Quote from Lorelai in You've Been Gilmored
Luke: I don't want to go. Lorelai: Of course you don't. Luke: Your parents are not warm people. Lorelai: They were extras in March of the Penguins. Luke: Maybe we could skip the drinks, just have the dinner, and be done. Lorelai: Skip the drinks? Luke, you don't skip the one activity that makes the rest of the evening miraculously tolerable. The drinks fortify us. The drinks give us strength. The drinks get us drunk.