History Main / ARoundOfDrinksForTheHouse

** ''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.
** ''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 UsefulNotes/WorldWarI.
** ''Unnatural Issue'': Lord Peter Almsley goes undercover as the new gamekeeper. He combines introducing himself to the village and making friends with them in the traditional way, by buying a round for the regulars at the village pub.

* In ''[[Literature/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.
* In the Creator/MercedesLackey novel ''[[Literature/ElementalMasters 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 UsefulNotes/WorldWarI.

* [[Anime/RageOfBahamutGenesis Favaro]]'s policy every time he successfully hunts down a bounty is to invite everyone to a drink.

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

--> 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!

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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 ($59,000).

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--> 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!

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* In the Creator/MercedesLackey novel ''[[Literature/ElementalMasters 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 UsefulNotes/{{WWI}}.

* The song "[[http://youtu.be/p7Mi2-_4bTA Solomon Jones]]" by Aceyalone & RJD2.

* ''Film/TheProducers': Max does this while celebrating with Leo, although his display of generosity is somewhat undercut by the fact that there is exactly one other patron in the bar at the time.

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

* 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!"

* [[BradPitt Paul Maclean]] does this in the gambling den in ''Film/ARiverRunsThroughIt'', believing he's about to have a lucky night.
* The theatre producer does this in the inn in ''ShakespeareInLove'', before exclaiming, apropos of nothing, "Oh, [[AnachronismStew happy hour!]]"

* ''HotShots'' plays this for laughs. One character announces that he's buying drinks for everyone, and incites a riot, complete with patrons FastRoping into the bar from the roof.

* Happens several times in ''TheQuietMan'', and during the big fight scene, the bartender, Thornton and Danaher verbally fight over who's buying the drinks.

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

* 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.
* In the Creator/MercedesLackey novel ''[[ElementalMasters 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 UsefulNotes/{{WWI}}.

* In the Creator/MercedesLackey novel ''[[ElementalMasters 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}}.

* 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.]]

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

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

* 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]].
* ''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.
* In ''{{Frasier}}'', when Niles is trying to persuade Daphne's father Harold to reconcile with her mother, this is the only way he can silence the jeering and get Harry's attention for five seconds.

* This starts off the events of "[[ComicBook/BuckGodotZapGunForHire PSmith]]" -- Al the bartender meets the Thuxian of his dreams, and it's free drinks for everyone.
* 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 Joe Dalton planning to take over the saloon...

* An actual gameplay mechanic in the ''VideoGame/UnchartedWaters'' series: Buying a round of drinks for the entire tavern increases the number of sailors you can hire into your crew directly afterwards.

* In ''VideoGame/DragonAge'' ''Origins'', the Warden can convince/threaten Lloyd the bartender of Redcliffe's tavern to allow the militia to drink for free. Since their village is about to be attacked by another ZombieApocalypse, [[INeedAFreakingDrink they need those drinks]]. Best part? The Warden doesn't have to spend a single copper. He/she can simply ''threaten to murder Lloyd'' and take ownership of his tavern!

* Henry Chinaski's "For all my friends!" in ''{{Barfly}}''.

* In the Creator/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}}.

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