"I grew up here, you know. Had my first kiss out back with some dumb cowboy. Almost got caught by my dad. Fuck, he loved this place. It wasn't all easy, but he always made sure that here, you could speak your mind. (pours liquid through a funnel into a bottle) And then THEY showed up. "We're here to help," they said. And he believed them. And then they took my mom, my brother... and Dad was never the same. Beat And now what? They want to take this place too? Fuck no. (plants a Molotov cocktail on the counter) This place... is OURS."
"Bit of advice, don't threaten the guy who pours the drinks."
— Vander, Arcane
Britta: I'm doing hands-on research about the psychology of alcoholism.
Shirley: You're a bartender, aren't you?
Britta: Uh, which is basically a modern-day therapist.
Shirley: You're a bartender, aren't you?
Britta: Uh, which is basically a modern-day therapist.
— Community, "Repilot"
"Everyone likes to bitch to the bartender! I know everything about you and these motherfuckers at this point. [Sir Pentious]? That one Is an insecure buffoon whose lonely ass watches you idiots sleep. [Charlie] is a bleedin' heart who wants to solve everybody else's problems 'cept her own. [...] And [Vaggie] judges everyone and everything because she hates herself! And Niffty? Eugh... you don't even want to know what her deal is."
— Husk, Hazbin Hotel, "Masquerade"
