History Main / PlayingDrunk

* Jessica Fletcher did this once on MurderSheWrote.
* ''TheProfessionals''. in "The Female Factor" Doyle pretends to be drunk when visiting a high class call girl in order to draw out her pimp, whom CI5 wishes to interrogate.
* Sam Winchester on {{Supernatural}} does this in "I know what you did last Summer" to hustle pool.

* Alistair feigns drunkenness in ''AsTimeGoesBy'' in the episode where everyone tries to surprise Jean with a trip to Barbados. It's all [[{{Understatement}} a bit involved]].

Simply put, a character fakes being drunk. This is often a way of achieving ObfuscatingStupidity.

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* In ''Discworld/FeetOfClay'', the murderer leaves a bottle of whisky in reformed alcoholic Sam Vimes's desk, then contacts various "respected citizens" with the news he's drunk. When they arrive, it intitally appears that it's worked; the place stinks of alcohol and Vimes is slumped over his desk. Actually, Vimes just wants to see who turns up and how they react.

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* The Tenth Doctor in the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "The Girl In The Fireplace".

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->'''Doyle:''' Arrrh...drunk!

->'''Bodie:''' How are you going to play this?
->'''Doyle:''' Drunk!

* In the [[HonorHarrington Honorverse]], Kevin Usher did this regularly in the days of the Committee of Public Safety. He held that a reputation for being a drunk could get you out of as much trouble as genuinely being a drunk can get you into.

* The Tenth Doctor in the ''DoctorWho'' episode "The Girl In The Fireplace".

* In an episode of ''BlakesSeven'', Villa pretends to be drunk so he can make a suggestion on how to fix the current problem (atmosphere leaking out of a hole in the hull) in the form of a rambling remeniscence, but not be called on to undertake the repair himself (because you couldn't give such a dangerous task to someone who was obviously drunk).

* ''TheFugitive'' (1993). While Gerard and Newman are approaching the house with one of the escapees inside, they pretend to be drunks. Gerard even says "Be drunk, Newman."

* The Tenth Doctor in the ''DoctorWho'' episode "The Girl In The Fireplace". "Have you met the French?"

* Bruce Wayne does this in both ''BatmanBegins'' and ''TheDarkKnight''. In ''Batman Begins'' he fakes being drunk as an excuse to insult all of his party guests and shoo them out of his house (thus preventing them getting killed).

* Bruce Wayne does this in both ''BatmanBegins'' and ''TheDarkKnight''. In ''Batman Begins'' he fakes being drunk as an excuse to insult all of his party guests and shoo them out of his house (thus preventing them getting killed). In ''Dark Knight'' he uses his car to block a potentially fatal car crash. When he exits the car, he plays drunk so that the police don't know he did it intentionally.
** YourMileageMayVary wether or not the BatmanBegins example qualifies. To me, it seems he's playing the rich spoiled brat, not necessarily very drunk. The DarkKnight example certainly does not qualify, Bruce wasn't playing drunk (while driving!?), he pretended that he only got between the police bus and the rammer because he was trying to cath a almost-turning-red light.

* ImAMarvelAndImADC. At first the Green Goblin really is on a drug trip, but when it wears off he has to fake it.
--->Jeeze, you'd have to be on drugs to be this high!

* Claire Bennet from ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' has NighInvulnerability, which extends to her liver. In one scene she is in a DrinkingContest, and wins because she was only pretending that the drink was affecting her.
** Although, she did wait until her father Nathan had gotten completely blitzed on tequila in the ''first'' drinking contest of the episode before stepping up. Swell kid you got there.

* Alistair pretends drunkenness in ''AsTimeGoesBy'' in the episode where everyone tries to surprise Jean with a trip to Barbados. It's all [[{{Understatement}} a bit involved]].

* The Tenth Doctor in the ''DoctorWho'' episode "The Girl In The Fireplace".
** Have you met the French?