History Main / JohnBarleycornAndFriends

* ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventuresHowISpentMyVacation'': When Fowlmouth and Shirley de Loon go to the movies there's an announcement "no smoking in the theater." Cut to a disappointed anthropomorphic cigarette being booed and forced to leave. He just wanted to see the movie!

* The Absinthe Fairy from ''{{Chimneyspeak}}'', which represents Elgie's love of the beverage.
* The Tequila Monster in ''QuestionableContent''.
* In ''{{Sinfest}}'', when Squigley swears off drugs and alcohol, he begins to [[ColdTurkeysAreEverywhere hallucinate animated joints, beer cans, and booze bottles]] in [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2006-11-08 this]] strip (which is the image for this page).

* ClassicalMythology: Dionysus (or Bacchus) was the Greek and Roman god of winemaking and wine. Eventually, he became the personification of wine itself and its positive and negative effects upon drinkers. In some later depictions, [[http://www.printsoldandrare.com/thomasnast/011tnast.jpg like this 1870 cartoon by Thomas Nast]], he is shown as the embodiment of alcohol-caused human misery.

* In ''{{Sinfest}}'', when Squigley swears off drugs and alcohol, he begins to [[ColdTurkeysAreEverywhere hallucinate animated joints, beer cans, and booze bottles]] in [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2255 this]] strip (which is the image for this page).

* In SimonRGreen's ''Hawk & Fisher'' novel ''The God Killer'', the medieval-fantasy beat cops stop off at the Temple of John Barleycorn for a refreshing libation after a hard day of investigation a crime spree in the religious district.

* The British folk song "John Barleycorn" (that's been performed by many artists including {{Music/Traffic}}, Music/JethroTull, and Music/FairportConvention) describes the apparent [[MurderBallad "murder" of the title character]] as a way of depicting the planting, harvesting, and distilling of grains into alcoholic beverages.

* The British folk song "John Barleycorn" (that's been performed by many artists including {{Music/Traffic}}, Music/JethroTull, and Music/FairportConvention) describes the apparent [[MurderBallad "murder" of the title character]] in order to to depict the planting, harvesting, and distilling of grains into alcoholic beverages.

* In ''{{Sinfest}}'', when Squigley swears off drugs and alcohol, he begins to [[ColdTurkeysAreEverywhere hallucinate animated joints, beer cans, and booze bottles]] as seen in [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2255 this]] strip which is the image for this page.

* [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2255 This]] ''{{Sinfest}}'' strip which is the image for this page.

[[caption-width-right:251:Squigley and the vice squad.]]

[[caption-width-right:251:Squigley meets the vice squad.]]

[[quoteright:251:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sinfest-withdrawal-vices_personified-v2_6940.gif]]

* In ComicStrip/{{Doonesbury}}, there's Mr. Butts, a giant talking cigarette used to represent the tobacco industry. Occasionally, he's joined by his friend Mr. Jay who is [[CaptainObvious a giant anthropomorphized joint.]]

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* In ''FatherTed'', when the priests give up their various vices for Lent, they start hallucinating, seeing each other as personifications of those vices - Ted appears to Jack as a pint of Guinness and to Dougal as a giant rollerblade, while Dougal appears to Ted as a huge talking cigarette.

* The Absinthe Fairy from {{Chimneyspeak}}, which represents Elgie's love of the beverage.

* [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2255 This]] {{Sinfest}} strip which is the image for this page.

** Also played for laughs in ''D'oh-in' in the Wind'', where Barney experiences a MushroomSamba from the episode's hallucinogenic juice that involves a 3-eyed monster appearing before him. He quickly downs a Duff Beer, in which "Pinky, the [[PinkElephants Pink Elephant]]" shows up and kills the monster.

* One of the sequels, ''Pipe Dreams'', to the MGM short Main/GoodLittleMonkeys has the three title monkeys smoking and then encounter several anthropomorphic cigars, cigarettes, and tobacco products.

* "Lucy In the Sky with Diamonds" by the Music/{{Beatles}} is widely interpreted as an anthropomorphism for LSD. ([[WhatDoYouMeanItwasntMadeOnDrugs It ain't]], it was actually inspired by a drawing John Lennon's son made about his classmate Lucy O'Donnell.)

Can also apply to situations where a liquor that's named after a person is used in a sentence as if it where a person. As in "My friends Jack [Daniels] and Jim [Beam]."

[[caption-width-right:251:Side effects of vice withdrawal]]

* [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2255 This]] {{Sinfest}} strip.

* ClassicalMythology: Dionysus (or Bacchus) was (among other things) the Greek and Roman god of winemaking and wine. Eventually, he became the personification of wine itself and its positive and negative effects upon drinkers. In some later depictions, [[http://www.printsoldandrare.com/thomasnast/011tnast.jpg like this 1870 cartoon by Thomas Nast]], he is shown as the embodiment of alcohol-caused human misery.

* The title character of "Panana Red" by New Riders of the Purple Sage is a particularly strong strain of marijuana who'll "steal your woman" and "rob your head."

* In the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes short ''Wholly Smoke'', a young PorkyPig gets sick smoking a cigar and [[DisneyAcidSequence hallucinates]] being taunted, teased, and chased by a tobacco shop full of anthropomorphized cigarettes, cigars, pipes, and tobacco accessories led by a smoky spectre named Nick O' Teen (a different Nick O' Teen than the one that appeared in Superman anti-smoking PSAs).

* In ComicStrip/{{Doonesbury}}, there's Mr. Butz, a giant anthropomorphized cigarette used to represent the tobacco industry. Occasionally, he's joined by his friend Mr. Jay who is [[CaptainObvious a giant anthropomorphized joint.]]

* "Lucy In the Sky with Diamonds" by the Music/{{Beatles}} is widely interpreted as an anthropomorphism for LSD.

* The 1964 RatPack musical ''[[Film/RobinAndTheSevenHoods Robin and the 7 Hoods]]'' features the "Mr. Booze" number which takes place at a phony temperance meeting where the participants testify to the evils caused by title character of the song. (This scene was later paid homage to in an episode of WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy.)

* The British folk song "John Barleycorn" (that's been performed by many artists including {{Music/Traffic}}, Music/JethroTull, and Music/FairportConvention) describes the apparent [[MurderBallad "murder" of the titular character]] in order to to depict the planting, harvesting, and distilling of grains into alcoholic beverages.

* The titular character of "Panana Red" by New Riders of the Purple Sage is a particularly strong strain of marijuana who'll "steal your woman" and "rob your head."

* The Music/{{WASP}} song ''Thunderhead'' depicts heroin as a demon who demands that his followers ruin themselves and their families in his service, namely the titular "Thunderhead," a man who's hopelessly addicted to it, dying of withdrawal in a detox clinic.

* "Lucy In the Sky with Diamonds" by the {{Beatles}} is widely interpreted as an anthropomorphism for LSD.

** Of course, this is an example of [[YourMileageMayVary YMMV]]. Music/JohnLennon said the song stemmed from a drawing by his son Julian of his friend Lucy. However, Music/PaulMcCartney has said it was likely about LSD.