History Main / ARoundOfDrinksForTheHouse

* In the MercedesLackey novel ''Phoenix and Ashes'', Reginald routinely offers to buy rounds at the local pub. He's loaded and knows that the guys he befriended there [[INeedAFreakingDrink could use a drink]] since many of them (like him) were sent home after being injured in {{WWI}}.

* Happens several times in the ComicBook/LuckyLuke comics. For example, when the Dalton Brothers come to a city in Canada, a gold digger arrives and uses his gold to buy a round. The saloon owner says that the gold diggers all do that and then go back to digging gold for another six months. Cue to Joe Dalton planning to take over the saloon...

* Happens several times in the LuckyLuke comics. For example, when the Dalton Brothers come to a city in Canada, a gold digger arrives and uses his gold to buy a round. The saloon owner says that the gold diggers all do that and then go back to digging gold for another six months. Cue to Joe Dalton planning to take over the saloon...

* ''[[Literature/OliverTwist Oliver!]]'' -- discussed (optimistically) in "Consider Yourself";

* ''[[OliverTwist Oliver!]]'' -- discussed (optimistically) in "Consider Yourself";

* In 2004 a businessman at a London nightclub said "[[http://www.wiziq.com/tutorial/75081-The-Drinks-Are-On-Me The drinks are on me]]". The nightclub patrons ordered 110 bottles of champagne, and he ended up with a bill for more than 42,000 pounds ($59,000).

* In ''MassEffect2'', Shepherd can buy drinks for all of [[BadGuyBar Afterlife's]] patrons. The bartender tells him/her that there are a lot of patrons there that night and gives them the option of weaselling out.
* In ''VideoGame/MountAndBlade'', buying booze for everyone in town increases your reputation for that town.

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''. In the 1st Edition Dungeons Master's Guide, buying a round of drinks for the house was part of the cost for "Frequenting Inns and Taverns", one of the techniques for finding potential henchmen.

* ''DungeonsAndDragons''. In the 1st Edition Dungeons Master's Guide, buying a round of drinks for the house was part of the cost for "Frequenting Inns and Taverns", one of the techniques for finding potential henchmen.

* In the ''Series/{{Babylon 5}}'' episode "Soul Mates", Londo is seen celebrating his impending divorce by getting smashed and buying drinks for everyone within range. "Barkeep! Another round for all my friends!"

* On ''DuckTales'', after being totally humiliated in a bar, Scrooge [=McDuck=] subverts this trope:

* In ''Discworld/{{Snuff}}'', Vimes several times buys a round for all the patrons in a bar situated on his land, generally as a way to earn their gratitude, and once in an attempt to avert a BarBrawl.

* At DuckTales, after being totally humilliated in a bar, Scrooge Mc Duck subverts this trope:
--> And to show you there are not hard feelings, [[OutOfCharacterMoment I want to pay for a drink to everyone]]… who didn’t laugh at me!

Reasons to do this vary almost as much as reasons to drink in the first place. Maybe the buyer just won the lottery. Maybe there's a tense situation between a couple of patrons, and someone wants to avert a BarBrawl. Maybe they're just [[AlcoholInducedIdiocy drunk, stupid]], in possession of [[CreditCardPlot a credit card]] and overcome with love for mankind. It's also a tradition for golfers who've scored a [[CriticalHit hole-in-one]] (be thankful -- in Japan, the tradition is to buy everyone expensive gifts), and for new fathers (known as "wetting the baby's head").

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* ''HowIMetYourMother'' has Barney loudly declare he's buying champagne for everyone in the bar. After the cheers die down, he quietly tells the bartender to give everyone ginger ale.

* In ''MountAndBlade'', buying booze for everyone in town increases your reputation for that town.

In a moment of celebration (or madness), someone announces that everyone's drinks are on them! They might be a bartender, or a patron, or just an excitable party guest, but who cares who's paying for it? It's free booze!

Frequently parodied when after a moment's thought, the announcer realises just how many people there are, and [[AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted how much this is going to cost them]]...

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* In ''TheMuppetMovie'', Fozzie defuses a BarBrawl by impersonating the bartender and shouting "Drinks are on the house!" Of course, this being the Muppets, this causes all of the brawlers to race to the roof of the bar [[LiteralMinded where they look futilely for the drinks.]]

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* ''Vagabonds of {{Gor}}'': Tarl is in a makeshift tavern in an enemy encampment when a BoisterousBruiser with whom he'd had previous dealings (to said bruiser's detriment) comes in to buy a round of drinks for everyone.

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* ''MyNameIsEarl'': Earl & Randy discovered that if a golfer hits a hole in one the tradition is for that golfer to buy a round for everyone in the clubhouse. So they make sure that that golfer gets a hole in one every time.
* Subverted in the [[SoOKItsAverage short lived]] detective series ''{{Mayo}}'', where the titular character would say this to his team and be turned down by all of them [[EveryEpisodeEnding at the end of every episode]].
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. Warren announces that drinks are on him at the local demon bar to celebrate the fact that he's a BigBad who killed the Slayer. The demons respond by laughing at him, because they've already heard that Buffy survived the attack.
* ''HowIMetYourMother'' has Barney loudly declare he's buying champagne for everyone in the bar. After the cheers die down, he quietly tells the bartender to give everyone ginger ale.

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* Big and Rich's song "Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy" has this line- "And I buy the bar a double round of Crown".

* The song "[[http://youtu.be/p7Mi2-_4bTA Solomon Jones]]" by Aceyalone & RJD2.
-->''When, out of the night, which was dark and cold, into the smoke-filled dimly lit room''
-->''Stumbled into thug who smelled like bud, and his eyes looked high as the moon''
-->''He looked like a man with his foot in the grave, and his lifetime 'bout to be out''

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* ''DungeonsAndDragons''. In the 1st Edition Dungeons Master's Guide, buying a round of drinks for the house was part of the cost for "Frequenting Inns and Taverns", one of the techniques for finding potential henchmen.

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* In 2004 a businessman at a London nightclub said "[[http://www.wiziq.com/tutorial/75081-The-Drinks-Are-On-Me The drinks are on me]]". The nightclub patrons ordered 110 bottles of champagne, and he ended up with a bill for more than 42,000 pounds ($59,000).

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* Moe, on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', celebrates Homer and Marge reaffirming their love by announcing "Hey, everybody! For the next 15 minutes, 1/3 off on every pitcher! ...only one per customer... Hey, no sharing!"

* Parodied in TexAvery's ''TheShootingOfDanMcgoo'', when someone calls for drinks on the house. Sure enough everybody runs to the roof and starts drinking.

* In ''MountAndBlade'', buying booze for everyone in town increases your reputation for that town.

* RedTails has our heroes given a round on the house in the officer's club in thanks for their bravery.

* In MountAndBlade buying booze for everyone in town increases your reputation for that town.

* This starts off the events of "[[BuckGodotZapGunForHire PSmith]]" -- Al the bartender meets the Thuxian of his dreams, and it's free drinks for everyone.

* ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. Warren announces that drinks are on him at the local demon bar to celebrate the fact that he's a BigBad who killed the Slayer. The demons respond by laughing at him, because they've already heard that Buffy survived the attack.

* In ''{{Rugrats}}'', "the drinks are on me" resulted in [[LiteralMinded everyone dumping their drinks on the character in question's head]].

* In ''MassEffect2'', Shepherd can buy drinks for all of [[BadGuyBar Underworld's]] patrons. The bartender tells him[=/=]her that there are a lot of patrons there that night and gives them the option of weaselling out.

* This is a gameplay mechanic in the ''VideoGame/UnchartedWaters'' series: ordering a round of drinks for the entire tavern gave a temporary bonus to how many sailors you could hire there. The more money you spend on the drinks, the larger the bonus.

* ''{{Oliver}}'' -- discussed (optimistically) in "Consider Yourself";

* In ''Discworld/{{Snuff}}'', Vimes several times buys a round for all the patrons in a bar situated on his land, generally as a way to earn their gratitude, and once in an attempt to avert a BarBrawl.

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Advertising variation: A popular British TV campaign of the 60s featured The Milky Bar Kid (a boy in a cowboy outfit) who would declare "The Milky Bars are on me!" at the end of every ad.


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Literature: In ''[[ElementalMasters Reserved for the Cat]]'', Jonathan pretends to be someone who just won a lot of money and is buying rounds to celebrate as a way to keep a reporter occupied while Thomas and Wolf search the reporter's apartment.

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* In Jason Michael Carrol's song ''Where I'm From'', the narrator's in the first class section of a plane. The man next to him says that the drinks up there are free, and he says "the first one can be on me".

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* [[BradPitt Paul Maclean]] does this in the gambling den in ''ARiverRunsThroughIt'', believing he's about to have a lucky night.

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* The song "[[http://youtu.be/p7Mi2-_4bTA Solomon Jones]]" by Aceyalone & RJD2.
-->''When, out of the night, which was dark and cold, into the smoke-filled dimly lit room''
-->''Stumbled into thug who smelled like bud, and his eyes looked high as the moon''
-->''He looked like a man with his foot in the grave, and his lifetime 'bout to be out''
-->''Yet he slapped down some hundred dollar bills on the bar, and he yelled out "Drinks on the house"''

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A celebrating theatre producer does this in the inn in ''ShakespeareInLove'', before exclaiming, apropos of nothing, "Oh, [[AnachronismStew happy hour!]]"

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Parodied in TexAvery's TheShootingofDanMcgoo, when someone calls for drinks on the house. Sure enough everybody runs to the roof and starts and drinking.

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In the MercedesLackey novel ''Phoenix and Ashes'', Reginald routinely offers to buy rounds at the local pub. He's loaded and knows that the guys there he befriended [[INeedAFreakingDrink could use a drink]] since many of them (like him) were sent home after being injured in The Great War. (WWI to us.)

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* ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. Warren announces that drinks are on him at the local demon bar to celebrate the fact that he's a BigBad who killed the Slayer. The demons respond by laughing at him, because they've already heard that Buffy survived the attack.

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