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▲[[File:Simpsons_Shot_2_2997.jpg|link=The Simpsons|right|When one "[[I Need a Freaking Drink|Freaking Drink]]" isn't enough.]]
{{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''}}
When characters get frustrated, they [[I Need a Freaking Drink|need a freaking drink]]. But when they are depressed, they get drunk. Then they might start acting very strangely indeed.
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'''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 (Comic Book)|Ninjette]] is the [[Bottle Fairy]] she is.
* [[Superman]] went to the bottle in response to losing all of his powers in ''[[JLA: Act of God (Comic Book)|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 (Comic Book)|All Fall Down]]'', Portia resorts to this after the loss of her powers, as do several superhero wannabes after being disarmed by the Ghoul.
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'''Prince:''' Ashamed of what?<br />
'''Tippler:''' Ashamed of drinking! }}
* In the first ''[[Red Dwarf (TV)|Red Dwarf]]'' novel, ''Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers'', Lister's response to finding out that [[Everybody's Dead, Dave]] is a [[Freak
* [[H. Beam Piper]]'s ''[[Little Fuzzy]]'' has a sad-whimsical description of the process:
{{quote| Take a drink because you pity yourself, and then the drink pities you and has a drink, and then two good drinks get together and that calls for drinks all around.}}
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* "Hurricane Drunk" by [[Florence and The Machine (Music)|Florence and The Machine]]:
{{quote| I'm going out/I'm going to drink myself to death.}}
* 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 "[
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== Video Games ==
* Gorman in ''[[The Legend of Zelda Majoras Mask (Video Game)|The Legend Of Zelda: Majora's Mask]]'' does this with milk, and somehow [[Drunk On Malts|ends up drunk anyway]], even though [[Lampshade Hanging|he himself states this is impossible]].
** Played straight by an NPC in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Video Game)|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."
{{quote| '''Guybrush:''' Drinking isn't the answer, Carla."<br />
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== 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 (Webcomic)|Schlock Mercenary]]''. It's not so much depression as a 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]].
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