not want to drink that junk. He tries to give her a fresh bourbon instead. In the show Cheers episode 9 of season 1, Diane (Shelley Long) orders three drinks, one being a Brandy Alexander, from Carla (Rhea Perlman) who then just gives her three beers instead. In the James Gray movie Two Lovers, Michelle (Gwyneth Paltrow) tells Leonard (Joaquin Phoenix) she drinks Brandy Alexanders with her boyfriend Ronald, a rich lawyer. Leonard orders one at a restaurant to impress her, but ruins the effect by mistaking the stirrer for a straw. In the first episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Mary asks Lou Grant for a Brandy Alexander in her job interview. In the film A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III, Charlie Sheen's character drinks Brandy Alexanders throughout the film. In the film Bedazzled, Brendan Fraser allegedly drinks Brandy Alexanders and runs around singing while wearing his Speedo. In the Netflix movie Between Two Ferns: The Movie, Zach Galifianakis orders a Brandy Alexander while talking to Chrissy Teigen at a bar. In the show Starsky and Hutch, episode ‘Hutchinson: Murder One’, Hutch orders his ex-wife a Brandy Alexander in Huggy’s ‘The Pits’ bar. In the show Mad Men, season 1, episode 11, ‘Indian Summer,’ Peggy Olson orders a Brandy Alexander for herself while out on a date, stating that another character, Joan Holloway, usually orders them for her and that this one is less sweet than she is used to. In print The character Brandy Alexander in the novel Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk is named after the drink. Anthony Blanche orders four "Alexandra cocktails" in Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited. The Granada Television adaptation for television helped repopularize the drink in the 1980s. Christian Kracht repeats the four Brandy Alexanders motif in his 1995 novel Faserland. In Kurt Vonnegut's book, Mother Night, the protagonist suspects that an overly flattering article in the Herald Tribune about his neighbor was "written by a pansy full of Brandy Alexanders." See also Alexander, a related cocktail that antedates the Brandy Alexander List of cocktails References External links IBA Official Cocktails Cocktails with brandy Cocktails with chocolate liqueur Cocktails with ice cream Creamy cocktails