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== Comics ==
* In an old ''[[Punch]]'' cartoon, the natives of a pacific Island hear the strains of ''Nellie Dean'' echoing from the crater of the local volcano and comment, "The gods are drunk again".
* Constantine from ''[[Hellblazer (Comic Book)|Hellblazer]]'' tends to sing the bawdy kind when pissed out of his mind.
* Haddock and the [[Tintin (Comic Book)]] start singing a Belgian song after they get drunk off wine-fumes in ''The Crab with the Golden Claws''.
 
== [[Fan Fiction]] ==
* ''[http://rangerboard.com/showthread.php?t=33965 Rangers of the Caribbean]'' does this with the ''[[SpongebobSpongeBob SquarePants]]'' theme.
 
== [[Film]] ==
* In ''[[Jaws (Filmfilm)|Jaws]]'' the sailors bond over booze and "Show Me The Way To Go Home".
* [[Hellboy (Filmfilm)|Hellboy]] and Abe get drunk and sing Barry Manilow's "Can't Smile Without You" in ''Hellboy II: The Golden Army''.
* In ''[[Pinocchio]]'' Foulfellow sings a drunken version of "An Actor's Life For Me."
* ''[[Dumbo (Disney)|Dumbo]]'''s "We're Gonna Hit the Big Boss For a Raise."
* ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' -- "A Pirate's Life For Me"
** ...and really bad eggs!
* Gaston's [[Villain Song]] from ''[[Beauty and The Beast]]'' has elements of this.
* Many Ealing comedies and similar, for example in ''The Bargee'', Harry H Corbett is able to get out of his girlfriend's bed before her large, violent father gets home from the pub because he's singing ''Nellie Dean'' loudly.
* In [[Euro TripEurotrip]], the American protagonists accidentally stumble into a private bar for [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyIrXH-ITw4 burly, belligerent Manchester United fans.] After narrowly avoiding getting their asses kicked by singing an altered version of "My Baby Takes the Morning Train" ([[It Makes Sense in Context]]), the liquor starts flowing and the thugs join them in a rendition.
* In [[The Great Mouse Detective]], where one mouse calls another mouse a "rat" during a song.
* In [[Animal House]] Delta Tau Chi sings "Louie Louie" completely unintelligibly.
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** The full title of "the hedgehog song" is ''The Hedgehog Can Never Be Buggered At All''. That should give you an idea ''[[But You Screw One Goat!|why]]'' it is never sung while sober.
* Male characters in the ''[[Belgariad]]'' '''never''' sing while sober. We're never told what exactly they're singing, but it tends to scare off any birds in the vicinity.
* Hagrid and Professor Slughorn in ''[[Harry Potter (Franchise)/Harry Potter and The Half -Blood Prince|Harry Potter]]'' after Aragog died. Also in the film of the same name.
* One ''[[Doctor Who]]'' [[Eighth Doctor Adventures]] novel has Fitz waking up on a bench, trying to reconstruct what he did last night:
{{quote| The last thing he remembered was joining in a singsong with a group of drunken tourists at Il-Eruk’s Tavern. He’d sung the song about the turnip fish.}}
* In ''[[Gone Withwith the Wind]]'', when Gerald O'Hara is drunk, he sings a song called "Peg in a Low-Backed Car".
 
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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** All the Klingon songs are either opera or this. Both types are spectacularly [[Blood Knight|gory]].
*** A TNG episode had Picard and his older brother get drunk and sing after they have a big fist fight.
* "[[Black AdderBlackadder|See the little goblin, see his little feet...]]" Also, "Merlin the Happy Pig".
** Both of which are probably also [[Bawdy Song|Bawdy Songs]].
* In ''[[Lost (TV)|Lost]]'', after Desmond drinks some bottles of (expensive) wine, he starts singing "The Celtic Song".
* "I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen," the song Ryley sings (badly) over the intercom in ''[[Star Trek: theThe Original Series (TV)|Star Trek the Original Series]]: TOS'' during "The Naked Time."
* A game is made out of this on [[Whose Line Is It Anyway? (TV)|Whose Line Is It Anyway]], The Irish Drinking song, natch.
* In ''[[Babylon 5]]'', Garabaldi sings "Show Me The Way To Go Home" on one occasion when drunk.
* The crew of ''[[Red Dwarf (TV)|Red Dwarf]]'' (minus Kryten), having been celebrating Rimmer's deathday, return to the ship singing "Show Me the Way to Go Home" while tracing three-dimensional esses in space. Later in the same episode, Rimmer sings "Someone to Watch Over Me" in a very plaintive manner. He then degenerates into high-pitched, tuneless humming.
* One episode of ''[[Black Books]]'' has Bernard visit some friends and singing a very [[Stylistic Suck|Irish]] drinking song to their young son. The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14iipXu5wA0 outtakes] reveal that not only did Dylan Moran improvise it, he improvised a whole bunch of them.
 
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** "Five to One" might also count, if only because Morrison was plastered when he sang/shouted that, too.
*** When was Morrison not plastered?
* During the intro track for [[Running Wild (Musicband)|Running Wild]]'s "Port Royal", one can hear some drunk singing "Under Jolly Roger" from the band's last album.
* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAU4B4Fmhkg Cold Gin]" by [[Kiss]].
* A lot of [[Steely Dan]] songs mention some kind of alcoholic beverage, or sound like they're either from the point of view of a morose drunk or about the results of a bender.
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* "The Same Old Music" from ''Vanities''.
* "If I Were a Bell" from ''[[Guys and Dolls]]''.
* "Hot Lover" from the musical version of ''[[Two Gentlemen of Verona (Theatre)|Two Gentlemen of Verona]]''.
* "Let's Toast" from the musical version of ''[[The Prince and Thethe Pauper]]''.
* "Oom-Pah-Pah" from ''[[Oliver! (Theatre)|Oliver]]'': "There's a little ditty they're singing in the city, espec'lly when they've been on the gin or the beer..."
 
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