Drinking game for Family Guy:
- Whenever a character drinks or takes drugs, drink.
- If characters are in a bar or club (e.g. The Clam) and don't drink at all in the entire scene, down your drink at the end.
- Whenever there's a cutaway, drink. Have an ambulance ready.
- If that's too easy, do this instead: whenever the cutaway is subverted or lampshaded, drink.
- Whenever there's a cutaway that actually involves situations related to the situation the cutaway was called up in, down your whole drink.
- Whenever a character uses a cutaway to their advantage, down two.note
- There's a special drinking game where you follow only this rule: If a joke involves offensive stereotype humor or shallow nitpicking of a celebrity's physical features or behavior, take a drink. Do not watch more than one episode a night.
- Whenever the show re-enacts a scene from or otherwise references Back to the Future, down your drink.
- Whenever someone/something dies, drink.
- If Peter is the person who dies, drink twice.
- Whenever Stewie uses highly advanced technology, drink.
- Whenever Ernie the Giant Chicken arrives, down your drink.
- Whenever something RESEMBLING Ernie the Giant Chicken comes in (think Peter's face at the beginning of the fight in "The Simpsons Guy"), take a shot.
- Whenever someone is mean to Meg, drink. If you don't want to succumb to alcohol poisoning, drink small sips for this one.
- If someone is actually nice to Meg, down your entire drink because you won't see that happen very often.
- If someone other than Neil Goldman is nice to Meg, down between two and four drinks.
- If someone is actually nice to Meg, down your entire drink because you won't see that happen very often.
- Whenever the evil monkey appears, drink.
- Whenever someone is shown having (or just had) sex, drink.
- Whenever a catchphrase is said (Peter's "heheheheh", "sweet", "shut up Meg", Herbert's "mmmmmmm" etc.), drink
- Whenever Brian gets preachy, drink until he stops talking. Say goodbye to your liver.
- Whenever there is an Overly Long Gag, keep drinking until it's done. Have an ambulance on standby.
- Whenever the plot stops for an entire musical number (in-universe or live-action), keep drinking very slowly, on a full stomach, until it's done.
- Whenever Quagmire says "giggity giggity" and/or has sex, drink.
- Bonus: The "He's Quagmire" song counts as a double.
- Whenever someone acts like a total idiot, take an eye dropper and drip one drop of into your mouth. You'll be on the floor in no time.
- Whenever someone pukes, drink.
- On every censor bleep (or, if you're watching the DVD's, every bleep-worthy word), take a shot. If it's early in the series where bleeps were rare, chug the whole thing down.
- When the first line spoken in the second act begins with “I can’t believe…,” drink.
- When someone is spying on a woman using the toilet, drink.
- Whenever someone says "What the hell?" or some variation of the term, drink.
- Let's take it up a notch. Drink every time a swear word is used in general, even if it's bleeped.
- Whenever Herbert tries to seduce Chris, drink.
- Whenever Herbert tries to seduce someone other than Chris, take two drinks.
- Whenever someone other than Herbert tries to seduce Chris, take two drinks.
- Whenever an adult other than Brian actually understands Stewie, and it's not a cutaway gag, take 3 drinks.
- In an episode taking place after Cleveland moved away, whenever Cleveland shows up, down your whole drink.
- When the Kool-Aid Guy shows up, down your drink.
- Whenever there's a gratuitous amount of violence and/or blood, take two drinks.
- Whenever there's a parody of a show/movie/book, drink.
- Whenever a scene mirrors some terrible tragedy that happened in real life sometime after the episode originally aired, take three drinks.
- Whenever someone mispronounces one or more words, just to annoy someone else, take two drinks.
- Whenever an obscure celebrity is mentioned, drink.
- Whenever they use a slow zoom to simulate emotion, drink.
- Whenever there's a reference to seventies or eighties pop culture, down your drink.
- Whenever there's a pop-culture reference from any other past decade, take three drinks.
- Whenever the characters take pot shots at another show (like The Cleveland Show or Bob's Burgers), take a drink.
- Take a drink every time there's a Crossover Punchline. Two if it's The Simpsons.
- Take a drink if Stewie's football-shaped head is referenced.
- Take a drink every time Superman appears. Seriously, he's almost as prolific
as the Kool-Aid Man. You could categorize him as a character at this point.
- Take a drink whenever there's a 9/11 joke.
- Take a shot every time Brian is compared to Snoopy.
