History Main / AlcoholHic

Alcohol does very strange things to people. It makes people slur their speech, it can make them [[SingleMaltVision see double]], and some people even [[CantHoldHisLiquor pass out]] after having even a single drink. And [[AlcoholInducedIdiocy worse]]. However, the strangest of all the effects that alcohol can have on people is... hiccuping? In much of fiction, the hiccup is a shorthand for "this person is drunk", because, apparently, having them slur their words and stagger around the house isn't easily understood.

** A Merrie Melodies cartoon (''High Note'') featured a drunk musical note staggering around, hiccuping.

* ''WesternAnimation/HighNote'': The drunk note is doing this after it leaves "The Little Brown Jug".

*** Tuffy is subject to this again in "Robin Hoodwinked". When he accidentally gets eaten by Tom when trying to get a key inside him, Tom starts hiccuping and drinks some wine to stop them. While he's cured, he ends up getting hiccups.

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[[caption-width-right:260: The "Hic" tells you he's drunk.\\
The "Hee~!" tells you he's lovin' it.]]

!!Examples:

%%* The drunk driver in ''VideoGame/PoliceQuest''.

* Several of the titular ''Film/{{Gremlins|1}}'' hiccup when they get drunk at the bar.

* Several of the titular ''Film/Gremlins1'' hiccup when they get drunk at the bar.

* Several of the titular ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'' hiccup when they get drunk at the bar.

** In the 1967 short, "Cat and Dupli-cat", some of the champagne spills directly on Jerry and inebriates him. Tom and the dupli-cat then successively grab the mouse, but Jerry is propelled up to a yardarm on the mast. In an act of drunken bravado, the now-annoyed Jerry motions both cats to join him, ties the two cats' faces together by their whiskers and around the mast by their tails. Jerry resumes singing "Sta. Lucia", while drunkenly hiccupping, with bubbles emerging each time he hiccups, and forms the words "THE END".

* Occurs about five minutes in to WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic's DrinkingGame review of ''Film/{{It|2017}}''. He only gets more hammered from there.

* Occurs about five minutes in to WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic's DrinkingGame review of ''Literature/{{It}}''. He only gets more hammered from there.

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* "Piker's Peak," a Bugs/Sam encounter, has Sam frozen in a mound of snow. A St. Bernard comes up, opens the cask around his neck, makes a cocktail, and proceeds to drink it himself. He trots back to home base barking and hiccuping alternately.

* In the Walter Lanz Woody Woodpecker Cartoon ''Wild Bill Hiccup'', there was a character who was a parody of Wild Bill Hickok, who hiccuped constantly while holding a bottle.