General Drinking Game
- Drink whenever Jack gives a speech about heroism and righteousness.
- Drink whenever Jack yells out a battle cry.
- Drink whenever Jack's clothes get dirty, torn up, or lost, leaving you wondering how he replaces them all the time.
- Drink twice if Jack's samurai ponytail also gets undone, unraveling his long flowing hair.
- Drink whenever Jack (or anyone else) destroys a robot in combat.
- Drink twice if the robot looked like an organic being, much to your confusion.
- Drink thrice if Jack kills (or otherwise defeats) a non-robotic enemy.
- Drink whenever Jack has saved an innocent person or people. Drink twice if they thank him for his help.
- Drink whenever Jack has a flashback to his past, long before he arrived in the future.
- Drink whenever Jack tries and fails to reach a time portal, or other means of returning home.
- Drink whenever Aku vocalizes a mighty evil laugh.
- Drink whenever Aku refers to himself in the third person.
- Drink whenever Aku boasts about how evil he is.
- Drink whenever Aku is being an evil prick, even if for no reason.
- Drink whenever Aku pivots between being a funny clown or irredeemable scumbag.
- Drink whenever Aku forms an alliance with an individual and/or group, only for him to betray them.
- Drink twice at the end of "Jack and the Hunters", when Aku himself is ironically betrayed by the Imakandi.
- Drink whenever Jack and Aku encounter (and probably fight) each other.
- Drink whenever Jack says or shouts Aku's name.
- Drink whenever Aku calls Jack a "fool" or "foolish samurai".
- Drink whenever Jack has defeated Aku and almost kills him, only for the demon to escape death.
- Or instead, drink twice if Aku has managed to achieve some kind of (minor or major) victory over Jack.
- Drink whenever the Scotsman appears. Drink twice when he (or his wife) hurl out insults at someone.
- Drink whenever a new character is introduced by their real name, thus subverting this show's usual trend of unnamed characters.
- Drink whenever an attractive woman comes Jack's way, and she either:
- A) Attempts to murder him, or...
- B) Turns out to actually be Aku in some shape or form. note
- For the episode "Jack and the Flying Prince and Princess", drink whenever Star Wars is referenced and prepare to lose your liver.
Season 5 Edition
- Drink whenever the show takes advantage of the freedom that comes with its new TV-14 rating.
- Drink whenever a human, animal, or monster bleeds and/or dies.
- Drink whenever you hear profanity (or other naughty words) they couldn't have gotten away with in the past.
- Drink whenever the fact of Ashi, her sisters, or their mother being naked is made obvious.
- Drink whenever someone says "The Samurai".
- Drink whenever someone says "Aku". Twice if it's Jack and/or Ashi.
- Drink whenever Jack suffers a mental breakdown, and/or starts hallucinating about imaginary people.
- Drink whenever Scaramouche says "baby" or "babe", or whenever he scats.
- Drink whenever Ashi gets a traumatic flashback about childhood abuse from her mother.
- Drink whenever Ashi gets physically abused by her mother or the giant female mook.
- Drink whenever Ashi insults Jack and praises Aku during the third and fourth episodes.
- Drink whenever there's a cameo of an old character from the previous four seasons (aside from Jack or Aku, of course).
- Drink whenever Scaramouche gets humiliated or suffers amusing injuries while trying to contact Aku in the sixth episode.
- Drink whenever any romantic hints between Jack and Ashi occur in the eighth episode.
- Finish your drink after you see that their love is confirmed in the ending.
- Drink whenever you think that the Guardian is gonna show up. You will need those drinks to mourn him.
- Finish your drink slowly after you see the Guardian's shattered glasses and the ruined time portal he protected. Let us all salute the one warrior who actually handed Jack total defeat, and fell much too soon.
- For the final episode of the season, and the series as a whole:
- Pop open that bottle of champagne when all the people whom Jack had helped before come to his rescue.
- Take a sip for every single daughter that the Scotsman mentions by name in their mass introduction. Afterwards, see if you can remember and pronounce all their names right. It is truly a feat to behold, especially if one is soused, to get it right on the first go without having to consult a transcript, or pausing the episode, or checking the closed captions on the TV recording.
- Finish that bottle after you see Jack finally defeat and kill Aku in the past.
- Get a hard scotch and drink it down nice and slow, when the ending rolls around. It will hurt.
- Optional: If you believe that Ashi's death qualifies as a heroic sacrifice, perfectly conscious on her end or not, take a saluting drink.
- Lastly, celebrate the conclusion of Samurai Jack with a toast to the show, childhood memories, and Genndy Tartakovsky — that is, if the ending isn't making you curse the creator instead, because you're mad at what happens.
- Pop open that bottle of champagne when all the people whom Jack had helped before come to his rescue.
Bonus Games
- Hardcore Edition: After you've watched Season 5 from start to finish, rewatch it from the start. Take a drink every time anything involving Ashi is cast in a new light due to the revelations in later episodes. Ex; when she screams that "Aku is the father of all fathers" or how Jack tells her he doesn't want to become just a memory. Note: it's best to start this game with a clean slate.
- Ultimate Edition: Go back and watch the series from start to finish and take a drink every time you notice the animation style goes through subtle changes and evolutions, such as the frequently Off-Model nature of Jack and Aku in the pilot three-parter compared to Season 1, Season 1's more limited animation and continuing off-model tendencies compared to the higher budget Seasons 2-4, and especially how different Season 5 stylistically looks to Seasons 1 through 4 due to major advances in digital animation technology between 2004 and 2017.
- Meta: Drink every time you go on YouTube videos of Dean Martin's "Everybody Loves Somebody" and you see comments related to this show. Have an ambulance on standby.
