Basic Trope: An often young, female character who's fond of partying and drinking.
- Straight:
- Alice seems excited about going out on the weekend and possibly getting a bit hammered.
- The gang is having a party at Alice's house, when she declares no party is such without some fuel and pulls a bottle of tequila.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice appears to be permanently drunk and/or drink in her hand, and always ready to celebrate.
- Bob knocks on Alice's door on Monday, only for her to open still completely drunk from Saturday.
- Downplayed:
- Alice is having a beer at her house on Friday night.
- Alice and her friends go out and get just the right amount of tipsy.
- Justified:
- Alice uses partying and booze to cope with some traumatic event of her past.
- Alice is actually an addict.
- Alice is The Hedonist and simply enjoys drinking and partying.Alice: What's the point of living if you can't enjoy yourself?
- Inverted: When Alice talks about her diehard party lifestyle, she's actually referring to weekly reunions with her chess team.
- Gender Inverted: Bob is a Boisterous Bruiser and fratbro who has a habit of throwing and attending such parties and getting drunk.
- Subverted: Alice simply won't touch the stuff, and prefers to spend her nights at home.
- Double Subverted:
- The reason she doesn't drink is that she becomes a complete party animal once she's downed the first beer.
- Actually, Alice is getting loaded by herself at home.
- Parodied:
- Alice goes to a party and ingests trace amounts of alcohol. This causes her to strip naked and dance drunkenly, complete with an improvised Drunken Song.
- Alice's drink of choice for when she gets rowdy is milk.
- Zig-Zagged: Alice goes to Bob's house party one weekend and gets completely soused. The next weekend, Carol throws a party but she doesn't attend it. The weekend after that, Charlie has a party that Alice attends, where she drinks a moderate amount of alcohol. Then there's Ellen's party; Alice goes but doesn't drink.
- Averted: The main cast is all composed of young girls in college, but since it is a children-oriented show, there's no sign of alcohol at all.
- Enforced: Alice's chaotic life, perennial party attitude, and borderline alcoholism are the main focus of the work.
- Lampshaded:Bob: Alice is having a lot of fun.Carol: A lot of very drunken fun.
- Invoked: Betty the Alpha Bitch plies Alice with liquor at her first 'grown-up' party, acts like this herself, and gives her all kinds of positive reinforcement to make her associate the experience with pleasure.
- Exploited:
- The gang needs information from Dan, so they decide to get him drunk. Given Alice's fame, she's the only one able to drink him under the table.
- A test needs to be passed, which involves knowledge about several cocktails, about which Alice is an expert.
- Defied:
- Alice refuses to go to a party with alcohol, or if she does go, she refuses to drink.
- Alice's guardians forbid her to go to a party with alcohol, or if they don't, they do forbid her to drink.
- Discussed: "What? The fact that I am a nineteen-year-old in college doesn't mean I get wasted every weekend."
- Conversed: ???
- Implied:
- Alice recalls being in a party, but she mentions she doesn't remember much of it.
- Someone goes through Alice's purse, pulling out a hip flask, among other things.
- Deconstructed: What started as keeping up with her college social life, is absorbing Alice into a spiral of booze, drunken nights and blackouts.
- Reconstructed:
- Alice realizes her drinking habits are affecting her health, social and academic life, and puts an end to it.
- After causing a real mess at a party she was invited, making a fool of herself and fighting her best friend because of alcohol, Alice decides to put her life back together.
- Played for Laughs: Alice goes out for a drink, meets her dream partner, who turns out to be a CIA agent, is wrapped up on a spy war, becomes wanted by her government for treason ... and she doesn't remember a thing the morning after.
- Played for Drama:
- Alice suffers from alcohol poisoning at a college party.
- Alice is a Stepford Smiler, and acts like a party girl to help her forget a Dark and Troubled Past.
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