Infographic: How Your Favorite TV and Movie Characters Get Drunk

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Our favorite fictional characters have always been a boozy bunch. Whether it’s The Dude clutching a White Russian or Jay Gatsby sipping a Gin Rickey, literary and film figures can often be found drink in hand. The clever minds at Pop Chart Lab took notice of this trend and created the aptly named infographic, “The Cocktail Chart of Film & Literature,” an illustrated print that charts 49 iconic fictional characters and their associated libations — recipes included.

“We realized quickly that so many of our favorite characters were actually immediately associated with alcoholic drinks,” says Will Prince, Pop Chart Lab’s managing editor. “And our research further confirmed our suspicions: Fictional characters, across all mediums, love to drink.”

Some of the pairings and recipes were no-brainers, like Carrie Bradshaw and her sugary cosmopolitan or James Bond and his classic Vesper martini. But what about drinks like “The Dregs,” Charlie Chaplin’s cocktail of stale, half-consumed cocktails? Or the “Flaming Moe,” the infamous cigarette ash-laced beverage in The Simpsons?

Turns out, the internet is “a wonderful resource for the very specific ways, real and fictional, to get drunk,” Prince explains.

http://www.wired.com/design/2013/06/infographic-fiction-drinks/#slideid-150374

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1. Barnaby Jones (Buddy Ebsen) always ordered milk

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2. Booze & Cigs were the product placement grand parents.

did you ever try drinking and smoking because you saw it in a movie or TV show ? At ten I begged my grandmother for a sip of her gin & tonic and a hit off her Pall Mall and she let me have a sip and a toke ==== mmmmmmmmmmm tasty

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3. TORCHES OF FREEDOM

By the mid-1920s smoking had become commonplace in the United States and cigarette tobacco was the most popular form of tobacco consumption. At the same time women had just won the right to vote, widows were succeeding their husbands as governors of such states as Texas and Wyoming, and more were attending college and entering the workforce. While women seemed to be making great strides in certain areas, socially they still were not able to achieve the same equality as their male counterparts. Women were only permitted to smoke in the privacy of their own homes. Public opinion and certain legislation at the time did not permit women to smoke in public, and in 1922 a woman from New York City was arrested for lighting a cigarette on the street.

George Washington Hill, president of the American Tobacco Company and an eccentric businessman, recognized that an important part of his market was not being tapped into. Hill believed that cigarette sales would soar if he could entice more women to smoke in public.

http://www.prmuseum.com/bernays/bernays_1929.html

I doubt that anyone would like Flaming Moe

I decided to mix the little bits that were left in every liquor bottle. In my haste, I had grabbed a bottle of the kid’s cough syrup. It passed the first test: I didn’t go blind . . . I don’t know the scientific explanation, but FIRE MADE IT GOOD.

http://alleged2bdelicious.wordpress.com/2010/07/21/cocktail-spotlight-the-flaming-moe/