"Tea" V and other movie references

One of the characters in the new series “Rubicon” announces that he’s “addicted to Earl Grey”. The statement doesn’t seem to move the story along, but, as this is one of those TV shows like ‘24’ in which the plot carries over from episode to episode, maybe it will be important in a future show.
( BTW, after just two weeks, I’m addicted to this show.)

I’m shocked no one mentioned Alice in Wonderland… nothing further needed.

The two movie references that come to mind are:
1) Coffee and Cigarettes: a movie in vignettes and one is about two guys having a pot of tea and talking over cigarettes.
2) Johny Depp in Chocolat.

And for TV there was the character of Giles on Buffy the Vampire Slayer who had to drink tea all the time due to being British.

If Broadway counts, tea was served in the Tony Award winning play “Doubt”.
Not sure what kind of tea – if any – was in the pot, but I can’t be blamed for the lapse. At the time I was amazed to see that the tea cozy on the pot was one of mine … WOWSA
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There’s a great tea scene in Scott PIlgrim vs. The World ( I could take or leave the movie otherwise)

The love interest invites the hero in, asks him if he’d like a cup of tea, he says yes, and so she asks him what kind. His response: “There’s more than one?!”

LOL. So she goes to her cupboard and opens it and rattles off the names of about a dozen teas. Sadly, at least half she named were actually herbals/tisanes and/or Celestial Seasonings-specific blends. The box she chose was definitely CS teabags.

Dredging this topic back up because I’m a sick woman: I actually paused the DVD last night (House Season 6 for a Christmas present) and stuck my nose in the screen (Episode “Epic Fail”, they’re taking dust sheets off furniture in the diagnosis room) to identify the brands on the tea shelf behind Taub. Didn’t do too well—there was definitely a box of Bigelow Lemon Lift and a tin from Mighty Leaf; couldn’t place the others. Any takers on the others? :)

I’m surprised no-one mentioned it, but…Doctor Who!

I’ve only seen the first 3 years of the new series so far (sadly!) but tea is what gets him through his regeneration. I really need the “old” series’…I’m sure AJ could mention all the other tea loving doctors. : )