Throwback Thursday thread; the "getting drunk on Energon" scene

Full disclosure, I'm not too familiar with the show in general, but the "getting drunk on energon" scene caught my attention years ago, for being yet another case of fantasy works coming up with clever metaphors for real life things. So I guess this is a throwback within a throwback.

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That said, if energon is supposed to be full of "energy", why would its effects be more analogous to those of a depressant than those of a stimulant? Was it just a matter of the writers wanting to portray the characters as wasteful of energy, and figured that while they were at it, they might as well just go for the fantasy metaphor for booze since they were just a hop, skip and jump away?