History Main / DrowningMySorrows

* The Canadian TV series ''Butch Patterson: Private Dick'', features a title character who drinks for a number of reasons, not least his shame over his tendency to [[UrineTrouble wet his pants]], to [[OrSoIHeard prematurely ejaculate]], or his inability to have sex without paying a woman for it. He normally keeps up a brave front, but he occasionally lets his private shame and self-pitying show through, bursting into tears, yelling at whoever is in the room and then running away.

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->''"Is it bad when you refer to alcohol as 'pain-go-bye-bye juice'?"''
-->-- '''{{Patton Oswalt}}'''

* In GoodOmens, the demon Crowley once received a commendation from his superiors in Hell for starting the Spanish Inquisition. He didn't actually start it, he just happened to be in the area when it happened. When he finally started looking around to see what this Inquisition was all about, [[EvenEvilHasStandards he ended up spending most of his time afterward]] [[HeroicBSOD drinking himself stupid]].

-->I do if for the drugs... I do it just to feel like I'm alive...

* The scene in the first film when he's drinking because of his and his dead wife's anniversary qualifies, too. Especially because he passes out.

* The scene in the first film when he's drinking because of his anniversary with his dead wife qualifies, too. Especially because he passes out.

* ''SpongeBobSquarePants'' drowns his sorrows in ''ice cream'' on TheMovie. It has the same effect on him as alcohol.

* In ''{{I Dream of Jeannie}}'' Roger and Tony were depressed and decided to get loaded on ice cream sundaes.

--> '''Renee:''' No. Seems that all the problems I have when I start drinking are still there when I stop. [[/folder]]

* A flashback in one episode of ''Frasier'' shows Niles hitting the (wine) bottle especially hard during his divorce with Marris, making a reference to the term when he said, "Who knew my sorrows were such strong swimmers."

* A flashback in one episode of [[Frasier]] shows Niles hitting the (wine) bottle especially hard during his divorce with Marris, making a reference to the term when he said, "Who knew my sorrows were such strong swimmers."

** Don't forget Winky. What she drunk was strong for her, and she drank several bottles a day.

* Parodied by Gorman in ''[=~The Legend Of Zelda: Majora's Mask~=]''...He does the same thing, but with milk.

* In ''MahouSenseiNegima'' one of Negi's fellow teachers accidentally gave him some sake while eating in Satsuki's restaurant. The scene quickly degenerated into this trope as a drunken Negi [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v09/c073/14.html cried out his troubles]].

* Parodied by Gorman in ''[=~The Legend Of Zelda Majora's Mask~=]''...He does the same thing, but with milk.

* David from ''[[BloodPlus Blood+ ]]'' after [[spoiler:the Red Shield's headquarters was sunk in order to kill Diva]] and the associated trip beyond the MoralEventHorizon.
* [[spoiler: Lisa Kujoh aka]] Sumeragi Lee Noriega in ''{{Gundam 00}}'' personally implies that her constant drinking is for this single purpose.

* ''SuperDimensionFortressMacross'': Misa Hayase goes to a bar and gets blind drunk in despair after she misinterprets [[spoiler: Hikaru giving Minmay a place to stay for the night as him rekindling his romance with her]]. She's found by Claudia, who talks to her about [[BetaCouple her own relationship with]] [[BigBrotherMentor Roy Fokker]] over a couple of glasses of wine.
** Roy was this before he met Claudia, which is explained in MacrossZero [[spoiler: with the death of his lover in the events of Zero causing a long segment of depression]].

** And the fiancee herself does it. [[TheAlcoholic For years]].

** Subverted by Urd, who ''needs'' to drink to [[spoiler:restore her powers]].

* Lunch reacts like this in the DragonBallZ anime after the death of Tenshinhan, and subsequently catches ChuckCunninghamSyndrome. (Note that this of course, was {{filler}}. In the manga, she disappeared earlier than that.)

* IronMan, already established as a recovering alcoholic, fell off the proverbial wagon hard when his company got taken over during the [[TheEighties '80s]].

* From TeenTitans.

* In Blackest Night Titans, Red Star was drinking in memory of his family (Pantha and Baby Wildebeest).
* Renee Montoya at the start of FiftyTwo. Of course, at that point it wasn't so much drowning her sorrows as it was [[TheAlcoholic just plain drowning]].

* ''BackToTheFuture'' III has a subversion. Doc goes to get drunk after losing Clara and doesn't actually drink anything, but acts strangely anyway.

* ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' invokes the trope twice; first Indy drowns his sorrows when he thinks [[spoiler: Marion was blown up by the Nazis]], then Belloq ''thinks'' he's drowning his sorrows with Marion, but [[{{Foreshadowing}} as we already know]], she's drinking him under the table to try and escape.

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** Wesley drowned his sorrows [[spoiler:after Fred died.]]. "You drank a great deal of that poison."

* ''BabylonFive'': Vir, after [[spoiler: killing [[TheCaligula Emperor Cartagia]]]]. Notably, the scene manages to go from [[WhatHaveIDone dead serious]] to [[RuleOfFunny completely hilarious]] and back, mostly because Vir doesn't get drunk very often.

** It's also a significant part of [[TheAlcoholic Garibaldi's]] {{backstory}}. [[spoiler: Garibaldi restarts drinking when he realizes that he can't kill Bester for [[MindRape brainwashing]] him into [[MoreThanMindControl accidentally betraying]] Sheridan.]]

* Just about every ''[[MASHTheSeries M* A* S* H]]'' character was prone to this at some point or another.

* After being [[spoiler: killed and brought back to life]] in ''{{Torchwood}}'', Owen went out drinking. This, however, ended badly for him seeing as [[spoiler: dead people can't digest anything.]] He also goes through more mild forms of this after Diane leaves him.

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* Parodied by Gorman in ''TheLegendOfZelda: Majora's Mask''... He does the same thing, but with milk.

** Played straight by an NPC in ''Twilight Princess''. After you complete his quest, and leave his house, you can come back and find him missing. He's gone to the local tavern, and is seated at the bar, crying his eyes out because his girlfriend is seeing someone else.

** Especially because [[spoiler:of the scramble alert following shortly thereafter. Alcohol and spacecraft do not mix, and flying drunk will [[InterfaceScrew make your ship behave erratically]]]].
* Haku Yowane from ''{{Vocaloid}}s'' is notorious for this; she drinks because she knows she's just a failed {{Expy}} of Miku. [[{{Tsundere}} Neru Akita]], on the other hand, has a different way of handling her [[RageAgainstTheReflection jealousy of Miku]]...

-> "They got more [[OverlyLongGag * BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP* ]]s than they got the likes o' me!"

* Cloud from ''FinalFantasyVII'' is implied to do this rarely and only when he gets really, really, REALLY depressed, like in On the Way To a Smile: Case of Tifa.

* This seems to be the source of Oghren's alcoholism in DragonAge: Origins. He got on the sauce after his wife left him and he was restricted from ever carrying a weapon while in the city or fighting in the Deep Roads. Other dwarves openly mock him for it. Constantly.

* SpongeBobSquarePants drowns his sorrows in ''ice cream'' on TheMovie. It has the same effect on him as alcohol.
** Done similarly in FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends, with StraightMan Mac loading himself up on ice cream to forget his troubles. Mac's metabolism can't handle sugar, and he acts like he's on speed.

* Toki Wartooth does this after his father's death in ''{{Metalocalypse}}'', getting hammered numerous times since then. The other band members note on this, with Skwisgaar saying he doesn't want to babysit Toki during Seth's wedding, and everyone being shocked that he's drinking straight vodka in the morning. [[spoiler: Ironically, he knocks out Nathan's assailant with a vodka bottle in the season 2 finale]]

* In ''MahouSenseiNegima'' one of Negi's fellow teachers accidentally gave him some sake while eating in Satsuki's restaurant. The scene quickly degenerated into this trope as a drunken Negi [[http://www.onemanga.com/Mahou_Sensei_Negima%21/73/14/ cried out his troubles]].

* Colleen McMurphy, on ''ChinaBeach''.