This entry brings television month to a close. And what better way to end the month than with the longest running sitcom outside syndication? 

The Simpsons has been on the air for 24 YEARS, and with good reason. Before Matt Groening took network television by storm, airing an animated show for adults was not recommended, especially in a prime-time slot on a network as reputable as FOX. Now the concept is De Riguer for most networks, and the series itself has been highly influential in the realms of animation, sitcoms, and comedy in general. This show brought cartoons back into the spotlight, and continues to lampoon American pop culture to this day.

But can a show really run for longer than the lifespan of most viewers of this blog, still crank out joke after joke, and stay relevant to the general American populace? And can there be a drinking game that will accurately encompass 24 years of television? We sat down to find out. 

GUYS. It's almost May 26th. Arrested Development Season 4 is almost within your grasp. AREN'T YOU EXCITED???

What's that? You never watched this show? 

Well, you have plenty of time to catch up. With only three seasons, the last of which is technically a half season, up on Netflix, you have no reason to dawdle. This show is genius, in a way that few shows have managed to emulate. The jokes come so quickly, the twists come so out of nowhere, the humor is SO absurd. The ties the show holds to reality, while slim, are tight, which keeps it from flying completely off the rails. It anticipates jokes made at its expense before they happen. As the Fuzzy Masked Man says, "There's just nothing to make fun of."

There's no guarantee that my rules will work for season 4. But I'm sure as hell going to have fun seeing for myself. 

Some shows you can jump right into with no prior knowledge. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" is not one of those shows.

Out of all the players for our Buffy test game, only two of us had seen every episode. I anticipated that I would have to explain some stuff as we watched, but I didn't properly realize just how the series builds on itself over time. What starts as a simple monster of the week show becomes a sprawling epic by the end of its seven season run. The main cast goes through several rotations, relationships begin and dissolve, good becomes evil and vice versa. It's a lot to handle, especially for the uninitiated.

So what does making a drinking game for this kind of roller coaster entail? We had our work cut out for us this week.

We here at For Your Inebriation are a bunch of dirty birds, especially when we're living life on the tipsy side. A bunch of the stuff we say while playing through these games is unpublishable. I'd rather take a look at these games with a critical eye than go straight for the sex jokes.

That's all going out the window with this game. This show is famous for its scantily clad women, its power-hungry men, and levels of gore beyond reproach. Some have called it gratuitous. But the show still has garnered high levels of critical acclaim, it is changing the way television is being produced even though it is still in its early stages, AND it has earned the title of the most widely pirated show on television.

Can a show be considered high art and low art at the same time? In any case, Game of Thrones is going strong at season three, and we'll be playing this drinking game for a long, long, LONG time to come.

As we watched through "The Holiday," we invented different movies with similar premises that would have been more enjoyable to watch. Perhaps a buddy comedy, in which Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet meet and help each other sort out their love lives. How about a movie in which Winslet and Diaz trade houses and fall in love with each other through a series of intimate scenes involving the others' possessions? Or even a movie that is just Kate Winslet and Jack Black's love story that's an hour shorter?

"The Holiday" had a good cast, a decent premise, Hans Zimmer doing the score, and a script that could be called "fine". The problem is, a movie that started with mediocre ingredients took every wrong turn during production, and eventually became a hoary treatise on love with unlikeable characters and an emotionally manipulative storyline. 

Luckily, all the elements that cause "The Holiday" to fail as a movie make it perfect fodder for a drinking game. We had the best time not enjoying this movie, and with our game's rules, so can you!