The other night, while the majority of the world/The United States was watching The Oscars*, Ula and I were instead taking in some Long Way Round, Mantracker and, eventually, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels via the ol Apple TV. For our Mantracker portion, we came up with and QUICKLY implemented a fantastic drinking game. One worth sharing.
I wasn't all that aware of Mantracker until recently. My buddy Pat, who recently cast aside NYC living for a farmhouse in the Catskills (a move which leaves me shamefully envious), has been telling me about it for a while now. Last week, I visited him for a few days and, once again, he was adamant about my need to check the show out. I did and am into it. Maybe not as much as I was hoping as it's a TAD hokey, but it pushes my "man, i want to hang out in the woods" button firmly enough that I'll be watching more.
Back to the drinking game. Being mental children at heart, Ula and I couldn't help but laugh out loud and uncontrollably every time Mantracker (he's actually referred to as Mantracker in the show) or the narrator said the word "bush" in the show when referring to the vegetation through which the prey was hunted. The adjectives that precede the word made it even better. "Suffocating bush," "thick bush," "a thin strip of bush"...it's like they were doing it intentionally. So we made a drinking game out of it:
Drink every time you hear the word "bush." If you want to up the ante, you can also drink whenever you see the Mantracker logo. We instituted this rule early on when we were worried they wouldn't say "bush" enough. Those worries were confounded. Utterly confounded.
Man oh man did we stumble into something with this one. First of all, it's all but impossible to find an episode where the word isn't grossly overused. Secondly, as your buzz grows ever higher, the ways in which the word is used becomes increasingly entertaining. Granted, you need the sense of humor of a 12-year-old to truly get into this but, come on, don't we all? Get your hands on a few episodes of this show and keep em handy. When people swing by, DO THIS. IT WORKS. Promise.
*If you're under 40 and watched the Oscars, you were likely following Twitter throughout the night to be a part of the ol social media conversation. Me too. I kept checking in on this what people thought and it blew my mind how vastly negative it all was. Not because I had any reason to feel the sentiment was wrong. More-so, it made me wonder why the fuck all of these people a) decided to watch in the first place and b) continued watching when it was so clear that it was so terrible. Do we so badly need to be a part of whatever is going on in the pop culture sphere that we resign ourselves to ingesting such bullshit? I literally didn't read one tweet that had anything positive to say about the show yet everyone kept fucking watching. Kinda crazy,
