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{{quote|Went out drinking late last night. I had a blast<br />

* 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".

 

 

* 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.

* 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.

 

== Live Action TV ==

** 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.

{{quote| '''Reid''': ''(cheering as loud as possible)'' A couple of hours. ''A couple of hours!'' You guys didn't come home until sunrise!<br />

''(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.

* 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.

{{quote| '''Donna:''' Are you gonna listen to me from now on?<br />

'''Josh:''' ''[under his breath]'' Not even listening to you now.<br />

'''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.

* 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]].

{{quote| '''Hawkeye''': ''(sleepy tone of voice)'' Trapper? Trapper?<br />

'''Trapper''': I'm not gonna talk until you stop screaming.<br />

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

{{quote| '''Tina:''' I need to close my locker and it's gonna sound like a gunshot.<br />

'''Mercedes:''' I have had the worst hangover since Saturday, and it's Monday.<br />

'''Mike:''' Hey guys. I can't stop barfing.<br />

'''Tina:''' Please don't say barf.<br />

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

'''Tina:''' Can we talk about anything else? }}

** 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.

{{quote| '''Gaius:''' Shhh ! Too much talking ! I have a head like the inside of a drum and a mouth like a badger`s armpit !}}

* 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 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).

 

 

** 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.