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* ''Series/{{Hunter}}'': When [=DeeDee McCall=] investigates the trailer of a suspected cop killer parked next to a bar, he comes back earlier than expected so she acts like a drunken patron who just stumbled into the wrong place.

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* ''Series/{{Hunter}}'': ''Series/{{Hunter|1984}}'': When [=DeeDee McCall=] investigates the trailer of a suspected cop killer parked next to a bar, he comes back earlier than expected so she acts like a drunken patron who just stumbled into the wrong place.
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* In ''Quiller's Run'', Literature/{{Quiller}} has resigned from the Bureau and finds himself at a loss as to what to do with his life. He finds a former shadow executive like himself drunk in a bar, and somewhat disturbed at this image of how he might end up, accepts a private contract from him. His pal promises to sober up and act as TheHandler, and does in fact do such a good job that Quiller begins to suspect his alcoholism was just an act. He's right, as this 'former' shadow executive is still working for the Bureau and has conned Quiller into accepting another mission for them.
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* In ''Film/BootCamp'', Ben fakes being addicted to heroin as part of a GetIntoJailFree gambit to get his parents to send him to Camp Serenity. He has actually been injecting himself with saline solution.

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* In ''Film/BootCamp'', ''Film/{{Boot Camp|2008}}'', Ben fakes being addicted to heroin as part of a GetIntoJailFree gambit to get his parents to send him to Camp Serenity. He has actually been injecting himself with saline solution.
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* ''Film/NationalTreasure 2'': In order to get away from the tightly monitored lines of tourists, Ben pretends to have a public argument with his girlfriend (who has no idea it's a fake argument), and when the security guards come to collect them, Ben causes an even bigger scene while playing up his "drunken" antics, which gets them detained, the perfect place for Riley to spring them free from afar with his computer.

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* ''Film/NationalTreasure 2'': In order to get away from the tightly monitored lines of tourists, tourists at Buckingham Palace, Ben pretends to have a public argument with his girlfriend (who has no idea it's a fake argument), and when the security guards come to collect them, Ben causes an even bigger scene while playing up his "drunken" antics, which gets them detained, the perfect place for Riley to spring them free from afar with his computer.
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* ''Film/NationalTreasure 2'': In order to get away from the tightly monitored lines of tourists, Ben pretends to have a public argument with his girlfriend (who has no idea it's a fake argument), and when the security guards come to collect them, Ben causes an even bigger scene while playing up his "drunken" antics, which gets them detained, the perfect place for Riley to spring them free from afar with his computer.

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* In ''Series/TheAmericans'', Philip and Elizabeth attack an Israeli operative and are dragging him away when they're stopped by a cop. They claim they're just escorting their too-drunk friend home. The Israeli, not wanting to make a bad situation even worse, plays along by slurring through a few bars of Kenny Rogers's "The Gambler" along with a nearby jukebox.

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* In ''Series/TheAmericans'', Philip and Elizabeth attack jump an Israeli operative and are dragging him away when they're stopped by a cop. They claim they're just escorting their too-drunk inebriated friend home. The home, and the Israeli, not wanting to make a bad situation even worse, endanger the cop, plays along by slurring drunkely through a few bars of Kenny Rogers's "The Gambler" along with a nearby jukebox.Gambler."
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* During a bank robbery in ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'', the player can choose to have [[TheAlcoholic Karen]] act drunk to distract the guards.
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* ''Manga/SpyXFamily'': During her attempt to [[PrecociousCrush seduce Loid]], Becky's last resort is to press herself against him while claiming to be drunk. In the romance movies she watches - where the heroines pulling this may or may not ''actually'' be drunk - this apparently works every time. In real life, it does absolutely nothing to seduce Loid, on account of Becky being six years old, and instead causes Yor to panic and rush Becky to the hospital in the belief that she's somehow accidentally slipped alcohol into Becky's tea.

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'''Doyle:''' Urrrh… drunk!

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'''Doyle:''' Urrrh… Urrrh... drunk!



* In ''Film/{{Grownups 2}}'', Lenny, Eric, Kurt, and Marcus pretend to get drunk to hang out with a frat gang.

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* In ''Film/{{Grownups 2}}'', ''Film/GrownUps2'', Lenny, Eric, Kurt, and Marcus pretend to get drunk to hang out with a frat gang.



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* ''Series/Daredevil2015'': Combined with FakeoutMakeout in "[[Recap/Daredevil2015S2E6RegretsOnly Regrets Only]]" when Matt Murdock and Elektra Natchios duck into a room and pretend to have sex to evade guards searching for the people who just stole an important ledger. When the guards come in, they pull on their clothes while stumbling about and mumbling apologies. The guards are suspicious but are eventually convinced and just move them on so they can continue the search. Elektra is still playing drunk as they leave the building, to Matt's annoyance.

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* ''Series/Daredevil2015'': ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'': Combined with FakeoutMakeout in "[[Recap/Daredevil2015S2E6RegretsOnly Regrets Only]]" when Matt Murdock and Elektra Natchios duck into a room and pretend to have sex to evade guards searching for the people who just stole an important ledger. When the guards come in, they pull on their clothes while stumbling about and mumbling apologies. The guards are suspicious but are eventually convinced and just move them on so they can continue the search. Elektra is still playing drunk as they leave the building, to Matt's annoyance.



* ''Series/{{How I Met Your Mother}}'': Barney's father Jerome pretends to be drunk to get back at Barney for trying to get him to be his crazy old self again.

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* ''Series/{{How I Met Your Mother}}'': ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'': Barney's father Jerome pretends to be drunk to get back at Barney for trying to get him to be his crazy old self again.



-->'''Hawkeye''': I think we've made an important medical discovery. If you fake being drunk long enough, you get a real hangover.

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-->'''Hawkeye''': -->'''Hawkeye:''' I think we've made an important medical discovery. If you fake being drunk long enough, you get a real hangover.



* ''Series/TheProfessionals''. In "The Female Factor", Doyle pretends to be drunk when visiting a high-class call girl in order to draw out her pimp, whom [=CI5=] wishes to interrogate.

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* ''Series/TheProfessionals''. ''Series/TheProfessionals'': In "The Female Factor", Doyle pretends to be drunk when visiting a high-class call girl in order to draw out her pimp, whom [=CI5=] wishes to interrogate.



* ''Series/RadioEnfer'': As part of his initiation to join the radio crew, Vincent has to pretend to be drunk and insult the adult of his choice. He decides to insult Carole Péloquin, Jocelyne's childhood friend... which then backfires when Péloquin reveals that she's the school inspector coming for an anonymous visit and decides to give the school a negative report.



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* In ''Film/SlaveGirlsFromBeyondInfinity'', Rik pretends to be drunk at Zed's dinner (and is implied to have been doing so for a few days beforehand) so that Zed will not select him to become his next quarry in HuntingTheMostDangerousGame.
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* ''Series/TheWire'' Lester once pretends to be a drunk dialing the wrong number for a takeout to confirm D'Angelo Barksdale's pager number, and when arresting Bird, he and Sydnor hang around on a corner waiting for Bird to come out, at which point the fake-drunk Lester [[GrievousBottleyHarm hits him with the bagged bottle]]


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* Dean Martin would preform with a drink in hand, but most of the time it was just apple juice, and Martin preferred to drink in moderation after shows.
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* Combined with a BavarianFireDrill in ''Film/TheFourthProtocol''. Creator/MichaelCaine's character is introduced staggering up to an apartment building wielding a bottle of champagne. He answers the doorman's questions with drunken rambling about having bought the champagne at the request of someone called Nigel until the doorman just dismisses him with distaste and goes back to his television. Once he's out of sight, Caine then breaks into another apartment to do a black bag job for MI-5. The bottle contains plastic explosive which he uses to blow open a safe.

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* Combined with a BavarianFireDrill in ''Film/TheFourthProtocol''. Creator/MichaelCaine's character is introduced staggering up to an apartment building on New Year's Eve, wielding a bottle of champagne. He answers the doorman's questions with drunken rambling about having bought the champagne at the request of someone called Nigel until the doorman just dismisses him with distaste and goes back to his television. Once he's out of sight, Caine then breaks into another apartment to do a black bag job for MI-5. The bottle contains plastic explosive which he uses to blow open a safe.



* ''The Sea Wolves'' (1980), a war movie in which a Series/DadsArmy-type unit in India is used by British Intelligence for a mission to sink or capture three German ships interned in a neutral port. The cover story is that they are British businessmen on holiday who got drunk and in a fit of PatrioticFervor boarded the ships. To sell this illusion they are ordered to take a swig of whiskey and spit it out, then pour the rest of the bottle over their clothes.

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* ''The Sea Wolves'' ''Film/TheSeaWolves'' (1980), a war movie in which a Series/DadsArmy-type unit in India is used by British Intelligence for a mission to sink or capture three German ships interned in a neutral port. The cover story is that they are British businessmen on holiday who got drunk and in a fit of PatrioticFervor boarded the ships. To sell this illusion they are ordered to take a swig of whiskey and spit it out, then pour the rest of the bottle over their clothes.
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* ''Film/CrimeDoctorsManHunt'': When Ordway discovers the two hoods carrying Armstrong's body, he pretends to be drunk to allay their suspicions.
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* The Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse fic "[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/40945617/ Spider-Man: Finding Home]]" sees Peter Parker and Yelena Belova end up doing this when Yelena drops in to invite Peter and his new friend Kate Bishop out for a few drinks. Since Peter's metabolism allows him to process alcohol faster than normal, he initially pretends to be drunk to avoid drawing attention to himself, but after Kate's returned home Yelena reveals that she was ''also'' faking being drunk as she wanted to confirm Peter wasn't a threat to Kate (she had done background research and confirmed that Peter's identity documents were faked even if she doesn't know why they were faked).

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* The Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse fic "[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/40945617/ Spider-Man: Finding Home]]" ''Fanfic/SpiderManFindingHome'' sees Peter Parker and Yelena Belova end up doing this when Yelena drops in to invite Peter and his new friend Kate Bishop out for a few drinks. Since Peter's metabolism allows him to process alcohol faster than normal, he initially pretends to be drunk to avoid drawing attention to himself, but after Kate's returned home Yelena reveals that she was ''also'' faking being drunk as she wanted to confirm Peter wasn't a threat to Kate (she had done background research and confirmed that Peter's identity documents were faked even if she doesn't know why they were faked).
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* WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead get hold of a can of non-alcoholic beer, so after drinking it they act like they're drunk. A policeman confrobts them but cuts them loose when sees the can says it's non-alcoholic.

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* WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead get hold of a can of non-alcoholic beer, so after drinking it they act like they're drunk. A policeman confrobts confronts them but cuts them loose when sees the can says it's non-alcoholic.

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