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* Clare Kincaid of ''Series/LawAndOrder'' is killed when her stationary car is hit by a drunk driver. The next time Jack gets the chance to prosecute a drunk driving case, he conspires to get the culprit the death penalty -- by hiding the fact that the driver was drunk. (If the driver was in control of himself and his vehicle, the case potentially becomes first-degree murder.) His conscience -- and Jamie's -- won't quite let him go through with it.
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* ''Series/LawAndOrder'':
** Clare Kincaidof ''Series/LawAndOrder'' is killed when her stationary car is hit by a drunk driver. The next time Jack gets the chance to prosecute a drunk driving case, he conspires to get the culprit the death penalty -- by hiding the fact that the driver was drunk. (If the driver was in control of himself and his vehicle, the case potentially becomes first-degree murder.) His conscience -- and Jamie's -- won't quite let him go through with it.it.
** In "[[Recap/LawAndOrderS20E8Doped Doped]]", a woman's smoothie is spiked with alcohol and her nasal spray with a sedative without her knowledge by a coworker. When this coworker realized she was driving her children and nieces oit of the city, he tried to stop her, but she crashed her car anyway, causing her own death, [[DeathOfAChild 3 of the 4 children]], and 3 strangers.
** Clare Kincaid
** In "[[Recap/LawAndOrderS20E8Doped Doped]]", a woman's smoothie is spiked with alcohol and her nasal spray with a sedative without her knowledge by a coworker. When this coworker realized she was driving her children and nieces oit of the city, he tried to stop her, but she crashed her car anyway, causing her own death, [[DeathOfAChild 3 of the 4 children]], and 3 strangers.
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Prior to UsefulNotes/TheEighties, this trope was often a source for comedy, even in a by-the-book CopShow like ''Series/Adam12'' when the cops pull them over. (The stock joke is someone suffering from AlcoholInducedIdiocy trying to say "SorryOciffer...") However, a greater awareness of the deadly menace of motorists driving under the influence have now made it a source of AnAesop for a VerySpecialEpisode and placed jokes about it solidly in DudeNotFunny territory (though they may still be used for BlackComedy). As a result, impaired drivers are going to hit someone and have a car accident, or be chased down by heroes and/or the police to prevent it. If it's a near miss, it's a ScareEmStraight.
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Prior to UsefulNotes/TheEighties, this trope was often a source for comedy, even in a by-the-book CopShow like ''Series/Adam12'' when the cops pull them over. (The stock joke is someone suffering from AlcoholInducedIdiocy trying to say "SorryOciffer...") However, a greater awareness of the deadly menace of motorists driving under the influence have now made it a source of AnAesop for a VerySpecialEpisode and placed jokes about it solidly in DudeNotFunny territory (though they may still be used for BlackComedy). As a result, impaired drivers are going to hit someone and have a car accident, or be chased down by heroes and/or the police to prevent it. If it's a near miss, {{near miss|es}} it's a ScareEmStraight.
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* "Drinking And Driving" by Music/BlackFlag is a sarcastic ode to how "cool" drunk driving is, complete with incorporating car crash sound effects into the music:
--> Party down, party down, drinking 'til you can't even see
--> Fill your car with your buddies, then wrap it around a tree
--> Party down, party down, drinking 'til you can't even see
--> Fill your car with your buddies, then wrap it around a tree
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* "Ricky's Hand" by Fad Gadget starts out as more of a [[OdeToSobriety deconstructed ode to intoxication]], as the lyrics depicts a man named Ricky going out to a bar, with the seemingly odd gimmick of treating Ricky's hand as the main character in the song instead of the man himself (e.g. "Scratched his head, then pulled his ear / Reached out for a glass of beer / Ricky's hand"). Then the BlackComedy punchline is that he gets in a drunk driving accident and his hand gets separated from the rest of him ("Ricky contravened the highway code /The hand lies severed at the side of the road")
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* "Ricky's Hand" by Fad Gadget starts out as more of a [[OdeToSobriety deconstructed ode to intoxication]], as the lyrics depicts depict a man named Ricky going out to a bar, but with the seemingly odd gimmick of treating Ricky's hand as the main character in the song instead of the man himself (e.g. "Scratched his head, then pulled his ear / Reached out for a glass of beer / Ricky's hand"). Then the BlackComedy punchline is that he gets in a drunk driving accident and his hand gets separated from the rest of him ("Ricky contravened the highway code /The hand lies severed at the side of the road")
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* "Ricky's Hand" by Fad Gadget starts out as more of a [[OdeToSobriety deconstructed ode to intoxication]], as the lyrics depicts a man named Ricky going out to a bar, with the seemingly odd gimmick of treating Ricky's hand as the main character in the song instead of the man himself (e.g. "Scratched his head, then pulled his ear / Reached out for a glass of beer / Ricky's hand"). Then the BlackComedy punchline is that he gets in a drunk driving accident and his hand gets separated from the rest of him ("Ricky contravened the highway code /The hand lies severed at the side of the road")
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* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS5E1 Tainted Fruit]]", Sally Rickworth drove home drunk after the Tennis Do and crashed into a neighbor's car before falling asleep behind the wheel.
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* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': ''Series/MidsomerMurders'':
** In "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS5E1 Tainted Fruit]]", Sally Rickworth drove home drunk after the Tennis Do and crashed into a neighbor's car before falling asleep behind thewheel.wheel.
** "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS8E8 Midsomer Rhapsody]]": At the opening of Joan Alder House, Laura stuns the crowd by introducing a young woman, Sarah, as Joan's long-lost daughter. Reeling in shock outside, local vagrant Hedge is hit by drunken builder Joe Smeeton's car.
** In "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS5E1 Tainted Fruit]]", Sally Rickworth drove home drunk after the Tennis Do and crashed into a neighbor's car before falling asleep behind the
** "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS8E8 Midsomer Rhapsody]]": At the opening of Joan Alder House, Laura stuns the crowd by introducing a young woman, Sarah, as Joan's long-lost daughter. Reeling in shock outside, local vagrant Hedge is hit by drunken builder Joe Smeeton's car.
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* ''Series/ChicagoFire'': Subverted by a couple who realised they were both far, far too drunk to attempt driving home... [[AlcoholInducedIdiocy so they put their preteen daughter behind the wheel instead.]] Nothing good comes of this, and rhe Firehouse 81 crew are decidedly unimpressed when they're called upon to extricate the couple and their daughter from the mangled wreckage.
* A B-plot in the ''Series/CSIMiami'' episode "Addiction" starts with medical examiner Alexx showing a group from an alcoholic treatment program victims of drunk driving accidents in the morgue. She offers one member Derek, who demonstrated taking recovery very seriously, a temporary job as one of her handlers, but when a flask of alcohol goes missing from a victim's belongings, she immediately suspects Derek. He denies it but she doesn't believe him until it's revealed the flask was stolen by one of the other medical examiners. She apologizes to Derek and offers his job back, but while he forgives her and isn't mad at her he turns down the offer. At the end of the episode, a drunk driver and the victim they killed are brought into the morgue, with Alexx devastatingly recognizing the driver. Alexx is then seen with another treatment group and shows them the bodies, revealing that other medical examiner as the driver.
* ''Series/GilmoreGirls'': Rory's attempt to avert this tied into her renewed romance arc with Dean. Emily had attempted to set her up with the grandson of a friend, so she wound up bar-hopping with his group for the night. When she learned one of the drunkest ones ''was'' the designated driver (but she's assured he's the best drunk driver in the world), she tells them to leave without her. She has no money for a cab and winds up calling Dean to pick her up. We never hear from the date or his friends again.
* ''Series/GoodnightSweetheart'': Gary stumbles, very drunk, back through the time portal from the [=1940s=] to his present in the [=1990s=] and tries to start his car. When confronted by the contemporary version of Constable Deadman, Gary tries to treat him like his hapless [=40s=] ancestor and ignore him while he tries to drive away. Gary is promptly arrested for drunk driving and has his driving licence suspended; something Gary [[NeverMyFault complains about]] as getting in the way of his job as a travelling salesman.
* ''Series/GoodnightSweetheart'': Gary stumbles, very drunk, back through the time portal from the [=1940s=] to his present in the [=1990s=] and tries to start his car. When confronted by the contemporary version of Constable Deadman, Gary tries to treat him like his hapless [=40s=] ancestor and ignore him while he tries to drive away. Gary is promptly arrested for drunk driving and has his driving licence suspended; something Gary [[NeverMyFault complains about]] as getting in the way of his job as a travelling salesman.
* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS5E1 Tainted Fruit]]", Sally Rickworth drove home drunk after the Tennis Do and crashed into a neighbor's car before falling asleep behind the wheel.
* ''Series/{{Mindhunter}}'': Tench is shown to get behind the wheel after a long night at a police bar many times.
* ''Series/{{Mindhunter}}'': Tench is shown to get behind the wheel after a long night at a police bar many times.
* ''Series/{{Obliterated}}'' is about a black ops squad who decide to celebrate a successful mission by getting severely drunk and/or high, only to get put back on duty because the mission isn't over. Fortunately one of them doesn't drink so at least he's sober...except unknown to everyone the dip on the chips he'd been eating had been spiked with copious amounts of shrooms and LSD. And he's the guy who flies their helicopter.
* In the pilot episode of ''Series/TheOrville'', AcePilot Malloy pretends to be drunk while piloting a shuttle. [[TheCaptain Captain Mercer]] is not amused, especially when Malloy almost does cause a crash.
* In the pilot episode of ''Series/TheOrville'', AcePilot Malloy pretends to be drunk while piloting a shuttle. [[TheCaptain Captain Mercer]] is not amused, especially when Malloy almost does cause a crash.
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* On ''Series/PersonOfInterest'' a woman drives while drunk and hits a pedestrian. A ruthless gang of criminals takes drastic action to make sure that she does not go to jail. [[spoiler: They need her to help them launder millions of dollars of illicit money]]
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* On ''Series/PersonOfInterest'' a woman drives while drunk and hits a pedestrian. A ruthless gang of criminals takes drastic action to make sure that she does not go to jail. [[spoiler: They need her to help them launder millions of dollars of illicit money]]money.]]
* ''Series/ThePretender'': The ChristmasEpisode "Not Even a Mouse" has Jared (as a coroner) investigating a hit-and-run accident that killed a local homeless man, "Christmas George", who dressed as Santa Claus for the kids. He discovers that one of the other coroners hit him while driving drunk -- then, when he arrived at the morgue still alive, she killed him on the autopsy table and made it look like he died in the accident.
* ''Series/ThePretender'': The ChristmasEpisode "Not Even a Mouse" has Jared (as a coroner) investigating a hit-and-run accident that killed a local homeless man, "Christmas George", who dressed as Santa Claus for the kids. He discovers that one of the other coroners hit him while driving drunk -- then, when he arrived at the morgue still alive, she killed him on the autopsy table and made it look like he died in the accident.
* Somewhat subverted in ''Series/{{Scrubs}}''. [=JD=] was walking his motor scooter home after a night at the bar because he was aware that he was too drunk to ride it, but he also had the key in the ignition so he could listen to music, and since that counted as a DUI, the cop that spotted him arrested him on a technicality.
* In ''Series/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents2017'', when Count Olaf's villainous theater troupe is driving on the way to the latest destination and Olaf (not the best driver even on a good day) is ''freaking the crap out'' over a very large piece of unwelcome news, he still finds it in his thought process to dismiss this as lunacy.
* In ''Series/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents2017'', when Count Olaf's villainous theater troupe is driving on the way to the latest destination and Olaf (not the best driver even on a good day) is ''freaking the crap out'' over a very large piece of unwelcome news, he still finds it in his thought process to dismiss this as lunacy.
* In the ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' episode "[[Recap/SupernaturalS02E22AllHellBreaksLoosePartTwo All Hell Breaks Loose, Part Two]]", Dean, who had been shown to be heavily drinking after his brother's death, speeds down a gravel road, fishtailing the Impala.
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S5E30StopoverInAQuietTown Stopover in a Quiet Town]]", Millie Frazier had several drinks at a party and drives drunk. Her husband Bob, who was far more drunk than she was, was passed out in the back seat. [[spoiler:On the way home, they are [[AlienAbduction abducted by a giant alien]] and taken to another planet to be his daughter's [[HumanPet pets]].]]
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'':
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E3 Kentucky Rye]]", an alcoholic named Bob Spindler and his co-workers celebrate closing a big deal. As ever, Bob has too much to drink and becomes angry when several of his co-workers suggest driving him home or calling him a cab. Instead, he drives drunk, seemingly not for the first time, and runs another car off the road. Bob is injured in the process and seeks refuge in a tavern called the Kentucky Rye. The owner sells him the tavern for $1,600, the last $100 of which is contributed by a strange man. The next morning, Bob wakes up to find the tavern covered in cobwebs and dust. There is no one there except for the strange man. [[spoiler:It turns out that the man is the driver of the other car, who was killed when Bob ran him off the road. Bob himself was killed in the accident and is trapped in the IronicHell of a deserted bar for all eternity.]]
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S2E1 The Once and Future King]]", Gary Pitkin is driven off the road by a drunk driver and crashes his own car as a result. When he wakes up, he finds that he has been transported back in time to Memphis, Tennessee on July 3, 1954.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S3E7 The Hellgramite Method]]", Dr. Eugene Murrich's wife and two children were killed by a drunk driver while they were crossing the street. The pain that he suffered after their deaths led Dr. Murrich to create the Hellgramite Method, which involves secretly placing a Hellgramite worm in the stomach of alcoholics so that it can absorb their liquor.
* ''Series/TheWestWing'':
** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in "Celestial Navigation" when a nominee for the Supreme Court is pulled over and arrested for apparent drunk driving. The problem? The nomiee in question [[TheTeetotaler does not drink]] because he has hepatitis and would ''die'' if he drank enough alcohol to register on a breath test. He was actually arrested because [[Creator/EdwardJamesOlmos he's]] Latino and the cops were profiling him.
** Played straight in "18th and Potomac" when Mrs. Landingham, the President's [[OldRetainer secretary]], is struck by a drunk driver on her way home. Mrs. Landingham is killed in the accident and the First Lady mentions that the drunk driver will be charged with vehicular manslaughter for it.
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'':
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E3 Kentucky Rye]]", an alcoholic named Bob Spindler and his co-workers celebrate closing a big deal. As ever, Bob has too much to drink and becomes angry when several of his co-workers suggest driving him home or calling him a cab. Instead, he drives drunk, seemingly not for the first time, and runs another car off the road. Bob is injured in the process and seeks refuge in a tavern called the Kentucky Rye. The owner sells him the tavern for $1,600, the last $100 of which is contributed by a strange man. The next morning, Bob wakes up to find the tavern covered in cobwebs and dust. There is no one there except for the strange man. [[spoiler:It turns out that the man is the driver of the other car, who was killed when Bob ran him off the road. Bob himself was killed in the accident and is trapped in the IronicHell of a deserted bar for all eternity.]]
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S2E1 The Once and Future King]]", Gary Pitkin is driven off the road by a drunk driver and crashes his own car as a result. When he wakes up, he finds that he has been transported back in time to Memphis, Tennessee on July 3, 1954.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S3E7 The Hellgramite Method]]", Dr. Eugene Murrich's wife and two children were killed by a drunk driver while they were crossing the street. The pain that he suffered after their deaths led Dr. Murrich to create the Hellgramite Method, which involves secretly placing a Hellgramite worm in the stomach of alcoholics so that it can absorb their liquor.
* ''Series/TheWestWing'':
** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in "Celestial Navigation" when a nominee for the Supreme Court is pulled over and arrested for apparent drunk driving. The problem? The nomiee in question [[TheTeetotaler does not drink]] because he has hepatitis and would ''die'' if he drank enough alcohol to register on a breath test. He was actually arrested because [[Creator/EdwardJamesOlmos he's]] Latino and the cops were profiling him.
** Played straight in "18th and Potomac" when Mrs. Landingham, the President's [[OldRetainer secretary]], is struck by a drunk driver on her way home. Mrs. Landingham is killed in the accident and the First Lady mentions that the drunk driver will be charged with vehicular manslaughter for it.
* Many, ''many'' of the idiots featured on ''Series/WorldsDumbest'' are drivers who get pulled over while drunk. Most of them then try to act like they're not drunk and fail miserably.
-->'''Drunken Idiot:''' I ain't that [BLEEP]ed up. ''[falls over]''
-->'''Drunken Idiot:''' I ain't that [BLEEP]ed up. ''[falls over]''
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* ''Series/GilmoreGirls'': Rory's attempt to avert this tied into her renewed romance arc with Dean. Emily had attempted to set her up with the grandson of a friend, so she wound up bar-hopping with his group for the night. When she learned one of the drunkest ones ''was'' the designated driver (but she's assured he's the best drunk driver in the world), she tells them to leave without her. She has no money for a cab and winds up calling Dean to pick her up. We never hear from the date or his friends again.
* In the ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' episode "[[Recap/SupernaturalS02E22AllHellBreaksLoosePartTwo All Hell Breaks Loose, Part Two]]", Dean, who had been shown to be heavily drinking after his brother's death, speeds down a gravel road, fishtailing the Impala.
* Many, ''many'' of the idiots featured on ''Series/WorldsDumbest'' are drivers who get pulled over while drunk. Most of them then try to act like they're not drunk and fail miserably.
-->'''Drunken Idiot:''' I ain't that [BLEEP]ed up. ''[falls over]''
* In the pilot episode of ''Series/TheOrville'', AcePilot Malloy pretends to be drunk while piloting a shuttle. [[TheCaptain Captain Mercer]] is not amused, especially when Malloy almost does cause a crash.
* In ''Series/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents2017'', when Count Olaf's villainous theater troupe is driving on the way to the latest destination and Olaf (not the best driver even on a good day) is ''freaking the crap out'' over a very large piece of unwelcome news, he still finds it in his thought process to dismiss this as lunacy.
* ''Series/ThePretender'': The ChristmasEpisode "Not Even a Mouse" has Jared (as a coroner) investigating a hit-and-run accident that killed a local homeless man, "Christmas George", who dressed as Santa Claus for the kids. He discovers that one of the other coroners hit him while driving drunk -- then, when he arrived at the morgue still alive, she killed him on the autopsy table and made it look like he died in the accident.
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S5E30StopoverInAQuietTown Stopover in a Quiet Town]]", Millie Frazier had several drinks at a party and drives drunk. Her husband Bob, who was far more drunk than she was, was passed out in the back seat. [[spoiler:On the way home, they are [[AlienAbduction abducted by a giant alien]] and taken to another planet to be his daughter's [[HumanPet pets]].]]
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'':
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E3 Kentucky Rye]]", an alcoholic named Bob Spindler and his co-workers celebrate closing a big deal. As ever, Bob has too much to drink and becomes angry when several of his co-workers suggest driving him home or calling him a cab. Instead, he drives drunk, seemingly not for the first time, and runs another car off the road. Bob is injured in the process and seeks refuge in a tavern called the Kentucky Rye. The owner sells him the tavern for $1,600, the last $100 of which is contributed by a strange man. The next morning, Bob wakes up to find the tavern covered in cobwebs and dust. There is no one there except for the strange man. [[spoiler:It turns out that the man is the driver of the other car, who was killed when Bob ran him off the road. Bob himself was killed in the accident and is trapped in the IronicHell of a deserted bar for all eternity.]]
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S2E1 The Once and Future King]]", Gary Pitkin is driven off the road by a drunk driver and crashes his own car as a result. When he wakes up, he finds that he has been transported back in time to Memphis, Tennessee on July 3, 1954.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S3E7 The Hellgramite Method]]", Dr. Eugene Murrich's wife and two children were killed by a drunk driver while they were crossing the street. The pain that he suffered after their deaths led Dr. Murrich to create the Hellgramite Method, which involves secretly placing a Hellgramite worm in the stomach of alcoholics so that it can absorb their liquor.
* A B-plot in the ''Series/CSIMiami'' episode "Addiction" starts with medical examiner Alexx showing a group from an alcoholic treatment program victims of drunk driving accidents in the morgue. She offers one member Derek, who demonstrated taking recovery very seriously, a temporary job as one of her handlers, but when a flask of alcohol goes missing from a victim's belongings, she immediately suspects Derek. He denies it but she doesn't believe him until it's revealed the flask was stolen by one of the other medical examiners. She apologizes to Derek and offers his job back, but while he forgives her and isn't mad at her he turns down the offer. At the end of the episode, a drunk driver and the victim they killed are brought into the morgue, with Alexx devastatingly recognizing the driver. Alexx is then seen with another treatment group and shows them the bodies, revealing that other medical examiner as the driver.
* ''Series/GoodnightSweetheart'': Gary stumbles, very drunk, back through the time portal from the [=1940s=] to his present in the [=1990s=] and tries to start his car. When confronted by the contemporary version of Constable Deadman, Gary tries to treat him like his hapless [=40s=] ancestor and ignore him while he tries to drive away. Gary is promptly arrested for drunk driving and has his driving licence suspended; something Gary [[NeverMyFault complains about]] as getting in the way of his job as a travelling salesman.
* ''Series/ChicagoFire'': Subverted by a couple who realised they were both far, far too drunk to attempt driving home... [[AlcoholInducedIdiocy so they put their preteen daughter behind the wheel instead.]] Nothing good comes of this, and rhe Firehouse 81 crew are decidedly unimpressed when they're called upon to extricate the couple and their daughter from the mangled wreckage.
* ''Series/TheWestWing'':
** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in "Celestial Navigation" when a nominee for the Supreme Court is pulled over and arrested for apparent drunk driving. The problem? The nomiee in question [[TheTeetotaler does not drink]] because he has hepatitis and would ''die'' if he drank enough alcohol to register on a breath test. He was actually arrested because [[Creator/EdwardJamesOlmos he's]] Latino and the cops were profiling him.
** Played straight in "18th and Potomac" when Mrs. Landingham, the President's [[OldRetainer secretary]], is struck by a drunk driver on her way home. Mrs. Landingham is killed in the accident and the First Lady mentions that the drunk driver will be charged with vehicular manslaughter for it.
* Somewhat subverted in ''Series/{{Scrubs}}''. [=JD=] was walking his motor scooter home after a night at the bar because he was aware that he was too drunk to ride it, but he also had the key in the ignition so he could listen to music, and since that counted as a DUI, the cop that spotted him arrested him on a technicality.
* ''Series/{{Mindhunter}}'': Tench is shown to get behind the wheel after a long night at a police bar many times.
* ''Series/{{Obliterated}}'' is about a black ops squad who decide to celebrate a successful mission by getting severely drunk and/or high, only to get put back on duty because the mission isn't over. Fortunately one of them doesn't drink so at least he's sober...except unknown to everyone the dip on the chips he'd been eating had been spiked with copious amounts of shrooms and LSD. And he's the guy who flies their helicopter.
* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS5E1 Tainted Fruit]]", Sally Rickworth drove home drunk after the Tennis Do and crashed into a neighbor's car before falling asleep behind the wheel.
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* Country music pioneer Roy Acuff's 1938 song "Wreck On the Highway," the story of a car accident where it is strongly implied that alcohol was involved ("whiskey and blood run together"). It is believed to be the earliest recorded hit song to address drunk driving as a moral and social issue.
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* Country music pioneer Roy Acuff's Music/RoyAcuff's 1938 song "Wreck On the Highway," the story of a car accident where it is strongly implied that alcohol was involved ("whiskey and blood run together"). It is believed to be the earliest recorded hit song to address drunk driving as a moral and social issue.issue.
* Music/LanaDelRey "National Anthem"
-->It's a love story for the new age\\
For the sixth page\\
We're on a quick, sick rampage\\
Wining and dining, drinking and driving\\
Excessive buying, overdose and dying
* Music/LanaDelRey "National Anthem"
-->It's a love story for the new age\\
For the sixth page\\
We're on a quick, sick rampage\\
Wining and dining, drinking and driving\\
Excessive buying, overdose and dying
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* Music/{{Primus}}' song "Jerry Was a Race Car Driver'' ends with the eponymous character (a thrill-seeking [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin race car driver]]) possibly dying due to this.
--> Jerry was a race car driver\\
22 years old\\
One too many cold beers one night\\
And wrapped himself around a telephone pole
--> Jerry was a race car driver\\
22 years old\\
One too many cold beers one night\\
And wrapped himself around a telephone pole
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* Music/DieTotenHosen "Unter falscher Flagge". It is told in a pirate ship context but rather obvious.
* In 18 And Life where Kevin Michael Lee replaces Ricky, Kevin does this to dodge jail. His father catches then imprisons him for life due to drunkenly shooting someone then running to resist jail.
* Music/SteelyDan's [[Music/{{Aja|Album}} "Deacon Blues"]]:
-->"Drink scotch whiskey all night long\\
And die behind the wheel"
* In 18 And Life where Kevin Michael Lee replaces Ricky, Kevin does this to dodge jail. His father catches then imprisons him for life due to drunkenly shooting someone then running to resist jail.
* Music/SteelyDan's [[Music/{{Aja|Album}} "Deacon Blues"]]:
-->"Drink scotch whiskey all night long\\
And die behind the wheel"
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* Music/LanaDelRey "National Anthem"
-->It's a love story for the new age\\
For the sixth page\\
We're on a quick, sick rampage\\
Wining and dining, drinking and driving\\
Excessive buying, overdose and dying
-->It's a love story for the new age\\
For the sixth page\\
We're on a quick, sick rampage\\
Wining and dining, drinking and driving\\
Excessive buying, overdose and dying
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* Music/LanaDelRey "National Anthem"
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And wrapped himself around a telephone pole
* Music/SkidRow'': In "18 And Life" where Kevin Michael Lee replaces Ricky, Kevin does this to dodge jail. His father catches then imprisons him for life due to drunkenly shooting someone then running to resist jail.
* Music/SteelyDan's [[Music/{{Aja|Album}} "Deacon Blues"]]:
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* Music/SkidRow'': In "18 And Life" where Kevin Michael Lee replaces Ricky, Kevin does this to dodge jail. His father catches then imprisons him for life due to drunkenly shooting someone then running to resist jail.
* Music/SteelyDan's [[Music/{{Aja|Album}} "Deacon Blues"]]:
-->"Drink scotch whiskey all night long\\
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We're on
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* One of the supporting characters you recruit onto your team in ''[[VideoGame/{{Mercenaries}} Mercenaries 2: World in Flames]]'' is pilot Misha Milanich who you need to perform airstrikes. As mentioned by several characters in game, Misha ONLY flies while completely wasted.
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* One of the supporting characters you recruit onto your team in ''[[VideoGame/{{Mercenaries}} Mercenaries 2: World in Flames]]'' is pilot Misha Milanich who you need to perform airstrikes. As mentioned by several characters in game, Misha ONLY flies while completely wasted.
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%%* As seen in the page image, ''Webcomic/OutAtHome''. --Zero-context example
* A very dramatic example plays out in ''[[Webcomic/RoomiesItsWalkyJoyceAndWalky Roomies]]'', which was then parodied and paid tribute to in ''Its Walky!'' and played for laughs in ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}''
* A very dramatic example plays out in ''[[Webcomic/RoomiesItsWalkyJoyceAndWalky Roomies]]'', which was then parodied and paid tribute to in ''Its Walky!'' and played for laughs in ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}''
%%* As seen in the page image, ''Webcomic/OutAtHome''. --Zero-context example
* A very dramatic example plays out in ''[[Webcomic/RoomiesItsWalkyJoyceAndWalky Roomies]]'', which was then parodied and paid tribute to in ''Its Walky!'' and played for laughs in ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}''
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* WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes and WesternAnimation/MerrieMelodies:
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* WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes In the future reality of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' a robot can be arrested for his alcohol level being ''below'' a legal limit, as Bender was in one episode. (Robots in this series need alcohol to function; if they stop drinking, becoming "sober" is as debilitating for them as intoxication is for humans.)
* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' ties this in with a recurring routine with Miriam Pataki andWesternAnimation/MerrieMelodies:her alcoholism. Her daughter's classmates are surprised and worried when she apparently got her driver's license back, and it's casually mentioned at the beginning of another episode that she was starting her community service that morning.
* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' and ''WesternAnimation/MerrieMelodies'':
* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' ties this in with a recurring routine with Miriam Pataki and
* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' and ''WesternAnimation/MerrieMelodies'':
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'':
** The episode "Religionklok" happened because Nathan drove the Murdercycle while drunk, accidentally knocking an equally drunk and horsing around Murderface onto the road.
** "Dethrace" started with Skwisgaar and Toki drunkenly joyriding and causing a high-speed police chase, the coverage preempting Murderface's bass solo.
** The episode "Religionklok" happened because Nathan drove the Murdercycle while drunk, accidentally knocking an equally drunk and horsing around Murderface onto the road.
** "Dethrace" started with Skwisgaar and Toki drunkenly joyriding and causing a high-speed police chase, the coverage preempting Murderface's bass solo.
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* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' ties this in with a recurring routine with Miriam Pataki and her alcoholism. Her daughter's classmates are surprised and worried when she apparently got her driver's license back, and it's casually mentioned at the beginning of another episode that she was starting her community service that morning.
* In the future reality of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' a robot can be arrested for his alcohol level being ''below'' a legal limit, as Bender was in one episode. (Robots in this series need alcohol to function; if they stop drinking, becoming "sober" is as debilitating for them as intoxication is for humans.)
* In the future reality of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' a robot can be arrested for his alcohol level being ''below'' a legal limit, as Bender was in one episode. (Robots in this series need alcohol to function; if they stop drinking, becoming "sober" is as debilitating for them as intoxication is for humans.)
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'':
** The episode "Religionklok" happened because Nathan drove the Murdercycle while drunk, accidentally knocking an equally drunk and horsing around Murderface onto the road.
** "Dethrace" started with Skwisgaar and Toki drunkenly joyriding and causing a high-speed police chase, the coverage preempting Murderface's bass solo.
** The episode "Religionklok" happened because Nathan drove the Murdercycle while drunk, accidentally knocking an equally drunk and horsing around Murderface onto the road.
** "Dethrace" started with Skwisgaar and Toki drunkenly joyriding and causing a high-speed police chase, the coverage preempting Murderface's bass solo.
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* Commented on in ''ComicBook/BatmanYearOne'', where Bruce Wayne ''speeds'' away from his near-disaster first night trying to be a street vigilante, and happens to almost hit Commissioner Gordon. Gordon thinks it's no way to treat a Porsche; two ''other'' people who happen to be near recognize Bruce Wayne's car and wonder what he's on; one says he's on cocaine; "'''Rich''' people take '''cocaine.''' Saw a '''special''' on it."
* ''ComicBook/GalaxyThePrettiestStar'': How Kat lost her leg. Her father was driving drunk with her in the vehicle, and they ended up in a ''nine'' car pile-up. Superman was able to save her life, but she lost her leg in the process.
* In two consecutive issues of the ''ComicBook/GIJoeARealAmericanHeroMarvel'' comic, Candy Appel and Billy both hitch a ride with the same drunk driver. He ends up crashing his car to avoid a collision with the Soft Master. After killing the Soft Master, Scrap Iron blows up the car for good measure. A later issue reveals that Candy and the drunk driver burned to death, but Billy survived minus one eye and one leg.
* ''ComicBook/GalaxyThePrettiestStar'': How Kat lost her leg. Her father was driving drunk with her in the vehicle, and they ended up in a ''nine'' car pile-up. Superman was able to save her life, but she lost her leg in the process.
* In two consecutive issues of the ''ComicBook/GIJoeARealAmericanHeroMarvel'' comic, Candy Appel and Billy both hitch a ride with the same drunk driver. He ends up crashing his car to avoid a collision with the Soft Master. After killing the Soft Master, Scrap Iron blows up the car for good measure. A later issue reveals that Candy and the drunk driver burned to death, but Billy survived minus one eye and one leg.
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* In two consecutive issues of the ''ComicBook/GIJoeARealAmericanHeroMarvel'' comic, Candy Appel and Billy both hitch a ride with the same drunk driver. He ends up crashing his car to avoid a collision with the Soft Master. After killing the Soft Master, Scrap Iron blows up the car for good measure. A later issue reveals that Candy and the drunk driver burned to death, but Billy survived minus one eye and one leg.
* In a ComicBook/SpiderMan comic, being arrested for this is what convinced Peters' old friend Flash Thompson to clean up his act and seek help for his alcoholism. Sadly, ComicBook/NormanOsborn includes poor Flash in a plot to [[{{Gaslighting}} drive Spider-Man to murderous violence by attacking his family and friends]]; under the pretense of picking him up from an AA meeting, Norman force-feeds him whiskey and has him crash a truck into Midtown High School, where Peter works. (Flash survives, but is in a coma for the rest of the arc.)
* It is quite a miracle that "Werner", a comic figure by German artist Brösel, is still alive, given that he loves a) booze b) his bike c) all of the above. In fact, one cartoon took a TakeThat at this strip, killing him in an alcohol-induced crash.
* Commented on in ''ComicBook/BatmanYearOne'', where Bruce Wayne ''speeds'' away from his near-disaster first night trying to be a street vigilante, and happens to almost hit Commissioner Gordon. Gordon thinks it's no way to treat a Porsche; two ''other'' people who happen to be near recognize Bruce Wayne's car and wonder what he's on; one says he's on cocaine; "'''Rich''' people take '''cocaine.''' Saw a '''special''' on it."
* ''ComicBook/GalaxyThePrettiestStar'': How Kat lost her leg. Her father was driving drunk with her in the vehicle, and they ended up in a ''nine'' car pile-up. Superman was able to save her life, but she lost her leg in the process.
* In a ComicBook/SpiderMan comic, being arrested for this is what convinced Peters' old friend Flash Thompson to clean up his act and seek help for his alcoholism. Sadly, ComicBook/NormanOsborn includes poor Flash in a plot to [[{{Gaslighting}} drive Spider-Man to murderous violence by attacking his family and friends]]; under the pretense of picking him up from an AA meeting, Norman force-feeds him whiskey and has him crash a truck into Midtown High School, where Peter works. (Flash survives, but is in a coma for the rest of the arc.)
* It is quite a miracle that "Werner", a comic figure by German artist Brösel, is still alive, given that he loves a) booze b) his bike c) all of the above. In fact, one cartoon took a TakeThat at this strip, killing him in an alcohol-induced crash.
* Commented on in ''ComicBook/BatmanYearOne'', where Bruce Wayne ''speeds'' away from his near-disaster first night trying to be a street vigilante, and happens to almost hit Commissioner Gordon. Gordon thinks it's no way to treat a Porsche; two ''other'' people who happen to be near recognize Bruce Wayne's car and wonder what he's on; one says he's on cocaine; "'''Rich''' people take '''cocaine.''' Saw a '''special''' on it."
* ''ComicBook/GalaxyThePrettiestStar'': How Kat lost her leg. Her father was driving drunk with her in the vehicle, and they ended up in a ''nine'' car pile-up. Superman was able to save her life, but she lost her leg in the process.
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* Soichiro's death in ''Fanfic/TheOutside'' was in part due to this. He got into a car accident where his car was also T-boned by one driving an SUV.
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* ''Film/AClassicHorrorStory'': Mark, despite having drunk a beer, insists that he drive the [=RV=] after they stop for a bit. He actually managed to keep it on the road... up until he sees a corpse in the road.
* ''Film/AClassicHorrorStory'': Mark, despite having drunk a beer, insists that he drive the [=RV=] after they stop for a bit. He actually managed to keep it on the road... up until he sees a corpse in the road.
* According to the narrator of Honoré Beaugrand's 19th-century short story ''La Chasse-galerie'', the Devil is happy to lend lonely ''voyageurs'' a flying canoe in which to travel from their logging camp to their hometown New Year's Eve party on the other side of Quebec, provided they don't mention God or crash into any church steeples while paddling it. This proves trickier than expected when you're drinking and flying.
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* According to the narrator of Honoré Beaugrand's 19th-century short story ''La Chasse-galerie'', the Devil is happy to lend lonely ''voyageurs'' a flying canoe in which to travel from their logging camp to their hometown New Year's Eve party on the other side of Quebec, provided they don't mention God or crash into any church steeples while paddling it. This proves trickier than expected when you're drinking and flying.
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* ''Series/GrowingPains'': The episode "Second Chance," where Carol's goofy boyfriend Sandy (Creator/MatthewPerry in an early appearance) is once again the butt of Mike and Ben's silly jokes when he's late for his date ... until they learn (from a phone call) the reason why: He was in a major car accident the previous evening. Viewers later learn that Sandy and Carol had been drinking heavily the night before, and after leaving Carol off, had crashed his car. Sandy appears to be OK, and Carol is thankful that he was just slightly hurt ... but only later do viewers learn the truth: When they get home, Mike has some somber news: Sandy just died from internal bleeding due to his injuries. Carol refuses to believe this at first, but it soon becomes apparent Mike's "cruel joke" (to her) was anything but.
* ''Series/TheDukesOfHazzard'': In at least one episode, Cletus' bumbling is immediately turned serious when he stops chronic drunk Hobie (unknown last name) in at least one episode. The no-nonsense attitude Cletus takes toward drunk driving was likely to send a stern message about one of the consequences of drunk driving -- that you might get arrested.
* ''Series/TheDukesOfHazzard'': In at least one episode, Cletus' bumbling is immediately turned serious when he stops chronic drunk Hobie (unknown last name) in at least one episode. The no-nonsense attitude Cletus takes toward drunk driving was likely to send a stern message about one of the consequences of drunk driving -- that you might get arrested.
* ''Series/TheAffair'': After a pile-up of misfortunes earlier that day, Helen proceeds to pick her kids up from school while she's drunk ''and'' stoned. She crashes the car and gets arrested after assaulting a police officer. It single-handedly undermines her case for sole custody of her and Noah's children.
* ''Series/TheAndyGriffithShow'' When Otis buys a car, Andy and Barney worry that he'll inevitably be driving drunk (as he's drunk most of the time). They catch him heading toward his car after an evening of drinking at a party, but he passes out before he can get in. When he awakens, in jail, Andy and Barney act as if Otis had died in a crash, to try to teach him a lesson. It turns out he'd never driven the car and in fact had just sold it, to everyone's relief.
* ''Series/TheAndyGriffithShow'' When Otis buys a car, Andy and Barney worry that he'll inevitably be driving drunk (as he's drunk most of the time). They catch him heading toward his car after an evening of drinking at a party, but he passes out before he can get in. When he awakens, in jail, Andy and Barney act as if Otis had died in a crash, to try to teach him a lesson. It turns out he'd never driven the car and in fact had just sold it, to everyone's relief.
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* ''Series/MyTwoDads'': Teased in one 1989 episode, where Nicole and her friends come home drunk. When Michael and Joey learn that the driver of Nicole's car was drunk and Nicole scoffs at the notion that she was in jeopardy of being involved in a serious accident, they decide to teach her a lesson by getting drunk and threaten to go out for a drive. They stop short when Nicole realizes the consequences of her actions.
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* ''Series/MyTwoDads'': Teased The first season of ''{{Boomtown}}'' ends with David [=McNorris=] entering rehab for his alcoholism after he hears about a man killed in one 1989 episode, where Nicole a hit and her friends run accident. Since he was driving drunk at the time, he believes he was responsible. It turns out the victim was actually killed by an Alzheimer's sufferer and David had hit a dog.
* Drunk driving acts as the impetus for Uncle Saul to comehome drunk. When Michael out on ''Series/BrothersAndSisters''. He had grown depressed over his closeted life and Joey learn that running into a tree while driving drunk was the last straw.
* One rather {{Anvilicious}} episode of ''Series/{{CHiPs}}'' ("Wheels Of Justice") had a drunk driverof Nicole's car pretend his (sober) wife was drunk and Nicole scoffs driving at the notion that she was in jeopardy time of being involved in a serious accident, they decide to teach her a lesson by getting his drunk and threaten to go out for a drive. They stop short driving accident. He was exonerated when Nicole realizes the consequences of it couldn't be proven he was and she wasn't. He later drives drunk with her actions.again and gets into another accident. This time, [[DownerEnding she dies]].
* Drunk driving acts as the impetus for Uncle Saul to come
* One rather {{Anvilicious}} episode of ''Series/{{CHiPs}}'' ("Wheels Of Justice") had a drunk driver
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* ''Series/TheHoganFamily'': Midway through the 1987-1988 season (the first one without Valerie Harper as the mother), David hosts a house party while his father Mike and aunt Sandy are gone; his best friend and one of the guests, Rich, gets very drunk and wants to take a stunning co-ed out for a ride. David -- having just lost his mother months earlier, purportedly in an accident caused by a drunk driver -- puts his foot down and gets into a huge fight with Rich. David, motivated at an earlier admonition to "do whatever you have to do" to keep someone from driving drunk, locks Rich in the closet overnight. When David lets a somewhat sobered-up Rich out the next morning, Rich remembers vividly what happened ... and is an ungrateful jerk! He yells at David for not letting him consummate that long, sought-after relationship with the supermodel of his senior class. David then reminds him that his mother died in a drunk driving accident, and he couldn't stand the thought of now losing his best friend (not to mention the prettiest girl in high school). Rich eventually comes to his senses and realizes that nothing -- not a hot night of sex in bed awaiting a hotel -- was worth driving drunk and possibly killing himself or anyone else.
* ''Series/FullHouse'': In an episode that focused more on Kimmie getting drunk at a college sorority party and an embarrassed D.J. (and equally embarrassed sorority officers) dealing with her drunken behavior, though Kimmie believes that D.J. was just jealous because, in her mind, she was the life of the party. A tearful D.J. tells Kimmie that her mother had died in an accident caused by a drunk driver (the death happening sometime during the summer of 1987, two months before the first episode was set). Kimmie comes to her senses and realizes what could become of her and agrees to straighten up.
* ''Series/InTheHeatOfTheNight'': "Forever Fifteen," where a hit-and-run drunk driver crashes into a vehicle where four members of the Sparta High School cheerleading squad were passengers; three of the cheerleaders, including the driver, are killed instantly (one of the girls [[DiedInYourArmsTonight literally dies in one of the officer's arms]]), while a fourth is in a coma, never to awaken (WordOfGod has it she died shortly after the events of this episode). While a publicity-seeking district attorney accuses the force of inadequately investigating the crash, the officers enlist the aid of a retired police officer -- himself having to deal with his own memories of losing a loved one in a previous drunk driving crash -- to find the driver of the other vehicle. (In the end, the other driver was the district attorney, who was using his campaign against the police force to cover his tracks.)
* ''Series/HighwayToHeaven'': In the Season 2 episode "Heaven On Earth," a drunk driving accident where a 5-year-old girl is killed is the catalyst for the main plot (series protagonist Mark Gordon thinking he, not the drunk driver, was somehow to blame for the accident). Mark and Jonathan encounter the drunk driver shortly before the crash, the driver yelling at Mark to pull over and screaming obscenities. Later in the episode, a radio news report is overheard in the background, telling that police are still looking for the driver, who had fled without stopping. (The drunk driver had swerved into the oncoming lane to pass the car, where the little girl was a passenger; the driver of a pickup truck had no choice but to swerve into the other lane and ended up in a head-on collision.)
* ''Series/LittleHouseOnThePrairie'': Although set in the 1880s by the time Season 8's "A Promise To Keep" aired -- Mr. Edwards drives a buckboard and delivery wagon after having gotten very drunk, and causes an accident as a sober Albert is trying to wrest control of the wagon from Edwards -- the point of the dangers of drunk driving are still made abundantly clear: Edwards ends up driving over a curb, causing Albert to fall onto the street ... and into the path of another wagon. Albert is run over but miraculously escapes with minor injuries.
* Grace Hanadarko in ''Series/SavingGrace'' thinks she's hit and killed a guy in her car while drunk driving, but it's really a setup from "last chance angel" Earl to get her to give up her life to God. Turns out that the guy she "hit" is in prison...originally for his own drunk driving.
* Leticia on ''Series/DirtySexyMoney'' hit Wrenn with her car while drunk driving.
* ''Series/FullHouse'': In an episode that focused more on Kimmie getting drunk at a college sorority party and an embarrassed D.J. (and equally embarrassed sorority officers) dealing with her drunken behavior, though Kimmie believes that D.J. was just jealous because, in her mind, she was the life of the party. A tearful D.J. tells Kimmie that her mother had died in an accident caused by a drunk driver (the death happening sometime during the summer of 1987, two months before the first episode was set). Kimmie comes to her senses and realizes what could become of her and agrees to straighten up.
* ''Series/InTheHeatOfTheNight'': "Forever Fifteen," where a hit-and-run drunk driver crashes into a vehicle where four members of the Sparta High School cheerleading squad were passengers; three of the cheerleaders, including the driver, are killed instantly (one of the girls [[DiedInYourArmsTonight literally dies in one of the officer's arms]]), while a fourth is in a coma, never to awaken (WordOfGod has it she died shortly after the events of this episode). While a publicity-seeking district attorney accuses the force of inadequately investigating the crash, the officers enlist the aid of a retired police officer -- himself having to deal with his own memories of losing a loved one in a previous drunk driving crash -- to find the driver of the other vehicle. (In the end, the other driver was the district attorney, who was using his campaign against the police force to cover his tracks.)
* ''Series/HighwayToHeaven'': In the Season 2 episode "Heaven On Earth," a drunk driving accident where a 5-year-old girl is killed is the catalyst for the main plot (series protagonist Mark Gordon thinking he, not the drunk driver, was somehow to blame for the accident). Mark and Jonathan encounter the drunk driver shortly before the crash, the driver yelling at Mark to pull over and screaming obscenities. Later in the episode, a radio news report is overheard in the background, telling that police are still looking for the driver, who had fled without stopping. (The drunk driver had swerved into the oncoming lane to pass the car, where the little girl was a passenger; the driver of a pickup truck had no choice but to swerve into the other lane and ended up in a head-on collision.)
* ''Series/LittleHouseOnThePrairie'': Although set in the 1880s by the time Season 8's "A Promise To Keep" aired -- Mr. Edwards drives a buckboard and delivery wagon after having gotten very drunk, and causes an accident as a sober Albert is trying to wrest control of the wagon from Edwards -- the point of the dangers of drunk driving are still made abundantly clear: Edwards ends up driving over a curb, causing Albert to fall onto the street ... and into the path of another wagon. Albert is run over but miraculously escapes with minor injuries.
* Grace Hanadarko in ''Series/SavingGrace'' thinks she's hit and killed a guy in her car while drunk driving, but it's really a setup from "last chance angel" Earl to get her to give up her life to God. Turns out that the guy she "hit" is in prison...originally for his own drunk driving.
* Leticia on ''Series/DirtySexyMoney'' hit Wrenn with her car while drunk driving.
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* Cops in ''Series/TheWire'' are regularly shown driving to an out-of-the-way spot to chat and get plastered on beer, then driving home. Major Rawls at one point attempts to get revenge on Detective [=McNulty=] by pressuring Detective Santangelo to catch him driving under the influence: Santangelo is dismayed; it is implicit that freedom to drive drunk is an unwritten sacred right for Baltimore police.
** In one of the show's Crowning Moments of Funny, [=McNulty=] is driving home drunk, takes a turn too wide and scrapes the side of his car against a freeway support. He stops, gets out, surveys the damage and the scene, and then gets back into the car and reverses around the corner. He then tries to take the turn ''again'' and hits the support ''again''.
-->'''Bartender:''' You ain't getting behind a wheel, are ya?
-->'''[=McNulty=]:''' I'm looking you in the eye, Gus. I'm not driving a car tonight.
-->[[GilliganCut cut to Jimmy driving drunk and singing along to The Pogues]]
* There's a non-{{Anvilicious}} example in ''Series/{{Misfits}}'', where [[HardDrinkingPartyGirl party girl]] Alisha was a constant drunk driver prior to the show and continued to drive intoxicated even after getting caught and having her license taken away. She hasn't killed anyone or caused any accidents, but she ''did'' eventually get caught by the police (again) and, despite performing oral sex on the breathalyser in an attempt to charm the cop (it didn't work - leading her to surmise that he was "gay"), she was sentenced to community service. Even after this, she's shown driving yet again (not drunk this time though) on at least one occasion, but she doesn't get caught.
* The first season of ''{{Boomtown}}'' ends with David [=McNorris=] entering rehab for his alcoholism after he hears about a man killed in a hit and run accident. Since he was driving drunk at the time, he believes he was responsible. It turns out the victim was actually killed by an Alzheimer's sufferer and David had hit a dog.
* One rather {{Anvilicious}} episode of ''Series/{{CHiPs}}'' ("Wheels Of Justice") had a drunk driver pretend his (sober) wife was driving at the time of his drunk driving accident. He was exonerated when it couldn't be proven he was and she wasn't. He later drives drunk with her again and gets into another accident. This time, [[DownerEnding she dies]].
* Played with in ''Series/ThatMitchellAndWebbLook'' in a sketch about [=MI6=] planning the assassination of Princess Diana on the order of Prince Philip (a popular theory, especially in certain tabloids) by getting the driver "slightly tipsy", as it's a well-known fact that getting somebody a little bit drunk results in a 100% death rate.
* ''Series/MadMen'' had shown this several times, [[DeliberateValuesDissonance mostly to illustrate the much more casual attitude to drunk driving]] in TheSixties.
* After drinking a few drinks at a party in ''Series/SavedByTheBell'', Zack and his friends drove drunk and ended up in an accident. Oddly enough, the sober one, Screech, offered to drive but Lisa refused to let him touch the car because he might get into an accident.
* Drunk driving and killing a kid is what got Tobias Beecher sent to Prison in ''Series/{{Oz}}''. Given what happens to him there, it may be the most horrifying ''Don't Drink and Drive'' Ad ever.
* Two occasions in ''Series/YesMinister'':
** In "The Economy Drive," Sir Humphrey fires the department's driver to teach Hacker a lesson about his plans to cut waste, forcing him to drive himself to a function at the French embassy. He doesn't actually make it to the wheel, at least on screen, only because he drops his keys down a sewer grate, with a photograph of him attempting to fish them out leading the [[UsefulNotes/BritishNewspapers Express]] to describe him as "[[UnusualEuphemism overwrought as a newt]]."
** In the [[ChristmasEpisode Christmas special]] "Party Games," The Home Office declares a "don't drink and drive at Christmas" campaign, whose advice a besotted Jim Hacker elects to ignore despite his wife being sober and willing to drive, leading to a police stop on account of his extremely slow driving. This turns out to be small potatoes, however, after [[spoiler:it turns out that [[HypocriticalHumour the Home Secretary himself]] drove drunk, overturning a lorry carrying nuclear waste on the motorway, and then crashing into a journalist's car; Sir Humphrey jokes that since the press are saying he was "drunk as a Lord," the Government will almost certainly [[KickedUpstairs make him one]].]]
* On ''Series/PersonOfInterest'' a woman drives while drunk and hits a pedestrian. A ruthless gang of criminals takes drastic action to make sure that she does not go to jail. [[spoiler: They need her to help them launder millions of dollars of illicit money]]
* The deaths of the main characters' parents because of a Drunk Driver is the event that starts of ''Series/PartyOfFive'''s plot.
* In the first ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'' ChristmasEpisode, Earl and Randy got drunk on Christmas Eve years ago. They determined (after Randy mistook the cat for an RC car) that they weren't safe to drive...but they figured they were OK to ''bike'' to the liquor store for more beer. They rode (and totally destroyed) the bikes that were meant for Dodge and Earl Jr. Joy was ''not'' pleased.
* Drunk driving acts as the impetus for Uncle Saul to come out on ''Series/BrothersAndSisters''. He had grown depressed over his closeted life and running into a tree while driving drunk was the last straw.
** In one of the show's Crowning Moments of Funny, [=McNulty=] is driving home drunk, takes a turn too wide and scrapes the side of his car against a freeway support. He stops, gets out, surveys the damage and the scene, and then gets back into the car and reverses around the corner. He then tries to take the turn ''again'' and hits the support ''again''.
-->'''Bartender:''' You ain't getting behind a wheel, are ya?
-->'''[=McNulty=]:''' I'm looking you in the eye, Gus. I'm not driving a car tonight.
-->[[GilliganCut cut to Jimmy driving drunk and singing along to The Pogues]]
* There's a non-{{Anvilicious}} example in ''Series/{{Misfits}}'', where [[HardDrinkingPartyGirl party girl]] Alisha was a constant drunk driver prior to the show and continued to drive intoxicated even after getting caught and having her license taken away. She hasn't killed anyone or caused any accidents, but she ''did'' eventually get caught by the police (again) and, despite performing oral sex on the breathalyser in an attempt to charm the cop (it didn't work - leading her to surmise that he was "gay"), she was sentenced to community service. Even after this, she's shown driving yet again (not drunk this time though) on at least one occasion, but she doesn't get caught.
* The first season of ''{{Boomtown}}'' ends with David [=McNorris=] entering rehab for his alcoholism after he hears about a man killed in a hit and run accident. Since he was driving drunk at the time, he believes he was responsible. It turns out the victim was actually killed by an Alzheimer's sufferer and David had hit a dog.
* One rather {{Anvilicious}} episode of ''Series/{{CHiPs}}'' ("Wheels Of Justice") had a drunk driver pretend his (sober) wife was driving at the time of his drunk driving accident. He was exonerated when it couldn't be proven he was and she wasn't. He later drives drunk with her again and gets into another accident. This time, [[DownerEnding she dies]].
* Played with in ''Series/ThatMitchellAndWebbLook'' in a sketch about [=MI6=] planning the assassination of Princess Diana on the order of Prince Philip (a popular theory, especially in certain tabloids) by getting the driver "slightly tipsy", as it's a well-known fact that getting somebody a little bit drunk results in a 100% death rate.
* ''Series/MadMen'' had shown this several times, [[DeliberateValuesDissonance mostly to illustrate the much more casual attitude to drunk driving]] in TheSixties.
* After drinking a few drinks at a party in ''Series/SavedByTheBell'', Zack and his friends drove drunk and ended up in an accident. Oddly enough, the sober one, Screech, offered to drive but Lisa refused to let him touch the car because he might get into an accident.
* Drunk driving and killing a kid is what got Tobias Beecher sent to Prison in ''Series/{{Oz}}''. Given what happens to him there, it may be the most horrifying ''Don't Drink and Drive'' Ad ever.
* Two occasions in ''Series/YesMinister'':
** In "The Economy Drive," Sir Humphrey fires the department's driver to teach Hacker a lesson about his plans to cut waste, forcing him to drive himself to a function at the French embassy. He doesn't actually make it to the wheel, at least on screen, only because he drops his keys down a sewer grate, with a photograph of him attempting to fish them out leading the [[UsefulNotes/BritishNewspapers Express]] to describe him as "[[UnusualEuphemism overwrought as a newt]]."
** In the [[ChristmasEpisode Christmas special]] "Party Games," The Home Office declares a "don't drink and drive at Christmas" campaign, whose advice a besotted Jim Hacker elects to ignore despite his wife being sober and willing to drive, leading to a police stop on account of his extremely slow driving. This turns out to be small potatoes, however, after [[spoiler:it turns out that [[HypocriticalHumour the Home Secretary himself]] drove drunk, overturning a lorry carrying nuclear waste on the motorway, and then crashing into a journalist's car; Sir Humphrey jokes that since the press are saying he was "drunk as a Lord," the Government will almost certainly [[KickedUpstairs make him one]].]]
* On ''Series/PersonOfInterest'' a woman drives while drunk and hits a pedestrian. A ruthless gang of criminals takes drastic action to make sure that she does not go to jail. [[spoiler: They need her to help them launder millions of dollars of illicit money]]
* The deaths of the main characters' parents because of a Drunk Driver is the event that starts of ''Series/PartyOfFive'''s plot.
* In the first ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'' ChristmasEpisode, Earl and Randy got drunk on Christmas Eve years ago. They determined (after Randy mistook the cat for an RC car) that they weren't safe to drive...but they figured they were OK to ''bike'' to the liquor store for more beer. They rode (and totally destroyed) the bikes that were meant for Dodge and Earl Jr. Joy was ''not'' pleased.
* Drunk driving acts as the impetus for Uncle Saul to come out on ''Series/BrothersAndSisters''. He had grown depressed over his closeted life and running into a tree while driving drunk was the last straw.
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* In the 1980s ''Series/TraumaCenter'', a completely drunk woman weaves through traffic until she causes a van full of young men to crash off the side, which calls the paramedics to the scene. Fortunately, the cops catch her with a female cop noting that the offender "pickled the breathalyzer."
* On ''Series/{{Suits}}'' the son of one of the firm's clients hits someone with a car and leaves the scene. The victim dies but there is no evidence that the driver was drinking so Mike is able to get him a nice plea deal where he will serve no jail time. However, Mike then discovers that his client, while not drunk, was actually high on marijuana at the time of the accident. Mike's parents were killed by a drunk driver and he takes it very hard that he helped an impaired driver escape justice for killing someone.
* ''Series/TheAndyGriffithShow'' When Otis buys a car, Andy and Barney worry that he'll inevitably be driving drunk (as he's drunk most of the time). They catch him heading toward his car after an evening of drinking at a party, but he passes out before he can get in. When he awakens, in jail, Andy and Barney act as if Otis had died in a crash, to try to teach him a lesson. It turns out he'd never driven the car and in fact had just sold it, to everyone's relief.
* In one episode of ''Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan'', Steve and a companion see a drunkard stumbling through a parking garage, clearly meaning to head home. Steve has his companion go on ahead while the drunk guy is fumbling around, and lifts the guy's back bumper (and presumably drive wheels) off the ground, propping the car on a concrete planter so he can't make any headway. The drunk guy is quite oblivious to his lack of forward motion.
* Clare Kincaid of ''Series/LawAndOrder'' is killed when her stationary car is hit by a drunk driver. The next time Jack gets the chance to prosecute a drunk driving case, he conspires to get the culprit the death penalty -- by hiding the fact that the driver was drunk. (If the driver was in control of himself and his vehicle, the case potentially becomes first-degree murder.) His conscience -- and Jamie's -- won't quite let him go through with it.
* ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'':
** In "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS8E18Responsible Responsible]]", a teenage witness drives drunk and gets into a crash, killing himself and a classmate who was in the car with him.
** In "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS9E9Paternity Paternity]]", Olivia's car is hit by a drunk driver while she's giving Elliot's pregnant wife Kathy a ride, with Kathy's side taking the worst of it. Kathy goes into labor as a result of the crash, but she and the baby are ultimately okay.
** At one point, Elliot's daughter gets arrested for drunk driving. In retrospect, it's potentially an early symptom of the bipolar disorder she's diagnosed with a few seasons later.
* On ''Series/{{Suits}}'' the son of one of the firm's clients hits someone with a car and leaves the scene. The victim dies but there is no evidence that the driver was drinking so Mike is able to get him a nice plea deal where he will serve no jail time. However, Mike then discovers that his client, while not drunk, was actually high on marijuana at the time of the accident. Mike's parents were killed by a drunk driver and he takes it very hard that he helped an impaired driver escape justice for killing someone.
* ''Series/TheAndyGriffithShow'' When Otis buys a car, Andy and Barney worry that he'll inevitably be driving drunk (as he's drunk most of the time). They catch him heading toward his car after an evening of drinking at a party, but he passes out before he can get in. When he awakens, in jail, Andy and Barney act as if Otis had died in a crash, to try to teach him a lesson. It turns out he'd never driven the car and in fact had just sold it, to everyone's relief.
* In one episode of ''Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan'', Steve and a companion see a drunkard stumbling through a parking garage, clearly meaning to head home. Steve has his companion go on ahead while the drunk guy is fumbling around, and lifts the guy's back bumper (and presumably drive wheels) off the ground, propping the car on a concrete planter so he can't make any headway. The drunk guy is quite oblivious to his lack of forward motion.
* Clare Kincaid of ''Series/LawAndOrder'' is killed when her stationary car is hit by a drunk driver. The next time Jack gets the chance to prosecute a drunk driving case, he conspires to get the culprit the death penalty -- by hiding the fact that the driver was drunk. (If the driver was in control of himself and his vehicle, the case potentially becomes first-degree murder.) His conscience -- and Jamie's -- won't quite let him go through with it.
* ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'':
** In "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS8E18Responsible Responsible]]", a teenage witness drives drunk and gets into a crash, killing himself and a classmate who was in the car with him.
** In "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS9E9Paternity Paternity]]", Olivia's car is hit by a drunk driver while she's giving Elliot's pregnant wife Kathy a ride, with Kathy's side taking the worst of it. Kathy goes into labor as a result of the crash, but she and the baby are ultimately okay.
** At one point, Elliot's daughter gets arrested for drunk driving. In retrospect, it's potentially an early symptom of the bipolar disorder she's diagnosed with a few seasons later.
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* ''Series/TheAndyGriffithShow'' When Otis buys a car, Andy and Barney worry that he'll inevitably be driving drunk (as he's drunk most of the time). They catch him headingtoward his car after an evening of drinking at a party, but he passes out before he can get in. When he awakens, in jail, Andy and Barney act as if Otis had died in a crash, to try to teach him a lesson. It turns out he'd never driven the car and in fact had just sold it, to everyone's relief.
* In one episode of ''Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan'', Steve and a companion see a drunkard stumbling through a parking garage, clearly meaning to head home. Steve has his companion go on ahead while the drunk guy is fumbling around, and lifts the guy's back bumper (and presumably drive wheels) off the ground, propping the car on a concrete planter so he can't make any headway. The drunk guy is quite oblivious to his lack of forward motion.
* Clare Kincaid of ''Series/LawAndOrder'' is killed when her stationary car is hit by a drunk driver. The next time Jack gets the chance to prosecute adrunk driving case, he conspires was likely to get send a stern message about one of the culprit the death penalty consequences of drunk driving -- by hiding the fact that the driver was drunk. (If the driver was in control of himself and his vehicle, the case potentially becomes first-degree murder.) His conscience -- and Jamie's -- won't you might get arrested.
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* ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'':
** In "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS8E18Responsible Responsible]]", a teenage witness drives drunk and gets into a crash, killing himself and a classmate who wasthe "I'm not pissed" family in ''Series/TheFastShow''. Dad goes to give the boy a ride to school, whereupon the car with him.
** In "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS9E9Paternity Paternity]]", Olivia's car is hit by a drunk driver while she's giving Elliot's pregnant wife Kathy a ride, with Kathy's side takingshoots straight across the worst of it. Kathy goes road and smashes into labor as a result of neighbour's parked car. And there the crash, but she and the baby are ultimately okay.
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* ''Series/TheAndyGriffithShow'' When Otis buys a car, Andy and Barney worry that he'll inevitably be driving drunk (as he's drunk most of the time). They catch him heading
* In one episode of ''Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan'', Steve and a companion see a drunkard stumbling through a parking garage, clearly meaning to head home. Steve has his companion go on ahead while the drunk guy is fumbling around, and lifts the guy's back bumper (and presumably drive wheels) off the ground, propping the car on a concrete planter so he can't make any headway. The drunk guy is quite oblivious to his lack of forward motion.
* Clare Kincaid of ''Series/LawAndOrder'' is killed when her stationary car is hit by a drunk driver. The next time Jack gets the chance to prosecute a
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* ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'':
** In "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS8E18Responsible Responsible]]", a teenage witness drives drunk and gets into a crash, killing himself and a classmate who was
** In "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS9E9Paternity Paternity]]", Olivia's car is hit by a drunk driver while she's giving Elliot's pregnant wife Kathy a ride, with Kathy's side taking
** At one point, Elliot's daughter gets arrested for drunk driving. In retrospect, it's potentially an early symptom of the bipolar disorder she's diagnosed with a few seasons later.
* ''Series/FullHouse'': In an episode that focused more on Kimmie getting drunk at a college sorority party and an embarrassed D.J. (and equally embarrassed sorority officers) dealing with her drunken behavior, though Kimmie believes that D.J. was just jealous because, in her mind, she was the life of the party. A tearful D.J. tells Kimmie that her mother had died in an accident caused by a drunk driver (the death happening sometime during the summer of 1987, two months before the first episode was set). Kimmie comes to her senses and realizes what could become of her and agrees to straighten up.
* ''Series/GrowingPains'': The episode "Second Chance," where Carol's goofy boyfriend Sandy (Creator/MatthewPerry in an early appearance) is once again the butt of Mike and Ben's silly jokes when he's late for his date ... until they learn (from a phone call) the reason why: He was in a major car accident the previous evening. Viewers later learn that Sandy and Carol had been drinking heavily the night before, and after leaving Carol off, had crashed his car. Sandy appears to be OK, and Carol is thankful that he was just slightly hurt ... but only later do viewers learn the truth: When they get home, Mike has some somber news: Sandy just died from internal bleeding due to his injuries. Carol refuses to believe this at first, but it soon becomes apparent Mike's "cruel joke" (to her) was anything but.
* ''Series/HighwayToHeaven'': In the Season 2 episode "Heaven On Earth," a drunk driving accident where a 5-year-old girl is killed is the catalyst for the main plot (series protagonist Mark Gordon thinking he, not the drunk driver, was somehow to blame for the accident). Mark and Jonathan encounter the drunk driver shortly before the crash, the driver yelling at Mark to pull over and screaming obscenities. Later in the episode, a radio news report is overheard in the background, telling that police are still looking for the driver, who had fled without stopping. (The drunk driver had swerved into the oncoming lane to pass the car, where the little girl was a passenger; the driver of a pickup truck had no choice but to swerve into the other lane and ended up in a head-on collision.)
* ''Series/TheHoganFamily'': Midway through the 1987-1988 season (the first one without Valerie Harper as the mother), David hosts a house party while his father Mike and aunt Sandy are gone; his best friend and one of the guests, Rich, gets very drunk and wants to take a stunning co-ed out for a ride. David -- having just lost his mother months earlier, purportedly in an accident caused by a drunk driver -- puts his foot down and gets into a huge fight with Rich. David, motivated at an earlier admonition to "do whatever you have to do" to keep someone from driving drunk, locks Rich in the closet overnight. When David lets a somewhat sobered-up Rich out the next morning, Rich remembers vividly what happened ... and is an ungrateful jerk! He yells at David for not letting him consummate that long, sought-after relationship with the supermodel of his senior class. David then reminds him that his mother died in a drunk driving accident, and he couldn't stand the thought of now losing his best friend (not to mention the prettiest girl in high school). Rich eventually comes to his senses and realizes that nothing -- not a hot night of sex in bed awaiting a hotel -- was worth driving drunk and possibly killing himself or anyone else.
* ''Series/InTheHeatOfTheNight'': "Forever Fifteen," where a hit-and-run drunk driver crashes into a vehicle where four members of the Sparta High School cheerleading squad were passengers; three of the cheerleaders, including the driver, are killed instantly (one of the girls [[DiedInYourArmsTonight literally dies in one of the officer's arms]]), while a fourth is in a coma, never to awaken (WordOfGod has it she died shortly after the events of this episode). While a publicity-seeking district attorney accuses the force of inadequately investigating the crash, the officers enlist the aid of a retired police officer -- himself having to deal with his own memories of losing a loved one in a previous drunk driving crash -- to find the driver of the other vehicle. (In the end, the other driver was the district attorney, who was using his campaign against the police force to cover his tracks.)
* Clare Kincaid of ''Series/LawAndOrder'' is killed when her stationary car is hit by a drunk driver. The next time Jack gets the chance to prosecute a drunk driving case, he conspires to get the culprit the death penalty -- by hiding the fact that the driver was drunk. (If the driver was in control of himself and his vehicle, the case potentially becomes first-degree murder.) His conscience -- and Jamie's -- won't quite let him go through with it.
* ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'':
** In "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS8E18Responsible Responsible]]", a teenage witness drives drunk and gets into a crash, killing himself and a classmate who was in the car with him.
** In "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS9E9Paternity Paternity]]", Olivia's car is hit by a drunk driver while she's giving Elliot's pregnant wife Kathy a ride, with Kathy's side taking the worst of it. Kathy goes into labor as a result of the crash, but she and the baby are ultimately okay.
** At one point, Elliot's daughter gets arrested for drunk driving. In retrospect, it's potentially an early symptom of the bipolar disorder she's diagnosed with a few seasons later.
* ''Series/LittleHouseOnThePrairie'': Although set in the 1880s by the time Season 8's "A Promise To Keep" aired -- Mr. Edwards drives a buckboard and delivery wagon after having gotten very drunk, and causes an accident as a sober Albert is trying to wrest control of the wagon from Edwards -- the point of the dangers of drunk driving are still made abundantly clear: Edwards ends up driving over a curb, causing Albert to fall onto the street ... and into the path of another wagon. Albert is run over but miraculously escapes with minor injuries.
* ''Series/MadMen'' had shown this several times, [[DeliberateValuesDissonance mostly to illustrate the much more casual attitude to drunk driving]] in TheSixties.
* There's a non-{{Anvilicious}} example in ''Series/{{Misfits}}'', where [[HardDrinkingPartyGirl party girl]] Alisha was a constant drunk driver prior to the show and continued to drive intoxicated even after getting caught and having her license taken away. She hasn't killed anyone or caused any accidents, but she ''did'' eventually get caught by the police (again) and, despite performing oral sex on the breathalyser in an attempt to charm the cop (it didn't work - leading her to surmise that he was "gay"), she was sentenced to community service. Even after this, she's shown driving yet again (not drunk this time though) on at least one occasion, but she doesn't get caught.
* In the first ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'' ChristmasEpisode, Earl and Randy got drunk on Christmas Eve years ago. They determined (after Randy mistook the cat for an RC car) that they weren't safe to drive...but they figured they were OK to ''bike'' to the liquor store for more beer. They rode (and totally destroyed) the bikes that were meant for Dodge and Earl Jr. Joy was ''not'' pleased.
* ''Series/MyTwoDads'': Teased in one 1989 episode, where Nicole and her friends come home drunk. When Michael and Joey learn that the driver of Nicole's car was drunk and Nicole scoffs at the notion that she was in jeopardy of being involved in a serious accident, they decide to teach her a lesson by getting drunk and threaten to go out for a drive. They stop short when Nicole realizes the consequences of her actions.
* Drunk driving and killing a kid is what got Tobias Beecher sent to Prison in ''Series/{{Oz}}''. Given what happens to him there, it may be the most horrifying ''Don't Drink and Drive'' Ad ever.
* The deaths of the main characters' parents because of a Drunk Driver is the event that starts of ''Series/PartyOfFive'''s plot.
* On ''Series/PersonOfInterest'' a woman drives while drunk and hits a pedestrian. A ruthless gang of criminals takes drastic action to make sure that she does not go to jail. [[spoiler: They need her to help them launder millions of dollars of illicit money]]
* After drinking a few drinks at a party in ''Series/SavedByTheBell'', Zack and his friends drove drunk and ended up in an accident. Oddly enough, the sober one, Screech, offered to drive but Lisa refused to let him touch the car because he might get into an accident.
* Grace Hanadarko in ''Series/SavingGrace'' thinks she's hit and killed a guy in her car while drunk driving, but it's really a setup from "last chance angel" Earl to get her to give up her life to God. Turns out that the guy she "hit" is in prison...originally for his own drunk driving.
* ''Series/GrowingPains'': The episode "Second Chance," where Carol's goofy boyfriend Sandy (Creator/MatthewPerry in an early appearance) is once again the butt of Mike and Ben's silly jokes when he's late for his date ... until they learn (from a phone call) the reason why: He was in a major car accident the previous evening. Viewers later learn that Sandy and Carol had been drinking heavily the night before, and after leaving Carol off, had crashed his car. Sandy appears to be OK, and Carol is thankful that he was just slightly hurt ... but only later do viewers learn the truth: When they get home, Mike has some somber news: Sandy just died from internal bleeding due to his injuries. Carol refuses to believe this at first, but it soon becomes apparent Mike's "cruel joke" (to her) was anything but.
* ''Series/HighwayToHeaven'': In the Season 2 episode "Heaven On Earth," a drunk driving accident where a 5-year-old girl is killed is the catalyst for the main plot (series protagonist Mark Gordon thinking he, not the drunk driver, was somehow to blame for the accident). Mark and Jonathan encounter the drunk driver shortly before the crash, the driver yelling at Mark to pull over and screaming obscenities. Later in the episode, a radio news report is overheard in the background, telling that police are still looking for the driver, who had fled without stopping. (The drunk driver had swerved into the oncoming lane to pass the car, where the little girl was a passenger; the driver of a pickup truck had no choice but to swerve into the other lane and ended up in a head-on collision.)
* ''Series/TheHoganFamily'': Midway through the 1987-1988 season (the first one without Valerie Harper as the mother), David hosts a house party while his father Mike and aunt Sandy are gone; his best friend and one of the guests, Rich, gets very drunk and wants to take a stunning co-ed out for a ride. David -- having just lost his mother months earlier, purportedly in an accident caused by a drunk driver -- puts his foot down and gets into a huge fight with Rich. David, motivated at an earlier admonition to "do whatever you have to do" to keep someone from driving drunk, locks Rich in the closet overnight. When David lets a somewhat sobered-up Rich out the next morning, Rich remembers vividly what happened ... and is an ungrateful jerk! He yells at David for not letting him consummate that long, sought-after relationship with the supermodel of his senior class. David then reminds him that his mother died in a drunk driving accident, and he couldn't stand the thought of now losing his best friend (not to mention the prettiest girl in high school). Rich eventually comes to his senses and realizes that nothing -- not a hot night of sex in bed awaiting a hotel -- was worth driving drunk and possibly killing himself or anyone else.
* ''Series/InTheHeatOfTheNight'': "Forever Fifteen," where a hit-and-run drunk driver crashes into a vehicle where four members of the Sparta High School cheerleading squad were passengers; three of the cheerleaders, including the driver, are killed instantly (one of the girls [[DiedInYourArmsTonight literally dies in one of the officer's arms]]), while a fourth is in a coma, never to awaken (WordOfGod has it she died shortly after the events of this episode). While a publicity-seeking district attorney accuses the force of inadequately investigating the crash, the officers enlist the aid of a retired police officer -- himself having to deal with his own memories of losing a loved one in a previous drunk driving crash -- to find the driver of the other vehicle. (In the end, the other driver was the district attorney, who was using his campaign against the police force to cover his tracks.)
* Clare Kincaid of ''Series/LawAndOrder'' is killed when her stationary car is hit by a drunk driver. The next time Jack gets the chance to prosecute a drunk driving case, he conspires to get the culprit the death penalty -- by hiding the fact that the driver was drunk. (If the driver was in control of himself and his vehicle, the case potentially becomes first-degree murder.) His conscience -- and Jamie's -- won't quite let him go through with it.
* ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'':
** In "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS8E18Responsible Responsible]]", a teenage witness drives drunk and gets into a crash, killing himself and a classmate who was in the car with him.
** In "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS9E9Paternity Paternity]]", Olivia's car is hit by a drunk driver while she's giving Elliot's pregnant wife Kathy a ride, with Kathy's side taking the worst of it. Kathy goes into labor as a result of the crash, but she and the baby are ultimately okay.
** At one point, Elliot's daughter gets arrested for drunk driving. In retrospect, it's potentially an early symptom of the bipolar disorder she's diagnosed with a few seasons later.
* ''Series/LittleHouseOnThePrairie'': Although set in the 1880s by the time Season 8's "A Promise To Keep" aired -- Mr. Edwards drives a buckboard and delivery wagon after having gotten very drunk, and causes an accident as a sober Albert is trying to wrest control of the wagon from Edwards -- the point of the dangers of drunk driving are still made abundantly clear: Edwards ends up driving over a curb, causing Albert to fall onto the street ... and into the path of another wagon. Albert is run over but miraculously escapes with minor injuries.
* ''Series/MadMen'' had shown this several times, [[DeliberateValuesDissonance mostly to illustrate the much more casual attitude to drunk driving]] in TheSixties.
* There's a non-{{Anvilicious}} example in ''Series/{{Misfits}}'', where [[HardDrinkingPartyGirl party girl]] Alisha was a constant drunk driver prior to the show and continued to drive intoxicated even after getting caught and having her license taken away. She hasn't killed anyone or caused any accidents, but she ''did'' eventually get caught by the police (again) and, despite performing oral sex on the breathalyser in an attempt to charm the cop (it didn't work - leading her to surmise that he was "gay"), she was sentenced to community service. Even after this, she's shown driving yet again (not drunk this time though) on at least one occasion, but she doesn't get caught.
* In the first ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'' ChristmasEpisode, Earl and Randy got drunk on Christmas Eve years ago. They determined (after Randy mistook the cat for an RC car) that they weren't safe to drive...but they figured they were OK to ''bike'' to the liquor store for more beer. They rode (and totally destroyed) the bikes that were meant for Dodge and Earl Jr. Joy was ''not'' pleased.
* ''Series/MyTwoDads'': Teased in one 1989 episode, where Nicole and her friends come home drunk. When Michael and Joey learn that the driver of Nicole's car was drunk and Nicole scoffs at the notion that she was in jeopardy of being involved in a serious accident, they decide to teach her a lesson by getting drunk and threaten to go out for a drive. They stop short when Nicole realizes the consequences of her actions.
* Drunk driving and killing a kid is what got Tobias Beecher sent to Prison in ''Series/{{Oz}}''. Given what happens to him there, it may be the most horrifying ''Don't Drink and Drive'' Ad ever.
* The deaths of the main characters' parents because of a Drunk Driver is the event that starts of ''Series/PartyOfFive'''s plot.
* On ''Series/PersonOfInterest'' a woman drives while drunk and hits a pedestrian. A ruthless gang of criminals takes drastic action to make sure that she does not go to jail. [[spoiler: They need her to help them launder millions of dollars of illicit money]]
* After drinking a few drinks at a party in ''Series/SavedByTheBell'', Zack and his friends drove drunk and ended up in an accident. Oddly enough, the sober one, Screech, offered to drive but Lisa refused to let him touch the car because he might get into an accident.
* Grace Hanadarko in ''Series/SavingGrace'' thinks she's hit and killed a guy in her car while drunk driving, but it's really a setup from "last chance angel" Earl to get her to give up her life to God. Turns out that the guy she "hit" is in prison...originally for his own drunk driving.
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* Played quite shamelessly for laughs with the "I'm not pissed" family in ''Series/TheFastShow''. Dad goes to give the boy a ride to school, whereupon the car shoots straight across the road and smashes into a neighbour's parked car. And there the sketch ends.
* ''Series/TheAffair'': After a pile-up of misfortunes earlier that day, Helen proceeds to pick her kids up from school while she's drunk ''and'' stoned. She crashes the car and gets arrested after assaulting a police officer. It single-handedly undermines her case for sole custody of her and Noah's children.
* ''Series/TheAffair'': After a pile-up of misfortunes earlier that day, Helen proceeds to pick her kids up from school while she's drunk ''and'' stoned. She crashes the car and gets arrested after assaulting a police officer. It single-handedly undermines her case for sole custody of her and Noah's children.
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* In one episode of ''Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan'', Steve and a companion see a drunkard stumbling through a parking garage, clearly meaning to head home. Steve has his companion go on ahead while the drunk guy is fumbling around, and lifts the guy's back bumper (and presumably drive wheels) off the ground, propping the car on a concrete planter so he can't make any headway. The drunk guy is quite oblivious to his lack of forward motion.
* On ''Series/{{Suits}}'' the son of one of the firm's clients hits someone with a car and leaves the scene. The victim dies but there is no evidence that the driver was drinking so Mike is able to get him a nice plea deal where he will serve no jail time. However, Mike then discovers that his client, while not drunk, was actually high on marijuana at the time of the accident. Mike's parents were killed by a drunk driver and he takes it very hard that he helped an impaired driver escape justice for killing someone.
* Playedquite shamelessly for laughs with the "I'm not pissed" family in ''Series/TheFastShow''. Dad goes to give the boy ''Series/ThatMitchellAndWebbLook'' in a ride to school, whereupon the car shoots straight across the road and smashes into a neighbour's parked car. And there the sketch ends.
* ''Series/TheAffair'': After a pile-upabout [=MI6=] planning the assassination of misfortunes earlier Princess Diana on the order of Prince Philip (a popular theory, especially in certain tabloids) by getting the driver "slightly tipsy", as it's a well-known fact that day, Helen proceeds to pick her kids up from school while she's getting somebody a little bit drunk ''and'' stoned. She crashes results in a 100% death rate.
* In the 1980s ''Series/TraumaCenter'', a completely drunk woman weaves through traffic until she causes a van full of young men to crash off the side, which calls the paramedics to the scene. Fortunately, the cops catch her with a female cop noting that the offender "pickled the breathalyzer."
* Cops in ''Series/TheWire'' are regularly shown driving to an out-of-the-way spot to chat and get plastered on beer, then driving home. Major Rawls at one point attempts to get revenge on Detective [=McNulty=] by pressuring Detective Santangelo to catch him driving under the influence: Santangelo is dismayed; it is implicit that freedom to drive drunk is an unwritten sacred right for Baltimore police.
** In one of the show's Crowning Moments of Funny, [=McNulty=] is driving home drunk, takes a turn too wide and scrapes the side of his car against a freeway support. He stops, gets out, surveys the damage and the scene, and then gets back into the car andgets arrested after assaulting reverses around the corner. He then tries to take the turn ''again'' and hits the support ''again''.
-->'''Bartender:''' You ain't getting behind a wheel, are ya?
-->'''[=McNulty=]:''' I'm looking you in the eye, Gus. I'm not driving a car tonight.
-->[[GilliganCut cut to Jimmy driving drunk and singing along to The Pogues]]
* Two occasions in ''Series/YesMinister'':
** In "The Economy Drive," Sir Humphrey fires the department's driver to teach Hacker a lesson about his plans to cut waste, forcing him to drive himself to a function at the French embassy. He doesn't actually make it to the wheel, at least on screen, only because he drops his keys down a sewer grate, with a photograph of him attempting to fish them out leading the [[UsefulNotes/BritishNewspapers Express]] to describe him as "[[UnusualEuphemism overwrought as a newt]]."
** In the [[ChristmasEpisode Christmas special]] "Party Games," The Home Office declares a "don't drink and drive at Christmas" campaign, whose advice a besotted Jim Hacker elects to ignore despite his wife being sober and willing to drive, leading to a policeofficer. It single-handedly undermines her case for sole custody stop on account of her his extremely slow driving. This turns out to be small potatoes, however, after [[spoiler:it turns out that [[HypocriticalHumour the Home Secretary himself]] drove drunk, overturning a lorry carrying nuclear waste on the motorway, and Noah's children.then crashing into a journalist's car; Sir Humphrey jokes that since the press are saying he was "drunk as a Lord," the Government will almost certainly [[KickedUpstairs make him one]].]]
* On ''Series/{{Suits}}'' the son of one of the firm's clients hits someone with a car and leaves the scene. The victim dies but there is no evidence that the driver was drinking so Mike is able to get him a nice plea deal where he will serve no jail time. However, Mike then discovers that his client, while not drunk, was actually high on marijuana at the time of the accident. Mike's parents were killed by a drunk driver and he takes it very hard that he helped an impaired driver escape justice for killing someone.
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* In the 1980s ''Series/TraumaCenter'', a completely drunk woman weaves through traffic until she causes a van full of young men to crash off the side, which calls the paramedics to the scene. Fortunately, the cops catch her with a female cop noting that the offender "pickled the breathalyzer."
* Cops in ''Series/TheWire'' are regularly shown driving to an out-of-the-way spot to chat and get plastered on beer, then driving home. Major Rawls at one point attempts to get revenge on Detective [=McNulty=] by pressuring Detective Santangelo to catch him driving under the influence: Santangelo is dismayed; it is implicit that freedom to drive drunk is an unwritten sacred right for Baltimore police.
** In one of the show's Crowning Moments of Funny, [=McNulty=] is driving home drunk, takes a turn too wide and scrapes the side of his car against a freeway support. He stops, gets out, surveys the damage and the scene, and then gets back into the car and
-->'''Bartender:''' You ain't getting behind a wheel, are ya?
-->'''[=McNulty=]:''' I'm looking you in the eye, Gus. I'm not driving a car tonight.
-->[[GilliganCut cut to Jimmy driving drunk and singing along to The Pogues]]
* Two occasions in ''Series/YesMinister'':
** In "The Economy Drive," Sir Humphrey fires the department's driver to teach Hacker a lesson about his plans to cut waste, forcing him to drive himself to a function at the French embassy. He doesn't actually make it to the wheel, at least on screen, only because he drops his keys down a sewer grate, with a photograph of him attempting to fish them out leading the [[UsefulNotes/BritishNewspapers Express]] to describe him as "[[UnusualEuphemism overwrought as a newt]]."
** In the [[ChristmasEpisode Christmas special]] "Party Games," The Home Office declares a "don't drink and drive at Christmas" campaign, whose advice a besotted Jim Hacker elects to ignore despite his wife being sober and willing to drive, leading to a police
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* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS5E1 Tainted Fruit]]", Sally Rickworth drove home drunk after the Tennis Do and crashed into a neighbor's car before falling asleep behind the wheel.
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* ''Series/{{Obliterated}}'' is about a black ops squad who decide to celebrate a successful mission by getting severely drunk and/or high, only to get put back on duty because the mission isn't over. Fortunately one of them doesn't drink so at least he's sober...except unknown to everyone the dip on the chips he'd been eating had been spiked with drugs. And he's the guy who flies their helicopter.
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* ''Series/{{Obliterated}}'' is about a black ops squad who decide to celebrate a successful mission by getting severely drunk and/or high, only to get put back on duty because the mission isn't over. Fortunately one of them doesn't drink so at least he's sober...except unknown to everyone the dip on the chips he'd been eating had been spiked with drugs.copious amounts of shrooms and LSD. And he's the guy who flies their helicopter.
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* The ''FamilyTreeSeries'' has Francie's son and Georgie's elder brother Richard end up in a car accident due to his friend Seth's drunk driving. (Richard had been drinking as well.) The accident fractures his thigh and puts him in physical therapy, but he comes off best out in the crash. [[spoiler:He's the only survivor of the two-car accident. Seth--who'd been driving--the other unnamed friend, and the person in the other car are all killed, and the single driver in the other car was Georgie's music teacher, Mr. Elden.]]
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* The ''FamilyTreeSeries'' ''Literature/FamilyTreeSeries'' has Francie's son and Georgie's elder brother Richard end up in a car accident due to his friend Seth's drunk driving. (Richard had been drinking as well.) The accident fractures his thigh and puts him in physical therapy, but he comes off best out in the crash. [[spoiler:He's the only survivor of the two-car accident. Seth--who'd been driving--the other unnamed friend, and the person in the other car are all killed, and the single driver in the other car was Georgie's music teacher, Mr. Elden.]]
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* The ''FamilyTreeSeries'' has Francie's son and Georgie's elder brother Richard end up in a car accident due to his friend Seth's drunk driving. (Richard had been drinking as well.) The accident fractures his thigh and puts him in physical therapy, but he comes off best out in the crash. [[spoiler:He's the only survivor of the two-car accident. Seth--who'd been driving--the other unnamed friend, and the person in the other car are all killed, and the single driver in the other car was Georgie's music teacher, Mr. Elden.]]
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* ''WebAnimation/TheWaltenFiles'' [[PlayedForHorror plays this for horror]] in ''Bunnyfarm'': [[spoiler:Felix Kranken, whilst drunk, ends up crashing his car when driving Edd and Molly home from a school party, killing both of them. Before the crash, both Edd and Molly worry Felix is driving too fast whilst Molly asks if if he's been drinking and tells him her teacher says drinking is bad, to which he insists he's just dizzy. Horrified, he buries them both and digs his own grave alongside theirs, sitting in it until daybreak. He then climbs out, throws Edd and Molly's belongings into the nearby river, and [[DrivenToSuicide comes close to throwing himself off a cliff]] before backing out of it.]]
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* ''WebAnimation/TheWaltenFiles'' [[PlayedForHorror plays this for horror]] in ''Bunnyfarm'': [[spoiler:Felix Kranken, whilst drunk, ends up crashing his car when driving Edd and Molly home from a school party, killing both of them. Before the crash, both Edd and Molly worry Felix is driving too fast whilst Molly asks if if he's been drinking and tells him that her teacher says drinking is bad, to which he insists he's just dizzy. Horrified, he buries them both and digs his own grave alongside theirs, sitting in it until daybreak. He then climbs out, throws Edd and Molly's belongings into the nearby river, and [[DrivenToSuicide comes close to throwing himself off a cliff]] before backing out of it.]]
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* ''WebAnimation/TheWaltenFiles'' [[PlayedForHorror plays this for horror]] in ''Bunnyfarm'': [[spoiler:Felix Kranken, whilst drunk, ends up crashing his car when driving Edd and Molly home from a school party, killing both of them. Before the crash, both Edd and Molly worry Felix is driving too fast, whilst Molly tells him her teacher says drinking is bad, which he dismisses and insists that he's just dizzy. Horrified, he buries them both and digs his own grave alongside theirs, sitting in it until daybreak. He then climbs out, throws Edd and Molly's belongings into the nearby river, and [[DrivenToSuicide comes close to jumping off the cliff]] before backing out of it.]]
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* ''WebAnimation/TheWaltenFiles'' [[PlayedForHorror plays this for horror]] in ''Bunnyfarm'': [[spoiler:Felix Kranken, whilst drunk, ends up crashing his car when driving Edd and Molly home from a school party, killing both of them. Before the crash, both Edd and Molly worry Felix is driving too fast, fast whilst Molly asks if if he's been drinking and tells him her teacher says drinking is bad, to which he dismisses and insists that he's just dizzy. Horrified, he buries them both and digs his own grave alongside theirs, sitting in it until daybreak. He then climbs out, throws Edd and Molly's belongings into the nearby river, and [[DrivenToSuicide comes close to jumping throwing himself off the a cliff]] before backing out of it.]]
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* ''WebAnimation/TheWaltenFiles'' [[PlayedForHorror plays this for horror]] in ''Bunnyfarm'': [[spoiler:Felix Kranken, whilst drunk, ends up crashing his car when driving Edd and Molly home from a school party, killing both of them. Before the crash, both Edd and Molly worry Felix is driving too fast, whilst Molly tells him her teacher says drinking is bad.bad, which he dismisses and insists that he's just dizzy. Horrified, he buries them both and digs his own grave alongside theirs, sitting in it until daybreak. He then climbs out, throws Edd and Molly's belongings into the nearby river, and [[DrivenToSuicide comes close to jumping off the cliff]] before backing out of it.]]
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** In the [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV fourth game]] in the series, you can drive after getting plastered. Niko, however, points out this is an extremely bad idea, and you're going to crash A LOT thanks to InterfaceScrew (the screen already shakes and blurs if you're standing around; now imagine that at about 50-60 mph, with your controls swerving to the side randomly because your character can't even stand still). You're also very likely to be arrested (any police unit that sees you so much as entering a car while drunk will put one star on your wanted gauge).
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** In the [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV fourth game]] in the series, you can drive after getting plastered.plastered (and indeed, in-game ads for the beer brand Pisswasser ''encourage this'' -- "Pisswasser, this is beer! ''Drive drunk, off a pier!''"). Niko, however, points out this is an extremely bad idea, and you're going to crash A LOT thanks to InterfaceScrew (the screen already shakes and blurs if you're standing around; now imagine that at about 50-60 mph, with your controls swerving to the side randomly because your character can't even stand still). You're also very likely to be arrested (any police unit that sees you so much as entering a car while drunk will put one star on your wanted gauge).
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*** Apparently Rockstar listened to them come GTA V. It's pretty much impossible to drive drunk since you sober up in less than a minute. You'll be halfway sober by the time you walk out of the bar, and completely sober by the time you start driving your car. The interface is similar to GTA IV drunk driving for the one second you can drive drunk.
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*** Apparently Rockstar listened to them come GTA V.''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV''. It's pretty much impossible to drive drunk since you sober up in less than a minute. You'll be halfway sober by the time you walk out of the bar, and completely sober by the time you start driving your car. The interface is similar to GTA IV drunk driving for the one second you can drive drunk.
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* ''Series/{{Obliterated}}'' is about a black ops squad who get PulledFromTheirDayOff while getting drunk and/or high during what they thought was the end of a successful mission. Fortunately Captain Yung doesn't drink, so at least one of them is sober...except unknown to everyone the dip on the chips he'd been eating had been spiked with drugs. And he's the guy who flies their helicopter.
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* ''Series/{{Obliterated}}'' is about a black ops squad who get PulledFromTheirDayOff while decide to celebrate a successful mission by getting severely drunk and/or high during what they thought was high, only to get put back on duty because the end of a successful mission. mission isn't over. Fortunately Captain Yung one of them doesn't drink, drink so at least one of them is he's sober...except unknown to everyone the dip on the chips he'd been eating had been spiked with drugs. And he's the guy who flies their helicopter.
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* ''Series/BlackMirror'': In the Series 5 episode "Smithereens", protagonist and rideshare driver Chris lost his fiancee Tamsin years ago in a crash with a drunk driver, an event that haunts him to this day. Though ultimately (and tragically) subverted: [[spoiler:Chris was actually the one who caused the crash, as he was focused on his social media account on his phone and not on the road. The other driver wasn't at fault, but because he was drunk, he ended up becoming TheScapegoat for the crash.]]
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* ''Series/BlackMirror'': In the Series 5 episode "Smithereens", "[[Recap/BlackMirrorSmithereens Smithereens]]", protagonist and rideshare driver Chris lost his fiancee Tamsin years ago in a crash with a drunk driver, an event that haunts him to this day. Though ultimately (and tragically) subverted: [[spoiler:Chris was actually the one who caused the crash, as he was focused on his social media account on his phone and not on the road. The other driver wasn't at fault, but because he was drunk, he ended up becoming TheScapegoat for the crash.]]crash]].
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* Clare Kincaid on ''Series/LawAndOrder'' was killed when her stationary car was hit by a drunk driver. The next time Jack got the chance to prosecute a drunk driving case, he conspired to get the culprit the death penalty - by hiding the fact that the driver was drunk. (If the driver was in control of himself and his vehicle the case potentially becomes first-degree murder.) His conscience - and Jamie's - won't quite let him go through with it.
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* Clare Kincaid on of ''Series/LawAndOrder'' was is killed when her stationary car was is hit by a drunk driver. The next time Jack got gets the chance to prosecute a drunk driving case, he conspired conspires to get the culprit the death penalty - -- by hiding the fact that the driver was drunk. (If the driver was in control of himself and his vehicle vehicle, the case potentially becomes first-degree murder.) His conscience - -- and Jamie's - -- won't quite let him go through with it.
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** In "Responsible", a teenage witness drives drunk and gets into a crash, killing himself and a classmate who was in the car with him.
** In "Paternity", Olivia's car is hit by a drunk driver while she's giving Elliot's pregnant wife Kathy a ride, with Kathy's side taking the worst of it. Kathy goes into labor as a result of the crash, but she and the baby are ultimately okay.
** In "Paternity", Olivia's car is hit by a drunk driver while she's giving Elliot's pregnant wife Kathy a ride, with Kathy's side taking the worst of it. Kathy goes into labor as a result of the crash, but she and the baby are ultimately okay.
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** In "Responsible", "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS8E18Responsible Responsible]]", a teenage witness drives drunk and gets into a crash, killing himself and a classmate who was in the car with him.
** In"Paternity", "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS9E9Paternity Paternity]]", Olivia's car is hit by a drunk driver while she's giving Elliot's pregnant wife Kathy a ride, with Kathy's side taking the worst of it. Kathy goes into labor as a result of the crash, but she and the baby are ultimately okay.
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* On ''Series/{{Sisters}}'', second-oldest sister Teddy is a recovering alcoholic and has fallen off the wagon yet again while grieving the loss of her husband. Initially sympathetic because of the reason she's OffTheWagon, the other sisters and her mother realize she needs serious help when she runs over her nephew while driving drunk (miraculously, he suffers only minor injuries).
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* On In ''Series/{{Sisters}}'', second-oldest sister Teddy is a recovering alcoholic and has fallen off the wagon yet again while grieving the loss of her husband. Initially sympathetic because of the reason she's OffTheWagon, the other sisters and her mother realize she needs serious help when she runs over her nephew while driving drunk (miraculously, he suffers only minor injuries).
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* In the ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' episode [[Recap/SupernaturalS02E22AllHellBreaksLoosePartTwo "All Hell Breaks Loose, Part Two" (S02, Ep22)]], Dean, who had been shown to be heavily drinking after his brother's death, speeds down a gravel road, fishtailing the Impala.
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* In the ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' episode [[Recap/SupernaturalS02E22AllHellBreaksLoosePartTwo "All "[[Recap/SupernaturalS02E22AllHellBreaksLoosePartTwo All Hell Breaks Loose, Part Two" (S02, Ep22)]], Two]]", Dean, who had been shown to be heavily drinking after his brother's death, speeds down a gravel road, fishtailing the Impala.
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* In ''A Series of Unfortunate Events'', when Count Olaf's villainous theater troupe is driving on the way to the latest destination and Olaf (not the best driver even on a good day) is ''freaking the crap out'' over a very large piece of unwelcome news, he still finds it in his thought process to dismiss this as lunacy.
* The ChristmasEpisode "Not Even A Mouse" of ''Series/ThePretender'' had Jared (as a coroner) investigating a hit-and-run accident that killed a local homeless man, "Christmas George", who dressed as Santa Claus for the kids. He discovered that one of the other coroners hit him while driving drunk, then when he arrived at the morgue still alive she killed him on the autopsy table and made it look like he died in the accident.
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E150StopoverInAQuietTown Stopover in a Quiet Town]]", Millie Frazier had several drinks at a party and drives drunk. Her husband Bob, who was far more drunk than she was, was passed out in the back seat. [[spoiler:On the way home, they are [[AlienAbduction abducted by a giant alien]] and taken to another planet to be his daughter's [[HumanPet pets]].]]
* The ChristmasEpisode "Not Even A Mouse" of ''Series/ThePretender'' had Jared (as a coroner) investigating a hit-and-run accident that killed a local homeless man, "Christmas George", who dressed as Santa Claus for the kids. He discovered that one of the other coroners hit him while driving drunk, then when he arrived at the morgue still alive she killed him on the autopsy table and made it look like he died in the accident.
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E150StopoverInAQuietTown Stopover in a Quiet Town]]", Millie Frazier had several drinks at a party and drives drunk. Her husband Bob, who was far more drunk than she was, was passed out in the back seat. [[spoiler:On the way home, they are [[AlienAbduction abducted by a giant alien]] and taken to another planet to be his daughter's [[HumanPet pets]].]]
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* In ''A Series of Unfortunate Events'', ''Series/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents2017'', when Count Olaf's villainous theater troupe is driving on the way to the latest destination and Olaf (not the best driver even on a good day) is ''freaking the crap out'' over a very large piece of unwelcome news, he still finds it in his thought process to dismiss this as lunacy.
* ''Series/ThePretender'': The ChristmasEpisode "Not EvenA a Mouse" of ''Series/ThePretender'' had has Jared (as a coroner) investigating a hit-and-run accident that killed a local homeless man, "Christmas George", who dressed as Santa Claus for the kids. He discovered discovers that one of the other coroners hit him while driving drunk, then drunk -- then, when he arrived at the morgue still alive alive, she killed him on the autopsy table and made it look like he died in the accident.
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In"[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E150StopoverInAQuietTown "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S5E30StopoverInAQuietTown Stopover in a Quiet Town]]", Millie Frazier had several drinks at a party and drives drunk. Her husband Bob, who was far more drunk than she was, was passed out in the back seat. [[spoiler:On the way home, they are [[AlienAbduction abducted by a giant alien]] and taken to another planet to be his daughter's [[HumanPet pets]].]]
* ''Series/ThePretender'': The ChristmasEpisode "Not Even
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** In "Kentucky Rye", an alcoholic named Bob Spindler and his co-workers celebrate closing a big deal. As ever, Bob has too much to drink and becomes angry when several of his co-workers suggest driving him home or calling him a cab. Instead, he drives drunk, seemingly not for the first time, and runs another car off the road. Bob is injured in the process and seeks refuge in a tavern called the Kentucky Rye. The owner sells him the tavern for $1,600, the last $100 of which is contributed by a strange man. The next morning, Bob wakes up to find the tavern covered in cobwebs and dust. There is no one there except for the strange man. [[spoiler:It turns out that the man is the driver of the other car, who was killed when Bob ran him off the road. Bob himself was killed in the accident and is trapped in the IronicHell of a deserted bar for all eternity.]]
** In "The Once and Future King", Gary Pitkin is driven off the road by a drunk driver and crashes his own car as a result. When he wakes up, he finds that he has been transported back in time to Memphis, Tennessee on July 3, 1954.
** In "The Hellgramite Method", Dr. Eugene Murrich's wife and two children were killed by a drunk driver while they were crossing the street. The pain that he suffered after their deaths led Dr. Murrich to create the Hellgramite Method, which involves secretly placing a Hellgramite worm in the stomach of alcoholics so that it can absorb their liquor.
* A B-plot in ''Series/CSIMiami'' episode "Addiction" starts with medical examiner Alexx showing a group from an alcoholic treatment program victims of drunk driving accidents in the morgue. She offers one member Derek, who demonstrated taking recovery very seriously, a temporary job as one of her handlers, but when a flask of alcohol goes missing from a victim's belongings, she immediately suspects Derek. He denies it but she doesn't believe him until it's revealed the flask was stolen by one of the other medical examiners. She apologizes to Derek and offers his job back, but while he forgives her and isn't mad at her he turns down the offer. At the end of the episode, a drunk driver and the victim they killed are brought into the morgue, with Alexx devastatingly recognizing the driver. Alexx is then seen with another treatment group and shows them the bodies, revealing that other medical examiner as the driver.
** In "The Once and Future King", Gary Pitkin is driven off the road by a drunk driver and crashes his own car as a result. When he wakes up, he finds that he has been transported back in time to Memphis, Tennessee on July 3, 1954.
** In "The Hellgramite Method", Dr. Eugene Murrich's wife and two children were killed by a drunk driver while they were crossing the street. The pain that he suffered after their deaths led Dr. Murrich to create the Hellgramite Method, which involves secretly placing a Hellgramite worm in the stomach of alcoholics so that it can absorb their liquor.
* A B-plot in ''Series/CSIMiami'' episode "Addiction" starts with medical examiner Alexx showing a group from an alcoholic treatment program victims of drunk driving accidents in the morgue. She offers one member Derek, who demonstrated taking recovery very seriously, a temporary job as one of her handlers, but when a flask of alcohol goes missing from a victim's belongings, she immediately suspects Derek. He denies it but she doesn't believe him until it's revealed the flask was stolen by one of the other medical examiners. She apologizes to Derek and offers his job back, but while he forgives her and isn't mad at her he turns down the offer. At the end of the episode, a drunk driver and the victim they killed are brought into the morgue, with Alexx devastatingly recognizing the driver. Alexx is then seen with another treatment group and shows them the bodies, revealing that other medical examiner as the driver.
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** In "Kentucky Rye", "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E3 Kentucky Rye]]", an alcoholic named Bob Spindler and his co-workers celebrate closing a big deal. As ever, Bob has too much to drink and becomes angry when several of his co-workers suggest driving him home or calling him a cab. Instead, he drives drunk, seemingly not for the first time, and runs another car off the road. Bob is injured in the process and seeks refuge in a tavern called the Kentucky Rye. The owner sells him the tavern for $1,600, the last $100 of which is contributed by a strange man. The next morning, Bob wakes up to find the tavern covered in cobwebs and dust. There is no one there except for the strange man. [[spoiler:It turns out that the man is the driver of the other car, who was killed when Bob ran him off the road. Bob himself was killed in the accident and is trapped in the IronicHell of a deserted bar for all eternity.]]
** In"The "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S2E1 The Once and Future King", King]]", Gary Pitkin is driven off the road by a drunk driver and crashes his own car as a result. When he wakes up, he finds that he has been transported back in time to Memphis, Tennessee on July 3, 1954.
** In"The "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S3E7 The Hellgramite Method", Method]]", Dr. Eugene Murrich's wife and two children were killed by a drunk driver while they were crossing the street. The pain that he suffered after their deaths led Dr. Murrich to create the Hellgramite Method, which involves secretly placing a Hellgramite worm in the stomach of alcoholics so that it can absorb their liquor.
* A B-plot in the ''Series/CSIMiami'' episode "Addiction" starts with medical examiner Alexx showing a group from an alcoholic treatment program victims of drunk driving accidents in the morgue. She offers one member Derek, who demonstrated taking recovery very seriously, a temporary job as one of her handlers, but when a flask of alcohol goes missing from a victim's belongings, she immediately suspects Derek. He denies it but she doesn't believe him until it's revealed the flask was stolen by one of the other medical examiners. She apologizes to Derek and offers his job back, but while he forgives her and isn't mad at her he turns down the offer. At the end of the episode, a drunk driver and the victim they killed are brought into the morgue, with Alexx devastatingly recognizing the driver. Alexx is then seen with another treatment group and shows them the bodies, revealing that other medical examiner as the driver.
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* A B-plot in the ''Series/CSIMiami'' episode "Addiction" starts with medical examiner Alexx showing a group from an alcoholic treatment program victims of drunk driving accidents in the morgue. She offers one member Derek, who demonstrated taking recovery very seriously, a temporary job as one of her handlers, but when a flask of alcohol goes missing from a victim's belongings, she immediately suspects Derek. He denies it but she doesn't believe him until it's revealed the flask was stolen by one of the other medical examiners. She apologizes to Derek and offers his job back, but while he forgives her and isn't mad at her he turns down the offer. At the end of the episode, a drunk driver and the victim they killed are brought into the morgue, with Alexx devastatingly recognizing the driver. Alexx is then seen with another treatment group and shows them the bodies, revealing that other medical examiner as the driver.
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Prior to TheEighties, this trope was often a source for comedy, even in a by-the-book CopShow like ''Series/Adam12'' when the cops pull them over. (The stock joke is someone suffering from AlcoholInducedIdiocy trying to say "SorryOciffer...") However, a greater awareness of the deadly menace of motorists driving under the influence have now made it a source of AnAesop for a VerySpecialEpisode and placed jokes about it solidly in DudeNotFunny territory (though they may still be used for BlackComedy). As a result, impaired drivers are going to hit someone and have a car accident, or be chased down by heroes and/or the police to prevent it. If it's a near miss, it's a ScareEmStraight.
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Prior to TheEighties, UsefulNotes/TheEighties, this trope was often a source for comedy, even in a by-the-book CopShow like ''Series/Adam12'' when the cops pull them over. (The stock joke is someone suffering from AlcoholInducedIdiocy trying to say "SorryOciffer...") However, a greater awareness of the deadly menace of motorists driving under the influence have now made it a source of AnAesop for a VerySpecialEpisode and placed jokes about it solidly in DudeNotFunny territory (though they may still be used for BlackComedy). As a result, impaired drivers are going to hit someone and have a car accident, or be chased down by heroes and/or the police to prevent it. If it's a near miss, it's a ScareEmStraight.
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Let's be real here: just because some people get offended by such jokes doesn't mean people won't use them.
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Prior to TheEighties, this trope was often a source for comedy, even in a by-the-book CopShow like ''Series/Adam12'' when the cops pull them over. (The stock joke is someone suffering from AlcoholInducedIdiocy trying to say "SorryOciffer...") However, a greater awareness of the deadly menace of motorists driving under the influence have now made it a source of AnAesop for a VerySpecialEpisode and placed jokes about it solidly in DudeNotFunny territory. As a result, impaired drivers are going to hit someone and have a car accident, or be chased down by heroes and/or the police to prevent it. If it's a near miss, it's a ScareEmStraight.
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Prior to TheEighties, this trope was often a source for comedy, even in a by-the-book CopShow like ''Series/Adam12'' when the cops pull them over. (The stock joke is someone suffering from AlcoholInducedIdiocy trying to say "SorryOciffer...") However, a greater awareness of the deadly menace of motorists driving under the influence have now made it a source of AnAesop for a VerySpecialEpisode and placed jokes about it solidly in DudeNotFunny territory.territory (though they may still be used for BlackComedy). As a result, impaired drivers are going to hit someone and have a car accident, or be chased down by heroes and/or the police to prevent it. If it's a near miss, it's a ScareEmStraight.
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* ''Series/TheHoganFamily'': Midway through the 1987-1988 season (the first one without Valerie Harper as the mother), David hosts a house party while his father Mike and aunt Sandy are gone; his best friend and one of the guests, Rich, gets very drunk and wants to take a stunning co-ed out for a ride. David -- having just lost his mother months earlier, purportedly in an accident caused by a drunk driver -- puts his foot down and gets into a huge fight with Rich. David, motivated at an earlier admonition to "do whatever you have to do" to keep someone from driving drunk, locks Rich in the closet overnight. When David lets a somewhat sobered-up Rich out the next morning, Rich remembers vividly what happened ... and is an ungrateful jerk! (He yells at David for not letting him consummate that long, sought-after relationship with the supermodel of his senior class. David then reminds him that his mother died in a drunk driving accident, and he couldn't stand the thought of now losing his best friend (not to mention the prettiest girl in high school). Rich eventually comes to his senses and realizes that nothing -- not a hot night of sex in bed awaiting a hotel -- was worth driving drunk and possibly killing himself or anyone else.
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* ''Series/TheHoganFamily'': Midway through the 1987-1988 season (the first one without Valerie Harper as the mother), David hosts a house party while his father Mike and aunt Sandy are gone; his best friend and one of the guests, Rich, gets very drunk and wants to take a stunning co-ed out for a ride. David -- having just lost his mother months earlier, purportedly in an accident caused by a drunk driver -- puts his foot down and gets into a huge fight with Rich. David, motivated at an earlier admonition to "do whatever you have to do" to keep someone from driving drunk, locks Rich in the closet overnight. When David lets a somewhat sobered-up Rich out the next morning, Rich remembers vividly what happened ... and is an ungrateful jerk! (He He yells at David for not letting him consummate that long, sought-after relationship with the supermodel of his senior class. David then reminds him that his mother died in a drunk driving accident, and he couldn't stand the thought of now losing his best friend (not to mention the prettiest girl in high school). Rich eventually comes to his senses and realizes that nothing -- not a hot night of sex in bed awaiting a hotel -- was worth driving drunk and possibly killing himself or anyone else.
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* ''ComicBook/GalaxyThePrettiestStar'': How Kat lost her leg. Her father was driving drunk with her in the vehicle, and they ended up in a ''nine'' car pile-up. Superman was able to save her life, but she lost her leg in the process.
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* Ashlyn's death is caused when she gets into a car crash with one in ''Fanfic/RequiemForaWildCat.'' Big Red was also in the crash, but it he lives.
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