You novice trash tv players will probably need to start with a more mainstream show to build up your tolerance.
But, for those who are strong and brave and true . . . those who do not shrink in the face of schlock . . . those with strong gag reflexes, no viewing standards, and shallow taste in entertainment . . . this is your game.
This is still in rough form as I just made it up with Kerri Grady, my web designer a couple of weeks ago, while we were slugging down Tequila Sunrises.
Be patient.
Take a drink:
Whenever Connor Doyle dresses like an outdoorsman
When anyone wears "the special hat" to be hypnotized
Whenever Donner jumps as though she's startled
Whenever the Commando yawns
When they all sit down at "the table of bad ideas"
Every time someone's suggestion is worse than the one before
Whenever they send in the mobile unit
Whenever "something bad" happens to the mobile unit
Again when the mobile unit is destroyed
Whenever there is a blue-tinted interviewee
Whenever Doyle says, "Case file update."
Whenever you see the team in their air traffic controller headsets
Whenever they put biostat stuff on people
Whenever they videotape the inside of someone's house
Whenever Doyle is watching someone sleep
Whenever they "zone" off a house
Whenever a bit player says, "I know someone/ a group who can help."
Whenever Nigel Bennett appears (Drink again if he's not facing the camera)
Whenever someone calls him "Professor Doyle"
Whenever there is a Star Trek rip-off "sacrificial ensign" scene
Whenever Lindsay Donner uses someone's last name
Anytime the voice communication between team members goes out
When they're in a foreign country and everyone speaks heavily accented English, even to each other
5 drinks if Doyle smiles
2 drinks if the Commando makes a good suggestion
When Dan Aykroyd starts a sentence with "Was it . . ."
Whenever the people behind Dan Aykroyd are playing with rats, all yell "Rats" and take a drink
2 drinks whenever they're all huddled in a van
5 drinks if anyone has a "romantic encounter" (the Commando appears to be the only one on the show who has ever had a date)
If you remember pieces of this episode from some episode of the X-Files, yell "X-Files rip-off" and all drink
Every time the old guy hypnotizes someone
If the biology squirt tells a piece of uninteresting trivia
Whenever the Commando tips his chair back
When the episode ends in a non-Psi conclusion
When the episode ends in a non-Psi conclusion and Dan Aykroyd still harps on about how it could have been a Psi thing, it just wasn't in this case
If someone dies
If they use the infrared scanner
When they check for geological and atmospheric conditions
When Doyle yells someone's name
When anyone calls the jumpy white chick "Lindsay" instead of "Donner"
When one of the monitors goes on the fritz
When technobabble is used
When you hear Connor's disembodied voice-over, yell, "The Geek"
When a bit player calls aside a main character to whisper "important" information
When anyone says (any phrase resembling) "I've never seen anything like this before."
Someone says "HQ"
Anytime someone has electrodes attached to their head (Double if they are in their own home, triple if they are sleeping and being watched by OSIR voyeurs)
Whenever there is a visual anomaly
When Dan Aykroyd does "the eyebrow thing"
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The new season -- if you're like me, you're in fierce denial that there
even WAS a second season of Psi Factor. First of all, there's a small
contingent of people (thanks SO much for your opinion K-L) who think that
with the demise of Connor Doyle came better acting all around. I
personally think that Connor is still alive he's just cryogenically frozen
somewhere awaiting Max Headroom's scary death.
Okay. I guess it's time for some sounding off. I'll be asking
for opinions as well as some exciting new second season drinking game suggestions.
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