History Main / SpinTheBottle

* Also mentioned in ''Literature/TheBerenstainBears and Too Much Birthday''. Leads to [[strike:BrotherSisterIncest]] Brother and Sister kissing.

Spin the Bottle is a popular party game amongst older kids. It's essentially a {{Parlor Game|s}} with NoUnifiedRuleset that requires a bottle.

* In an episode of his embellished autobiographical sitcom ''Josh'', Creator/JoshWiddicombe ends up in a mortifyingly embarrassing situation during a party, when the attractive girl the bottle is pointing at haughtily refuses the dare (to snog Josh) and creates several last-ditch reasons why she doesn't feel she's bound by the dare or the rules of the game. Nobody calls her out on this. A couple of spins later, she does feel the rules of the game are suddenly applicable again and she enthusiastically snogs somebody else.

* ''VideoGame/SummertimeSaga'' features your protagonist playing this at an evening beach party with [[HaremGenre (one of) your girlfriend(s)]] Roxxy and her GirlPosse, Becca and Missy. All three girls have the hots for you by this stage, but since there's three girls to one guy, there's very high odds that [[GirlOnGirlIsHot the girls will have to make out with each other]] whenever it isn't your spin. For you last spin, Roxy raises the stakes, with whoever the bottle points to getting to have sex with you instead. If the bottle ends up pointing to you again, you get [[ThreeWaySex all three of them at once]].

** The same episode has Chandler spinning and landing on himself. He [[DeadpanSnarker comments]] that this is the [[ADateWithRosiePalms story of his life]].

Spin the Bottle is a popular party game amongst older kids. It's essentially a [[ParlorGames Parlor Game]] that requires a bottle.

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* In Creator/JacquelineWilson's novel ''Literature/{{Kiss}}'', the protagonists have to play this at a friend's party. Cue angst from Sylvia as her crush Carl must kiss another girl.

* Yaz Pistachio gets invited to a Spin the Bottle party in ''ComicStrip/BloomCounty'', where she promptly gets stuck with [[{{Nerd}} Weird Harold]] on her first spin. Later in the same arc, she narrowly avoids playing a game with Opus and Portnoy.

Spin the Bottle is a popular PartyGame amongst older kids. It's essentially a [[ParlorGames Parlor Game]] that requires a bottle.

* A 1990 PSA from the Canadian organization Creator/CompaniesCommittedToKids "Moe Funky" encourages kids to not play games when making important decisions and to "use their heads" instead. Bottle spinning is one of the games depicted.

* A 1990 PSA from the Canadian organization Creator/CompaniesCommittedToKids "Moe Funky" encourages kids to not play games when making important decisions and to "use their heads" instead. Flipping a coin is one of the games depicted.

* In ''Series/FullHouse'', DJ's 13th birthday party features a spin the bottle game orchestrated by Kimmy Gibbler to bring together DJ with her crush. As they are about to kiss, of course thats when Danny, Jesse and Joey burst in to ruin the moment, having overheard what was going on downstairs.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' episode "The Birthday Boy", Wander is "invited" to Lord Hater's birthday party, where Hater tries to blast him with a DeathRay. Wander thinks the ray is a giant bottle, due to the shape of it, and spins it to see who gets a kiss from him. It points to the popcorn vendor, until Sylvia whacks it with her tail. It the points to Hater, who gets blasted.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' episode "The Birthday Boy", Wander is "invited" to Lord Hater's birthday party, where Hater tries to blast him with a DeathRay. Wander thinks the ray is a giant bottle and spins it to see who gets a kiss from him. It points to the popcorn vendor, until Sylvia whacks it with her tail. It the points to Hater, who gets blasted.

* Bill's Henchmaniacs play "Spin the Person" in the first part of the GrandFinale of ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls''. The spinner eats whoever the petrified human points to.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode "Where the Wild Things Are" has a game in the possessed frat house. Along with all the weird occurrences, the bottle ends up spinning on its own and exploding into everyone's faces.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'' had Tootie playing this game at her birthday party, and spun it, hoping it would land on Timmy. It ends up pointing at another boy, much to Timmy's joy and Tootie's disappointment, until said boy blows the bottle in the opposite direction making it point at Timmy.

* In an early 1960s ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' strip, baby Sally sets her empty milk bottle on the floor and spins it. The nipple points at Snoopy, who tries to kiss her.

* The ''Series/FreaksAndGeeks'' episode "Smooching and Mooching" has Bill sent to the laundry room for "[[TenMinutesInTheCloset seven minutes in heaven]]" with head cheerleader Vicki Appleby after she "loses" at Spin the Bottle. Vicki, previously depicted as the AlphaBitch, actually ends up bonding with Bill and even gives him his FirstKiss before all is said and done.