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{{quote|'''Lily''': [[I Need a Drink]].
'''Olive''': You're ''holding'' a drink.
'''Lily''': [dumps out drink] I need a ''stronger'' drink.
|''[[Pushing Daisies]]''}}
You know '''Lady Drunk'''. She's that [[Always Female|female]] [[Stock Character]] who's an [[The Alcoholic|alcoholic]], older woman (in her 40s to her 60s or so) and usually has either a bitter, misanthropic personality or is the all-too-grown-up version of the [[Bottle Fairy]]. (In the latter case, she is quite likely to
The character type may have originated with the idea that once the lady who [[Really Gets Around]] loses her looks, she starts drinking as compensation.
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== Anime and Manga ==
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** In the episode "Dick'll Take Manhattan", the Solomons visit an alternate dimension where Mary is a lonely, burnt out lounge singer and fits this trope like a glove.
* Lucille Bluth of ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]''.
* Ellen Tigh from ''[[Battlestar Galactica
** This troper was somewhat amused to note that even after {{spoiler|her husband murders her and she gets resurrected by the Cylons with her full memories restored, Ellen Tigh remains the exact same [[Tsundere|psychotic]], [[Poisonous Friend|poisonous bitch]].}}
*** The way it was played, it ''almost'' seemed as if {{spoiler|she knew all along}}.
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