When you were a kid, did you ever wonder what would happen if you mixed the contents of your parents’ liquor cabinet together?
Well, on Thursday night Jason Sudeikis and Jimmy Fallon got to experience a version of that when they played a game called Drinko on The Tonight Show.
The game involved dropping colored disks down a maze and then drinking whatever combination the two disks fell into. The options were as varied as beer, pea soup, Tang, pickle juice and Yoo Hoo.
First up it was Fallon’s turn and he was forced to drink a mix of Capri Sun and bubble tea (a Taiwanese tea drink with milk and tapioca balls).
“If you puke we put it right back in,” Sudeikis said as Fallon downed the frothy liquid.
Next up it was the Sleeping with Other People star’s turn. When one of the disks got stuck, he put his fist near it and asked, “Can I Fonz it?” referring to Henry Winkler’s character for the ’70s sitcom Happy Days. He did, and the disks fell into wine spritzer – and bubble tea, again.
“Why is bubble tea a thing?” Sudeikis asked.
As he prepared to knock back the glass, he said, “It’s the chunks that get ya.”
Fallon lost the final round and had to drink a combo of beer and peppermint schnapps. “I think I’ve done this before,” he laughed.
The crowd cheered as Sudeikis offered to drink tequila with a pickle juice chaser, but they weren’t the only ones supporting the former Saturday Night Live star on Thursday.
His fiancée Olivia Wilde shared a pic on Instagram of their son, Otis, 16 months, backstage at the show.
“Cheering Dad on in the dressing room,” she captioned the pic.
This article originally appeared on People.com
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