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Beer Goggles
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The term "beer goggles" is slang for the phenomenon in which consumption of alcohol lowers sexual inhibitions, to the point that the intoxicated person uses little to no discretion when approaching or choosing sexual partners—especially if the person later regrets advancing on someone that they know (or realize) would be inappropriate or unattractive while sober. In some cases, the numbering scenario comes into play, with the protagonist using a Sexiness Score to rate their target (regardless of success) On a Scale from One to Ten. To someone sober, they will think of a "1" as someone who is very ugly while a "10" is the perfect, most physically attractive person they've ever seen. With the "beer goggles" effect in play, usually anyone-–regardless of perceived or actual physical beauty—will rate at or near the top of the Sliding Scale of Beauty. The trope has found its way into the subject matter of several songs. While usually humorously applied, usually by a sober woman observing an intoxicated man approach his (usually ugly) target, it can have a negative meaning as well. Best way to get past a Butter Face. Bedmate Reveal, Not Staying for Breakfast, Alcohol-Induced Bisexuality, and What Did I Do Last Night? are tropes that may follow in the morning after. See also But Liquor Is Quicker for when someone deliberately gets another drunk in order to sleep with them. Completely unrelated to Goggles Do Nothing, which actually does something outside of aesthetic purposes, while this trope doesn't when sober. And not to be confused with Beer Googles, where you search the web while drunk. |
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The Simpsons: At Duff Gardens, a beer-themed amusement park, Bart tries on some goggles that read "see the world through the eyes of a drunk". He looks at his unattractive aunt Selma and sees a beautiful vixen. It apparently affects his hearing, too; with the goggles on, Bart hears Selma tell him he's "charming the pants off of her" in a seductive, much younger-sounding voice, but when he removes them, she snaps at him to stop messing around. | |
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Played with a bit in Little Big's video for "I'm OK" - Ilich attempts to invoke Beer Goggles to make the sloppy drunk Sonya seem more attractive. After the third shot, it seems to have worked, since he sees an attractive blonde...but when he gets off his stool, he bumps into Sonya - the blonde had actually been a different woman. | |
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On My Name Is Earl, Earl once drunkenly hooked up with a woman at the Crab Shack after several beers...and was shocked to find that she left her prosthetic leg in bed after she left to go make them some breakfast. So he stole some money from her purse and drove off in her car with the fake leg. Unfortunately for him, she had a shotgun. (Subversion because she's not ugly, she just has only one leg.) It also led to him sleeping with a friend's elderly mother in another episode. It was exploited by Joy and her Girl Posse when she was looking for a man to support her and her unborn child. They knew that very few men would willingly go with even an attractive pregnant woman on their own (most likely assuming that either a) she already has a partner who might beat him up out of jealousy and/or b) that she's "not the kind of girl you take home to Mom.") So in order to get him to be a willing participant, Joy gets her friends to talk Earl into drinking "upside-down martinis." They then introduce Earl to Joy. The next morning, Earl has a hangover and Joy has a husband. |
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When Cathy ended, Liberty Meadows, which often took potshots at the former, did this in tribute. A character sits next to Cathy in a bar and drinks until she morphs into a typical Frank Cho sexy girl. | |
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Some Came Running: Bama has a rather unhealthy attitude towards women in bars. "I don't know what it is about them pigs, but they always look better at night." | |
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Not that they're unattractive, but the Smith family get this treatment after Roger gets drunk off of moonshine, making them look like models◊. In another episode, Roger offers to buy beer for Steve and his friends. A drunken Steve then brings home a spectacularly ugly girlfriend, prompting Roger to experience profound regret. |
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Coyote Ugly: Discussed when Lil explains the meaning of the bar's name to a patron. | |
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In Metro: Last Light, this trope appears in the bar in Venice station. Go up to the bartender, and a plain-looking woman will be sitting on the stool to your right. Order the local specialty, "the bullet", down it, and look again. She's turned into a much younger and more attractive woman. | |
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In The Blue Collar Comedy Tour, Larry the Cable Guy says he once knew a girl who looked like Michelle Pfeiffer, "only a little shorter, and the face were different." | |
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It's easy to imagine that Archer has no standards whatsoever, but he's pretty horrified when he gets drunk enough to sleep with Pam (not least because it's the best sex he's ever had). Although given how much they both Really Get Around, it was only a matter of time. | |
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In Mass Effect 2, if you order the "Mystery Drink" at Illium's Eternity Lounge and then talk to the (elderly) bartender, her character model will have changed to look younger but will also be wearing garish facial makeup. | |
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On Seinfeld, Jerry insists that only about 4-6% of all people are even remotely good-looking. | |
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Semiosis: Higgins goes to bed with a woman and her husband while drunk from a festival, then wakes up the next morning wondering what he saw in the husband. Nonetheless, he sees no reason not to be polite and stay for breakfast. | |
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In Two Guys and Guy, Wayne wakes up after a wild night to find himself sharing the bed with a blow-up love doll... who has this reaction to Wayne. | |
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Mythbusters took a swing at testing this trope, and while it won't turn a Gonk into a Supermodel, they did discover that when rating the attractiveness of a lot of faces on a scale of 1-10, the numbers did skew a bit higher when they were drunk than when they were sober or tipsy. | |
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Katzenjammer: According to Tidearrow, Starscream apparently found him attractive enough whilst inebriated to want to take him somewhere private within half an hour of laying sight on him. The next morning, Starscream's main opinion on Tidearrow is that he's an idiot. | |
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"Billy's Got His Beer Goggles On", a 2005 country hit by Neal McCoy, about a man who—after being dumped by his girlfriend—gets very drunk and starts approaching women at random, with every one of them the homecoming queen type (even if butt ugly). The song also humorously plays up the man's positive perception of bar fights and lights in the same bar. | |
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Discussed on QI, with Alan Davies asking what the Latin term for "beer goggles" is. Stephen Fry was baffled by the expression and had to have it explained to him. | |
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Lampshaded at the end of Deadpool. The title character spends most of the film letting his Love Interest think he's dead because the experiment that gave him superpowers also made him ugly. Fortunately, she's as quirky as he is, so after the shock of his Dramatic Unmask... | |
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Family Guy: The trope usually applies to Brian (the anthropomorphic dog) after he becomes inebriated, and it plays a huge role in the 2010 episode "Quagmire's Dad." In that episode, Brian has sex with a woman named Ida ... unaware that she had recently had a sex change operation ... and (even better) was once the father of Brian's arch-rival, Quagmire! Upon learning of Brian's new "girlfriend," Peter and Lois laugh so hysterically they are unable to tell him the truth, but Stewie is able to reveal Ida's past; upon finding out, a now-sober Brian violently vomits and quakes, shaken by finding out who Ida really is. (Of course, none of this comes close to having to endure a brutal beating by Quagmire, who is outraged that Brian "fucked his dad.") Subverted, as Ida is a fairly attractive woman, doubly so from the neck down. In another episode, Peter, Joe, Quagmire, Cleveland, and Brian keep drinking and measure their level of drunkenness by looking at a picture of a big woman. With each drink, the woman gets slimmer and sexier (even her clothing changes), until she looks like a supermodel. Then they drink again... and the picture turns into a hairy guy in underwear. They quickly down hot cups of coffee to come down from that level of drunkenness. |
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Crazy Ex-Girlfriend had a musical number where Greg recounted his drunken exploits, which included having sex with a bush: | |
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Discussed in How I Met Your Mother by Robin on "graduation goggles", where one instantly reminisces bad times sentimentally as they leave, while playing Sarah McLachlan's "I Will Remember You" in sepia filter. | |
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