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* Done in the first season of ''{{Roswell}}'' with Kyle getting Max drunk while Liz is on a blind date with someone else. Since Max is an alien hybrid who reacts rather strongly to booze much HilarityEnsues
* Done in an episode of ''{{Frasier}}''. Too bad the brothers didn't say the name of their loved ones. If they had, they'd have known it wasn't the same person.
* A one-sided and thus really awkward version happens in ''TheWestWing'' episode "Commencement." Amy, Josh's on-again-off-again love interest, and Donna, his assistant and long-time WillTheyOrWontThey, are working late together. Donna has had one beer; Amy has had three or four. Early in the episode Amy said something to Josh that bothered him and she doesn't know why, but Donna does, and they've been skulking around the issue all day. Amy finally brings it up. Donna says, "You have to get Josh," and explains at length. Amy says, "You said 'you have to get Josh'?" Donna, now in the other room: "I didn't mean to say that you don't... get him." Amy: "Are you in love with Josh?" Donna: "...." Massive Attack: ''Love you love you love you love you...''

* Can we consider the scene in ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}'' where Anders is drunk over Kara's disappearance, and falls off a Viper, to have Lee come to his aid? Anders and Lee both had feelings for the apparently dead Kara Thrace. Of course, Lee wasn't drunk.

* Alluded to in Literature/TheMillenniumTrilogy, explaining the backstory of Erika Berger and Mikael Blomkvist's relationship, which has continued even though she's married. After Berger's husband discovered her affair with Blomkvist, he came to the latter man's home to confront him. The two men spent the evening drinking at several bars before Berger's husband officially gave the two permission to continue their relationship out in the open.

** Godai does this several times with Sakamoto over the course of the series, although usually they are not after the same woman.
*** I think it's more DrowningMySorrows, too.

* This happens in ''[[Film/{{Hellboy}} Hellboy II]]'', between HB and Abe Sapien. Don't ask me how a psychic fish-man and the Beast of The Apocalypse gets drunk on ''light'' beer, but they do. Afterward, [[spoiler: they sing a duet of 'Can't Smile Without You'.]] CrowningMomentOfFunny.

* This happens in ''[[Film/{{Hellboy}} HellboyII]]'', between HB and Abe Sapien. Don't ask me how a psychic fish-man and the Beast of The Apocalypse gets drunk on ''light'' beer, but they do. Afterward, [[spoiler: they sing a duet of 'Can't Smile Without You'.]] CrowningMomentOfFunny.

* This happens in ''HellboyII'', between HB and Abe Sapien. Don't ask me how a psychic fish-man and the Beast of The Apocalypse gets drunk on ''light'' beer, but they do. Afterward, [[spoiler: they sing a duet of 'Can't Smile Without You'.]] CrowningMomentOfFunny.

* Alluded to in TheMilleniumTrilogy, explaining the backstory of Erika Berger and Mikael Blomkvist's relationship, which has continued even though she's married. After Berger's husband discovered her affair with Blomkvist, he came to the latter man's home to confront him. The two men spent the evening drinking at several bars before Berger's husband officially gave the two permission to continue their relationship out in the open.

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* Tom and George empty a decanter of brandy this way in [[NoelCoward Noel Coward]]'s ''Design for Living''.

* [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2022 This]] QuestionableContent strip begins a short example.

They do it over a few beers, of course. Or a ''lot'' of beers. Or something stronger. Anyway, what they do is get hammered and slovenly unpack their {{Wangst}} for the audience. This sometimes makes for borderline unintended HoYay.

* Used to the point of being a RunningGag in ''Chinese Paladin 3''. At first, the use of the trope is genuinely tragic (TheHero moping over his IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy decision), but then becomes funnier when a pair of lovers in the midst of a MasochismTango are competitively drinking each other under the table. By the end of the series, when a former antagonist struggling with WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove comes up, the hero merely hands him a bottle and sends him off.

* This happens in ''HellboyII'', between HB and Abe Sapien. Don't ask me how a psychic fish-man and the Beast of The Apocalypse gets drunk on ''light'' beer, but they do.
** You forgot the part afterward, where [[spoiler: they sing a duet of 'Can't Smile Without You'.]] CrowningMomentOfFunny.

* In ''[=~Kushiel's Legacy~=]'' Imriel does this with Maslin in [[FantasyCounterpartCulture fantasy-counterpart Russia]] in the dead of winter. Apparently no one told them that alcohol can expedite hypothermia.

So, TheHero and TheLancer are in [[TriangRelations a love triangle]] with the StaffChick or the ActionGirl. They both love her, and they each know that the other loves her, but she doesn't know how either of them feel. They CannotSpitItOut to their LoveInterest that she is a love interest. Since it would take too long for either one to [[FigureItOutYourself work this triangle out on his own]], they decide to talk with each other first.

* This happens in ''HellboyII'', between HB and Abe Sapien. Don't ask me how the Beast of The Apocalypse gets drunk on light beer, but they do.

* Can we consider the scene in ''BattlestarGalactica'' where Anders is drunk over Kara's disappearance, and falls off a Viper, to have Lee come to his aid? Anders and Lee both had feelings for the apparently dead Kara Thrace. Of course, Lee wasn't drunk.
* Done in the first season of {{Roswell}} with Kyle getting Max drunk while Liz is on a blind date with someone else. Since Max is an alien hybrid who reacts rather strongly to booze much HilarityEnsues

* ''{{Angel}}'' and Spike attempt to do this over Buffy during "The Girl In Question," but their high vampiric alcohol tolerance prevents them from getting properly hammered on the relatively small amount of liquor they've brought on their plane.

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Sometimes, especially if they're female, the rivals will decide that it's all the LoveInterest's fault and will present a [[EnemyMine united front]] against him. Usually this united front dissolves before the end of the episode.

See also DrowningMySorrows.

An AlwaysMale version is for the two [[RomanticFalseLead romantic]] [[TheRival rivals]] to fight over the woman. Something intervenes, and they end up getting drunk instead. Especially common with a WorthyOpponent. They might come to a new understanding and appreciation of each other, [[SnapBack but it's not guaranteed]].

[[caption-width-right:320:The Anti-Christ is going through a rough patch with his girlfriend and the fish-man's in love with a fairy princess. [[ItMakesSenseInContext Time for a drunken sing-along!]]]]

An AlwaysMale version is for the two [[ThePaolo romantic]] [[TheRival rivals]] to fight over the woman. Something intervenes, and they end up getting drunk instead. Especially common with a WorthyOpponent. They might come to a new understanding and appreciation of each other, [[SnapBack but it's not guaranteed]].

Sometimes, especially if they're female, the rivals will decide that it's all the LoveInterest's fault and will present a [[EnemyMine united front]] [[GirlPower against him.]] Usually this united front dissolves before the end of the episode.

* Done, with Wine, in an episode of ''{{Frasier}}''. Too bad the brothers didn't say the name of their loved ones. If they had said, they'd know it wasn't the same person.

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* This happens in ''HellboyII'', between HB and Abe Sapien. Don't ask me how the Beast of The Apocalpyse gets drunk on light beer, but they do.

* The ''Elvis Costello'' song Blue Chair is about this.