"To alcohol! The cause of — and solution to — all of life's problems."
— Homer Simpson, The Simpsons
Tropes about alcoholic beverages and the consumption thereof. But you don't need to read this index! You can quit any time you want! *hic*
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- A Round of Drinks for the House: A man expresses joy at an occurrence by offering everyone at the bar drinks that he alone will pay for.
- Addled Addict
- Adjective Animal Alehouse
- Alcohol Hic: A drunk person has the hiccups.
- The Alcoholic: A character who tends to excessively consume alcoholic drinks.
- Alcoholic Parent: A parent who is an alcoholic.
- Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: A character ends up doing stupid things after getting drunk.
- All Beer Is Ale
- Bar Brawl: A huge fight breaks out at a bar.
- Bar Slide
- Beer Commercials
- Beergasm: Someone drinks alcohol and reacts with over-the-top pleasure.
- Beer Goggles: Getting drunk will cause a person to see another person as being more attractive than they actually are.
- Binge Montage
- Booze-Based Buff: Video games have alcohol featured as a power-up to make the player character stronger.
- Booze Flamethrower
- Bottled Heroic Resolve
- But Liquor Is Quicker: Getting someone drunk so that it would be easier to bed them.note
- Can-Crushing Cranium
- Can't Hold His Liquor: It doesn't take a lot of alcohol for a person to get drunk.
- Descent into Addiction
- Designated Driver: A sober person who has to drive people home when they're too drunk to safely drive their own vehicles.
- Discreet Drink Disposal
- Drink-Based Characterization
- Drinking Contest: A competition to see who can drink the most alcohol.
- Drinking Game: A game where you take a swig of an alcoholic beverage every time something happens while you're watching a movie or show.
- Drinking on Duty
- Drowning My Sorrows: A character becomes alcoholic after falling into depression.
- Drowning Our Romantic Sorrows
- Drunk Driver
- Drunken Glow
- The Drunken Sailor
- Drunk on Milk: A character becomes inebriated after drinking a non-alcoholic drink.
- Drunken Master
- Drunken Montage
- Drunken Song: Character sings to show that they are drunk.
- Dry Crusader: A character who abstains from alcohol and tries to make others give up alcohol as well.
- Expensive Glass of Crap
- Fake High
- Flair Bartending
- Frothy Mugs of Water: Alcoholic beverages are replaced with non-alcoholic beverages.
- Gargle Blaster: A concoction of different alcohols that isn't remotely safe to drink.
- Gigantic Gulp
- A Glass of Chianti
- Hair of the Dog
- Hangover Sensitivity
- Hard-Drinking Party Girl
- Heal It with Booze
- Hideous Hangover Cure
- Hillbilly Moonshiner: The stereotype that people living in the country like to illegally brew their own alcohol.
- I Do Not Drink Wine
- I Need a Freaking Drink: A character remarks that they need a drink to make it clear how exasperated and depressed they are about the current situation.
- I Never: A kind of drinking game where the objective is for everyone to take a shot whenever another person claims to have not done something that the other person actually did do.
- I'll Take Two Beers Too
- I'll Tell You When I've Had Enough!: The character drinking at the bar gets confrontational when the bartender tries to tell them to go easy on how much alcohol they're consuming.
- Intoxication Ensues
- In Vino Veritas: Getting drunk causes you to show how you really are.
- John Barleycorn and Friends: Alcohol and other consumable vices are personified or anthropomorphized.
- Kids Raiding the Wine Cabinet
- Lady Drunk
- Lampshade Wearing: A character wears a lampshade on their head to show that they are drunk.
- Libation for the Dead: A drink is poured onto the ground to honor the deceased.
- Liquid Courage
- Luxurious Liquor: Rich people drink fancy alcohol.
- Military Moonshiner
- Nailed to the Wagon
- Necktie Headband
- The Need for Mead
- Never Gets Drunk: A character never gets drunk no matter how much they've been boozing.
- No More for Me: A character consuming an alcoholic beverage witnesses something strange that they assume to be an inebriation-induced hallucination and promptly gets rid of their drink.
- Obsessive-Compulsive Barkeeping
- Ode to Intoxication
- Ode to Sobriety
- Off the Wagon
- One Drink Will Kill the Baby: A pregnant woman abstains from alcohol out of concern that consuming it could be harmful for her baby.
- Pink Elephants
- Playing Drunk: A character pretends to be drunk.
- Quick Nip
- Recovered Addict
- Saint-Bernard Rescue
- Science Cocktail
- Sentimental Drunk
- Single Malt Vision
- Skull Cups
- Sommelier Speak
- Sorry Ociffer: A drunk person gets confronted by police and fails spectacularly at hiding their drunkenness.
- Stalling the Sip
- Suddenly Sober
- A Tankard of Moose Urine
- The Teetotaler
- That Poor Plant
- To Absent Friends: Proposing a toast to people who are dead or not present.
- Umbrella Drink
- Undiscriminating Addict
- Unsuspectingly Soused
- Vodka Drunkenski
- Watering Down
- What Did I Do Last Night?: A character regains consciousness after a night of being drunk and starts to panic while trying to remember what they did while they were inebriated.
- Wine Is Classy
And I'll tell you when I've had too many tropes!
- Nappa: Vegeta! What does the breathalyzer say about his blood alcohol content?Nappa: WHAT? Nine percent? How the hell is he even alive?
