This game is to be played while reading Laverne and Shirley's entry at JumpTheShark.com. You do NOT have to consume alchohol to enjoy it, just have a healthy sense of humor!

If someone says it jumped from day one, take a sip.
If the show's setting is lamented, "because it could have been such a deep show with the material it had," take two sips
If the show's entire premise is trashed, drain the glass

If someone shows up claiming they worked on the show, take a sip.
If they mention how much they hate either Penny or Cindy, take a sip of milk n pepsi n rum for every "Penny" and a belt of whisky for every "Cindy".
If their antecdote somehow includes ingestion of drugs, drain the glass.

If someone blames the decline of the show on Eddie Mekka or Carmine, take a sip.
If someone impugnes his sexuality, take two sips
If someone flat-out refers to him as "The Big Fagoo," suggests he sings "Like a castrated Mighty Mouse" or refers to him as the antichrist, drain the glass

If someone blames the show's decline on too much Lenny and Squiggy, take a sip
If someone mentions any homoerotic tension between the characters, take two sips. If someone suggests that Lenny was the bottom, take three.
If someone's entire post consists only of a door gag, complete with Shirl spelled as "Shoil", drain the glass.

If someone shows up claiming they're from Milwaukee, take a sip
If someone claims the show RUINED MILWAUKEE'S REPUTATION FOREVER!!! Take two sips
If someone compares what Garry Marshall did to Milwaukee in any way to a natural disaster or the Holocaust, drink two bottles of Pabst.

If someone mentions the Penny Marshall/Cindy Williams onset tension, take a sip
If someone mentions that it looks like they want to kill each other in nearly every episode, take two sips
If someone suggests that they actually attempted to hurt each other, drain the glass.

If a guest star is invoked, take a sip
If the guest star is incorrectly reffered to, take two sips and headdesk.
If someone specifically mention Charles Grodin, drain the bottle and nod in mute sympathy

If someone complains about Carmine's singing, take a sip
If someone claims it causes them physical pain, take two sips
If they incorrectly claim he always enters a scene singing "Rags to Riches," drain a bottle of Chianti and then sing a chorus yourself (YOU know that he sang it while EXITING quite a few scenes).

If someone mentions the lack of historical continuity on the show, take a sip
If someone mentions that the boys were still greasers and it was '63, take two sips
If someone actually brings up that Laverne had a mullet in Season 8 while the '60's went on around her, drain the bottle and then sing "Age of Aquarius"

If someone says that Happy Days is better than LAS, take a sip
If someone says All In The Family is better than LAS, take two sips
If someone says Charlie Chaplin is better than LAS, drain a bottle of scotch and do the Little Tramp shuffle-walk

If someone incorrectly identifies the Marshalls as Jewish, take a sip
If this is used in a negative way, take two sips
If someone mentions Penny Marshall's "yenta wail," dance a huppa while you drain the bottle

If someone mentions a specific episode as a jumping point, take a sip
If someone mentions anything but "The Monestary Show" as a jumping off point, take two sips. If "Do The Carmine" is mentioned as a cure for constipation, take three.
If they mention "The Monestary Show" and go into apparent mental convusions on remembering its premise, drink a bottle of vodka in their memory.

If someone talks about Laverne's promescuity, take a sip
If someone mentions how nice her cans are, take two sips
If someone wonders if she has an "L" tattoo somewhere else on her body, drink a bottle of schnappes and open up a word doccument

If people wonder why Lenny and Squiggy didn't get their own spin-off, take a sip
If someone then asks why Eddie Mekka got a spin-off, take two sips and shake your head in disgust
If you can remember the title and premise of Lenny and Squiggy's spin-off pilot and the fact that Eddie Mekka's spin-off wasn't really a spin-off, reward yourself with half the bottle. If someone else does, drink the rest of it.

If someone blames the show for not fufilling the Carmine/Shirley relationship, take a sip
If someone blames Carmine for being a dork, take two sips
If someone blames Shirley for taking it, drain half the bottle and write some Carmine/Shirley. Drain the other half if you manage to set the fic before the California move.

If someone suggests that Lenny and Squiggy are "special", take a sip
If someone downgrades their afflictions to "learning dissabilities", take two sips
If someone says that Squiggy's the one who's "slow" but Lenny's just pretending for his sake, drain half the bottle and open up a word doccument

If someone complains about the way the actors used their accents, take a sip
If someone miss-identifies Lenny and Squiggy's accents as Brooklyneese, take two sips
If somone brings up Shirley's horrifying first-season accent, drink a bottle of Moxie, then try to immitate her.

If someone blames Rhonda for the show's jump, take a sip
If someone mocks her for her uselessness and/or height, take two sips
If someone says they think she's hot, drink some champaign and refer to yourself in the third person for an hour.

If someone mentions Walter as a jumping point, take a sip
If the poster can't remember his name, take two sips
If they call him either "the bandage guy" or "the mummy guy," drain the bottle and immitate Lon Chaney.

If someone mentions that there's a lot of yelling on the show, take a sip
If someone defends that point by saying only Phil Foster yelled, take two sips
If, ironically, the person returns to defend themselves ALL IN CAPS, drink some Stoli and WRITE EVERYTHING IN CAPS FOR AWHILE

If somone posted while obviously stoned, take a sip
If that person's post makes more sense than anything in season 8, take two sips
If that person claims they have dirt on the cast's drug habbits, drain the bottle and IM somone to gossip.

If someone suggests that Eddie Mekka's not a working actor anymore, take a sip
If someone suggests he hasn't worked since LAS, take two sips
If that person suggests he's parking cars in LA, drain half the bottle and send him EM's IMDB entry.

If LAS jumping the shark in the Cali move is mentioned, drink a bottle of fine California-made wine

If someone suggests there's too much actor bashing, take a sip of any sort of wine - make that whine..

If you actually vote at JTS.com after reading this, take a sip
If you vote for the jump happening in the Milwaukee-LA move, take two sips
If you vote that the show never jumped, drain the bottle for fortitude