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[[File:haddock_drunk_9828.jpg|link=Tintin (Comic Book)/Recap/The Crab With the Golden Claws|frame| Captain, I see a few flaws in that idea of yours.]]
 
 
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[[Alcohol-Induced Idiocy]] can be similar to the [[Idiot Ball]] or any other plot device that depends on [[Contrived Stupidity Tropes|Contrived Stupidity]]. Thus, this trope is related to [[Plot Induced Stupidity]], [[Too Dumb to Live]], [[What an Idiot!]], [[Out-of-Character Moment]], [[What Were You Thinking?]], and [[Phlebotinum-Induced Stupidity]].
 
Can often lead to a character getting an [[Embarrassing Tattoo]] ... or doing something much, much worse. Some of the other results of [[Alcohol-Induced Idiocy]] are covered in the [[What Did I Do Last Night?]], [[You Wake Up in Aa Room]], and [[Sorry, Ociffer...]] tropes. May overlay [[Youth Is Wasted Onon the Dumb]].
 
The [[Alcohol-Induced Idiocy]] trope can also be used as [[An Aesop]] about the dangers of [[Drugs Are Bad|over-consuming alcohol]] and [[Drunk Driver|drunk driving.]]
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== Comics ==
* [[The Alcoholic|Captain Haddock]] of ''[[Tintin (Comic Book)]]'' practically lives by this trope. Highlights include: knocking out an airplane pilot mid-flight for not letting him use the controls, lighting a bonfire in a ''lifeboat'' and exiting a space rocket to try to float back to earth.
* Yeagar from ''[[Nodwick]]'' isn't the cleverest person even when sober, but some of his best (read:most disastrous) ideas usually come to him when drunk.
 
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* At the beginning of ''[[Cool Hand Luke]]'', the title character vandalizes some parking meters after imbibing too much. [[It Got Worse|Things don't get better for him afterward.]]
* ''[[The Fly]]'' (1986 version): in retrospect, Seth Brundle should've waited until he was sober before deciding whether or not to test his matter teleportation device on himself.
* Both ''[[The Hangover (Film)|The Hangover]]'' and ''[[The Hangover (Film)|The Hangover]]: Part II'' obviously.
 
 
== Literature ==
* In [[Gene Stratton Porter]]'s ''[[Freckles (Literature)|Freckles]]'', Freckles is certain that Wessner will not have the courage to return, unless he's half-drunk.
* Used a lot in ''[[Jeeves and Wooster (Literaturenovel)|Jeeves and Wooster]]''. Apparently, [[Captain Obvious|it's a bad idea to try to steal a policeman's helmet when there's a policeman inside it]].
 
 
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* [[Auf Wiedersehen Pet]] has the wake up with an [[Embarrassing Tattoo]] version.
* Lampshaded on the [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]] episode 'Beer Bad' with its [[Devolution Device]] plot that turns the college kids and Buffy into [[All Cavemen Were Neanderthals|neanderthals]].
* ''[[How I Met Your Mother (TV)|How I Met Your Mother]]'' has this all over the place. Ted's apartment is above a bar and they spend a lot of their free time there drinking. From time to time, one or more of them gets really drunk and does something really stupid. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
** The [http://how-i-met-your-mother.wikia.com/wiki/Home_Wreckers "Home Wreckers"] episode had a game where the friends had to guess whether Marshal was drunk or a kid when he did something stupid like putting fireworks in the microwave (Drunk) or when he tried to ride his bike down an extension ladder from the roof of a two story house (Kid).
* A common occurrence on [[ItsIt's Always Sunny in Philadelphia]].
* Trope is somewhat inverted on an episode of ''[[Monk (TV)|Monk]]'' where Stottlemeyer solves a crime because consuming booze actually makes him more intellegent. He just can't remember how he solved, and spends most of the episode trying to figure out what he did on his bender while fighting a hangover the next morning.
* Many of the misdeeds that [[My Name Is Earl|Earl Hickey]] is trying to correct involved alcohol.
* On the second season premiere of ''[[Shameless]]'', the family patriarch is clearly soused when he decides that making a $10,000 bet (when he can barely afford his current booze bottle) is a good idea.
* Somewhere in the region of every third death on ''[[Thousand1000 Ways to Die]]'' begins with the corpse-in-progress drinking.
 
 
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[Wizard School (Webcomic)|Wizard School]]'', drunken [[Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist]] Graham gets a tattoo to 'seal the deal' with an attractive a woman -- and promptly [http://www.meetmyminion.com/?p=1147 wakes up in a room with two children and a talking goat] who inform him that he's [[The Chosen One]].
 
 
== [[Web Original]] ==
* '''[[Questionable Content (Webcomic)|Questionable Content]]'': Marten + taser + alcohol = [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=529 forgetting basic taser safety knowledge].
 
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Futurama (Animation)|Futurama]]'': "Route of All Evil"
{{quote| '''Dwight Conrad:''' I heard alcohol makes you stupid.<br />
'''Fry:''' No I'm... doesnt! }}
* ''[[The Simpsons (Animationanimation)|The Simpsons]]'': happens frequently and is often displayed by Homer (and sometimes Barney).
** In a flashback scene during the "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Homer" episode, Homer, after drinking too much beer at a chili cook-off, decides to take off all his clothes and climb into a cotton-candy machine and pretend he's a "puffy pink cloud."
** From one ''Treehouse Of Terror'' episode:
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