Pet Rock: The Pop Culture Blog

Do you long to relive the intensity, passion and competitiveness of beer pong college athletics? Have you had a debilitating wrist / elbow injury that’s robbed you of frat party immortality? Do you want one more shot at that jerk that lived two doors down who “Sneaky Peted” your girl and your cups?

Thanks to Nintendo Wii’s new “Frat Party Games: Beer Pong” (recently renamed “Pong Toss”), you should bust out the old “Castles in the Sky” mix-tape and reincarnate the pimpled drunkard in you.

Due later this month, “Pong Toss” features two distinct competitive games. “Pong Toss” offers an ol’ school tournament-style game of Pong Toss for one to four players and then there is the new age Speed Pong, in which two or three players compete at the same time, each trying to be the first to eliminate all of his or her cups.

Take a sneak peek at Wii’s "Pong Toss" with a cast that is entirely too sober, then dust off that old wrist band and start practicing your patented “snipe shot."

- Jose Moreno

On Tuesday, undocumented Pet Rocker J-Mac unveiled his Denise Richards drinking game. Sounds like fun, no doubt, for the 21-and-over crowd.

But seeing how this is Tom Cruise Week here in Pet Rock, I shall put forth the Tom Cruise drinking game for your amusement and enjoyment this holiday weekend. It's 10-step program designed to get you loaded to the tilt, so keep those car keys in someone else's house.

- Do a shot of gin every time you see Tom Cruise look like he's about to take a dump in his pants on screen.

- Pour yourself some Louis Roederer champagne if you ever hooked up with a girl named Penny Benjamin.

- Take a sip of beer every time you tell a friend to "Punch out, Mav" when his attempt to hit on a girl goes painfully awry.

- Shotgun a beer every time you play a really bad hole on a golf course and call it your "Iceman" hole because it wore you down and made you do something stupid.

- Crack open a bottle of Mad Dog 20/20 every time you see Tom Cruise talk about Scientology or jump on someone's couch.

- Do a shot of vodka every time you see Tom Cruise do his patented hard swallow of nothing on screen.

- Punish yourself with two shots of Jagermeister every time you watch the non-essential scenes of "Eyes Wide Shut."

- Tequila, tequila, tequila every time you get caught watching a post-1992 Tom Cruise movie.

- Drink a blender drink for every time you lied to a girl by saying "I liked 'Jerry Maguire.'"

- Whatever bottle you drop and break when trying to a "Cocktail" bartender, get another one and pour a round of shots for everyone in sight, including you.

Now pour yourselves some coffee because "Born on the Fourth of July" is about to start.

Sad about the fact that there is no good TV on in the summer? Still stunned by the new Olive Garden commercial that claims their chefs have a school in Tuscany (Seriously!)? Or if you are just looking to spice up your evening drinking, we here at Pet Rock have a new game for you.

The Denise Richards drinking game is simple, and anyone can play (provided you are over 21 and have no life). Here is how it works:

Step 1: Watch her show (I know, bear with me, you won’t remember it anyway).
Step 2: Any time she says “mom” take a drink.
Step 3: Any time she references "Richie" or "Charlie" chug for 5 seconds.
Bonus: Do a shot anytime she mentions "Wild Things" or the fact that she was in Playboy.

Warning: This game will get you seriously drunk in about 5 minutes. In case you haven’t been watching (but we know you all are) Denise's mother passed away recently from cancer. While that is terribly sad, she does tend to talk about it with every sentence on her new reality show.

In last week's episode, which was all about her mother, I lost count after 27 “my mom” references in a span of 5 minutes. When she is not talking about her mother, she is teaching her nephew about why she was in Playboy or explaining to people that she was in 'Wild Things.'

So, drink up and wait for the new season of 'Entourage' in September.