h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

An excellent betting game is to have a sweep on the number of fights there are per episode of Jerry Springer. I am a cynic and always overestimate by heaps!

All you need is a few episodes of Jerry on tape *that you haven't watched* (important!), then, with a group of friends you sit and watch the shows. You must have copious amounts of alcohol available!

For every time:

A fight breaks out you take one drink.
A person says "Whatever", you take one drink.
Jerry says "Hey, it's only my show" or similar disparaging comment, take two drinks.
If one participant predicts the person who throws the first punch all other participants must take one drink. If the participant is wrong, they must take two drinks.
The crowd shouts "Jerry! Jerry! Jerry!", take one drink.
The crowd shouts "Steve! Steve! Steve!", take two drinks. (Steve being the shaven headed security guy).

The winner is the person who can stand upright at the end of the alloted number of shows without falling over, feeling like a ball on a roulette wheel and without expressing themselves by being sick on other participants.

Enjoy.

Oh Jerry Springer.

I personally would not come all the way from Canberra t see you're show Jerry, since I can just as easily see the freaks that your country generates on the box every day at 12 on Ten. (Ten... pfft, says it all really.)

I love it when those country bumpin familiys of yours strat fights with other dysfunctional members of their strange species. Who was the woman who refuses to wear clothes? That in itself was strange, but what was strager was how upset her family was over the whole thing!

I love it when racists and bigots come on your show and call each other names, when transvestities come on and morons call them gay. When strange unholy super-christians preach of the evils of homosexuality. I love it when every one so fervorantly gets it utterly utterly wrong.

Praise Jerry Springer and you're prime time oddities. We here is dull Canberra don't see the likes of this very often. We're sadly, too conservative, and yet, too tolerant.