Welcome to my 200th episode!!!! This is quite the accomplishment. Most podcasters quit after 4-5 episodes, I am still here having fun and creating memories. Please follow, subscribe, listen, and share with others. In the criminal justice system, sexually based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit.These are their stories. Law & Order: SVU is such a great show, I really should get caught up. It is available to stream on Peacock and many other streaming services, not to mention airing on tv daily. 

The Blue Shield Martini:

Ingredients:

• 2 oz premium vodka
• 1 oz blue curaçao
• 0.5 oz dry vermouth
• 0.5 oz lemon juice
• 5 drops of orange bitters
• Lemon twist and a small blue gummy bear for garnish

Directions:

1. Fill a cocktail shaker with ice.
2. Pour in the vodka, blue curaçao, dry vermouth, lemon juice, and orange bitters.
3. Shake well until the mixture is chilled.
4. Strain into a chilled martini glass.
5. Garnish with a lemon twist and a small blue gummy bear skewered on a cocktail stick.

Law & Order SVU Drinking Game (tvtropes.org)

If you would like more of a challenge, or just want to focus on one character, go tohttps://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/DrinkingGame/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit and pick your favorite rules.

General Triggers:

• Drink whenever you hear CHUNG-CHUNG.
• Drink whenever someone says the word "rape".
• Don't, you'll be hospitalized before the end of the episode.
• Drink when someone says "OBJECTION!".
• If the lawyer doing the objecting is Rafael Barba, water your drinks or have an ambulance on standby.
• Drink whenever you recognize the special guest star.
• Optional: drink once when you recognize the name in the opening credits, and once when you see them in person.
• Double your drinks if you recognize the special guest star from Oz.
• Double your drinks if you recognize an actor who is or will go on to be on Orange Is the New Black.
• Triple your drinks if you recognize the special guest star because they played a different character on a previous episode.
• Finish the bottle if you recognize the special guest star because they were previously a regular cast member.
• Drink whenever an episode cuts out before the end of a trial.
• Finish your drink if the case is a mistrial.
• Smash the bottle if any of these events take place:
• A major character (character in the opening credits, NOT just recurring character)dies, and it's actually confirmed that they are dead.
• Cabot smiles.
• Munch gets some action.
• Trust us, you'll be fine.
• Drink whenever someone gets physical in interrogation and has to be removed.
• Drink whenever two people involved in a relationship involving statutory rape claim to be in love.
• Drink whenever someone is threatened with obstruction charges.
• Drink whenever a suspect is threatened with "what they do to guys like you in prison."
• Finish the bottle if it's a threat of Prison Rape.
• Drink until your liver fails if the threat is made after the episode "Perverted".
• Drink whenever a criminal or opposing attorney refers to a female character with a condescending term like "honey" or "sweetheart".
• Drink whenever a witness or perp is casually racist to one of the non-white main characters.
• Drink once every time a character bellows for someone to call an ambulance.
• Drink twice if they call it a 'bus'.
• Drink whenever anything Hudson related is relevant to the victim or person of interest.
• Two drinks if said person was involved with illegal activities due to money issues.
• Drink if someone decides to get revenge on the perp.
• Down your drink if it's an acquaintance of the perp who does it.
• Drink whenever the current case makes tabloid headlines.
• Take another drink if it's unfairly going after someone it shouldn't be.

As always, drink responsibly and with others. Follow or subscribe wherever you listen to the podcast. Follow me on Instagram and Twitter at @Line_Drunk.