List of Loveline games

"Loveline" has frequent games in which phone callers, guests, and the hosts participate. Most of the games come and leave with its respective hosts.

tryker Era : 2006 - Present

The Match Game

A variation on the 1970s game show of the same name, complete with the original theme song. Drew, Stryker and guests present attempted to fill in the blank(s) of an upcoming caller's problem or question.Initially Stryker supplied the question, but recently call-screener Tyler began providing them through the computer for everyone on-air. Example (paraphrased):
*Stryker: "I got a cut on my penis from a [blank] [blank] . Will it heal?" What do you think?
*Coolio: From a [dry] [vagina] .
*Stryker: From a [sharp] [tooth] .
*Dr. Bruce: From a [razor] [blade] . Maybe he was shaving.
*Stryker: So caller, what happened?
*Caller: I got a cut on my penis from her [tongue] [ring] .

Out-of-context sound bites

Engineer Anderson Cowan is fond of splicing up phrases Drew, Adam, Stryker, and guests have uttered on previous shows and "dropping" them into new shows mid-call, to the confusion of callers and amusement of seasoned listeners. Some favorites are:

Drew Drops

* "Are you a Mormon?" (whenever a caller is from Utah or seems too sexually conservative)
* "Are you a midget?"
* "You're fat."
* "You're gay."
* "Do you live around or work around little kids?"
* "Do you ride bicycles?"
* "You're a lesbian." (Often repeated several times as Anderson has many similar clips of this)
* "You're a heroin addict."
* "Faggot better run."
* "Yes, sir, Mr. Carolla!"
* "I've had anal sex."
* "I'm a rapist."
* "When I was 19, I ate six boiled peyote buttons and stayed up all night, but felt no effect."
* "Take a little Vicodin tonight, take some Codeine, smoke a little heroin..."
* "You strike me as someone who would be into men."
* "That's hot."
* "Who do you think you're talking to?!"
* "I have to kill this 8 year old girl and rape her when she's dead"
* "I'm an expert, listen to me for Christ's sake, you're not an expert, your friends aren't experts. I am I am I am!"

Some of the Drew Drops were set to music in the "Dr. Drew Shuffle" and the later "Dr. Drew Boogie."

[http://www.dolland.net/loveline/sound/drops/ Drew Drops website]

There are some other drops taken from a skit on the television show "Crank Yankers". Carolla tried to 'hip up' Drew by having him use 'urban' lingo.

* "Why ain't you get no play, playa?"
* "Dr. Drew in the hizzy!"
* "You gotta get out there and get your bitch spunk drunk."
* "So you ain't hittin' the skins?"
* "I'm tellin' you, nigga..."
* "Look muthafuka' I'm tellin' you"

tryker Drops

The majority of Stryker's drops originate from Anderson taking advantage of Stryker's tendency to comment on a caller's problem in the first person, many of which make Stryker out to be gay. Anderson seems to be deliberately collecting them.

*Stryker: "Drew?"
**Drew: "Yes?"
***Stryker: "Will you be my doctor?"
*Stryker: "I masturbate about 10 to 12 times a day."
**Drew: "Yeesh!"
*"I ejaculated on Seth McFarlane!"
*"Slap me on the ass as hard as you can the next time we have sex, you son of a bitch!"
*"I love it! They're gonna be divorced in a year!"
*"Hello, this is Stryker, a woman trapped in a man's body!"
*"I insist you stick it in my ass!"
*"Would you try it in my ass? I've never had it before."
*"This guy... This guy is a catch, man."
*"Drew, I wanna have your babies."
*"I'm gay, and I slept with my father!"
*"Drew...I'm very into you."
*"I have nipples. Could you milk me?" (quote from Meet the Parents)
*"Hey Drew, wanna do the anal experience?"

Guest Drops

Loveline's various guests are also recorded in these drops.

*Violent J: "Whoa! Oh my God! Somebody- hold the phones! I can't believe it!"
*Violent J: "The only weight I lift is my own: my big fat ass every day when I wake up. HAHAHAHAHA, that was pretty good! AHAHAHAHAHA! My fat ass when I-HAHAHA! Oh my God, play that again!"
*Tom Green: "Swedish. Swedish. Swedish. Swedish. SwedishSwedishSweSweSwe.... "
*New York: "Now girl, when you blow your man, you have to relax, like you really have to wanna "take" him, in your "mouth!" Let me have it, squeeze me, bite me, taste me, love me."
* Another from New York: "You juts gotta relax your throat, forget that you have "gag" reflexes, and take him all in. Just don't eat before you do him, basically, so you don't, you know, puke."
*Stephen "Steve-O" Glover: "Hey Drew, why is it that when you rub your balls while you're jerking off, it just feels so much better?"
**Drew: "I hadn't noticed that."
*Anthony "ANT" Kalloniatis: "I'm Ant!"
*: "Yay for fisting!"
* Seth Green as Chris Griffin: "Is it lonely up there on your pedestal?"
* Alex Borstein as her Hungarian grandmother: "Why you so fat?"
* Three 6 Mafia: "Ever heard a song called "Next Caller"?"

Adam Carolla Era: 1995-2005

Germany or Florida?

First mentioned on October 19, 2003 and first played on October 26th, 2003, "Germany or Florida" is a game that originated at "Jimmy Kimmel Live" with the staff of writers who discovered a correlation in the news stories they would read for joke material. Adam observed that "All weird stories emanate from either Germany or Florida." Originally intended as a game to be used on Kimmel's show, it was rejected and Adam decided to bring it to Loveline. The object of the game is to have a listener read off a strange, macabre, or just plain weird news story and have the hosts (and guests) choose Germany or Florida. According to some listeners' best guesses, Adam is about 55% correct, and Dr. Drew is about 40%. Theme songs introducing the game have been created by guests and callers, most notably David Alan Grier's opera and beat-box renditions. [http://www.dolland.net/loveline/sound/drops/germanyorflorida/index.html] Carolla even brought the game with him when he guest hosted "The Late Late Show" in 2004 and on his short-lived Comedy Central show "Too Late with Adam Carolla". Additionally, the game has been played on Carolla's morning show, "The Adam Carolla Show". [Loveline 10/19/2003]

Ace's Mexican Ranchero Accordion Countdown

After listening to endless hours of ranchero music during construction work, Adam discovered that nearly every song contained an accordion in the background. Adam decided he could make a game out of it, and thus, on the October 19, 2004 show, the game was born. The objective of "Ace's Mexican Ranchero Accordion Countdown" was to guess how many seconds it took until an accordion played in a ranchero song, which would be started from a random point. Usually played with a guest or occasionally a caller, the most common (and usually correct) answer was "immediately." [Loveline 10/19/2004]

Lightning Round

Although not technically a game, it was a favorite show ender for Carolla much to the chagrin of Dr. Drew. It consisted of his imitation of the non-stop morning DJ ("slow 'n' go watch for brake lights, mattress in lane!", "8:29, 29 past the hour", "50,000 watt flamethrower!", "Van Nuys checkin' in at 61, Laguna Beach checkin' in at 61, Burbank checkin' in at 61...", "I'M A CRAZY MAN! I WILL DROP TROU!"), a vicious cowbell, and audio drops of thunderclaps.

General Caller Betting

Without talking to a caller for more than 15-20 seconds Dr. Drew and Carolla would put them on hold and place $1 bets on the caller's past. The theory being that they have fielded so many calls by so many people that they could hear the "specific" problem in the caller's voice and detect what events led to their present. Example:

*Caller: I'm just depressed all the time.
*Carolla: I can hear the little girl voice, Drew. Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
*Drew: My wife has my wallet. I'm good for the dollar.
*Carolla: I'm going with...father, no no, a weird Uncle touched her at the age of...9.
*Drew: I hear molestation too, but I'm going with kid-on-kid. This was someone she played with. Maybe a year or two younger.
*Carolla: Caller?
*Caller: My best friend in 3rd grade forced me to touch her repeatedly.

Although may seem callous, this serves to show people that their problems are not unique; hundreds of previous callers had the same problem and it manifested in a detectable way in their voices. Callers often call the show with seemingly trivial questions, but through General Caller Betting, Dr. Drew and Carolla cut through to deeper underlying problems.

moke Detector Batteries

Every once in a while, while a caller is asking a totally unrelated question, Adam and Drew hear a tiny, high-pitched beep in the background and jump all over the caller. [Loveline 09/11/2002 - First Caller] They have been conditioned to recognize the tell-tale sound of a smoke detector chirping to remind the owner to replace the battery. This is a personal pet peeve of Adam and Drew, an example they use to show how stupid some of their callers are. They make sure to draw attention to it by making the caller be quiet until they can time the space between beeps (usually between 30-45 seconds), and then every 20 seconds of the caller's question they will interrupt him or her so they can hear the beep. Some callers will deny that something is beeping, but then later in the call, Adam and Drew will find out there is a smoke detector over the caller's bed. Adam has commented that a pet lizard in the person's room would kill itself, yet the caller is totally oblivious. He also joked about how the children of the "smoke detector people" will buy recorded sounds of a smoke detector beep to help them sleep at night.

Getting the Timing Just Right

From 2000 to 2003, Adam and Drew would play around with the intro bumper from the song "I Disappear" by Metallica. The bumper has a long guitar riff and then a pause before the riff goes again. Adam would always try to fit something into that pause, like "It's Loveline with Adam and Dr. Drew" or "Loveline, fastest growing outlaw radio show in North America". Sometimes Drew would try it out too. The most famous example of this would have to be when Adam timed a fart perfectly.

"Bleed American"

Whenever the Jimmy Eat World song "Bleed American" is played as the show returns from a commercial, Adam will get pumped up, describing how this is the song that he envisions playing on the jukebox as he walks into a bar or party. He describes the scene in detail, changing it up somewhat each time, but the constants are: he's wearing sunglasses, has a leather jacket slung over his shoulder, wearing jeans and a white t-shirt, and boots "like John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever". He goes on, saying that everyone turns, in slow motion, to face "the Ace Man". All the girls look at him and nod. Before Adam can go further, Drew will interrupt, saying "...and here is what the girls see," at which point a goofy, cartoonish tune begins to play.

Adam's Pet Peeves

There are a number of issues and pet peeves that Adam repeatedly visited on Loveline with various levels of hostility and humor.

Bakersfield The place Adam believes to be the worst place to live in California

Junior College or Community College Adam had a belief that not only is junior college a total waste of time for anyone other than Asian foreign exchange students but that he could smell junior college on his callers due to the foolishness of their questions. Adam once said that he understands if you're going to junior college to be a nurse or any other profession that's usually only taught at a junior college. He did not allow callers to refer to it as "community college." Often, at the utterance of "community college" he would quickly interject, "JUNIOR college — community college makes it O.K. [it's not O.K.] " He often joked that "Junior colleges are high schools with ashtrays." He often calls it Junior Junior Junior Junior College. "I smell junior college on you..."

Working near metal Like junior college, Adam often predicted when male callers (or the abusive boyfriends/fathers of female callers) work with metal or in construction. Because he spent many years working construction, he often relays anecdotes about the dolts he worked with.

Pie versus Cake Adam has an extreme disdain for sheetcake in particular and birthday cakes in general (particularly the ones given at office parties) and at times ended up screaming at the mic about the sheep-like devotion people had to cake. Often Adam referred to the possibility of getting tuberculosis from the blowing out of the candles.

Women Who Are Reluctant to Perform Oral Sex on Their Husbands/Boyfriends There was virtually no issue that would so immediately and comprehensively change Adam's mood for the worse. As soon as it became apparent that a female caller had such an antipathy, Adam would typically fire off something along the lines of, "I'm done talkin' to you, screwball!"

LA Traffic Particularly the amount of tickets given out by the Burbank police, or what Adam refers to as the Rapebank department and the overzealousness of the police in LA in general with regards to moving violations. Adam frequently complains that police are using traffic tickets as fundraisers. After receiving a ticket for failing to display a front license plate, Adam went on a tirade against police officers, especially bike cops, for citing people for "chicken-s" ("chickenshit" abbreviated for radio use) infractions, especially given what he perceived to be law enforcement's reluctance or inability to deal with more serious concerns such as terrorism. He railed at any police listeners, "Remember when you joined the academy, you thought you were going to be rappelling down buildings, and growing a Fu Manchu and going deep under cover. Now you're writing chicken-s tickets. Don't be that guy." In addition red left-hand turn signals, esp. Culver City, are held in disdain.

Cranberry Sauce Adam has repeatedly mentioned, often around Thanksgiving time, that canned cranberry sauce is completely unacceptable, imploring listeners to avoid slaving over a hot stove all day preparing the bulk of the Thanksgiving meal only to turn around and "reach for the can opener like a dog" when it came to the cranberry sauce. On November 24, 2004 he gave his cranberry sauce recipe on air. The recipe is as follows: Empty one 12 ounce sack of cranberries into a pot. Add one cup of water and a half cup of sugar. (While many recipes call for an entire cup of sugar, Adam has stated his preference for a "tart" cranberry sauce as opposed to one that is overly sweet.) Additional sugar may be added according to taste. Boil for five to ten minutes. [Loveline 11/24/2004]

Chef Boyardee Adam has mentioned several times that he absolutely hates any of the Chef Boyardee products, with a passion. He has said that if you are over the age of eight and you eat Chef Boyardee, then he will label you as someone that he can not speak to. According to Adam, you just have to be an idiot to eat Chef Boyardee.

The Nectar of the 'Tards Adam has mentioned several times that he considers Mountain Dew to be "The Nectar of the 'Tards" and anyone who drinks it is probably destined for junior college.

References

ee also

* Loveline
* Adam Carolla
* Stryker
* Dr. Drew