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{{quote|''"With a little bit of creativity, anything can be turned into a drinking game!"''|'''[http://www.precociouscomic.com/archive/comic/2011/02/01 The On Cue Ball]''', ''[[Precocious (Webcomic)|Precocious]]''}}

The audience '''drinking game''' is an ancient and much-respected system for trope identification that evolved out of these factors. In the days before resources such as this catalogue, the drinking game was the most popular and accessible means of identifying tropes and cliches.

It works like this: each regular occurrence in a show, film, etc is documented, and assigned a numeric score based on its prevalence, triteness, or perversity. During a viewing of the show, each time such a documented phenomenon occurs, players drink a number of sips of their preferred alcoholic beverage equal to the numeric score. A non-alcoholic beverage of your choice may also be substituted.<ref>If you're at all in doubt about your body's tolerance for alcohol, please do substitute a non-alcoholic beverage. [http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/brady-grattan-drinking-game-death-1.3458093 Drinking games can be fatal.]</ref>

See [[Drinking Game/Just for Fun|Drinkingthe GameJust for Fun subpage]] for fan-based examples, or to add your own.

== [[FanficFan Works]] ==

* In ''[[An Entry With a Bang (Fanfic)|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.

* In ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4545504/1/Aspirations Aspirations]'', it is mentioned that the Slytherins used to have a drinking game based on Ron and Hermione bickering. Snape had to ban it due to all the alcohol poisonings.

* The ''[[Pony POV Series (Fanfic)|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.

== [[Film]] - Animated ==

{{quote| Mook: "EverytimeEvery time they run, we do a shot."}}

* In ''[[BAS EketballBaseketball]]'', 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.

* Happens in ''[[Scream (Filmfilm)|Scream4]]'', during the ''Stabathon'' night - you're supposed to take sips for [[Can You Hear Me Now?|cell phones getting no signal]], [[Jump Scare|cheap scares]], [[Big No|people screaming "NO!"]]...

* Briefly seen at the beginning of Jason Biggs vehicle ''[[Loser]]'', as one of his roommates' party habits - they drink every time a character says "Hey Ma" during ''[[The Mary Tyler Moore Show]]'' spinoff[[Spin-Off]] ''[[Rhoda]]''.

* ''[[America the(The Book)]]'' gives a few to play while watching C-SPAN:

* On the ''[[Thirty Rock (TV)|Thirty30 Rock]]'' episode "Klaus and Greta", the writing staff plays the Today Show drinking game which involves taking a shot every time they give a dumb travel tip.

* On the ''[[Bones (TV)|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 (TV)|NCIS]]'' episode commentary, Michael Weatherly repeatedly pointed out when those playing at home should drink.

* ''[[Survivor]]: Back from the Outback'' had a really good one. Just prior to a commercial break, Jenna Lewis groused about Elisabeth's tears, "It's like a drinking game!" Elisabeth cries, take a drink. Jenna said she was annoyed by this, probably forgetting the fact that she was prone to crying fits herself.

{{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".}}

* In the short-lived ''[[That '70s Show]]'' spinoff, ''[[That 80 s'80s Show]]'', there was a scene where several characters were watching ''[[Dynasty]]'', and one suggests that they all take a shot every time someone gets slapped. Later, one character says something incredibly stupid, and gets slapped for it. They all take a drink.

* One website has a ''[[Myth Busters (TV)|Myth BustersMythBusters]]'' drinking game. It recommends that you only play small portions of the game, because if you drink for ''every'' trigger, you will die of alcohol poisoning.

* At the 2011 SAG Awards, [[Bridesmaids|Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, and Melissa McCarthy]] discussed and displayed their [[Martin Scorsese]] [[Drinking Game]]. This then becomes a [[Brick Joke]] when Rose Byrne and Melissa McCarthy did it again at the Oscars, right in front of the man himself.

* A ''[[MashM*A*S*H (TVtelevision)|MashM*A*S*H]]'' episode has Hawkeye and Trapper playing checkers with full shot glasses as the game pieces, which they down shots from as each gets captured.

== [[Recorded and Stand-up Up Comedy]] ==

* Legitimate Theater Company in New York did ''[[Twelfth Night]]: The Drinking Game''. Triggers included drinking when someone praises Olivia's beauty, whenever there's [[Ho Yay]], when someone takes a drink onstage, and whenever there's a [[Country Matters|coded Shakespearean reference to the vagina]].

* During the [[Alpha Protocol]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20100624081343/http://blip.tv/file/3491456/ PAX 2010 presentation], the guys of Obsidian Entertainment have a drinking game based on the word "Choice" due to their presentation being about the aversion of (and titled) [[But Thou Must!]]. The word Choice proceeds to come up multiple times due to both the presentation itself and the guys just trying to get the others drunk.

* The first 2 ''[[Halo]]'' games made a good drinking game when playing co-op campaign: everyone who isn't playing has to drink whenever one player kills the other.

{{quote| '''Xemnas:''' Do you have any idea what will happen should Sora die?<br />

'''Axel:''' No...but you could explain what would happen.<br />

* In ''[[Leftover Soup (Webcomic)|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.]

* Episode 36 of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: the Abridged Series (Web Video)|Yu-Gi-Oh theThe Abridged Series]]'' has the ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' drinking game (complete with helpful counter): Take a drink every time we mention '''friendship'''. Gets especially amusing later when the 'friendship' counter includes things like Yugi's "I take it back! Your '''friendship''' isn't worth that much!"

** 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 Onon 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!*]]

* [[The Nostalgia Chick (Web Video)|The Nostalgia Chick]] has started doing drinking games, beginning with the [https://web.archive.org/web/20140414183803/http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thedudette/nostalgia-chick/27032-hercules Hercules Drinking Game] which includes some general rules for every Disney movie (Every time a character talks or sings about what they want) as well as movie-specific ones (Whenever the fat muse says something funny, whenever Hades flames up).

** [[Atop the Fourth Wall (Web Video)|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 (Web Video)|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.

** One might suggest double shots for any comic with a double spread that must be turned on the side as he loathes those so much.

{{quote| "Take a shot every time I say "Right," and "...or something." Alcohol poisoning may ensue."}}

* [[The Nostalgia Critic (Web Video)|The Nostalgia Critic]] played the [[Stephen King]] drinking game while reviewing ''[[IT]]''. He was definitely plastered within a half hour, it seems, which made the review even funnier. Especially when [[Lost in Space|Dr. Smith]] came in while the Critic was full-on drunk.

{{quote| '''Nostalgia Critic (while trying to shoot Dr. Smith)''':"I'll get you. All five of you."}}

* [[Let's Play|Lets Player]]er Goodbye18000 has done a drinking game for [[Sonic the Hedgehog|Big the Cat]] in his ''[[Sonic Adventure Series|Sonic Adventure]]'' LP for the [[PSPlay Station 3]]. The rules involve taking a shot for [[Most Annoying Sound|every time Big says "Froggy"]], [[Too Dumb to Live|every time Big does something stupid]] and [[Good Bad Bugs|every time a glitch occurs]]. Although he miscounts the first drink, he fixes it for later parts. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_zWyqhMNFA Part 1 here!]

* ''[[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 (Video Game)|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 Three Sixty360|Red Ring of Death]]. Even though Chet drinks non-stop, he hardly lasts 15 ''minutes''.

* ''[[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 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]]'' in the review.

* One of the [[Running Gag|Running Gags]]s in ''[[Superdickery (Website)|Superdickery.com]]'' is to take a shot every time Jimmy Olsen gains superpowers or is transformed. If several different Jimmy Olsens are shown on the cover, take one shot for each of them.

* Simon, of the ''[[Yogscast]]'', suggests two rules for their drinking game on their YoGPoD podcast: every time he and Lewis mention Jaffa Cakes, you have to eat a Jaffa Cake. Every time you eat a Jaffa Cake, eat a Jaffa Cake.

* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20140710225504/http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/drinking-games Drinking Games]'', an old series by [[Firefilm (Creator)|Firefilm]] did this with video games.

{{quote| '''Stewie:''' We can drink every time Ryan seethes!}}

{{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. <br />

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