Revision as of 07:00, 8 March 2006

Take a drink every time...

...someone kills a baby.

Six (Mini-Series)
Adama (Scattered)
Dr. Cottle (The Captain's Hand)

...Colonel Saul Tigh...

...drinks.
...resolves to quit drinking.
- Take two sympathy drinks when, not if, Tigh falls off the wagon.
...is drunk on duty.
...questions Adama's orders.
...complains about not wanting his own command.
...berates someone else for a flaw he has too.
...gives a remarkably stupid order to the crew
Take bonus drinks if...
- ...a loss of life is involved (Resistance)
- ...a beloved character needlessly suffers for it (Resistance)
- ...Lee Adama is involved with the order (Fragged)
- ...the Fleet tells him, collectively, to frak off (Fragged)
- ...Commander Adama has to repair Tigh's frak-ups
- ...Tigh undermines his own reputation as a result (Mini-Series, "Fragged", "Resistance")
- ...Tigh admits that he's making bad orders (or says he doesn't want to be making the orders, "I don't want a command!", etc.)

...Ellen Tigh...

...makes sexual advances on someone other than Col. Tigh.
...brokers for power.
...manipulates Col. Tigh.
- This may lead Col. Tigh to give a remarkably stupid order to the crew, in which case refer to the rules for that occurrence as well.

...Kara Thrace...

...Demonstrates yet another talent.
- Card Shark: "And the girl wins again! Another round?" (Water)
- Sniper: "With all due respect, sir, I am the best shot in or out of the cockpit." (Bastille Day)
- Painter: "You paint these, Kara? / Yeah." (Valley of Darkness)
- Pro-level Pyramid Player: "I was scouted for the pros. Bum knee took me out of contention." (Resistance)
...Steps out of the box.
- ...mates two Vipers nose-to-nose for flight (Mini-Series)
- ...jury-rigs an enemy fighter with foreign controls to fly herself home (You Can't Go Home Again)
- ...outwits the Cylons in a tactical fighter plan of attack (The Hand of God), (Resurrection Ship, Part I)
- ...kills or maims a Cylon with anything other than a gun ("Flesh and Bone", "Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II", "The Farm")
...Steps into the bottle. (Scar)
...Punches anyone.
...Makes a Cylon kill.
...Is mistaken for a Cylon and nearly killed because of it (You Can't Go Home Again, Resistance, Home, Part I, Resurrection Ship, Part I)
...Hops into bed on a barely-considered whim.
- Gaius Baltar (Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I)
- Samuel Anders (The Farm)
- Lee Adama (Scar)
...Starts to unduly fawn over someone mere days after meeting them.
- Samuel Anders (Resistance)
- Admiral Cain (Resurrection Ship, Part I and Part II)

...Six dies.

Nuked. (Mini-Series)
Shot. (33)
Impaled. (Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II)
Extinguished. (The Farm)

...Six appears to Baltar at an inopportune moment.

Take bonus drinks if
...Baltar tries to subtly talk to both Six and real people at the same time (e.g. Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I: "I'm not your plaything!")
- ...and both Six and the "real" person or people Baltar is talking to respond the same way ("Plaything?")
...Six tries to engage Baltar in either sex or foreplay
...Baltar makes awkward attempts at excusing his odd behavior
...Others comment on Baltar's sanity or lack thereof
...She's naked
...She's dressed like Starbuck

...Six becomes violent or threatens violence.

Breaks a baby's neck (Mini-Series)
Screams in Baltar's face (Bastille Day)
Beats the crap out of Caprica-Boomer
Chokes Baltar (Litmus)
"I'll always have your heart…I can rip it out of your chest if I have to." (Colonial Day)
Smashes Baltar's face into a mirror. (Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I)
Kicks the shit out of Starbuck. (Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II)
Tackles Baltar (Resurrection Ship, Part I as Gina)
Breaks a guard's neck (Resurrection Ship, Part II as Gina)
Shoots Admiral Cain (Resurrection Ship, Part II as Gina)
Chokes Baltar with his tie (Epiphanies)
Shoves Baltar and bites his lip (Epiphanies as Gina)
Bashes Number Three's head in with a rock (Downloaded as Caprica-Six)

...Anyone smokes. (literally or figuratively)

Gaius Baltar
Dr. Cottle
Kara Thrace
Specialist Prosna
Lee Adama

...Any male character sticks it in a toaster.

Helo
Gaius Baltar
Galen Tyrol

...Helo acts like an idiot.

...fails to notice his robot girlfriend's glowing spine. (Six Degrees of Separation)
...fails to realize his inexplicably nauseous robot girlfriend is pregnant. (The Hand of God)
...shoots his pregnant robot girlfriend. (Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I)
...lets his pregnant robot girlfriend jack Starbuck's spaceship. (Scattered)
...is surprised that everyone wants to throw his pregnant robot girlfriend out an airlock. (Home, Part I)
...fails to anticipate territory issues with his pregnant robot girlfriend's copy's former boyfriend. (Home, Part II)

...Chief Tyrol acts like a moron.

...makes out with a lieutenant against regulations - who happens to be a sleeper copy of Helo's pregnant robot girlfriend.
...lies about making out with his robot girlfriend.
...lies when he says he never loved his robot girlfriend.
...chews out of his crew who dare to show concern about his feelings about his robot girlfriend - or anything else, for that matter. (Mini-Series, Flight of the Phoenix)
...glares at or curses Colonel Tigh.
...goads the Yee-Haw Boys into entering his and Helo's cell and beating him up with soap-in-a-towel.
...Sleeps in the hanger bay in his undies then beats the crap out of Cally when woken.

Finish your drink if someone else acknowledges the stupidity of Tyrol. ("Resurrection Ship, Part I")

...Bill Adama...

...uses his Glare of Death.
- Bonus drink if Cottle deflects it with his own Scowl of Intense Disapproval. (The Captain's Hand)
...stomps down Galactica's hallways.
...waxes philisophically.
...brings up his lawyer father.
...expresses sympathy for the Cylons.
...expresses an enthusiastic attitude toward killing Cylons.
Take a bonus drink if it is by trying kill a Cylon himself
- Finish the drink completely if he tries to kill the same Cylon he expressed sympathy for in a previous episode.
...agrees with President Roslin.
...argues with President Roslin.
...deposes President Roslin.
...kisses President Roslin.
...appears on screen sporting a moustache.
...does something "captainly", like crushing walnuts in his hand or building a model ship.
...uses military action to resolve a situation. (See the above section if Adama's decision to use military action is recklessly dumb.)
...makes a recklessly stupid command decision.
- Counterattacking the Cylons (Mini-Series)
- Wasting half the fleet's fuel looking for Starbuck (You Can't Go Home Again)
- Arresting President Roslin (Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II)
- Sending Marines to rescue Helo and the Chief from the Pegasus (Pegasus)
- Arranging for the assassination of Admiral Cain (Resurrection Ship, Part I)
- Bonus drinks if a woman tries to reason with Adama.

Roslin tells Adama, "The war is over, we lost", and "We need to start having babies" (Mini-Series)
Dualla tells Adama, "It's time to put the fleet back together" (Home, Part I)
Roslin tells Adama, "She is dangerous, and the only thing that you can do is hit her before she hits you," (Resurrection Ship, Part I)
Sharon tells Adama, "You said you never asked yourself why you deserve to survive." (Resurrection Ship, Part II)

Finish your drink completely when, not if, Adama ultimately relents, echoing that woman's words to his officer(s).

...People get away with things — major disciplinary problems are ignored or set aside.

Starbuck gets away with punching Col. Tigh (Mini-Series)
Tyrol gets away with his hidden affair with Boomer, even when it leads to a security flaw that allows a Cylon suicide bomber to attack the ship (Litmus)
Starbuck gets away with stealing and ultimately losing Galactica's captured Cylon raider. (Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I)
Boomer gets away with trying to kill herself and ends up on a vitally important mission (Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II)
Baltar gets away with murdering Crashdown (Fragged)
Apollo gets away with pulling a gun on Tigh (Scattered) and helping Roslin escape (Home, Part II)
Helo gets away with pulling a gun on Apollo (Home, Part I)
President Roslin ultimately gets away with subverting the boundary between military and civilian government (Home, Part II).
Commander Adama ultimately gets away with subverting the boundary between military and civilian government (Litmus, Home, Part II).
Kat gets away with getting high on drugs during flight (reinstated in Pegasus)
Starbuck gets away with (and gets promoted for) stealing the Blackbird to fly a photo recon mission that her CAG specifically took her off of. (Resurrection Ship, Part I)
Lee Adama gets away with law enforcement by summary execution (Black Market)
Lee gets away with making repeated visits to a prositute (Black Market)
Kat gets away with punching Starbuck in the mouth (Scar)
Lee gets away with an affair with Dee, a fellow active duty soldier (The Captain's Hand)
Tyrol gets away with beating the crap out of Cally with nothing more than a stern talking to from a priest (Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I).

...Zarek makes a gambit for power...

...but loses.
...and succeeds.
- Bastille Day

...Lee Adama...

...uses one of his dad's phrases ("Be careful out there", "roll the hard six")
...completely oversteps his authority and/or commits mutiny
...acts self-righteous or angsty towards his dad (Miniseries, Bastille Day, Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II, Resurrection Ship, Part II)
...has a near-death experience.
- Ejects into space with a leak in his flight suit (Resurrection Ship, Part II)
- Almost killed by gangters. (Black Market)
- Accidentally shot. (Sacrifice)
- Put in command of Pegasus. (The Captain's Hand)
...angsts over said near-death experiences (Resurrection Ship, Part II, Black Market, The Captain's Hand)

Miscellaneous

...Billy and Dee stare at each other like two teenagers but never actually do anything.

...Someone gets promoted. This includes Roslin being sworn in as President (Miniseries), as well as when nuggets like Hot Dog get their wings (You Can't Go Home Again), someone is elected to the Quorum of Twelve (Zarek or Baltar) or elected Vice President ("Colonial Day"), or any other regular promotions within the military such as Starbuck in "Resurrection Ship, Part I".

Take two drinks if someone is promoted twice in one episode, ie: Major Lee Adama to Commander Lee Adama in The Captain's Hand.

The Number Six/Cylon leitmotif
"Bloodshed" (the Adama death theme from Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II) in Pegasus and Resurrection Ship, Part II
"Prelude to War" in the Resurrection Ship, Part II battle sequence
The "Destiny/Baltar's Dream" leitmotif

...CIC bursts into applause. (Mini-Series, You Can't Go Home Again, The Hand of God (RDM), Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II, The Farm, Home, Part I), Resurrection Ship, Part II)

Bonus drink if it prefigures an assassination attempt. (Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]], Resurrection Ship, Part II)

...Six comes up with some vague mystical interpretation of Baltar's travails.

...Elosha comes up with some vague mystical interpretation of Roslin's travails.

...Roslin comes up with some vague mystical interpretation of the Fleet's travails.

...Leoben comes up with some vague mystical interpretation of Starbuck's travails.

...Gaeta says, "Yes, sir." (On this one, alone, most of us would need a "commercial break" after one episode...)

...Apollo's modesty is thwarted by the smallest towel in the fleet.

...Laura Roslin uses her Stare of You-Gotta-Be-Frakking-Kidding-Me.

...A Cylon says "By your command".

...Jammer says something that hints that he may be a Cylon.

Production

...Michael Rymer's camera makes a full 360° revolution.
- In this case, everyone in the room must spin around until the scene is over.
Link arms with someone else and take a shot together every time Michael Rymer cross-cuts between two nearly identical scenes. (Pegasus, Resurrection Ship, Part I)
...the producers re-use stock special effects footage.
- ...an establishing shot of the Galactica from the side, surrounded by the fleet.
- ...an establishing shot of the Galactica from the top.
- ...an establishing shot of the Pegasus from the side.
- ...the civilian fleet jump from the Mini-Series.
- ...the Viper Launch sequence.
- ...Take another drink of the the stock footage leads to logic gaps.
...Bear McCreary re-uses stock musical cues.
...Bear McCreary finds some excuse to use the Stu Phillips theme from the original series.
...Bear McCreary throws in some new musical influences out of nowhere.

...Kara Thrace and Lee Adama...

...stare at eachother, strangely for non-work-related reasons.
...exchange blows
...kiss

@@ Line 161: / Line 161: @@
 *Kat gets away with punching Starbuck in the mouth ([[Scar]])
 *Lee gets away with an affair with Dee, a fellow active duty soldier ([[The Captain's Hand]])
-*Tryol gets away with beating the crap out of Cally with nothing more than a stern talking to from a [[Brother Cavil|priest]] ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]).
+*Tyrol gets away with beating the crap out of Cally with nothing more than a stern talking to from a [[Cavil|priest]] ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]).
 ==...Zarek makes a gambit for power...==