"[I]n an episode about everybody getting shit-faced, I was the one going, “Let’s not glamorize it. Let’s make sure that if you don’t drink, you walk away from the episode not thinking maybe you’re missing something.” …The real thing that was being expressed there was that this is what drinking is. This is the ride home. This is the asymmetry of an evening. We get excited, and we have adventures, and we get high. Then there’s this shameful, quiet, dark, odd, clumsy, tear-stained kind of like, “We did all that stuff, and it’s over.” And I just wanted that stuff to feel like it feels and feel a way that it doesn’t in other sitcoms, where drinking is a potion that you take, and then you go crazy."

— Dan Harmon, putting into words why “Mixology Certification” is one of my favorite episodes of television ever aired.

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