Friday, December 12, 2014

Scrooged Drinking Game

Take a drink every time...

  1. Someone says 'Frank'.
  2. Frank (Sir William Murray) finds a new way to be a douchebag to those around him*.
  3. A TV screen is shown.
  4. A bad thing happens to Bobcat Goldthwait (Eliot).
  5. Karen Allen stares somewhere off camera, creepily, without blinking.
Take a bonus drink every time Bobcat Goldthwait tries to rein in that Bobcat Goldthwait thing he does.
Take a bonus drink every time Bill Murray sarcastics his way through this movie and/or finds himself far too charming.

Finish your drink for "Awww...knives!"


*Examples include sitting on people, emotionally manipulating, sexing ladies with his eyes, telling his employees what he would have done, intimidating, firing, insulting children's artwork, enjoying others' despair, pandering to his boss, yelling unnecessarily, stealing from old ladies, lying, being conceited, screaming at children while in the midst of flirting, having terrible priorities, etc.

Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Turner & Hooch Drinking Game

Take a drink every time...
  1. Someone says 'Hooch'.
  2. Turner does something OCD. Take a second drink if he does a totally not OCD thing later in the movie once he becomes a loose cannon with no valid explanation other than that there is a dog.
  3. It's, like, SO TOTALLY 80S*!
  4. Tom Hanks does his Tom Hanks Yell.
  5. Turner threatens to kill, attempts to kill, or suggests something that would kill, Hooch.
Finish your drink for On top of Old Smokey = Sex.


*Some examples:
-A NordicTrack
-80s workout shorts
-The chick from St. Elmo's Fire
-Reginald VelJohnson
-Tighty briefies - every time you see them (you might find them on Tom Hanks 700,087 times in this movie)
-Tom Hanks's tie
-The chick's loose button-up
-Basically anything else in this movie

Sunday, October 5, 2014

Flubber Drinking Game

Take a drink every time...
  1. SCIENCE!!!! (This includes machines, robots, zany experiments, random tools, flubber somehow being a sentient being that can be cut up into tiny shoe pads and glued to a dozen feet without causing it any pain, etc.)
  2. Weebo (the robot) plays a video clip to communicate or express emotion. Take two drinks if it's a really complex emotion.
  3. Professor Robin Williams can't remember something or is otherwise absent-minded/a space case or this is discussed by the other characters.
  4. There is physical "comedy" involving Wil Wheaton's dad's henchmen.
  5. Shooter McGavin says something evil.
Take a bonus drink every time Professor Robin Williams does something only the worst scientist ever would do. Examples include:
  • Opening something that just exploded and sticking his face in it
  • Touching substances without gloves
  • Never wearing protective gear in general/lack of safety precautions
  • Sneezing on his experiment
  • Jumping out of a window
  • Endangering society
  • Inhaling gas/chemicals
  • Wiping flubber water on his ass
  • Kissing flubber-coated objects
  • Leaving beakers of chemicals just sitting around
  • Flying a car into the lower atmosphere
  • Making a robot sidekick out of metal so thin it can be broken with a baseball bat
  • Telling a robot sidekick to focus and then letting it die without doing anything
  • Making a robot daughter with his robot sidekick and naming it 'Weebette'

Varsity Blues Drinking Game

Take a drink every time...
  1. Someone says 'Mox' or 'Moxon'.
  2. They're so country (examples include every time they pronounce 'coyote' 'KY-ote', pigs riding in vehicles, dipping pancakes in unknown substances and eating them while driving, mooning people, shots of corn fields, riding in pickup truck beds, unnecessary guns, etc.). Take two drinks if it's Billy Bob. Take three if Billy Bob is drinking syrup.
  3. Coach Kilmer yells. Take two if he's cartoonishly evil.
  4. Moxon is so sensitive and smart and oh, so reluctant about football, the poor dear.
  5. There is an instance of bad parenting.
Finish your drink for the greatest line ever spoken on film, "I DON'T WANT...YOUR LIFE."

Thursday, October 2, 2014

Frozen Drinking Game

Take a drink every time...
  1. You hear a new song.
  2. Someone says 'ice' or 'frozen'.
  3. Someone talks to something that is not a human*. Take two drinks if they do a silly voice and pretend to respond.
  4.  Anna is super quirky/excitable/spunky about life.
  5. A door or gate is shown opening or closing, or people discuss the opening and closing of doors or gates**.
Take a bonus drink every time Disney has no idea what happens when people get cold/doesn't understand that people will die of hypothermia if their clothing freezes to their body in sub-zero temperatures because every single person who was involved in this movie is from Los Angeles and only sees cold in a refrigerator.

Finish your drink when a snowman sings a song about how much he wants to know what it feels like to be warm and dramatic irony ensues.


*Note: It's relatively hard to keep track of this one, so remember that things that are not human include things like reindeer, paintings, anthropomorphic snowmen, and trolls that are made out of rocks.

** This totally happens more than you'd think.

Jumanji Drinking Game

Take a drink every time...
  1. The game does something magical (including pieces moving by themselves). 
    • Take two drinks if the magical thing involves an animal. 
    • Take three drinks if the animal wrecks stuff.
    • Take four drinks if the animal tries to kill someone. 
    • Take five drinks if the animal tries to kill someone with a knife...or steals a TV.
  2. Someone says 'Parrish' or you see it written.
  3. Kiersten Dunst screams
  4. Things get worse for David Allan Grier (or, equivalently, every single time David Allan Grier is in a scene)
Take a bonus drink every time there is a horror movie trope (tinkly piano theme, old person tells horrific story he couldn't possibly have known, stuff jumps out unexpectedly, there is a creepy flashback with back story information, a troubled family moves to an old, abandoned mansion in a seemingly charming location, a mysterious attic, people's fears and insecurities manifest and chase after them, Bebe Neuwirth shows up, etc.)
Take a bonus drink, if you have the background knowledge, every time Robin Williams' character in this movie shares something with a Robin Williams character in a different movie (he rediscovers a forgotten childhood like in Hook, he wears leaves like in Hook, he needs to save two kids from evil magic that is his fault like in Hook, an old nemesis returns and does a really bad job of trying to kill him like in Hook [we like Hook. Play your own game.], etc.)

Finish your drink for "May God have mercy on his soul."

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Gladiator Drinking Game

Take a drink every time...

  1. DEATH!!!! (or CORPSES!!!!)*
  2. You want to punch Joaquin Phoenix in the balls because he's cowardly or crafty or creepy or crazy or just generally can't do the right thing to save his sad little life.
  3. Connie Nielsen** is just in her own little soap opera, man. Like, the whole time.
  4. There is sad drooling and/or snot.
  5. Someone says 'Caesar' or 'Rome' (actually, people say those a lot, so you might want to pick one)
Take a bonus drink every time the music in this movie is EXACTLY the same as the Pirates of the Caribbean music.
Take a bonus drink every time Oh get on with it! How long until someone gladiates, or, like, kills a lion or something?
Take a bonus drink every time there is a weird/crazy/unnecessarily artsy camera shot, like weird dream sequences, random close-ups or blurring, arbitrary flower petals, etc.

Finish your drink for "You sold me queer giraffes. I want my money back."

*Go ahead and waterfall at appropriate times. You'll know when.

**Don't know who Connie Nielsen is? She plays Lucilla, and more importantly she is the only woman in this movie who is alive.

The Karate Kid Drinking Game

Take a drink every time...

  1. Mr. Miyagi speaks in a one- or two-word sentence. Feel free to just keep drinking if he keeps doing it (e.g. "No fight. Fight bad. No good. Don't do." is four drinks*)
  2. Someone says 'Daniel'.
  3. Someone rides in or drives some sort of vehicle (including bikes, DANIEL). Take two drinks every time someone is on or in a vehicle but is just kind of lounging on it.
  4. Daniel is bullied, intimidated, mocked, derided, or generally scared to live his life.
  5. The cute little racist Asian flute refrain plays for Mr. Miyagi (if you've seen this movie multiple times and never noticed that this happens, take an extra drink every time you can't believe it).
Take a bonus drink every time Mr. Miyagi makes a wise or proverb-like statement**.

Finish your drink for "Take em off...I wanna see your baby browns."


*He absolutely doesn't ever say that

**Our [likely incomplete] list:
-"If come from inside you, always right one."
-"To make honey, young bee need young flower, not old prune."
-"Smell bad, heal good."
-"No such thing as bad student. Only bad teacher."
-"Belt mean no need rope pull up pants."
-"Karate here. Karate here. Karate here. Karate never here."
-"Not everything is as seem."
-"Man who catch fly with chopstick accomplish anything."
-"Look eye. Always look eye."

The Mighty Ducks Drinking Game

Take a drink every time...

  1. Someone says 'duck' (note: this definitely also includes 'ducks' and 'Ducksworth'). If you're a bit of the way in and slowly realizing that this movie is way less good than kid you thought it was, add 'quack', but don't say we didn't warn you*.
  2. Emilio Estevez (or whatever his name is in the movie. Is it still Emilio Estevez?) has a flashback, or someone mentions his past. Apparently nothing happened in this guy's life between peewee hockey and now.
  3. Emilio Estevez (seriously - he must have a character name, right? Wait. It's Gordon.) is just SUCH A DOUCHE [for the first half of the movie] or is just SUCH A NICE GUY WHO OH MY GOSH HE JUST LOVES KIDS SO MUCH [after his heart-changing lay-down in the snow].
  4. Mysterious Wise Old Man is Mysterious and Wise.
Take a bonus drink every time the kids are such wholesome rapscallions**.
Take a bonus drink for Disney sanctimoniousness.

Finish your drink for "Hey! I'll decide who sucks around here!"

*WARNING

**Cute little hooligans, if you will***

***Just the sweetest little troubled preadolescents you could care to meet

Friday, September 5, 2014

Mulan Drinking Game

Take a drink every time...
  1. Honor or shame are mentioned or someone is honored or shamed (song lyrics included)
  2. You hear a new song
  3. A person actually has an East Asian [-ish] accent*
  4.  "Manliness" is portrayed, imitated, discussed, analyzed, anal-ized, anally eyed, etc. For the Be A Man Bonus Option (not for the lightweights), take a drink every time they say "Be a man" in I'll Make a Man Out of You.
  5. Mulan is just SO DIFFERENT
Take a bonus drink every time there is silly physical and/or slapstick humor.
Take a bonus drink every time WE GET IT SHE'S A GIRL DRESSED AS A DUDE AND DRAMATIC IRONY AND 'WITTY' COMMENTARY ENSUE BECAUSE SHE'S TOTALLY A GIRL DRESSED AS A DUDE, YOU GUYS.

Finish your drink if you're drunk enough to buy the whole 'Moving through snow is the same as moving through water, right? Hey, is anybody else still here in the animation studio?' thing.


*Note: There are several ways to handle this drink. We recommend taking a drink every time a character speaks for the first time in a given scene (so, for example, you can take a drink for the first time Chi-Fu speaks in every scene that Chi-Fu is in), although, depending on how much you want to drink/pay attention, you can drink once per character (if you're an ATTENTION PAYING WIMPO) or you can drink literally every time a character speaks with an East Asian [-ish] accent (if you're the coolest/drunkest kid in the room).

There's Something About Mary Drinking Game

Note that this game has a high frequency of drinks, and, as always, should be played with beer*.

Take a drink every time...
  1. Someone says 'Mary' (and, if you're not drinking enough, 'Ted')
  2. Someone says "fuck" or some derivative of the word
  3. Things go from bad to worse. Take a second drink if things go from worse to...worser.
  4. Someone lies to or deceives someone else. Take a bonus drink every time this movie would be three minutes long if everyone wasn't constantly misleading everyone else.

*Unless you're really cool. No, just kidding - if you play this with anything stronger than beer you'll probably die.

Honey, I Shrunk the Kids Drinking Game

Take a drink every time...
  1. *SCIENCE* (something vaguely scientific/magical/totally bogus is seen, used, or mentioned).
  2. A child is in danger (including the credits).
  3. You witness a douche dad/sad son event (for either family).
  4. Russ is SUPER FREAKING IN LOVE with Amy.
Take a bonus drink every time Russ Sr. clearly should have been played by Jim Carrey if he was famous yet.
Take a bonus drink every time the proportions are hilariously inconsistent.

Finish your drink for "Blow it out your shorts."

Sunday, August 24, 2014

Pirates of the Caribbean Drinking Game

Take a drink every time...

  1. Someone says 'pirate'.
  2. Someone squints or otherwise gazes intently off into the distance.
  3. Someone says 'Jack' or 'Black' (note: if someone says 'Jack Black, you are likely watching the wrong movie).
  4. Someone stands on a thing that's not a normal thing to stand on (e.g. boat mast, tree limb, wagon, roof beam).
  5. Keira Knightly pouts or generally makes that pouty face she makes. (here is one example, or just search for "Keira Knightly pouty face".
Finish your drink for "That's got to be the best pirate I've ever seen!" "So it would seem."

Saturday, May 10, 2014

Mean Girls Drinking Game

First, pick one of the Plastics. Take a drink every time your Plastic does the thing she is know for (Regina George is mean, Gretchen is told a secret, reveals a secret, or promises not to tell a secret, and Karen is dumb).

Also take a drink every time...

  1. Someone explains either a quality or aspect of North Shore High School (including specific people) or of high school in general.
  2. Someone references Africa or Cady doesn't know something everyone should know because of her time in Africa.
  3. Someone mentions a clique or group of North Shore students (e.g. Plastics, Mathletes, Sexually Active Band Geeks).
  4. Tim Meadows...speaks? Whatever, just take a drink every time Tim Meadows.
Take a bonus drink every time Damian does something stereotypically gay or someone mentions how gay he is.
Take a bonus drink for racism that both lampoons issues of racism and is still somewhat uncomfortable.

Pick a Lizzy Caplan quote. Finish your drink for it. Possible options include:
-"Your mom's chest hair!"
-"You smell like a baby prostitute."
-"Did you have an awesome time? Did you drink awesome shooters and listen to awesome music and then just sit around and soak up each other's awesomeness?" 
-"I guess it's probably because I've got a big LESBIAN  crush on you! Suck on that!"