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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''Is it me, or is that cockroach shuffling too loudly?''|'''Kryten''', ''[[
▲{{quote|''Is it me, or is that cockroach shuffling too loudly?''|'''Kryten''', ''[[Red Dwarf (TV)|Red Dwarf]]'', "The Last Day"}}
▲{{quote|Went out drinking late last night. I had a blast<br />
But now the morning light has come and kicked my ass.|'''[[The Offspring]]''', "The Worst Hangover Ever"}}
So a character has had a long night. Maybe he was playing a [[Drinking Game|certain kind of game]], or maybe he just [[Can't Hold His Liquor]] at the bar. But whatever the reason, he was blind drunk the night before, meaning that the next morning is one of the worst days of his life.
What do you get when you spend a night of endless drinking and carousing with friends? A hangover, of course! And when a character's got a hangover, chances are he's also got
Doubtlessly a case of [[Truth in Television]], [[As You Know|as many of us know]], a ridiculous amount of irritability and sensitivity is the best way to show someone paying the price for their drunken adventures the night before. The most common ways to show a character's hangover are:
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See [[Hideous Hangover Cure]] and [[Must Have Caffeine]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* In ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'', after getting really drunk, a hungover England covers his head with a blanket and weakly groans "Why won't the lights just shut up? I swear, I'm never going to drink again. Someone, please kill me."
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* In a 1958 romantic comedy named ''Teacher's Pet'', Gig Young undergoes this effect after a long night. As chimes in his house begin to go off, he takes special care to cease each of their individual motions.
* In ''[[The Philadelphia Story]]'', starring [[Katharine Hepburn]], there is one morning where several principal characters are hung over. There are a few gags concerning their massive ear sensitivity while exchanging dialogue, as well as Katharine Hepburn shielding her eyes from the morning sun.
* In ''[[Fiddler
* In ''[[Pillow Talk]]'', starring Rock Hudson and Doris Day, Rock Hudson wakes up to what he considers a particularly strong hangover. As his co-star Tony Randall dials a telephone, he protests 'Not so loud!'
* "Futtocks End" (written by, and starring, Ronnie Barker) is a film with no dialogue, only sound effects. The morning after a drunken dinner, the characters are seen at breakfast, and we hear what they hear. The lids on serving dishes sound like cymbals crashing, cereal being poured sounds like a cement mixer, and so on.
* In the original version of ''[[The Nutty Professor]]'', after a night drinking as his alter-ego, the titular professor has to teach a class with a hangover. Several shots from his point of view feature very amplified sound effects.
* In ''[[My Man Godfrey]]'', Mrs. Bullock usually has one in the morning. She sees "pixies".
* [[Sherlock Holmes (
== 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:
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* 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.
* In ''[[Vorkosigan Saga|A Civil Campaign]]'', the day after [[Dinner and
* Evoked in one [[Judge Dee]] story, after Ma Jong spends the night in a bar with a poet he's keeping under surveillance.
* The scene where [[The Master and Margarita|Stepa Likhodeyev meets]] [[Satan|Woland]] is probably the best description of hangover and its effects in the literature.
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== Live Action TV ==
* Season four's "Memoriam" of ''[[
** 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.
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''(cue [[Death Glare]] from the girls)''
'''JJ''': ''(deadpan)'' Why are you yelling?
'''Prentiss''': ''(deadpan)'' Make him stop.
'''Morgan''': What did you guys drink last night?
'''Garcia''': The Green Fairy. You're in the FBI, could you get the entire crowd to ''stop cheering''?
''(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.
* An episode of ''[[
* Once on ''[[Just Shoot Me]]'', Maya wakes up from a fashion party with a hangover and arrives to work wearing dark sunglasses and shushing anyone speaking louder than a whisper. Enter Nina (for whom hangovers are a natural state of being) in identical glasses, and the two start shushing each other.
* Charlie from ''[[Two and A Half Men]]'', being the self-professed womanizing boozehound that he is, often wakes up hungover, which provides lots of fun for others, particularly his [[Servile Snarker]] housemaid Bertha.
* ''[[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.
* ''[[
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'''Josh:''' ''[under his breath]'' Not even listening to you now.
'''Donna:''' I SAID ARE YOU GONNA LISTEN TO ME FROM NOW ON?
'''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.
* One of the less used games on ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway
* Mark Antony often suffers from this in ''[[Rome]]'', most notably during the creation of the Triumvirate.
* In ''[[The Nanny]]'' episode "Oy Vey, You're Gay", Maxwell is hung over after a night of partying. At breakfast, he winces from the sounds of his children, which sounded dubbed over with much louder similar versions: Brighton pouring milk on his Rice Krispies (which sounded like firecrackers,) Maggie buttering their toast (sounding like loudly ripping Velcro), and Gracie stirring her chocolate milk (a cowbell.) But when he sees [[Cute but Cacophonic|Fran]], he lets out a [[Big No]].
* In ''[[
* Hawkeye and the other doctors were frequently shown in this state in the earlier, wackier seasons of ''[[
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'''Trapper''': I'm not gonna talk until you stop screaming.
'''Hawkeye''': I'm sorry. I'll be better after I shave my tongue. }}
* The ''[[
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'''Mercedes:''' I have had the worst hangover since Saturday, and it's Monday.
'''Santana:''' I've been dry heaving all weekend. When my mother asked what the sound was, I said I was practicing bird calls.
'''Mike:''' Hey guys. I can't stop barfing.
'''Tina:''' Please don't say barf.
'''Santana:''' I caught a whiff of hairspray and went ''full'' [[The Exorcist
'''Mike:''' I told my mom I had the flu, and she made me a traditional tea made out of panda hair.
'''Tina:''' Can we talk about anything else? }}
* In ''[[
** In "The Scorpion and the Toad", after Lily, Ted, and Robin get hammered trying to cheer Lily up, Ted and Lily are crippled by this the next morning, but Robin's still drunk. And ''very'' boisterously so.
** 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.
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* Sharona experienced this on an episode of ''[[
* 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!"
* The ''[[
* The infamous Globelink Christmas Party in ''Drop the Dead Donkey'' was like this for George, Henry and Dave. It was worsened by the antics of a totally sober and vindictive Damien Day (who came armed with bacon sandwiches and bellowed greetings).
* In ''[[
* Done in an episode of ''[[
* ''[[
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** Likewise, the third game has a scene where Shepard finds Ashley on the floor with a hangover. He can joke about now being the perfect time for a fire drill.
*** And threaten to [[Cool and Unusual Punishment|make Joker sing over the intercom]], no less.
* Conker has some equilibrium, energy, and sound sensitivity issues when hung over in ''[[
== Western Animation ==
* In the ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' episode "Crack That Whip", Dr. Doofenshmirtz suffers from extreme sensitivity to noise, including his own [[Evil Laugh|evil laughter]], when he has "[[Getting Crap Past the Radar|a headache]]" after staying out late [[Card
* ''[[The Fairly
* ''[[The Road to El Dorado]]''. Tulio and Miguel wake up after a night of partying with killer hangovers, complete with sensitivity to light.
* 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.
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== Web Comics ==
* In ''[[SSDD]]'' Norman
* 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.▼
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'''[[Sixth Ranger|Leeroy]]:''' Am I [[Drinking Contest|indoctrinated]] yet? *Bleeh* }}▼
== Web Original
* One
▲* 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.
▲{{quote| [[The Smart Girl|Sal]]: Why do you keep doing this? [[What Have I Done|Why do ''I'']] keep doing this?<br />
▲[[Sixth Ranger|Leeroy]]: Am I [[Drinking Contest|indoctrinated]] yet? *Bleeh* }}
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