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{{quote|''Is it me, or is that cockroach shuffling too loudly?''|'''Kryten''', ''[[Red Dwarf]]'', "The Last Day"}}

 

But now the morning light has come and kicked my ass.|'''[[The Offspring]]''', "The Worst Hangover Ever"}}

 

== Literature ==

* [[Robert Heinlein]]'s ''I Will Fear No Evil''. The morning after Joan/Johann and her guests get drunk, she tells her butler to have the staff be quiet around them:

* This condition also pops up in [[David Eddings]]' stories quite often, particularly the Belgariad and Malloreorn, since most of the main characters are Alorns - a people who are justly famous for their hard-drinking lifestyle. Inevitably, the women around them reacts with barely-hidden schadenfreude, though Polgara the Sorceress has been known to prepare an effective remedy for the condition. (Sadly, it tastes so vile that most of the characters prefer to just suffer in silence.)

* Mentioned in ''[[Night World]]'', Ash comments that he reads so much ''because'' he parties so much. All he can do the morning after is stay in bed in his dark room.

* Season four's "Memoriam" of ''[[Criminal Minds]]'' had the team [[Waking Up Elsewhere]] after solving a case. Morgan and Rossi are sitting in the hotel lobby. Prentiss comes in, looking like she has the hangover from hell, and tells everyone to quiet down. JJ comes in, plays with one of the slot machines, and Prentiss [[Death Glare|death glares]] her. [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] for Rossi's pantomime response to JJ's "what's wrong with Prentiss?" question. Can be seen [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arQAApVYdFs here].

** There's the season 7 episode "A Family Affair" where at the end of the episode on the [[Once an Episode|plane ride]] back home, JJ complains about forgetting to book a babysitter for her son so she can go with Prentiss and Garcia to "ladies night out." So [[Insufferable Genius|Reid]] offers to babysit. Cue the [[Oh Crap]] look from Prentiss and JJ. Prentiss is says "he can do a couple of hours." Reid adds, "[[What Could Possibly Go Wrong?]]" [[Smash Cut]] to Hotch's race with the team in crowd. The girls are wearing sunglasses and look like hell.

''(cue amused look from Morgan)'' }}

* There's at least one episode of ''[[Rumpole of the Bailey]]'' wherein, after a night of "carousing" with the chambers clerk Henry, he has to come in to court shading his eyes. It doesn't help that his [[Drink Order|drink of choice]] is a cheap claret.

* ''[[Ashes to Ashes]]'': Alex Drake drinks ''a lot'', bordering on [[Lady Drunk]], but her "oh God, who turned on the sun?" reaction in 1.03 (after mixing champagne with red wine and sleeping with a Thatcherite Wanker with braces) is hysterical.

* ''[[The West Wing]]'': Josh turns up severely hungover the morning after a party, having already been warned by his secretary that he should know by now that he can't hold a drink.

'''Josh:''' Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. ''[collapses onto his desk]'' }}

* ''[[Mad Men]]'': Betty and Don wake up after a night out. Betty says she's going to get the Alka-Seltzer. Don tells her to do it in the other room so he doesn't have to hear the bubbles.

* In ''[[Community]]'' episode [[Community/Recap/S1 E16 Communication Studies|Communication Studies]] Britta, Jeff, and Abed all show sensitivity to lights and sounds after drinking.

* Hawkeye and the other doctors were frequently shown in this state in the earlier, wackier seasons of ''[[M*A*S*H|Mash]]''.

'''Hawkeye''': I'm sorry. I'll be better after I shave my tongue. }}

* The ''[[Glee]]'' episode ''Blame it on the alcohol'', in which the whole club (except, of course, Finn, who was the designated driver) shows up to school in sunglasses after The Rachel Berry House Party Trainwreck Extravaganza.

'''Santana:''' I caught a whiff of hairspray and went ''full'' [[The Exorcist|Linda Blair]] in the girls' bathroom.<br />

'''Mike:''' I told my mom I had the flu, and she made me a traditional tea made out of panda hair.<br />

** Future!Ted also wistfully lampshades this trope in "Murtaugh" by comparing the gang's reactions to a night of hard partying when they were twenty four to when they were thirty. This trope hits them much harder in the latter example.

* In BBC´s ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]'' the third episode of season 3 has Gaius (who at this time is a Goblin) do this.

* Sharona experienced this on an episode of ''[[Monk]]''. It was Spring Break in Mexico, 'nuff said.

* In an episode of ''Cybil'', Cybil's friend Maryann attempts to get information out of a man by trying to outdrink him. (Maryann was a [[Lady Drunk]], but the man was twice her size. She won.) The next morning, she screams in pain when Cybil unzips her purse, and when Cybil and Zoe are arguing very loudly, they could occasionally cut back to Maryann holding her head in pain and shouting things like "Searing pain! Nerve Damage!" "Temporary Blindness!" and "The Taste of Burnt Pennies!"

* In one episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]'', Bart's teacher Ms. Krabappel tells her class "Okay class, today we'll be sitting quietly with the lights off because teacher has a hangover."

* Shows up all over on ''[[Archer]]'' - Pam's often seen drinking a 40 after a night of partying, and Lana wears dark glasses into work after nights of heavy boozing. The only one who's not seen with hangovers is Archer... likely because he's perpetually drinking.

 

 

* In SSDD Norman things bird singing is two loud, so her fires a shotgun at it...

* Happens to most characters in [[Dubious Company]], except [[Drunken Master|Walter]]. Hell, he met [[The Big Girl|Tiren]] by her puking on his shoes during a hangover.

[[Sixth Ranger|Leeroy]]: Am I [[Drinking Contest|indoctrinated]] yet? *Bleeh* }}