This Old House Drinking Game

The This Old House Drinking Game

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Originally found at http://www.fred.net/turtle/souse.shtml (no longer active)

Take a drink if:

• Steve offers to help
• A new contractor is introduced
• The homeowner says anything about their budget
• Norm taps his safety glasses and reminds us how important they are
• A new technology is displayed or discussed
• Anyone visits a manufacturer's plant
• Norm says the word "biscuit"
• Tom Silva gets to say goodbye at the end of the show (take two drinks if any other person gets to say goodbye)
• Anyone says the word "ogee"
• Tom Silva says the word "rot"
• Steve says "I don't know, Norm..."
• A city or local inspector appears
• Steve gets out of his pickup truck and you can hear the "ding" from the you-left-your-keys-in-it alarm
• Norm says "draw" instead of "drawer"
• Norm "Mr. Shop Safety" Abram leaves a safety guard off a shop tool so "we can get a better view."
• It's obvious that Steve and Norm are talking from a script

Finish your drink if:

• Steve breaks anything
• The historic preservation board turns them down on something
• They actually finish a house project
• The old This Old House music accidentally gets left into a Renovation Guide remake

Finish the whole bottle if:

• Norm breaks anything
• Anyone gets arrested for violations of historic district zoning
• They ever sell that big house they renovated for themselves
• You buy that big house they renovated for themselves (though realistically, the guys and WGBH could probably buy you a bottle... you'll need it

The Bruce Irving Memorial Rule:

• If anyone watching the show should happen to think, "hey, what a well-produced show!", please email a drink to the producer of the show, Bruce Irving of WGBH in Boston. (submitted by some guy named Bruce Irving)

The Perverse Reverse Cause-And-Effect Rule:

• If Norm and Steve drink, you have to break something. This rule often comes into play at the end of a big project, where they commonly have a big party. See reruns of the California farmhouse project for details. We're of course not responsible for whatever you break, sorry.