originally found at http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~clee/ch/drink.html
compiled by Beverly Blackwell (BevSouth@aol.com)

Take a sip when ....

• Anyone mentions the word "hope"
• Birch says, "This is not respect"
• Grad sways all opinions in IRB meeting
• Shutt gives Nyland a dirty look
• Birch holds a press conference
• Birch observes surgery with relative of patient
• Birch sings to his daughter
• Geiger sings in the OR
• Geiger rips off his surgical mask
• Infante uses a leech
• Birch writes a memo that everyone ignores
• Judge Aldrich orders Birch to say "I am a toad"
• Judge Aldrich mentions a bodily function
• Anyone mentions malpractice
• Saunders tries to hasten a terminal patient's death
• Kronk offers to punch somebody
• Nyland and Atkisson make out anywhere in the hospital
• Kadalski sings "High Hopes" (Note: special rule, 2 sips -- 1 for Kadalski, 1 for "hope")
• Atkisson holds a body part (severed or attached)
• Life-saving surgery by Geiger/Shutt/Kronk (either one or any combination) is necessary
• Geiger alienates any new member of the staff in under 20 seconds
• Birch says "I'm in charge"
• Any staff member uses coarse humor in a public area
• Laurie goes nuts and has to be restrained

Take a gulp when ....

• Watters uses his "Catholic objections" to any proposed medical treatment
• Shutt rips off his surgical mask
• Infante uses a leech
• Judge Aldrich orders Birch to say "I am a toad"
• Birch says "Yeah" (Note: special rule, 1 gulp per "yeah")
• Shutt sniffs somebody trying to smell sex
• Kronk removes foreign object from patient's stomach
• Shutt and Watters nearly hit each other
• Nyland and Atkisson "do it" anywhere in the hospital
• Shutt has to remove a bullet from somebody's brain
• Birch says, "Your lips do not move"
• Geiger sings anything from one of Mandy Patinkin's CDS
• Birch has baby puke on his shoulder
• Thurmond says, "That's a trick question"
• Birch writes a memo that everyone ignores AND uses for toilet paper
• Nyland kisses and/or sleeps with a wacko
• Laurie apologizes for being a wacko
• Thurmond operates on a vegetable or a piece of fruit

Chug your entire drink when ....

• Birch sings in the men's room
• Infante drops a leech on the floor and someone steps on it
• Camille finishes a sentence
• Watters euthanizes a patient
• Birch calls Judge Aldrich "The Honorable Justice Toad"
• Kronk gets punched
• Anyone dons a face shield in the ER
• Geiger swallows any item of jewelry
• Geiger bites anyone's finger
• Infante kisses Geiger
• Anybody other than Geiger sings something from one of Mandy Patinkin's CDS
• Birch wants to take a photo of baby puke on his shoulder
• Shutt has to remove exploding bullets from any single patient
• Angela embezzles money from Shutt (even on paper)
• Kronk removes a chess piece from a patient's stomach
• Kronk removes a hairball from a patient's stomach
• Any character from any other TV series shows up, in character
• Birch is held hostage by a terrorist or terrorist wannabee
• Geiger paces in his boxer shorts
• Any patient milks his or her tumors
• The music in the operating room matches the procedure being performed
• A patient whose leg has been amputated tries to fight any medical personnel while hopping around on one leg
• Camille dresses up like any fictional movie character to help a wacko
• Grad implements a radical treatment behind Watters' back
• Angela gets it on with anyone in a medical testing environment
• Kadalski tells anyone that he "sounds hostile"
• Gilbert Weeks goes wacko when anyone talks about the 1986 World Series

Drink everything in sight when ....

• Blood spurts into anyone's mouth
• Geiger sings at Russos
• A horse trots into a patient's room
• Thurmond bites Geiger's finger
• Anyone comes to the trauma center brandishing a firearm
• Kronk sings anything
• Thurmond admits to being attracted to a gelding nurse
• Any patient has a spike in his head
• The spider dies of melanoma
• Birch sings "Ten Thousand Men of Harvard" to anyone other than his daughter
• Saunders shows compassion for anyone or anything
• Any heart whatsoever is drop-kicked across the OR floor
• A patient has an erection that won't go away
• The intimate friend of any doctor turns out to be transsexual, transvestite or asexual
• Geiger paces in his boxer shorts anywhere but in his office or at his home
• You can figure out if the music in the operating room matches the procedure being performed (since you are already beyond hope anyway)
• Anyone dies while getting it on with Angela in a medical testing environment
• Infante performs plastic surgery on a dead person

Compiled from numerous entries submitted by fellow fans on the Chicago Hope mailing list, the Usenet newsgroup, AOL TV Gossip Board and AOL chat lines, including:

• PhantMPnts
• DinnyR
• SheriHen
• ShikagoHOP
• JenLCB
• Yvonne473
• JackJMH
• RKTeach
• MFLloyd
• LesleyG456
• Anna1138
• MaraEL

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