(Jewish Group) Your official Purim drinking game for Mel Brooks' 'History of the World, Part II'

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Amelia (Hannah Einbinder) and Bessie (Wanda Sykes) enjoy a drink in The History of the World, Part II. Photo by Patrick Wymore/Hulu

Maybe it was a fluke of the programming calendar, but Mel Brooks’ long-awaited History of the World, Part II is debuting on Hulu in time for Purim, a holiday where Jews recount our own history with a satiric twist. It’s also a day where Jews get really, really drunk.

In honor of the occasion, which feels too perfect to be purely accidental, I thought a drinking game was in order. What Nick Kroll, Ike Barinholtz and Wanda Sykes prepared for us is many magnitudes better than Drunk History, but that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy it buzzed. Having watched the show in its entirety, I have curated a drinking game for the first four chapters (parts one and two will air on Erev Purim, March 6, with the second two arriving on March 7.)

If you plan to treat yourself after hearing from the scroll, here’s a nifty way to enhance your viewing of an all-star spiel. Please drink responsibly in the manner described:

Drink and say “mmm, so good”

Every time Ike Barinholtz appears as Ulysses S. Grant, who expelled the Jews from Southern states, and who, in the show, is charged with staying sober until the Civil War is over

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My favorite: Drink and boo and sound your grogger: Whenever a known antisemite from history is ridiculed (it’ll happen a lot)