History Main / AlcoholInducedIdiocy

* Both ''Film/TheHangover'' and ''Film/TheHangover:PartII'' obviously.

* Lampshaded on the {{BuffyTheVampireSlayer}} episode 'Beer Bad' with its DevolutionDevice plot that turns the college kids and Buffy into AllCavemenWereNeanderthals.

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* '''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'': Marten + taser + alcohol = [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=529 forgetting basic taser safety knowledge]].

** In "Deep Space Homer", Barney, when selected by NASA to be an astronaut, swears off alcohol and successfully completes his training program with flying colors. Unfortunately, when he takes a sip of a congratulatory glass of champagne, his face immediately reverts back into its permanently soused expression as he proclaims, "It begins." He then steals a jet pack and careens drunkenly through the sky until it runs out of fuel causing him to crash onto a pillow factory roof and bounce onto the street below where he's run over by a marshmallow truck.
*** However, this trope is then subverted when it's disclosed that the champagne was non-alcoholic.

** In "Deep Space Homer", Barney, when selected by NASA to be an astronaut, swears off alcohol and successfully completes his training program with flying colors. Unfortunately, when he takes a sip of a congratulatory glass of champagne, his face immediately reverts back into it permanently soused expression as he proclaims, "It begins." He then steals a jet pack and careens drunkenly through the sky until it runs out of fuel causing him to crash onto a pillow factory roof and bounce onto the street below where he's run over by a marshmallow truck.

[[caption-width-right:350: I see a few flaws in that idea.]]

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[[caption-width-right:320:And his character is a dentist no less]]

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AlcoholInducedIdiocy can be similar to the IdiotBall or any other plot device that depends on ContrivedStupidity. Thus, this trope is related to PlotInducedStupidity, TooDumbToLive, WhatAnIdiot, OutOfCharacterMoment, WhatWereYouThinking, and PhlebotinumInducedStupidity.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': happens frequently and is often displayed by Homer.

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* Both ''Film/TheHangover'' and ''Film/TheHangoverII'' obviously.

* ''HowIMetYourMother'' has this all over the place. Ted's apartment is above a bar and they spend a lot of their free time there drinking. From time to time, one or more of them gets really drunk and does something really stupid. HilarityEnsues.

* ''{{Futurama}}'': "Route of All Evil"

* ''TheSimpsons'': happens frequently and is often displayed by Homer.

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* At the beginning of CoolHandLuke, the title character vandalizes some parking meters after imbibing too much. [[ItGotWorse Things don't get better for him afterward.]]
* TheFly (1986 version): in retrospect, Seth Brundle should've waited until he was sober before deciding whether or not to test his matter teleportation device on himself.
* ''{{Hannibal}}'': after a round of drinks, Mason Verger thinks it's perfectly reasonable to cut off his face and feed it to the dogs after the title character suggests this to him.

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* HowIMetYourMother has this all over the place. Ted's apartment is above a bar and they spend a lot of their free time there drinking. From time to time, one or more of them gets really drunk and does something really stupid. HilarityEnsues.
** The [[http://how-i-met-your-mother.wikia.com/wiki/Home_Wreckers ''Home Wreckers'']] episode had a game where the friends had to guess whether Marshal was drunk or a kid when he did something stupid like putting fireworks in the microwave (Drunk) or when he tried to ride his bike down an extension ladder from the roof of a two story house (Kid).
* Trope is somewhat inverted on an episode of {{Series/Monk}} where Stottlemeyer solves a crime because consuming booze actually makes him more intellegent. He just can't remember how he solved, and spends most of the episode trying to figure out what he did on his bender while fighting a hangover the next morning.

* QuestionableContent: Marten + taser + alcohol = [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=529 forgetting basic taser safety knowledge]].

-->'''Dwight Conrad:''' I heard alcohol makes you stupid.
-->'''Fry:''' No I'm... doesnt!
* TheSimpsons: happens frequently and is often displayed by Homer.

** From one ''TreehouseOfTerror'' episode:

* ''{{Futurama}}'':
->"Route of All Evil"
->'''Dwight Conrad:''' I heard alcohol makes you stupid.
->'''Fry:''' No I'm... doesnt!

->'''Homer:''' Oh, Lisa, you and your stories: Bart's a vampire, beer kills brain cells. Now let's go back to that... building... thingie... where our beds and TV... is.

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* HowIMetYourMother has this all over the place. Ted's apartment is above a bar and they spend a lot of their free time there drinking. From time to time, one or more of them gets really drunk and does something really stupid. HilarityEnsues.
** The [[http://how-i-met-your-mother.wikia.com/wiki/Home_Wreckers ''Home Wreckers'']] episode had a game where the friends had to guess whether Marshal was drunk or a kid when he did something stupid like putting fireworks in the microwave (Drunk) or when he tried to ride his bike down an extension ladder from the roof of a two story house (Kid).

* Trope is somewhat inverted on an episode of {{Series/Monk}} where Stottlemeyer solves a crime because consuming booze actually makes him more intellegent. He just can't remember how he solved, and spends most of the episode trying to figure out what he did on his bender while fighting a hangover the next morning.

* Everything that comes after someone saying, "Hold my beer and watch this."