Take a swig...
- whenever Treguard says "Ooooooo nasty!"
- whenever Treguard says "Oh dear, what a pity"
-
twice if he says it WITHOUT a huge grin on his face
- whenever anyone says "Warning, team" or "Caution,
team" or any variation
- twice if it's not Treguard who says it
- anytime a bell chimes
- twice if it's not for
Temporal Disruption
- whenever Hordriss refers to himself as "One"
-
twice if this accidentally deteriorates his grammar
- every time Treguard suddenly widens his eyes and sounds
breathless, giving the impression that he did his flies up too quickly
- if Treguard says "Hurry team, you're wasting life
force..."
- whenever Mogdred booms with diabolical laughter
- twice
if he hasn't actually done anything to justify it
- when any character aggressively rolls his/her R's
- any time a character meets the dungeoneer for the
second time and seems to have no memory of meeting them the first time
- any time any character says or does exactly the same
things that they did in a previous quest, right down to sentence structure and punctuation
- any time a character SHOULD say or do the same
thing that they did in a previous quest, but doesn't e.g. the Boatman inexplicably changing the fare for crossing the Dunswater
- any time a character appears overwhelmingly surprised
by something that they saw happen at exactly the same time and in exactly the same place on a previous quest
- every time a dungeoneer performs that forced, unconvincing
buckling of the knees after travelling down a wellway
- every time an advisor calls out "Spellcasting" much
too loudly
- any time a caster needlessly calls out the name of
the spell between calling "Spellcasting" and the letters of the spell's name
- when a dungeoneer is carrying the wrong clue
object and gets away with it
- every time someone refers to Merlin as "dozy" or an
"old fool"
- whenever Merlin takes a painfully long time to cast
a spell only a handful of letters in length
- every time someone talks in rhymes
- twice if
it isn't Treguard, Folly or Motley
- any time Motley actually succeeds in saying something
funny
- twice if the joke was intentional (as far as I can remember, this one is in permanent disuse...)
- any time Motley makes a corny pun out of the dungeoneer's
name ("Make sure you don't step off a cliff, Cliff!" or "My mate Dicken, he ain't no chicken!" etc.)
- any time Motley performs a girlish pirouette
- when Motley asks a dungeoneer to teach him some new
jokes
- any time an advisor gives the instruction to side-step
in one direction and the dungeoneer steps in the other
- twice if this results in the dungeoneer falling to their death
- any time an advisor gives the instruction to side-step
in one direction, when he/she meant to say the other
- twice if this results in the dungeoneer falling to their death
- when the dungeoneer is asked for his/her name,
and asks the advisors, "What shall I say?"
- any time a character cries out, "Dragon's breath!",
or "Great Goblins!"
- when anyone makes disparaging remarks about how daft
the dungeoneer looks in that helmet
- when Olaf threatens to "Tump" the dungeoneer on the
head
- twice if he attempts to justify it by saying that orders are orders
- whenever Olaf sings out, "Loo-tings and pill-a-gings!"
- every time a bad guy gets shot up by a warrior-maid
carrying a weapon that appears to fire unconvincing cartoon effects
- when Pickle starts moaning about dungeoneers giving
out their names to strangers
- when Pickle makes nervous/rude remarks about the watchers
- any time Pickle is silenced by the sound of Treguard irritably clearing his throat
- any time Velda or Brother Strange show signs of possessing
more personality than a wet dishcloth
- whenever Brother Mace pointlessly adds "-biscum"
to the ends of words
- whenever Pickle, Majida, Snapper Jack, Julius Scaramonger,
Honesty Bartram, Motley or Casper the Key are in a scene for more than twenty seconds without being so irritating that you
want to put your foot through the screen.
Finish your drink and start your next one...
- whenever Pickle, Majida, Snapper Jack, Julius Scaramonger,
Honesty Bartram, Motley or Casper the Key are so irritating that they DO make you want to put your foot through the
screen
- whenever magic fails because the team are dyslexic
- whenever a dungeoneer appears to fail a floor puzzle
and should be dead but mysteriously gets away with it (not just for Dunstan, that one)
- whenever the life force clock runs out without the
dungeoneer being locked in a room (only one occasion I can think of where that applies)
- when a dungeoneer gets cut to pieces on the Corridor
of Blades
- when a dungeoneer actually wins.
If you're watching by individual seasons, and you're in
a big hurry to get drunk, you can add in any of the following, depending on which season you're watching...
SEASONS 1 & 2
Take a swig...
- anytime Treguard sounds surprised that approaching
Temporal Disruption has caused the episode to come to an end, even though that's precisely what it did in the previous nine
hundred and ninety five million episodes
- whenever Treguard's hairstyle appears to change during
a scene without there being any clear cause for it
- every time Treguard warns the team about the dangers
of the Corridor of The Catacombs
- twice if the danger appears in the form of a small monster that remains rooted at the
far end of the corridor and which, apart from moving from side to side and making the occasional nasty gurgling noise, does
absolutely nothing whatsoever
- whenever Treguard confuses one of the wall monsters
with another
- whenever Treguard insults a wall monster
- whenever a wall monster insults one of the other wall
monsters
- whenever a wall monster insults the dungeoneer
- whenever Granitas sulks about his name
- any time Igneous violently overpronounces his consonants
- any time Mugg the Gargoyle speaks without moving his
lips
- whenever Folly talks to inanimate objects
- twice
if it's not his laughter doll
- every time Folly laughs like that ninny
from Rentaghost
- every time Folly asks a dungeoneer, "What's your name
then?"
- any time Treguard growls at Folly to stop wasting
time
- every time Gretal acts like she's at kindergarten
- every time Gretal gets all vain
- every time Gretal starts squabbling with Mildread
- whenever Mildread disguises herself as someone else
- whenever Mildread makes a nasty slurping noise
- every time Mildread or Lillith try to trick a dungeoneer
into going through a wrong exit
- whenever Lillith demands a bribe to let a dungeoneer
pass
- twice if she rewards the dungeoneer with magic
- three times if she manages to do the entire scene without
uttering an outrageous double-entendre
- every time Bumptious begins legal proceedings against
a dungeoneer
- twice if he finds the dungeoneer guilty
- every time Bumptious calls out "By the booo-oook!"
- any time Casper the Key shouts "Oi! Put me
down!" (I wish someone would!)
- any time Casper addresses a dungeoneer as "fumble
fingers"
- any time Mogdred tries to turn a dungeoneer to the
ways of evil
- twice if the dungeoneer's stupid enough to accept
- any time Merlin forgets someone's name
- twice
if its his own
- any time Merlin remembers one of his other names
-
twice if it's Bert
- every time Gumboil gets beaten up or taken out of
a fight in a humiliating manner
- every time Gumboil gives his own name a profound sub-title
preceded by the definite article e.g. "Gumboil the Incorruptible/Gumboil the 'Orrid"
- any time Gumboil is so drunk that his slurred language
borders on post-watershed material (e.g. "The psh-... the pish-... the... pi-... the push off or you
perish!!!!")
- whenever Cedric calls a dungeoneer a dogsbottom
- whenever Cedric smiles while shouting something bad-tempered
- whenever Cedric threatens to clobber someone
-
twice if he then goes and does so
- whenever any character cries out "Intruder Alert"
followed by the level number
- any time someone complains about having a headache
- if the fuse on a bomb suspiciously appears to grow
back slightly while it's burning down
- whenever the life force clock is mysteriously put
back a few seconds between rooms
- whenever the "Jericho 6" wall appears
- twice
if it gets knocked down.
Finish your drink and start your next one...
- whenever a wall monster appears, says its piece, then
disappears, all without once using the words "ignorant" or "ignorance"
- when one of the characters can be heard roaring with
laughter over the closing credits
- every time Treguard finishes an episode with the "Just
keep telling yourself 'It's only a game. Isn't it?'" routine. Believe me, after having to listen to it for more than five
episodes, you'll need every drop.
SEASON 3
Take a swig...
- whenever the dungeoneer has to perform an embarrassing
task to complete a step-puzzle in Merlin's throne room
- every time Merlin is busy and gets cheesed off that
he's been summoned to the throne room to test a dungeoneer
- every time Mellisandre falls through a trapdoor that
only a short-sighted idiot would spend time standing around on
- any time Mrs Grimwold yells "SHUT UP, FESTUS!"
- any time Mrs Grimwold makes flippant remarks about
some of Festus' more blood-curdling features
- any time Mrs Grimwold addresses someone as "dearie"
- whenever the raven starts plagiarising material that
is supposed to be the exclusive preserve of parrots ("Who's a clever boy then?" etc.)
- any time Velda adopts a peculiar defensive crouch
- any time Velda makes over-expressive hand movements
- any time terror causes McGrew's voice to rise several
octaves in pitch.
Finish your drink and start your next one...
- every time the video tape is sped up to portray the
dungeoneer "running" along a dwarf tunnel
- every time a dungeoneer goes plummeting from a cliff
edge to their death.
SEASON 4
Take a swig...
- whenever Fatilla threatens to "blip" and "blop" the
dungeoneer
- whenever Fatilla refers to a dungeoneer, somewhat
deviantly, as a "horny dunga-thingie"
- whenever Fatilla angles for a bribe by adopting a
back-hander pose and wiggling his fingers
- whenever Oakley scares an intruder out of his glen
- whenever Oakley addresses a dungeoneer as "Thief!"
- any time Treguard implores the dungeoneer to hold
up the Eye-Shield
- every time the dungeoneer finds someone in the stocks
- any time someone comments on Gundrada's large (?)
muscles
- twice if it's Gundrada herself who's
commenting on them
- any time Gundrada comments on how small or slow the
dungeoneer is
- any time Gundrada comments on how much bigger than
the dungeoneer she was when she was their age
- any time Gundrada has trouble shaping the letter R
correctly
- any time Gundrada gets into trouble with Hordriss
- whenever a weeping door whines, "Truth will out"
- every time someone mentions the name of a spell that
makes the dungeoneer run faster
- whenever Pickle tries to help the dungeoneer in clear
violation of the rules
- twice if Treguard shouts at him for it.
Finish your drink and start your next one...
- every time Hordriss or Malice gives the dungeoneer
a sub-quest to fulfill
- every time a brand new quest is interrupted only moments
in by the onset of Temporal Disruption.
Finally some techniques specific to the Lord Fear years...
Take a swig...
- whenever Lord Fear uses pond-life references to insult
Lissard
- twice if Lissard seems to take it as a compliment
- whenever Lord Fear wastes a long time gloating unnecessarily
(conveniently presenting the dungeoneer with just enough of a window to prepare a counterattack) when he should really just
get on with swatting the brats
- whenever Lord Fear grossly flatters himself
- whenever Lord Fear expresses fondness and pride for
the unpleasant qualities of himself or his henchmen
- whenever Lord Fear calls a dungeoneer, "Goblin fodder!"
- whenever a dungeoneer falls to their death on the
Play Your Cards Right puzzle
- any time a dungeoneer just happens to look through
a spyglass at exactly the right moment to hear Lord Fear discussing all the important plot details with his followers
-
twice if the sequence doesn't actually reveal any useful information
- any time Hordriss gets captured rather easily by the
Opposition
- twice if Sidriss is not involved
- whenever Sly Hands helpfully explains that hands are like feet only at the other
end of the body
- any time Sly Hands forgets his boss's name
- any time Sly Hands refers to a dungeoneer's "moo-cow 'elmet"
- any time Skarkill refers to Lord Fear as "Yer Fearship"
- any time Skarkill says, "lovely," or "unlovely".
- whenever Lissard refers to the dungeoneers as "Kidsies"
- every time the quest object appears to have been just
a short walk away from the Dungeon Antechamber all along
- if Majida starts moaning, quite wrongly, that a puzzle's
too difficult because the dungeoneer can't see
- everytime Majida gets her words muddled up
- twice
if, as a result, she utters a rude remark
- three times if, as a result, she FAILS to make the rude remark she
was intending
- any time Treguard flashes an embarrassed grin to the camera because his assistant
is making a complete balls-up of helping him present the programme
- every time the dungeoneer successfully retrieves a
quest object and is immediately informed, no matter how recently he/she had some food, that energy levels are critical and
that they must hurry
- any time Martha inflects her words incorrectly
- whenever you can understand a word Ridolfo is saying
- when the Brollachan asks to be fed
- whenever the dungeoneer gets away with getting the
answer to a riddle wrong because the Brollachan doesn't know the answer either
- whenever Rothberry offers to sell something absurd
to the dungeoneer
- whenevel Ah Wok tlansritelates the rettel L
with the rettel R
- any time the Norman knucklehead de Witless describes something as "dashed"
- when a member of the team refer to the spyglass
as a mirror or magnifying glass
- twice if it's after they've already been informed of the correct term
- every time Julius Scaramonger or Honesty Bartram offers
a dungeoneer the deal of a lifetime
- twice if they accept.
Finish your drink and start the next one...
- whenever Lord Fear's dastardly end-of-season plan
to destroy Knightmare Castle backfires completely and he suffers the ill-effects himself
- after Lord Fear has ended a season with a defiant
rant about how he'll never surrender and/or how next year he's going to splat every dungeoneer who heads his way
- (male viewers only) for every scene in which Stilletta
appears if you can bring yourself to keep your eyes off her the entire time she's on-screen
- (male viewers only again) every time Martha leans
a long way forward for no discernible reason and you manage to resist the urge to look at her cleavage
- (female viewers only) every time you read the two
previous instructions without snorting contemptuously.
And if that lot doesn't make you drunk, I suggest you check
the label on what you're drinking to make sure it's alcoholic. Any additions you'd like to see included on this list are welcome.
Thanks also to Joe Grocott-James for the ideas he's sent in.