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* From ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'': "It's always hard being a grown up. That's what alcohol's for."

* Fujisawa-sensei from the ''[[El Hazard]]'' OAV has a moment like this when he realizes that he and his student Makoto [[Not in Kansas Anymore|aren't at Shininome High School anymore]] and scrambles for both a cigarette and a nip from his handy flask:

''[[The Scream|(woman heard screaming off-camera)]]''<br />

'''Makoto:''' Hey!<br />

** In ''[[Discworld/Mort|Mort]]'', one of the mortal pleasures Death attempts is drinking. When he and the bartender discuss his lack of friends, he pauses, then muses aloud that he thinks he could be friends with the next bottle of booze.

* ''[[Good Omens]]'': Crowley and Aziraphale do this after Crowley delivers the newborn Antichrist to the hospital where he'll be switched with another family's baby, and the pair are forced to confront the possibility of [[The End of the World as We Know It]], and all the great things Earth has going for it.

** This also happens to Crowley in the backstory:

* Harry Potter gets his first taste of Ogden's Fire Whiskey in ''[[Harry Potter]] [[Harry Potter (Franchise)/Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows|and the Deathly Hallows]]'' after the Battle Over Little Whinging.

** More fitting this trope is of course Hagrid's reaction to only narrowly escaping the most powerful dark wizard of all times: "Haven't go' any brandy, have yeh, Molly?" asked Hagrid a little shakily, "Fer medicinal purposes?"

* Lightsong, a [[Physical God]] in ''[[Warbreaker]]'', is rather fond of trying to get drunk, despite his long-suffering high priest's insistence that he is physically incapable of getting drunk.

* [[Henry Kuttner|Henry Kuttner's]] character Gallegher works best when plastered anyway, but special mention to the first story (in which he is called Galloway), ''Time Locker''.

And he did. }}

* Used in more than a few volumes of ''[[The Dresden Files]]''. The biggest one occurs in ''Changes'' after Harry learns {{spoiler|he and Susan have an 8-year old daughter she never told him about}}.

* Shows up ''all the time'' in the works of [[Robert Asprin]].

* Shows up in the third book of the ''[[Riftwar Cycle|Serpentwar Saga]]''. Pug, Nakor and Miranda have finally tracked down the legendary wizard Macros the Black in their quest to get his aid in dealing with the Serpent Queen. Miranda (whose background has been a total mystery up to that point) addressed Macros as Daddy and then says

'''Miranda:''' First you need a bath. }}

* In [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s short ''--[[And He Built a Crooked House]]'', Teal hands Bailey a shot of liquor to help revive his wife, but he downs it himself.

* Done on ''[[The Daily Show]]'' when Jon and Mike Huckabee discuss [http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-june-18-2009/exclusive---mike-huckabee-extended-interview-pt--1 abortion and the pro-life movement].

** Jon Stewart after a bad day on ''[[The Daily Show]]'':

* Ben Harper in ''[[My Family]]'' takes this to almost [[Catch Phrase]] levels.

* Happens every now and then on ''[[Babylon 5]].'' In one episode, Londo hands Vir an unpleasant mission while at the bar and Vir finishes off the drink his boss abandoned at the table before heading out. The temptation is probably pretty heavy for [[The Alcoholic|Garibaldi]] at times.

* Jen does this in ''[[The IT Crowd]]'' when hearing of how a high school classmate has the perfect successful life that Jen wished she had.

* Nate says or does this every now and then in ''[[Leverage]]''. As a recovering alchoholic, it's a bad sign. Notably, at the end of ''The Twelve-Step Job'', after he has been in rehab with a happy-pilled Parker for several days.

'''Nate''': I need a drink. }}

* Anya in the ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' episode "Doppelgangland" (3x16). Subverted because [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|she can't get even that]]. "I'm 1,120 years old! Just gimme a frickin' beer!!"

** In a season 7 episode where Buffy is showing the potential slayers the demon bar, Clem plays a particularly frightening joke on them, causing Vi to say, "I could use a shot of that yak urine right about now."

** In season 5, Quentin Travers does the [[Stuffy Brit]] version after Buffy reads him the riot act.

'''Travers:''' I think I could use a glass. }}

* On an episode of ''[[Mork and Mindy]]'', Mork tries to explain religion to Orson, who becomes so confused he decides he needs a drink.

** Also, in the episode "The Real Ghostbusters", Sam and Dean say "I need a drink" in sync after being thoroughly weirded-out by some LARPing fans. ''Of themselves.''

** Also, Castiel does a variation of this in the season 5 finale (when they realise that they are really ''really'' screwed):

** Castiel again, after the events of the episode [[Break the Cutie|"The Dark Side of the Moon."]] In the next episode, after he gets a call from the boys:

'''Castiel''': [[Blatant Lies|No]]. ([[Beat]]) [[Verbal Backspace|Yes]].<br />

'''Sam''': What happened?!<br />

* A noteworthy example in a ''[[MASH]]'' episode is when Hawkeye takes a challenge to abstain from alcohol. The story climaxes with Hawkeye having the terrifying experience of keeping a prisoner's grenade from detonating in the operating room. After the successful conclusion, the gang goes to the Officer's Club where Hawkeye gets a drink saying that he needs it. However, after a few fateful seconds, Hawkeye pushes the drink away saying "I'll have it when I want it, not when I need it."

* Amusingly subverted in one episode of ''[[Bones]]'' (paraphrased):

'''Brennan''': No... to preserve the tissue samples. }}

* ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]''. Kira is helping two rival Bajoran clans resolve a territorial dispute. This exchange ensues.

'''Kira''': Make it a double. }}

* In ''[[The West Wing]]'', when C.J. tells Abbey Bartlet that the swing vote on her medical review board is recusing himself:

* In the ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' episode "Role Model", House is pressured by [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Vogler]] into giving a speech. When House, in mid-speech, goes [[Off the Rails]] (putting it ''very'' mildly), Chase reaches for his glass, presumably of champagne, and downs the whole glass in one gulp.

* Used in ''[[The Inspector Lynley Mysteries]]'' as "D'you fancy a drink?", usually said by one of the partners to the other after a particularly hard case.

* Subverted in an episode of ''[[Monk]]'', in which Monk, who doesn't drink, is visiting Natalie's parents while despairing over a hiring freeze at the police department:

'''Peggy''': Yeah. It's pretty great. }}

* In an episode of ''[[Castle]]'' when Rick is practicing making drinks in the kitchen, his teenage daughter walks in saying "I need a drink." When he gives her A Look, she explains she meant water.

** In another episode, Castle "[[Sophisticated As Hell|quotes]]" [[Ernest Hemingway]] as saying, "Man, I sure could use a drink right about now."

** In on of the earlier epsiodes, Castle takes Beckett to a fancy ball, after being introduced to the mayor, Castle askes Beckett if she wants a drink, he reaction was very much this trope, though she tried to back out of it (Castle ignores her).

'''Castle:''' ''[rolls his eyes and smirks]'' Yeah. Vodka... }}

* In the ''[[30 Rock]]'' episode "Christmas Attack Zone," Liz downs her entire glass of white wine upon learning exactly want Jack was going to do: {{spoiler|ambushing his mother with his biological father to get back at her for her hypocritical disapproval of getting Avery pregnant}}.

* "Seven Days" by [[The Police|Sting]] is about the singer trying to beat a dumb but strong guy for a girl. The second verse ends like this:

I need that beer }}

* "Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota" by [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]

I had to pop myself a beer }}

* Very many [[Country Music]] songs about [[Drowning My Sorrows]], far too many to count, will also have the narrator explaining this in some way.

* "Teenage Daughters" by Martina McBride, however, is a non-[[Drowning My Sorrows]] example (it's, obviously, about the highs and lows of [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|raising teenage daughters]]). The [[Book Ends|first and last stanza]] of the song is:

And if we're being honest, then honestly, I think I need a drink }}

* Also, there's Terri Clark's "The World Needs a Drink", where she fantasizes about gathering all the world powers together for a drink at the bar to forget their troubles.

* [[The Angry Video Game Nerd]] does this quite a lot in response to always having to play such despicable games. His favorite seems to be Rolling Rock, and he apparently believes that the only thing better than [[Super Mario Bros 3]] is having a leprechaun bring him beer.

* [[The Nostalgia Critic]] demonstrated version two in his ''[[Howard the Duck (film)|Howard the Duck]]'' review

** He would later be seen ''chugging'' the Jack straight out of the bottle.

** In the review for Titanic: The Animated Movie, he pulls out progressively larger bottles of Jagermeister until he has one the size of himself.

** [[The Spoony Experiment|Spoony]] did this once. After seeing [[Twilight|Breaking Dawn, part 1]]. For ''real''. (For added points, he's not much of a drinker, but he does keep a small stock in case of company, so he was dancing from rum to vodka to whisky, and also nursed a can of Diet Coke.) And since he didn't want to drink alone, he had a conference call with Linkara and [[Jew Wario]] while he expounded upon the outright terribleness of the movie. For ''an hour and a half''.

* The end of the trivia section on ''[[Transformers]]'' wiki [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/B.O.T._%28episode%29 article] for the [[The Transformers (animation)|G1]] episode B.O.T.:

* Played straight on the online Test Cricket radio station [http://www.testmatchsofa.com/ Test Match Sofa], frequently admits to being run on booze; so much so that a running jingle says "Won't Someone, anyone, fix me a drink""

* [[The Nostalgia Chick]] is a full-blown [[Lady Drunk]], and went straight for the bottle after watching ''The Christmas Shoes''.

== Radio ==

* ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series)|The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy]]'', when it's established that (due to the effects of the Infinite Improbability Drive) Ford and Trillian are the only two members of the core cast who haven't coincidentally met before:

* [[True Capitalist|Ghost]] often invokes this trope by name after a particularly effective set of trolls.

== Theater ==

* ''[[A Very Potter Musical]]'':

== Webcomics ==

* ''[[Nodwick]]'': After Piffany essentially [http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/gamespyarchive/index.php?date=2008-09-17 out-lawyers a pair of devils], one of them proclaims,

* Variation in ''[[Questionable Content]]'' [http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=513 #513]:

** A recent example sees Faye deciding it's time for [http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1798 the emergency bourbon].

** Marten comes in [[Drowning My Sorrows|intending to get drunk]] {{spoiler|to take his mind off Dora}}; [http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1812 when he sees what Pintsize has done to help him with that], it requires immediate application of liquor.

* In ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'', the titular Doctor goes out to a bar after arguing with his parents. He orders a bottle of Jose Cuervo tequila and ''downs the entire bottle in the time it takes the bartender to turn around and get him a shot glass.''

* Variation in "[[Prequel|On the Origins of PCs]]" in ''[[Order of the Stick]]''; when Elan insists [[You All Meet in An Inn|you have to recruit adventurers in a tavern]], Roy asks "Why? I need adventurers, not a drink. ...Well, not JUST a drink."

** And played straight with the Cliffport Police Chief [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0339.html here].

** Aaand Durkon combines it with [[Brain Bleach]] [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0688.html here].

* Ken in ''[[Dork Tower]]'' responds to a badly mangled takeoff of O. Henry's ''Gifts of the Magi'':

** [http://www.dorktower.com/2008/09/12/dorktower679/ Bill also gets in on the act].

* In what is likely an homage to ''[[Airplane!]]'', at one point in ''[[Bob and George]],'' [[Mega Man X|Zero]] mentions "I picked the wrong week to stop snorting [[Transformers|Energon cubes]].

* [http://starslip.com/2009/04/23/starslip-number-1021/ This] ''[[Starslip]]'' strip.

* Roxy does this in [[Homestuck]] at the end of [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006391 this] conversation.

* ''[[Friendship Is Dragons]]'' adds its own take on MLP's scene below.

'''DM:''' [[In and Out of Character|In-character or out-of-character?]]<br />

'''Twilight:''' BOTH! }}

== Western Animation ==

* An episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' has this from [[Captain Ersatz|a parody of]] Michigan J. Frog:

* In ''[[King of the Hill]]'', after Hank gets into a fight with Peggy in a hotel room, he heads to the minibar, sighing and proclaiming, "I need me one of those eight-dollar beers..."

** In the "Returning Japanese" two-parter, Hank and his Japanese half-brother Junichiro are wandering around a subway station looking for Cotton, who plans on [[Too Dumb to Live|spitting in the face of the emperor]]. They pause, and Hank sees a neon billboard advertising beer. He says he could go for a beer that size. Junichiro ''without hesitation'' goes to the nearest vending machine and buys both of them a beer.

** During "Edu-macating Lucky" when Luanne announces {{spoiler|she's pregnant with Lucky's child}} Peggy rather calmly sits down, and tell Bobby to get her "A cold towel, and a glass of bourbon."

* In ''[[Metalocalypse]]'', an episode has the band awakening a lake troll. In the ensuing chaos, Nathan states he needs ''exactly'' one hundred beers. Cut to the Nathan and the band in a bar, asking for one hundred beers.

* ''[[The Dover Boys|The Dover Boys at Pimento University; or, The Rivals of Roquefort Hall]]'':

"Confound them! ''([[Alcohol Hic|HIC!]])''" }}

* In the ''[[Hey Arnold]]'' episode "Helga On The Couch," upon learning her daughter will be attending therapy, Miriam Pataki loudly announces, "I need a smoothie." If you watch enough of the show [[Parental Bonus|(and you're old enough)]] you know she really means something stronger.

** Rarity takes a turn in "Sweet and Elite"; during an upper-crust garden party that her friends have just gatecrashed, she drains a glass of (what appears to be) punch in one shot.

* Another children's cartoon example: Jake from ''[[Adventure Time]]'', when he attends a really boring meeting.