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== Anime and Manga ==
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Soul Eater]]'', Stein pretends to be drunk to trap Medusa. Unfortunatly even though he gets her to admit she's a witch, he's too late to stop her putting her plan into action.
* Zoro and Nami do this in ''[[One Piece]]'' during Whisky Peak. Nami also used it frequently as a tactic for her pirate robbing prior to becoming a Straw Hat.
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* ''[[Beverly Hills Cop]]''. While in the bar, Axel Foley pretends to be drunk to make an armed robber think he's harmless and get close enough to take him out.
* ''[[The Fugitive (
* ''[[The Sting]]''. Henry Gondorff pretends to be drunk to justify acting offensively toward Doyle Lonnegan. To enhance his act he gargles with gin to get alcohol-laden breath and brings along a gin bottle full of water to drink from.
* Bruce Wayne does this in ''[[Batman Begins]]'', he fakes being drunk as an excuse to insult all of his party guests and shoo them out of his house (thus preventing them getting killed).
* ''[[Beerfest]]'': "We're not that drunk."
* In ''[[Down Periscope]]'', the entire crew of a submarine (minus the sole woman) pretends to be a boatload of drunk fishermen to fool the other side during a war game, singing "Louie Louie" at the top of their lungs and as far from the proper key as they can manage.
* ''[[
* In ''[[Mr. and Mrs. Smith]]'', [[Brad Pitt]]'s character pretends to be drunk and wanders into a room full of targets, asking for a round of poker. He sits down and plays cards with them, tricking them into letting their guards down and eventually shooting them all to death.
* Lucy of ''[[
== Literature ==
* {{spoiler|Dolphus Raymond}} from ''[[To Kill a Mockingbird]]''. He pretends to be a drunk so he doesn't suffer backlash from the fact he's in love with a black girl (and fathered a mulatto).
* The title character of the ''[[
* In the [[Sherlock Holmes]] novel ''A Study in Scarlet'', the murderer returns to the scene of the crime to retrieve an item he left behind, and finds that the police are on the scene, so he pretends to be merely a drunk passerby. (Holmes, hearing about it later, immediately realises the deception from the policeman's description of the "drunk" man's mannerisms.)
* In ''[[Gone
* In the [[Discworld]] novels:
** In ''[[Discworld
{{quote| '''Vimes''': When we find the man responsible, somewhere at the top of the charge sheet is going to be Forcing Commander Vimes To Tip a Whole Bottle of Single Malt On The Carpet. That's a hanging offence.}}
** Inverted in ''[[Discworld
* In one of the ''Bloody Jack'' books, Jacky Faber and one of her female friends fake being drunk in order to fool some guards into drinking some opium-laced liquor. Once the guards are out, they sabotage the cannons that the guards are supposed to be guarding, which ensures their safe escape.
* In ''[[
* In the [[Michael Crichton]] book ''The Great Train Robbery'' (loosely based on an true story), [[The Chessmaster|Edward Pierce]] wanders by acting like a drunken lout to distract a guard outside a railway office, allowing his accomplice to get in long enough to duplicate a key.
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* ''[[Community]]'' [[Subverted Trope|subverts]] this trope in an episode where Jeff Winger's lame attempts to play drunk quickly give way to his being genuinely very drunk.
* In ''[[Burn Notice]]'', pretending to get drunk is one of the spy skills Michael has cultivated.
* Claire Bennet from ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' has [[Nigh Invulnerability]], which extends to her liver. In one scene she is in a [[Drinking Contest]], and wins because she was only pretending that the drink was affecting her. Although she did wait until her father Nathan had gotten completely blitzed on tequila in the ''first'' drinking contest of the episode before stepping up. Swell kid you got there.
* In one episode of ''[[House (TV series)|House]],'' the title character does this to try and break up the relationship between Cuddy and her boyfriend.
* The first episode of ''[[Angel]]'' opens with the title character apparently drunk at a bar, pouring his broken heart out at the bartender. Moments later it turns out he's just faking it and keeping an eye on a group of vampires; as they leave the bar with a couple of unassuming victims, he immediately turns from a blabbering drunk into a smooth dark hero and proceeds to kick ass.
* In ''[[Veronica Mars]]'', Veronica walks into a poker game, picks up a half-empty bottle that the clearly inebriated Duncan has been drinking from all night, and drains it in a single gulp. It was iced tea, and he was faking drunkenness as part of his poker strategy.
* In an episode of ''[[
* In an episode of ''[[Blake's Seven|Blakes Seven]] '', Villa pretends to be drunk so he can make a suggestion on how to fix the current problem (atmosphere leaking out of a hole in the hull) in the form of a rambling remeniscence, but not be called on to undertake the repair himself (because you couldn't give such a dangerous task to someone who was obviously drunk).
* In an episode of ''[[The Man
* The killer in one episode of ''[[Monk]]'' picked a fight while pretending to be drunk so as to attract paparazzi attention, which would then give him an alibi for the murder he was going to commit.
* The Tenth Doctor in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "The Girl In The Fireplace".
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* In ''[[Peep Show]]'', Mark tries to fake an ecstasy high after being given a pill that he doesn't want to take. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* Alistair feigns drunkenness in ''[[As Time Goes By]]'' in the episode where everyone tries to surprise Jean with a trip to Barbados. It's all a bit involved.
* Jessica Fletcher did this once on ''[[Murder, She Wrote]]''.
* ''[[The Professionals]]''. In "The Female Factor", Doyle pretends to be drunk when visiting a high class call girl in order to draw out her pimp, whom [[CI 5]] wishes to interrogate.
* Sam Winchester of ''[[Supernatural]]'' does this in "I Know What You Did Last Summer" to hustle pool.
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== Web Original ==
* ''[[I'm a Marvel And
{{quote| Jeez, you'd have to be on drugs to be this high!}}
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