William Jarvis’ world famous musical version of “The Drunkard” served with complete dinner, eh? Including the parts where he throws up repeatedly? Or maybe that’s a different play. Speaking of different plays, don’t miss “Hiss the Villain and Cheer the Hero,” described as a “children’s musical version of ‘The Drunkard.’”

They got a lot of mileage out of that play, which was written in 1844:

"In the 20th century, the dated melodrama of Smith's play made it a target of parody. In 1934, a production of The Drunkard was featured to comic effect in the W. C. Fields film The Old Fashioned Way. The following year, James Murray and Clara Kimball Young starred in a film called The Drunkard, a comedy-drama in which two theatrical producers present the play as a farce with their needy relatives in the cast. In 1940, Buster Keaton starred in another film parody, The Villain Still Pursued Her."