The Wire Drinking Game
Drink every time:
Finish your drink:
Take a shot of Jameson:
- 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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