Basic Trope: A character shows hints of being Ambiguously Bi, but only when drunk.
- Straight:
- Bob is dating Alice, but after getting drunk he flirts with Charles.
- Bob gets drunk and comments on Charles' Heroic Build.
- Exaggerated:
- Bob is The Casanova and slept with tons of women, but when he drinks a Gargle Blaster, he has orgies with gay men.
- Bob goes around randomly kissing men when drunk.
- Bob reads gay magazines and watches male strippers on a ladies' night out while drunk.
- Bob is The Alcoholic and always gets drunk to flirt with men.
- Everyone Is Bi when they're drunk.
- Downplayed: Bob gets drunk and stares at Charles for five seconds before he realizes what he's doing.
- Justified:
- Alcohol-Induced Stupidity.
- Bob is a biromantic heterosexual and the alcohol just increases his desire to oogle men while still genuinely loving women.
- The alcohol Bob drank makes people pretend to be gay.
- Alcohol lowers one's inhibitions, so Bob's preferences towards women are still the same, it's just that they don't matter as much after enough drinks.
- Inverted:
- Bob is gay and dating Charles, but after getting drunk he flirts with Alice.
- Bob is asexual and is never attracted to anyone when he's sober.
- Subverted:
- Bob comes out as bisexual.
- Bob was Playing Drunk, but he's straight.
- Bob was Playing Drunk, but he really is bisexual.
- Double Subverted:
- It turns out Bob was drunk when he "came out".
- Bob was Playing Drunk, but then he gets drunk for real and starts oogling men.
- Zig-Zagged: The show gives contradictory factors of Bob's behavior when he's drunk.
- Averted: Nobody pretends to be gay when they're drunk.
- Enforced:
- The show doesn't approve of bisexuality, so the writers threw in a bisexual-acting alcoholic so the characters can disqualify it.
- The show is a sitcom comedy where acting bisexual while drunk is Played for Laughs.
- Lampshaded:Charles: I don't want to be near Bob when he's drunk.
- Invoked: Bob, who is straight, auditions for the role a gay character in a movie and believes he can only play the role after getting drunk.
- Exploited: Charles videotapes Bob's drunken gay behavior to blackmail him.
