History Recap / TheLastOfUs2023S1E3LongLongTime

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Ellie has never been in a car in her life, hence she doesn't know what a seatbelt is or what the mirrors are for.
** Joel ends up leaving the assault rifle he gain in the previous episode behind due to the fact that the lack of the right ammo readily available makes the weapon effectively useless and a burden to carry around.

* WhamLine: After Bill fulfills Frank's final request to crush pills into his wine so he can die on his own terms, Frank asks why there were already pills in the bottle beforehand, revealing Bill's intention for them to be TogetherInDeath.

* TitleDrop: The episode is named after the Linda Ronstadt song of the same name. Bill performs the song while playing the piano and the song plays in the background as Joel and Ellie drive away.

* WholeEpisodeFlashback: Except for a short section in the beginning, the majority of the episode tells the story of Bill and Frank over the course of 20 years, beginning shortly after Outbreak Day and ending with their suicide a short time before the arrival of Joel and Ellie at their town.

* BigWhat: Bill lets out a loud "What?" after Frank reveals he's invited over a woman he met on the radio for lunch, who turns out to be Tess.

* {{Metaphorgotten}}: Bill tries to get Frank to go away and refuses to give him food at first, claiming that he "is not an Arby's." A confused Frank then points out that Arby's was a restaurant where you had to pay for food.

* TitleDrop: The episode is named

* CozyCatastrophe: Bill spends the first days after the town is evacuated ensuring he'll have this, gathering fuel while the power is on, keeping gas flowing to his house, setting up a sizeable farmstead and an incredibly thorough barricade system. Thanks to these preparations, he and Frank are able to have a far happier and more comfortable life post-collapse than pretty much anyone else on the planet, and Tess says that being able to have a civilized meal like he prepares is almost unthinkable outside his compound.

* CrazySurvivalist: Before Outbreak Day, Bill was a heavily-armed prepper with a distrust of government. When FEDRA comes to take the people in his town, Bill hides from them in his survival shelter hidden under his house. He has a whole arsenal of weapons in his basement, as well as a gas generator in his backyard. By 2007, he has a barbed wire fence perimeter and a series of traps surrounding the town to kill or capture any infected or raiders who wander too close.

* WhamLine: After Bill fufills Frank's final request to crush pills into his wine so he can die on his own terms, Frank asks why there were already pills in the bottle beforehand, revealing Bill's intention for them to be TogetherInDeath.

* CrazySurvivalist: When FEDRA comes to take the people in his town, Bill hides from them in his survival shelter hidden under his house. He has a whole arsenal of weapons in his basement, as well as a gas generator in his backyard. By 2007, he has a barbed wire fence perimeter and a series of traps surrounding the town to kill or capture any infected or raiders who wander too close.

* ProperlyParanoid: Bill hid from FEDRA when they came to his town to evacuate him due to his distrust of the government. His fears were justified as FEDRA killed the other residents of his town because the Boston QZ was full and they didn't want to risk any refugees becoming infected.

* {{Metaphorgotten}}: Bill tries to get Frank to go away and refuses to give him food at first, claiming that he "is not an Arby's." A confused Frank then points out that Arby's was a restaurant.

* ShotAtDawn: Implied to have happened to the rest of the residents of Bill's Town who were evacuated. Joel explains to Ellie that after FEDRA evacuated the countryside, the refugees were only brought to the QZs if there was room. Otherwise, they would be executed regardless of infection status, on the basis that corpses can't be infected by the fungus.

* RunningGag: Joel consistently refuses to allow Ellie to have a gun.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Ellie has never been in a car in her life, hence she doesn't know what a seatbelt is or what the mirrors are for.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Ellie has never been in a car in her life, hence she doesn't know what a seatbelt is or the mirrors are for.

* {{Metaphorgotten}}: Bill tries to get Frank to go away and refuses to give him food at first, claiming that he "is not an Arby's." A confused Frank then points out that Arby's was a restaurant.

* CrazySurvivalist: When FEDRA comes to take the people in his town, Bill hides from them in his survival shelter hidden under his house. He has a whole arsenal of weapons in his basement, as well as a gas generator in his backyard. By 2007, he has a barbed wire fence perimeter and a series of traps surrounding the town to kill or capture any infected or raiders who wander to close.

* CrazyPrepared: Bill has a whole arsenal of weapons in his basement, as well as a gas generator in his backyard.

* {{Metaphorgotten}}: Bill tries to get Frank to go away and refuses to give him food at first, claiming that he "is not an Arby's." Frank then points out that Arby's was a restaurant.

* CrazyPrepared: Bill has a whole arsenal of weapons in his basement, as well as a gas generator in his backyard.