More Roundhouse Fun

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Take one sip whenever:

-Ivan touches his hair
-Julene as Grandma is on the screen
-A cast member is playing a musical instrument
-Someone cooler than you'll ever be portrays a nerd
-Someone talks in an announcer voice
-You hear the little squeaky "I Love You" on the closing credits
-Mark does his Ed McMayonnaise impression
-Someone says something sucks
-Seymour does something acrobatic
-David Sidoni beats up on someone
-Someone pretends to eat something really disgusting
-Shawn says a "curse word"
-Micki is wearing men's clothes with no pants
-A cameraman is visible onscreen (if you can see more than one, take a sip for each one you see)
-A reference is made to a character’s age that that particular character obviously ISN’T (e.g. Ivan’s thirteenth birthday)
-Alfred makes the Cute Dad Face(tm)
-Julene does something disgustingly flexible
-You find yourself living vicariously through Micki

Take two sips whenever:

-Gus the sucky sock dog looks mangled
-Someone other than Mark wears a loudspeaker box on his/her head
-You notice that it's an Ivan-choreographed episode (three sips if you realize it before they actually tell you, an extra sip if you turn out to be wrong)
-The cast does a Sally Blubbers skit
-Mark dances
-The Roundhouse gang dances with funky props
-A non-dance bumper is used (this counts for only one sip if it is a 4th season episode)
-The Roundhouse logo appears somewhere on the screen and is not superimposed there by the graphics people
-John asks someone to pull his finger
-Anyone makes a political joke that kids today wouldn’t get
-Anyone makes a joke that you yourself wouldn't have gotten at age 12
-Someone mocks Roundhouse itself
-Amy says, "It's so big it scares me."
-Shawn looks younger than the Anykids portraying her children
-Ivan sticks out his tongue
-One of the divas (Crystal, Amy, Jennifer, Lisa) messes up on a high note
-A band member is an integral part of a skit
-Someone calls a cast member by their real name rather than their character name (Drink the whole bottle if someone calls Ivan "Dutch")
-Someone gets kissed
-Anyone trips over the dad chair
-A dancer does a pelvic thrust, push-up, or writhes on the floor
-Ivan makes the Roundhouse gesture

Down your whole drink whenever:

-Someone other than John is in the dad chair
-Anyone says something blatantly erotic
-The camera follows someone offstage
-John dances
-John falls out of the dad chair
-Ivan lifts up his shirt to expose his stomach (two drinks if you can see a nipple)
-A band member speaks
-Anyone says your first name
-Ivan sings by himself (rapping or wailing counts)

The game is officially over, and you can turn off your VCR and go home when:

-The melodious sound of Crystal's voice begins to lull you into a happy, dreamlike stupor
-Ivan takes off all his clothes
-Someone falls and breaks their collarbone
-Marty smashes his guitar over James's head
-The fourth season cast members start showing up on first- and second-season episodes (excluding ones that are there all the time anyway)
-The station identification reads "Empty Vee"
-Natalie makes the cute dad face and offers around delicious pudding pops
-Shawn says an actual curse word instead of "shuckins"
-Alfred plays the Anykid
-Amy's incredible acting moves you to tears
-Seymour gets motion sickness after a headspin
-Ivan, Mark, and John turn to the screen and begin saying erotic things directly to you




You walk around with a sucky sock dog on your hand, partcipating in conversations with it and demanding that all your friends give it attention as well.

You have in-depth discussions on the evolution of Ivan's hairstyle over four seasons.

You spontaneously make the patented Ivan Dudynsky roundhouse hand gesture at odd intervals.

Whenever someone says the word "round" you start singing "round and round and round and round and round and round..."

Whenever someone mentions sex, you respond with "SEX??!?!!??AAAAAAAAAAAAAGGHHHHH!!!"

You wear a baseball hat with a D on it.

A fly cannot walk six inches on your wall without stepping on the face of a Roundhouse cast member.

Instead of TV, lately, you've preferred to watch your friends through a cardboard frame.

Ivan's prancing makes you happier than any sketch ever could.

You eat mayonnaise with a spoon.

You try to convince your dad to get one of those motorized easy chairs.

You periodically add random substances whenever you say that things suck, i.e. "The fact that there are no Roundhouse reruns on Nickelodeon really sucks linoleum fuzz."

You have actually gone to stores and asked if they carry Stew Hoo, Mysol, Whities, Fat Dang Dawg Food, Serfs Detergent, or Boyfriend in a Bottle.

You catch a rerun of "In Living Color" on F/X and think: "Man, these guys ripped off Roundhouse."

You got really pissed off when they changed the font on the opening titles.

You wonder why Ivan doesn't go in the door with the rest of the cast.

You sing along to the groovy closing credits song.

Your curseword library includes the phrases "Oh, fish," "son of a sandwich," and "horse's patootie."

You've memorized the dance steps to every bumper sequence and can dance along with the closing credits at the very least.

You date only extremely graceful, clean-cut boys who favor hip-hop clothing.

Your all time favorite song is "TV Head."

Nickelodeon has taken out a restraining order on you because of your attempts to convince them to bring back Roundhouse.

"It's so big it scares me" has myriad meanings for you.

You like to make the cute dad face.

You know what each cast member is wearing in every episode, and own reasonable facsimilies of a good portion of it.

You try to legally change your last name to "Anykid."

Your favorite dancer is John and your favorite singer is Ivan.

Whenever your classes end, you scream out "Reprise the theme song and roll the credits."

You create elaborate theories that Dumbkid is actually the most enlightened of them all, and what's more you can supply extensive proof.


You watch Ivan talk with crackers in his mouth- backwards and in slow motion.

You can identify shows by their bumper music.

You've developed at least one conspiracy theory that a cast member is pregnant, a drug addict, physically involved with another cast member, or suffering from an eating disorder.

You've seen certain episodes of Roundhouse enough to decide that certain cast members are not wearing underwear in said episodes.

You contemplate getting a tattoo of the Ukranian symbol for peace and freedom.

You fight anyone to the death if they are watching TV when Roundhouse is on.

You walk half a mile in the pouring rain to rent a movie that is rumored to have a cameo by a cast member.

You don't walk anymore you prance.

Every Halloween, you insist that you and your friends dress as a hip-hop totem pole and do funky hand gestures when people answer their doors.

You are up till 3 am surfing for those elusive lyrics to "Disaster Area"

You start replaying your favorite episodes in your head during boring lectures.

You break up with a boyfriend because you're saving yourself for Ivan.

You contemplate naming your first son Ivan Dominic.

You try to figure out who would win in a tag team fight with Ivan and Mark against the two Davids.

You know exactly which episodes Ivan choreographed.

You periodically lapse into a TV announcer voice in day-to-day conversation.

When a new season starts, you call the police to inform them of the missing cast members.

The new cast members have to go through a probation period to really *earn* your love.

When Micki plays his [Ivan's] sister, you protest because she was his [Ivan's] love interest the week before.

You watch an episode over and over just to memoerize one person's lines so the next time you watch it, you can make believe you're really that person!

You develop a crush on James Raymond.

You cried when they reprised the theme song and rolled the credits to the last episode.

You watch to see if the clock on the stage right wagon ever moves.

You dream of someday getting the ULTIMATE Roundhouse souvenier, but it involves a burlap sack and kidnapping charges.

Everytime you watch the third season episodes, you get to a point that you wonder why Micki and Amy never got into a really exciting cat fight.

You and two of your friends talk simultaneously in "dude" and cruise on down to omlette on a stick.

You wonder why your bus driver isn't wearing a traffic cone bra.

You had to see a therapist to counsel you after the show was cancelled

You lie awake at night wondering what cereal Micki eats.

You write threatening hate mail to the cast members of ALL THAT, just because they took over Roundhouse's SNICK time-slot.

When you begin talking to someone, you start by saying "This is just a reminder..."

You have your parents call you a different name each week.

Everytime you drive by a Red Lobster you sing "Dead lobster, for the deceased food lover in you."

Your answering machine begins with the clip 'Is this the psychic hotline? Yes it is, and I knew you'd call.'

You've been blocked from the Nick e-mail addresses because you won't stop sending your scripts for the fifth season that you've written.

You have seriously considered getting a tattoo of the Roundhouse emblem.

You begin to write new script ideas for Roundhouse... Just in case Nickelodeon decides to end our suffering.

You write a fan letter to Crystal, and after pages and pages of saying you wish she had never left the show, you finally mention her singing career

You rent those Snick videos just to watch the Roundhouse part. Then you bootleg them.

You buy about 10 boxes of Honey Nut Cheerios when it was advertised that a Roundhouse poster was included...even though you've never really liked Honey Nut Cheerios...and the poster was the same in each box...

You look for fog everytime you dance.

You made plans to visit or move to Australia when you found out that Nickelodeon still shows Roundhouse there.