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Usually, I say no to drugs, but I thought, just this once… and I figured, if I was going to make an ass of myself, at least I wouldn’t remember it.
— Modern Family · 2009
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker admits he normally avoids a substance but makes a rare exception, reasoning that any embarrassment would at least be forgotten. He frames the choice as his own stated excuse rather than a deeper decision. The humor lies in treating memory loss as a convenient built-in escape hatch.
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