Frog did this when he learned King Guardia was wounded in battle, though the act itself is not shown on screen. In the SNES translation, [[Frothy Mugs of Water|such a thing would be unheard of]].
* Similarly happens in ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics Advance]]'', where Cid is originally drinking heavily after the death of his wife. In the [[Bowdlerize|American translation]], he merely has trouble keeping a job.
* The Demoman in ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'' is characterized this way. His melee weapon is the very bottle he draws his "comfort" from, and his taunt for said weapon features him shouting "Cheers, mate!" and taking a hearty swig. A good number of his in-game lines either sound completely drunk or reference his being so ("I'm drunk - you don't have an excuse!", "Imagine if I ''hadn't'' been drunk!", etc.). His "Meet the Team" video features the strongest example of this trope, with him going from sober to somewhat wasted by the end and bemoaning the fact that he is "a black Scottish cyclops".
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* Nearly every dwarf in ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'' has in their bio: "Urist McAlequaffer needs alcohol to get through the working day" and will add "and is working more slowly due to its scarcity" should the fortress run out. Given the myriad horrible things that can (and frequently do) happen to the dwarves, it is rather easy to see why they would drink so much? Besides them being, you know, [[Our Dwarves Are All the Same|dwarves.]]
* Cloud from ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'' is implied to do this rarely and only when he gets really, really, REALLY depressed, like in ''On the Way To a Smile: Case of Tifa''.
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** And watching conspiracy vids, just to see how much bull the public is fed, probably bringing Udina along just to see the conspiracy shitstorm
** During ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'', ''Tali'' of all people is seen getting soused after {{spoiler|Miranda dies on Sanctuary}}. She manages to get wasted off of triple filtered Turian brandy, introduced through an "Emergency induction port".
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'''Tali:''' [[Insistent Terminology|Emeeerrrgency. Induction. Port.]] }}
** Ashley also gets wasted at some point, but you only see the aftermath, what with her curled up on the floor with a massive hangover. Shepard can then proceed to make fun of her.
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'''Ashley:''' I'll pay you a million credits not to do that, sir.
'''Shepard:''' ''Two'' million, and we have a deal.
'''Ashley:''' You're a damned space pirate. }}
* After [[The Force Unleashed|Starkiller]] defeats him at the TIE fighter construction facility above Nar Shaddaa, Rahm Kota is found in a bar in Bespin.
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* Cass, one of your possible companions in ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'' is found doing this in a crappy military bar after her caravans have (suspiciously) been vaporized. She's still [[The Alcoholic]] after she joins your party but at least she isn't depressed.
* Taro Namatame from Persona 4.
* One of the [[Game Over
▲== Webcomics ==
* Largo of ''[[Megatokyo]]'', thanks to Erika. [[Two Words: Obvious Trope|Nine words]]: [[Wham! Episode|"If I sleep with you, will you go away?"]]
* Kevyn in ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]''. It's not so much depression as a [[Brain Bleach|scramble to get a very disgusting image out of his head]] before it gets saved to long-term memory, though.
* Ash tried this in ''[[Misfile]]'' [http://www.misfile.com/index.php?page=255 at one point]; it [[Kissing Under the Influence|didn't work out so good]].
* Sabine in ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]'' does this once when she's enraged at Nale.
* Riff from ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' gets into this after he [https://web.archive.org/web/20170617173636/http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=070828 destroys humanity]. Geez, talk about [[Wangst|emo]].
** Aylee gets in on this too after taking on a [https://web.archive.org/web/20170617170852/http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=071120 human-ish form].
* Raphael in ''[[Mutant Ninja Turtles Gaiden]]'' tended to do this regularly before the start of the storyline. Considering what happened, could you blame him?
* In ''[[General Protection Fault]]'', Dexter does this with donuts after the girl he hooked up with at a speed dating event goes out with someone else. He plans on doing it again at a restaurant when the two dates that his friends arranged for him both leave, until the woman he met at the first speed dating event shows up.
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* Steve from ''[[Questionable Content]]'' does this rather hard in between relationships, and Faye will occasionally tend towards it a little bit too. {{spoiler|Marten did it REALLY hard, drinking a whole bottle after Dora's break-up with him.}}
* [[Immortal Immaturity|China]] from ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' was {{spoiler|[[Tear Jerker|attacked by his brother Japan]]}} and went to a bar to cry about it... only to have the [[Mood Killer|mood killed]] by [[Stepford Smiler|Russia]].
*
* In ''[[Blue Yonder]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20150920183706/http://www.blueyondercomic.net/comics/1310311/blue-yonder-chapter-1-page-30/ a father who drinks himself into oblivion every night is a good motive to help someone else who lost his family.]
* In ''[[The Specialists]]'', [http://thespecialistscomic.com/page-81/ Captain Victory is slipping away a hip flask when he and Max first meet]
* In ''151 Hidden Depths'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20130219014343/http://hiddendepths.smackjeeves.com/comics/1356584/001-bulbasaur/ Bulbasaur does this] after dropping a little girl in a [[Big No|failed rescue attempt]]
* In ''[[No Rest for The Wicked (webcomic)|No Rest for The Wicked]]'', [http://www.forthewicked.net/archive/04i-11.html the Boy observes that back in his village a man, like November, was going mad for lack of sleep -- he resorted to drinking himself under the table.]
* ''[[Three Panel Soul]]'' presents: [http://www.threepanelsoul.com/comic/folk-remedies Woodworth Heart Spackle]. {{spoiler|{{small-caps|It's bourbon.}}}}
* ''[https://mr-culexus.deviantart.com/art/Tie-one-on-5-706794017 Tie one on 5]'' by Mr-Culexus (side art of ''Ragged Edges'') - Krieg Brandy as an anesthetic. In ''[https://mr-culexus.deviantart.com/art/Tie-one-on-3-704389301 Tie one on 3]'', sort of inverted:
{{quote|'''Minhelm''': Some drink to forget. I drink to remember.}}
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* In ''[[I'm a Marvel And I'm a DC]]'', Spider-Man does this once with milkshakes. No explanation is ever given as to why he'd use something non-alcoholic when the majority of the story takes place in a bar.
** Superman did the same thing and even joined him.
** [[Iron Man]] went through this when Batman's movie surpassed his movie. He got so drunk that he ended up at Wayne Manor.
*** [[Iron Man]] getting drunk? Perish the thought!
* ''[[A World of Laughter, A World of Tears]]'' sees President [[Walt Disney]] drowning his despair in whiskey once it's clear how much damage his reaction to the [[Civil Rights Movement]] has done/is going to do.
* [[Homestar Runner|Strong Bad]] drowns his sorrows when he finds out that his friend The Cheat is dating Marzipan.
* In ''[[Theatrica]]'', drowning one's sorrows is just what the doctor ordered.
== Western Animation ==
* Parodied in ''[[Futurama]]''. In "I, Roommate", Bender gets so depressed about Fry throwing him out of their apartment that he ''stops'' drinking and (since robots need alcohol to function properly) starts to act drunk.
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** He even grows a [[Beard of Sorrow]] made out of rust!
* ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' drowns his sorrows in ''ice cream'' on [[The Movie]]. [[Drunk on Milk|It has the same effect on him as alcohol.]]
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* In the ''[[South Park]]'' episode "Ass Burgers", this is effectively what the cynics do, all [[Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory|ridiculousness]] aside. By the end of the episode, this is {{spoiler|what Stan turns to, [[Negative Continuity|possibly]] on a long-term basis, just to get through a normal day.}}
* In the first season finale of ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'', "The Best Night Ever", Spike is disappointed when the girls leave to do their own thing at the Grand Galloping Gala instead of enjoying the night together like he suggested. At the end of the episode, we find Spike's spent the night stuffing his face with donuts and hot cocoa at Pony Joe's donut shop. He even [[Drunk on Milk|briefly acts like a sullen drunk]].
* [[The Legend of Korra]] features Bolin doing this with [[Drunk on Milk|noodles]] after he sees {{spoiler|his crush Korra kiss his brother}}. He becomes uncoordinated, sullen and the next day is clearly hungover.
== Real Life ==
* Sir John A. Macdonald, the first [[Prime Ministers of Canada|Prime Minister of Canada]]. Even in the 1860s and 1870s, Macdonald's drinking binges were legendary, but in truth the poor guy had good reason to want to get loaded, not least of which were the serious financial problems he faced, and the even more serious problems stemming from the poor health of his wife and daughter. On top of all that, Canada has been described by many of its prime ministers as extremely difficult to govern. It's not hard to see why Macdonald would need a good stiff drink now and again.
* It seems that John Kerr, former governor-general of Australia, did this after the public backlash resulting from him dismissal of the Prime Minister in 1975 started to get to him. When presenting the 1977 Melbourne Cup, he was visibly drunk.
* Let's face it: Many, many people do this, and [[The Alcoholic|sometimes they don't stop]].
* There's often a joke about this. Basically, if you're drinking to forget, remember to pay in advance.
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