| Topic | Cliche | Submitter |
| Alcohol/ Bars | Whenever someone enters a bar, and the bartender asks what'll you have?, the person replies a beer--not a specific brand, just a beer....and the bartender goes and gets it. | Erik Flesher |
| Alcohol/Hangovers | People always put large comic icepacks on their heads and stagger around the apartment being churlishly funny to sunny, happy people, when in reality they would be serial vomiting for hours until they were happy to be down to the last of their stomach bile. | Maureen |
| Alcohol/Teen movies | Be it teen flick or teenaged victim horror movie, When there is the inevitable big party at the Jocks house, half the school turn up as they've heard they got a KEG!! That one keg must be like a tardis, becuase it lasts all night and gets everyone totally drunk. |
Nadine Culshaw |
| Alcohol | Only men are alcoholics. Any hopeless alcoholic can quit drinking when faced with an important challenge. The instant the alcoholic stops drinking, all his faculties return and he faces no annoying withdrawals. | |
| alcohol | When a drink is thrown in one's face, it doesn't burn the eyes regardless of how high the alcohol content | Bobbi Speight |
| Alcohol | did u know that guns are great for curing drunkeness!! if u watch a film where a load of bad guys are around a table drinking, their speech will always be slurred and they will be laughing (drunkily), then the hero of the movie will enter the room and after a while, when things get serious, the hero will pull out a gun and low and behold all the bad guys will automatically become 100% sober (stand up and pull out there guns). u must try it sometime. (I THINK there is a good example of this in enemy of the state, but im not sure.) | keith maloney |
| alcohol | In the eight years that I have been a bartender, I have never seen anyone drink a shot by jerking back their head as if they were taking aspirin. That urks me when I see it in a movie. Also the fact that nobody ever makes a grimacing face when drinking the harshest of liqour...especially the women. | michelle |
| Alcohol | Bars in movies don't need to make money. Anytime you see a scene in a bar, the bar nowhere near as busy as it needs to be in order to stay in business. The bartender always has time for long conversations with the patrons, to wash glasses, or to flip bottles in the air just for fun. | Joe Benik |
| Alcohol | People in movies are much more flexible when ordering drinks than in real life. You can walk into a bar and order a beer and get one, no questions asked. You can go over to someone's house and be asked wanna drink? and get one without having to specify what you want to drink. You'll most likely get a neat glass of whiskey (no ice, no water, no soda), but that will be fine with you. | Joe Benik |
| Alcohol | Almost anyone gets drunk from one drink. | |
| alcohol | If a bizzare or unusual incident occurs in public, s/he will look at the bottle s/he is holding and then toss it away with a general air of enough is enough. |
Dave Chapman |
| alcohol | Have you ever noticed, that no matter how long people were absent from home, they always have icecubes for their drinks in a cooler. Those cubes don't seem to melt away. | Chris Freese |
| Alcohol | Coffee will sober you up from a complete stupor in a matter of minutes. | Daniel Pierce |
| alcohol | everyone always has a fully-stocked bar in their house/apartment. we're talking professional quality, everything from chivas regal to grenadine. how often do you see this in reality? | brian hesterley |
| Alcohol | Why is it after a mad night out on the beer that nobody arrives home with vomit down the front of their shirts or at least some dirt on their clothes as they would have surly fallen on their way home. | Paul Breen |
| Alcohol | All characters in a movie drink the same brand of liquor or beer (i.e. in The Watcher, the only brand of beer seen is Tsingtao). If you're spending more time trying to figure out what the movie's magic brand of liquor is than paying attention to the plot, it's time to find something else to watch. | Steve |
| Alcohol | I was a bartender when Cocktail came out. Spin the bottle like Tom Cruise the customers would say. Now this awful Coyote Ugly is perpetuating this tumbling-spinning the liquor bottle myth. Just try it. Hope you have a mop. Centrifical force on a spinning bottle sends liquor in both directions. Plus see how long you keep your job dumping $40 bottles of high proof on the bar and lighting it. | Jim Ross |
| Alcohol | An aparently mid-twenties 'teenager' procures a single bottle of beer between 4 of them. They get absolutely plastered on their quarter of a bottle each, become terrified of the affect of this nightmare brew, and vow never to drink again. | Chris Sugg |
| alcohol | In movies people with problems always go and drive a car with an open beer can in their hand. Obviously they get drunk from that _one can_, because they usually crash into something... | M.Rautaniemi |
| Alcohol | Although the main character has been drinking for hours, he/she can still snap to do the most strenuous jobs in a matter of seconds (a la Independence Day) | One Eyed Jack |
| Alcohol | Although much has been listed about men drinking whiskey, no one pointed out one important step of a hero drinking whiskey: Since hero's are sloppy people, they must whipe their mouths with the back of their sleeves upon completing their drink. This occurs after the whince but before the teeth are showen. |
Jack Anderson |
| Alcohol | When characters drink red wine in a scene, they never get stained teeth or marks around their mouth like real people do! | Sue Beach |
| alcohol | Any character portrayed as a heavy drinker will take a good slug before any big scene involving guns, planes or cars. | Barry Johnson |
| Alcohol | If you are an underage drinker in a horror film, you will die horribly, and probably first. | Doctor J |
| Alcohol | In movies, people walk into a bar, sit down, and order a drink. Then they take one or maybe two sips, and leave the unfinished drink. In real life most drinkers will drain an drink and suck the ice cubes for the last taste of overpriced booze. | Jeff K |