Apropos of nothing: TV Drinking Games
Mar. 27th, 2006 09:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
inulroThis weather can still bite me. I don't like to think how much energy I've expended struggling against the wind in the last few weeks. I might almost have been able to do something constructive with it.
I was perusing the TV listings, and discovered that ITV4 are re-running Dark Skies. For those who were mercifully oblivious the first time round, it was a sub-X-files alien conspiracy drama set in the Kennedy era. It is notable only in that my household at the time turned it into a drinking game. I think you had to drink whenever they declaimed about The Truth and stuff.
I discovered this while we were watching Bones, another decided non-classic that we Just Cannot Stop Watching, and Jason decided that Bones would make a good drinking game too - drink every time Temperance is socially dysfunctional. No, we didn't, because it's a school night.
Which led me to remember the classic TV drinking game of my undergraduate years - The Smurfs. You had to drink every time someone says "Smurf", and twice for every "Papa Smurf". Some of you may now wonder how I ended up with advanced degrees, let alone the first one. (In my MA year I vaguely recall a Star Trek: The Next Generation drinking game with variable rules).
So - what TV shows have you all played drinking games to, and which are just crying out for the treatment?
I was perusing the TV listings, and discovered that ITV4 are re-running Dark Skies. For those who were mercifully oblivious the first time round, it was a sub-X-files alien conspiracy drama set in the Kennedy era. It is notable only in that my household at the time turned it into a drinking game. I think you had to drink whenever they declaimed about The Truth and stuff.
I discovered this while we were watching Bones, another decided non-classic that we Just Cannot Stop Watching, and Jason decided that Bones would make a good drinking game too - drink every time Temperance is socially dysfunctional. No, we didn't, because it's a school night.
Which led me to remember the classic TV drinking game of my undergraduate years - The Smurfs. You had to drink every time someone says "Smurf", and twice for every "Papa Smurf". Some of you may now wonder how I ended up with advanced degrees, let alone the first one. (In my MA year I vaguely recall a Star Trek: The Next Generation drinking game with variable rules).
So - what TV shows have you all played drinking games to, and which are just crying out for the treatment?
