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WeirdOur Favorite Bartenders
By Tyler Coates
@tylercoates
Published
Dec. 5, 2014, 3:00 p.m. ET
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You can always find a friend in a bartender, especially when he's a ghost like Lloyd in 'The Shining,' who feeds you information about your scheming wife and child in the hopes that you'll murder them before killing yourself.
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Would could forget Brad the hunky bartender (played by Craig Kvinsland) in PT Anderson's 'Magnolia,' who was the object of many a man's affections and probably the hottest guy to ever sport a set of braces.
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If you're gonna take a cruise, you're likely going to drink a lot to combat your sea-sickness. And who better to serve you than Ted Lange's groovy bartender Isaac Washington from the long-running soap, 'The Love Boat'?
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Carrie-Anne Moss' Natalie may be memorable (heh) in 'Memento', but that doesn't mean she's a bartender any of us would want to share our secrets with.
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We wouldn't trust the gang from 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia' with anything other than keeping us absolutely blitzed at Paddy's Pub.
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Springfield's perennial bartender Moe Szyslak might be kind of a grump, but he's a town staple and 'The Simpsons' wouldn't be the same without him.
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In his Grindhouse offering, 'Death Proof', Quentin Tarantino turns up swinging drinks and chattin' up the ladies (as well as the deadly Stuntman Mike) in his Austin, Texas dive bar.
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Deadwood's resident bar proprietor and pimp Al Swearengen (played by Ian McShane) pretty much runs the town, so he's definitely a good ally to have (and it's only a bonus that he'd serve you whiskey).
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In the modern update to the classic British comedy, Jude Law's Alfie tries to put in a good word with his buddy's ex-girlfriend in order to help him win her back. But Lonette (played by Nia Long) only gets Alfie drunk enough to bone her on a pool table.
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The gals from 'Coyote Ugly' put most of their male counterparts to shame, managing to balance mixology and dance moves while tending bar.
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Sam Malone and Woody Boyd (Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson) make the perfect pair to visit at your regular haunt, Cheers: one's sober, one's a doofus, but they'll lend and ear and keep your glass filled to the brim.
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You can't come up with a list of the most memorable bartenders without including Tom Cruise's bottle-flipping and Elizabeth Shue-bedding
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