TGIF!!! In celebration of the week’s natural end, we’ve decided to make this day all about the alcohol. We’ve got the drunken, ill-informed Friday Face/Off, and now we’ve got our Friday drinking game. Grab some friends (or do it on your own, if you feel so inclined), get the Lambrini lined up, and consider yourself sozzled.

It would seem the natural feature of a drinking game film would be to contain a certain number of scenes where there is, in-fact, drinking. Nevertheless, we have decided to be mavericks for Friday drinking’s first outing. Mavericks, I tell you! This week is all about the period film genre. That means no hunting down any specific movie, because we know there’s an old Sense & Sensibility knocking around your house. Dust off that VHS, and follow zee rules below:

Take one sip when…

Someone marries someone else for money

There is a scandalous elopement

A couple should have sex, and they don’t because it’s a period film, you loon

Any time you see a bonnet. Actually, we don’t want you on the floor – anytime anyone talks about bonnets

A female protagonist displays ‘sass’ unbecoming to the decorum of the time period.

Take two sips when…

There is a spot of gardening/a picnic/another activity that could be potentially be spoiled by bees

A lady is rescued by a man (if he is on a horse, take another sip)

There is an outdoor proposal

Hugh Grant turns up

There is worryingly restrained dancing

Drink all the drinks when…

A Christmas goose is shot with an AK47

The Dark Lord of the Sith turns up in the middle of a ball

Someone exposes themselves

You see a black person

Enjoy! And remember kids, drink responsibly – it’s what Elizabeth Bennett would want.

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