The 13 Most Lovable TV Alcoholics By AwesomeBalla  [13 more lists]

"We drink because it's what men do."

Never had the world of misogynistic, cocktail-infused 50's advertising been thought of as sexy until "Mad Men" and Don Draper came along. They smoke, pour liquor and hit on secretaries all before lunch, all while looking incredibly debonair in their perfectly tailored suits and with their slicked-back hair. One of Don's colleagues, Roger Sterling is the embodiment of a sauve, sophisticated alcoholic if there ever was one.

Everyone wants a job where they can just sit around, do nothing and drink all day. These characters make us believe this existed at some point, or, at the very least, that it's possible. This is why we love them.

"Beer: The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems." --Homer Simpson

Homer was the original cartoon drunk (well, the first one with his own show). He consumes so much beer that his bartender, Moe, is a regular character and his favorite brew, Duff's, is probably better known to some than his perpetual infantile daughter's name (seriously, people never remember it).

BEST OF HOMER BEER QUOTES
"I've figured out an alternative to giving up my beer. Basically, we become a family of traveling acrobats." When The Simpsons are low on money and have to cut back on things like beer.

"I like my beer cold... my TV loud... and my homosexuals flaming."

"Now son, you don't want to drink beer. That's for Daddies, and kids with fake IDs."

"I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer."

"DOE RE MI BEER
DOUGH... the stuff...that buys me beer...
RAY..... the guy that sells me beer...
ME...... the guy... who drinks the beer,
FAR..... the distance to my beer
SO...... I think I'll have a beer...
LA...... La la la la la la beer
TEA..... no thanks, I'm drinking beer...
That will bring us back to...(Looks into an empty glass)
D'OH!"
--Homer J. Simpson

"Pretty women make us BUY beer. Ugly women make us DRINK beer."

Al Bundy is the dad that you wish your best friend had. He likes to drink and he likes to dispense pearls of wisdom while drinking; most often ABOUT drinking, and other life c**p too. On the surface, he hates his life and everything in it, but deep down he loves his family more than anything (even though he'd never admit it).

The only thing that gets Al through the day is the thought of ending it with a successful trip to the john, a nice cold brew, the sports game on and his free hand down his pants playing a little pocket pool.

And give the man some credit, if you were touching bunion covered, corn laden fat women feet all day, you would probably be a heavy drinker, too.

Ted's (and formerly Lily and Marshall's, presently Robin's) apartment sits a few floors above their favorite New York City bar, McClaren's Pub. A great majority of the crew's funniest moments and most soul-searching discussions happen in the same booth at McClaren's. The bar allows Barney to have a consistent base for picking up ladies, it was where Ted first laid eyes on Robin and it was the place that Marshall and Lily went to after first getting engaged in episode one.

Here's a clip of the crew at McClaren's about to meet Ted's current girlfriend for the first time. When Ted tells everyone that his new gf is hot, Barney launches into his theory of the "Hot/Crazy Scale." Ted quickly denies that she isn't crazy just plain hot, to which we later learn that Barney Stenson, is once again, always right.

What truly makes them drunk is that they not only live above this bar, but they go there pretty much every night. The sheer amount of money they spend on drinks there must be astronomical, and not one of them goes without a drink or a beer almost every single night.

Bender from 'Futurama' not only loves smoking, drinking, gambling and treating others like c**p, but the circuits of his robot body are LITERALLY fueled by alcohol.

To add to the point, his name is BENDER. As in, going on a Bender. We actually just recently put that together.

Bender's pretty much miserable when he doesn't get to drink, a true sign of an alcoholic, and often says things like "What kind of party is this? There's no booze and only one hooker."

Much like the majority of the people on this list, he's mostly a piece of c**p, but we love him because like most TV alcoholics, we don't have to be around him and he makes us laugh.