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[Langdon Alger]

How can a show with so much alcohol abuse not have inspired a drinking game already? (Especially now when we need it the most.)

Make the rules for your DVD watching marathons and when you need to escape from a world with so much uncertainty about the future of your favorite show.

I'll start:
-Drink every time someone says... "he's very good", "no touching!", or "good grief"
-Every time someone does a chicken dance or the Lucille wink
-Whenever someone is "taught a lesson"
-Whenever Oscar alludes to being Buster's father or Buster's hand being bitten off is foreshadowed
-Whenever a Bluth/Funke drinks
-Whenever GOB corrects someone regarding a trick vs. an illusion
-And you may down an entire bottle if the future of show is revealed.

[whateverfloats]

How about whenever someone says "That was a freebe"? Or when Michael tells someone not to call it The OC?

[chrisarah]

Or whenever someone says "I need ice" or "we need ice"

[bookemdano]

Others:

Her?
Come on!
"Footage not found"
I've made a huge mistake
Steve Holt!
Tobias makes a self-incriminating remark

More obscure:

Someone mentions hop-ons
Michael and GOB get in a fight
George Sr. eats an ice cream sandwich
Someone leaves out a definite/indefinite article (army, banner, etc.)

I seem to remember making some suggestions along these lines in another thread (someone was having a party for the final four episodes). I'll see if I can't dig that up as well.

Ah, found it quickly (that was a freebie!)... it was in the meet market thread, starting here:

http://forums.televi...dpost&p=4492973

and here were the suggestions:

Take a drink when....
someone says "I've made a huge mistake"
when someone says "No touching"
Buster has a panic attack
Tobias is shown in cut offs
Gob's name is mis pronounced
anytime Gob says illusion or does a magic trick
Tobias makes a self incriminating gay reference

- someone says "her?" (including the narrator)
- Oscar is mistaken for George Sr.
- Buster's stump is blurred out
- Anyone does their chicken dance
- The stair car has hop-ons
- George Sr. eats an ice cream sandwich
- "Big Yellow Joint" plays in the background
- Steve Holt yells "Steve Holt!"

More music ideas:
- "Whatcha tryin to say to me" porny music plays
- Soap opera-ish music plays

Also,
- Narrator editorializes (if it refers to Opie, Richie Cunningham or Ron Howard, chug!)

More drinking game ideas!
-Any time they do a close up of a doll or a puppet.
-Wenever Gob says "Come on" and take two shots if someone else says it.

And another music one, take a shot every time the "Final Countdown" plays.

Edited by bookemdano, Mar 14, 2006 @ 6:52 PM.

[ChickenPotPiiie]

Someone mentions hop-ons

And watch out for live-ins. You will get some live-ins.

[Cat Fight]

So we'll just be drinking steadily throughout the entire show then? As usual, then.

[phonecop]

And any time there's HooYa! Of course, Lucille's pretty much the only person who'll have the stomach for this game by the time we're through. Maybe we should stick to juice...

[stevekl]

-Whenever a Bluth/Funke drinks

Some friends and I tried this once with Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf -- matching Elizabeth Taylor drink for drink. Not pretty. I'd imagine it would be the same way with Lucille.

[Mibbitmaker]

I don't drink. What can I do (esp. to escape AD uncertainty)?

I think, if you want to get drunk, either "...huge mistake" or Tobias gay innuendo would be your best bet. Variation for "...tiny huge mistake"?

[ChickenPotPiiie]

I don't drink. What can I do (esp. to escape AD uncertainty)?

Drink Virgin Marys?

[Veloso]

Here's one: take a drink whenever Michael does a double-take.

[Chaw Chee Chaw]

Whenever Michael inadvertantly makes a sexual innuendo regarding George Michael and Maeby.

[silvyme]

I don't drink either. However, for the finale, my wifeyfriends and I had a chocolate fondue drinking game. It was all quite complicated with different phrases get different importance and thus, different amounts of fondue. Half of us were pregnant and even they left the house with more than enough chocolate in their system.

We have also done just a dessert game - we are all going to be fat and huge in a few years times!

[Mibbitmaker]

Other ways we non-drinkers can go:

Shirley Temples?

Alcohol-free mudslides

Grape Nehi[/Radar]....

[No Touching]

-Take one drink when you see a montage.

-Take two drinks every time you stumble across a possible aborted storyline for Tobias (his African heritage, fireplace dwelling, etc.)

-Chug the whole bottle when you see something unfunny (not applicable to Martin Short appearances).

Edited by No Touching, Mar 16, 2006 @ 1:38 AM.

[glory85]

I was going to suggest taking a drink every time you see Lucille drink but we'd all die of alcohol poisoning if we did that.

Take a drink every time there's a foreshadowing/mention of Buster's severed hand.

Take a drink every time there's a Wizard of Oz/Oz reference/mixup.

[cuiusquemodi]

I don't drink. What can I do (esp. to escape AD uncertainty)?

Why, a juice box, of course.

[EllieH]

Drink Virgin Marys?

If that doesn't work for you, go for a virgin Pina Colada!

[Anifan19]

AD drinking games never worked for me because I knew the episodes so well that say, I would know Tobias would be blue, so if that was one of the rules I would see it coming-- drinking games should be sort of unpredictable. But my friends and I found a simple yet elegant AD drinking game that we can't really predict-- Drink every time a character lies. Of courseyou know some big lies are coming, but there are so many little ones that it keeps it fresh.

(Of course, this opens up all those tricky gray areas of "Is a deliberate, carefully-worded deception a lie? Is self-delusion or denial a lie?" No easy answers here.)