History Series / Mixology

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:On the sweet side for most characters. Tom and Maya end up together, as do Cal and Kacey, while Bruce and Jessica end up as friends. On the other hand, Liv has broken up with Jim and leaves for India to find herself, while Ron, without a romance, still has to deal with the recent collapse of his company. For the others, it appears that nothing has changed, as Dominic merely goes home alone, and Fab has a one-night stand with a Hawaiian man who it's implied she will not see again. Bruce's final narration, over a montage of the characters, seems to confirm this.]]

-->[[spoiler:'''Bruce''': A lot can happen in one night. Sometimes you meet someone great. Sometimes you get your heart broken. Sometimes nothing changes at all. But sometimes, just sometimes, everything does.]]

-->'''Bruce''': ''[points to her]'' She's a 6. ''[[points to another girl]]'' She is a 7. ''[points to Liv]'' She is an 8.\\

** The main plot of the episode "Liv & Jim" involves Liv bringing up the book "Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia'' by Elizabeth Gilbert. This episode also has Tom, Cal and Bruce bring up ''Downton Abbey''.

** Bruce seemingly begins flirting with Maya to make Jessica jealous, but it starts to go somewhere, in Tom's perspective. A flashback of the same events from Cal's perspective shows Bruce was baiting Tom to get him closer to Maya to impress her.

* Squick: In-universe, Tom "wingmans" for Cal by talking to the mother of the girl his friend is hitting on. The stinger of that episode shows she is aware of what he's doing and knows his role, but gives him her number and an offer. This makes Tom uncomfortable.

* RelationshipUpgrade: [[spoiler:Seemingly between Tom and Maya, and between Cal and Kacey.]]

* BackhandedCompliment: Tom gives Laura one suggested by Maya, after seeing his ex for the first time since the breakup

-->''Tom''': I'm so glad you're eating again.

* KavorkaMan: Bruce is not particularly attractive, and from what is shown, his attitude isn't that great. But flashbacks establish that he is able to get a lot of women despite this. He even states in the pilot "I get laid all the time, and I am ''disgusting''. Head to toe." Justified, given his backstory.

* OnceMoreWithClarity:

[[spoiler:-->'''Bruce''': A lot can happen in one night. Sometimes you meet someone great. Sometimes you get your heart broken. Sometimes nothing changes at all. But sometimes, just sometimes, everything does.]]

* OddNameOut: Most of the episodes are named after the two characters who are given flashbacks in them. The exceptions are the last two episodes, called "Last Call" and "Closing Time". And arguably "Fab & Jessica & Dominic", which is named after three characters instead of two, though one of them isn't given flashbacks. Also arguably "Tom & Maya, Part II" due to the last part.

* OddNameOut: Most of the episodes are named after the two characters who are given flashbacks in them. The exceptions are the last two episodes, called "Last Call" and "Closing Time". And arguably "Fab & Jessica & Dominic", which is named after three characters instead of two, though one of them isn't given flashbacks.

* KavorkaMan: Bruce is not particularly attractive, and from what is shown, his attitude isn't that great. But flashbacks establish that he is able to get a lot of women despite this. Justified, given his backstory.

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Jessica's younger sister Janey (mentioned to be her sister in promotional material) appears in the premiere, her actress credited as main cast, and disappears with no explanation in the remaining episodes, with Jessica's companion instead being Fab. While she could have left offscreen, she isn't even mentioned afterward.

* MythologyGag: Relating to the above point, Tom's actor, Creator/BlakeLee, is openly gay.

* HighSchoolHustler: Flashbacks of Ron's life show him to have been this at boarding school, before becoming a hustler as an adult.

* WhatExactlyIsHisJob: Never comes up, but Tom is the only main character whose occupation is never specified. Dominic and Kacey are a bartender and waitress at Mix, Cal is a personal trainer, Maya and Liv are lawyers at the same firm, Jessica is an assistant manager at the Clothing Barn, Fab is a fashion designer, Ron is a recently failed internet enterpreneur, and Bruce mentions he is between jobs, while flashbacks show him to have worked in an office.

* WhatExactlyIsHisJob: Never comes up, but Tom is the only main character whose occupation is never specified. Dominic and Kacey are a bartender and waitress at Mix, Cal is a personal trainer, Maya and Liv are lawyers at the same firm, Jessica is an assistant manager at the Clothing Barn, Fab is a fashion designer, Ron is a recently failed internet enterpreneur, and Bruce mentions he is between jobs but flashbacks show him to have worked in an office.

* ThemeNaming: Most of the episodes are named "X & Y", with X and Y being the names of the two characters the main plot revolves around (i.e. the ones given flashbacks of). There are a few exceptions though.

* HighSchoolHustler: Flashbacks of Ron's life show him to have been this in high school, before becoming a hustler as an adult.

* MamasBoy: Tom, after realizing his father wasn't coming back, tried hard to get his mom to like him, which ruined his relationships with girls until he left for college. He appears to have grown out of it at the time of the series, though.

* OppositesAttract: Tom and Maya have a connection, despite not being alike.

* HasAType: Maya only dates professional athletes, since she considers them "real men". Liv, on the other hand, likes "safe guys". [[spoiler:Both of them learn to step away from this over the course of the series.]] A couple of episodes also feature Trista, a girl who has a thing for red-headed men.

* OnceMoreWithClarity: Kacey's view of her casual relationship with Dominic had her believe he was complimenting her, and then she thought him setting up a lot of candles in the bar was to set a romantic atmosphere. When those events are shown from Dominic's perspective, we see that he was talking to himself in the mirror to prep for the night when she happened to walk by, and the candles were because the power was out, and the technician under the bar, who Kacey couldn't see, needed to work.

** Bruce mentions he is between jobs, and flashbacks reveal him to have had sex with his boss, and show a conversation before this where she states he could be fired for coming on to her and him claiming he doesn't even know what the company does. Is this why he no longer works there?

* WhatExactlyIsHisJob: Never comes up, but Tom is the only main character whose occupation is never specified. Dominic and Kacey are a bartender and waitress at Mix, Cal is a personal trainer, Maya and Liv are lawyers, Jessica is an assistant manager at the Clothing Barn, Fab is a fashion designer, Ron is a recently failed internet enterpreneur, and Bruce mentions he is between jobs but flashbacks show him to have worked in an office.