History Main / GiganticGulp

** Then in January 2011, they introduced the Trenta, a 31-ounce cup that [[http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2011/01/trenta2.jpg holds more than the average capacity of an adult's stomach.]]

->- '''Boog''', FanboyAndChumChum

* The Lambert's restaurants (where they throw rolls across the room to you if you ask for one) have very large cups that they put your drinks in.

-->'''Lois:''' Brian, don't you think you should lay off the wine?
-->'''Brian:''' It's only my second glass. ''(camera angle shifts to reveal a Big Gulp)''

* One episode of ''TheSimpsons'' features a giant beer mug at an Oktoberfest celebration. Marge decides to nurse the drink but ends up drunk.

* In ''[[LeisureSuitLarry Leisure Suit Larry 2]]'', at one point Larry needs to get a 32-gallon drink. It comes in a cup that's as tall as he is, and takes two minutes of real time to fill it up. It's so huge that Larry starts to wonder how he's going to carry it around...[[MediumAwareness but then he remembers he's in an adventure game]] and [[HyperspaceArsenal stuffs it in his pocket]]. The drink is called 'the Bladder Buster'.

* TheNostalgiaCritic about the "rapping dog" song in ''TitanicTheLegendGoesOn''.

* Of course, what amounts to "gigantic gulp" depends on time period; 64 fluid ounces was realistically unthinkable amount of soda for a bottle, let alone a cup.

There's been a bad day at the office, an extra-festive party or so on -- a character needs a freaking coffee or [[INeedAFreakingDrink a drink]]. A popular visual gag is to have the character drink from a ''really'' big cup. The GiganticGulp is any drink that comes in a ridiculously large cup, barrel or bucket, usually with its size grossly exaggerated for comic effect. Bonus points if the character feeds the liquid directly into his system with an IV tube.

* In contrast to Starbucks, Tim Hortons used to sell a ''real'' 64 oz travel mug. The item is no longer sold by the company, however, some [[http://cgi.ebay.ca/Tim-Hortons-Jumbo-64-Oz-Mug-/150524696523?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_2&hash=item230bf897cb have been resold on eBay]].

* Tim Hortons used to sell a 64 oz travel mug. The item is no longer sold by the company, however, some [[http://cgi.ebay.ca/Tim-Hortons-Jumbo-64-Oz-Mug-/150524696523?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_2&hash=item230bf897cb have been resold on eBay]].

* Billy from ''TheGrimAdventuresofBillyandMandy'' ordered a giant cup of punch at a Renaissance fair; it later resulted in a PottyEmergency.

* One episode of ''TheSimpsons'' features a giant beer mug at an Oktoberfest celebration. Marge decides to nurse the drink but ends up drunk. Homer once ordered a giant beer in an Australian bar, which he still found too small.

* On one episode of ''FamilyGuy'', Lois says "Brian shouldn't you be laying off the wine?" Brian "I'm only on my first one!" The camera angle changes to show he was drinking from a Big Gulp.

When there's been a bad day at the office, an extra-festive party, an all-nighter project for an impending deadline, or another reason for a character to truly [[INeedAFreakingDrink needs a freaking drink]], a popular visual gag is to have the character drink from a ''really'' big cup of coffee/beer/tequila/whatever. The GiganticGulp is a drink that comes in a ridiculously large cup, mug, barrel, bucket, or somesuch, usually with its size grossly exaggerated for comic effect. Bonus points occur if the character feeds the liquid directly into his system with an IV tube or something similar.

* ''{{Asterix}}'': Obelix drinks wine straight from the barrel more than once.
** The latter is NighInvulnerable after drinking a whole pot of potion that is usually taken one sip at a time. Him and large containers of drink go ''way'' back.
** He even actually fell in the pot,[[spoiler:and one of the more recent albums explained why the druid never wanted to give him potion again, more than one drop, because he is then TakenForGranite.]]
*** To be precise, Getafix didn't know what ''exactly'' would happen to Obelix if he drank more potion. He only knew it was going to be something very, very bad, probably life-threatening. [[spoiler: He was right.]]

* ''Silent Movie''. After director Mel Funn (MelBrooks) discovers that the woman he's fallen in love with was ordered to seduce him, he starts drinking again. He ends up buying a giant bottle of wine almost as big as he is.

* In one series of strips, {{Dilbert}} begins carrying around a giant coffee cup on his back as a "will to live" substitute. He ends up experiencing CaffeineBulletTime as a result.

* ''FoxTrot'': Peter Fox drinks thirty-two-ple espresso when he needs to cram.
** In another strip, Roger is shown with a gigantic mug that takes multiple pots of coffee to fill. His wife Andy argues that their kids got him that as a ''joke'', only for him to reply "You can't stand to see me so happy."
* In ''{{Zits}},'' Jeremy buys two huge movie sodas for himself and his mother. When she exclaims about their "obscene" size, Jeremy calmly explains he got them for the free refills.
** Also in ''{{Zits}},'' Phoebe is walking through the halls of the school with a latte nearly as large as she is on a dolly. When asked abut it, she replies 'Some days a venti just won't do.'

* In ''LeisureSuitLarry 2'', at one point Larry needs to get a 32-gallon drink. It comes in a cup that's as tall as he is, and takes two minutes of ''real time'' to fill it up. It's so huge that Larry starts to wonder how he's going to carry it around...[[MediumAwareness but then he remembers he's in an adventure game]] and [[HyperspaceArsenal stuffs it in his pocket]].
** The drink is called 'the Bladder Buster'. OrSoIHeard.

* ''[[WalkyVerse It's Walky!]]'''s entire [[http://www.itswalky.com/d/20011029.html "X-TREEEM MUG!" storyline]].

* On ''{{Animaniacs}}'', Wakko drinks from a huge cup of soda labeled Abyss Boy at the movie theater. No wonder he [[PottyEmergency has to go to the bathroom so bad afterwards]].

* On one episode of ''FamilyGuy'', Lois says "Brian shouldn't you be laying off the wine?" Brian "I'm only on my first one!" (Camera changes angle to show he was drinking from a Big Gulp)

* One episode of ''TheSimpsons'' features a giant beer mug at an Oktoberfest celebration. Marge decides to nurse the drink but ends up drunk.
** Homer once ordered a giant beer in an Australian bar, which he still found too small.

* An example that includes the TropeNamer: [[http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/01/the-7-11-double-big-gulp-holds-200-more-than-the-average-adult-humans-stomach/ 7-11 Double Big Gulp Holds 200% More Than the Average Adult Human's Stomach]]

[[TheOnion http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Biggest-Gulp.jpg]]

--> ''[=>=] * very bright eyed* I HAD AN EXTRA LARGE COFFEE FOR BREAKFAST!''
--> Was it bigger than your head? If not, it was just a medium-large. At least here in [[{{Eagleland}} Merka]]. Extra-large means a Double Mega Gulp, that has tides.
--->-- '''Jim Battista'''

* One episode of ''Chowder'' featured one of those - it wasn't particularly large in diameter, but high enough to go offscreen.

--->-- Jim Battista

* [[http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/01/the-7-11-double-big-gulp-holds-200-more-than-the-average-adult-humans-stomach/ 7-11 Double Big Gulp Holds 200% More Than the Average Adult Human's Stomach]]

** In another strip, Rodger is shown with a gigantic mug that takes multiple pots of coffee to fill. His wife Andy argues that their kids got him that as a ''joke'', only for him to reply "You can't stand to see me so happy."

* Billy from TheGrimAdventuresofBillyandMandy ordered a giant cup of punch at a Renaissance fair, it later resulted in a PottyEmergency.

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* Billy from {{TheGrimAdventuresofBillyandMandy}} ordered a giant cup of punch at a Renaissance fair, it later resulted in a {{pottyemergency}}.