Basic Trope: A character is sad, so they get drunk.
- Straight: Bob just lost his job, so he gets drunk that night.
- Exaggerated:
- Bob just lost his job, his family, his home, and his pet dog, so he gets drunk that night.
- Bob just lost the lottery, so he gets drunk, smokes, and gets high that night.
- Downplayed: Bob lost his job, so he drinks slightly more than usual, but not enough to get drunk.
- Justified: Bob is very sad and drinking is how he copes.
- Inverted:
- Bob usually drinks every night, but he sticks to soda and water the night he loses his job.
- Bob gets drunk to celebrate a new job or a promotion.
- Liquid Courage: Bob drinks to steel himself for something he’s about to do.
- Subverted: Bob just lost his job, so he goes to the local bar...because he saw a "Help Wanted" sign in the window.
- Double Subverted: But when the owner refuses to hire him, he decides to just get drunk instead.
- Parodied: Bob chips a nail, and immediately starts chugging grain alcohol straight out of the bottle. The camera fades to black, and the next shot is of Bob in a gutter crying.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: Bob doesn't drink alcohol after losing his job.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: "That's his fifth one tonight. You think something's bothering him?"
- Invoked: After Bob tells his buddy Carl that he's losing his job, Carl tells him they should go drink.
- Exploited: Carl wants to extort money from Bob and he knows how suggestible he is when he's drunk, so he suggests they go out drinking when Bob loses his job.
- Defied:
- "Much as I may want to get drunk tonight, that time would be better spent polishing up my résumé."
- "Rough day, huh? Well, I'm gonna stop you right there. Drinking to forget is a quick-fix at best, and I won't stand by and let you drown your sorrows, especially if it's gonna cost the bar its license. Don't give me that "I'll Tell You When I've Had Enough!" bullshit, either. You're gonna keep drinking until you either blackout or die."
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied:
- After Bob loses his job, his friends find him at the local bar with his speech slurred and his judgement clouded.
- Bob is a well-known alcoholic and the moment is one that is full of angst for everyone. He leaves the room, saying, "Well, you know what I'm going to do at a time like this.."
- Played For Laughs: After a particularly brutal run through the Trauma Conga Line, Bob is found the next day with a nasty hangover...and wearing a dress. And he had been drinking ginger ale!
- Played For Drama: Bob gets hit with a Trauma Conga Line, and spends a night at the bar to try to find some comfort. It only works for a brief time, and then Bob has the consequences of the trauma, a hangover, AND a massive bill to worry about.
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