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An umbrella cocktail will be the regular [[Drink Order]] of a [[Cloudcuckoolander]]. See also [[Gargle Blaster]] for the more potent drinks that get served with these little umbrellas.
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▲== Film ==
* In ''[[The Jerk]]'', Navin is very partial to these. At one point during his millionaire period, he actually gets a machine that dispenses them.
** "Be somebody!"
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{{quote|'''[[Robert Downey, Jr.|Paul Avery]]:''' ''"[[Crowning Moment of Funny|This...can no longer be ignored.]]"''}}
* ''[[Wayne's World]]'': When meeting the network guy to discuss business over drinks, Wayne and network guy drink beer. Garth has something huge, bright blue and garnished with what looks like a whole pineapple.
* ''[[Tron: Legacy]]'', of all things, manages to have
* ''[[UHF (film)|UHF]]'' - Weird Al is facing total failure with his new TV channel and goes to drown his sorrows at the bar with a big fancy umbrella drink. He didn't drink but decided it was a good time to start.
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* ''[[Discworld]]'':
** Ridcully warns people against these in ''[[
** In ''[[
** Featured again in ''[[
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* The Girl Drink Drunk from ''[[The Kids in The Hall]]'' only drinks umbrella drinks...to the point where he mixes one up while sitting with a fellow wino on a park bench.
* In an episode of ''[[The West Wing]]'', John Larroquette's [[Large Ham]] character rants about how he's supposed to be on vacation, being brought drinks with "little [[AcCENT Upon the Wrong SylLABle|UM-brellas]] in them."
* Del Boy has a fondness for these in ''[[Only Fools and Horses]]'', being under the erroneous impression that they make him look sophisiticated.
== [[Video
▲* Ridcully warns people against these in ''[[Discworld/Hogfather|Hogfather]]''. Bilious, the (Oh) God of Hangovers, harbours a particular hatred for them.
▲** In ''[[Discworld/Men At Arms|Men At Arms]]'', Detritus orders a "molten sulphur on coke with phosphoric acid", "with umbrella in it". Nobby's "Slow Comfortable Double Entendre with lemonade and a fruit salad in it" is also an example.
▲** Featured again in ''[[Discworld/Thud|Thud]]'', when Cheery, Angua and Sally go on a girls' night out. Towards the end of the evening, Sally ''throws up'' a humorous umbrella.
* In ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'', the "cocktailcrafting" skill allows you to summon various garnishes to improve your beverages. One of them is a little paper umbrella.
** Most of the drinks made with this skill are deemed "Fruity girl drinks" by the game's [[Lemony Narrator]]. The rest, which require an additional skill, are labeled "Extra-fruity girl drinks". With an ''evil'' paper umbrella, you can mix "Evil fruity girl drinks".
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* In ''[[The Curse of Monkey Island]]'', the umbrella is a plot point: {{spoiler|You have to order a fruity drink with an umbrella in it. The bartender Goodsoup is out, so he'll give you a regular umbrella instead. Doubles as a parachute later.}}
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* [[Horny Devils|Sabine]] of the [[The Order of the Stick|Linear Guild]] is shown drinking a suitably girly pink cocktail with umbrella in [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0252.html this strip].
* [[Girls with Slingshots]]: Quote Jamie:
{{quote|''[http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws84/ Everything tastes better with an umbrella.]''}}
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* One
* Yang Xiao Long explicitly asks for "one of those little umbrellas" when she orders a Strawberry Sunrise at Junior's club in the "Yellow" Trailer for ''[[RWBY]]''.
▲* One particularily memorable thread on [[Image Boards|/m/]] had various posters coming up with recipes for ''[[Gundam]]'' and other [[Humongous Mecha]]-themed cocktails. One of these, "The [[Turn A Gundam (Anime)|Laura Rolla]]", needs to be served with an umbrella for the joke to work. Specifically, {{spoiler|[[Wholesome Crossdresser|you need it to hide the cocktail weiner]].}}
== Western Animation ==▼
* After being unfairly characterized as a coward, [[The Critic|Jay Sherman]] decides to man up and shrug off his perceived wimpiness, and he starts by pounding down an especially frilly one of these.
* Subverted in the episode of ''[[Futurama]]'' titled ''War is the H-Word''.
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{{reflist}}
[[Category:Hard-Drinking Tropes]]
[[Category:Food Tropes]]
▲[[Category:Umbrella Drink]]
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