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Drinking alcohol makes some characters nicer than sobriety, often with large doses of melancholy. Large doses of maudlin sentimentality are common and may lead to declarations of "I love you guys." or tears.

Also termed a "happy drunk" (though drunkenness can also induce sadness) or "friendly drunk" as opposed to the "mean drunk" or "nasty drunk."

Sub Trope of InVinoVeritas. Can be TruthInTelevision because alcohol lowers inhibitions.
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!!Examples:

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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* In ''Franchise/{{Patlabor}}'', Noa technically NeverGetsDrunk, but she does get happily tipsy during an outing -- laughing, clapping, and roping Kanuka (who gets depressed when she drinks) into a drinking competition.
* Kaoru from ''Manga/ICantUnderstandWhatMyHusbandIsSaying'' gets more affectionate with her husband when she's drunk. [[BlackComedyRape A lot more affectionate]].
-->'''Kaoru:''' I love you! [[LampshadeHanging I'm drunk so I'll keep saying it]]! I love you! I love you lots!
* [[TheAlcoholic Kaido]] becomes one in ''Manga/OnePiece'' if his lackeys are lucky. However, say the wrong thing around him and it flips a switch over to ''violent'' drunk. He later displays the ability to weaponize his drunken mood swings while in combat (such as [[TheHyena Laughing Drunk]], [[TheEeyore Depressed Drunk]], [[InelegantBlubbering Crying Drunk]], [[HairTriggerTemper Angry Drunk]], [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment Flirty Drunk]], [[CombatClairvoyance Thieving Drunk]] and [[TheBerserker Slaughtering Drunk]]), making him [[DrunkenMaster incredibly unpredictable and deadly]].
* Rachnera from ''Manga/MonsterMusume'' becomes a lot more honest about her feelings for Kimihito after she gets [[DrunkOnMilk drunk on coffee]].
* Getting [[CantHoldHisLiquor any amount]] of alcohol in his system causes the normally violently {{Tsundere}} Hori from ''Manga/MonthlyGirlsNozakiKun'' to endlessly ramble about how great he thinks Kashima is.
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* ''Fanfic/GuysBeingDudes'': CardCarryingJerkass Arlo got reduced to sitting in Spark's lap and admitting to having followed him on Instagram back at Go Fest 2020 after [[CantHoldHisLiquor only having 2 beers]], according to Candela.
* ''Fanfic/MrAndMrsGold'': Rose is described as being a very “friendly” drunk, ranging from cuddling to trying to claw her husband’s pants off.
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[[folder:Film]]
* A character from ''Film/WaynesWorld'' acted like a happy drunk, going around saying, "I love you, man!" and hugging people.
* ''Film/CityLights'' had a character who was exceedingly friendly and generous when drunk, but tight-fisted and mean when sober. The fact that he also tended to black out and not remember what had happened when he was drunk adds to the confusion.
* Vodka was the key for a couple of kisses in ''Film/TheWayHeLooks''. Upon learning this, [[spoiler:Leonardo deliberately tries to get Gabriel drunk again.]] It also leads Leonardo to tell Giovana about his feelings for Gabriel.
* ''Film/AnotherRound'': All four teachers discover in their drinking experiment that getting drunk makes them nicer people, or at least more ''effective'' at being nice.
* Applied to hashish in ''Film/KarateAMuerteEnTorremolinos''. Manolo likes Jess because he's the only one who treats him well. Due to this, Manolo tells Jess the legend of Jocántaro.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* In ''Literature/ToSayNothingOfTheDog'', Ned compares the sentimentality that time drops can cause to an Irishman in his cups, or a sober Victorian poet.
* In ''Literature/ATangledWeb1931'', Penny Dark gets drunk in order to convince Margaret to call off their engagement by repulsing her. Unfortunately for him, it makes him sentimental and convinced he really is in love with her. His actions convince her that she can't call it off.
* In the ''Literature/{{Hoka}}'' stories, one alien while drunk goes off in sentimental memories of his youth. Then he shifts to Mean Drunk on seeing a human — or primate, as he puts it.
* In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince'', Slughorn and Hagrid get drunk together at Aragog's funeral. This puts Slughorn in a much more relaxed mood (as well as ensuring that he wouldn't remember anything Harry said to him) so that Harry can question him about the covered-up memory.
* ''Literature/InCryptid'': Dominic accidentally gets high off swamp bromeliad pollen and becomes overly affectionate towards Verity, which would be nice if they weren't currently trying to rescue a kid from a ManEatingPlant.
-->'''Dominic:''' You're beautiful. Did you know? You must know. You own so many lip glosses. No one would own that many lip glosses and not know. Do you want to dance?
* Raymond Shaw in ''Literature/TheManchurianCandidate'' becomes both more pleasant and more melancholic when he drinks.
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[[folder:Live Action TV]]
* In one episode of ''Series/TheKingOfQueens'', Doug notices that Carrie is more friendly when drunk, and encourages her to go out drinking as much as possible.
* In a two-parter episode of ''Series/{{Cheers}}'', the minister to perform Woody and Kelly's wedding dies, so they (Sam et. al.) find a minister uncle to perform the ceremony. However, he's drunk, so they sober him up. Then he's not actually nasty, but he refuses to perform the ceremony because he hates marriage. So they get him drunk again.
* In a ''Series/{{Friends}}'' episode, "Fun Bobby" was the life of the party (in an appropriate and functional way) when drunk, but was lethargic and boring when sober.
* ''Franchise/StarTrek'': Of all people, [[HiveDrone Seven of Nine]] was this. [[TookALevelInBadass Until she learned to hold her synthehol.]]
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[[folder:Radio]]
* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': "Old Clothes for Party" sees a sentimental (and exceptionally annoying) drunk invades Miss Brooks' conversation when she tries to use the party line telephone. The drunk falsely thinks Miss Brooks is married to his best friend and starts wailing as she's making a date with Mr. Boynton. Later, the drunk starts crying about how he doesn't know where his father is.
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[[folder:Theatre]]
* In ''Theatre/{{Pygmalion}}'', Eliza claims that her mother used to send her father off with drinking money so he'd come back home "cheerful and loving-like." She then adds that a lot of women have to get their menfolk drunk to be able to live with them. Unfortunately, this is while she's trying to pass as an upper-class lady.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* In ''VideoGame/ShiningResonance,'' Captain Burroughs gets absolutely hammered to celebrate Sonia's [[spoiler: promotion to full Dragoneer]], and spends much of that drunkenness cheering about [[SoProudOfYou how proud of her he is]].
* In adult BaraGenre BeatEmUp ''Strange Flesh'', the no-nonsense, dominant Bartender becomes a lot more smiley, affectionate, and willing to bottom when he's drunk.
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[[folder:Visual Novels]]
* ''VisualNovel/AmnesiaMemories'': Ikki admits more openly how much of a burden things are and how much he loves the heroine after drinking a little too much. ''Amnesia LATER'' also reveals that he becomes quite a [[CuddleBug cuddler]] when intoxicated.
* Ms. Walsh from ''VisualNovel/DoubleHomework'' becomes more open about her failures and appreciative of him for tolerating them when the protagonist walks in on her drunk in the faculty room. She even offers him sex.
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* ''Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}}'': Mike is a total {{Jerkass}} when sober, but a swell guy when drunk; this has led people to keep him soused as much as possible.
* In ''Webcomic/WeakHero'', Naksung is usually pragmatic to be the point of being an asshole. However, it's revealed that he [[CantHoldHisLiquor can't hold his drink]] and becomes much friendlier once he has some alcohol in him. Hwangmo takes advantage of this to get a favour out of him when they'd otherwise be at each other's throats.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': At Duff Gardens, Bart and Milhouse go on a ride to make you feel like you're drunk, after which they're buddy-buddy, with lines such as "You're my best friend!" and "This guy...this is the guy..."
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': Stewie acts like this after he drinks something Brian tells him is alcohol.
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[[folder:Real Life]]
* According to [[http://www.cracked.com/article_18786_the-5-most-inspiring-things-ever-accomplished-while-drunk.html this article]] from ''Website/{{Cracked}}'', UsefulNotes/NikitaKhrushchev might have ''prevented a war'' by being a friendly, sentimental drunk. UsefulNotes/JosipBrozTito had gotten into a serious tiff with UsefulNotes/JosefStalin, which led him to keep UsefulNotes/{{Yugoslavia}} outside the Soviet Bloc, and war between the UsefulNotes/WarsawPact and Yugoslavia seemed all but inevitable. Even after Stalin's death in 1953, tensions remained high; when the Soviet and Yugoslav governments arranged a summit meeting in Belgrade in May 1955, the Yugoslavs expected it to be a meaningless farce and set things up so that the [[VodkaDrunkenski Soviet delegation would get drunk in public]] and embarrass themselves. Get drunk in public they did...but embarrass themselves? On the contrary, Khrushchev got all lovey-dovey and started kissing everyone in sight, and heartily encouraged Tito and the Yugoslavs to get drunk with him at a lavish party at the Soviet embassy, at which Khrushchev kept telling Tito, "[[UsefulNotes/RussianNamingConvention Josya]], quit being so angry! What a thin-skinned one you are! Drink up and let bygones be bygones." The conference ended a huge success and Soviet-Yugoslav tensions were resolved (although Yugoslavia never did join the Pact, they were at least talked out of making a Bomb).
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