History Main / AlcoholicParent

->"Don't you know you've got your daddy's eyes? Daddy was an alcoholic."

* Junko Kaname from MadokaMagica is both a HotMom and a BottleFairy. Episode 3 has her arriving home late and so sloshed that her husband and kids have to tuck her into bed, but otherwise she's a pretty normal person.

* Both of Christopher Hitchcock's parents in {{Everworld}}.

* Shawn's father from BoyMeetsWorld was a recovered alcoholic.

* Robert Chase's mother on ''House''; his father then pulled a {{Disappeared Dad}} when Robert was 15, leaving Chase alone for 5 years to watch as his mother slowly drank herself to death.

* Carolanne Adama from BattlestarGalactica is implied very strongly to have been this.

* Ryuuji's mom Yasuko in ToraDora. Somewhat more understandable as she actually works as a bar hostess, thus her ''job'' includes drinking quite a bit.

** PlayedForDrama as part of Dr Cox's back story. His father's favourite hobby was to get drunk and beat him and his mother through every room in the house. A loving gesture was when he through an empty bottle at young Perry and deliberately miss.

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* Vanessa's mother in ''{{In The Heights}}'', who drinks away Vanessa's wages that were to be spent on their electricity bill.

* Tomoya's father in ''{{Clannad}}''. [[spoiler: He gets better.]]
* Aiko "Anko" Tokosumi's mother in {{Bokurano}}. Specially when [[spoiler: her husband is caught cheating on her and, since he's a popular IntrepidReporter, it becomes a ''very'' public affair.]]
* Jounounchi's father in ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}''; we never see him in person, but there's a pile of bottles outside his door and his only interaction with his son is drunken ranting.
* [[spoiler: Kevin Smith's father, George]] in ''ThePrinceOfTennis''
* Miyata's father in ''HajimeNoIppo'' was this after losing his boxing career, which causes his wife to divorce him. He gets better when he sees his son has inherited his talent and decides to help him, becoming both his coach and a [[GoodParents good single father.]]
* [[spoiler: Sakuya Ookuchi's mother Reiko]] in ''SensualPhrase''. [[spoiler: Who actully drank herself to death.]]

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* [[ToKillAMockingbird Bob Ewell]].

* [[spoiler: Sakuya Ookuchi's deceased mother]] in ''SensualPhrase''.

* According to WordOfGod, Miriam Pataki on ''HeyArnold!'' The show hints it fairly strongly with her overall lethargic and depressive personality, as well as her allusions to [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar "coffee" and "smoothies."]] It's also stated in "The Beeper Queen" that she's lost her driver's license, which could be inferred to be due to a DUI violation.

* On ''{{Scrubs}}'', Dr. Cox can be a pretty heavy drinker even after having his son Jack. Cox controls himself at home and is a loving father, but it didn't keep Jack's first full sentence from being "Daddy drinks lots."

* ''{{Film/Cherrybomb}}'': Luke's father is a shambling, drunken wreck who [[spoiler: unsuccessfully [[DrivenToSuicide tries to kill himself]], and then [[ParantalAbandonment abandons his son]] altogether.]]

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* Aiko "Anko" Tokosumi's mother in {{Bokurano}}.

* Ryuuji's mom Yasuko in ToraDora. Somewhat more understandable as she works as a bar hostess, thus her ''job'' includes drinking quite a bit.

* ''{{iCarly}}'': Sam's mother is implied to be this, with lines like her being passed out on the couch, and various other subtle indications that the mother is an alcoholic wreck.

* Homer Simpson from ''TheSimpsons''
** To the point that one of the contact numbers at Springfield Elementary is at Moe's Tavern.

* Clay Puppington on ''MoralOrel''
** Clay starts off played for laughs. Then we start seeing the effects it has on his family and Orel in particular, and it veers right into DudeNotFunny.

* Peter Griffin from ''{{FamilyGuy}}''.
** He got that from his biological [[StopBeingStereotypical Irish father]]. It's a great honor in Ireland to be the town drunk.

* IronMan might have gotten his alcoholism from his father.

* A possible subversion on ''{{South Park.}}'' Randy Marsh likes to drink with friends, but is only seen drunk in a couple episodes. In one episode he gets a DUI, has to attend AA meetings, where instead of taking responsibility and controlling his behavior, he is told he has a "disease." At the end of the episode, he possibly learns discipline and self-control.

* A possible subversion on ''{{South Park.}} Randy Marsh likes to drink with friends, but is only seen drunk in a couple episodes. In one episode he gets a DUI, has to attend AA meetings, where instead of taking responsibility and controlling his behavior, he is told he has a "disease." At the end of the episode, he possibly learns discipline and self-control.

* Any time RobertDowneyJr. plays someone with kids:
** CharlieBartlett

* CaptanAmerica's father was an alcoholic but Steve still loved him.

* Tomoya's father in ''{{Clannad}}''.
* Anko's mother in {{Bokurano}}

* Yusuke's mom in ''{{Yu Yu Hakusho}}''.

*Kitty on ''ThatSeventiesShow''. (It was pretty subtle in the beginng, but it reached near [[IncrediblyLamePun lampshade]] proportions by the end of the series)

*According to WordOfGod, Miriam Pataki on ''HeyArnold!'' The show hints it fairly strongly with her overall lethargic and depressive personality, as well as her allusions to "coffee" and "smoothies." It's also stated in "The Beeper Queen" that she's lost her driver's license, which could be inferred to be due to a DUI violation.