History Recap / BigMouthS04E9HorrorityHouse

* AnimationLeadTime: Jessi dressed as Ruth Bader Ginsberg for Halloween. By the time this episode aired, Ruth had been dead for a few months, making this joke kind of... ehhhh.
** Then, of course, there's the fact that this episode takes place on Halloween, indicating that this season was originally intended to air sometime in October or at least a month or two earlier, but due to the pandemic, production setbacks led to this Halloween special airing in December.

* BittersweetEnding: The episode ends with Jessi, Matthew, Missy and Andrew overcoming their fears, but Nick ends up “failing” his nightmare sequence and becoming even more afraid of opening up to people, and Jay and Lola encounter a huge problem in their relationship when Lola doesn’t say “I love you” back.

* UnfortunateNames: The sorority is called Kappa Kappa Kill. Do not initialize it.

* ContinuityNod: Missy mentions after waking up in a hall of mirrors that she has a green belt in UsefulNotes/{{Capoeira}}, which was last mentioned in [[Recap/BigMouthS02E04SteveTheVirgin Steve the Virgin]].

* AnimationLeadTime: Jessi dressed as Ruth Bader Ginsberg for Halloween. By the time this episode aired, Ruth had been dead for a few months, making this joke kind of ... ehhhh.

* {{Cliffhanger}}: The episode ends with the Horrority House unleashing a shitton of Titos.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The fact that Nick doesn't "flash" or get an epiphany is a clue that [[spoiler:Nick Starr took over his body]].

** Andrew dies multiple times over the song "Gotta Get Up", referring to the show ''Series/RussianDoll''. The final death of that sequence even has Natasha Lyonne's character appear and they die in a falling elevator, which is how that character dies in the timeline where she [[spoiler:meets the other person stuck in a time loop]].

* WhatDoTheyFearEpisode: After the main cast gets drugged, they have gruesome hallucinations representing the fears they've been grappling with all season. Jessi imagines being in a mental asylum due to her severe depression and anxiety, Missy imagines being trapped in a bloody fight between several fragmented versions of herself (representing her identity crisis, especially regarding her racial identity), Andrew has several death hallucinations due to his newfound fear of death, Matthew's struggle choosing between his homophobic mother and his boyfriend is represented by a SadisticChoice where both of them are tied up to be slaughtered, and Nick gets chased by Nick Starr, a vision of his sadistic adult self that represents Nick's paranoia that he's going to be a terrible person forever. Most of the characters learn to cope with these fears, although Nick still grapples with his own at the end of the episode.

** Andrew learns to be more accepting of the possibility of death, and to breath every once in a while.

* EpiphanyTherapy: Each of the gang, [[spoiler:except Nick]], experience one at the end of their trips:

* WhatDoTheyFearEpisode: After the main cast gets drugged, they have gruesome hallucinations representing the fears they've been grappling with all season. Jessi imagines being in a mental asylum due to her severe anxiety, Missy imagines being trapped in a bloody fight between several fragmented versions of herself (representing her identity crisis, especially regarding her racial identity), Andrew has several death hallucinations due to his newfound fear of death, Matthew's struggle choosing between his homophobic mother and his boyfriend is represented by a SadisticChoice where both of them are tied up to be slaughtered, and Nick gets chased by [[spoiler:Nick Starr, a vision of his sadistic adult]] that represents Nick's paranoia that he's going to be a terrible person forever. Most of the characters learn to cope with these fears, although Nick still grapples with [[spoiler:Nick Starr]] in the season finale.

* UnfortunateNames: The sorority is called Kappa Kappa Kill. Do not initialize it.

** Lola and Jay dress as the doomed bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde. During a montage of their antics, a parody of the French song of the same name is heard.