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13	[[caption-width-right:348:Spike likes his hideous hangover cure [[HairOfTheDog with gin]].]]
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16	->''"No, no, no," said the Dean. "This can't be right. Everyone knows a good hangover cure has got to involve a lot of humourous shouting, etcetera."''
17	-->-- ''Literature/{{Hogfather}}''
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19	The only reliable cure for hangovers is time (for the body to get rid of the alcohol) and lots of water (to combat dehydration), but that doesn't stop fictional characters, especially TheAlcoholic or the hard-partying Fratbro from trying all sorts of other methods to speed up the process. The Hideous Hangover Cure comes in two varieties: the first is something that will catapult you back into full sobriety within minutes, sometimes even seconds; the second variety is the one you take to stop feeling awful the next day and speed the recovery.
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21	Regardless of the intent, it's almost always a vile concoction of foods and liquids blended together, whether it's provided by a bartender or a well-meaning friend. To qualify for this trope, the cure must be effective (or at least the character proffering it must believe it is); otherwise this is just "let's play pranks with the drunk guy."
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23	Note that "HairOfTheDog" (having a little more of the same 100-proof hooch that caused your problem in the first place) does '''''not''''' count as an example of this trope, considering that it's not hideous at all, and is in fact mildly awesome to the sufferer. Some hideous cures may, on the other hand, ''include'' the hair of the dog. Hey, it's an excuse to be drunk while the sun's up!
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25	Often involves BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce or KlatchianCoffee (which can often do this on its own). Related to ItTastesLikeFeet (because it usually does), GargleBlaster (because it's usually what the victim drank the night before), and [[IAteWhat I Drank What?]] (a common response from the subject afterward). Compare RawEggsMakeYouStronger.
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33	* Spike from ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' appears fond of the Prairie Oyster (see Real Life entry below) -- apparently [[HairOfTheDog seasoned with a little gin]] -- as a hangover cure. In "[[Recap/CowboyBebopSession7HeavyMetalQueen Heavy Metal Queen]]", his hangover is so bad that ruining his egg yolk drives him to singlehandedly beat the piss out of all involved brawlers and make it again. Spike generally likes to make his enemies look like jackasses and plays around with them in a fight, that time, however, he just [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomped them]] out of hangover-rage.
34	* While she meant to clear the head of a fever and not alcohol, ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'''s Chizuru is rather infamous for this. Just don't say the word "leek" around Kotaro...
35	* ''VideoGame/{{Utawarerumono}}'': Oboro accepts a hangover cure from village medic Eruruu. There isn't any buildup or indication of a gag, but the poor man's expression after throwing it back, along with the fact that it gives him convulsions and nearly kills him makes it fall squarely under this trope. He even forces her to add something to make it taste sweeter which ironically only made it worse. Fortunately, a later scene indicates that despite everything, it really did work.
36	* In ''Anime/WolfsRain'', Hubb gives Quent a sobriety pill so that Quent can spend some time behind the wheel. The only side effect is excessive urination.
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40	* In the ComicBook/{{Asterix}} comic book ''Asterix and the Laurel Wreath'', Asterix and Obelix unintentionally invent an extremely powerful Hideous Hangover Cure (it should be mentioned that its ingredients included ''soap and a full chicken with all its feathers'') for the Roman family they are temporarily serving as slaves. (They had just planned to cook up something inedible to be... fired isn't quite the right word, but it is easy to imagine what is). In the last page of the comic the narrator states that this potion induced Romans to drink in excess without regard for consequences, thus contributing to the decline of their Empire. How hideous is the cure, you may ask? [[http://www.omgbeaupeep.com/comics/Asterix/018/22/ Well, its effects include the subject changing colors, belching flames, and roaring while foaming at the mouth, then belching soap bubbles for some time afterwards.]] (Obélix finds it [[ExtremeOmnivore bland]].)
41	* From ''ComicBook/BuckGodotZapGunForHire'', there's "Thank Prime", a mixture that we never learn the ingredients for,[[note]]Although the assembled ingredients include ice, mustard, a lemon, an oil can, a bottle with a skull and crossbones on it, and Elmer's Glue.[[/note]] but it's apparently ultra-effective, instantaneously curing a hivemind-sized hangover with no side-effects... its taste is never brought up. Of course, the first one to drink it was so hung over he was hoping it would be poison.
42	* One issue of ''ComicBook/CerebusTheAardvark'' features a drug that cures drunkenness -- by turning it into an ''instant hangover''. After receiving it Cerebus requests "a dozen raw eggs, twelve gallons of water and some hot towels", presumably for curing the hangover.
43	* In ''[[ComicBook/{{Lanfeust}} Lanfeust de Troy]]'', Master Nicoledes produces this cure to make quick cash. One of the main ingredients of the cure is fresh dung.
44	* Similarly, the hangover cure in ''ComicBook/{{Papyrus}}'' involves donkey shit and mashed flies, among other things.
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48	* In ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/451065/the-amulet-job The Amulet Job]]'', Sunburst's hangover cure is a protein-bar-and-mayo sandwich, selected to replace nutrients lost while drinking. The mere idea of a protein-bar-and-mayo sandwich is so disgusting it nearly drives away Starlight's hangover on its own.
49	-->'''Bon Bon:''' That's stupid. You're stupid.\
50	'''Sunburst:''' Maybe. You know what else I am? Not hungover.
51	* In ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'''s 12th movie ''[[Recap/DragonBallZAbridgedM11 Broly: The Legendary Super Saiyan]]'', Master Roshi asks for a spin on the prairie oyster after space travel to the new Planet Vegeta compounds his hangover:
52	--> Somebody give me a raw egg, two shots of tabasco, salt, pepper ''[[SubvertedTrope and a gun]]'' [[DrivenToSuicide to shoot myself]]!
53	* Subverted in the ''Series/LostGirl'' fanfic [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8083729/1/Faeral Faeral.]] A hungover Kenzi begs Lauren for a remedy, only for Lauren to tell her the only true remedies are water and time. She also advises against coffee, but does make something else that Kenzi insists [[ItTastesLikeFeet tastes like cat pee]]. Hale eventually uses his Siren whistle to calm it, but that wears off too. Finally Lauren just rigs an IV, and later buys her a beer hat that's holding electrolyte drinks.
54	* Subverted in ''Fanfic/MyHuntsmanAcademia''. everyone except Ren, Tenya and Nora (who was told not to drink) ends up hungover after the Long Night ([[YouMeanXmas the story's equivalent of Halloween]]). While Ren ends up pouring everyone tea the day afterwards, Tenya explicitly outlines that the only way to avoid a hangover is to eat before drinking, drink at a steady, controlled pace, and drinking plenty of water. Izuku's self-control is enough to keep him from feeling too terrible, but Ruby binge drank for her sixteenth birthday and felt horrendous afterwards.
55	* In one chapter of ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/149723/the-rise-of-darth-vulcan The Rise of Darth Vulcan]]'' Ted looks through the Alicorn Amulet for a "make-me-sober-or-kill-me" spell the day after drinking a lot of Diamond Dog rotgut. It works by purging all the alcohol from his body at once, through every available orifice. Fortunately there was a cleaning spell cross-referenced with it.
56	* In the ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' fanfic ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6245901/1/Three_Years_At_Sea Three Years at Sea,]]'' Zuko's crew swears by a noxious mixture of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_egg century eggs,]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stinky_tofu stinky tofu,]] and kimchee all drenched in hot sauce.
57	* ''Fanfic/TheTwilightChild'': After a night of DrowningHerSorrows following the Mare Do-Well incident, Rainbow Dash wakes up on Rarity's couch with a very painful hangover. When she notices Rainbow is awake, Rarity offers her one of these. Whatever it involves, Rarity serves it on a teaspoon, and the narration informs us that it's "the drink equivalent of getting your brain smashed out with a bag full of bricks". It also tastes awful, but on the plus side, it does cure Rainbow Dash's hangover.
58	* ''Fanfic/WithThisRing'': Paul mentions a few times that he had a teacher at university who'd hook up an IV of saline solution before going to sleep after a drunken binge to avoid a hangover next day (it's a moot point for Paul himself who doesn't drink). He suggests it to [[WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010 Dr. Serling]], who's become TheAlcoholic in the wake of [[spoiler: the Anti-Life infection of Earth and her subsequent actions]], but she rejects it as impractical, it's too easy to knock the IV out during sleep.
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62	* The "Wake-Up Juice" from ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII''. This is an actual legit drink, the Bull Shot, a variant on the well-known Bloody Mary. The drink used in the film is actually a combination of ''two'' Bull Shot variations (Bull Shot, Bull Shot #4). It consists of one ounce of club soda, two ounces of beef broth, one ounce of tomato juice, one teaspoon of Worcestershire sauce, quarter of a teaspoon of lemon juice, three dashes of Tabasco-Habanero sauce, and some dried garlic. It immediately causes the Doc to holler and rush to the nearby water trough without waking up. Explanation? "That's just a reflex reaction. He won't be awake for another 10 minutes." Doc does wake up a few minutes later, with a headache.
63	* ''Film/BroadwayDannyRose'': The Danny Rose Formula, which includes two aspirins, tomato juice, Worcestershire sauce, goat cheese, and chicken fat. No one knows how it works, but it's an instant cure.
64	* Sally Bowles from ''Theatre/{{Cabaret}}'' swears by Prairie Oysters. Drink it from the tooth glass and it tastes just like peppermint!
65	* Rigby Reardon in ''Film/DeadMenDontWearPlaid'' makes coffee to sober up his partner Marlowe. He makes it by pouring grounds into a saucepan and beating an egg into them. This is a legitimate, if largely forgotten, way of making coffee: when the egg sets up it traps the grounds, removing the need for a filter. It does taste ''different'' from normal coffee -- and of course the amount of ground coffee Reardon uses is obscene.
66	* ''Film/DeathWalksOnHighHeels'': Confronted with a drunk Michel, Inspector Baxter squeezes the juice of half a lemon into a cup of coffee and makes him drink it. After a few moments after drinking it, Michel throws up; which does sober him out.
67	* Creator/JamesCaan's character uses one of these on the drunk sheriff in the classic Western ''Film/ElDorado''. One of the ingredients is gunpowder (along with cayenne pepper, hot mustard, ipecac, asafoetida, and croton oil).
68	* ''Film/TheHairyBird'': Momo gives Ipecac to the boys of St. Ambrose Academy, causing a VomitChainReaction.
69	* In ''Film/MyManGodfrey'', Godfrey gives Mrs. Bullock "Pixie Remover," namely tomato juice and lots of Worcestershire sauce (could be a Bull Shot).
70	* In the remake of ''Film/{{The Parent Trap\|1998}}'', the bartender hands Elizabeth a mysterious red substance. "This'll cure anything you've got. Just don't ask what's in it." Upon consumption she lets out an impressive belch before she coughs out "I think I just drank [[ItTastesLikeFeet tar]]."
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72	* ''Film/ThePrincessBride'': Fezzik dunks a drunk Inigo's head alternately in two barrels filled, respectively, with hot and cold water. It works, after a fashion.
73	* In ''[[Series/{{Reno911}} Reno 911!: Miami]]'', a hungover Deputy Junior drops a shot into a cup filled with Pepto-Bismol and chugs the concoction while sitting on a toilet.
74	* In ''Film/RevengeOfTheNerds'', the Japanese student wins a tricycle-riding contest because he's given a prophylactic dose of an instant-sobriety drug, hence is unimpaired when he has to chug a beer after every lap.
75	* In ''Film/{{SOB}}'', Dr. Finegarten has one that he takes intravenously:
76	-->"Come to think of it, why should I give you a vitamin shot? I'm the one with the hangover. B-12, B-Complex, Crude Liver, and a generous jolt of adrenal cortex. Chased by a Bloody Mary. L'chaim!"
77	* ''Film/StarskyAndHutch'': Hutch prepares one of these for Starsky after the latter mistakes a bag of cocaine for artifical sweetener and drinks it all. The final ingredient is an entire raw egg. Despite the disgusting appearance it seems to work as Starsky is completely recovered by the next scene.
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81	* The "kill or cure" hangover remedy Daisy administers to Fat Charlie in ''Literature/AnansiBoys'' contains (among other things) egg yolk, Worcestershire and Tabasco sauce, salt and vodka (based on the ingredients, looks like a Bull Shot). This is his reaction when he throws it back:
82	-->'''Fat Charlie:''' ''Oh my God.''\
83	'''Daisy:''' Yeah. But you're still alive.
84	* The first book of the ''Literature/ArtemisFowl'' series begins with the eponymous protagonist offering to cure an alcoholic sprite of her addiction & never ending hangover in exchange for information. The end result is "a hundred years of alcohol leaving the body by any means possible."
85	--> "-a little shot of man-made magic. [[ArtisticLicenseMedicine A virus that feeds on alcohol]], mixed with a growth reagent. It will flush every drop of rice wine from your body, remove the dependence and even bolster your failing liver. It'll be messy, but after a day you'll be [[OurFairiesAreDifferent zipping around as though you were a thousand years old again]]."
86	* In ''[[Literature/{{Sten}} The Court of a Thousand Suns]]'' by Alan Cole and Chris Bunch, the hero gets drunk with his boss, the [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld Eternal Emperor]], who then sobers them up with "Angelo stew."
87	-->Sten swallowed. The Angelo stew savored his tongue, and then gobbled down his throat to his stomach. A small nuclear flame bloomed, and his eyes teared and his nose wept and his ears turned bright red. The [[GargleBlaster Stregg]] in his bloodstream fled before a horde of hot-pepper molecules.
88	* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novels:
89	** The ultimate hangover cure appears in ''Literature/{{Hogfather}}''. The wizards of Unseen University mix together every hangover cure they can think of (such as raw eggs, orange juice, mustard, horseradish, cream, anchovies, yogurt, and willow bark), including a whole bottle of Wow-Wow sauce ([[BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce the ultimate hot sauce]], which distressingly contains two-thirds of the active ingredients in gunpowder) and at least three magic spells. They end up with a glowing, effervescent beaker containing "the essence of pure sobriety". It goes down easy and has no lasting side effects for the drinker, Bilious, the [[OddJobGods oh god of Hangovers]], but this is because Bilious gets his perpetual hangover from the drinks consumed by Bibulous, the God of Wine. So naturally, Bibulous ends up getting the "humorous side effects" of the hangover cure. Up on Cori Celesti, he starts to hear some kind of "descending note" -- [[NoodleIncident and then we cut back to the horrified wizards magically watching.]]
90	** The famous KlatchianCoffee (which is another one of the ingredients in the above ultimate hangover cure), which can take you from drunkenness to sobriety and right the way through to a terrifying state beyond sobriety, where you see everything as it truly is. This is known as being "knurd". Aficionados tend to drink large amounts of alcohol before indulging in Klatchian Coffee to offset the effect. Alcohol made out of ''scorpion venom'', mind you. Being knurd must be pretty horrible if people will drink that to avoid it. (The ''TabletopGame/DiscworldRoleplayingGame'' alchohol rules say that being forced into sobriety by Klatchian coffee doesn't actually prevent a hangover ... and being knurd probably makes it ''worse''.)
91	** In ''Literature/TheLastContinent'' [[RepetitiveName Crocodile Crocodile]] tells Rincewind that the cure for too much beer is [[spoiler:"more beer"]].
92	* In Creator/DorothyLSayers' ''[[Literature/LordPeterWimsey Gaudy Night]]'', a female student is badly hung over. Harriet Vane writes out a recipe for a hangover remedy and tells another student to go to the chemist (Americans would say "drug store") and have them make up a batch. It works. The book doesn't say what's in it.
93	* Creator/RobertAHeinlein uses several of these. In ''Literature/IWillFearNoEvil'' hangovers are cured by a thermos of coffee with a Danish pastry and by a [[https://web.archive.org/web/20090705035349/http://www.cocktail.com/recipes/s/SilverFizz1930.htm Silver Fizz]] made with vodka instead of gin. In ''Literature/GloryRoad'' another cure is mentioned with unspecified ingredients, but the mnemonic used to remember them is the witches' lines from Macbeth. ("Eye of newt and toe of frog...")
94	* ''[[Literature/HonorHarrington In Enemy Hands]]'' has Theisman use an inhaler to sober up. It's explicitly described to be a very unpleasant system shock, but it's not specified if the vomiting a few pages later is because of the drug or realizing [[spoiler:he had accidentally given Cordelia Ransom ideas on how not to get caught mistreating prisoners of war]].
95	* In the first ''Literature/JeevesAndWooster'' story, Jeeves gets the job by curing Bertie's hangover, and afterwards often dispenses the concoction following Bertie's latest night on the town. Jeeves' mixture includes cognac, black pepper, cinnamon, and a raw egg. (Also featured in the first episode of [[Series/JeevesAndWooster the TV series]].)
96	* ''Literature/JourneyToChaos'': Eric needs Culmus to sober up in a hurry during ''Literature/AMagesPower'', because there's a RescueArc they need to get started on. So he takes Culmus to [[MadScientist Captain Hasina]] who has been experimenting with just such a remedy. It makes Culmus cough up blood, experience seizures, and would likely have killed him if Hasina didn't step in with WhiteMagic. Despite that, he is awake, sober and ready to fight in a few hours.
97	* In Sergey Lukyanenko's ''[[Literature/NightWatchSeries Night Watch]]'', there is a very simple spell that can sober anyone up within a few minutes... but it involves the person throwing up on the spot, so it's messy. What's more, it cannot be blocked by any means (at least, it has never been blocked in the books).
98	* In the book and film of ''Literature/ThePrincessBride'', Fezzik sobers up Inigo by alternately shoving him face first into tubs of steaming hot and ice cold water until Inigo is awake enough to tell him to stop.
99	* In ''Literature/TheRestaurantAtTheEndOfTheUniverse'' we are introduced to a machine which, through the application of flashing lights and various noxious gases, can reverse even the effects of the [[GargleBlaster Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster]]. It is placed (rather responsibly) near the ship hangars. This placement seems to be the only semblance of responsibility in Creator/DouglasAdams's entire universe.
100	* ''Literature/TheSagaOfDarrenShan'' has a variant: the traditional hangover cure on Vampire Mountain isn't any kind of drink, but to go stick your head under the local WaterfallShower. Darren finds it's actually effective once the agony wears off.
101	* Creator/HBeamPiper referred in ''[[RecycledINSPACE Space Viking]]'' to "alcodote-vitimine" pills which prevent the user from getting drunk no matter how much he drinks. Rather disappointing to a man who'd like to get wasted enough to forget [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone what he saw and did]] on his first Viking raid.
102	* The Drive-Right pill in Creator/HarryHarrison's ''[[Literature/TheStainlessSteelRat The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge]]''. It's a small round pill that will make you absolutely stone cold sober seconds after swallowing it... it's completely black except for a skull and crossbones on each side. Unfortunately it's rather unpleasant to take. The description of its effect includes the words "[[FireBreathingDiner fire hose]]". It shows up again in Harrison's ''Literature/BillTheGalacticHero'' novels.
103	* It is mentioned in one ''Franchise/StarWars'' novel that there are anti-veisalgia drugs one can take to prevent winding up with a hangover.
104	* ''Literature/ATangledWeb1981'': Hangaway tablets, which hit "like a pile driver."
105	-->...the adrenaline shock came. Tunnel vision and millions of tiny needles being pushed out through your skin. Rivers of sweat. Cathedral bells tolling, your head the clapper. Then the dry heaves and it was over.
106	* A ''Literature/WingCommander'' novel featured LifeOfTheParty AcePilot Hunter unexpectedly having his leave canceled, just after a night full of drinking incredibly potent alien alcohol. So when he's picked up in the morning, the fleet puts him through a clinical hangover cure referred to as 'the green goop', complete with several pages of an agonized reaction to it.
107	* ''Literature/{{Neverwhere}}'': {{Inverted\|Trope}} when TheDreaded Lady Serpentine offers Richard an "aggressively emerald-colored liquid". Despite his and his companions' misgivings, he drinks it, and finds it both tasty and instantly effective.
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111	* In the ''Series/ThirtyRock'' episode ''Generalissimo,'' after Tracy goes out with the new interns and has a huge hangover, Kenneth gets his uncle Harlan's hangover cure.
112	-->'''Kenneth:''' Mix two cups boiled possum meat with one messload ragweed. Stir in alcohol--
113	* In the BBC series ''Series/{{Ambassadors}}'', Keith (the ambassador) returns from a week-long hunting trip with the president with a massive hangover. He collapses in the car as soon as he is picked up, when his driver Sergei hands him a bottle:
114	-->'''Sergei:''' This will make you feel better.\
115	'''Keith:''' Well, I can't feel any worse. ''[drinks bottle]'' I was wrong.
116	* ''Series/{{Bottom}}'' does this with a concoction made out of various kitchen-cleaning chemicals and a few organic ingredients (past their expiration date, for preference). It has to be taken through the nose.
117	* ''Series/BrainiacScienceAbuse'' once did an experiment to find which of three hangover cures worked best (Greasy breakfast, hair of the dog, or nothing at all). Hair of the dog had good short term effects (because the body stops working on the difficult to process stuff which causes hangovers and starts on the easier just added alcohol) but bad long term (you just delay your hangover for the same reason). A greasy breakfast was the best of the options presented.
118	* An episode of ''Series/BrotherlyLove1995'' had the mom making a hangover cure for the eldest brother. She never said what was in it, but, "If it starts to taste like ranch dressing you're drinking it too slowly."
119	* Paige is shown making one in an episode of ''Series/{{Charmed\|1998}}'', with the requisite raw egg thrown in with who knows what else in a blender, to give to Piper.
120	-->'''Piper:''' How many hangover cures do you have?\
121	'''Paige:''' A lot. There was [[DarkAndTroubledPast a time in my life]] when I needed these often.
122	* Somewhat inverted in the penultimate episode of ''Series/{{Cheers}}''. Woody successfully cured his hangover with a cure that worked all the time in Hanover: put on your pajamas, take an aspirin with a glass of water, then vomit till your nose bleeds and you see the angels.
123	* ''Series/{{Forever\|2014}}'': In "Diamonds Are Forever" Jo goes on a drinking binge after having to work on a case relating to her late husband. She wakes up on the couch at Henry and Abe's place, with Abe standing by with his patented hangover cure, which is described as "awful" but apparently works.
124	* ''Series/GetSmart'' has a curious cross between this and the GargleBlaster: A pill intended to be covertly held in the mouth which absorbs all the alcohol from drinks before you swallow them, but if itself swallowed, will instantly render you drop-dead drunk.
125	* Barney from ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' has the Stinson Hangover Fixer Elixir, which he claims was invented by his ancestor Barney Stinsonheimer, commissioned by President Roosevelt as part of the Too-Many-Manhattans Project. Ingredients include ginger, Tantrum soda, Funyuns, bananas, grease, and a secret ingredient. Amazingly enough, it works, but when the others try to make one for Barney, they discover that [[spoiler:there was no secret ingredient; the elixir only worked because [[MagicFeather they thought it would]]]].
126	* In ''Series/{{MASH}}'' episode "A Night at Rosie's," Rosie brings round the passed-out random major they found with her coffee.
127	-->'''Rosie:''' Don't worry, Radar. Even if he's ''dead'', my coffee will bring him back.\
128	'''Radar:''' What's in it?\
129	'''Rosie:''' Just coffee, egg, and a little gunpowder!\
130	'''Radar:''' That's dangerous!\
131	'''Rosie:''' Yeah.
132	* Subverted in "Bringing Up Baby," the fourth-season premiere of ''Series/ModernFamily''. Claire offers her daughter Haley, who won't directly admit to her mother that she was drinking, a blended mix of perfectly vile ingredients on the morning after her last prom. She drinks half the glass and runs away to throw up, after which Claire admits to her other daughter that it was never intended as a hangover cure.
133	* ''Series/MythBusters'' tested four sober-up-quick methods: black coffee, vigorous exercise, dunking the head in ice water, and being slapped in the face. While they didn't show the breathalyzer results, exercise and the slap did cause improvements on the hand-eye coordination test. (Those two tests also provided some hysterical high-speed footage.) Oddly enough, the only cure close enough to qualify for this trope was the black coffee.
134	* During the California series of ''Series/OzAndJames's Big Wine Adventure'', James spends a morning cooking these for a hungover and very surly Oz, using miscellaneous and leftover food items found in their RV fridge.
135	* ''Series/ParksAndRecreation:'' While Ron Swanson is probably tough enough that he seldom gets hangovers in the first place, his measures to avoid them are surprisingly gentle on the palate, if fattening.
136	-->'''Ron during a morning program:''' Never been hungover. After I’ve had too much whiskey, I cook myself a large flank steak, pan-fried in salted butter. I eat that, put on a pair of wet socks and go to sleep.\
137	'''Ron to his [[HangoverSensitivity horribly hungover coworkers]]:''' [[NoIndoorVoice TOP OF THE MORNING EVERYONE!]] I brought some burgers and fries! Eat up, the protein soaks up the sugar!
138	* Strop's hangover cure from ''Series/ThePaulHoganShow'': an oyster, a raw egg, salt, pepper, Vegemite and beer. The most remarkable aspect is that the actor actually mixed and drank this concoction in front of the cameras before dashing off the set to throw up.
139	** No the amazing thing is he mixed TWO, and managed to drink the first one without throwing up
140	* ''Series/RedDwarf'' has both versions of these. "Gunmen of the Apocalypse" has a character forced to eat a bowlful of coffee-grounds to cause sobriety and in another ep it's established that Lister drinks cold curry sauce the morning after a heavy night. Don't forget the [[http://feastygeeks.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/red-dwarf-food-triple-fried-egg-chili.html triple fried-egg chilli chutney sandwich!]]
141	* ''Series/SanfordAndSon'' featured one at least once. It contains BBQ sauce, OJ, a raw egg, Tabasco, and three other liquids from unrecognizable bottles of shades from brown to red.
142	* The Prairie Oyster also makes an appearance in ''Series/Studio60OnTheSunsetStrip'', given to a drunken daughter of a Chinese investor. Apparently, they don't help when you're drunk, only make things worse.
143	* In ''Series/{{Supernatural}},'' Dean tells Sam the best cure for a hangover is a [[ShoutOut greasy pork sandwich served in a dirty ashtray.]] However, instead of being hungover, Sam was still very visibly drunk (as in, head in toilet bowl drunk). Dean's intention was probably to make Sam puke again, and try to get the alcohol out of his system before the hangover hit him like a bulldozer the next day. How effective that really is remains to be seen.
144	* Used on ''Series/TwinPeaks''. When Sheriff Truman has a hangover, Agent Cooper and Cole list the ingredients of their own personal hangover cures. They're so disgusting, Sheriff Truman rushes to the bathroom to vomit. (Which was the real 'hangover cure' all along.)
145	* Occurs in the seventh season of ''Series/{{Weeds}}'', when Doug assures Andy that a raw egg mixed with a Clamato and some crushed Oreos will fix him right up after a rough night drinking.
146	* In an episode of ''Series/WhiteCollar,'' con man Neal has to try and forge a whiskey, and he and Mozzie had to taste it to make sure the counterfeit was accurate. This, of course, led to Neal having a screaming hangover the next day. The cure Peter gave him wasn't some unholy combination of ingredients, but when you've got a massive hangover, '''pickle juice''' is probably one of the last things you ever want to have to drink.
147	* On ''Series/TheYoungOnes'', Vyvyan tries to cure his hangover by, among other things, repeatedly bashing his head against a wall and setting off a stick of dynamite on it. Keep in mind that Vyvyan is a medical student.
148	-->'''Vyvyan:''' What's good for a hangover?\
149	'''Mike:''' Drinking heavily the night before.
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153	* ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}'' Classic had a small spell (termed a "trick") named ''coffin varnish'' that [[CardSharp Hucksters]] could use to conjure a thick, black liquid reminiscent of [[BadToTheLastDrop two-day old coffee mixed with a small amount of corn starch and kerosene]]. Sure, ItTastesLikeFeet, but it does help with hangovers.
154	* ''TabletopGame/{{Rolemaster}}'' ''Shadow World'' supplement ''Jaiman: Land of Twilight''. Eating the fruit of the Siene bush cleanses the body of any intoxicant (such as alcohol) in seconds ''and'' can cure hangovers, thus making it a rare example of both types of this trope.
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158	* ''VideoGame/Borderlands3'': The ''Handsome Jackpot'' DLC has you encounter a hungover jazz singer named Digby Vermouth who requires one of these called a Junpai Jumpstarter. Ingredients include paint thinner, ratch (a cross between [[MixAndMatchCritter a rat and a roach]]) eggs, and [[ArsonMurderAndLifesaving a twist of lime]]. Drinking it is basically kill or cure.
159	-->'''Digby Vermouth:''' If I don't die drinking the Junpai that is. Been known to happen.
160	* There is an Alka-seltzer looking concoction in ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay'' that seems to cure hangovers like a miracle, including the little Harp sound.
161	* ''VideoGame/TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland'' has a [[ChekhovsBoomerang particularly useful one]]. All it takes is an egg, some pepper, and [[HairOfTheDog the hair of the dog that bit you]]. Dangerous if mixed, and surprisingly so for a Creator/LucasArts game. The hard part is finding [[LiteralMetaphor a sufficiently angry/careless dog]], and it's oddly inconsistent about who the dog needs to bite.
162	* In ''Videogame/DanseMacabre 2: Moulin Rouge'' you need to sober up the unconscious witness of an argument between a fictional Russian baron and Toulouse-Lautrec. This particular remedy has an immediate effect and consists of lemon juice, tomato juice and pepper.
163	* ''VideoGame/GuildWars2'': In an early chapter of ''End of Dragons'', you need to get an [=NPC=] functional again after too much grog. A friendly noodle seller recommends his Kaineng Spicy bowl -- "Nothing clears a bad hangover faster ... if the stomach can handle it, that is."
164	* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask [[VideoGameRemake 3D]]'' (but not the original) has you get one of these for Gorman when he's literally DrunkOnMilk. The remedy consists of [[HairOfTheDog more milk]], plus unspecified ingredients that Gorman's brother apparently picks up off (or out of) the ground. These additives seem to make the milk spoil quickly; returning the completed beverage is a TimedMission. Tatl is all too happy to inform you of how disgusting she thinks the concoction is and forbids you from doing anything that might risk spilling or consuming it (such as using the WarpWhistle to get back to town quickly), more due to the smell than for Gorman's sake. If it spoils, Tatl is so disgusted by the smell that she will outright beg Link to play the [[ResetButton Song of Time]] to get rid of it.
165	* ''VideoGame/{{Runescape}}'' has a quest where you need to cure a man of a hangover to proceed. The cure is a mix of chocolate milk and snape grass, the former specifically to mask the taste of the latter.
166	* Your Russian buddy in ''VideoGame/TonyHawksUnderground'' (the first) gets drunk, and you need to help him clear his hangover. Cure consists of pills, raw eggs, HairOfTheDog, unknown liquids, various vitamins (including a dubious “Vitamin Z?”), EyeOfNewt, more HairOfTheDog (“[[VodkaDrunkenski sure!]]”), tomato soup, an energy drink, [[RuleOfThree even more]] HairOfTheDog, and other curious ingredients.
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170	* In [[http://www.crfh.net/d/19990831.html this]] ''Webcomic/CollegeRoomiesFromHell'' strip, Roger finds that having a leech attach to his tongue cures his hangover. Mike helpfully {{Lampshade\|Hanging}}s the equally hideous reversal of the usual sort of Hideous Hangover Cure.
171	* One strip of ''Webcomic/GirlsWithSlingshots'' has Jamie feed Hazel a cup of what Jameson later points out is "disgusting cold coffee". Jamie's reply? "It was until I said it was a hangover cure."
172	* An {{Inversion}} is found in ''Webcomic/AModestDestiny'', where the only way the alcoholic could be revived after extensive injuries is an alcohol drip.
173	* Piffany from ''Webcomic/{{Nodwick}}'' has a sobriety spell that isn't so much a Hideous Hangover Cure as it is a Hideous Hangover Cause; it will even have this effect if the person who cops Piffany's stick to his head is stone-cold sober, much to [[ButtMonkey Nodwick's]] chagrin.
174	* ''Webcomic/{{Spacetrawler}}'' has a rather unpopular drink called [[http://spacetrawler.com/2012/08/26/spacetrawler-254/ "drunk-kicker"]] which crams a day's worth of hangover into about five seconds.
175	* A series of ''Webcomic/IrregularWebcomic'' "Mythbusters" arc strips has them testing various horrible hangover cures. By the end Adam feels better, but Jamie points out that this is consistant with the amount of time that has passed, regardless of the cures.
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179	* ''WebVideo/BingingWithBabish'': At the end of the Cocktail Special, Babish blearily replicates "Barney's Hangover Fixer Elixir" from ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' -- a blend of Funyuns, banana, ginger root, bacon fat, and energy drink. The fictional version is a miracle cure, but the real one necessitates a VomitDiscretionShot.
180	* Roleplay/{{DC Nation}}'s Green Shield whipped up a obnoxious-tasting, but effective, hangover cure that she dubbed "the Caleb Zukov" after a team-mate she found obnoxious but effective.
181	* ''WebVideo/EpicMealTime'': In the "Caesar Bloodbath" episode, Harley (very hung over after spending the night getting drunk while marathoning ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'') demands that the rest of the crew prepare the hangover cure he invented, the eponymous Caesar Bloodbath. Par for the course with the series, it's a truly massive and hideous NutritionalNightmare concoction that, among other things, includes a lot of bacon (also par for the course with this series). [[spoiler:And then Harley [[BoringButPractical just takes an aspirin to deal with the hangover.]]]]
182	* Boris of ''WebVideo/LifeOfBoris'' features this as #6 on his list of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFMK7bQ1pjE Slav Hangover Cures,]] the Gopnik Iced Tea: pickle juice, whole pickles, warm vodka, lemon juice, caviar, and sauerkraut, all blended together into a frothy nightmare concoction.
183	* The ''List 25'' show made a video listing [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umsc91NfWvQ 25 bizarre hangover remedies]] from around the world. Among the most hideous are Mongolia's "glass of tomato juice with a pickled sheep's eyeball," Hungary's "sparrow droppings in brandy", the old American West's rabbit dropping tea, and the Philippine's "poached, fertilized duck embryo".
184	* The Website/SCPFoundation has [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-294 SCP-294,]] a vending machine capable of dispensing any liquid imaginable. Someone once made the mistake of asking it for a [[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Pan Galactic]] GargleBlaster, the after-effects of which included a headache that was only relieved by consuming ''an entire bottle of Excedrin''. [[note]]It's mentioned that this would normally cause "deleterious effects from overdose of acetaminophen and acetylsalicylic acid". Said "deleterious effects" include ''death'', so DoNotTryThisAtHome. Though where you'd get a Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster in RealLife, we wouldn't know.[[/note]]
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188	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rick and Morty}}'': In one episode, after waking up from a night of heavy drinking (even by his standards), Rick mixes some chemicals he had in his coat and uses a tiny alien head-like lump that spits pink goo into his eyes, rendering him completely recovered. Since he seems to have done this several times before, it doesn't qualify as a dubious cure, but applying it still looks somewhat unsettling.
189	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Undergrads}}'': In the appropriatly named episode "Drunks", [[TheAlcoholic Rocko]] has a particularly nasty hangover after one night of debauchery that led to him waking up in jail wearing an adult diaper (it was "Break The Seal" night at a local bar - drink all you want for free until you have to take a leak), and stumbles into the closest drug store in a desperate attempt at curing himself. He ends up downing a mix of, among other things, baby aspirin, chocolate laxatives, and turkey jerky.
190	--> '''Rocko''': in a TroubledFetalPosition on the sidewalk Must find... cure... for... broken body...
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194	* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prairie_oyster_%28cocktail%29 Prairie Oyster.]] Actually, most of Website/TheOtherWiki's article on the drink is them doing our job for us.
195	** This is not to be confused with the Canadian kind of "prairie oyster" aka [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Mountain_oysters Rocky Mountain Oysters.]]
196	** For reference, a prairie oyster is a traditional beverage consisting of a raw egg (often yolk alone), Worcestershire sauce, vinegar and/or hot sauce, table salt and ground black pepper. Tomato juice is sometimes added, reminiscent of a Bloody Mary. The egg is broken into a glass so as not to break the yolk.
197	* ''Water'' is touted by the health sciences community as being the best thing for a hangover, the argument being that the splitting headache is a result of massive dehydration. Some take aspirin along with their water. However, dehydration is only one of the reasons to hangover headache, the other being toxic action of acetaldehyde, the alcohol metabolite. So rehydration only lowers the headache, but does not remove it completely. This is why you include the pain reliever. Consult a doctor—or at least someone vaguely familiar with basic medicine—to choose which one.
198	** IV fluids and vitamins also seem fairly popular. The most popular IV fluid is [=D5W=]—a solution of 5% dextrose (AKA glucose)—maybe with a small amount of added potassium (although solutions with that last in it must be run in a lot slower, not least because it stings like hell going in the vein). Another popular choice is Ringer's Lactate (interchangeably known as Lactated Ringer's or Hartmann's Solution). This uses various electrolytes (sodium lactate, sodium chloride, potassium chloride, etc.) instead of dextrose. Each works differently; [=D5W=] is meant to replace lost nutrients whereas Ringer's Lactate helps with blood chemistry.
199	** In an episode of ''Series/{{House}}'', Cuddy catches Thirteen attempting to recover from a night of debauchery with some sort of self-administered IV solution.
200	** Also featured in an episode of ''Series/{{Scrubs}}''.
201	** And the pilot of ''Series/{{ER}}''.
202	* [[http://bacontoday.com/scientists-proclaims-%E2%80%9Cbacon-sandwich%E2%80%9D-the-ultimate-hangover-cure/ Bacon sandwich.]] Only hideous if you're barred from eating pork products, though. However, other meats as well as eggs in sandwiches -- or simply with bread -- work almost as well. Come to think of of it, this is probably where the Full English (and Scottish and Welsh and Irish) Breakfast comes from: bacon, check; eggs, check; bread, check...and sausages (for even more fatty meat), plus tomatoes (vitamins, I guess? possibly antioxidants), beans (you've got us there), and tea (whose caffeine content doesn't do you any favours, but tea has relatively little caffeine[[note]]especially compared to many other countries' morning drink of choice--coffee[[/note]] and massive psychological benefits, so it's a net plus).
203	* Speaking of eggs, raw owls' eggs were a common cure for hangovers in AncientRome.
204	** Another hangover cure from AncientRome was [[DeepFriedWhatever deep fried canaries]]; this one was delicious if you didn't mind chewing on the bones.
205	* Narcan (naloxone), when injected into the victim of a heroin overdose, reverses the drug's effect completely and has saved many lives as a result. It's also gotten a lot of ambulance officers beaten up because they deprived the patient of their high. It such a big problem that some [=EMTs=] are known to give the addicts they're rescuing a bit less Narcan than prescribed for their weight: enough to get them breathing again, but not enough to wake them up completely. In other cases, the beating is somewhat justified because some [=EMTs=] occasionally administer Narcan to injured opioid users out of spite.
206	* Gatorade actually started as a semi-Hideous Hangover Cure. In 1965 University of Florida medical researchers created the original Gatorade formula because Gators players were showing up to [[UsefulNotes/CollegiateAmericanFootball football]] practice dehydrated and hung over; two years later the team won their first Orange Bowl, which encouraged its creators to remove some of the sourness from the recipe and make it commercially available.
207	** In a similar vein, Pedialyte works wonders. This is probably because it is very similar to Gatorade, specifically the low-sugar G2 variety.
208	* Dialysis apparently works wonders, since it cleans the blood and resets your fluid and sugar levels all in one fell swoop. A perfect solution! ...Except for the whole "having major organ failure" thing. Whether or not that would be preferable to a hangover is left to the reader's discretion.
209	* According to the Scottish, Irn Bru. It contains caffeine, quinine (which has some effects resembling a mild opiate) and lots of sugar. Now you know why it's the most popular soft drink in the country.
210	** The incredible amounts of sugar also makes it a good "cure" for overly spicy food. Truly, Irn Bru is the wonder drink!
211	** In Ireland, Coca-Cola is sometimes nicknamed "Red Ambulance" because the caffeine and sugar contained in the drink are considered good for treating a hangover.
212	* According to the Mexicans, [[FireBreathingDiner extremely spicy food]]. Specially ''chilaquiles'', since the dish is mostly tortilla chips soaking in sauce. ''Menudo'', a soup made with beef tripe, is another popular option. Mexican restaurants in the U.S. often have specials on menudo during the weekend for this reason.
213	* On a related note, there's a kind of ''ceviche'' (a Latin American raw fish preparation) meant to be a quick fix to any hangover. It's known as ''vuelve a la vida'' ("return to life") and is typically prepared in a very spicy tomato-based sauce.
214	* Sometimes the best cure there is for a hangover is to puke your guts out. Forcing out the contents of your stomach is meant to keep more alcohol from coming in and making the situation worse. If you're vomiting after heavy drinking, take heed; it's a definite sign your body is in trouble (your stomach is essentially trying to prevent or reverse alcohol poisoning) and needs time to get a hold of itself.
215	* In Canada, Poutine (french fries covered in cheese curds and gravy) is considered by many to be a hangover cure.
216	** It's a hangover prevention! Eat one before going to bed and you'll be fine. No one eats it in the morning!
217	* Greasebombing (ingesting inordinate amounts of fat, mostly with proteins) in general seems to be popular, especially things like the Full English Breakfast.
218	* Sauerkraut, and the juice from it, is sometimes used as a hangover cure, as it has decent amounts of Vitamin C and some B-vitamins, and is good for the digestive tract thanks to the fermenting bacteria. It can be made a bit more palatable by mixing it with tomato juice, or just diluting it with water (which, as discussed earlier, also helps the hangover pass).
219	** Kimchi can be used in this way as well.
220	*** In Northern and eastern Europe (and Russia), pickled herrings with onion/cukes (AKA rollmops, Bismarcks, Matjes) are downed for the same reason, often along with sour cream or yoghurt, and black bread. That these are also commonly eaten during a neat spirits binge is not coincidental.
221	*** In Russia, the classic is cucumber brine.
222	** Tomato juice on its own is associated with hangovers so much in some parts of Europe, people won't believe you when you say you're just drinking it because you like it.
223	* Although illegal in most jurisdictions, marijuana is considered a great hangover cure by many who smoke it. Marijuana gets rid of nausea and increases appetite (which is why it's prescribed medicinally to people with advanced HIV/AIDS or who are undergoing chemotherapy in some locations) and also eliminates headaches, which are some of the more unpleasant hangover effects.
224	* Alka-Seltzer. Oh what a relief it is! You just have to drink a lot of it. Be careful with this one, though. The primary active ingredient in it is aspirin, which can cause stomach pain as well (not to mention the effervescence adding gas).
225	* While tastes may vary, there's plenty of Asian dishes which one culture or another will swear by as a solution to a night spent drinking, and the descriptions of some of them may raise eyebrows and worry stomachs. Ginseng tea is not an uncommon suggestion, but as far as taste goes, 'medicinal' would probably be the most accurate description. Korea does a vegetable soup version of the Prairie Oyster (with ox's blood included). There is also the extremely suspect rumor that the ancient Chinese consumed horse's brains to cure a hangover, which probably qualifies as the worst thing to wake up to the morning after a night of hard drinking.
226	* A surefire way to avoid a hangover is abstinence or moderation...which, [[TheAlcoholic for some]] is this trope in itself.
227	* A Medieval English cure involved eating eels and bitter almonds. It seems to go either way on whether the eels were eaten cooked or raw, and at least some versions had the eels and bitter almonds being made into a paste together. This one can actually be potentially dangerous, as bitter almonds contain higher levels of cyanide than the sweet variety normally consumed.
228	* In the American South, it's pretty common for people to get rid of their hangover by... having some more booze the next morning. ([[HairOfTheDog "Hair of the dog that bit ya."]]) It's as much fun as it sounds, but seasoned drinkers swear by it.
229	* As mentioned above, the only reliable cure for a hangover is water and time, which arguably counts as an example of this trope as well. So much so it's why this trope exists in the first place.
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