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Rehab is for quitters! In any show featuring a recovering addict, they will inevitably return to their substance of choice at least once during the series. In a drama, this is almost always a Very Special Episode. In a comedy, it can be done either as a Very Special Episode or just for laughs. The relapse can be caused by trying to drown sorrows due to a stressful life event. In a drama, the story may depict the harm that the character does to themselves and to those around them from their relapse by showing them mistreating people or engaging in dangerous activities (driving under the influence). If the story really wants to send a moral message, they may face serious consequences from the relapse (arrest, loss of job, etc) which triggers them to re-enter rehab. Closely related to Descent into Addiction. |
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Finding Nemo: Bruce the shark nearly falls off the Vegetarian Carnivore wagon after he smells Dory's blood. It takes an intervention (read: physically wrangling him while he's in a feeding frenzy) from Chum and Anchor, the other sharks in his chapter of Monsters Anonymous, to keep him from eating Dory and Marlin. | |
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Averted (so far) with Capt. Don Cragen, who has been known to keep a bottle of vodka in his office and serve others from it. Played straight in the backstory that Dann Florek and the producers worked out for the character, in which he briefly fell back into the bottle following his wife's death (after Exiled but before his first appearance on SVU). This was never mentioned onscreen, but Florek used it to inform his portrayal of the character. Played straight with SVU's Sonya Paxton, though, who apparently fell off the wagon and came to court drunk, causing a mistrial and her going to rehab. Then again, she was never really on the wagon, but was playing the Functional Addict. Rollins is revealed in Season 14 to have a gambling addiction; she gets help and manages to keep it together for a while, but falls off the wagon after a difficult case, which ultimately leads to a rough situation where the criminals running an illegal club she's betting at use it to blackmail her into doing "favours" for them. Fortunately, one of the criminals is actually an undercover cop and manages to work Rollins into the operation so her career is not destroyed. |
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Desperate Housewives: Bree Van de Kamp's drinking problem escalated and was resolved in season two, but she did have two notable instances of this trope: Season Five: It was revealed in flashbacks that she had fallen off the wagon during the time jump some time after her husband went to prison and her surrogate son was taken away. She began "having a glass of wine now and then" in private until it escalated enough for her work to suffer, leading Katherine to take notice and intervene. Season Eight: After covering up the murder of Gabrielle's abusive stepfather, the core group turns on Bree, leaving her isolated and depressed. She falls off the wagon pretty hard, eventually attempting suicide. She is just barely stopped by Renee, but keeps drinking and falls into a spiral of one-night stands, mostly played for laughs. Her friends attempt an intervention to no avail, and she finally kicks the habit after her ex rescues her from a close call with an aggressive bar patron. |
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Secret Six: Bane references this trope by name when he takes a dose of the super-steroid Venom to save Scandal. And by save Scandal we mean brutally murder several super-villains then completely lose his fucking mind and see Batman everywhere◊. And worse, it doesn't even work. | |
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In Misfile, Rumisiel tries to spend more time off the wagon than on it; he is getting better though. | |
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Subverted in Monster, where a recovering alcoholic is thought to have fallen off a roof after having a drink. | |
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Averted in Unreal II: The Awakening. One of the characters is a man who was once deep into the bottle and manages to hold throughout the series - despite, as the main character points out, having numerous opportunities to smuggle in some booze. | |
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Rescue Me plays with this quite a bit in Tommy Gavin's case. After spending most of Season 1 in various stages of drunkenness, he goes on the wagon in Season 2. The audience is occasionally shown a scene of Tommy descending into drunkenness after something particularly tragic happens to him, only for it to be revealed that it was just in his head and he's still sober, albeit miserable. | |
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BoJack Horseman: The titular Horseman not only has a bad habit of falling off the wagon but getting others to do so as well, such as in the case of accidentally getting Corduroy to fall off the Erotic Asphyxiation wagon. Even in the finale, where he's been sober for a year thanks to being in jail, BoJack's not confident he can stay on the wagon once he gets out. Sarah Lynn got sober with the full intention of falling off the wagon, as she was beginning to build a tolerance for the drugs and alcohol she was addicted to, and hoped being sober long enough would give her the highs she desired once she used again. BoJack convinces her to go on a bender with him, but sadly she ends up overdosing and dying in BoJack's arms as they watched a planetarium presentation. |
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Borgen's resident Team Mom, journalist Hanne Holm, shows up drunk to a press conference after her estranged daughter fails to show up for a birthday lunch. | |
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Arrow: Quentin Lance spent Season 2 and most of Season 3 sober. However after learning that his daughter Sara was dead, and his other daughter Laurel hid this from him for a time (both out of worry over his heart issues and this trope) he starts drinking again. Laurel calls him on this in the Season 3 finale, and when he protests that its "just two drinks a day", she fires back that they are both alcoholics and there is no such thing as "just two drinks". He starts drinking again in Season 5, believing that after being fired from his job, Laurel being murdered (specifically to punish him no less), and his girlfriend breaking up with him, he has no reason not to. Notably averted with Laurel who remains committed to her sobriety until her death, even when her father (bitter over what she didn't tell him) quite literally shoves a bottle of liquor into her hands. At one point after being in a car crash, she even comments that she can't take any pain medication. |
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Bones: Booth's gambling addiction is triggered by very bad experiences. Ironically what causes him to apparently fall off the wagon wasn't the recent horrible experiences of getting shot, having his close friend Sweets die in his arms, and spending months in prison but the happy news that learning he's going to be a father again (very happy experiences can be triggers too). Sadly everyone thinks he's fine (they all saw him turn down a big bet to arrest a suspect on camera). | |
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In House, Dr. Gregory House kicks his Vicodin habit by going into rehab at the end of season 5. He manages to stay clean throughout season 6, but has a slip midway through season 7 which results in the end of his relationship with Lisa Cuddy, and that in turn pushes him completely off the wagon, apparently for good. | |
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Titus: Subverted in an episode. The title character's father, habitual drinker Ken Titus, goes on the wagon, and his relatives find his sober behavior so insufferable that within two weeks they have an intervention to urge him to start drinking again. Played straight when Titus' business closes he starts drinking again. Five minutes into the next episode he sobers up for a total of 10 minutes of him being a drunk. |
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Cheers, Sam Malone falls off the wagon between the second and third season following his acrimonious breakup with Diane. In desperation, Coach begs Diane to come back to the bar and talk to Sam to get him to sober up again. | |
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Jack rants about the so-called wagon at one point while knocking back imaginary martinis in the Overlook's bar in The Shining. To hear him tell it, the wagon appears to be such a wonderful thing when you're not on it, "the biggest and the best float in the whole parade". But once you're actually on said wagon, your perspective changes. The seats are uncomfortable, the women are dressed like schoolmarms (as opposed to the sexy majorettes leading the wagon), and you're forced to sing hymns all day long. This turns out to be a prelude to when the spirit of the hotel gets him off that wagon for real, in order to take control of him and kill Wendy and Danny. | |
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Dallas: Most everyone in the Ewings' orbit was a heavy drinker, but Sue Ellen Ewing clocked the most time hopping on and off the wagon. She quit in season three after the "Who Shot JR" shenanigans but fell off in season six after finding JR cheating on her. This relapse culminated in getting Lucy's boyfriend killed and Sue Ellen herself nearly dying in a fire, which got her sober again for about a year and a half until she fell off once again near the end of season eight. This round was particularly unforgiving, in part because it left Sue Ellen drinking on the street and getting robbed, but mostly because by the time she finally did make it to rehab it was season nine, AKA The Dream Season. That meant things were reset in the premiere and she had to kick the habit all over again for season ten. The reboot featured a somewhat deconstructed version, again with Sue Ellen, after JR died. |
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Deputy: In "10-8 Bulletproof" Hollister has to stop Cade from having a drink (as he's a recovering alcoholic) after losing custody of his adoptive kids. | |
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The Simpsons: Barney keeps getting on and off the wagon to the point where his current status as an alcoholic changes from episode to episode. There are times when the trope has been subverted. Once they were doing a civil war re-enactment of... questionable historical accuracy. Somebody offers Barney, who had previously been a raging alcoholic, a drink. He worries that he'll fall off the wagon, decides to drink it anyway...and marvels when he still feels fine. Homer once swore off beer to spend more time with Marge. As we all know, this didn't last. In "Deep Space Homer", Barney goes on the wagon for astronaut training and aces all his tests. However, he degenerates back into his town drunkard persona after celebrating with a toast of non-alcoholic champagne. |
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Sadly many wrestlers never recover from substance abuse problems, leading to a shockingly long list of those who have died of unnatural causes before the age of 50 including Mr. Perfect (Acute Cocaine intoxication), Eddie Guerrero (Heart attack caused by years of steroid and prescription drug abuse), The British Bulldog (Same thing), Randy Savage (Same thing), Crash Holly (Choked on alcohol-induced vomit), Miss Elizabeth (Drug overdose), Bam Bam Bigelow (Drug overdose), the list goes on and on. | |
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A running gag in Superjail! is that the resident Butt-Monkey, Jared, falls off the wagon. WHAT wagon he falls off of varies; you name it, he's been addicted to it.note This includes alcohol, drugs, sex, gambling, and junk food. | |
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Prairie Fever: After sobering up during the trip from Clearwater to Carson City, Preston briefly relapses after seeing Octavia put in the same situation that killed his wife and being unable to act. | |
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Feel Good: After visiting George in the hospital and seeing the oxycodone she's received for pain, Mae (who's a cocaine addict) takes some. In Season 2 she's seen going into treatment for it again. | |
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In the sixth season of Grey's Anatomy Chief Webber falls off the wagon. He was subtly shown drinking and dropping hints for several episodes before the show called attention to it. | |
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One Day at a Time (2017), Schneider in season three. | |
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Mad Men's Duck Phillips is a recovering alcoholic who falls off the wagon in Season 2's "Maidenform." While at first at least somewhat sympathetic (he fell off in the middle of a messy divorce), he becomes increasingly dickish as he slides further and further back into alcoholism. By Season 4, even Peggy—who still trusted him to some degree—comes to see how much of a tremendous asshole he's become. | |
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Played straight in Hamlet 2, where Dana Marschz, the main character, during goes on a drinking binge as part of his Heroic BSoD/Darkest Hour sequence. | |
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Airplane!: "Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit drinking...". A Running Gag, where a person in the control tower starts relapsing on a series of increasingly more serious drugs throughout the course of the film. | |
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In Double Homework, once Henry becomes aware that his cirrhosis of the liver isn’t as imminent as he was previously told, he goes back to his hard-drinking ways. | |
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All My Children's Hayley Vaughn becomes an alcoholic and slips up several times before finally remaining sober. Her sister Skye has a similar pattern. | |
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In The Bat Harry Hole is a recovering alcoholic and after spending most of the book sober and pointedly avoiding alcohol falls off hard after a quick succession of murders including his partner and the woman he was seeing and spends the rest of the book in or recovering from a drunken stupor. | |
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William Munny in Unforgiven. First drinking. Then violence. | |
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In This Country, this turns out to be the reason why the vicar's son Jacob has had to leave the big city behind for a while and spend some time back in their remote little village. This attempt to kick the booze and drugs fails spectacularly: | |
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Discworld: Vimes falls off the wagon in Men at Arms. In Feet of Clay, the next book he appears in, he pretends to fall off again, as part of a scheme to make the person who's trying to frame him for murder look foolish. | |
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Charite: Doctor Behring willingly jumps off the wagon and takes Laudanum again — to get rid of his withdrawal symptoms (shaky hands, sweat, malaise) and function as a surgeon so he can save the life of a woman in a problematic childbirth. | |
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Elementary: One of the series primary focuses is Sherlock Holmes' problems with addiction. He stays sober for the first three seasons but prolonged interaction with a "friend" from his using days leads to him relapsing at the end of the third season. He gets clean during the hiatus and is determined to keep his sobriety intact. In the series finale, he reveals that he relapsed again during a Time Skip where he was in hiding after faking his own death. | |
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Metalocalypse: Dr. Rockso gets clean in one episode. In his return episode, he falls off the wagon, gloriously. In a later episode, Pickles goes dry after a drunken international incident involving a flying drum kit. Later on, he has to get drunk to save the band with the exact same stunt. Earlier, Pickles' old band Snakes and Barrels went clean after breaking up, but shortly before their reunion concert, they were convinced to take a hit of experimental drug Totally Awesome Sweet Alabama Liquid Snake. This comes back to bite them later (in the same episode when Dr. Rockso falls off the wagon) while they're trying to put on a show as a new straight-edge band. The combination of the drugs and lights cause them to hallucinate and glowing blue snake-like tendrils to shoot out of their orifices (yes, all of them), which so horrifies the straight edge audience that they start taking drugs to cope. |
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In the 2011 film Warrior: Paddy Conlon after Tommy berates him one time too many. | |
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Robin: Dylan Prescott has a number of issues he's just learning to manage without alcohol so he can try to live a more fulfilling life. Unfortunately, his problems are suddenly exacerbated by contact with Noctura whose drug-like meta-human ability mixes very poorly with his psych meds. He grabs a bottle of alcohol instead of his pills after spending two days hallucinating. | |
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Comprises almost an entire arc in Homestuck when Gamzee runs out of sopor slime, he just starts killing people. It takes his best friend consoling him to cause his kill-happy rampage to stop. | |
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Katchoo from Strangers in Paradise tends to do this when she's had a big fight with a friend, especially Francine. | |
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In Melody, Dash’s relapse into drug use is what breaks up their band, freeing Jade and Liam to play in Melody’s band. | |
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In American Horror Story: Asylum, Sister Jude during Nor'easter as a result of The Devil's manipulations. | |
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At TNA's Victory Road pay per view in 2011, Jeff Hardy showed up loaded for his match against Sting. The subsequent match ended up going less than a minute. | |
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In Soul Eater Franken Stein tries to quit smoking as a way to keep Madness at bay. A couple of arcs later he's resumed smoking, claiming that abstinence from smoke actually made things worse. | |
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In Company, Harry claims to be on the wagon but is seen sneaking a couple sips of bourbon. His wife meanwhile is on a diet but can be seen sneaking a bite of a brownie. | |
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Kiss of the Damned: Djuna, a Vegetarian Vampire, gives in and feeds on Paolo. She also later kills Paolo's agent this way. Her leader Xenia also does this (after forty years) since Maia dangles temptation before her. |
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Single Drunk Female: Early on, after Sam is court-ordered to go through AA and has gotten briefly sober she quite soon gets drunk with her friend and runs into a nearby vehicle in her car when driving out, getting her into even more trouble. James also later drinks again after over two years of being sober, to Sam's dismay. |
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Averted in Rachel Getting Married. Despite coming straight of rehab to her dysfunctional family on the weekend of her sister's wedding, and being shown in situations that imply she's sneaking off to drink or use, Kym stays clean and sober throughout the film. | |
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Funky Winkerbean's title character went through a bout of alcoholism in the '90s after the first Time Skip, but got it under control and remained sober through the second Time Skip as well. A 2010 strip appeared to show him finally depressed enough about his life to order a screwdriver... but subverted this trope when Funky instead vented his problems to the bartender and left without drinking anything. | |
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A Year and Change: Owen relapses on alcohol after running into Vera on a date. He bounces back though. | |
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Iron Man has fallen off the wagon more than once. In fact, he has tried to help fellow superhero Carol Danvers in her own battle with alcoholism. In Fear Itself he sacrifices his sobriety to Odin in order to get the god's attention. In AXIS, Inverted Tony is shown holding a glass of wine in promo artwork, indicating that he's reverted to the hedonist he was before becoming Iron Man. | |
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New Tricks: In season five, following Jack's temporary disappearance and several bad experiences on cases, Brian resumes drinking, and attends Alcoholics Anonymous meetings again. This causes his wife Esther to walk out and later force Brian into treatment. | |
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Life had an episode, "Powerless", where Dani Reese is forced at gunpoint to start downing vodka shots. Of course, Reese had spent the beginning of the episode at a bar before going to her AA meeting. She was technically going to the meetings to get over her drug addiction, not her alcoholism— which doesn't really make it any better but does explain why the guy holding her at gunpoint didn't have the advantage he thought he had. | |
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Hummingbird: Having cleaned himself up, Joey falls off wagon after he kills Max Forrester, and is lying in the street drunk outside the Covent Garden Opera House. He is seen still swigging from a bottle of vodka as he staggers through the streets of London in the final scene. | |
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Chicago Hope's Jack McNeil was a gambling addict who frequently relapsed when stressed out. | |
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Maya's Notebook: While hiding out in Chiloé Island, Maya falls in love with a handsome backpacker named Daniel Goodrich. They stay in contact for a while after he returns to his home in the U.S. Eventually he writes to tell her that they are better off as friends. Despite the time spent in rehab before coming to the island, Maya gets drunk and trashes her surroundings. | |
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Happens to a boyfriend of Elaine's in Seinfeld, leading to a discussion between Jerry and George whether the relapse is termed being "off the wagon" or "on" it. | |
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The Boys in the Band. Michael has stopped drinking for five weeks, to prevent anxiety attacks, but falls off the wagon - hard - during Harold's birthday party. | |
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General Hospital's AJ Quartermaine had this happen so often that he eventually gave up and resigned himself to being a Functional Addict. | |
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Played for laughs in Fable II. After completing a quest for a man, said man's wife tells him to get back on the wagon. He instantly responds, "Wagon? Where? Kids, look out for the wagon!!" | |
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Subverted in the My So-Called Life ep appropriately titled "On the Wagon". Patty suspects Rayanne has fallen off, but it turns out she hasn't. Then it's Double Subverted at the end of the episode when Angela and Rayanne are on line at the movies and Angela sees Rayanne taking a drink. In the episode "Betrayal", when Rayanne goes off the wagon again, she ends up sleeping with Jordan, driving a wedge between her and Angela. | |
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Priam Agrivar from Forgotten Realms is a recovering alcoholic. He spends most of the series sober and in control of himself, but then he angers the god Labelas Enoreth, who punishes Priam by magically amplifying and worsening his addiction. Priam spends the next half-dozen issues as a barely functional wreck who can't go two pages without asking for a drink, and it isn't until the very last issue that he finally starts to get his act back together. | |
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Warehouse13: There's an interesting case when the six-year sober Pete goes through an unintentional "Freaky Friday" Flip with his female partner Myka... who was at her High School Reunion and had just downed three vodka martinis. Oops. He's also fallen victim to several Intoxication Ensues artifacts, at one point sarcastically referring to "artifacts that mean I have to call my sponsor". |
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In EDENS ZERO, Daichi of the 4 Elements is such a shameless sadist he joined a therapy group to quit torturing people, and proudly shows Rebecca the commemorative coin he got for 60 days of abstinence... then he decides he had enough, crush the coin and proceed to horrifically torture Rebecca. Later on in the same arc, Sister confronts him, shows off her commemorative coin for ten years of abstinence... before also crushing it and proceeding to torture him. |
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The Haunting in Connecticut. Where the father starts out in recovery and later falls off. | |
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This happens all the time with professional wrestlers, particularly older veterans working the independent circuit. Scott Hall and Jake "The Snake" Roberts are amongst the more notorious examples of this, but far from the only ones. | |
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In God of War Ragnarök, Thor is stated to be attempting to abstain from alcohol in order to better himself. His father Odin however prefers him to be a drunk and easily-controlled brute and thus is constantly needling him into drinking, stating that he's "no fun anymore" while slamming a mug of mead in front of him. Eventually, This combined with Atreus' presence in Asgard flaring up his inferiority complex becomes too much for him and he's later seen bitterly skulking in a tavern, much to the shame of his daughter. | |
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In The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again, the Baltimore Kid falls off the wagon when he learns that Katie has just been using him in an attempt to get away with the loot from the Wells-Fargo robbery. | |
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In Commander Kitty, the iKnow device gives its wearer instant access to all knowledge while leaving them susceptible to Zenith's mind control. Fortiscue only lasts a few minutes before trying to stick his back on. | |
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In one episode of 30 Rock, Liz accidentally gets her ex-boyfriend Floyd, who is a recovering alcoholic, drunk when the fish she ordered was served with a sauce made from Jack Daniels. The alcohol was supposed to cook out, but since Floyd ordered the sauce on the side, it wasn't cooked. | |
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Happens to Matt several times during the course of the It Matters series, as a result of his ongoing struggle with opioid addiction. Each time usually ends with him Going Cold Turkey, and Mello trying to support him through the withdrawal. | |
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In The World's End, Andy hasn't had a drink for sixteen years but returns to drinking at pub no.4 by downing five pub measures of spirits. It helps that he had been fighting aliens minutes earlier. | |
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After 55 years without drinking blood, this happens to Hal in Series 4 of Being Human (UK), causing him to have to be nailed to it. | |
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In flashbacks in the Lost episode "A Tale of Two Cities," Jack gives his sober father, Christian, a good shove off the wagon, which ultimately leads Christian to lose his job, go on a bender, and die. | |
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In Eastenders, Phil Mitchell seems to fall off the wagon on average every six months. And now he's a recovering crack addict as well, what's the bet there won't be a relapse at some point? | |
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In one episode of Law & Order, Lennie Briscoe, who's been sober for years, hits the bottle hard after witnessing an execution, and it leads (somewhat indirectly) to the death of a major character. After that incident, he goes back on the wagon for the rest of his life. His Law & Order: UK Expy Ronnie Brooks struggles with this several times also, though it's ultimately averted in that he never takes a drink. In particular, after his partner/friend/surrogate son Matt Devlin is killed (especially bad when he mentions to his AA group that Matt always the one to help him whenever the temptation to drink got too strong), and after another friend Wes Leyton is also gunned down, to the point where he actually buys a bottle of vodka before coming to his senses and walking out of the store without it. On the original show, Detective Green was a gambling addict who fell off the wagon due to his despondency at Lennie's retirement and then his death. In one episode of the original, Mike Logan mentions that his mother, a serious (and violent) alcoholic, tried to quit drinking and went to AA after being diagnosed with cirrhosis. Two weeks later, he got a call that his mother and her sponsor were both passed out drunk in a bar. It's one of the reasons Logan has a little bit of difficulty with the idea that anyone, including his partner Lennie, can actually stay on the wagon, though he eventually seems to accept that Lennie is for real (the previously-mentioned incident notwithstanding). |
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In The Country Girl, Frank's already shaky sobriety turns into a full-on bender after Georgie leaves town. | |
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Sisters. Second-oldest sister Teddy was a recovering alcoholic who struggled with her sobriety at key points during the show—her ex marrying her sister, her miscarriage, her daughter's rape. But the straw that broke the camel's back was when her new husband was killed only months after their wedding. Not until she almost kills her nephew while driving drunk does she get her act together and she never drinks again in the series run. | |
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On Shameless (US), Jody is a recovering sex addict. None of the other characters take this seriously and convince him that some "adventurous" sex with Sheila (who has a pegging fetish) will not hurt him. Jody quickly goes off the wagon and starts engaging in more and more extreme sexual acts. Sheila stages an intervention and in the end Jody is chained to a bed and forced to go cold turkey. By contrast, Frank is able to stay sober for periods of time but he is never "on the wagon". He always plans to start drinking again and his sobriety is just part of some scheme he is hatching. |
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In Incorruptible this happens to Louis Armadale, once he finds out that Max had killed a child. | |
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The most famous example is Jake Roberts' appearance at a 1999 pay-per-view titled Heroes of Wrestling. Prior to his match with Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart, Jake cut a slurred, rambling, incoherent promo. When he came to the ring, he was so drunk he couldn't even stand up straight, engaged in lewd behavior with some fans at ringside, then got in the ring, held his snake up to his crotch, and started stroking it. Needless to say, the match didn't last long. | |
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Frontier Circus: In "The Depths of Fear", Casey hires a washed-up drunk lion tamer as a wagon driver on the understanding that he sobers up. After he is humiliated by the circus's current lion tamer, he finds a bottle in Casey's wagon and gets drunk. | |
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Silent Movie: Mel Funn is precariously on the wagon for the first part of the movie - everyone knows he has a problem, but he manages to keep away from the drink. Then he finds out his lady love Vilma Kaplan is a mole sent to pretend to love him and sabotage his film, and he falls off HARD. Of course, she actually is in love with him and wants to help him, so they sober him up with The Power of Love and lots of coffee. | |
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The West Wing: Leo McGarry is a recovering alcoholic and drug addict. While he's firmly on the wagon during the present day of the series, a flashback to the early days of the Bartlet campaign reveals he briefly relapsed after being offered scotch while meeting with some potential campaign donors. As he explains the incident to his lawyer he notes that people are often less sympathetic if someone relapses, especially if it happens more than once. | |
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The title character's (tragically inevitable) fall off the wagon he climbed onto in the first chapter is one of the key plot points of The Mayor of Casterbridge. | |
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Thea in Applause does well for a time with the drinking, but does give in to drink and becomes confrontational toward her ex-husband. | |
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What Would You Do? had a scenario in which an actor went to a busy bar on Long Island, claiming to be celebrating his first year of sobriety and wanting to have just one drink. Almost everybody there pointedly refused to buy. | |
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Jim Lahey from Trailer Park Boys is known to be an alcoholic and is mocked for it by most of the cast. He claims to have quit in Season 5, but Ray sees through the facade of him drinking water when in reality, it was vodka. He claims that the alcohol made him think clearly, and it does... for a while. He finally gets sober in the sixth season but falls off once more upon being reinstated as a police officer, which extends into the next season. | |
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Done hilariously in Father Ted. While the parochial house is entertaining a former television personality, Mrs. Doyle persuades (i.e. forces) him to have a bit of sherry. He quickly degenerates into a drunken wreck who destroys their living room, rants about his dismissal from the BBC (which was because of his alcoholism) scares off Father Jack, and then jumps out the window. At the end of the episode, he decides to have another drink of sherry (having been convinced that he could hold his drink) and a single sup is enough to have him ranting and jumping through the window again. | |
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In Your Name, when Tsukasa sees Miki smoking, the latter remarks that she had tried quitting recently. | |
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In the fanfic, Laying Waste To Halloween, while recovering, Annabeth relapses a few times, but never gets into it as much as she did before and always regrets it afterwards. | |
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In Leverage "The Bottle Job" Nathan falls off the wagon. And stays off. | |
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28 Days features this a few times, as one might expect for a film that mostly takes place at a rehab clinic. The most tragic case is that of Gwen's roommate Andrea, who relapses on heroin and dies of an overdose on the very day that she was supposed to be leaving the clinic. Averted with Gwen herself, as she's given several chances to relapse (most notably when her boyfriend sneaks alcohol in) but chooses to keep her sobriety. | |
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In Heroin Story, David falls off the wagon a number of times. Luckily, his drug use isn't chaotic or problematic. Returning to use doesn't disrupt or hurt the life he has built over the years. Heroin actually helps him deal with his depression. | |
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Averted on Without a Trace. Despite one agent being a recovering alcoholic and another developing a painkiller addiction after being shot, neither is ever seen struggling with the temptation to break their sobriety, even though the alcoholic admits "Not a day goes by that I'm not dying for a drink." Played straight with some of the victims, who are indeed found to have returned to drinking/drug use/gambling. |
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Kitchen Confidential had Jack Bordain take a sip of champagne, but spit it back into the glass. | |
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Teen Titans: Roy Harper went back to using heroin as a result of losing his right arm and his daughter Lian thanks to the villain Prometheus in Justice League: Cry for Justice. Unlike his original addiction, which lasted for two issues, his drug dependency went on until a month before the DC Universe was rebooted by Flashpoint. To make matters worse, Roy's addiction had been worsened by Deathstroke who, in a bid to control him, secretly spiked Roy's heroin supply with samples of Bliss, a highly addictive drug made from children. | |
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On NYPD Blue, rehabbed alcoholic Andy Sipowicz started drowning his sorrows hard after his patrolman son was killed on duty. | |
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Doc Delaney, in William Inge's Come Back Little Sheba. | |
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Sarah "Mac" Mackenzie from JAG, after her ex-boyfriend dies in her arms. She's also being stalked by a Dirty Cop. | |
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7 Yüz: Mete downs a glass of rakı at the end of "Büyük Günahlar", ending his meticulously-maintained sobriety in the face of the episode's events. | |
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Party of Five, Bailey Salinger becomes an alcoholic in Season 3 thanks to the stresses of college life along with the responsibilities he has with his family (also, though he doesn't know at first, he's an example of History Repeats, as his father was an alcoholic). After hitting Rock Bottom when he nearly kills Sarah in a car accident, he decides to get sober, but when he had nothing to do while waiting for Claudia to finish playing a concert, Bailey relapsed until finally quitting by the end of the season. He relapses in Season 6 and nearly kills himself in a car accident (where he has a dream about an alternate reality where his parents lived), which inspires him to sober up again. | |
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Hightown: Jackie, who's gotten sober at that point, goes on a drug and alcohol binge along with her dad over Thanksgiving in Season 2. Afterward she's intent on going clean once again. Then she gets high again after Leslie dumps her in the Season 2 finale. Jackie's being drug tested at work due to her past and thus has to bribe another woman for her urine sample as a result to cover it up. She goes out drinking and uses ecstasy with her friend Ray after this too. | |
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The Hunger Games: Haymitch is kept from alcohol for several months in District 13, which is strictly dry and forces him into rehab. Once the war is won and he returns to District 12, he goes back to drinking. | |
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Battlestar Galactica Saul Tigh does this at least once an episode, to the resignedness of his commanding officer. His wife, Ellen, simply never gets ON the wagon in the first place and is probably mainly responsible for Saul's drinking: because I'd drink too, if I had to kill my wife for being a suspected Cylon collaborator and then find out that oops, I'm a Cylon myself. | |
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ER: Played with in an episode, when recovering prescription drug addict Dr. John Carter finds an unaccounted-for bottle of Vicodin in a patient's room, pockets it, and takes two of the pills. Averted in that he almost immediately forces himself to vomit up the pills, before they can take effect. This is still treated as a (minor) relapse by his evaluator, Dr. Kerry Weaver; and his monitoring period is extended as a result. Played straight with Abby at least twice. |
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Mafalda: The title character asks a friend if he knows the typical story of someone who falls into an old vice he's struggling to get over. Turns out this is because someone she knows is living that drama: Her little brother, Guille, who went back to sucking on his pacifier. | |
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The Bolt Chronicles: In "The Wind," Bolt's girlfriend Mary slides back into her former addictive behavior, becoming increasingly indiscriminate about the things she'll ingest to get high. She even runs away from her new farmhouse home to the city because her owners discover Mary's pilfering and lock up any possible offending substances. | |
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Veronica Mars: A subplot of season one involved Veronica tracking down her runaway alcoholic mom Lianne and getting her into rehab. In the finale, it's revealed she had lied and dropped out of rehab, forfeiting Veronica's college fund as payment, and started drinking again. Veronica kicks Lianne out, but can't stop her from lifting Keith's $50,000 settlement check on the way out the door. "The people you love let you down" indeed. In the Spin-Off novel The Thousand Dollar Tan Line, it's revealed Lianne has finally gotten sober and has a new family. Veronica still hasn't forgiven her, but she learns to accept having her back. |
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True Blood, Detective Andy Bellefleur. | |
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The Astro City story "The Deep Dark Woods" centers around Edward "Ned" Calloway, who is addicted to being a themed costumed Mook. His repeated efforts to pull himself out of the criminal lifestyle are stymied by the lure of being a dapper gangster. | |
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Midsomer Murders: In "The Creeper", the first Victim of the Week is an alcoholic writer (played by Rik Mayall) who falls off the wagon when his asshole publisher (and former friend) rejects his book idea, and then hands him a bottle of 65-year-old brandy. He gets drunk, and several humiliations follow, ending in his murder. In "Night of the Stag", the fanatical leader of the local Dry Crusaders is a recovering alcoholic. He falls off the wagon hard when the local Hillbilly Moonshiner leaves him a jar of the local hooch: an exceptionally powerful brew known as 'the Beast'. In "The Scarecrow Murders", one of the murderers is a gambling addict who, thanks to the machinations of her victim, "lost three months salary in one hour". While initially reluctant to go through with the plan, her rage at the victim and herself for relapsing makes her commit the most violent murder of the three. |
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In The Occupant, Tomas is a recovering alcoholic. Part of Javier's plan is to make it look like he fell off the wagon. By the end of the film, he has. | |
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Breaking Bad has Jane Margolis, who ultimately dies of a heroin overdose. Jesse, himself, got on the wagon afterwards, but he falls off of it a couple times. | |
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Babylon 5, Michael Garibaldi relapsed on two occasions: first, when he was framed for an assassination plot and on the run, and second, when he learned that he was physically incapable of killing the Smug Snake Psi Cop Al Bester, who mind-raped him and forced him to betray his friends. | |
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Midnight Caller: Jack almost relapses into smoking in "Based on a True Story." He puts a cigarette in his mouth and raises the lighter, pauses for a moment, then mutters "Nah," and spits the cigarette out. | |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox: Mr. Fox says this word for word when apologizing to his wife about stealing birds again, after he promised he wouldn't ever return to that profession. Hilarious in Hindsight as George Clooney's character in Ocean's Eleven got in trouble for the same thing. | |
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His Law & Order: UK Expy Ronnie Brooks struggles with this several times also, though it's ultimately averted in that he never takes a drink. In particular, after his partner/friend/surrogate son Matt Devlin is killed (especially bad when he mentions to his AA group that Matt always the one to help him whenever the temptation to drink got too strong), and after another friend Wes Leyton is also gunned down, to the point where he actually buys a bottle of vodka before coming to his senses and walking out of the store without it. | |
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