History Recap / WhatWeDoInTheShadowsS1E7TheTrial

* CameoCluster: Nearly every member of the tribunal is a big-name actor who's played a vampire (or a half one). The members include Viago, Deacon, and Vladislav (Creator/TaikaWaititi, [[Music/FlightoftheConchords Jemaine Clement]] and Jonny Brugh from the original ''Film/WhatWeDoInTheShadows''), Tilda (Creator/TildaSwinton, who was in ''Film/OnlyLoversLeftAlive''), Evan, Princess of the Undead (Creator/EvanRachelWood, who was in ''Series/TrueBlood''), Danny (Creator/DannyTrejo, who was in ''Film/FromDuskTillDawn''), Paul (Creator/PaulReubens, who was in ''Film/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''), and Wesley the Daywalker (Creator/WesleySnipes, who was in ''Film/{{Blade}}'').

* TooDumbToLive: The three Household vampires are on trial for a capitol crime they know they (probably) didn't commit. They are constantly followed around by a film crew. They don't think to ask to see the footage of the crime that would instantly exonerate them.

* ActorAllusion: Aside from the Vampiric Council themselves all being cast for this reason, Garrett (Creator/DaveBautista)'s description of how he plans to take vengeance against the real vampire whose crimes he's taken the fall for sound very reminiscent of [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy Drax the Destroyer]].

** The Tribunal has no lost love for the Baron, [[EvenEvilHasStandards everyone commenting that he was a psychotic weirdo even by their standards]] and only going through with the trial and execution [[LawfulEvil because it's the law]].

* DistinctionWithoutADifference: Vladislav points out that "floating around" the idea of killing someone and "plotting" their death are "very similar" concepts.

** Nearly every member of the tribunal is a big-name actor who's played a vampire (or a half one). The members include Viago, Deacon, and Vladislav (Creator/TaikaWaititi, [[Music/FlightoftheConchords Jemaine Clement]] and Jonny Brugh from the original ''Film/WhatWeDoInTheShadows''), Tilda (Creator/TildaSwinton, who was in ''Film/OnlyLoversLeftAlive''), Evan, Princess of the Undead (Creator/EvanRachelWood, who was in ''Series/TrueBlood''), Danny (Creator/DannyTrejo, who was in ''Film/FromDuskTillDawn''), Paul (Creator/PaulReubens, who was in ''Film/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''), and Wesley the Daywalker (Creator/WesleySnipes, who was in ''Film/{{Blade}}'').

-->'''Garrett''': If I ever find out who did it, I will take a dagger... and stab them ''5,000 times'', with this hand, then switch hands, and stab them ''another 5,000 times''!

--> '''Garrett''': I can fill up this book with the ways I would torture that vampire.
--> '''Laszlo''': Wouldn't want to be him...

---> '''Messenger''': We sent ravens. We sent '''''FIVE-HUNDRED RAVENS!!!'''''

* TokenGoodTeammate: Colin Robinson is temporarily made a member of the Council's tribunal, since their law apparently stipulates that the tribunal must have a representative from the local vampire community. He makes it pretty clear that he's helpless to influence their vote for execution, although he does end up coming through and rescuing our protagonists by showing up in daylight with an umbrella.

* AffablyEvil: While the Tribunal are all vampires who are willing to execute Laszlo, Nadja and Nandor for the Baron's death (even though none of them are all that beat up over the Baron being gone), they all come across as being camp in varying degrees.
* BaitAndSwitch: We see the well, hear screams and show three charred skeletons... then Laszlo, Nandor and Nadja are standing in the darkened part of the well, noting "That's just macabre."

** Deacon gets to do his erotic dance before the trial—and nobody interrupts him this time!

** Nearly every member of the tribunal is a big-name actor who's played a vampire (or a half one). The members include Viago, Deacon, and Vladislav (Creator/TaikaWaititi, [[Music/FlightoftheConchords Jemaine Clement]] and Jonny Brugh from the original ''Film/WhatWeDoInTheShadows''), Tilda (Creator/TildaSwinton, who was in ''Film/OnlyLoversLeftAlive''), Evan, Princess of the Undead (Creator/EvanRachelWood, who was in ''Series/TrueBlood''), Danny (Creator/DannyTrejo, who was in ''Film/FromDuskTillDawn''), Paul (Creator/PaulReubens, who was in ''Film/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'') and Wesley the Daywalker (Creator/WesleySnipes, who was in ''Film/{{Blade}}'').
* CassandraTruth: Guillermo explains to the Vampiric Council how he killed the Baron. Nobody on the Council believes him (barring, presumably, Colin Robinson, who saw the whole thing), because they won't believe somebody as meek and unintimidating as Guillermo could do such a thing.

* CouncilOfVampires: The International Tribunal of Vampires

** The Tribunal has no lost love for the Baron, [[EvenEvilHasStandards everyone commenting that he was a psychotic weirdo even by their standards]] and only going through with the trial and execution [[LawfulEvil because its the law]].

* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: Wesley apparently lets it go when the other Council members insult him for being a bastard half-vampire and being a traitor to his own kind, but gets very heated when they start criticizing him for having crappy wi-fi making his Skype stream [[ICantHearYou constantly glitch]], pointing out that it's not his wi-fi (he seems to be in a hotel room) and "I got the best wi-fi!" (To be fair, he probably didn't even hear the other insults, because of, you know, the bad wi-fi.)
* JustTheFirstCitizen: Tilda has no special title compared to any other Council member, but Viago informs us she's "pretty much our leader, makes all the big decisions".

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: When the Vampiric Council discusses who couldn't make it, it's mentioned that [[Creator/BradPitt Brad]] and [[Creator/TomCruise Tom]] weren't interested, [[Creator/KieferSutherland Kiefer]] wanted to come but scheduling commitments got in the way, and [[Creator/RobertPattinson Robert]] wanted to put this business all behind him. Behind the scenes, all four actors were asked by the showrunners if they wanted to guest star and said no for the aforementioned reasons. Danny than comments that they aren't as committed as the present members are to Vampiric Council business, which can easily be read as ribbing on how the actors cameoing are committing to the joke of being actors who are vampires that have played vampires on-scren.
* MundaneMadeAwesome: Emphasis on the "mundane" part: Colin Robinson uses a patio umbrella to save Nandor, Nadja, and Laszlo—and feeds on them by discussing the means by which he got it.

* PunchClockVillain: No one on the Vampiric Council is bothered by the Baron's death (aside, perhaps, from Deacon), but they are legally bound to exact punishment for it anyway.

* TheScapegoat: Everyone assumes Guillermo is just a loyal familiar who's taking the blame for his master's actions with his ridiculously unlikely story of how he killed the Baron by accident (which is, of course, a CassandraTruth) but ended up perfectly willing to accept it anyway, since killing and draining a familiar is no big deal and they were all already hungry for lunch. Nandor surprises everyone by intervening and making ''himself'' TheScapegoat to save Guillermo, dooming himself and his roommates to the grisly execution the Council was hoping to avoid.
* TheSilentBob: The gang is thrown when the Baron's familiar reveals she can not only talk but in perfect English to make them look worse.

* ThereWasADoor: Nandor is annoyed that the council sent [[RuleOfCool 500 ravens]] when they have a phone, and could have just called.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Colin Robinson is temporarily made a member of the Council's tribunal, since their law apparently stipulates that the tribunal must have a representative from the local vampire community. He makes it pretty clear he's helpless to influence their vote for execution, although he does end up coming through and rescuing our protagonists by showing up in daylight with an umbrella.

* CallBack: Deacon gets to do his erotic dance before the trial—and nobody interrupts him this time!

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: When the Vampiric Council discusses who couldn't make it, it's mentioned that [[Creator/BradPitt Brad]] and [[Creator/TomCruise Tom]] weren't interested, [[Creator/KieferSutherland Kiefer]] wanted to come but scheduling commitments got in the way, and [[Creator/RobertPattinson Robert]] wanted to put this business all behind him. Behind the scenes, all four actors were asked by the showrunners if they wanted to guest star and said no for the aforementioned reasons.

* RealityEnsues: Guillermo is traumatized over having killed the Baron, to the point where he has a guilt-induced anxiety attack when he harms another vampire in self-defense.

* BaitAndSwitch: We see the well, hear screams and show three charred skeletons...then Laszlo, Nandor and Nandor are standing in the darkened part of the well, noting "That's just macabre."

* TheScapegoat: Everyone assumes Guillermo is just a loyal familiar who's taking the blame for his master's actions with his ridiculously unlikely story of how he killed the Baron by accident (which is, of course, a CassandraTruth) but ended up perfectly willing to accept it anyway, since killing and draining a familiar is no big deal and they were all already hungry for lunch. Nandor surprises everyone by intervening and making ''himself'' TheScapegoat to save Guillermo, dooming himself and his roommates to the grisly execution Tilda et al were hoping to avoid.

* AffablyEvil: While the Tribunal are all vampires who are willing to execute Laszlo, Nadja and Nandor for the Baron's death (even though none of them are all that beat up over the Baron being gone), they all come across as being {{Adorkable}} and camp in varying degrees.

* TheScapegoat: Everyone assumes Guillermo is just a loyal familiar who's taking the blame for his master's actions with his ridiculously unlikely story of how he killed the Baron by accident (which is, of course, a CassandraTruth) but ended up perfectly willing to accept it anyway, since killing and draining a familiar is no big deal and they were all already hungry for lunch. Nandor surprises everyone by intervening and making ''himself'' TheScapegoat to save Guillermo, dooming himself and his roommates to the grisly execution Tilda et al were hoping to avoid.

* JustTheFirstCitizen: Tilda has no special title compared to any other Council member, but Viago informs us she's "pretty much our leader, makes all the big decisions".
* LargeHam: All the celebrity guests make the most of their limited screen time.

-->'''Garrett''': If I ever find out who did it, I will take a dagger... and stab them ''5,000 times''', with this hand, then switch hands, and stab them ''another 5,000 times''!