History Main / SpinTheBottle

* Averted in ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' according to the filename of [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2006-05-22 this strip]][[note]]see the filename [[http://ookii.org/egs/statistics/comiclist.aspx here]][[/note]] (Twister is suggested instead) but played straight in a [[http://www.egscomics.com/sketchbook/?date=2006-05-24 filler strip]].

* Also mentioned in ''TheBerenstainBears and Too Much Birthday''. Leads to [[strike:BrotherSisterIncest]] Brother and Sister kissing.

* Episode 13 of WebAnimation/RWBYChibi has Nora, Ren, Jaune, Pyrrha, Weiss and Neptune playing this. Jaune spins the bottle, and after passing by a disappointed Pyrrha and a relieved Weiss, it lands on [[HoYay Ren.]] As everyone looks to him, he simply pulls out the AnticipatoryBreathSpray.

* In [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/Arthur "Arthur's Birthday"]], this is Francine's suggestion for a party activity and she's quite excited about it, to Arthur and Buster's discomfort. Arthur plans to thwart her by making sure there are no bottles in the house at all on the day of the party but she [[CrazyPrepared clearly anticipated this as her present is "a Spin the Bottle game"]]. [[ShipTease She coyly offers to show him how it works]] but ends up getting kissed by Pal to everyone's amusement, including, eventually, her own.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': The beginning of "The Way We Weren't" has Bart, Milhouse, Terri and Sherri (along with their cousin who has a crush on Bart) play this game in Bart's Treehouse. Milhouse spins the bottle and stops at Terri/Sherri's cousin. When Milhouse attempts to kiss her, he accidentally kisses Homer instead when he climbed Bart's Treehouse.

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* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' did a [[Music/TheLonelyIsland Digital Short]] centered on this game, with episode host DanielRadcliffe kissing homeless guys who randomly appear at the party.

* In [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/Arthur "Arthur's Birthday"]], this is Francine's suggestion for a party activity and she's quite excited about. Arthur plans to thwart her by making sure there are no bottles in the house at all on the day of the party but she [[CrazyPrepared clearly anticipated this as her present is "a Spin the Bottle game"]]. [[ShipTease She coyly offers to show him how it works]] but ends up getting kissed by Pal to everyone's amusement, including, eventually, her own.

* In [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/Arthur "Arthur's Birthday"]], this is Francine's suggestion for a party activity and she's quite excited about. Arthur plans to thwart her by making sure there are no bottles in the house at all on the day of the party but she [[CrazyPrepared anticipated this as her present is "a Spin the Bottle game"]]. [[ShipTease She coyly offers to show him how it works]] but ends up getting kissed by Pal to everyone's amusement, including, eventually, her own.

* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' did a [[TheLonelyIsland Digital Short]] centered on this game, with episode host DanielRadcliffe kissing homeless guys who randomly appear at the party.

* In an episode of EdEddNEddy, the kids play Spin the Bottle but leave when the Eds arrive. [[CloudCuckoolander Ed]] also spins himself.

%% The Angel episode "Spin the Bottle" is named as a pun on the BottleEpisode trope, don't include it.

* Occurs in ''PeepShow'' with hilarious effects. [[spoiler: The bottle lands on Mark and Jez, who kiss to impress their significant others.]]

* ''TheMightyBoosh'': Vince organises a game of Spin the Bottle with some girls from the party they're holding and invites Howard to join in. For some reason, his spins always stopped on the creepy old guy.

* In ''FullHouse'', DJ's 13th birthday party features a spin the bottle game orchestrated by Kimmy Gibbler to bring together DJ with her crush. As they are about to kiss, of course thats when Danny, Jesse and Joey burst in to ruin the moment, having overheard what was going on downstairs.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' episode "The Birthday Boy", Wander is "invited" to Lord Hater's birthday party, where Hater tries to blast him with a DeathRay. Wander thinks the ray is a giant bottle and spins it to see who gets a kiss from him. It points to Hater, who gets blasted.

* An episode for ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' where a party was held at Hamton Pig's house used this game. On the first spin, the bottle tracked Plucky Duck when he moved out of the way, and convinced the spinner it pointed to Hamton by hiding behind him. On the second spin, it pointed to him again even though he was well outside the circle.

* UsefulNotes/McDonalds filmed a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtFR3s0zKRQ commercial]] with Music/BritneySpears and Music/{{NSYNC}} playing the game. Lance spins the bottle, and the spot ends with the bottle landing on...[[HoYay Justin]].

* ''Series/{{All That}}'' took it to the next level that one had to kiss ANYTHING the bottle landed on. So [[ButtMonkey Kel]] had to kiss a cactus. Ouch.

* Happens in an episode of ''{{Glee}}'' when Puck talks Rachel into having a party at her house while her dads are out of town. Rachel ends up kissing Blaine, Kurt's love interest, who begins to question his sexuality as a result.

* In JacquelineWilson's novel ''Literature/{{Kiss}}'', the protagonists have to play this at a friend's party. Cue angst from Sylvia as her crush Carl must kiss another girl.