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Man, I reek of booze, and I can't remember a thing. Where am I? Oh God, looks like I'm on the ''what did I do last night'' page!

* In the ''[[Street Sharks]]'' fanfiction ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3442555/2/Street_Sharks_Redux Street Sharks Redux]'', the protagonists wake up in a sewage pipe with no memories of how they got there or where their father is. After they mutate into sharks, it slowly comes back to them that [[It Was His Sled|their father's evil assistant]] kidnaped and mutated them.

* The [[ABBA]] fanfiction ''[https://m.wattpad.com/138744104?m=0 She's My Kind of Girl]'' features a [[Les Yay]] moment... [[Hilarity Ensues]].

 

== Huh, I don't remember [[Film]] being here. ==

* In ''[[Lonely Werewolf Girl]]'' this question is asked by Thrix after a night of [[Drowning Our Romantic Sorrows]]. The answer is, her sister's boyfriend.

* ''[[Discworld]]''

{{quote|"Most people, on waking up, accelerate through a quick panicky pre-consciousness check-up: who am I, where am I, who is he/she, good god, why am I cuddling a policeman's helmet, ''what happened last night?''}}

* In the [[Ellery Queen]] novel ''Ten Days Wonder'', Howard Van Horn suffers blackouts. He will wake up days or weeks later with no idea where he is or what he has done in the meantime.

 

 

* Played serious in the "Hangover" episode of ''[[The Alfred Hitchcock Hour]]'', where a binge-drinking executive (Tony Randall) eventually finds out {{spoiler|he killed his wife}}.

* The seventh season opener of ''[[Degrassi the Next Generation]]'' does this to set up a particularly convoluted [[Twist Ending]], where the two drunk people waking up in bed together didn't have sex...but a ton of much, much creepier stuff did happen.

** She also takes her recovering alcoholic former boyfriend out to dinner before his wedding. He orders salmon, and seems to be getting rather tipsy somehow. Seems the sauce contains whiskey, the alcohol of which would normally burn away while cooking. However, he unknowingly ordered the sauce ''on the side'', and gets drunk. The next morning he complains of lower back pain, and doesn't notice that he somehow ended up with a tribal tattoo.

* ''[[My Name Is Earl]]'' features this, when Earl wakes up one morning with a hangover and a married woman {{spoiler|married to ''him''}} who is six months pregnant.

* ''[[Mad Men]]'' features a ''very'' serious one of these after Don Draper wins a [[wikipedia:Clio Awards|Clio Award]]; the blackout lasts from Friday evening to Sunday afternoon, during which Don makes a pitch that succeeds in the worst possible way, hooks up with an adwoman who had been actively seeking him out since the ceremony, then hooks up with ''an entirely different woman'' (apparently the waitress from a nearby diner), who {{spoiler|[[Oh Crap|calls him Dick]] when he wakes up in the morning. Oh, and the reason that the pitch succeeds in the worst possible way? He has to hire an incompetent relative of Jane Sterling's as a copywriter. Peggy is ''pissed''.}}

* The oldest brother, Tony Russo, of ''[[Blossom]]'' had been a recovering drug addict who had huge gaps in his memory. He even once forgot that he went to college and realized it while he was wearing the sweatshirt.

* Happens occasionally on ''[[Law and Order Special Victims Unit|SVU]]'' when a victim is dosed with Rohypnol or similar. Played straight in the episode "Hammered," in which a man genuinely doesn't remember {{spoiler|raping and murdering a woman}} while drunk.

* Erin in the first episode of ''[[Crownies]]'' when she wakes up at home after the office Christmas party, still dressed but missing one stocking, and having no memory of how she got there. She later discovers her bra hanging on the conference room doorknob.

* In ''[[Being Human (UK)]]'', a vampire's dependency on blood is treated like an alcohol addiction. As a result, there are a few scenes of when Mitchell [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|drank the blood of lots of women in the seventies]] and woke up, completely disoriented, covered in blood, and surrounded by broken furniture and dead bodies.

* A much less humorous variation occurs in an episode of ''[[CSI]]'', which focuses on a teenage boy who died during a drug trip. His friend desperately wants to remember what happened that night to catch his killer. {{spoiler|The friend experienced extreme sensitivity to sounds during his trip and strangled the victim to quiet him}}.

'''Leonard''': You might want to check [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}XiSGsHT1vLo youtube]. }}

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGaXV9nAGTo&list=PLF3065756A656DECB&index=123&feature=plpp_video This clip] from the ''[[Criminal Minds]]'' episode "Snake Eyes". [[Big Beautiful Woman|Garcia]] wakes up one morning after having ''way'' too much wine and the only thing she remembers is having a huge fight with her boyfriend Kevin.<ref>Also known as [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Xander]]</ref> So she was freaked out when she saw [[Mr. Fanservice|Morgan]] stepping out of her shower, [[Shirtless Scene|in only a towel]]. {{spoiler|Nothing happened between them. She invited Morgan over, they watched a movie, he slept on the couch. It would be [[Out-of-Character Moment|out-of-character]] for Morgan to take advantage of her like that}}.

 

== Where'd these jokes come from? ==

And how it got here, I haven't a clue. }}

** Buffett uses this trope again in is song: ''Permanent Reminder of a Temporary Feeling''.

** Seems to be a favorite of his, as he employs the trope yet again in ''Semi-True Story''.

* Butthole Surfers' "Who Was in My Room Last Night"

 

== Whose [[Web Comics]] are these? ==

* ''[[Kid Radd]]'' invoked the gag by having the real reason the two guys are in the same bed be a prank by two of the girls moving one of them. Synchronised loud screams of horror follow.

* A story arc in ''[[Misfile]]''. After Ash and Vashiel [http://www.misfile.com/index.php?page=256 wake up in the same bed] with no memory of their alcohol-fueled night, Ash delivers the classic line quoted above. For full context: Ash is a guy in a girl's body, Vashiel is the [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness]] angel who longs for Ash unaware of [[Gender Bender|the situation]], and {{spoiler|all that happened was they passed out, so Rumsiel tucked them in the same bed}}.

'''Amber:''' ''Your facts have no effect on me!'' }}

* Used in ''[[VG Cats]]'' with [[Metroid|Samus]] at a Christmas party.

** Also, at the opening of one of Owns Big Mecha's shows:

{{quote|'''Luther''': [http://sordidcityblues.com/archive.php?chapter{{=}}066&page{{=}}001 This first song has a lot of personal relevance for me, because I seriously do not remember getting this tattoo.]}}

** He couldn't remember the past month, due to being [[Only Mostly Dead|temporarily dead]].

* ''[[Outside Interference]]'': After deciding, while drunk, to kiss Kate at a New Year's party, Gina is relieved to find out, in the next strip, that she chickened out.

* [http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p17 This page] in ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'':

{{quote|'''Dr. [[McNinja]]''': Did I discover time travel?}}

* Sam, of ''[[The Space Between]]'', has this happen to her a lot.

* ''[[Out There]]'' establishes the use of this trope early in its run. On the first night they meet, Miriam and John end up spending the night in a hotel together after she ties one on {{spoiler|(nothing happens, except a [http://outthere.keenspot.com/d/20060710.html REALLY good dream])}}. In another arc about a year later, Miriam and Sherry go out drinking and the next day Miriam's memory of the night is so spotty that she can't remember {{spoiler|[http://outthere.keenspot.com/d/20070707.html if she cut her own hair] (she didn't; Sherry cut it [http://outthere.keenspot.com/d/20070630.html while she was sleeping])}}. Another time, a hung-over Miriam thinks she remembers Sherry sabotaging her one-night stand, and assumes she must be remembering wrong {{spoiler|([http://outthere.keenspot.com/d/20081105.html she isn’t])}}. Not long after, Miriam and {{spoiler|[http://outthere.keenspot.com/d/20090131.html Clayton]}} end up in bed together, and Miriam needs a [http://outthere.keenspot.com/d/20090202.html recap the next day] to find out what happened. Later, while touring with Steven's band, Miriam gets drunk at a party and and is later surprised to find {{spoiler|[http://outthere.keenspot.com/d/20090911.html a phone number written on her belly] in [http://outthere.keenspot.com/d/20090912.html indelible ink].}} Still later, Miriam wakes up on Araceli's couch and has trouble remembering what they did the night before, but she [http://outthere.keenspot.com/d/20100325.html figures it out on her own], confirming (in her own mind) that she doesn't have a drinking problem, after all.

* ''[[Rhapsodies]]'': Paul [http://rhapsodies.wpmorse.com/?p=553 wakes] up [[Not Staying for Breakfast|alone]] {{spoiler|in Nancy's bedroom.}}

* Happens several times to [[Bottle Fairy|Sandra]] in ''[[Ménage à 3]]''. She even repeats the trope title [http://www.menagea3.net/d/20100518.html here].

* ''[[Prequel (webcomic)|Prequel]]'' has [http://foxmage.com/this/story43.gif been there] a few times. It [[Makes Just as Much Sense in Context]].

* Not an uncommon occurance in ''[[SSDD]]'', the [http://www.poisonedminds.com/d/19981005.html fourth comic] actually had the "traffic cone" gag.

* Most people don't remember that [http://megatokyo.com/strip/7 this] was how the protagonists of ''[[Megatokyo]]'' originally got stranded in Japan in the first place.

 

== I don't think I put [[Web Original]] here. ==

* The [[Crosses the Line Twice]] [[The Spoony Experiment|"Spooning with Spoony"]] series features first Nostalgia Chick and then [[The Nostalgia Critic]] waking up in bed with a [[Depraved Bisexual]] version of Spoony. Of course there the implication isn't so much that they got drunk as that they got roofied.

** And then inverted in [[Atop the Fourth Wall|"Linking Up With Linkara"]], where Linkara is happy to find out he's had amazing wild sex with Nostalgia Chick and Marzgurl while drunk...he just wishes he could remember it. And they tell him it was an incredible once-in-a-lifetime event that could never be repeated. {{spoiler|Of course they're just messing with his head.}}

** Later, [[The Nostalgia Chick|Nostalgia Chick and BFF Nella]] play a Hercules drinking game, and wake up surrounded by bunnies, with a third friend dressed like Spider Woman and hanging from a bar by her feet while sleeping, with a strange man in front of the couch making omlets on a hot plate, and Nella's mouth smeared with unfamiliar lipstick. This is capped with the words "based on a true story".

** The lipstick is partly explained...{{spoiler|It was the Makeover Fairy! "They're gonna look so pretty!"}}

** Murder 131 people

** Assault 65 people

* This happens in ''[[Freeman's Mind]]'' when he wakes up in the trash compator having '''completely''' forgot everything that had happened before, the aliens, the gunfights, everything - vaguely remembering that he had killed people in his dream... and a midget was involved...

* This happens at the start of ''[[Chell's Mind|Chells Mind]]'' when she wakes up.

 

 

 

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