History Main / FrothyMugsofWater

* Averted in ''Fanfic/NewStars'' when Gordon and John, in an attempt to get Maxx more acquainted with Earth culture, treat him to the movie ''Film/ForrestGump'' and a six pack of beer. To be fair, Maxx is from ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'', where characters were regularly shown consuming alcoholic beverages (with it even being shown that the clones have their own bar on Coruscant), and characters on ''Series/TheOrville'' are seen drinking at least once an episode, so this trope need not apply to either of them.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': Eda is very fond of “apple blood”, a craving which definitely seems to have some alcoholic connotations.

* The Creator/{{Dreamworks}} mini-series ''Invasion: America'' has a bowdlerized "kids' version". Lines mentioning alcohol are dropped, leading to some odd conversations. Some entire episodes were dropped which pretty much killed the kids' mini.

** In the music video to "Take It Or Leave It", Riot is first shown at a party staring into a glass with ice in it before he slams it down in anger. The drink is purple like juice. While punch is something that ''is'' served at parties, his forlorn demeanor at the time implies [[DrowningMySorrows it should be something else]]. The fact that he is a 80s rock star makes the image a bit unusual. The purple beverage also appeared in the music video to "Under My Spell" and it is in wine glasses, though it's a bit too off-colour to be wine.

* ''Anime/OutlawStar'': The Toonami edit eliminated references to Gene Starwind drinking alcohol. In one episode, his sleeping off a night of drinking is rewritten as sleeping off a night of overeating, and flashback scenes of Gene imbibing in the bar are cut.

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' has several examples, mainly the fault of 4Kids:

* In the fifth episode of ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'', Gourry has stopped in a town while trying to find Lina. A man at a bar pours him a glass from a white bottle clearly, if poorly, labeled in English as "Milk", and it comes out light blue. This is a little more forgivable, skim milk (0.25%) ''does'' appear bluish under certain conditions.

* ''Ride/TheWizardingWorldOfHarryPotter'' at [[Ride/UniversalStudios Universal Orlando]] has butterbeer complete with a novelty beer mug. It's actually very similar to cream soda with a vanilla/butterscotch-esque, creamy froth on top. Its rival [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Walt Disney World]] rolled out something similar for the Magic Kingdom's Fantasyland expansion. What the [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Gaston's Tavern]] restaurant calls "[=LeFou=]'s Brew" is, according to a visitor's report and taste test, [[http://land.allears.net/blogs/kristin-ford/2012/10/gastons_tavern_in_new_fantasyl_1.html really an apple juice slushie with "passion-fruit-mango foam" (!) on top]]. And it's available in a novelty beer stein or goblet if you pay extra. If one wants actual alcohol in the Magic Kingdom, they'd have to visit the Be Our Guest Restaurant (also ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast''-themed, which makes sense [see Western Animation]) at dinnertime. Incidentally, this "brew" originated -- minus the foam and liquor insinuation -- at Disney's California Adventure as [[WesternAnimation/{{Cars}} Red's Apple Freeze]].

** In fact, the original follows this to a very mild extent: since some of the Strawhats are (even after the {{Timeskip}}) under Japan's legal drinking age of 20, the anime has almost always shown them drinking out of barrel-like mugs since [[Recap/OnePieceSyrupVillageArc Syrup Village]], as a sort of PlausibleDeniability. The manga, which initially favored clear glass steins, eventually followed suit by the end of [[Recap/OnePieceSkypieaArc Skypiea]].

* In the 4Kids dub of ''Manga/OnePiece'', Sanji is seen with a ''lollipop'' instead of a cigarette. This has cropped up elsewhere. The broadcast version of the [=FUNimation=] dub just removes it entirely (which is a lot easier when it's one of the only edits).

%% * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEc5foJ9plE This Aquafina commercial]] invokes the trope quite literally.
%% * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI_rBQIf7II This public service announcement]] from New Zealand's Health Promotion Agency.

* ''Anime/SailorMoon'':
** Zoicite catches Nephrite with a brandy bottle, and he says something like "You're very relaxed". In the Creator/DiC dub, ''[[ShesAManInJapan she]]'' catches him with it and sarcastically says, "Your plan is to poison Sailor Moon's lemonade?" Both Usagi's instances of IntoxicationEnsues have her drinking what's obviously a ridiculously small amount of wine, which was changed into her getting "hyper" from drinking "too much juice".
** The coffee version of this trope was seen in the episode where Usagi and Mamoru visit Ali and An's apartment; thus, Alan and Ann end up making Serena and Darien hot cocoa... ''with a coffee maker''. This is especially ridiculous because it was very much Mamoru's [[MustHaveCaffeine drink of choice]], at one point abandoning his girlfriend in a romantic moment over a flimsy excuse to go drink more coffee.
** Averted in "Protect the Melody of Love! Usagi is a Cupid". Usagi uses her disguise pen to sneak into an adult jazz club. She orders a cream soda, and Luna freaks out that she is ordering a drink at all. DIC handled this by not showing the episode.

* Played with in the June Bride case in ''Manga/CaseClosed'' - the bride's favourite drink is "Lemon Tea", but it was changed to "Lemon Punch" in the ''Case Closed'' dub. It seems weird considering lemon tea ''is'' popular in English speaking countries, but this quirk is that she drank this lemon tea since she was a kid - and is chided as "Childish" and told "This stuff will rot your teeth". Fruit punch on the other hand, is ''very'' sugary and is usually something kids drink.
* ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' also frequently had sake turned into tea in the edited version for Cartoon Network. Of which Ryoko drank. And on which Ryoko got drunk. Yep. Some people just can't hold their tea. Amusingly, different voice actors read the edits: their voices would completely change, mention tea, and then change back.
-->'''Nobuyuki:''' I've brought us some... "tea".\\
'''Katsuhiko:''' Oh, that ''special'' tea.
** They wasted a great PublicServiceAnnouncement moment with that. In the original, when Ryoko offers Tenchi sake, he says he doesn't drink.
* ''Anime/OutlawStar'': The Toonami edit eliminated references to Gene Starwind drinking alcohol. In one episode, his sleeping off a night of drinking is rewritten as sleeping off a night of overeating, and flashback scenes of Gene imbibing in the bar are cut.
* On ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'', one of fighters Yusuke battles is a man named Chu who uses Drunken Fighting and even drinks a potent brew called Ogre Killer (which is known for liver damage and causing blackouts where the drinker wakes up the next day cuddling with a big hairy prisoner in a jail cell). Of course, this is in the original. In the Creator/CartoonNetwork edit, all the drinking references were removed and Chu was rewritten as a boisterous Australian who, [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass despite his clownish antics and erratic behavior, was a skilled fighter]]. He is, however, in the anime seen drinking from an unlabeled bottle several times -they just don't mention what the contents are at all.

* ''Anime/KiddyGrade'': One of the main characters is ReallySevenHundredYearsOld, but looks like a kid. She's often drinking "vintage" grape juice, which may lead her to blush as if it was wine. This one was also in the original Japanese. Lumiere's "grape juice" is undeniably wine.

* ''Anime/YuGiOh'':
** The [[Creator/FourKidsEntertainment 4Kids]] dub turned wine into "grape juice" too. "Gorgonzola cheese, and the world's finest fruit punch" is the go-to snack of Pegasus while watching WesternAnimation/{{Looney Tunes}}-like cartoons and laughing his ass off, which is one of the few cases in which the change ended up [[{{Woolseyism}} making a fair amount of sense]] to fans considering how [[ManChild profoundly childish]] the man is.
** Though, in TheMovie, Pegasus wakes up in the middle of the night thinking he was having a bad dream. He remarks by saying "No more white wine spritzers before bed." Later on, one of his henchmen offers him a [[ExactWords red wine spritzer, which he accepts]]. Take note that the movie was made by 4Kids in the first place, and released in the US before Japan.
* ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'' has sake changed into ''hot sauce''. The related drunken monsters ended up becoming "Dizzy" monsters... off of hot sauce? And this hot sauce causes a ''hangover.'' (They try to explain that it happens because there is a lot of onion in the sauce... [[SarcasmMode makes totally sense]]) Later on, a one-shot pro duelist uses a Wine deck, and while the names of cards are changed to less ridiculous titles ("Wine Token" becomes "Crimson Token", for example), the glass of wine he's holding is colored to look like orange juice.
* An aversion in ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'' -- Yusei is told to go to a BadGuyBar to find a contact. When he gets there, he orders milk from the bartender, not because of any changes in localization, but to take the piss at the bartender who tells him "kids aren't allowed in here". The bartender even begrudgingly serves him milk after Yusei shows proof of who sent him. This scene is unchanged between the original and dub.
* ''Anime/StarBlazers'' had the doctor constantly soused on ''spring [[color:blue:water]]''. Given the context, though, it might as well count as {{Woolseyism}}. Also, toasting with sake was changed to toasting "with [[color:blue:water]] from a favourite spring on Earth". [[note]]Earth has been devastated so that last remaining pure spring water provides a surprisingly moving reminder of what everyone is fighting for.[[/note]]
* ''Anime/SamuraiPizzaCats'' had Guru Lou's drunken behavior explained as the effects of MSG in the food he was eating.
* ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'':
** ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'':
*** A villain (a monster alcoholic Nanimon) is originally shown getting drunk off sake in "[[Recap/DigimonAdventureE27TheGatewayToHome The Gateway to Home]]". The dub changes this to soda. Yes, apparently soda makes Digimon tipsy. "The bubbles go straight to his head."
*** Another episode featured Wizardmon bribing [=DemiDevimon=] with Sake changes things to Wizardmon buying the imp's loyalty with "a bottle of green chili sauce". Apparently, it's great on tacos.
** ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'':
*** In one episode, Mummymon is cooking. He comments, while slopping what's clearly vast amounts of red wine into a pot, that he's adding "just a dash of vinegar".
*** Later that season, during the World Tour arc, the Mamemon Brothers have taken over Versailles Palace so they can eat their Christmas dinner. Clearly drunk, and drinking from what is clearly wine glasses, we hear the line "Mmm, good juice!" in a voice that ''actually sounds drunkenly slurred,'' over a scene during which no one onscreen could have been speaking. Mind you, this was around the time the dubbers started pushing the envelope; the speaker couldn't have been more clearly drunk, and anyone who knows it's a dub of a Japanese show would call shenanigans on a line with no mouth movements.
** A ''Anime/DigimonTamers'' episode based on the tale of the mythical Orochi (who was defeated through its drunkenness) has Orochimon being defeated by the kids plying him with sake. This is suggested by Juri, who's observed customers at her father's bar getting sleepy after too much sake. The dub changes the sake to "milkshakes", with [[DubNameChange Jeri]] saying warm milk makes people sleepy ([[FridgeLogic even though milkshakes are supposed to be cold]]). Additionally, his "Sake Breath" attack is dubbed as "Inferno Blast".
** ''Anime/DigimonDataSquad'' has this too, in the English dub. In the original, Yuishima offers his partner Kamemon some hot sake, while in the English dub it's "warm milk".

* In ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'', the loanword "juice" is a catch-all to describe a variety of flavored drinks, whether they contain actual fruit juice or not. "Ahh... dear Koyomi, buy some juice, will you?" precedes her purchase of milk tea. In another episode, Yomi is going for juice and asks if there are any takers. Only Osaka requests what we would consider "juice" in the usual sense; other responses were "cola", "oolong tea", and... ''"beer"'', prompting Minamo to admonish Yukari not to ask for that. It is a case of TruthInTelevision, as "juice" in Japan can refer to just about any beverage of a sweetened nature. Well, maybe not tea (unless there was enough sugar in it to stand up a yak) but you get the idea.
* ''Anime/SonicX'':
** The 4Kids dub had a scene with a group of journalists being offered some salami at a political party to keep them there until Sonic shows up. In the original, it was a bottle of wine. Exactly what audiences who don't know that make of the inevitable gag when Sonic finally does show up and all the journalists are too drunk for the photo-op is a mystery.
** During the Metarex saga, Eggman goes to a bar Vector is running and has a nice refreshing glass of prune juice.
** There's a famous changed scene in which Knuckles goes into a bar and has a pint of beer, which is inexplicably edited into a fast food restaurant in the 4kids dub.
* When ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundam0080WarInThePocket Gundam 0080]]'' aired on Cartoon Network, all the alcohol bottles had the word "Soda" digitally painted onto them. Given that an important secondary character is a bartender, this made the editing rather surreal.
** And a different secondary character is a stereotypical drunk Russian who pilots his HumongousMecha with a flask hanging from the upper console; they didn't bother editing that.
** They didn't remove the flask, but the dialogue was altered from the commander telling the Russian not to drink too much before battle to asking if the Russian brought his "lucky canteen."
** Similarly, Steiner's cigarette was edited out and replaced with a smoking toothpick.

* ''Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa'' either removes scenes with alcohol or calls it something else in the English dub. Averted in one episode, the dentist episode, where Dedede is seen drinking wine from a wine glass. Surprising because, while no attention was called to it, he still very visibly gulps it down, and they don't make him say anything like "That was good fruit juice!"
* The ''[[Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross Macross]]'' portion of ''Anime/{{Robotech}}'' has Rico, Bron, Konda, and the "punch" at the SDF-1 landing celebration. Surprisingly, a few other references to alcohol were left intact. However, Konda's line can suggest that someone spiked the punch.
--> '''Konda:''' "It's called punch. I don't know what's in this stuff but it's sure got me charged up!"

* ''Anime/LastExile'' provides what might be an interesting inversion--the mugs which look an awful lot like beer steins, reserved by many for special occasions and may be served at bars ''really do contain water''; clean drinking water is a luxury in drought-stricken Anatoray, with special "First Water", the purest form, costing about what a commoner earns in a day.

* The 4Kids dub of ''Anime/OjamajoDoremi'' changed sake into "Sleeping Potion."
* In ''Anime/PanyoPanyoDiGiCharat'', [[SympatheticInspectorAntagonist Inspector Holic]] shows up drunk on orange juice.
* In the Manga of ''Manga/MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch'', the Mermaids get drunk on soda. When Lucia drinks some soda by accident, the resultant mood swings are replaced with [[AppliedPhlebotinum a mood crystal]] in the anime.

* In the Creator/ToonDisney version of ''Anime/{{Shinzo}}'', Kutaal somehow gets drunk on apple juice.
* One English-dubbed episode of ''Anime/MapleTown'' had wine referred to as "grape juice", but shortly after, one of the voice actors slipped up and called it "wine".
* The ''Anime/MonsterRancher'' dub had pirate Captain Horn coming to town to raid... a supply of chocolate milkshakes as opposed to rum.
* Played with in ''Manga/{{MAR}}'', where the (underage) main characters often consume Papula Nut juice. Based on the description and effects, it's not alcoholic, but it contains some other intoxicant with similar effects. It's clearly treated like beer, though no one objects to serving it to 14 year olds. It also makes good medication for insomnia.
* The English dub of ''Anime/TheLittlBits'' changed Snoozabit from an alcoholic to a narcoleptic, and his drink of choice from wine to dandelion juice.
* Inversion: the Creator/{{Tokyopop}} translation of the ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry3DantesAwakening'' manga changed "tomato juice" to "beer". As in, what Dante drinks most of the time.
* ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia: The First Strike'' has a scene where Captain Niren offers Yuri some "juice" (specifically "grape juice" in the English dub) before handing him what is very clearly a glass of wine. Based on his tone, it's likely that Niren was being facetious.
* The French ''Manga/KimagureOrangeRoad'' dub has characters getting drunk on apple juice, and even getting double vision because of it.
* Inverted in ''Anime/{{Mnemosyne}}'': When Rin asks for Mimi to bring her some water, she is poured a glass of vodka. Upon Rin drinking it and breaking into a coughing fit, Mimi takes a jab at the trope by saying, "Oh, come on. [[BilingualBonus Vodka means water in Russian, you know]]. Besides, I thought you'd like this better."
* Inverted in many Brazilian dubs: "root beer" is commonly mistranslated as "cerveja" ("beer"), so it's pretty weird to see kids drinking beer. It happens in the Latin American Spanish dub of ''Manga/DragonBall'', too.
* Averted in the shojo family-friendly series ''Manga/ChibiMarukoChan'', where Maruko's dad--and occasionally her grandpa--is often depicted drinking alcoholic beverages with no censorship. In one "maki" in the 9th tankoban and its anime adaptation as the final episode of the first series (1990-1992), Maruko's dad gives her a sip of sake: She spends the rest of the episode quite clearly intoxicated, along with her father and grandfather, singing and dancing.

* This is parodied in ''Manga/MonsterMusume'' when Rachnera gets drunk from drinking coffee. There's no censorship involved and it actually ''is'' coffee, but her species actually gets drunk from caffeine. It doubles as a GeniusBonus because, yes, spiders actually do get drunk from caffeine: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Caffeinated_spiderwebs.jpg take a look]].
* {{Conversed}} in ''Manga/MonthlyGirlsNozakiKun''. Nozaki mentions that he, as a ShoujoGenre SequentialArtist can't have characters smoke or drink in his manga... so instead, they've got chocolate cigarettes and get drunk on juice.
* In ''Manga/FoodWars'', Ryoko Sakaki brews her own alcohol (unclear whether it's sake or amazake), but when she and her dormmates (all underage) are drinking it, the anime states "This is juice and nothing but juice."
* A flashback in ''Manga/AyakashiTriangle'' appears to show Mei sharing ''sake'' cups with Tanumaro's ancestor, with her drinking from a comically over-sized one despite only being sixteen. However, their bottle is labelled "甘酒 (amazake)", indicating it's a drink with little to no alcohol--Mei's large cup was a joke on her sharing Suzu's SweetTooth. The official English and Spanish versions don't translate the label, making it seems like she's drinking much ''[[DubText more]]'' alcohol than original intended.

* Early Swedish translations of ''ComicBook/{{Tintin}}'' albums have Captain Haddock drinking a lot of "kalasmust" -- 'party juice'. The Finnish translation of ''Tintin'' called Captain Haddock's drink "malspiikki", which in reality is the name of an obscure rope-weaving tool. Rather clever, in that by using a made-up name they allowed the reader to draw their own conclusions about the nature of the drink while avoiding having to explicitly mention alcoholic beverages. Oddly enough, in English, a malspiikki is called a marlin spike, which is the name of the Captain's ancestral home. In the later Finnish translations, he indeed drinks whiskey (specifically, of the Loch Lomond brand) without shame. The English version actually ''let it be called whiskey'', since his rise from a hopelessly drunken sot to a heroic figure is an important subplot. However, they did request that Hergé edit the panels so we never actually ''see'' him drink any of it (instead showing him with a bottle of liquor which got more empty between panels). The godawful Tele-Hachette animated version tones down the Captain's drunkenness in ''The Crab With Golden Claws'' to having his coffee spiked with sleeping drops. The drug smuggling becomes diamond smuggling, too.

* A ''Magazine/DisneyAdventures'' reprint of ''ComicBook/{{Bone}}'' in the late-90s had Phoney order root beer at the Barrelhaven Tavern instead of regular beer.

* Franchise/{{Batman}} will not drink any alcohol for fear of losing his edge, but drinks ginger ale pretending it is liquor to keep up his secret identity.
* ''ComicBook/FantasticFour:'' Since the early days of the comic were done when the Comics Code Authority still held sway, one issue has Doctor Doom serving the FF a special "berry juice" at a party. A berry juice laced with hallucinogens.

* In ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'', Snoopy as the WWI flying ace would go quaff some root beers with Bill Mauldin every Veterans Day.
* Parodied in one ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'' strip where the kids talk about drinking glasses of "[--root--] '''BEER'''." They're doing it deliberately to taunt their dad, who has given up beer for Lent.

* Subverted in the Great Rough-House War arc in ''Thimble Theater''; {{ComicStrip/Popeye}} and General Bunzo of Nazilia decide to drink to their new friendship. The King Blozo reminds them of the prohibition in the country. They counter that they're drinking from a bottle clearly labeled "GRAPE JUICE". Blozo sniffs the bottle and remarks, "It probably ''was'' grape juice ''fifty years ago.''"

* ''Fanfic/PokemonClefairyTales'': Averted the "coffee" man who was drunk and passed out in the original Japanese versions of the games is also drunk and passed out here.
* ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'' parodies the phenomenon seen on the page image: "I'm drinkin' O.J. *ping* Now it's apple juice! *ping* Now it's beer! Yay beer!" [[TheStinger Now it's a Nestle Crunch Bar! *ping* Now it's a Gummi Bear! *ping* Now's it's Nappa!]] "Wait... what the hell?!"
* Averted in ''Fanfic/MyHuntsmanAcademia''. The drinks Yang has at Junior's bar are said to be non-alcoholic in the original ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}''. In this story, the drinking age in Vale is 16 and alcohol regularly shows up at parties. Yang also takes Izuku out to the bar on multiple occasions.
* ''Fanfic/DropOfMoonshine'' explains the reason behind ''My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic'''s usage of soft cider as an equivalent to hard cider. It actually isn't censorship. Equestrians have no ''concept'' of alcohol anymore. Nearly a thousand years ago, Celestia banned liquor after she recovered from the alcoholism brought on by what happened with Luna.
* ''Fanfic/EigaSentaiScanranger'' has the eponymous heroes celebrating their first major victory with TheMentor and the FriendOnTheForce with grape juice.
* Inverted in the ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' fanfic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/22103809/chapters/52755586 Aegis of Eris]]''. Homunculi are immune to all poisons and toxins (alcohol included). Alcohol has no effect on them, but Greed still wants the social benefits of drinking. His drink of choice in the second chapter is "an iced tea/lemonade blend that could easily be mistaken for beer".
* In keeping with this trope being present in ''Series/OddSquad'', ''Fanfic/OlivesLastPartner'' has Olive, Otto and Oscar going to Club 24 (which in itself is a nightclub depicted in the story as being for all ages, but depicted in the show as being seemingly adult-oriented) and having sparkling white grape juice. Juice in general is known as a blatant stand-in for alcohol in canon, with [[TheAlcoholic Oprah]] treating it like a purely alcoholic drink (but not suffering any side effects of alcoholism).

* Done subtly in ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs'': All the background characters at the Roofless restaurant are seen with glasses of red wine on their tables, but any main characters there (Flint, Tim, Earl and his family) have wineglasses full of water. Also, a number of background characters are seen lifting their glasses to their mouths, but the camera always cuts away before they actually drink. On top of that, most of the glasses are knocked off of the tables by the [[ItMakesSenseInContext steaks falling from the sky]].
* In ''[[WesternAnimation/BonVoyageCharlieBrown Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!!)]]'', Snoopy goes to a "café" and gets drunk on a frothy beverage. The mug labels it as "root beer"... even though they're in France and it isn't called that in French.

* Even legendary boozer Creator/WCFields bent under it -- ordering an ice-cream soda in ''Film/NeverGiveASuckerAnEvenBreak'', he asides to the audience "This scene's supposed to be in a saloon but the censor cut it out. It'll play just as well this way," even blowing the foam off his soda as one would a heady beer. Mind you, later in the picture he leaps out of an airplane to retrieve his dropped flask of whiskey.
* Parodied mercilessly in ''Film/TheBigBus'', when a bar fight breaks out, and somebody threatens other characters with a broken milk carton.
* ''Film/InspectorGadget2'' plays this for laughs. Gadget is undercover at a bar called the Blue Monkey, and he momentarily lets his cover slip by ordering a "nice, tall glass of milk". The bartender looks at him, puzzled, and he covers with:
-->''"I mean... um... ''chocolate'' milk. Make it a double!"''
* There's a marijuana variation of this in ''Film/DesperatelySeekingSusan''. One scene has Susan and Gary sharing what looks like a machine-rolled tobacco cigarette. However, their reactions are exactly what one would expect from smoking marijuana.
* In the 2019 ''Film/KimPossible'' LiveActionAdaptation, Drakken guzzles down milk to celebrate his (temporary) victory over Kim, leading Shego to [[DeadpanSnarker sarcastically]] comment, "Never let it be said you don't know how to party" (though she too takes a celebratory sip minutes later). Drakken is next seen [[DrunkOnMilk looking hung over]] among several empty containers.
* In ''Film/Pinocchio2022Disney'', Pleasure Island no longer offers cigars and beer to the children like in the original animated film, with Pinocchio instead overindulging on candy and root beer.

* W. E. Johns's ''Literature/{{Biggles}}'' stories were originally written for adults. When they were republished for children, references to whisky were changed to lemonade. Pilots would willingly risk their lives on dangerous missions when offered the reward of a crate of lemonade.
* ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKidRodrickRules'': Greg's mom takes issue with him playing a game called ''Magick and Monsters'' -- not for the monsters, but for the fact that characters consume pints of mead (fermented honey wine) in the game. As a result, she makes him substitute "drink" for mead.
* OlderThanRadio, thanks to the [[TheTeetotaler temperance]] sects of Protestant Christianity, who took all references to wine ("yayin" in the Hebrew Old Testament and "oinos" in the Greek New Testament) in the Bible to mean unfermented grape juice... except in verses that warned against drunkenness. This isn't just censorship but ''[[ArtisticLicenseChemistry impossible]]'' to boot -- without modern refrigeration, sulfites, and sorbates, grape juice will begin to ferment within minutes of having been pressed, since grape skins are naturally covered in yeast. [[note]]Although a fundamentalist reading of the Bible conveys the interesting snippet that wine was unknown in the world until after the Great Flood. apparently God communicated the secret of making wine to Noah as a reward for his services. As a very human touch, the first thing he does after the Flood settles is to brew some wine and get pissed. Hey, cut the guy some slack here... So prior to the Flood all there was - apparently - was grape juice! As well as no rainbows, even though it still rained then.[[/note]]
* In a children's Read-Along book-and-tape set of the ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' movie, Roger's [[CantHoldHisLiquor bad reaction to shots of bourbon]] couldn't be edited out completely because it's actually a plot point. So the story changes it to Roger spazzing out after drinking a ''soda''.

* In one of the sequels to ''Literature/TheWizardOfOz,'' the [[BigBad Nome King]] receives a visit from two fellow villains. They party late into the night, and the next day, the Nome King is particularly grouchy and has a headache, implying he's hungover.

* Played with a lot in ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'', the entire premise of the show being that Future Ted is telling the story to his kids.
** The narrator (Future Ted) describes all marijuana usage as "eating sandwiches", this manifests itself as the actors physically eating sandwiches. With cigarette lighters poised. One time they baked the "sandwiches" into brownies.
** And when Ted's trying to write a family-appropriate toast for Marshall's wedding:
--->'''Ted:''' ''[voiceover]'' Afterward, we stayed up 'til ''ten at night'', doing shots of chocolate milk. \\
'''Barney:''' Calcium promotes healthy teeth and bones! \\
'''Robin:''' Thanks, Marshall, for teaching us you don't need alcohol to have fun! \\
'''Marshall:''' Oh, don't thank me; thank my parents for teaching me good values.
* One episode of ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'' has Cody singing 100 bottles of Pop on the wall. It's just as dumb as it sounds.
* On an episode of ''Series/SesameStreet'', some Muppets sang "Consider Yourself" from ''Theatre/{{Oliver}}''. When they got to the line "...and the drinks are on the house", one Muppet kept the lyrics kid-friendly by shouting "SOFT drinks!".

* ''Series/TheMonkees'' have milk whenever they're at a bar.
* In the campy ''Series/{{Batman|1966}}'' series, this seemed DependingOnTheWriter. In the episode with Liberace, he and a guest were treating root beer as wine; in another episode, however, the Penguin offers his PerkyFemaleMinion actual champagne.

* ''Franchise/PowerRangers'':
** [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers The very first season]] gives us an example near the end of the "Green With Evil" arc. As the villains celebrate their seemingly-assured victory, what was clearly wine in the Sentai footage becomes "cranberry and oyster juice".
** The second-season two-parter from ''Series/{{Mighty Morphin|PowerRangers}}[='=]'', "Wild West Rangers", features TheWildWest-era Angel Grove, with a Juice Saloon.
** In ''Series/PowerRangersSamurai'', Master Xandred regularly takes his "medicine". His counterpart, [[Series/SamuraiSentaiShinkenger Chimatsuri Doukoku]], drinks sake. It appears, though, that the attempt to seal Xandred by the previous generation of Samurai Rangers results in him being in ''constant pain'' even now. There was also a "grape juice toast" suggested by one of the villains.
* Played with in ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. Willow goes all out in a bid to seduce Oz, with one minor detail: she has a wine cooler by a candlelit table filled with not wine, but soda. PlayedForLaughs, as Willow amusingly (and tries to get Oz into bed).
* In ''Series/VazelinaHjulkalender'', it's claimed that Bruspulverguttene drink soda even though it's obviously liquor.
* Inverted in ''Series/{{Legend}}''. Since everyone in Sheridan, Colorado thinks of him as the vice-free Nicodemus Legend, alcoholic author Ernest Pratt drinks his whiskey out of a teacup.

* Played with in-universe in the episode “Father Knows Less” on ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld''. Cory’s ball ends up falling into his teacher neighbor Mr. Feeny’s yard, where he’s sitting and drinking a glass bottle of what looks like a brandy or whiskey. Feeny invites Cory to sit and have a drink with him, to which Cory is initially confused but gradually becomes excited when it’s clear Feeny is making no attempts to stop him. Only after toasting and taking a sip does Cory exclaim, “Hey this is apple juice!”

* Some versions of the video to Junior Senior's ''Move Your Feet'' have the squirrel downing shots, accompanied by a caption which reads 'Non-alcoholic nut juice.'
* The verse of Music/MeatLoaf's[=/=]Music/JimSteinman's song ''I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)'' certainly fall under this category: "Somedays I just pray to the God of Sex and '''Drums''' and Rock'N Roll".

* "Malted Milk", an Music/EricClapton song about a guy DrowningHisSorrows in, well, guess what. Keep in mind this is the same guy with another song known just as "Cocaine." Though given that Clapton had a notorious sweet tooth back then (Music/TheBeatles' [[Music/TheWhiteAlbum "Savoy Truffle"]]) was written about him, it may not have been a euphemism to him. It's actually a cover of a depression-era song by Blues master Music/RobertJohnson. "Malted milk" is period slang for beer.

* ''Radio/CabinPressure'': First Officer Douglas Richardson takes advantage of this trope in-universe; wanting to keep up his image as a "hard-boozing sky god," he pretends to drink copiously when in reality he's stone-sober, and has been for years. Passes off apple juice for whisky, most commonly. Sells the actual whisky.

* ''VisualNovel/MajikoiLoveMeSeriously'' plays with this with "Kawakami Water", which explicitly has the same effects as sake. Only, it actually ''is'' water, "so it's okay."

* ''Webcomic/TheFourth'' shows characters outright drinking beer, but the author blurb underneath says that "it's apple juice."
* Parodied in ''Webcomic/CucumberQuest'', which calls Cordelia's ever-present wineglass "juice for grownups" and Carrot's favorite drink is "green grape juice for grownups."

* Also inverted by WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd. While the nerd drinks Rolling Rock and Yuengling, James drinks water while shooting, as evidenced by the transparency of the supposed beverages.

* Also parodied in The Billy Goat Caller, where, during a HeroicBSOD the main character slams a shot glass onto the table... And then a carton of "Juicy Juice". He drinks himself under the table.

* A writer on MTV Multiplayer: [[http://web.archive.org/web/20100728225522/http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2010/07/26/nintendo-is-making-the-perfect-soda-drinking-game/ "Nintendo Is Making the Perfect [Soda] Drinking Game"]]
* At the end of ''WebVideo/TheIrateGamer'' review of ''VideoGame/MonsterParty'', he, the Devil and Ronnie are all at a bar drinking apple juice from beer mugs.

* ''Film/InspectorGadget 2'' plays this for laughs. Gadget is undercover at a bar called the Blue Monkey, and he momentarily lets his cover slip by ordering a "nice, tall glass of milk." The bartender looks at him, puzzled, and he covers with:
--> I mean... um... ''chocolate'' milk. Make it a double!

* In Disney's 2022 remake of ''[[Film/Pinocchio2022Disney Pinocchio]]'', Pleasure Island no longer offers cigars and beer to the children like in the original animated film, with Pinocchio instead overindulging on candy and root beer.

* The first Ragdoll episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'' has [[DatingCatwoman Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle (Catwoman)]] ordering water and lime from the bartender at a party. Though likely a ShoutOut to how the comic version of Bruce Wayne is known to pretend to get drunk on ginger ale as part of his guise as a RichIdiotWithNoDayJob... c'mon, ''water''?

*** A villain (a monster alcoholic Nanimon) is originally shown getting drunk off sake in "[[Recap/DigimonAdventureE27VamdemonTheCastleOfDarkness The Gateway to Home]]". The dub changes this to soda. Yes, apparently soda makes Digimon tipsy. "The bubbles go straight to his head."

** Averted in "Gideon Rises", when Stan realizes [[spoiler: he can't care for the kids without the Mystery Shack, and he'll have to send them home early]]. He goes to a diner and asks for their "strongest and most expired apple cider". When cider ferments, it becomes alcoholic.

* In the Panyo Panyo (kids verison) of ''Anime/DiGiCharat'' [[SympatheticInspectorAntagonist Inspector Holic]] shows up drunk on orange juice.

** In an early episode of the Saban dub for ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' Master Roshi's beer is edited into a [[TropeNamers frothy mug of water.]] The Nicktoons edited version of ''Anime/DragonBallZKai'' instead changed it to a frothy mug of milk, which provides the "after" part of the current trope image. Parodied in the first episode of ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'', in which Roshi states he's drinking orange juice, which then changes to apple juice, and finally, to beer. Continued in TheStinger, in which the mug is replaced by a Nestle Crunch Bar, then a gummy bear, and finally, [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Nappa's head]].
---> '''Nappa's head:''' Wait, what the hell?!

** For those who are wondering, [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/card332.jpg this card]] (the former main page image example) which was inspired by the [[TropeNamers Trope Naming]] scene, comes from an actual collectible card game called [[http://www.ani-mayhem.com/ Ani-Mayhem]].
** The original ''Manga/DragonBall'' has an interesting version. Master Roshi uses DrunkenBoxing on Goku in one fight, and the censored dub changes it to "Mad Cow Style", complete with cow clipart hovering in the background and mooing sound effects.
** In ''Battle of Gods'' Bulma's birthday party is said to be serving punch, but characters still act drunk with Gohan in particular being told to ease off the punch bowl after his, in the original, alcohol induced showboating.

* Averted in ''Fanfic/PokemonClefairyTales''; the "coffee" man who was drunk and passed out in the original Japanese versions of the games is also drunk and passed out here.
* ''WebVideo/DragonBallAbridged'' parodies the phenomenon seen on the page image: "I'm drinkin' O.J. *ping* Now it's apple juice! *ping* Now it's beer! Yay beer!" [[TheStinger Now it's a Nestle Crunch Bar! *ping* Now it's a Gummi Bear! *ping* Now's it's Nappa!]] "Wait... what the hell?!"

* A flashback in ''Manga/AyakashiTriangle'' appears to show Mei sharing ''sake'' cups with Tanumaro's ancestor, with her drinking from a comically over-sized one despite only being sixteen. However, their bottle is labelled "甘酒 (amazake)", indicating it's a drink with little to no alcohol--Mei's large cup was a joke on her sharing Suzu's SweetTooth. The official English and Spanish versions don't translate the label, making it seems like she's drinking much ''more'' alcohol than original intended.

* In the BBC animated series ''WesternAnimation/William's Wish Wellingtons'' after wishing he were a cowboy, William goes to a saloon and orders a frothy mug of lemonade.

* Inverted in the ''Machinima/YogscastMinecraftSeries'' when buckets of "beer" [[spoiler: in the dwarven mines]] are actually filled with [[DrunkOnMilk frothy milk]] because there is no beer in ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}''. LetsPlay/LewisBrindley looks at the label for the "beer" and it says "milk."

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'':

An exception to this rule occurs in a VerySpecialEpisode themed around alcoholism. A character (usually a teenager) takes up drinking in an attempt to appear "cool" and "grown up", only to find that alcohol completely screws them up. The episode ends with AnAesop in which the character and their friends talk about the importance of drinking in moderation - if you drink at all.

** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'' has some fun with this trope. One of the major establishments in Clock Town is the Milk Bar. It only opens at night, and only serves adults and patrons. One NPC goes there to drink away his troubles. And yes, they're drinking very expensive ''milk''. This isn't censorship; in one sidequest, you actually save the dairy farm that supplies the bar. To make the joke go even further, the "infinite magic milk" you can buy has the wine-like name of Chateau Romani. In the Japanese version, however, Chateau Romani is supposed to be spiked with a special liquor. It's even very overtly [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]]. If you talk to the NPC at the right time, he'll mutter "It's milk... how can anyone get tipsy off of miiiiiiilk?!". [[AlcoholHic He then starts getting the hiccups]].
** On a darker note, on the last night before the moon falls, Romani is excited because Cremia is letting her drink Chateau Romani even though she is still a child. The implications are Cremia wants to give Romani this adult rite of passage now because she knows neither of them will survive the coming cataclysm, or worse still, that Cremia wants Romani to be heavily sedated so she won't feel any of the pain or fear that would likely result in the moments before the impact kills them both.