 
Paint Your Wagon Drinking Game
"Gonna paint that wagon, gonna paint it good"
Back in the 60's, musicals were popular and westerns were popular. Some genius decided to put the two together, and thus Paint Your Wagon was made. It is a strange film that drinking certainly makes easier to watch. The film stars Clint Eastwood as Pardner and Lee Marvin as Ben Rumson, his partner. The two men share a gold mining operation in California. Jean Seberg stars as Elizabeth, the wife they share. I don't like musicals and I don't like westerns. Somehow this western/musical (wusical? mestern?) is entertaining.
The only reason why we even watched it was because of The Simpsons episode where they rent it and then find out that it is a musical.
We decided that because it was 3:30 in the afternoon, it would make a good drinking game. We made up some rules as the movie was starting. And thus: the Paint Your Wagon Drinking Game was born.
Recommended drink: Beer or whiskey
The rules:
Drink every time someone says one of the following:
"Gold"
"Pardner" (Clint Eastwood's character's name or in general)
A euphemism (a dirty mind helps on this one)
Drink every time one of the following occurs:
The cast members start singing
Ben Rumson (Lee Marvin) drinks
As you can see the rules feature several of the house rules (this was one of the first games we did).
Everything went great for the first 2 hours of the film. And then everything went to hell. There was one song that had a chorus of "Gold! Gold! Gold!" which made it impossible to keep up with the drinking. This song was then followed up with a song called "Goldfever". Also, we were unaware of the fact that Clint Eastwood's character's name would actually be "Pardner" throughout the entire movie. Eventually I realized that it was futile to try to drink each time, but we still finished off half a case of Stella Artois.
The worst part of it was, there was no mention of painting a wagon at all, much less a song devoted to it. The closest thing we could think of was that the 2 main characters took turns "painting the wagon" of their wife. Considering I hate Westerns nearly as much as I hate musicals, it was entertaining, but that was probably only because of the beer.
Gonna paint our wagon,
Gonna paint it good,
We ain't braggin',
We're gonna coat that wood.
Townspeople:
They're gonna paint that wagon,
gonna paint it good,
they ain't braggin',
they're gonna coat that wood.
Lee:
Gonna paint your wagon,
Gonna paint it fine,
Gonna use oil-based paint
'cause the wood is pine.
Women:
Ponderosa Pine!
Creators: The Wooden Fork/Tarfumes.com - Jon & Elmo
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Paint Your Wagon Quotes
Mrs. Fenty: You should read the Bible, Mr. Rumson.
Ben Rumson: I have read the Bible, Mrs. Fenty.
Mrs. Fenty: Didn't that discourage you about drinking?
Ben Rumson: No, but it sure killed my appetite for readin'!
Horace Tabor: Wait a minute! You can't buy a woman for money.
Mad Jack Duncan: You just try and get one without it.
Pardner: Ben, how's married life?
Ben Rumson: Pardner, it was so good that I forgot that I was married.
Horton: Mr. Rumson, I swore I wouldn't tell anyone. I hope that means except my father and mother.
Ben Rumson: That means especially your father and mother.
Horton: But I've never kept anything from them before.
Ben Rumson: Well, it's time you started. Because when you do, a whole new world opens up.
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