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6	Perhaps the most common PlaygroundSong that appears in media is "99 Bottles Of Beer On The Wall", or a variation of it. Starting with 99 (or another arbitrarily high number) bottles of beer on the wall, in each successive stanza one is taken down and passed around, counting down until we have no bottles remaining.
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8	If that's not enough beer, there's an optional last stanza:
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10	-> "No more bottles of beer on the wall, \
11	No more bottles of beer. \
12	Go to the store and buy some more, \
13	99 bottles of beer on the wall..."
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15	[[DrunkenSong Cheers!]]
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17	Usually, one can expect a joke about the song being [[IncessantMusicMadness annoying due to its long length]], or one about people using its length as a measure of time. Occasionally, the bottles of beer will be {{Bowdlerized}} to [[FrothyMugsOfWater bottles of milk or another non-alcoholic beverage]], adults being more squeamish than kids.
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19	An example of CountingSong. May be sung by an AnnoyinglyRepetitiveChild. See also OdeToIntoxication and DrunkenSong for other songs involving too much beer.
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22	!!Examples:
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27	* ''Advertising/MAndMs'': Yellows sings his own version of the song in this [[https://youtu.be/5mGxy1e0DFY?si=9K_krnuiSBOCuMTe ad]]. Replace bottles with cans and beer with milk chocolate.
28	* A [[https://archive.org/details/GamePro_Issue_107_Volume_09_Number_08_1997-08_IDG_Publishing_US/page/n3/mode/2up magazine ad for then-upcoming video game]] ''VideoGame/SteelReign'' has a lone tank out in the desert singing "99 Bullet-Riddled Bodies on the Wall".
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31	[[folder:Comics]]
32	* One ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' strip has Calvin starting this song (at ten million bottles of beer, no less!) during a road trip in order to annoy his dad into stopping for hamburgers.
33	* In one ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'' strip, Jason sings his version of this, replacing the bottles of beer with (several thousand) minutes until school starts.
34	* ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'': One issue has Asgardian children singing "99 Bottles of Grog on the Wall."
35	* Sometimes appears in ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'', usually at summer camp or Snoopy's scout troop. In one storyline set at a ''very'' religious summer camp, when Peppermint Patty complains that she doesn't know any of the campfire songs, Marcie advises against suggesting it.
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38	[[folder:Fan Works]]
39	* In ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'', Socrates attempts to sing "563,000,002 Bottles of Beer".
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42	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
43	* In ''Film/DiaryOfAWimpyKidDogDays'', the overly squeaky-clean Jefferson family sings "99 Bottles of Milk on the Wall" while driving to their beach cottage with Greg.
44	* ''Film/NationalLampoonsVacation'': Clark, while lost in the desert and trying to find help, starts the song at 1000, passing out when he's in the single digits.
45	* Referenced in ''Film/TheSmurfs2'': when one of the Smurfs wonder what the things Gargamel has in his lair that are used to [[spoiler:clone the Smurfs]], Papa says "99 bottles of Smurf on the wall..."
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48	[[folder:Literature]]
49	* The bus scene in the camp super special of ''Literature/TheBabysittersClub'' has David Michael starting up a rendition of "a million bottles of beer on the wall" to take up the time. Thinking they're kidding about the number, the sitters allow the kids to continue, only to find out that they are ''literally'' counting down from one million.
50	--->"When we arrived at camp, they were still in the nine hundred ninety-nine thousands."
51	* Mentioned in Creator/BruceCoville's ''Literature/CampHauntedHills'' #3 (''The Dinosaur That Followed Me Home'') as being sung during the bus ride to the titular camp, until one camper overhears a nickname for one of the new kids and switches to a song based on that instead.
52	* Glen Cook's ''Garrett, P.I.'' references this in his narration, after having to explain to one person after another after another what he's investigating. He wonders if he'll run out of bottles of beer on the wall before the mystery finally starts making sense.
53	* ''Literature/ImperialRadch'': Breq toes the line between TheStoic and TheComicallySerious when she starts singing the Radchaai version of this song en route to a highly dangerous confrontation, to [[spoiler:Sphene]]'s infinite distaste. It starts at 1000.
54	-->'''Breq:''' Nine hundred ninety-nine eggs all nice and warm...\
55	'''[[spoiler:Sphene]]:''' We are no longer family.
56	* ''[[Literature/TheCurseOfTheBlueFigurine The Mummy, The Will and The Crypt]]'' (as "98 Bottles of Beer on the Wall"): the Boy Scouts on their way to Camp Chocorua sing it all the way through before the trip is out. Narration describes it afterward as "the song that is calculated to drive bus drivers out of their minds".
57	* ''Literature/MyWeirdSchool'': In "Mrs. Kormel is Not Normal", the kids sing this song while on the bus ride to school. They sing 'pop' instead of beer because kids can't drink beer. AJ remarks that one time he had a sip of his dad's beer and it was gross.
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61	* ''Series/BarneyMiller'' endures a rousing chorus of this by a group of homeless men in the two-part episode "Missing." Det. Harris, having traveled undercover with them, tells Barney "I don't even hear it any more. They started at three thousand."
62	* ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'': [[TheDitz Rose]] sings the song, but quits and goes to bed after the second-last verse.
63	-->'''Dorothy:''' ''Two bottles of beer?!'' Rose, you get all the way to two bottles of beer and you quit?!\
64	'''Rose:''' ''[grinning]'' Just drives you nuts, doesn't it, Dorothy?
65	* ''Series/KenanAndKel'' "2 Heads are Better than One". Kel sings 1,000,000 bottles of Orange Soda on the wall during a boring road trip with the rockmores.
66	* Left behind on the ''Series/{{Lexx}}'' for an episode, [[LosingYourHead 790]] sings his way up to "790 kisses from Kai on the head."
67	---> "That's one more kiss from [[TheUndead the man who is dead]]..."
68	* In ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'', the original song is sung three times ("Route 666 (Part 1)", "The Gas Station Show", and "T-R-A-Something-Something Spells Tramp"), but in "Spring Break Part 2", Bud and his friends sing a variation called "98 Luscious Hooters on the Wall".
69	-->'''Bud:''' 98 luscious hooters on the wall...\
70	'''Hummer:''' 98 luscious hooters...\
71	'''Achmed:''' If a pair of those hooters should happen to fall,\
72	'''Bud, Hummer, Achmed, & Barney:''' 96 luscious hooters on the wall!
73	* One episode of the 1970s Series/MatchGame featured “99 _______” in the Super Match, with “Bottles Of Beer On The Wall” as the $500 answer. As an aside, host Gene Rayburn had absolutely no clue what that was, so the panelists started singing, and the audience joined in and clapped along.
74	* ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'': In "The Mutiny Part 3", Rita Repulsa sings "99 Bottles of '''Slime''' on the Wall" as she floats through space in a dumpster. The Rangers and Zordon watch through their viewing globe and laugh.
75	* On an episode of ''Series/TodaysSpecial'', Jodie, Jeff and Muffy are stuck in an elevator and sing "99 Bottles of Pop on the Wall" while waiting for help. They have to wait until they get to 34 bottles.
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79	* Music/AesopRock mentions this in "Happy Pillz", a non-album song made with Murs:
80	-->Ninety-nine bottles of happy pills on the wall,\
81	Take 'em down, pass 'em round before me and Murs eat 'em all!
82	* Music/WeirdAlYankovic mentions the song in "The Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota":
83	-->Well, we crossed the state line about 6:39\
84	And we saw the sign that said, "Twine Ball exit, fifty miles"\
85	Oh, the kids were so happy they started singing\
86	"99 Bottles Of Beer On The Wall" for the twenty-seventh time that day
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90	* In ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland2LeChucksRevenge'', Guybrush can entreat one of the two friendly pirates on the starting island to sing a song. After a couple semi-bawdy numbers about Elaine, he resorts to this song. You can choose to interject with a random number and he'll jump to it; and if you're patient enough to let him get down to one, the other pirate will say a different number and he'll start there again, meaning he'll keep singing indefinitely if you let him.
91	* In the PC Adaptation of ''Film/MuppetTreasureIsland'', Rizzo sings "99 Pieces of Cheese on the wall" on his way to Bristol.
92	* In ''VideoGame/ZorkGrandInquisitor'', when you enter the Hall of Inquisition, you hear [[spoiler:a Totemized Lucy Flathead]] singing "9999 Bottles of Mead on the Wall", [[FridgeHorror though she may have started at a much higher number]].
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96	* In [[http://www.squidi.net/comic/amd/view.php?ep=3&id=1 As seen in this strip]], ''Webcomic/AModestDestiny''[='s=] Hechter apparently sang this for a good part of five years when buried in the desert.
97	* In ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'' sung by God (with an open bottle of "Nectar of the Gods" in hand). Of course, since He starts with "[[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2006-12-14 infinity bottles of beer on the wall]]", the song doesn't change.
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101	* ''WebVideo/TheAnnoyingOrange'' sings "''Infinite'' bottles of pop on the wall".
102	* ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'': While walking through the seemingly endless burrows in Episode 50 of [[WebVideo/CriticalRoleCampaignTwo the second campaign]], [[GenkiGirl Jester]] tries to help pass the time by starting up a round of this. By the time they reach twenty-one bottles, even ''Jester'' is thoroughly sick of the song, voice strained to the point of exhaustion.
103	* ''WebVideo/NostalgiaCritic'': Used as a joke in his review of ''Film/JudgeDredd'' for three moments. When somebody forgets their [=iPod=], they start singing this.
104	* ''WebVideo/StacheBros'': In "Episode 2-4 - The Creature From The Egg" of "Mario & Luigi! Stache Bros", when Waluigi goes to Peach's Castle to kidnap Toadsworth, he walks in on him singing "Negative Nine Thousand Two Bottles of Beer on the Wall".
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107	[[folder:Western Animation]]
108	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' episode [[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS4E10TheParking "The Parking"]], Richard and the kids sing "99 Bottles of Age-Appropriate Beverage" while looking for a parking space.
109	* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'', Meatwad and his clones sing "3 Million Bottles of Beer on the Wall", which takes them '''27 years''' to finish.
110	* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}}'', while Lydia and her parents are going on vacation with Beetlejuice, they pass the time by singing "One Million Bottles of Slime on the Wall". The father, however, is getting a little bit... frustrated.
111	* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Bluey}}'' episode "Sleepytime", a tired Bandit sings "99 Bottles of Thing" to Bluey.
112	** In another episode, "Baby Race", he also sings it to an infant Bluey while cradling her.
113	* At the end of ''WesternAnimation/TheCupheadShow'' episode "[[Recap/TheCupheadShowS2E8ReleaseTheDemons Release the Demons!]]", while the Devil returns to the Underworld with Stickler after being defeated by his month-long laziness for Cuphead's soul, the elevator suddenly gets stuck, and Stickler has to pass the time by singing "999 Million Souls in the Vault", [[UncomfortableElevatorMoment much to the Devil's frustration]].
114	* On an early episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'', Kevin Thompson quickly earns the annoyance of his classmates by constantly singing "99 Bottles of Beer". He even hums it while making out with Brittany!
115	* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'': a ''TV Puppet Pals'' sketch has Puppet Pal Mitch sing "99 bottles of Bonk on the wall" while bonking Puppet Pal Clem on the head. By the time Mitch gets to 11 bottles, Clem is so delirious that he slurs his speech.
116	* The ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' episode "Speed Trap" had this variation: "99 kettles of soup on the heat, 99 kettles of soup/If one of those kettles I happen to eat/98 kettles of soup on the heat!".
117	* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/GeorgeShrinks'' has the Shrinks family singing a parody called "99 Butterflies Fly in the Sky" while traveling with a researcher to follow migrating monarch butterflies.
118	* The Rosa Parks segment on ''WesternAnimation/{{Histeria}}'' had Loud Kiddington singing this, and annoying Charity, who yells at him because she can't stand it, causing Kiddington to lose where he was and start over.
119	* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'': Downhill to Mount Middleton during a bus trip.
120	* ''WesternAnimation/MollyOfDenali'': In "Berry Itchy Day", the Mabray family sings "99 Jars of Jam" because they're going berry-picking.
121	* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode ''[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E6SleeplessInPonyville Sleepless In Ponyville]]'', Sweetie Belle [[CuteButCacophonic sings]] a ponified version called "99 Buckets of Oats".
122	* In one episode of ''{{WesternAnimation/Ninjago}}'' some of the protagonists sing a version replacing the bottles of beer with bottles of tea while on a long mission.
123	* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Olivia}}'', the family sings "99 Buckets of Slime" while on a road trip.
124	* At the beginning of the ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' special, "It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown", Rerun sings this while Mrs. Van Pelt takes him on a bike ride.
125	* WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters take to chanting mantras in trying to rid Ray's aunt's apartment of a ghost. Egon chants a mathematical formula, Winston chants an African native spell, and Ray and Peter do "99 Bottles of Beer On the Wall."
126	* ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'': In "Future Schlock", at the end, when the house is rocketed into space, Heffer sings, "Nine hundred bazillion bottles of root beer on the wall..."
127	* In the ''WesternAnimation/Rugrats1991'' episode "Where's Grandpa?", Tommy and Chuckie shout to try to get the adults to see that they left Grandpa Lou behind at a gas station; Didi believes that they want to sing this song, and she and Stu proceed to sing the "milk" version of the song.
128	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
129	** In "Bart Gets Famous", Principal Skinner and Martin Prince sing "99 Boxes of Bottles of Beer on the Wall" on their way to the Box Factory.
130	** In "Das Bus", this song plays on Otto's cassette tape titled "Songs to Enrage Bus Drivers!".
131	** In "Thank God It's Doomsday", while on the way to the Springfield Mesa, the entire bus of Springfieldians, including Homer and his family, sing a version of the tune that goes like this:
132	--->''99 minutes until we're all saved,''\
133	''99 minutes to go--''\
134	''Unless it turns out''\
135	''That we're not devout,''\
136	''Then you're gonna be left down below.''
137	** In "The Old Man and the C Student", following the failure of an almost-successful venture, Homer is left with a thousand coiled springs and tasked with getting rid of them. He sings "1000 Springs to Flush Down" as [[FunWithFlushing he flushes every single one of them down the toilet]], accidentally saving a sinking yacht when it keeps bouncing off the springs at the bottom of the marina.
138	** In "The Sweetest Apu", when Homer is trying to avoid a difficult conversation, the only delaying tactic he can think of is WaxingLyrical:
139	--->'''Homer''': So, anyway, if you take ''that'' bottle down and pass it around...\
140	'''Apu''': I know, I know, there will be 47 bottles of beer on the wall!
141	* The "[[WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventuresHowISpentMyVacation How I Spent My Vacation]]" special episode of ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' finds Hamton and his parents singing "99 Bottles of Non-Alcoholic Beverage on the Wall". When Plucky, who's traveling with them, asks "Isn't it 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall?" Hamton's mom replies, "We don't drink in our family, Plucky."
142	* A version about hugs is sung in the ''WesternAnimation/TrollsTheBeatGoesOn'' episode "Branch Bum", but Branch stops the song before they get to 98 hugs because he doesn't want to be distracted while driving.
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146	* This song is a popular computer programming challenge.
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Context PlaygroundSong / NinetyNineBottlesOfBeer