In S6E1, the first episode Bojack is in rehab, four flashbacks reveal his “first” drink.
In the final flashback, the last scene of the episode, his parents are passed out drunk on the couch after the party. There are balloons and streamers everywhere. An old record is skipping on the record player.
Little Bojack in his sailor suit walks in and sees his parents. He unscrews the vodka bottle cap and chugs for a few seconds. When he puts the vodka down, the record stops skipping and starts playing the song.
Little Bojack drinks and the world literally gets better. The sound shifts from the unsettling and eerie skip of the record player to the beautiful swell of violins.
Excuse me while I go scream in a corner.
I saw the same thing, but I genuinely don’t think that’s his first drink.
We see him walk in, look at the liquor bottle, look at his mother to make sure she’s asleep, and then take a sip and crawl onto the couch with her. Bojack was a very hesitant kid in most of his other flashbacks, and even more so after the cigarette incident. He had no hesitation or guilt about it, he just grabbed the bottle and took a swig. To me, this seems like he’s done it a few times.
Agree it’s not his first drink, he took 2-3 swallows without flinching and also didn’t have the “yuck” reaction you would expect of a kid drinking straight liquor for the first time.
My heart. I noticed he didn’t make a face but didn’t know what to do with it.
Isn’t it his first time when he found his dad cheating with the secretary and he forced him to drink with him?
That happens after, not before. It’s told backwards.
Wow I’ve never thought about that. That’s chilling
He didn’t make a face so he’s probably right :/ I have a theory that Bea slipped him alc if he was fussy/not falling asleep. Sadly not too uncommon of a practice in those days