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-> '''Boog:''' 45 gallons of bladder bustin' refreshment!

* ''[[Webcomic/WalkyVerse It's Walky!]]'''s entire [[http://www.itswalky.com/d/20011029.html "X-treem mug!" storyline]].
** In the DistantFinale last panel, where an aged Walky and Joyce watch the sun set... the mug can be seen at the edge of the panel.

-->''Webcomic/{{Sonichu}}'' has a rather interesting variation in the now memetic [[https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/279165-chris-chan-cwc-christine-weston-chandler Oversized Drinking Straw of Fail]]. Of course, this is thanks to the artstyle rather than the actual container.

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

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 Gigantic Gulp 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.)

Not to be confused with LoudGulp, which is what bystanders seeing a GiganticGulp might emit...

* ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'': 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.

* A RunningGag in Creator/WarrenEllis' ''ComicBook/{{Nextwave}}'' is for [[SecondLawMyAss Aaron "Machine Man" Stack]] to declare "My robot brain needs beer." Later in the series, he pulls out a man-sized barrel of ''something'', and plugs it directly into his head with a tube...

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Often used in conjunction with the PottyEmergency and PottyDance tropes; bonus points if the character feeds the liquid directly into his system with an IV tube. For extra irony, make it a [[AndADietCoke diet]] drink.

** And when he reviewed [[UpToEleven ANOTHER animated Titanic movie with mice,]] he scrapped that one and had a few helicopters airlift one roughly the size of a house.

** The next step up is the Team Gulp; it holds a hefty 128 fluid ounces or a ''[[UpToEleven full gallon]]''. As the name implies, you're ''supposed'' to share that one -- but [[NotTheIntendedUse some days you're just that damn thirsty]].

* The Hardees/Carl Jr's fast food chain have made a habit of super-sizing their drink sizes by default for years. What is considered a Regular drink size to them is what nearly every other fast food chain in the industry considers a Large. What they consider a large.. well the drink straw only sticks 1/8 of an inch out of the cup lid when you slide it all the way to the bottom.

* On ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'', the fast food places in Pawnee sell soda in ridiculously large cups, including a gallon-sized one as a Regular size. Their child sized cup is even larger, [[ExactWords as its volume is equivalent to the mass of a child]].

* On ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'', the fast food places in Pawnee sell soda in ridiculously large cups, including a gallon-sized one as a Regular size.
** Their child sized cup is even larger, [[ExactWords as its volume is equivalent to the mass of a child]].

* On the famous ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' short "Potty Emergency", Wakko drinks from a huge cup of soda labelled Abyss Boy at the movie theater. No wonder he [[PottyEmergency has to go to the bathroom so bad afterwards]].
* In the notorious "Dickesode" episode of ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'', Shake gets a soda from Wongburger that's ''literally'' the same size as him(he's a giant cup). He claims he needs that much soda on a daily basis.

* The episode "The Vacation" of ''WesternAnimation/{{Chowder}}'' featured one of these - Mung asks Chowder if he's ready to head off to the beach. Chowder says he will be just as soon as he finishes his bottomless soda. It was your average sized soda cup, but it was very long. He just continued to pull an endlessly long cup out of {{Hyperspace}} until Mung got fed up with the joke.

* GEICO loves this trope, as shown [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=810B3hBxRTU here (second ad)]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCCFJ8bSRls here (different ad, but also coffee themed)]].

* At the end of ''Manga/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.

* 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).

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* A RunningGag in Creator/WarrenEllis' ''ComicBook/{{Nextwave}}'' is for [[SecondLawMyAss Aaron "Machine Man" Stack]] to declare "My robot brain needs beer." Later in the series, he pulls out a man-sized barrel of ''something'', and plugs it directly into his head with a tube...

* In a ''Lil Lotta'' comic book gag, the title character drinks so much root beer that the soda jerk ends up feeding her straight from the barrel with a hose.

* 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 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.

* All drink cups in the future of ''Film/{{Idiocracy}}'' are super-sized mugs with bendy straws.
* ''Film/SilentMovie''. After director Mel Funn (Creator/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 whiskey almost as big as he is.

* In ''Literature/FungusTheBogeyman'', Bogeymen drink slime by the gallon.

* On Series/ParksAndRecreation, the fast food places in Pawnee sell soda in ridiculously large cups, including a gallon-sized one as a Regular size.
** Their child sized cup is even larger, [[ExactWords as its volume is equivalent to the mass of a child]].
* ''Series/DropTheDeadDonkey''. Henry Davenport is getting a belated award for his services to television reporting. Realising it's only a PR stunt, he turns up drunk at the ceremony, staggering up to his table holding a ''huge'' bottle.
* ''Series/SiliconValley'': Big Head is usually seen slurping from an enormous plastic cup.

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* ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'': 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.
* Played with occasionally in ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'', as [[https://garfield.com/comic/1980/02/03 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.]]
* ''ComicStrip/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 still another strip, Jason discovers that Fun-Fun Mountain sells 128-ounce Slurpees.
** In another sequence, Paige drinks some of Peter's "coffee-tea" combination to read a book due the next day. It doesn't occur to her to ask ''how much'' of the stuff she ought to drink ("One mug should be plenty.") until she'd had a dozen cups and is thoroughly wired ("Are the words supposed to bounce around the page like this?").
* 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 about it, she replies 'Some days a venti just won't do.'
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* Webcomic/DieselSweeties gives us that nefarious villain [[http://dieselsweeties.com/archive.php?s=485 Soft Drink the Size of a Man's Head]]. Bladders everywhere, beware!
* Webcomic/KarateBears [[http://www.karatebears.com/2011/10/big-gulp.html Gulp Big.]]
* In the PrintBonus only strip of ''WebComic/LetsSpeakEnglish'' Mary's first meal back in America included a drink in a cup easily twice the size of her ample sized burrito...and that was the ''small''. (Her commentary notes that portion size differences between Japan and America are most noticeable in their drink sizes.)
--->'''Mary:''' ...I'm definitely back in America.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' episode "April Fool's Day", Spongebob proclaims that he's thirsty, pulls out a huge pitcher of lemonade and says "this is an EXTREME thirst!". He then divides it into what looks like about 50-60 smaller glasses.

* In a case of this trope being relative to the buyer's perspective, the other hobbits from ''Film/TheFellowshipOfTheRing'' are ''floored'' when Merry returns from the human-run tavern's barkeep with an entire ''pint'' of beer. Normal hobbit-sized draughts are apparently measured by the cup.