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Simply put, a character fakes being drunk. This is often a way of achieving Obfuscating Stupidity. Variants: The person's pretending to be high. They may even be a tad buzzed/high to complete the effect. Compare Fake High, where the character thinks they're drunk or high when they're not. Mistaken for Junkie is a related trope where someone is incorrectly thought to be on drugs. |
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Sherlock Holmes pretends to be completely drunk in the unaired pilot "A Study in Pink" of the BBC series Sherlock in order to approach the murderer. | |
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In an episode of The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Ilya harasses a girl while pretending to be drunk so that Napoleon Solo can step in and rescue her. | |
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In one of the Bloody Jack books, Jacky Faber and one of her female friends fake being drunk in order to fool some guards into drinking some opium-laced liquor. Once the guards are out, they sabotage the cannons that the guards are supposed to be guarding, which ensures their safe escape. | |
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In The Walking Dead, Rick has Glenn do this to help him steal back the weapons the group had to put in storage when they arrived in Alexandria. | |
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The first episode of Angel opens with the title character apparently drunk at a bar, pouring his broken heart out at the bartender. Moments later it turns out he's just faking it and keeping an eye on a group of vampires; as they leave the bar with a couple of unassuming victims, he immediately turns from a blabbering drunk into a smooth dark hero and proceeds to kick ass. | |
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Arrow: In the second episode, Oliver Queen's mother wants him to take up the reigns of his father's company, but that would interfere with his secret vigilante mission. So Oliver turns up 'drunk' at the dedication of a building to his father's memory and gives a rambling I Am Not My Father speech that convinces everyone he's completely unsuitable for the job. Oliver then visits his father's tombstone and apologizes for disgracing his memory in this way. In "The Promise", Oliver is captured and is given Truth Serum, but he's anticipated this and takes a picrotoxin to counteract the effects of the barbiturates in the sodium pentothal. He's warned that he still has to feign being high, but he has no problem faking the symptoms given his past as a hedonistic playboy. |
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Chuck: In "Chuck vs the Balcony", Sarah plays drunk to knock out a couple of mooks in a wine cellar. | |
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In the Decoy episode "Night of Fire," a suspect for arson says he can't have burned down a warehouse because he spent the night in jail for drunkenly throwing a bottle through a window. Later, Casey finds out he's diabetic and can't get drunk without endangering his life. He set the fire with a delayed-action fuse and pretended to be drunk to give himself an alibi. | |
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In one episode of House, the title character does this to try and break up the relationship between Cuddy and her boyfriend. | |
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The villain in one episode of Psych ups the morphine dosage on Shawn and another patient's IVs to deadly levels. The two start having a nonsensical conversation due to their highs. Shawn then jumps out of bed and takes down the villain as the police arrive, revealing that his father would never pay for him to have pain medications: it was a glucose drip. | |
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Radio Enfer: As part of his initiation to join the radio crew, Vincent has to pretend to be drunk and insult the adult of his choice. He decides to insult Carole Péloquin, Jocelyne's childhood friend... which then backfires when Péloquin reveals that she's the school inspector coming for an anonymous visit and decides to give the school a negative report. | |
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In Honor Harrington, Kevin Usher did this regularly in the days of the Committee of Public Safety. He held that a reputation for being a drunk could get you out of as much trouble as genuinely being a drunk can get you into. | |
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Simon Says: Nazi Hunter: In one comic, Simon is seen drunk at a bar. In truth, he was only pretending to be drunk to draw suspicion away from him. | |
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The Simpsons: In "At Long Last Leave", while the town is under lockdown, the Simpsons decide to sneak out and do things they can't normally do outside. In Homer's case, he decides to drive drunk when he's actually sober. | |
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In Super Danganronpa Another 2 Hajime Makunouchi pretends to drink alcohol at the party to kill Yuri Kagarin without people suspecting him | |
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Claire Bennet from Heroes has Nigh-Invulnerability, which extends to her liver. In one scene she is in a Drinking Contest and wins because she was only pretending that the drink was affecting her. Although she did wait until her father Nathan had gotten completely blitzed on tequila in the first drinking contest of the episode before stepping up. | |
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Hunter: When DeeDee McCall investigates the trailer of a suspected cop killer parked next to a bar, he comes back earlier than expected so she acts like a drunken patron who just stumbled into the wrong place. | |
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Beavis And Butthead get hold of a can of non-alcoholic beer, so after drinking it they act like they're drunk. A policeman confronts them but cuts them loose when sees the can says it's non-alcoholic. | |
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Alfred J. Kwak: When Henk and Igor are trying to help Alfred, Ollie, Colonel Rangpang, and Sir Poen escape from the National Crows Party headquarters, a pair of Crows party soldiers approach them. Henk quickly pretends to be drunk in order to avoid suspicion and to distract the two from noticing Igor. It works and earns him a loud applause from the others once the coast is clear. | |
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In After the Sunset, FBI agent Stan gets drunk and laments to Max—the jewel thief he's been pursuing for years—that he's trashed his career and a potentially great relationship because of his obsession with catching him. Max takes pity on him and nurses him through the vicious hangover he suffers afterwards. At the end of the movie, Max orders the same drink Stan supposedly got drunk off of and realizes it contains no alcohol—Stan was faking his reaction so that Max would let his guard down and not realize that Stan was trailing him as he prepared for another heist. | |
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In Graceland, the federal agents often have to pretend to use drugs in order to convince criminals that they are not cops. The episode "O-Mouth" is named after Johnny's criticism of Charlie's technique at playing high. | |
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The Outer Limits (1995): A bit of a variation in "Skin Deep". Sid Camden is furious that he was passed over for promotion in favor of his less experienced but more assertive co-worker Chad Warner. While using a Holographic Disguise to pose as Chad, he plays drunk and insults his boss, which results in Chad getting fired. | |
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Til Debt Do Us Part: Early in the comic, Subin goes out drinking with Yejun and pretends to be dead drunk to see how he would treat her in private. | |
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In The Awful Dr. Orloff, Orloff meets Wanda in a private room and wines and dines her as part of his plan to abduct her. Wanda pretends to get drunk, which allows her to spot him Slipping a Mickey and perform a Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo. | |
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In Batman Begins, Bruce Wayne fakes being drunk as an excuse to insult all of his party guests and shoo them out of his house (thus preventing them from getting killed). When Wayne Manor is torched in the ensuing battle, the next day the papers read "Drunken Billionaire Burns Down Home". | |
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Community subverts this trope in an episode where Jeff Winger's lame attempts to play drunk quickly give way to his being genuinely very drunk thanks to Abed's Enforced Method Acting. | |
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RWBY: While Qrow genuinely is drunk most of the time, he's much better at holding his liquor than he pretends. While he often walks with a sway and speaks with a lisp, both quickly disappear whenever things get serious. | |
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In Peep Show, Mark tries to fake an ecstasy high after being given a pill that he doesn't want to take. Hilarity Ensues. | |
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Trigun. It's hard to determine at any time just how much of Vash the Stampede's apparent drunkenness is honest and how much is the trope. While at times he's shown to be so plastered as to be unable to maintain his Obfuscating Stupidity, at other times he's been able to snap sober in a blink. | |
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The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You: Rentarou planned to serve fake beer at a sleepover in Chapter 109 to welcome his newest girlfriend into the harem. But the publisher refused to let him do so, since only three of his 21 girlfriends are old enough to drink,note while one of the girlfriends is 89 years old, she has the body of an 8-year-old and thus Can't Hold Her Liquor and so Rentarou opted to set up atmospheric conditions to simulate drunkenness instead. | |
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Sam Winchester of Supernatural does this in "I Know What You Did Last Summer" to hustle pool. | |
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In the Discworld novels: In Feet of Clay, the murderer leaves a bottle of whisky in reformed alcoholic Sam Vimes's desk, then contacts various "respected citizens" with the news he's drunk. When they arrive, it initially appears that it's worked; the place stinks of alcohol, and Vimes is slumped over his desk. Actually, Vimes just wants to see who turns up and how they react. Inverted in Unseen Academicals. After drinking enough beer to incapacitate some of the toughest foot-the-ball captains in Ankh-Morpork, Vetinari is drunk. He's just very good at acting like he isn't. Snuff: Vimes uses this to lure out the murderer targeting him, assisted by a friendly bartender. He makes a show of drinking several Gargle Blasters at a party and gets carried off to his bedroom, where he promptly ambushes the murderer, stone-cold sober. |
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Crime Doctor's Man Hunt: When Ordway discovers the two hoods carrying Armstrong's body, he pretends to be drunk to allay their suspicions. | |
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The King Loves: Won pretends to be drunk when he answers his father's summons. | |
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Speed 2: Cruise Control has a hijacker sneak onto the bridge of a ship by pretending to be a lost passenger who's too drunk to stand and falls over onto the controls, then secretly plants a bomb while picking himself up on the floor. | |
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Spy X Family: During her attempt to seduce Loid, Becky's last resort is to press herself against him while claiming to be drunk. In the romance movies she watches - where the heroines pulling this may or may not actually be drunk - this apparently works every time. In real life, it does absolutely nothing to seduce Loid, on account of Becky being six years old, and instead causes Yor to panic and rush Becky to the hospital in the belief that she's somehow accidentally slipped alcohol into Becky's tea. | |
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Done by George to good advantage in With Strings Attached; he's pretending to be drunk and defeated so Brox and Co. don't take him seriously, but he's actually gathering information on the house where John is imprisoned so he can figure out how to rescue him. Later, when he does come up with a plan, he keeps up the drunk act so he can have an excuse to talk his way past the guards (who are admittedly sympathetic to him and John) and climb onto the roof. | |
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In Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity, Rik pretends to be drunk at Zed's dinner (and is implied to have been doing so for a few days beforehand) so that Zed will not select him to become his next quarry in Hunting the Most Dangerous Game. | |
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Snuff: Vimes uses this to lure out the murderer targeting him, assisted by a friendly bartender. He makes a show of drinking several Gargle Blasters at a party and gets carried off to his bedroom, where he promptly ambushes the murderer, stone-cold sober. | |
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On the April 23, 2012 episode of Raw, Chris Jericho is pointed out to what he believes is the scene of CM Punk drinking backstage, which not only would violate Punk's Straight Edge lifestyle, but (apparently) violates company policy, so GM John Laurinaitis states that if he can prove Punk is drunk, the title will be vacated and be handed over to Jericho. Cut to Jericho, Teddy Long, and two police officers in the ring calling out Punk. When Punk makes his entrance, he slumps, he nearly trips over the floor and he even accidentally drops the title, as soon as he opens his mouth; it's the same deal, he slurs his words and stutters. Punk proceeds to fail reciting the alphabet backwards and can't even walk in the marked straight line in the ring. The officers determine Punk is intoxicated (without a breathalyzer), and per agreement, Punk has to vacate the title. He looks disappointed in himself as he hands the title to Teddy Long but as soon as he hands it over, he begs for one more chance which Teddy Long reluctantly grants. Cue him reciting the alphabet backwards perfectly while walking down the straight line, he even moonwalks back to the start when he finishes it and does it again by doing the famous Ric Flair strut, and then you realize that this has all been one long ruse to Out Gambit Jericho and get in the ring alone with him so he can freely beat the shit outta Jericho, which is exactly what he proceeds to do. | |
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In The Americans, Philip and Elizabeth jump an Israeli operative and are dragging him away when they're stopped by a cop. They claim they're just escorting their inebriated friend home, and the Israeli, not wanting to endanger the cop, plays along by slurring drunkely through a few bars of Kenny Rogers's "The Gambler." | |
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In Soul Eater, Stein pretends to be drunk to trap Medusa. Unfortunately, even though he gets her to admit she's a witch, he's too late to stop her from putting her plan into action. | |
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Inverted in Unseen Academicals. After drinking enough beer to incapacitate some of the toughest foot-the-ball captains in Ankh-Morpork, Vetinari is drunk. He's just very good at acting like he isn't. | |
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The Marvel Cinematic Universe fic Spider-Man: Finding Home sees Peter Parker and Yelena Belova end up doing this when Yelena drops in to invite Peter and his new friend Kate Bishop out for a few drinks. Since Peter's metabolism allows him to process alcohol faster than normal, he initially pretends to be drunk to avoid drawing attention to himself, but after Kate's returned home Yelena reveals that she was also faking being drunk as she wanted to confirm Peter wasn't a threat to Kate (she had done background research and confirmed that Peter's identity documents were faked even if she doesn't know why they were faked). | |
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In the Dungeons & Dragons module T1 The Village of Hommlet, Elmo the ranger acts inebriated but is only pretending in order to get other people to underestimate him. | |
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Chicago P.D. often employs this, using one of their cops to pretend to be high in order to get into a drug dealer's place. | |
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Better Call Saul: In a flashback, Mike pretends to be drunk as part of a complex Batman Gambit to kill the two Dirty Cops who killed his son. Mike drunkenly accuses them of the murder of his son while they were in the bar, then continues to act drunk so that they will "helpfully" offer to drive him home as part of their plan to drive to a secluded area to execute him. Unbeknownst to them, the episode had earlier shown Mike breaking into their patrol car and stashing a gun in the seats, allowing him to kill them both after they had already taken care of getting away from bystanders and witnesses. Jimmy and Marco's favourite scam to pull together involves Jimmy and the mark encountering Marco pretending to be passing out drunk in an alley. Jimmy convinces the mark to rob him, telling the mark to take his wallet (containing a couple hundred bucks) while Jimmy helps himself to the nice Rolex watch Marco is wearing. The mark then offers to give Jimmy the wallet plus some of their own money in exchange for the supposedly much more valuable watch, which is really just a worthless fake. |
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In Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), Brad Pitt's character pretends to be drunk and wanders into a room full of targets, asking for a round of poker. He sits down and plays cards with them, tricking them into letting their guards down and eventually shooting them all to death. He then checks the other players' cards and collects his "winnings". | |
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Batman: Bruce Wayne does this as part of his public persona. Most people don't realize that the drinks in his glass are either non-alcoholic beverages that look like alcoholic ones to a casual gaze (when he's drinking at home) or poured into the nearest potted plant (when he's drinking elsewhere). | |
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The Sea Wolves (1980), a war movie in which a Dad's Army-type unit in India is used by British Intelligence for a mission to sink or capture three German ships interned in a neutral port. The cover story is that they are British businessmen on holiday who got drunk and in a fit of Patriotic Fervor boarded the ships. To sell this illusion they are ordered to take a swig of whiskey and spit it out, then pour the rest of the bottle over their clothes. | |
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In Death Note, Matsuda, after being caught by Yotsuba, pretends to be drunk so he can fake his death via falling. | |
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One episode of M*A*S*H has Hawkeye and BJ pretend to be drunk while talking loudly about a valuable tape recorder to bait the thief in camp into making a move on it. | |
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The killer in one episode of Monk picked a fight while pretending to be drunk so as to attract paparazzi attention, which would then give him an alibi for the murder he was going to commit. | |
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Dolphus Raymond from To Kill a Mockingbird. He pretends to be a drunk so he doesn't suffer backlash from the fact he's in love with a black girl (and fathered a child with her). | |
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Pitt also plays drunk in Spy Game (complete with Vomit Indiscretion Shot) to throw suspicion off him and the asset he's trying to get across the border (or so he thinks). | |
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Raiders of the Lost Ark: Marion, who can drink a huge Himalayan under the table, plays drunk with Belloq long enough to (try to) make a break for it. | |
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The Professionals: In "The Female Factor", Doyle pretends to be drunk when visiting a high-class call girl in order to draw out her pimp, whom CI5 wishes to interrogate. | |
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In Quiller's Run, Quiller has resigned from the Bureau and finds himself at a loss as to what to do with his life. He finds a former shadow executive like himself drunk in a bar, and somewhat disturbed at this image of how he might end up, accepts a private contract from him. His pal promises to sober up and act as The Handler, and does in fact do such a good job that Quiller begins to suspect his alcoholism was just an act. He's right, as this 'former' shadow executive is still working for the Bureau and has conned Quiller into accepting another mission for them. | |
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Daredevil: Combined with Fakeout Makeout in "Regrets Only" when Matt Murdock and Elektra Natchios duck into a room and pretend to have sex to evade guards searching for the people who just stole an important ledger. When the guards come in, they pull on their clothes while stumbling about and mumbling apologies. The guards are suspicious but are eventually convinced and just move them on so they can continue the search. Elektra is still playing drunk as they leave the building, to Matt's annoyance. | |
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Zoro and Nami do this in One Piece during Whisky Peak. Nami also used it frequently as a tactic for her pirate robbing prior to becoming a Straw Hat. | |
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The Sting. Henry Gondorff pretends to be drunk to justify acting offensively toward Doyle Lonnegan. To enhance his act he gargles with gin to get alcohol-laden breath and brings along a gin bottle full of water to drink from. | |
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I'm a Marvel... And I'm a DC. At first the Green Goblin really is on a drug trip, but when it wears off he has to fake it. | |
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The trope came into play during the Jake Roberts vs. Jerry Lawler feud of 1996. Background: Roberts returned to the World Wrestling Federation in 1996, using a reformed Christian persona who has quit the bottle, playing off his real-life experiences. Lawler – then a shameless heel – played on Roberts' past, claiming that he was a "drunk" and was appearing at wrestling events under the influence. On an episode of WWF Monday Night RAW, Lawler cut a mean-spirited promo in the ring mocking Roberts and alcoholics in general, when an "intoxicated" Roberts staggered to the ring with a whiskey bottle; however, the crowd – and Lawler, immediately after getting sucker-kicked and DDT'ed – quickly realized it was a ruse to catch Lawler off guard and give him his comeuppance. (Roberts then poured whiskey in Lawler's face to further embarrass him.) | |
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Lucy of The Awful Truth uses this as part of a plot to embarrass her husband in front of his prospective in-laws. | |
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In an episode of Get Smart, Max has to pretend to be an alcoholic. He is issued a pill to keep under his tongue that absorbs all the alcohol he drinks. As he puts it, "I'll look drunk, act drunk, even smell drunk, but I'll be stone sober!" Then he accidentally swallows the pill, causing all the alcohol it absorbed to be introduced into his system at once. | |
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Beverly Hills Cop. While in the bar, Axel Foley pretends to be drunk to make an armed robber think he's harmless and get close enough to take him out. | |
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In Feet of Clay, the murderer leaves a bottle of whisky in reformed alcoholic Sam Vimes's desk, then contacts various "respected citizens" with the news he's drunk. When they arrive, it initially appears that it's worked; the place stinks of alcohol, and Vimes is slumped over his desk. Actually, Vimes just wants to see who turns up and how they react. | |
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Game of Thrones. Tyrion Lannister during his wedding. His drunken act is more exaggerated than faked because he has in fact been drinking a lot, and after one too many jabs from Joffrey, Tyrion threatens to cut his balls off. His father Lord Tywin defuses the situation by calling it a bad joke brought on by too much alcohol; Tyrion takes the hint and agrees, then grabs his newly-wed and staggers off, crashing into various bits of furniture and talking loudly of how he once threw up on a girl during sex. | |
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In The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, the Spymaster of the Blades in Morrowind and the primary Quest Giver for the first act of the main quest, Caius Cosades, is doing this along with Obfuscating Stupidity and Insanity as part of his cover identity as a poor, senile Skooma addict. Given that he is: a) the Imperial Spymaster, b) said to hold his "liquor" fairly well, and c) implied to have killed people who have underestimated him, it can be assumed it is an act. | |
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In Down Periscope, the entire crew of a submarine (minus the sole woman) pretends to be a boatload of drunk fishermen to fool the other side during a war game, singing "Louie Louie" at the top of their lungs and as far from the proper key as they can manage. | |
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Kiel'ndia from Drowtales gets directly told she's baked on chocolate after she gets caught somewhere she shouldn't be and plays along. It works in part because even sober that's just how Kiel acts. | |
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Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor in "The Girl in the Fireplace", complete with Necktie Headband. | |
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Blake's 7 In "Stardrive", Vila pretends to be drunk so he can make a suggestion on how to fix the current problem (the ship's atmosphere leaking out of a hole in the hull) in the form of a rambling reminiscence, but avoid being called on to undertake the repair himself (because you couldn't give such a dangerous task to someone who was obviously drunk). | |
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Star Wars Rebels: In "Empire Day", Kanan plays drunk in order to distract a stormtrooper during a parade that the gang is about to crash. Ezra gets the assist by claiming that Kanan is his dad and is just overexcited. | |
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The title character of the Agent Pendergast books often mimics being high or drunk to blend in with criminals or repel ordinary people from suspecting him. | |
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The Wire Lester once pretends to be a drunk dialing the wrong number for a takeout to confirm D'Angelo Barksdale's pager number, and when arresting Bird, he and Sydnor hang around on a corner waiting for Bird to come out, at which point the fake-drunk Lester hits him with the bagged bottle | |
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In Cross Cases, Sam gets some money his first night in Dresdenverse Chicago by way of his usual scheme of hustling pool and pretending he's drunk. His act is so good he even fools Harry at first, and from Harry's perspective, if he could fake being drunk that well, who's to say everything else about him isn't just an act? | |
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The Rise of Phoenixes: Ning Yi pretends to be drunk when he goes to see his father. | |
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The Wild Geese. Allen Faulkner and Rafer Janders are looking for their friend Sean Fynn who has a Price on Their Head. They think Fynn is hiding in a casino because he's dating a croupier who works there, so put on an obnoxious drunk act to get everyone else away from her table so they can have a discreet word. | |
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The 47 Ronin: Kuranosuke does this when some visitors arrive, the first trying to convince him to work for the shogun and the next two demanding he immediately go to war against Kira. He immediately drops the pretense when his son is about to leave to go make war on Kira as well, explaining to his son that everything he's doing is part of his plan for revenge against Kira. | |
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Alistair feigns drunkenness in As Time Goes By in the episode where everyone tries to surprise Jean with a trip to Barbados. It's all a bit involved. | |
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In Veronica Mars, Veronica walks into a poker game, picks up a half-empty bottle that the clearly inebriated Duncan has been drinking from all night, and drains it in a single gulp. It was iced tea, and he was faking drunkenness as part of his poker strategy. | |
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During a bank robbery in Red Dead Redemption 2, the player can choose to have Karen act drunk to distract the guards. | |
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Alien: Resurrection. A drunk Call tries to drink a cup of Johner's Gargle Blaster while wearing boxing gloves, inevitably spills it and gets thrown out of the room by him. This gives her a chance to prowl about the spaceship unobserved. Turns out Call is an Artificial Human, so she can't get drunk in the first place. | |
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National Treasure 2: In order to get away from the tightly monitored lines of tourists at Buckingham Palace, Ben pretends to have a public argument with his girlfriend (who has no idea it's a fake argument), and when the security guards come to collect them, Ben causes an even bigger scene while playing up his "drunken" antics, which gets them detained, the perfect place for Riley to spring them free from afar with his computer. | |
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Colombiana. The Dynamic Entry of the protagonist as an adult Professional Killer involves her ramming into a police car, stumbling out along with a couple of bottles, then getting cuffed and thrown into a holding cell to sleep it off when she threatens to throw up. Turns out this is a Get into Jail Free ploy to gain access to her target. | |
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In The Silver Chair, Puddleglum samples some liquor from the giants in Harfang and becomes royally soused. However, he claims the next morning that he was acting drunk to put the giants off their guard. Well, mostly acting. Of course, if that's the case, he's also playing having a hangover the next day. | |
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In the Sherlock Holmes novel A Study in Scarlet, the murderer returns to the scene of the crime to retrieve an item he left behind and finds that the police are on the scene, so he pretends to be merely a drunk passerby. (Holmes, hearing about it later, immediately realises the deception from the policeman's description of the "drunk" man's mannerisms.) | |
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How I Met Your Mother: Barney's father Jerome pretends to be drunk to get back at Barney for trying to get him to be his crazy old self again. | |
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Suske en Wiske: In "De Raap van Rubens", while in the year 1620, Lambik is ambushed by 3 robbers and quickly hides in a wine barrel to escape them. When this fails because the robbers keep searching for him, he emerges from the barrel, seemingly drunk. However, that is just an act to make the robbers drop their guard, and when they get close enough he knocks them out cold. | |
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Belisarius Series: In An Oblique Approach, part of Belisarius' plan involves playing at being a drunken sot to fool Lord Venandakatra into thinking he was going to corrupt the general into the Malwa Empire's plans to conquer the world. To himself, Belisarius scornfully thinks that because of his country boy youth, he could have drunken Venandakatra under the table at the age of ten. | |
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In Burn Notice, Michael points out that appearing to be drunk is a very effective tool for numerous different types of operations. Once, when he needs to be seen getting drunk instead of just showing up already drunk, he explains the three simple steps he uses to make it seem like he is drinking more than he is: 1) Order drinks with lots of ice, lowering the total amount of alcohol present. 2) Order refills before you have finished your drink. 3) Spill. | |
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In one episode of Mission: Impossible, Briggs wakes up a man by pretending to be drunk and loudly singing in the hall outside his hotel room. | |
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The Fugitive (1993). While Gerard and Newman are approaching the house with one of the escapees inside, they pretend to be drunks. Gerard even says "Be drunk, Newman." | |
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The Count in The Barber of Seville pretends to be a drunken soldier as part of his Zany Scheme to marry Rosina. | |
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