The Ultimate Christmas Movie Drinking Game

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Grab your egg nog, and a bottle of gin, and get chugging. After you play our Christmas Movie Drinking Game, it truly will be the most wonderful time of the year.

Christmas Movie House Rules.

These rules cover the bases for every Christmas movie ever crafted into existence:

1. Someone says "Merry Christmas."
2. You hear a Christmas carol you know the words to.
3. Someone says "Ba humbug," sarcastically or in all seriousness.
4. A couple gets engaged/breaks up during the holidays.
5.

A portly silver-haired man in a sweater symbolically represents Santa Claus.
6. Someone is injured hanging Christmas decorations. (i.e. lights, tree ornaments)
7. When someone insists Santa Claus doesn't exist.

Shot Rule!: When someone who insisted Santa Claus didn't exist learns to believe in the end.
Shot Rule!: Every time Jesus is mentioned/Christmas is alluded to as an actual religious holiday.
Shot Rule!: Every time a couple kisses under the mistletoe.

In addition to this liquored line-up, here are some fabulous films with a handful of bonus round rules:


National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Drink every time Chevy Chase's bonus is mentioned.





Bad Santa
Drink every time Billy Bob Thornton Drinks (Note: Just a sip of your drink. If you take a shot every time this man drinks, you might die.)




Elf
Take a shot every time Buddy screams Santa.





Home Alone
Take a shot every time one of the bandits survive a trap that would kill them in reality.





The Santa Clause
Take a shot every time Judge Reinhold shows up in an ugly sweater.





How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Drink every time you hear a rhyme.





Love Actually
Take a shot every time "Christmas Is All Around You" plays.





Jingle All The Way
Take a shot every time Arnold Schwarzenegger insists he's not a pervert.





A Christmas Story
Take a shot whenever someone says, "You'll shoot your eye out."





Christmas With the Kranks
Chug your drink every time Jamie Lee Curtis chugs her drink.