the glass of milk, re-enacted
there’s a thing about a car salesman trying to quit drinking, it’s about the they call it the insanity of the first one, drink—he comes in a bar for a sandwich and a glass of milk
Context
The program's own cautionary parable re-enacted almost liturgically, and failing at the precise moment it is most vividly present: Kate knows the Big Book's glass-of-milk story, knows it illustrates the insanity of believing one drink can be made harmless, and orders Kahlua and milk anyway — as a joke. The doctrine does not fail because she forgot it; it fails because knowing it and doing it are, in the disease, unrelated.