History Main / GiganticGulp

* The July 6, 1986 ''ComicStrip/{[Garfield}}'' strip has Garfield sent by Jon to buy soda from a vending machine. After buying a regular size can of soda, Garfield decides to see what happens when all the money he has is put in the machine at once, then gets crushed by an enormous soda can.

* A ''ComicStrip/{{Zits}}'' strip has Jeremy bring drinks so big his mom flips out. When she asks why he bought such huge drinks, his response is "[[ComicallyMissingThePoint Free refills]]."

* The Youtubemans has a skit where Justice drinks VitaminWater (yes that one) out oof a cup as tall as Amanda Nyanko herself. And Amanda’s pretty tall for her age.

* The Youtubemans has a skit where Justice drinks VitaminWater (yes that one) out oof a cup as tall as Amanda Nyanko herself. And Amanda’s pretty tall for her age.

* In one issue of ''Comicbook/TheSimpsons'', Bart, Lisa, Martin and Milhouse find giant squishee cups the size of children while exploring the Kwik-e-Mart; Squishzilla. Apu later explains that they weren't used because they were so heavy when filled that no one could carry them away. Lisa ends up using it as a makeshift smock.

* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' (season 12's "The Great Money Caper") features the Simpsons at a restaurant featuring a magic show. Marge is given a Long Island Iced Tea (served in a tall glass). She decides to nurse the drink but ends up drunk.

* On "Series/ParksAndRecreation", the fast food places in Pawnee sell soda in ridiculously large cups, including a gallon-sized one as a Regular size.

* ''Series/{{Jessie}}'' has the titular character drinking a 72-ounce cup of Cherry Cola called the "Bladder Burster" and unsurprisingly Jessie ends up using a Porta-Potty right after finishing it.

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* In one ''Desperate Dan'' strip in ''Comicbook/TheDandy'', BigEater Dan is told by Aunt Aggie he has to go on a diet and can have one sandwich and one glass of "owl-hoot juice". He uses ExactWords to get round this, persuading the local glassblower to make him a tumbler about a meter tall (and the butcher and baker to make a sandwich of similar dimensions).

* The Liar's Bar in the Music/BeautifulSouth song of the same name sells "rum by the kettle-drum, whisky by the jar". While the size of the jar isn't clear, an orchestral kettle-drum would have a volume of over three litres.

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. (Possibly even larger than the machine that dispenses the beverage, if a convenience store or similar place is involved, making it physically impossible.)

* Similarly, a ''chetvert'' (an old Russian style vodka bottle, literally translated as "quarter", as in one quarter of a bucket) holds three liters of the stuff, equal to six normal vodka bottles. Vodka is no longer bottled in chetverts, and surviving bottles are used mostly for moonshine, which is even stronger stuff.

* In the first Stinger from ''Film/DoctorStrange2016'', [[spoiler: Thor drops by the Sanctum Sanctorum to speak with Strange about Loki, and Strange welcomes him with a pitcher-sized mug of beer. Which is ever-filling, and which Thor empties in ''one swallow'' when the camera momentarily cuts over to Strange.]]

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--> "And convenience-store clerks always talk in the same voice: ''[Mousy voice]'' 'Whaddaya want?' You start talking just like 'em: ''[Imitating the voice]'' 'Wul....whaddaya got?' 'Wul....we got Slurpees.' 'Well, what size ya got?' 'Wul....we got this size....''[Holds fingers an inch and a half apart]''....and then we've got that 55-gallon drum.' 'Well, what's the difference in price?' 'A nickel.' So there you are with that barrel. People are looking at you. ''[Pantomimes woman staring weirdly]'' 'WELL, WHAT WOULD YOU DO, LADY? IT WAS A NICKEL DIFFERENCE!'"

*** And when starting his review to the ''sequel'' of this one, he looks up at a Jagermeister satellite - [[spoiler: too bad Tamara and Malcolm got to it before he could]].

-->'''Mung:''' ''(his head grows large)'' [[LampshadeHanging WILL YOU JUST GO?!?!?!!]]

-->'''Lois:''' Brian, you're really enjoying your wine lately.
-->'''Brian:''' It's only my second glass. ''(picks up a Big Gulp cup and continues drinking)''

---> '''Barney:''' ''(tearing away his sleeve)'' JUST HOOK IT TO MY VEINS!!
** And let's not forget Homer's alcoholic exploits in Australia:
---> '''Homer:''' Hey! Give me one of those famous giant beers I've heard so much about.
---> (Bartender places a can of beer the size of a keg on the counter, Homer is visibly upset)
---> '''Bartender:''' Something wrong, yank?
---> '''Homer:''' No. It's pretty big...I guess.

* In ''ComicStrip/{{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. Another scene shows Phoebe 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.'

* Kentucky Fried Chicke sold a mighty 1/2 gallon (64 oz) mug, a plastic cup with a handle. They would donate a portion of the cost to help fund research to cure juvenile diabetes, an action that seems odd at first until you remember that they aren't the ones filling the cups with soda, that would be the customer.

[[caption-width-right:200:Oh darn, I forgot to put in ten pounds of ice. ]]

Also see MustHaveCaffeine, INeedAFreakingDrink, GiantFood and CupHolders for related tropes.

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* In ''[[VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry Leisure Suit Larry 2]]'', at one point Larry needs to get a 32-gallon Bladder Buster soda. It comes in a cup that's as tall as he is, and takes [[OverlyLongGag 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]]. (He also doesn't put a lid on it, but [[CartoonPhysics he likely doesn't need to.]])

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** The next step up is the Team Gulp; it holds a hefty 128 fluid ounces or a ''[[UpToEleven full gallon]]''.

* Played with occasionally in ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'', as [[http://www.garfield.com/comics/vault.html?yr=1980&addr=800203 this strip]] demonstrates. In another strip, he starts drinking from a huge cup, after [[LoopholeAbuse claiming to have cut down to one cup a day.]]

* Kentucky Fried Chicken sells/had sold a mighty 1/2 gallon (64 oz) mug, a plastic cup with a handle. They (would) donate a portion of the cost to help fund research to cure juvenile diabetes, an action that seems odd at first until you remember that they aren't the ones filling the cups with soda, that would be the customer.

* At the end of MahouSenseiNegima [[CuteWitch Yue]] [[OlderAndWiser Ayase]] drinks a magical potion (with spells brewed into it) from a big ass flask (signed: 'For getting serious') before confronting Paio II.