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At least in North America and most of western Europe, the university system tends to lead to people having a lot of free time, communal televisions, and access to alcohol.

 

 

 

This may be used in fiction to make fun of another work, or just to have an excuse for the characters to drink.

 

* In ''[[An Entry With a Bang]]'', [http://forums.spacebattles.com/showpost.php?p=4310786&postcount=147 one of the chapters] has two people discussing double heat sink manufacture, while the people around them have a drinking game around the words.

* The ''[[Pony POV Series]]'' has this suggested for a game at Fluttercruel's Cute-Ceañera. It gets turned down on account of [[Noodle Incident|what happened last time Twilight got drunk]], what happens when Pinkie Pie gets drunk, and what happened last time [[Sharing a Body|Fluttershy/Fluttercruel]] got drunk.

 

 

* In ''[[The Incredibles]]'', Mr. Incredible sneaks up on a group of mooks who are watching the Omnidroid beat up on the army on TV.

* The ''[[Wild Zero]]'' DVD has a drinking game in the options menu. Turn it on and a beer icon appears whenever the game wants you to drink.

* In ''[[New In Town]]'' the new manager drunkenly tries to explain how she's going to save the factory, and the rest of the workers take a drink at every [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness|buzzword]].

* In ''[[Baseketball]]'', a boozing session in a local bar turns into an impromptu drinking game, with Coop, Remer, Squeak and 12-year-old liver transplant patient Joey downing shots of tequila every time a fight breaks out on Jerry Springer.

* The ''[[Showgirls]]'' [[Updated Rerelease]] includes a drinking game designed by the producers for their own film.

 

== Literature ==

** There's one with involving sightings of the late Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) caught napping, eye-rolling or wheezing on camera, with [[Calvin Ball|convoluted]] [[Overly Long Gag|rules]] as to what each player must do.

 

* An episode of ''[[Frasier]]'' started with Martin and his sons realizing they are all fans of ''[[Antiques Roadshow]]'', so they then watch it together, taking shots whenever someone says "veneer".

* An episode of ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'' shows that morning show host Robin Scherbatsky is very popular among students in Ted's class, but only because they have a drinking game going where they take a shot every time she says "But, um..." Robin turns the game back on them by saying "but, um" numerous times, forcing the drinkers to get completely drunk and sick.

** The official ''[[The Colbert Report|Colbert Report]]'' drinking game, [http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/181231/november-28-2005/stephen-settles-the-debate---science-vs--faith as proposed in an early episode], is "Take one drink every time Stephen criticizes America." {{spoiler|"That's right. He never does. [[An Aesop|Stay sober and vigilant]]."}}

* In Series One of ''[[Skins]]'' in Chris' episode the friends play a drinking game watching an exercise video where they have to drink every time they see a nipple, a butt crack, or a camel toe, they have to drink a shot.

* On the ''[[Bones]]'' episode "The Body in the Bounty", the Jeffersonian gets a visit from a [[Bill Nye the Science Guy|Bill Nye]]-[[Expy]] named Bunsen Jude the Science Dude and Hodgins turns out to be a big fan of the show. When the titular Science Dude points out that Hodgins is a bit older than his usual audience, Hodgins reveals that back in college, he and his friends would watch the show and take a drink every time Jude said his [[Catch Phrase]]--"''Amazing!''"

* In one ''[[NCIS]]'' episode commentary, Michael Weatherly repeatedly pointed out when those playing at home should drink.

* ''[[That Mitchell and Webb Look]]'' demonstrates why this isn't always a good idea:

{{quote|'''David Mitchell''': I can't help but feel that the company wouldn't ''need'' to seek a merger if we hadn't adopted as company policy the idea of downing a glass of rare vintage claret every time someone says "merger".}}

* ''[[Two and A Half Men]]'' has the bar Pavlov's, named for the scientist who researched classical conditioning with his infamous dog. There's a drinking game showing the bar is aptly named. Whenever the bell at the bar is rung, everyone has to bark and take shot. When Charlie and Alan ring a doorbell later that night, they both can't help but bark.

 

* One of [[Margaret Cho]]'s routines mentions ''[[The Love Boat]]'' Drinking Game. "You pick a character at the beginning of the show, and every time that character came on screen, you would drink. You could always spot the alcoholics cause they're the ones going, 'I wanna be the ship!'".

* One routine from [[Bill Bailey]]'s ''Part Troll'' mentions "Drink Along With Dallas" - whenever someone on Dallas has a drink, you have one too. Unfortunately for Bill the first episode he saw was the oil barons ball - he ended up in casualty.

 

== Theatre ==

 

== Video Games ==

* [[Crowning Moment of Funny|No words can properly describe the hilarity that is]] [[Persona 4|Persona 4's]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkTaY7BGr3M&fmt=18 King's Game]. King's Game (''Ou-sama Game'') involves a group drawing straws with numbers on them. One straw will mark who is the "King" and the King assigns what number should do a certain activity. The people with the called numbers then do the activity. Needless to say, [[Hilarity Ensues]] if mixed with alcohol.

** Even when not mixed with alcohol.

* In the Scottish television gaming programme Consolevania, the presenters Rab and Ryan invented the ''[[Shenmue]]'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-XVp-U9-hw Drinking Game], where you must take a drink every time Ryo Hazuki says 'I see', at any point in the games. In the programme it ends up with Rab pished after one drink ("fuckin' lightweight, always has been") and Ryan with his trousers down trying to get a taxi in Glasgow.

 

* ''[[Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]]'' has this [http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=50 drinking game]

* [[Ansem Retort|Zexion]] decides to play one when they find Xemnas, taking a drink every time he gives a long winded exposition...much to Marluxia's confusion.

* [[The Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ and Amal]]: The title characters decided it would be a good idea to mix Scotch and [[Back to The Future]].

* In ''[[Leftover Soup]]'', [http://leftoversoup.com/archive.php?num=50 Ellen and Maxine discover you should learn the rules to a new game before adding alcohol.]

 

== Web Original ==

** During the Third Anniversary Spectacularmathon party, Marik tries to create several drinking games for him and Bakura, only to be thwarted at every turn. First they try "every time Zombie Boy says "brains", drink." This is after Zombie boy revealed himself to be {{spoiler|perfectly capable of talking normally}}. Then they try "every time Bandit Keith says "[[Wearing a Flag on Your Head|In America]]", drink." This is after he's revealed to be {{spoiler|Canadian}}. (You really think Marik would have remembered that one...) Then, they try "every time you see an offensive stereotype, drink". Sadly for them, [[Borat|Shadi]] and [[Those Wacky Nazis|those wacky Kaibacorp nazis]] weren't invited, British Bakura had just recently been escorted to the hospital (don't ask how Dark Bakura was there too) and Yami had just killed the gay clown. Finally, when a time bomb is sent to the party, Marik says "Every time we all explode and die, we take a-[[Killed Mid-Sentence|*BOOM!*]]

** [[Atop the Fourth Wall|Linkara]] also has one in his [[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Titans #1]] review for every time a full page or two page spread shows up. (Depending on what you were drinking, you could end up pretty plastered, considering just in the single comic there were 11 of them.)

** [[Atop the Fourth Wall|Linkara]] has one for the [[The Dark Knight Returns|part 2]] and the rules for it are the same. If you do this one try something non-alcoholic.

** When reviewing ''[[The Tommyknockers]]'', he didn't want to participate but offered the home version with beer glasses, pool toys, ball caps, and a talking Mr. Toomey (from [[The Langoliers]]) action figure.

* Maddox has invented ''O'Reilly Factor'' Bingo. Caution: it's Maddox, so [http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=bill_oreilly this page is about as SFW as you'd expect.]

* ''[[Tipping Forties]]'': For every [[Let's Play|LP]] the guys do words are chosen to drink on and each week a few are picked by the [[Something Awful|SA]] forums. Fans are encouraged to participate at home. At least for the [[Tales of Symphonia]] LP this has backfired: [[Magnificent Bastard|someone]] seems to be playing two hours ahead of the crew in order to pick the words used most often, such as [[Most Annoying Sound|"world" and "Cruxis."]]

* In ''[[The Leet World]]'' [[Christmas Episode]], Leeroy challenges Chet to a drinking game. He tells him to drink every time Chet sees the dreaded [[Xbox 360|Red Ring of Death]]. Even though Chet drinks non-stop, he hardly lasts 15 ''minutes''.

* The [[Let's Play]] group ''[[Spoiler Warning]]'' has an official drinking game (rules vary somewhat depending on the game). When the videos were still vimeo-based, fan-added annotations stating 'drink' would be added whenever it would be appropriate.

* ''[[Zero Punctuation]]'' featured one for Yahtzee's critique of ''[[Brink]]''. He told the viewers to take a drink every time he mentioned ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'' in the review.

** The game "ends" with the "Planet of a Thousand Jimmies" cover. Have fun!

* [[The Fan Fiction Critic]] sometimes plays drinking games during particularly horrendous fanfiction. She's done it whilst reviewing ''Face the Strange''.

* There is a ''[[Hogan's Heroes]]'' drinking game with rules posted online in various places. Among the rules: If Schultz sees/knows nothing, drink. If he is bribed with food to see/know nothing, two drinks.

 

== Western Animation ==

{{quote|'''Umpire:''' Okay, let's go over the ground rules. You can't leave first until you chug a beer. Any man scoring has to chug a beer. You have to chug a beer at the top of all odd-numbered innings. Oh, and the fourth inning is the beer inning.

'''Chief Wiggum:''' ''[annoyed]'' Hey, we know how to play softball! }}

 

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