History Recap / TheXFilesS05E12BadBlood

* ComfortingComforter

* BrickJoke: When Mulder and Scully are arguing about their differing memories of Sheriff Hartwell; Scully remembers him as flawlessly gorgeous, Mulder recalls an imbecilic buck-toothed hick. When Scully calls Mulder on this, Mulder sheepishly claims that he "had a slight overbite". Later, when the audience finally meets Hartwell for real, he does in fact have a slight overbite.

* RashomonStyle: Mulder's and Scully's account of what really happened differ. PlayedForLaughs.
** One difference: Scully presents the Sheriff as a charming Southern gentleman type, while Mulder remembers him as a buck-toothed hick.

** Gertrude Stein: Mulder thinks this might be favourite reading of Scully's hypothetical prison mate.

* VampiresAreSexGods: {{Lampshaded}} by Agent Scully (the original AgentScully, no less) who admits that vampires are supposed to be charming and seductive creatures. [[spoiler:And her "hoo boy" crush of a sheriff surely was charming and seductive, and he was also a vampire!]]
* WastebasketBall: Mulder apparently tries to start writing the report, but it is very hard.

* LanternJawOfJustice: Sheriff Hartwell.

* CellPhone: Two versions of a hilarious phone call from a drugged Mulder.

** {{Lampshaded}} by Scully who suspects the killer might be someone who's been watching BelaLugosi's films way too much and might be re-enacting them. And of course, being the AgentScully, she thinks this will be {{Averted}}.

** Main/BelaLugosi: Scully has a theory that the killer is a fan.

* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: "We used to have swamps only the EPA made us take to calling them wetlands."

* {{Facepalm}}: Scully when Mulder wants to compare their respective stories. See it [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ScullyFacepalmBadBlood_3775.png here]].

* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: They really are, honestly, except for Ronnie.
* GlowingEyes: When the vampires attack, their eyes glow bright green.

* BlahBlahBlah: Scully while performing the first autopsy:

*** Mulder ends up suggesting that he and Scully are both equally right; their killer is indeed just a kid who's watched too many vampire movies. However, he also happens to be an actual vampire.

* SerialKiller: He has two known victims, targeting tourists who were outside his community and well, not vampires. Scully ordered pizza from him as well, and Mulder ate it.Fortunately, he was able to escape.
* SlippingAMickey: Ronnie the teenage vampire's MO. He spiced the pizzas he was delivering with chloral hydrate, known as knock-out drops, so that he could extract the blood from his victims.

** ''Film/RainMan'': When Mulder explains his theory on vampires being obsessive, having to untie knots and collect seeds, Sheriff Hartwell compares that to Raymond's counting sticks

* EatingTheEyeCandy: FemaleGaze is clearly manifested InUniverse. Scully is completely charmed by Sheriff Hartwell's cowboy looks, somewhat tough, yet also boyish and cute.

* FemaleGaze: Scully's view of the Sheriff, especially when they first meet, but also in their later scenes. She keeps watching him dreamily and is practically swooning over him.
* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: They really are, except for Ronnie.

** Scully gets drugged as well. But apart from being scared and having to go through a walk of shame in Sheriff's jacket, she's fine.

** {{Discussed}} by Mulder who has extensive knowledge on various kinds of vampires and specifically states which cultures hold which traditions. He claims that the stories differ exceedingly and rarely share the same motifs or are based on the same obscure facts.
** PlayedStraight with the local people. It turns out the entire population is made of vampires. Importantly, they all have OCD. They are able to go out in daylight and they eat normal food. They are very neighbourly, live in trailers and motor homes (which comes handy when they need to disappear) and they apparently enjoy sleeping in coffins. They even pay taxes. Ronnie is the black sheep who doesn't grasp the concept of low profile, but he is still one of their own and they stick together.

* SerialKiller: He has two known victims, targeting tourists who were outside his community and well, not vampires. Scully ordered pizza from him as well, and Mulder ate it.

* ManBitesMan: Vampire (without his fake teeth) Bites Man. When the coroner kindly put out the stake out off Ronnie's chest, he attacked him and gnawed on his neck.
* MirandaRights: Mulder reads them to Ronnie riding atop of Ronnie's coffin. Ronnie desperately tries to open the coffin cover and escape. The cover rocks up and down.

** {{Lampshaded}} by Scully who suspects the killer might be someone who's been watching BelaLugosi's films way too much and might be re-enacting them.

* SlippingAMickey: Ronnie the teenage vampire's MO. He spiced the pizzas he was delivering with chloral hydrate, known as knock-out drops so that he could extract the blood from his victims.

* ChekovsGun: Mulder's sunflower seeds and his knowledge that vampires are obsessive-compulsive.

** Oh boy, and where to start on Mulder? When he realizes he's been drugged, he calls Scully to help him, but he only manages to breathe very loudly and thus creeps her out; then hilariously outwits Ronnie by throwing seeds at him; then sings a theme from ''{{Shaft}}'' to Scully (very off key) and finally, he sticks a wooden stake through Ronnie's chest instead of arresting him.

** PlayedStraight with the local people. It turns out the entire population is made of vampires. They are able to go out in daylight and they eat normal food. They live in trailers (which comes handy when they need to disappear) and they apparently enjoy sleeping in coffins. Importantly, they all have OCD. They pay taxes and they are good neighbours. Ronnie is the black sheep who doesn't grasp the concept of low profile, but he is still one of their own and they stick together.

* VampiresAreSexGods: {{Lampshaded}} by Agent Scully (mind you, the original, one and only AgentScully) who admits that vampires are supposed to be charming and seductive creatures. [[spoiler:And her "hoo boy" crush surely was charming and seductive, and he was also a vampire!]]

* ColdOpen
* TheCoroner

* YourVampiresSuck: The clichés about vampires suck so much. For what do we know, they might have created Ronnie's delusion and desire to role-play them.

** Oh boy, and where to start on Mulder? When he realizes he's been drugged, he calls Scully to help him, but he only manages to breathe very loudly and thus creeps her out; then hilariously outwits Ronnie by throwing seeds at him; then sings a theme from ''{{Shaft}}'' to Scully (very off key) and finaly, he sticks a wooden stake through Ronnie's chest instead of arresting him.
* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: PlayedForLaughs, but still very cute. When Mulder and Scully are sitting on a couch and waiting for a meeting with AD Skinner, Scully leans over to straighten Mulder's tie. He angrily pushes her hands away.

* MirandaRights

** {{Discussed}} by Mulder who has extensive knowledge on various kinds of vampires and specifically states which cultures hold which traditions.

* YourVampiresSuck

--->'''Mulder''':: Well, if he had picked them up he would have been a vampire.
--->'''Hartwell''' Yeah. I'll tell you what. I know I'm in law enforcement, but I'd like to take him to Vegas myself. Am I right?