Umbrella Drink

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A curved glass filled with bright pink (or blue, or orange...) fluid, garnished with little pieces of fruit and decorated with the all-important paper cocktail umbrella. This cocktail is associated with Pacific islands, especially Hula and Luaus vacations. A tiki-themed tourist trap is not complete without a row of colorful rum-based cocktails, which are identifiable more by their decorations than by their contents, a visual shorthand for the type of drink one usually doesn't get at the local pub.

Fluffy the Terrible will sometimes apply; despite their widespread derision as "girly drinks" they are often very, very strong.

An umbrella cocktail will be the regular Drink Order of a Cloudcuckoolander. See also Gargle Blaster for the more potent drinks that get served with these little umbrellas.

Examples of Umbrella Drink include:

Film

• In The Jerk, Navin is very partial to these. At one point during his millionaire period, he actually gets a machine that dispenses them.
  • "Be somebody!"
• One of the few unambiguously funny scenes in Zodiac involves Robert Graysmith's (presumably accurate, he wrote the book) bizarre choice of drink (it's an aqua velva).

Paul Avery: "This...can no longer be ignored."

• Wayne's World: When meeting the network guy to discuss business over drinks, Wayne and network guy drink beer. Garth has something huge, bright blue and garnished with what looks like a whole pineapple.
• Tron: Legacy, of all things, manages to have this--inside the Grid, no less. The "umbrella" appears to be made out of glass and metal, fittingly enough.
• UHF - Weird Al is facing total failure with his new TV channel and goes to drown his sorrows at the bar with a big fancy umbrella drink. He didn't drink but decided it was a good time to start.

Live Action TV

• The Girl Drink Drunk from The Kids in The Hall only drinks umbrella drinks...to the point where he mixes one up while sitting with a fellow wino on a park bench.
• In an episode of The West Wing, John Larroquette's Large Ham character rants about how he's supposed to be on vacation, being brought drinks with "little UM-brellas in them."
• Del Boy has a fondness for these in Only Fools and Horses, being under the erroneous impression that they make him look sophisiticated.

Literature

• Ridcully warns people against these in Hogfather. Bilious, the (Oh) God of Hangovers, harbours a particular hatred for them.
  • In Men At Arms, Detritus orders a "molten sulphur on coke with phosphoric acid", "with umbrella in it". Nobby's "Slow Comfortable Double Entendre with lemonade and a fruit salad in it" is also an example.
  • Featured again in Thud, when Cheery, Angua and Sally go on a girls' night out. Towards the end of the evening, Sally throws up a humorous umbrella.

Video Games

• In Kingdom of Loathing, the "cocktailcrafting" skill allows you to summon various garnishes to improve your beverages. One of them is a little paper umbrella.
  • Most of the drinks made with this skill are deemed "Fruity girl drinks" by the game's Lemony Narrator. The rest, which require an additional skill, are labeled "Extra-fruity girl drinks". With an evil paper umbrella, you can mix "Evil fruity girl drinks".
    • There's even a Demon Lord dedicated to Fruity Drinks.
• In The Curse of Monkey Island, the umbrella is a plot point: You have to order a fruity drink with an umbrella in it. The bartender Goodsoup is out, so he'll give you a regular umbrella instead. Doubles as a parachute later.

Web Comics

• Sabine of the Linear Guild is shown drinking a suitably girly pink cocktail with umbrella in this strip.
• Girls with Slingshots: Quote Jamie:

Everything tastes better with an umbrella.

Web Original

• One particularily memorable thread on /m/ had various posters coming up with recipes for Gundam and other Humongous Mecha-themed cocktails. One of these, "The Laura Rolla", needs to be served with an umbrella for the joke to work. Specifically, you need it to hide the cocktail weiner.

Western Animation

• After being unfairly characterized as a coward, Jay Sherman decides to man up and shrug off his perceived wimpiness, and he starts by pounding down an especially frilly one of these.
• Subverted in the episode of Futurama titled War is the H-Word.

Zap: Damnit, Kif, where's the little umbrella? That's what makes it a scotch on the rocks!

• In one episode of Daria, Mr. Demartino asks Mr. O'Neill to meet him at a bar. The bar is...not a classy establishment. O'Neill orders a Mai Tai.
• In The Road to El Dorado Tzekel-kan insists a little umbrella be put in his potion.