History Main / LadyDrunk

* Ruby Punch in just about every "WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic" fanfic. This is a takeoff of how she was supposed to be a playful drunk in the canon, but the censors wouldn't allow it.

* Mallory from ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'' is almost always seen with a drink. In the 3rd season finale, she resorts to drinking ''isopropyl''.

* Ilsa of ''LiveActionTV/DangerFive''. At one point, faced with death by Nazi Dinosaur, she mutters ([[VodkaDrunkenski In Russian]]) "I always thought I'd die of Alcohol Poisoning." She's pretty much permanently drunk, for comedy purposes.

* Ilsa of ''LiveActionTV/Danger5''. At one point, faced with death by Nazi Dinosaur, she mutters ([[VodkaDrunkenski In Russian]]) "I always thought I'd die of Alcohol Poisoning." She's pretty much permanently drunk, for comedy purposes.

* Joanne (originally played by Elaine Stritch) from ''Theatre/{{Company}}'', especially in her song "The Ladies Who Lunch."

->'''Lily:''' I need a drink.
->'''Olive:''' You're ''holding'' a drink.
->'''Lily:''' ''[dumps out drink]'' I need a ''stronger'' one.

* In ''Manga/LaidBackCamp'', Toba-sensei is nicknamed "Lady Chug" at the local package store since she comes in and buys a six pack every single day after work. Though she's a bit more emotional while drunk, she's perfectly pleasant otherwise, and serves as the sponsor for the Outdoors Activities Club.

* Bella, Nancy's long-lost biological mother in ''Film/MinAndBill'', is a particuarly mean, hateful example of this trope. Constantly drunk, and very bitter that her daughter is going to get married to a rich man and enjoy the nice life that her jealous mother never had.
* Helen from ''Film/TheBlueDahlia'' is an angry, bitter drunk. She reveals to Johnny that their dead son didn't die from diptheria, like she said--the boy died when Helen crashed the car while driving drunk.

** Professor Trelawney, the Divination teacher, also has a bit of a drinking problem (especially when she's upset), to the point that her profile on Pottermore lists 'sherry' as one of her hobbies. It starts rearing it's head after she's fired in ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix Order of the Phoenix]]'' and in ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince Half-Blood Prince]]'' Harry runs into her while she's trying to hide some sherry.

** Nanny Ogg is very fond of a drink, and another drink, and a third (make it a double, please). She's generally a very cheerful person, but otherwise fits.

* In the ''Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse'' AlternateRealityEpisode ''The Blue Angel'', the Doctor's [[MyBelovedSmother Beloved Smother]] is one of these, and refuses to believe that he never drinks... while discussing his psychiatric medications with him. (Antipsychotics are a very good reason not to drink, if you'd rather not die.) She's also a mermaid, and has apparently found some way around the MermaidProblem.

* On ''Series/GraceAndFrankie'', Grace is a 70 year old very attractive retired cosmetics executive. She almost always has an alcoholic beverage on hand and has done such things as filling a thermos with Bloody Mary when housemate Frankie drags her on a short road trip.

* Moira Rose of ''Series/SchittsCreek'' likes to tells stories from her long history as a HardDrinkingPartyGirl and still enjoys booze, pills and pot. She's fairly high functioning, in part thanks to her previous wealth, but she still manages to get drunk or stoned now and again because Creator/CatherineOHara is so magnificent at playing intoxicated.
* ''Series/{{Taken}}'': In "High Hopes", Anne Crawford has become an alcoholic as a result of her miserable life with her cold, neglectful and emotionally abusive husband Owen. The seeds of her alcoholism were sown in "Jacob and Jesse" when Owen refused to allow her to leave him. Anne regularly takes pills when she drinks, risking her health and causing her behavior to become even more erratic. Owen threatens to have her sent to a sanatorium if she does not stop embarrassing him. She later tells their sons Eric and Sam that he is involved with the US government's UFO project and bitterly mentions that he stole the job from her late father Colonel Thomas Campbell. Things come to a head when she figures out the combination to his safe and finds the artifact that Sue discovered at the Roswell crashsite in 1947 (as seen in "Beyond the Sky"). [[spoiler: Owen murders her in order to keep its existence a secret, making it look as if Major Howard Bowen killed her and then committed suicide.]]

* Played for laughs in ''Series/TheITCrowd'', when Moss is paired up with one of Jen's friends at a dinner party she's holding. They only spend about two hours in each other's company, but seem to evolve through an increasingly bitter twenty year marriage by way of ''Film/WhosAfraidOfVirginiaWoolf'' during that time, leading to everyone acting as if the woman -- who gets progressively tipsy during the evening -- is becoming one of these.

%%* Elle's mom in ''Theatre/LegallyBlonde : The Musical''.

* Eleanor Silverberg from ''VideoGame/SuikodenIV'' fits this trope very well. She comes from the famous Silverberg family of strategists, but is an older woman who lives (mostly) alone on an island where she sits and drinks all day. As an added bonus, she also drugs visitors.

* ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' potential companion Rose of Sharon Cassidy, who goes by Cass, is a trader encountered [[DrowningMySorrows drowning her sorrows]] after her caravan was massacred. She's pushing forty, is strongly moral but slightly cynical, and traveling with her grants you the [[BoozeBasedBuff Whiskey Rose]] perk. She can also teach you how to make moonshine out of maize, mutfruit, yeast and a ''fission battery'' if you're really thirsty.

* Edison Lighthouse, one of the main characters in ''Webcomic/GroovyKinda'' is rarely without a drink in hand. She gets drunk every night, and cheerfully confesses that she's never sober enough for a hangover. She does vow that, now she has a boyfriend, she'll stop getting drunk every night in bars and going home with strangers here: [[http://groovykinda.org/2013/03/20/vow-and-then/ Vow and Then]].

* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick is a twenty seven year old PsychopathicWomanchild, but her alcoholic bitterness still fits this trope.

-->'''Doctor''': First of all, unless you gave birth to a hammerhead shark, you did ''not '' [[LongestPregnancyEver have a 16 month pregnancy.]] Second, Mrs. Van Buren, how ''much'' exactly do you drink?
-->'''Jayna''': [[BlatantLies Well, not much.]] I mean, I'll have a glass and a half of wine at lunch. Then, nothing like an ice cold zima when the sun's setting. Zinfandel spritzers while I'm cooking dinner for the girls. Red, not white. Several gin and tonics with my evening meal, which take me straight into dessert and some ''delicious'' cherry wine. Then I'll curl up with the latest issue of ''O'' Magazine and half a bottle of scotch. [[CloudCuckooLander Then, a quick shot of whiskey before bed so my dreams are peculiar and nice.]] [[SerialEscalation Come morning, I can hardly get out of bed without a spicy Bloody Mary—Can you blame me, señor, I like the bite, cha cha!]] [[OverlyLongGag Then a couple of wine coolers, two, three, in the mid-morning for energy, zappo!]] [[LongList And what do you know]] [[HereWeGoAgain we're back at lunch, and it means wine time in my book.]]

* Pickles of ''WesternAnimation/TheOblongs'' is almost never seen without a martini and is frequent patron of Anita's bar. However, despite her drinking, she's more functional and tends to play the CloserToEarth and OnlySanMan tropes.
* Beth of ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' is shown to be frequently slosh down boxes of wine and one of her daughter's memories is her piss drunk in her bed, accidentally hitting her with a wine bottle. Being that her father is an alcoholic is certainly a factor.

* Nina from ''Series/JustShootMe''. Not cynical or bitter, but very, very pas their prime.

* ''{{Film/Killers}}'': Jen's mom drinks at every opportunity.

** In the Art of Discworld, Pratchett mentions that they actually do still turn out Nanny Oggs in Britain. You can generally find them enjoying a pint of the local bitter and having a good time all 'round.
** Madame Sharn, the dwarfish fashion designer from ''Discworld/UnseenAcademicals'' has some elements of this character type.

%% * Mallory from ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}''.
%% * Debatably, Linda Belcher from ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'', with her love of wine, and her often drunken demeanor.

* Helga's mother Miriam in ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' is all but stated as this.
%%* Pickles of ''WesternAnimation/TheOblongs''. She's generally in a good mood and at times can be the OnlySaneMan.

* Snot's mom from ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad''.
* Mallory from ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}''.
* Debatably, Linda Belcher from ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'', with her love of wine, and her often drunken demeanor.

%%* Thea, the title character of ''Film/{{Applause}}''.

* ''Theatre/StateOfTheUnion'' has the Sazerac-swilling Mrs. Alexander. It's specified in the DrinkOrder that, except for her, nobody is supposed to have too much to drink, but HilarityEnsues when Mary decides to have some of what she's having. She's more convivial than most examples of this, however.

* Winky the house-elf gets drunk on butterbeer out of depression due to being disowned by her master in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire''. (It has no effects on humans but is strong for elves.)

* ''{{WebAnimation/RWBY}}'' has [[TheOjou Weiss's]] mother, wife to the enormously wealthy and powerful [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Jaques Schnee]], who - as Weiss puts it - gradually transitioned from glasses of wine to bottles of it as her marriage to her cold, controlling husband soured.

* In ''Manga/LaidBackCamp'', Toba-sensei is nicknamed "Lady Chug" at the local package store since she comes in and buys a six pack every single day after work. Though she's a bit more emotional while drunk, she's perfectly pleasant otherwise, and serves as the sponsor for the Outdoors Activities Club.

* Hera in ''VideoGame/GodOfWar III'', though it's implied something has been driving her to drink rather it being her normal personality. By the time [[TheDreaded Kratos]] makes it up Mount Olympus, she's probably pretty grateful that she's already drunk.

* Played for laughs in ''Series/TheITCrowd'', when Moss is paired up with one of Jen's friends at a dinner party she's holding. They only spend about two hours in each other's company, but seem to evolve through an increasingly bitter twenty year marriage by way of ''Film/WhosAfraidOfVirginiaWoolfe'' during that time, leading to everyone acting as if the woman -- who gets progressively tipsy during the evening -- is becoming one of these.

* Played for laughs in ''Series/TheITCrowd'', when Moss is paired up with one of Jen's friends at a dinner party she's holding. They only spend about two hours in each other's company, but seem to evolve through an increasingly bitter twenty year marriage by way of ''Theatre/WhosAfraidOfVirginiaWoolfe'' during that time, leading to everyone acting as if the woman -- who gets progressively tipsy during the evening -- is becoming one of these.

** Also, Dr. Hibbert's wife passes out upon hearing that Springfield is to enact a ban on alcohol.

* Sweet Saraya acted like violent lunatic her entire Wrestling/{{SHIMMER}} run until she went out with Mayumi Ozaki for a drink. It was further established after [=SoCal=] Val's hostile takeover of [[PowerStable Valkyrie]] in SHINE. Sweet Saraya, being the "[[OpenSecret unofficial]]" hit woman of the group, announced she was using her new "raise" to get pissed and proceeded to become so indulged in drinking she neglected her thrawl, Su Yung.

* Joyce in ''Film/{{Dangerous}}''. A series of professional and personal disasters have convinced everyone, including Joyce herself, that she is a "jinx", ruining her career as a stage actress. In her first scene she's drunk in a bar, ridiculing poor Don for being a fan of hers back in the day, slurring her way through ''Theater/RomeoAndJuliet'' dialogue until she passes out. The next ''morning'', before breakfast, she's smashing open Don's locked liquor cabinet so she can get more alcohol.

-->'''C. C.:''' Hey, kids, you know when I'm down in the dumps, what cheers me up?