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The Wire Drinking Game

Drink every time:
  • Jimmy or Bunk take a drink
  • Freamon explains a procedure to a colleague/us
  • Freamon peers over his glasses
  • Freamon works on one of his miniature furnishings
  • Any character utters the sentence written at the beginning of the episode.
  • Burrell, Rawls, Jay or Daniels reprimand a subordinate
  • Avon, Stringer, D’Angelo or Bodie reprimand a subordinate
  • Daniels stares someone down with his goggly eyes
  • Jimmy angrily makes his case to somebody who has pissed him off
  • Jimmy gives a fuck when “it ain’t his turn to give a fuck”
  • Herc fucks up, however minor
  • Kima smiles wryly and nods or shakes her head
  •  Levy squirms with smug satisfaction
  • A young child utters the phrase “Omar’s coming!”
  • Omar smokes
  • Omar whistles
  • Omar swears
  • A bounty gets put on Omar’s head.
  • Avon squints when thinking or faced with a problem or insubordination
  • Avon touches his chin
  • D’Angelo furrows his brow in a troubled, conflicted manner
  • D’Angelo imparts worldly advice to his peers
  • D’Angelo wears a top that ISN’T a roll-neck sweater 
  • Bodie spits
  • A character repeats some advice he or she has been given to another character
  • Poot or Wallace say something stupid or naive
  • Any visible drug deal
  • "Spider Bags", "WMD", "Global Warming", "Pandemic", (Color) Tops, or any other nickname for crack 
  • A visible re-up - finish and re-up your beer
  • Bubs gets high on screen 
  • Bubs’ white mate demonstrates crushing stupidity or uses street slang in an embarrassing way
  • Someone gets beaten up or hit
  • A bottle breaks
  • A cop fires a weapon all drinks are downed
  • When Clay Davis says “Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit” all shots must be finished before he gets to the end of the word.
  • Bubbles refers to McNulty as “McNutty”.
  • Anyone mentions “Fuzzy Dunlop”.
  • Any reference to “the game”
  • Prezbo is called “Prezbo” by someone.
  • Prop Joe is seen fixing an appliance. Shot if this is combined with peering over his glasses.
  • Major Colvin is referred to as “Bunny”
  • Daniels smirks during or immediately following a meeting with the Commissioner or Deputy Ops.
  • Jay Landsman is eating or drinking while talking to a colleague.
  • Snoop says something indecipherable.
  •  Any incidence of classroom violence, or violence within the vicinity of the school

Finish your drink:
  • Street corner boy gets killed
  • Bubs sells one of dem tees
  • Jimmy asks “What the fuck did I do?”

Take a shot of Jameson:
  • Police brutality
  • Burrell or Rawls demand a case be brought in
  • Omar says “indeed”
  • Omar fires shots in anger
  • Jimmy, Stringer or Carcetti slip into English/Irish accents
  • Any gang leader orders a killing on screen
  • Maury Levy negotiates a scandalously lenient term for a client, to the dismay of all others in the room
  • A scene in Orlando’s starts with a not strictly necessary establishing shot of a naked stripper
  • A gratuitous metaphor for street life is used
  • Someone is shot
  • Proposition Joe comes out with a brilliant homemade street proverb
  • Marlo completes a sentence without moving his lips once
  • Snoop makes a weird barking sound
  • A teacher breaks the trust of a student, or vice versa
  • Marlo gets his hands dirty in some way, however small
  • The Stanfield crew commit an entirely uneccesary killing (shot in addition to the standard murder shot)

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