Drunk on Milk: Difference between revisions

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Wallowing in misery at a bar isn't exclusive to realist and noir works, even the [[Wide-Eyed Idealist]] in a [[Sugar Bowl]] can [[Drowning My Sorrows|drown his sorrows]]... Thing is though, he does it with milk, malts, root beer, soda or odder fare. [[Fridge Logic|Despite]] the beverage being non-alcoholic and in fact being loaded with sugar and stimulants, [[Rule of Funny|for some reason]] rather than make him hyper, the drink makes him act drunk and melancholy. In the case of aliens and other nonhumans, this could be the result of [[Bizarre Alien Biology]].

 

If the drinker ''has'' had a tiny amount of actual alcohol, it's [[Can't Hold His Liquor]]. If the drinker ''thinks'' that he's drinking real alcohol and getting drunk on the placebo effect, it's [[Fake High]]. Not to be confused with [[Frothy Mugs of Water]], a type of censorship where words and imagery pertaining to alcohol are edited out.

 

* Lum and Ten from ''[[Urusei Yatsura]]'' wreak havoc when they get extremely drunk on umeboshi (pickled plums, usually regarded as a hangover cure). It turns out that alcohol actually cures them of being drunk, though all this is somewhat justfied by [[Bizarre Alien Biology]].

* Belldandy from ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]'' can guzzle down hard liquor like water without even getting tipsy, but one can of soda and she's plastered. What gets a goddess drunk varies for each goddess: Belldandy's sister Urd can only get drunk off of saké.

* [[Plant Aliens]] [[Cheerful Child|Celine]] of ''[[To LOVE-Ru]]'' gets drunk from drinking cola.

* [[Cute Clumsy Girl|Kisaragi]] from ''[[GA Geijutsuka Art Design Class]]'' can even get drunk on grape soda if she hasn't had sugar in a while.

 

* Obelix in ''[[Asterix]]'' sometimes drinks alcohol (''Asterix and the Laurel Wreath'', for example), but when he and Asterix disagree over the newcomer to the village who's opened a tavern in ''Asterix and Caesar's Gift'', he heads straight to the tavern and orders a goat's milk. Getafix comments "If he's drowning his sorrows in goat's milk, he must have had a fight with Asterix".

* A non-[[Drowning My Sorrows]] [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshading]] in one issue of ''[[The Avengers (Comic Book)|The Avengers]]'': Beast, Wonder Man, Scarlet Witch and Vision are having a night out together, and Beast declares they're going to get "good and sauced". When the waitress points out they've ordered ''virgin'' pina coladas, Hank replies "But we've got ''great'' imaginations!"

* In ''[[Iron Man]]'' #178, the opening story shows a kid cosplaying as the eponymous hero getting expelled from a group of kids pretending to be the Avengers, and subsequently drowning his sorrows on soda. It's a [[Breather Episode]] for the depressing "Tragic Tony Stark" storyline that was going on at the time. You can read it [http://assistanteditorsmonth.blogspot.com/2011/07/iron-man-178-part-1.html here].

* Inverted in the second ''[[Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire]]'' story:

{{quote|'''Woman from Galactic Temperance society''': Surely you don't think I'll be letting you drink alcohol.

'''Al''': Only type I serve! }}

 

* The Old West cliche of the gunslinger going into the bar and ordering sasparilla/sarsparilla. (Also, possibly, Getting Crap Past the Radar, since sasparilla was used to treat syphilis)

* In ''[[Miss Congeniality]]'', we see the heroine ordering a pint of something at the bar. The bartender asks whether she really wants that much. It then turns out to be a pint of ice cream. She even refers to it as getting "chip-faced" (it has chocolate chips).

* In ''[[Death to Smoochy]]'', Sheldon laments the lack of control over his show by sitting at the bar, a bit drunkenly talking about old kid show hosts... while drinking orange juice.

* In ''[[Alien Nation (film)|Alien Nation]]'', the Newcomers get drunk off ''spoiled'' milk. Both the lactic acid in the fermented milk and alcohol are both produced by anaerobic digestion.

* In ''[[A Clockwork Orange]]'', Alex and his violent droogs are first seen with glasses of milk in their hands at their favorite hangout, the Korova Milk Bar. Alex's narration is quick to point out, however, that the milk is laced with various psychotropic drugs to "sharpen you up for a bit of the old ultraviolence."

 

* ''[[Harry Potter]]:'' Winky the House Elf gets drunk on butterbeer, a non- (or very low-) alcoholic beverage usually drunk by underaged wizards without any intoxicating effect.

* In ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'', the Dothraki use fermented horse milk to get drunk.

* Used by Dolphus Raymond in ''[[To Kill a Mockingbird]]'' who plays the town drunk, swigging from a bottle {{spoiler|of Coca-Cola}} in a paper bag, as a convenient excuse to keep the bigoted townspeople from harassing his family for his marriage to a black woman.

 

* In ''[[Babylon 5]]'', Vir can be seen drowning his sorrows with a Shirley Temple, a nonalcoholic children's cocktail.

* One episode of ''[[Reno 911!]]'' has Clementine get drunk from drinking at Kimball's [[The Moral Substitute|Christian singles mixer]] what is revealed to be non-alcoholic beer.

* In one episode of ''[[Bottom]]'', Richie needs a quick shot of booze to settle his nerves. Eddie gives him a shot of Tizer (a soft drink), which does the trick anyway.

* In an episode of ''[[Murphy Brown]]'', Miles gets "drunk" off of punch that he assumes must be full of alcohol. There wasn't a drop of anything remotely alcoholic in that punch.

 

* Simon from ''[[Prozzak]]'' drowns his sorrows in milkshakes.

 

 

** Although it's not ''completely'' a straight example. The Japanese version of the game describes the best-quality milk sold as "milk mixed with magic liquor".

* Several of the protagonists of ''[[Persona 4]]'' get drunk off of non-alcoholic beverages they get at a night club. Unusually, they were just hanging out, with no implications of drowning sorrows- they just happened to get drunk off of regular fruit drinks. It's only Yukiko, Rise and Teddie (the last of whom isn't human and could very well ''actually'' get drunk off nonalcoholic drinks) who get hammered, while everyone else is perfectly sober and wondering what happened to them. Even better, the sloshed ones don't know the drinks aren't alcoholic until after they're drunk, and in-story the others speculated that it's either a placebo effect or a result of "the atmosphere."

** This also happens in the [[Anime of the Game]], except the main character also gets hit by the effects.

 

* Happens with Pepsi in [http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=38 this] ''[[VG Cats]]'' comic.

* Happens on multiple occasions with orange soda in ''[[Housepets]]''

** In the same author's fanfic comics, lactose has the same effect on Kryptonians and Gallifreyans as alcohol does on humans, so [[Superman]] and [[Doctor Who|the Doctor]] really can get drunk on milk.

 

* In ''[[Captain S]]'', the titular captain drowns his sorrows in milkshakes after losing his powers and failing to save videoland, complete with bartender cutting him off.

** In the same e-mail, The Cheat also gets drunk on soy sauce and tries to ''eat'' Bubs' Concession Stand.

** Another e-mail has Strong Bad performing a science experiment of the effects of caffeine on Strong Sad. So he slips a spoonful of Sanka—instant ''decaf''—into Strong Sad's orange juice, and Strong Sad instantly goes into a caffeinated blitz.

* [[The Nostalgia Critic]] does this at one point to spoof the pointlessness of the bar scene in ''[[Jack]]''. He goes through the standard [[I'll Tell You When I've Had Enough!]] conversation, spanks a stuffed monkey and then apologizes to it, declaring it his best friend, and then bemoans having drunk the 2%.

 

* In one episode of ''[[Care Bears|Adventures in Care-a-Lot]]'', Love-a-Lot, bummed out because Cheer apparently forgot her birthday, drowns her sorrows with cups of hot chocolate. After her fourth cup, Funshine asks her if she's had enough.

* On ''[[Arthur (animation)|Arthur]]'', Buster has drowned his sorrows in chocolate shakes on more than one occasion.

* The ''[[Veggie Tales]]'' episode "Silly Singalong 2: The End of Silliness?" opens with Larry, distraught over the cancellation of "Silly Songs with Larry", drowning his sorrows in ice cream. Then he gets a nasty ice cream headache.

* In one old ''[[Tom and Jerry]]'' short, "Blue Cat Blues", Tom goes on a milk binge when depressed.

'''Barman''': Whoa, slow down there. It's not like Expendable Lad's dead or anything, he's just in the hospital with a bruised clavicle.

'''Freakazoid''': I said pour me another, curse your tiny paper hat! If I wanna blitz myself into a papaya-induced hallucination, that's ''my'' business. }}

** In another episode, Bart and Milhouse buy a Squishy that is all syrup, and proceed to get "drunk" from the extreme sugar rush. Bart wakes up the next morning with a hangover, and discovers to his horror that he joined the Junior Campers (Boy Scout [[Expy|expies]]) during their binge. His sister offers [[No Sympathy]].

{{quote|'''Lisa:''' <tsk, tsk, tsk> The remorse of the sugar junkie.}}

* They don't get visibly drunk from it, but when the [[Swat Kats]] throw themselves down on the sofa and pop open a couple of cans of condensed milk (being, after all, cats), the certainly treat it as if they are about to down a few brewskis.

* On ''[[Home Movies]]'', Jason acts like an angry problem drinker when he binges on candy.

{{quote|'''Spike''': Hey, Pony Joe, another donut.

'''Pony Joe''': Don't you think you've had enough?

* In episode 5 of ''[[The Legend of Korra]]'', Bolin gets "drunk" on ''noodles'' after he sees {{spoiler|Korra kiss Mako}} and [[Drowning My Sorrows|gets very sad]]. The next day he acts hungover. Many fans like to think there was some alcohol just offscreen.

* Oil is treated this way in ''[[Transformers Animated]]'': the Constructicons (as construction worker stereotypes) treat it like brewskis, Megatron sips "fine vintages" of the stuff from a goblet (made from a crushed oil drum), and the Autobots even indulge in festive Christmas "oil nog."

{{quote|'''Molly''': Another grenadine milk! Pronto!

'''Skrub Bartender''': Maybe you should stop. You know what they say, "don't drink milk and drive".

 

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