History Main / DrunkOnMilk

* In ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1'', when Buzz is having his HeroicBSOD at Sid's house, he somehow manages to get drunk on ''imaginary'' tea.

** A RunningGag in ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesSunAndMoon'' involves characters drinking Pinap Berry juice at a kid-friendly bar. In episode 39, an Officer Jenny and a Nurse Joy get drunk on berry juice, complete with BlushStickers and walking funny. Mallow also acts like an angry drunk while venting to "bartender" Oranguru and later on Meowth also goes to the bar to drink after his teammates start focusing more on an Alolan Meowth.

** ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'': A non-DrowningMySorrows {{Lampshad|eHanging}}ing in one issue where Beast, Wonder Man, Scarlet Witch and Vision are having a night out together, and Beast declares they're going to get "good and sauced". When the waitress points out they've ordered ''virgin'' pina coladas, Hank replies "But we've got ''great'' imaginations!"

* Taken to its logical extreme in the ''Codename: Kids Next Door'' fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12166170/1/Soda-and-Sugar Soda and Sugar]]'', which goes with the interpretation that many operatives use sweets similarly to alcohol or drugs, and as a result they often get addicted. Numbuh 5 binges on dark chocolate when she wants to [[DrowningMySorrows drown her sorrows]].

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'' fic ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/1152271 Theobromine]]'', Basil's equivalent to Holmes's cocaine is ''chocolate'', with Dawson similarly horrified by its effects. (Chocoholic mice are TruthInTelevision, although [[http://animals.mom.me/chocolate-poisonous-mice-1841.html it's not known]] if it's toxic.)

* A DeletedScene from the 2002 live-action ''Film/ScoobyDoo'' film had Velma do a song and dance number after drinking a non-alcoholic drink.

* PlayedWith in ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'' when Beck asks Parker how many lemonades he's had when Parker tries to give him E.D.I.T.H.

* In Gordon Korman's ''Beware the Fish'', the main characters slipped some of the school genius' experimental cold cure into the coach's sports drink, unaware that the combination would make him act as if he were drunk. After he wandered over to the girls' school across the road and shocked the headmistress into fainting, they and the genius managed to keep him from further wanderings by playing poker for matchsticks.
* Acheron, in the ''Literature/TheDarkHunters'' novels cannot handle Sprite. He avoids all food and drink in general, but when he tries Tory's Sprite, he becomes intoxicated, [[spoiler:and builds a tiny replica of Atlantis, and shrinks Tory and himself down to wander it.]] Once he passes out, they return to normal size.

* ''The Further Adventures of Dr A.A.A. [=McGurk=] M.D.'' by Osmar White, opens with a depessed Dr [=McGurk=] drowing his sorrows in malted milk at the Explorer's Club. When he comes up with the idea of seeking the Pole of Impossibility (somewhere in the Antarctic) by camel, the other explorers comment "You've put too much malt in your milk."
* ''Literature/HarryPotter'': Winky the House Elf gets drunk on butterbeer, a beverage usually drunk by underaged wizards without any intoxicating effect, thus having little to no alcohol content. However, house elves are very small individuals (two-three feet tall humanoids) so if the drink really is alcoholic by even a little bit, that would explain how it renders a house elf drunk while doing nothing to teenagers.
** The books never actually clarify this one way or the other. Butterbeer could be like root beer, or it could be closer to cider. England has different cultural mores in regards to alcohol and drinking at a young age than America so whether this is a case of this trope or CantHoldHisLiquor is left as an exercise for the reader.

* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' has a {{Lampshaded}} example late in Season 9, as Jimmy Palmer appears to be getting drunk off some shots, but...

* ''Series/SesameStreet'': Cookie Monster, in an [[http://thecolbertreport.cc.com/videos/zcd35g/cookie-monster interview]] with [[Series/TheColbertReport Stephen Colbert]] as part of his "A Cookie is a Sometime Food" campaign, admits to having had "crazy times" in the 70s and 80s, comparing himself to Robert Downey Jr.

* ''Theatre/TheBookOfMormon'': In the second act, Elder Price gets drunk on coffee, [[DrowningMySorrows drowning his sorrows with it]]. Since Mormons aren't allowed to have beverages with caffiene, and Elder Price is TheFundamentalist of the faith group he belongs to, it's a sign that he's having a nervous breakdown.

* ''VideoGame/BugFables'': Berry Juice seems to be the Bug equivalent of alcohol. Several characters are clearly hung over after drinking lots of it, and Aebees the border guard is seen [[DrowningMySorrows drowning her sorrows]] with it.

* ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994'': There are some [=NPCs=] who claim to be and/or act tipsy from drinking mostly innocuous beverages like coffee and soda. They actually ''were'' drinking alcoholic beverages in the original Japanese version of the game (but the dialogue was {{Bowdlerized}} in the North American release), and if you look closely at some of them you can see that they are clearly still holding mugs of beer.

** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'': Gorman does this and [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it, as seen in the quote up top. Downplayed in the Japanese version, where it's hinted that the beverage has liquor as one of its ingredients. In fact, ''[[VideoGameRemake Majora's Mask 3D]]'' takes it a step further, as you can find Gorman completely hungover in the morning of the Second Day, after a night in the Latte Milk Bar.

* Several of the protagonists of ''VideoGame/Persona4'' get drunk off of non-alcoholic beverages they get at a night club. Unusually, they were just hanging out, with no implications of drowning sorrows- they just happened to get drunk off of regular fruit drinks. It's only Yukiko, Rise and Teddie (the last of whom isn't human and could very well ''actually'' get drunk off nonalcoholic drinks) who get hammered, while everyone else is perfectly sober and wondering what happened to them. Even better, the sloshed ones don't know the drinks aren't alcoholic until after they're drunk, and the others [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] that it's either a placebo effect or a result of "the atmosphere". This also happens in the AnimeOfTheGame, except the main character also gets hit by the effects. [[RuleOfFunny Or at least pretended to]] (with him it's hard to tell).

* ''WebAnimation/ButtonsAdventures'': Button Mash [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFPBqAAHMaY gets plastered on apple juice]] while drunkenly [[SentimentalDrunk having a reassuring argument]] with Neon Lights. Turns out Button [[CantHoldHisLiquor can't hold his apple juice]].

** He also did a similar joke in his review of ''Film/GoodBurger'' when Dexter's DrowningHisSorrows in shakes.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gumby}}'' may be the UrExample, if not the TropeMaker. The little clay boy falls off the milkshake wagon more than once; since he's made of clay, the icy cold confections leave him stiff as a board if he overindulges. "You know what happens if you drink too much ..."

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'', Stimpy [[DrowningMySorrows drowns his sorrows]] of having 2 of his 9 lives left in milk. Stimpy [[IllTellYouWhenIveHadEnough then exclaims]] to the cow bartender that he needs more, to which the cow replies, "Haven't you had enough? Moo."

* In one old ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' short, "WesternAnimation/BlueCatBlues", Tom goes on a milk binge when depressed about his unrequited love.

** An experiment involved giving free beer at a student party, without telling the students the beer was alcohol-free, of course. Afterwards, the party-goers were questioned. Almost all of them said to be at least tipsy or not able to drive safely any more. They were very surprised when an alcohol test was done and it showed they hadn't drunk any alcohol at all. In fact, they showed all traditional behavioral symptoms of drunkenness, which cleared up instantly when they found out they were technically sober. This is also why, in fact, how somebody behaved when drunk can be different depending on the culture; people who believe they're drunk will act like they believe drunks do. Giving people alcohol-free booze just takes it meta. It's even been observed on Website/ThisVeryWiki with the ''DrinkingGame/MyImmortal'' drinking game anecdotes. If the stories are to be believed, despite the fact that many of the participants are just drinking water, quite a few people got drunk.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': Spongebob's [[IdenticalGrandson "ancestor"]] passes out from a glass of milk in an episode.

* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'': Gorman does this and [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it, as seen in the quote up top. Downplayed in the Japanese version, where it's hinted that the beverage has liquor as one of its ingredients. In fact, ''[[VideoGameRemake Majora's Mask 3D]]'' takes it a step further, as you can find Gorman completely hungover in the morning of the Second Day, after a night in the Latte Milk Bar.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaPhantomHourglass'': There's a milk bar on Mercay Island, where your adventure begins. Try to order something, and the bartender says Link is too young to drink there.
* In ''VideoGame/TheNightOfTheRabbit'' there is a mouse in the Hares Family's birthday party who gets drunk on coffee.
* ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'': In one of the nighttime announcements by the Monokuma Kubs in Chapter 1, Monokid (who is a robot in the shape of a teddy bear) has gotten into alcohol-like intoxication from eating too much honey. His face is flushed red, he sounds loopy, and his speech is punctuated with hiccups. At the end of the announcement he falls asleep on the couch still clutching the honey pot, and when the Cubs make their announcement the following morning he's still on the couch, snoring loudly.

* Several of the protagonists of ''VideoGame/Persona4'' get drunk off of non-alcoholic beverages they get at a night club. Unusually, they were just hanging out, with no implications of drowning sorrows- they just happened to get drunk off of regular fruit drinks. It's only Yukiko, Rise and Teddie (the last of whom isn't human and could very well ''actually'' get drunk off nonalcoholic drinks) who get hammered, while everyone else is perfectly sober and wondering what happened to them. Even better, the sloshed ones don't know the drinks aren't alcoholic until after they're drunk, and the others [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] that it's either a placebo effect or a result of "the atmosphere". This also happens in the AnimeOfTheGame, except the main character also gets hit by the effects. [[RuleOfFunny Or at least pretended to]] (with him it's hard to tell).
* Taken literally in ''VideoGame/RetroCityRampage'', where drinking milk from the milk bar [[InterfaceScrew severely distorts your vision]], while drinking a cup of hot coffee restores it.
* Soda Popinski and his bottles of soda in the Wii version of ''VideoGame/PunchOut''. In the original NES game, it was more of a FrothyMugsOfWater scenario (with his name getting changed from VodkaDrunkenski, his name in the arcade, and just plain old booze), but Creator/NextLevelGames took the soda angle and ran with it, while making it vague whether he was getting drunk or high from his drinking (the Wii game also [[PlayedForLaughs plays his drinking for laughs]] by noting he trains by hauling crates full of soda, which he then proceeds to down by the ton). Either way, he retains enough of his LightningBruiser skills to still be a tough opponent.
* ''VideoGame/TheSims'' uses juices and nectar as a substitute for alcohol. Interestingly, most of them don't actually cause drunken behavior. Drinking much from the Juice Keg however does cause clumsiness and loss of inhibition as one would expect.
* In the American version of ''VideoGame/SkiesOfArcadia'' the drink of choice in most taverns is loqua, which is supposed to be simply flavored juice. There are plenty of people around the world that are VERY happy with their juice. [[spoiler: In the original Japanese, it's simply [[FrothyMugsOfWater wine]]]]
* In ''VideoGame/BarOasis'', although very rare, it's possible to get drunk on nothing but Cinderellas and Shirley Temples.

* ''VideoGame/FreedomWars'': There are two substances prisoners like to imbibe in; one's a beverage that can make one tipsy, and the other is a highly addictive white powder. They are not alcohol and cocaine, as neither substance exists anymore. Rather, it's salted seltzer water and sugar.
* ''VideoGame/CitizensOfEarth'': The Bartender actually sells soda, not alcohol, but given how the soda works the difference might as well not exist: drinking soda will [[BoozeBasedBuff give a character a strong buff or restore a large amount of energy]], and then cause debuffs a few turns later (unless you manage to win the battle before this happens, which will get you the advantages of the drink without the disadvantages). This is explained in-game as being a "sugar crash", which is a G-rated way of saying "hangover".
* ''VideoGame/MarioParty2'': Implied to be the case when, in the Western Land board, passing by the milk bar gives you the option of inviting all players to a hootenanny (basically warping all players to the bar). After the hootenanny is done, the player who started it is sitting on the ground in a daze. The fact that they sound distressed while in a daze [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone makes it seem more suspicious.]]
* ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994'': There are some [=NPCs=] who claim to be and/or act tipsy from drinking mostly innocuous beverages like coffee and soda. They actually ''were'' drinking alcoholic beverages in the original Japanese version of the game (but the dialogue was {{Bowdlerized}} in the North American release), and if you look closely at some of them you can see that they are clearly still holding mugs of beer.

* ''VideoGame/BugFables'': Berry Juice seems to be the Bug equivalent of alcohol. Several characters are clearly hung over after drinking lots of it, and Aebees the border guard is seen [[DrowningMySorrows drowning her sorrows]] with it.
* The Super Famicom version of ''VideoGame/KirbysStarStacker '' contains what appears to be a very uncharacteristically adult image of Kirby and friends celebrating with some drunken revelry at a karaoke bar... except, according to the label on the bottle Kine is chugging ("海水"), they're drinking ''salt water''. Literal FrothyMugsOfWater? (Try not to think about why or how a sunfish-like creature would get drunk off a substance found in his own habitat.)
* In ''VideoGame/AntonballDeluxe'', Anton's constantly shown downing cans of soda and ice cream floats. The intro cutscene for ''Antonball'' shows him clearly tipsy as he drinks another can, to the point where he doesn't see the open manhole in front of him.

* In an extrascene from ''WebAnimation/DeclineOfVideoGaming'' which [[IAmVeryBritish lampshades]] the creators' [[UsefulNotes/BritishAccents English accents]], by having them act in a [[StockBritishPhrases sufficiently stereotypical manner]]. Tom claims that they are incredibly drunk, only to be told by Dim that the wine is only Ribena. This ends poorly for Dim.
* ''WebAnimation/ButtonsAdventures'': Button Mash [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFPBqAAHMaY gets plastered on apple juice]] while drunkenly [[SentimentalDrunk having a reassuring argument]] with Neon Lights. Turns out Button [[CantHoldHisLiquor can't hold his apple juice]].

* WebAnimation/BattleForDreamIslandThePowerOfTwo: In "The Great Goikian Bake-off", Tree is revealed to have a treehouse. When a chocolate ball is inside, he appears to be in a less sober state. However, it's worth mentioning he feels fine when only other contestants are in there.

* A justified use of the trope in ''Webcomic/GiftsOfWanderingIce'' - Ash gives Elie a couple cans of soda with [[http://mildegard.ru/Gifts_of_wandering_ice/English/page347_eng.html thirty gramms [sic] of sugar and a crazy dose of caffeine]] ostensibly to calm her down from the shock of meeting Bitey, [[spoiler: but his true intention was to distract her so he could think clearly]].
* Happens with Pepsi in [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=38 this]] ''Webcomic/VGCats'' comic. Leo says it's "like, symbolic and stuff".

* New Year's gets a new spin in [[http://www.lifeintheanalogage.com/2010/12/28/drunk/ this]] ''Webcomic/LifeInTheAnalogAge'' comic.
* In ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'', Raven once told a story about getting drunk on eleven Shirley Temples. She is then informed that said drink is non-alcoholic.
-->'''Raven:''' Really? Well, there goes my excuse for dancing topless on the coffee table and making out with some random girl, then.
* In one ''Webcomic/ArthurKingOfTimeAndSpace'' strip manic-depressive teetotaller Lancelot stops at a tavern and orders a milk. "And leave the bottle."
** In the same author's [[Webcomic/TheHeroOfThreeFaces fanfic comics]], lactose has the same effect on Kryptonians and Gallifreyans as alcohol does on humans, so Franchise/{{Superman}} and [[Series/DoctorWho the Doctor]] really can get drunk on milk.
* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' has Terezi and her dangerous reaction to Faygo soda. Her reaction to the overly-sugary soda is akin to an all-out bender, including massive hangovers.
* ''Webcomic/WhiteDarkLife'': Caroline gets intoxicated off of coffee or other sources of high caffeine by proxy of being a drider. [[spoiler:Devin, the other drider of the comic, however has built up a tolerance for it so as not to ruin her human disguise]].

* In ''WebVideo/TheNewAdventuresOfCaptainS'', the eponymous captain drowns his sorrows in milkshakes after losing his powers and failing to save videoland, complete with bartender cutting him off.

-->'''Martin as Baymax:''' ''[slurring]'' Your aunt has a nice ass, you know that? Tell her I want to talk to her.\\
'''Korey as Baymax:''' ''[slurring]'' What a fine-ass auntie of yours. Been tryin' to fuck that bitch for two days or nuthin'...

* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic:

* 90's Kid from ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'' gets drunk off of Diet Coke after Creator/RobLiefeld quits the comic business (although Liefeld ultimately would not quit after all).
* [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Link]] getting drunk from Lon Lon milk is an element of some fanfics, fanart and flash videos.
* ''Website/TheHardTimes'': "[[https://thehardtimes.net/culture/depressed-straight-edge-woman-tells-bartender-to-leave-bottle-of-grenadine/ Depressed Straight Edge Woman Tells Bartender to Leave Bottle of Grenadine]]". The woman in question doesn't drink alcohol so she deals with sorrow by drinking excessive amounts of alcohol-adjacent substances like grenadine. Everyone treats this just like she has an alcohol addiction.

-->'''Monty:''' 99 pieces of cheese on the wall. 99 pieces of cheese. *hiccup*

** In another episode, most of the characters get high off of raisins. By the end of the episode, [[Creator/JackBlack Larry Hardcore]] reveals that raisins actually CAN'T get you high, and that the episode's {{Mushroom Samba}}s were "[[FakeHigh all in your heads]]." Then [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Gandhi]] flies by [[SubvertedTrope on an Australian dragon...]]

* At the start of "[=#BackInAFlash=]" from ''WebAnimation/DCSuperHeroGirls'', Barbara goes to the LocalHangout after eats a bunch of sundaes after embarrassing herself. Barry tries to stop her from

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'', Mac is depressed and goes to an ice cream shop and orders a sundae. However, being one of those kids who's not allowed to have sugar, he goes completely drunk (a la Spongebob) and has even more ice cream. He leaves with a hangover. Strangely, this is the opposite of sugar's [[GRatedDrug usual effect on him.]] In another episode, Eduardo has to be put under twice the normal amount of anesthesia at the dentist and throughout, he slurs his words.

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-->'''Woman from Galactic Temperance society:''' Surely you don't think I'll be letting you drink ''alcohol.''\\

* Creator/MarvelComics:

* In a ''ComicStrip/BeetleBailey'' newspaper strip from the 1960s or 1970s, Chaplain Staneglass is the life of the party. On iced tea.

* Atlas in ''Fanfic/RiseOfEmpressMidnight'' gets drunk off of cake.
* ''Fanfic/MyFriendIsAnAlien'' (derived from the ''Webcomic/NiklasAndFriends'' universe): Due to BizarreAlienBiology, Jahv becomes drunk on orange juice in the "Party" episode.
* In [[https://youtu.be/ZbTgRVZ7QOk Button's Adventures: Bar Buddies,]] Button Mash is drunk on apple juice.
* In [[http://kuzukago.deviantart.com/art/Undertale-589122718 this]] ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' fan comic, Sans gets drunk on ketchup.
* [[WebVideo/ImAMarvelAndImADC RandomVerse]] Spider-Man gets plastered on milkshakes. The first time it's done straight, but ever since then the Hulk and Iron Man have been drugging his milkshakes to get wacky movie-trailer related hallucinations for their own entertainment.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'' fic "[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/1152271 Theobromine]]", Basil's equivalent to Holmes's cocaine is ''chocolate'', with Dawson similarly horrified by its effects. (Chocoholic mice are TruthInTelevision, although [[http://animals.mom.me/chocolate-poisonous-mice-1841.html it's not known]] if it's toxic.)
* In the ''WesternAnimation/FairlyOddParents'' fanfiction, ''Fanfic/OriginOfThePixies'', magical beings are subject to getting drunk on sugary substances like [[GRatedDrug candy and soda]] rather than alcohol.
* ''[[Creator/DetsniyOffSkiword Dahlia Hawthorne Escaps From Pirson]]'': In one chapter, Alita traps Kristoph under a pile of sand, and then pours water into the pile to try and drown him. He proceeds to drink all the water, and get drunk, which makes him a DrunkenMaster with a "pirate sword", and makes him able to [[BoozeBasedBuff ignore the pain from the beating that he took beforehand]]. It does however, also cause SingleMaltVision when Alita uses [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Double Team]], causing him to see 200 duplicates instead of the actual 10.
* In the ''Battle Tendency'' part of ''Fanfic/JoJoNewUniverse'', the reason that Jackie Applaine got her nickname of Applejack is that she enjoys drinking apple juice up to the point of getting intoxicated.
* Taken to its logical extreme in the ''Codename: Kids Next Door'' fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12166170/1/Soda-and-Sugar Soda and Sugar]]'', which goes with the interpretation that many operatives use sweets similarly to alcohol or drugs, and as a result they often get addicted. Numbuh 5 binges on dark chocolate when she wants to [[DrowningMySorrows drown her sorrows]].

* In the one-shot ''Fanfic/FinalToll'', this is invoked. CheerfulChild Romani drinks seven bottles of Chateau Romani (a type of milk drink that is implied to be alcoholic), which is a lot even for adults but nevermind for someone who is twelve at oldest. Her older sister Cremia lets her do this specifically so that Romani will be knocked out until the next morning. Or, at least, knocked out when the moon crashes into their town.
* ''Fanfic/SodaAt70Proof'' starts with Rachel and Fanny going down to a empty "bar" on Halloween night to drink sodas. It's shown that Rachel is [[TheAlcoholic a bit too fond of soda]].
* ''Fanfic/TheAudience'': After a thousand years of sensory deprivation on the moon, Luna is getting drunk on ''life'', with any kind of pleasant sight, sound, taste, smell or touch triggering an intoxication-like effect. Celestia's initially worried about her, wondering if her behavior is the result of a curse or brain tumor, until Arthur figures out the real cause and reassures her.

* The title of the ''Harvest Moon'' oneshot ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13321208/1/Cream-Soda Cream Soda]]'' comes from a childhood memory Ellen has of drinking her favorite cream soda while her dad drank alcohol. Her mother got mad at that. Ever since that day, Ellen can't drink cream soda without feeling sick.
* ''Fanfic/TheBridge'': Adagio Dazzle mistakes root beer for the real thing and gets drunk on it.
* ''Fanfic/CatTales'': In ''Knight Before Christmas'', at Harley Quinn's annual Rogue's Christmas party, Roxy Rocket manages to get drunk off the jello shots in the punch and ends up in the coatroom being intimate with Penguin. She is ''not'' happy when she snaps out of it and realizes what she's been up to.

* In ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1'', when Buzz is having his HeroicBSOD at Sid's house, he somehow manages to get drunk on ''imaginary'' tea.

* ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6:'' When RobotBuddy Baymax's batteries are low, his body starts deflating and he moves, walks, and talks as if he's incredibly drunk.
-->'''Baymax:''' ''[stroking a cat] Haaaaairy baby!''

* ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'': A [[InsectGenderBender male]] mosquito at the "tough bug" bar, who already appears to be slightly tipsy, orders a "Bloody Mary, O+" -- a drop of blood. He downs the whole thing in one suck and passes out.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'', chocolate seems to play this role. In "For the First Time in Forever", Anna mentions that she'll want to eat chocolate when she's nervous about seeing a handsome guy. Later, in "Love is an Open Door", when Hans tells Anna he has feelings for her, he says "maybe it's the party talking, or the chocolate fondue."
* In ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2'', Puss in Boots orders a shot glass of milk at the Poison Apple bar to drown his sorrows, even asking the bartender to leave the bottle with him.

-->'''Puss:''' [''downs a shot of milk''] [[ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} I hate Mondays...]]

* In the Prohibition-era Creator/LaurelAndHardy short ''Blotto'' the boys want to go to the Rainbow Club and get drunk off a bottle of liquor stolen from Stan's wife. They get absolutely sloshed and laugh in the face of Mrs Laurel, who calmly tells them that she had swapped the liquor for cold tea.

* In ''Film/MissCongeniality'', we see the heroine ordering a pint of something at the bar. The bartender asks whether she really wants that much. It then turns out to be a pint of ice cream. She even refers to it as getting "chip-faced" (it has chocolate chips).
* In ''Film/DeathToSmoochy'', Sheldon laments the lack of control over his show by sitting at the bar, a bit drunkenly talking about old kid show hosts... while drinking orange juice.

* In a variant from ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'', Doc Brown gets rather maudlin and detached from his surroundings by sitting at the bar ''holding'' a shot of whiskey, not drinking or even sniffing it. When he finally chugs it, [[CantHoldHisLiquor it knocks him out cold]].
* After defeating Kim in ''Film/KimPossible'', Drakken celebrates by drinking a gallon of milk. The next scene shows him waking up "drunk", with several bottles of milk on top of him.
* Played with in ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'' when Beck asks Parker how many lemonades he's had when Parker tries to give him E.D.I.T.H.
* ''Film/SpaceJamANewLegacy'' has Bugs briefly getting drunk on carrot juice.

* ''The Further Adventures of Dr A.A.A. [=McGurk=] M.D.'' by Osmar White, opens with a depessed Dr [=McGurk=] drowing his sorrows in malted milk at the Explorer's Club. When he comes up with the idea of seeking the Pole of Impossibility (somewhere in the Antarctic) by camel, the other explorers comment "You've put too much malt in your milk."

* In Gordon Korman's ''Beware the Fish'' the main characters slipped some of the school genius' experimental cold cure into the coach's sports drink, unaware that the combination would make him act as if he were drunk. After he wandered over to the girls' school across the road and shocked the headmistress into fainting, they and the genius managed to keep him from further wanderings by playing poker for matchsticks.
* Dragons in ''[[Literature/MagicShop Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher]]'' are rendered to a somewhat drunken and euphoric state when they are given milk. It makes them very docile and easy to manage. The protagonist does this when his dragon starts getting too large to manage normally.
* ''Literature/TheDemigodDiaries'': The Maenads are getting drunk off of eggnog, since their parents will not let them have wine yet.
* Acheron, in the ''Literature/TheDarkHunters'' novels cannot handle Sprite. He avoids all food and drink in general, but when he tries Tory's Sprite, he becomes intoxicated, [[spoiler:and builds a tiny replica of Atlantis, and shrinks Tory and himself down to wander it.]] Once he passes out, they return to normal size.

* In ''Series/BabylonFive'', Vir can be seen [[DrowningMySorrows drowning his sorrows]] with a Shirley Temple, a nonalcoholic children's cocktail. Though, in that scene he doesn't seem to realize that [[PlaceboEffect there's no alcohol in it]]. However his boss Londo, and several other Centauri are pretty heavy drinkers, Vir just CantHoldHisLiquor until season 4 when he gets massively drunk.

* In an episode of ''Series/TheGoldenGirls,'' Dorothy is sitting in a hotel bar, working up the courage to crash her ex-husband's wedding to his new wife and tell his she still has feelings for him (she doesn't go through with it.) While sitting there, she asks the bartender to "give her another." At first he resists, but when Dorothy insists, he simply says to not blame him when she gets sick, and... puts another bowl of popcorn in front of her.
* Another example of a placebo effect in ''Series/GroundedForLife''; during St. Patrick's Day the Red Butte Pub has ran out of alcohol. Eddie tries to remedy the situation by serving non-alcoholic beer and convinces people they're drunk which works for a while until the customers overhear it's non-alcoholic. One of Brad's friends is convinced he's drunk he starts hitting on Lily.

'''Hugo:''' Milk. But it worked!'

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': "Keeping Up A-Fear-ances" references this when [[HeartbreakAndIceCream after binging on lots of tubs of ice cream]], Lilith and King act and speak as if they were drunk. It's even enough to worry Hooty, who notes that Eda buys said ice cream at the Night Market, and thus it may well be alcoholic.

* The page image is from ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobSquarePantsMovie'', where [=SpongeBob=] goes to drown his sorrows in [[HeartbreakAndIceCream ice-cream]] with Patrick at the Goofy Goober after getting passed up for a promotion at the Krusty Krab. By the end of the night, he's utterly punch drunk and wakes up the next morning with a bad hangover (complete with heavily slurred speech and a five-o-clock shadow).

* ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'': A [[InsectGenderBender male]] mosquito at the "tough bug" bar, who already appears to be slightly tipsy, orders a "Bloody Mary O+" -- a drop of blood. He downs the whole thing in one suck and passes out.

* In a variant from ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'', Doc Brown gets rather maudlin and detached from his surroundings by sitting at the bar ''holding'' a whiskey, not drinking or even sniffing it. Just holding the glass at the bar is enough to affect him.

* The page image is from ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobSquarePantsMovie'', where [=SpongeBob=] loses his job at the Krusty Krab and goes to drown his sorrows in [[HeartbreakAndIceCream ice-cream]] with Patrick at the Goofy Goober. By the end of the night, he's utterly punch drunk and wakes up the next morning with a bad hangover (complete with heavily slurred speech and a five-o-clock shadow).

* In ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2'', at one point Puss in Boots orders milk at the Poison Apple bar to drown his sorrows, even asking the bartender to leave the bottle with him.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobSquarePantsMovie'', [=SpongeBob=] drowns his sorrows on [[HeartbreakAndIceCream ice-cream]] at Goofy Goobers. He goes on a bender and wakes up the next morning with a bad hangover (complete with heavily slurred speech and a five-o-clock shadow).

* In ''Literature/SoImASpiderSoWhat'', Shiraori ends up black-out drunk after a few swigs of coffee, which Sophia notes isn't unusual for [[spoiler:spiders]].

* ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'': In Creator/CarlBarks' ten-page story "Bubbleweight Champion", Donald Duck is shown pretty depressed and physically weak thanks to excessive consum of "Gurgleurp", which is said to be a soda. He later has to go up against Boltan True, a fanatic of healthy products. Thanks to a coincidence True would drink Donald's Gurgleurp which leads to Donald easily defeating his weakend opponent. In the end, Donald and the nephews visit a bar to drink some Gurgelurp together. A lot of the subtext of the story seems to draw Donald's behaviour as that of an alcoholic.
* Creator/MarvelComics:
** ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'': A non-DrowningMySorrows {{Lampshad|eHanging}}ing in one issue where Beast, Wonder Man, Scarlet Witch and Vision are having a night out together, and Beast declares they're going to get "good and sauced". When the waitress points out they've ordered ''virgin'' pina coladas, Hank replies "But we've got ''great'' imaginations!"
** ''ComicBook/IronMan'': In #178, the opening story shows a kid cosplaying as the eponymous hero getting expelled from a group of kids pretending to be the Avengers, and subsequently drowning his sorrows on soda. It's a BreatherEpisode for the depressing "Tragic Tony Stark" storyline that was going on at the time. You can read it [[http://assistanteditorsmonth.blogspot.com/2011/07/iron-man-178-part-1.html here.]]
** ''ComicBook/Marvel2099'': In ''X-Nation 2099'', the first issue plays this completely, totally, and literally straight: the characters go to a milk bar, where patches of diodes cause milk to act as a FantasticDrug.
* ''ComicBook/{{Patoruzu}}'': In one of the early, pre-Isodoro strips, Patoruzú goes with Julian de Monte Pio for a night in town, and passes out after only two glasses of champagne. Worse, Julian then reveals that the "champagne" was just apple soda.

* The protagonist of Creator/AlternaComics' ''The Deadbeat'' is unaffected by alcohol but gets drunk on chocolate milk. His daughter getting aggressive after drinking it and punching her kindergarten teacher through a wall is the first sign she inherited his powers.

Wallowing in misery at a bar isn't exclusive to realist and noir works, even the WideEyedIdealist in a SugarBowl can [[DrowningMySorrows drown his sorrows]]... Thing is, though, he does it with milk, malts, root beer, soda or odder fare. [[FridgeLogic Despite]] the beverage being non-alcoholic and in fact being loaded with sugar and stimulants, [[RuleOfFunny for some reason]] the drink makes him act drunk and melancholy rather than hyper. In the case of aliens and other nonhumans, this would be a case of AlienCatnip, and could be the result of BizarreAlienBiology.

* ''Webcomic/{{Narbonic}}'''s Dave Davenport can get stone drunk on half a glass of vanilla Coke. (And pathos.)

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'', Mac is depressed and goes to an ice cream shop and orders a sundae. However, being one of those kids who's not allowed to have sugar, he goes completely drunk (a la Spongebob) and has even more ice cream. He leaves with a hangover. Strangely, this is the opposite of sugar's [[GRatedDrug usual effect on him.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': Episode 23 Keeping Up A-Fear-ances references this when [[HeartbreakAndIceCream after binging on lots of tubs of ice cream]], Lilith and King act and speak as if they were drunk. It's even enough to worry Hooty, who notes that Eda buys said ice cream at the Night Market, and thus it may well be alcoholic.

[[caption-width-right:350:It's always "[[{{Pun}} Sundae]]" at Goofy Goober's!]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': Keeping Up A-Fear-ances references this when [[HeartbreakAndIceCream after binging on lots of tubs of ice cream]], Lilith and King act and speak as if they were drunk. It's even enough to worry Hooty, who notes that Eda buys said ice cream at the Night Market, and thus it may well be alcoholic.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': Keeping Up A-Fear-ances references this when[[HeartbreakAndIceCream after binging on lots of tubs of ice cream]], Lilith and King act and speak as if they were drunk. It's even enough to worry Hooty, who notes that Eda buys said ice cream at the Night Market, and thus it may well be alcoholic.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' Keeping Up A-Fear-ances references this when[[HeartbreakAndIceCream after binging on lots of tubs of ice cream]], Lilith and King act and speak as if they were drunk. It's even enough to worry Hooty, who notes that Eda buys said ice cream at the Night Market, and thus it may well be alcoholic.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' has a scene where, [[HeartbreakAndIceCream after binging on lots of tubs of ice cream]], Lilith and King act and speak as if they were drunk. It's even enough to worry Hooty, who notes that Eda buys said ice cream at the Night Market, and thus it may well be alcoholic.

* In one old ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' short, "WesternAnimation/BlueCatBlues", Tom goes on a milk binge when depressed.

* At the start og "[=#BackInAFlash=]" from ''WebAnimation/DCSuperHeroGirls'', Barbara goes to the LocalHangout after eats a bunch of sundaes after embarrassing herself. Barry tries to stop her from

* In the WebOriginal/DoubleToasted review of the aforementioned ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'', they parodied the "low battery" scene, with (among other things) the added implication that Baymax saw Aunt Cass as a StacysMom.