'Grand Designs' episode was made to get people as drunk as possible. - Polidicks

[quote=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/11229505/Kevin-McCloud-my-secret-Grand-Designs-drinking-game.html] Grand Designs host Kevin McCloud claims he made an episode of the show “deliberately designed to get people as drunk as possible” after discovering fans were using his script as the basis for a drinking game. The long-running Channel 4 show follows couples designing and building their dream home – invariably with a spiraling budget and disasters along the way. “We actually wrote an entire programme around the drinking, and it’s covert. So one of the programmes is deliberately designed to get people as drunk as possible." “There are all kinds of rules, like every time I use the word ‘bespoke’ it’s a double shot; the wife gets pregnant half way through, that’s a treble.” Fans on the 'Grand Designs Drinking Game' Facebook page claimed the episode in question was episode five of series 11, as McCloud "pointed out very emphatically and straight to camera" that he was wearing a hard hat - one of the things that earned a drink. Channel 4 said no episode had been deliberately made with the game in mind. A spokesman said: “It is not true that an episode of Grand Designs was made with a drinking game in mind. Kevin made these comments in jest.”[/quote]

Tou-fucking-ché.

[video=youtube;YwABTsTcv78]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwABTsTcv78[/video] The episode in question.

[quote]“There are all kinds of rules, like every time I use the word ‘bespoke’ it’s a double shot; the wife gets pregnant half way through, that’s a treble.”[/quote] Damn, I bet people were getting wasted every episode How about when the bored housewife decides to become a project manager and doesn't have a clue about architecture or building or projects or management, down the bottle?

[QUOTE=butt2089;46481620]Damn, I bet people were getting wasted every episode How about when the bored housewife decides to become a project manager and doesn't have a clue about architecture or building or projects or management, down the bottle?[/QUOTE] as someone who works at an architecture firm, I'm going to dub the rule "shotgun a 6 pack of whiskey"

[QUOTE=dai;46481722]as someone who works at an architecture firm, I'm going to dub the rule "shotgun a 6 pack of whiskey"[/QUOTE] dont die dai

[QUOTE=usaokay;46481854]Reminds me of an episode from a certain show where a newscaster would always say "But um" and people would drink to it. The caster eventually found out, so the next day, she said "But um" 20 times in a single sentence.[/QUOTE] How I Met Your Mother, right?

I love when TV presenters do things like this, an amusing example from many years ago was an F1 commentator on the BBC slipping the word "kumquat" into his commentry completely nonchantly. There is / was a rumour that someone bet him that there was no way he would fit it in.

Best way to play it is buy a few bottles of whatever spirit your into and watch the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy and neck a shot every time Frodo and Sam make a homosexual look/advance/comment/scene/innuendo at each other, your usually plastered after the 2nd hour so.

Kiefer Sutherland did a similar thing when he found out people drank for "dammit". He started trying to curtail them (as it was ridiculous) but then for a laugh he'd thrown in an unscripted group of "dammit dammit dammit" during episodes.