The Alcoholic / Western Animation

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• Mouse Fitzgerald of 12 oz. Mouse uses this trope as his defining trait. He's seen practically every ten minutes with a beer in his hand.
• The titular character of Archer is basically always drunk and claims that if he were to stop drinking, the cumulative hangover would kill him. His mother Malory made him start drinking when he was eight to, in his words, keep him quiet.
• Teleportation Larry of The Awesomes is pretty much constantly drunk, which is almost always a liability.
• The title character of BoJack Horseman is a jerk, hates himself, and is almost always drunk (as pictured in the trope's main page). But at least he never denies it.
• In Castlevania (2017), due to the Church excommunicating the Belmont family and destroying their ancestral home, Trevor Belmont has spent his days since then as a vagrant wandering the land from tavern to tavern, spending what little remains of his family fortune on booze.
• Franklin Sherman of The Critic almost always has a drink in his hand and it's heavily implied alcohol plays a major role in his Cloud Cuckoo Lander tendencies.
• In the series finale of Daria, Quinn gets a job as a hostess where she befriends a girl name Lindy, but as they hang out after work, she soon discovers Lindy has a drinking problem. She gets fired when she's found with a screwdriver (vodka and orange juice) at her post to deal with a hangover. Quinn tries to confront her about her drinking, only for Lindy to get angry with her. In the end, she apologizes to Quinn, still wanting to be friends, but while admitting to going overboard when drinking sometimes, she still refuses to believe she has a problem.
• Bean of Disenchantment certainly loves her drink. One time she tries to convince her father, King Zøg, that she's given it up, only for him to point out she's holding a beer, apparently she had grabbed it from force of habit.
• Family Guy:
  • Brian Griffin is rarely seen without a glass of something in his hand. In comparison he is probably worse than Peter — Peter usually goes out drinking for fun with friends, but Brian often drinks alone, or to 'drown sorrows', or for the sake of drinking.
  • Peter Griffin frequently gets absolutely smashed, with or without his friends at the bar.
• Futurama
  • Robots are alcoholics by default, as alcohol works as their fuel. However, they stumble around as if they were drunk when they're sober... and at other times (particularly in earlier episodes) they are portrayed binge-drinking human style. Bender himself speaks with a mild slur at all times. In one episode where Bender can't/won't drink, he's depicted as staggering, slurring his speech, and with a patch of rust resembling beard stubble.
  Fry: "You've been drinking too much! Or not enough. I forget how it works with you."
  • In the episode "Benderama", Bender uses a self replicating device to make 2 smaller copies of himself. This process repeats itself until thousands of molecule level Benders rearrange the molecules of Earth's oceans ^note  taking H₂O and some ambient carbon atoms, and arranging it into C₂H₆O, turning all the water into alcohol.
    Morbo: ...Water is now b-booze, and everyone's tiddly much protally fit-shaced.
• Helga's mother Miriam Pataki from Hey Arnold! is a textbook example, though mainly off screen. On screen all she wants is a "smoothie".
• In the second season of Kaeloo, Mr. Cat is shown to be severely addicted to alcohol, despite being underage. Several episodes show him having a hangover, and in Episode 60 he is actually shown drunk. In some instances, he ends up drinking so much he passes out.
• Mostly averted on King of the Hill, despite the fact that the 4 main characters drink almost daily and Alamo beer is just as ubiquitous as Duff and Pawtucket Patriot they rarely actually get drunk, and when they do it's considered out of character for them (especially Hank and Boomhauer.) Some may consider Bill to be a borderline case, though it's more accurate to say he has a depressive disorder that he occasionally self-medicates with alcohol, rather than a problem with booze itself. There's not even a Barney Gumble-type ancillary character used for cheap gags on the show.
• The Stork from Looney Tunes is almost always shown drunk (the only exceptions being Pappy's Puppy and the beginning of Stork Naked), even when he's doing his job. Naturally, this leads to him giving the wrong babies to the wrong mothers. The short Stork Naked shows that he drinks with the babies' new parents to celebrate after every delivery.
• Captain K'Nuckles of The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack comes off as this, always needing a pick me up or becoming wasted at the Candy Barrel.
• The entire band Dethklok in Metalocalypse, but particularly Pickles the drummer. Alcoholism and drug use is such a heavy part of Pickles's past and personality that when his former bandmates headlined a Straight Edge-esque concert with a new singer, he was mortally offended and vowed to crash the concert. It's eventually revealed that his alcoholism started because he was The Unfavorite of the family, to the point that he got blamed for burning down the garage even though Seth did it. He was six when he started drinking. Special points also to Nathan Explosion, who apparently needs regular liver transplants, and is shown receiving one as part of fan touring of Mordhaus.
• Clay Puppington in Moral Orel. It turns out he was introduced to alcohol by Bloberta. Once he became an alcoholic, she quit being one.
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic background character Berryshine (a.k.a. Berry Punch) has a Cutie Mark consisting of grapes and a strawberry — two common ingredients in wine. Due to this, she's sometimes hinted to be a drunk, with official trading cards attributing quotes to her such as "Wow, what did I drink last night? Because I'm definitely gonna need more of that." Series creator Lauren Faust has mentioned that she had nicknamed the character "Pinot Noir" after her own favorite wine, although that name didn't stick.
• Pear Cider and Cigarettes: Techno abuses a lot of substances but apparently alcohol was the worst. He destroys his liver with alcohol. He is refused a liver transplant in Canada because he won't stop drinking. Even after he flies to China to get a new liver, he keeps drinking in his hospital room. One of Robert's jobs in Guangzhou is to continually confiscate the bottles of liquor in Techno's room.
• Rick from Rick and Morty is constantly intoxicated and habitually takes a sip from a flask. Lampshaded in one episode when Rick gets shot.
  Rick: She got me right in the goddamn liver, Morty! It's the hardest working liver in the galaxy, Morty! And now it has a hole in it.
  • His daughter Beth is not as bad as him but is very often seen sloshing down large amounts of red wine, often when under great distress.
• The Simpsons:
  • Homer Simpson. He can consume more beer (leading into excessive intoxication obviously) than Peter can.
    Homer: And [I'll get to] get drunk on a Tuesday.
    Marge: Today's Tuesday and you've had six beers!
    Homer: But I'm not drunk.
  • It's a running gag that when somebody asks Homer if he's been drinking, he never says no.
    Marge: How drunk are you?
    Homer: Not. Very.
    • It's even occasionally unprompted.
      Anesthesiologist: Okay, count backwards from ten.
      Homer (lying on operating table): Fine, I admit it. I'm drunk.
  • "Duffless" confronts this by having Homer go a month without beer and, by the end of it, realize he has a bit of a problem. But, well... Status Quo Is God. However, in one episode set 30 years in the future Homer states he's off the stuff for good.
  • Barney Gumble appears worse than Homer, but is often seen trying to overcome his problem — Homer has not even acknowledged he has a problem, outside of some throwaway gags.
  • In fact, all the denizens of Moe's have a problem to some extent. In one episode, when Homer goes to the bar on Sunday to invite his friends to a party on Mr Burns' yacht, he finds them patiently waiting for the sunbeam through the window to reach a chalk mark on the floor that indicates the time alcohol can legally be sold. As they are sailing out towards international waters, Moe has to fight the barflies off with a whip as they try to reach the beer keg Homer bought, and when Lenny receives rubbing alcohol for his wounds, he immediately begins chugging it.
  • Lionel Hutz is shown to have a pretty severe drinking problem on occasion.
    Hutz: Mrs. Simpson claims she forgot she was carrying that bottle of delicious... bourbon... brownest of the brown liquors... so tempting... (puts the bottle to his ear) What's that? You want me to drink you? But I'm in the middle of a trial! ...Excuse me! [runs out of courtroom]

  Also:

  Lionel Hutz: Mrs. Simpson, you're in luck, your sexual harassment suit is exactly what I need to rebuild my shattered practice! Care to join me in a belt of scotch?
  Marge: It's 9:30 in the morning.
  Hutz: Yeah, but I haven't slept in days. [takes a large belt of scotch, and waves the dregs at temptingly at Marge] Last chance! [finishes the bottle]

  • Phil Hartman's other character Troy McClure, who used to drink 50 cans per day (according to Brad Goodman).
    Troy McClure: Ahhh. Sweet liquor eases the pain.
  • In the 14th season episode "Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third-Grade", Ms McConnell, who is something of a Gossipy Hen, denotes that Lisa's Teacher Ms. Hoover an alcoholic, though if you had students like Ralph Wiggum you would be too. Ms. Hoover's also handed back graded papers with liquor stains on them.
  • Lindsey Naegle is a self-proclaimed alcoholic and has been seen at AA meetings.
  • In each of his guest appearances, Ron Howard appears wearing a bath robe and with a drink in his hand. Seeing Homer drinking a cocktail of his own invention — a concoction of vodka and wheat grass which Homer dubs a "lawn mower" — he cheerfully asks Homer to make him one.
  • Subverted with Marge in "You Only Move Twice". Increasingly bored as a housewife due to the automation of her chores, she turns to the wine — only to reveal that she's drinking less than the amount recommended by doctors.
    • "Co-Dependent's Day" subverts this with Marge again: she slides into problem drinking after she and Homer have fun on a trip to wine country, which eventually causes her to go to a clinic to get treatment. However, the impulse to drink completely disappears when she's there and she realizes that what she was actually enjoying was the time she was spending with Homer, since they always drank together.
  • In one of the earlier episodes, Hans Moleman states that excessive drinking has ruined his life, to the point where despite looking like a decrepit senior citizen, is actually younger than Homer.
  • Sarah Wiggum is implied to be this in the episode "Little Girl in the Big Ten" when Ralph sees Lisa fall asleep in class. Both her son and her husband are complete morons, so she probably does it as a coping mechanism.
    Ralph: You're like my mommy after her box of wine!
• In the South Park episode "Bloody Mary", Randy Marsh becomes an alcoholic by way of the nocebo effect. After being caught drunk-driving, he is ordered by the court to attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, and becomes convinced that he is powerless to stop drinking.

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