http://www.goblin-cartoons.com/archives/cat_essays.html#000010Three Sheets to the Wind, and Straight on 'Til Election Day!
Many TV shows start to get repetitive after a while. This isn't necessarily a bad thing. The show becomes comfortable, cozy, like the proverbial old sweater. Still, while fans of the show enjoy the repetition, they can also become sarcastically derisive, poking fun at the show by mocking the very standards they've become familiar with (and generally reliant on to enjoy the show). What Star Trek fan can pass up an opportunity to scoff at the umpteenth red-shirt-clad extra introduced and then swiftly killed off, even as they bask in the cliche?
A tradition has evolved around this love/hate relationship with TV cliches: the drinking game. The viewer is to take a drink, or more than one drink, for every bit of repetition. Well, never let it be said I don't like games. Or drinking. Or TV. Or all three at once. And so, I humbly present to you my own drinking game, based on one of the more popular (or, some would say, notorious) "reality shows" of today:
The Bush Administration Drinking Game
1. Everytime George W. Bush pronounces “nuclear” wrong, take a drink.
2. Everytime George W. Bush pronounces the name of a country wrong, take a drink.
3. Everytime Laura Bush talks about how important literacy and education are, take two drinks.
4. Everytime the administration swears they will find Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq, take a drink.
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