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* InternalDeconstruction: This episode deconstructs the show's comedic and cavalier attitude to how the main characters treat and kill humans. Guillermo's interaction with Shanice forces him to confront that no matter how insignificant a human may seem, they have friends and a family who are undoubtedly going to be heartbroken from losing a loved one. He awkwardly admits that he's actually stopped thinking about the victims and their lives, and he briefly starts crying from guilt.
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* Gaslighting: Nadja gaslights the neighbor's mother fairly easily because everyone is pretty sure she's senile due to her age.

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* Gaslighting: {{Gaslighting}}: Nadja gaslights the neighbor's mother fairly easily because everyone is pretty sure she's senile due to her age.
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* Gaslighting: Nadja

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* Gaslighting: Nadja gaslights the neighbor's mother fairly easily because everyone is pretty sure she's senile due to her age.
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* Gaslighting: Nadja
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** The Nightwalkers believe this is a festival to honor the coming of a "Superb Owl." Guillermo and Colin don't bother to correct them.

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** The Nightwalkers believe this is a festival to honor the coming of a "Superb Owl." Guillermo and Colin don't doesn't bother to correct them.them, and Colin only makes a token attempt.
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The cast go to a neighbor's Super Bowl Party, but Laszlo and Nandor accidentally overdo a hypnosis, while Najda reconnects with an old lady she played with when the latter was a child.

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The cast go to a neighbor's Super Bowl Party, but Laszlo and Nandor accidentally overdo a hypnosis, while Najda Nadja reconnects with an old lady she played with when the latter was a child.



* IWasQuiteTheLooker: Najda compliments the old lady's beauty from her wedding photo.

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* IWasQuiteTheLooker: Najda Nadja compliments the old lady's beauty from her wedding photo.
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* ShoutOut: The proposal that everyone have group sex as a ritual before they go out monster-hunting is a subtle one to Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/{{IT}}''.

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* ShoutOut: The proposal that everyone have group sex as a ritual before they go out monster-hunting is a subtle one to Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/{{IT}}''. The fact that everyone derides it and the person suggesting it seems kind of pathetic might make it a TakeThat.
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* NotUsingTheZWord: Claude's slideshow gives a list of insulting terms his hunters prefer to call vampires by -- "Mosquitoes" (hence the name of their front organization), "Suckers", "Biters", "The [[RhymesOnADime Fang Gang]]", and... "[[ShapedLikeItself Vampires]]".

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* NotUsingTheZWord: Claude's slideshow gives a list of insulting terms his hunters prefer to call vampires by -- "Mosquitoes" (hence the name of their front organization), "Suckers", "Biters", "The [[RhymesOnADime [[SublimeRhyme Fang Gang]]", and... "[[ShapedLikeItself Vampires]]".
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* FantasticRacism: Guillermo is constantly uncomfortable for the whole episode by the hunters' casual disdain for vampires, calling them "bloodsuckers" and "parasites" and the like. (The irony being, of course, that as childish and ignorant as they come across, everything they say is ''[[HeroAntagonist objectively correct]]'' and Guillermo can't really argue with it.)

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* FantasticRacism: Guillermo is constantly made uncomfortable for the whole episode by the hunters' casual disdain for vampires, calling them "bloodsuckers" and "parasites" and the like. (The irony being, of course, that as childish and ignorant as they come across, everything they say is ''[[HeroAntagonist objectively correct]]'' and Guillermo can't really argue with it.)
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Laszlo and Nandor confront Shaun about him knowing their secret, only for him to protest he ''doesn't'' know whatever their secret is, which leads to them ''telling'' him that they're vampires and, when he expresses skepticism, ''proving'' that they're vampires by floating in the air in front of him and baring their fangs -- at which point Laszlo suddenly realizes too late they may have lost the plot.
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** It gets even ''more'' personal when Claude gets to the section of the orientation about vampiric familiars, who are apparently all "pathetic, lonely, desperate, low-IQ, sad losers". (Aside from the low-IQ part, there's no lies detected here either, looking at Guillermo's life -- and we get some pretty strong hints he's unusually smart for a familiar, when it comes to that.)


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* NotUsingTheZWord: Claude's slideshow gives a list of insulting terms his hunters prefer to call vampires by -- "Mosquitoes" (hence the name of their front organization), "Suckers", "Biters", "The [[RhymesOnADime Fang Gang]]", and... "[[ShapedLikeItself Vampires]]".
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* FantasticRacism: Guillermo is constantly uncomfortable for the whole episode by the hunters' casual disdain for vampires, calling them "bloodsuckers" and "parasites" and the like. (The irony being, of course, that as childish and ignorant as they come across, everything they say is ''[[HeroAntagonist objectively correct]]'' and Guillermo can't really argue with it.)
* ItsPersonal: Most of the Mosquito Collectors have never actually seen a vampire before and have no direct evidence they exist, which makes Guillermo relax a bit -- until Shanice starts ranting about how she watched Jenna painfully transform into one of the undead and she won't rest now until she has vengeance for her friend being taken from her, and he's suddenly [[OhCrap quite aware the Staten Island vamps have a new problem]].
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* ShoutOut: The proposal that everyone have group sex as a ritual before they go out monster-hunting is a subtle one to Creator/StephenKing's Literature/{{IT}}.

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* ShoutOut: The proposal that everyone have group sex as a ritual before they go out monster-hunting is a subtle one to Creator/StephenKing's Literature/{{IT}}.''Literature/{{IT}}''.
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* ShoutOut: The proposal that everyone have group sex as a ritual before they go out monster-hunting is a subtle one to Creator/StephenKing's Literature/{{IT}}.

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* NonIndicativeName: The Nightwalkers believe this is a festival to honor the coming of a "Superb Owl." Guillermo and Colin don't bother to correct them.

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The Nightwalkers believe this is a festival to honor the coming of a "Superb Owl." Guillermo and Colin don't bother to correct them.them.
** The "Mosquito Collectors" is a ''vaguely'' logical front name for a cell of vampire hunters, but it really isn't clever enough to be the subtle signal to other vampire hunters looking for allies they thought it was. Guillermo stumbles on them by pure chance, and after a bunch of {{Anvilicious}} hints thrown his way they just go ahead and openly reveal themselves as vampire hunters and confess that he's the first and only newcomer to even try to join their group at all.
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* SexAsRiteOfPassage: One member of the Mosquito Club suggests taking each other's virginity to make themselves less appealing to vampires. And apparently has done so multiple times in the past.

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* AccidentalTruth: The neighbor calls the Nightwalkers vampires as a joke about their nocturnal habits, leading them to believe he KnowsTooMuch.

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* AccidentalTruth: The neighbor calls the Nightwalkers vampires as a joke about their nocturnal habits, leading them to believe he KnowsTooMuch.HeKnowsTooMuch.



* CreatureHunterOrganization: Guillermo finds himself joining the [[CovertGroupWithMundaneFront Mosquito Hunting Club]] (which is actually a group of {{Vampire Hunter}}s) thinking they would be easy virgins to pick.



* TragicKeepsake: a necklace from Nadja's mother just before her death, said to contain her final screams.

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* TragicKeepsake: a A necklace from Nadja's mother just before her death, said to contain her final screams.



* WhoWantsToLiveForever: The old lady asks to be turned by Nadja, who explains she would remain in elderly form. She decides against it.

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* WhoWantsToLiveForever: The old lady asks to be turned by Nadja, who explains she would remain in elderly form. She decides against it.it.
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* ChildhoodFriend: Nadja to the old lady.

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* ChildhoodFriend: Nadja to the old lady.lady, though granted Nadja's idea of fun was pinning the kid to the ceiling for hours on end.



* NonIndicativeName: The Nightwalkers believe this is a festival to honor the coming of a "Superb Owl." Guillermo doesn't bother to correct them.

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* NonIndicativeName: The Nightwalkers believe this is a festival to honor the coming of a "Superb Owl." Guillermo doesn't and Colin don't bother to correct them.
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* AccidentalTruth: The neighbor calls the Nightwalkers vampires as a joke about their nocturnal habits, leading them to believe he KnowsTooMuch.
* AmnesiacLover: InvertedTrope: the brain-scramblies have rekindled the neighbor's passion for his wife.
* CassandraTruth: An old lady remembers Nadja from her childhood and the supernatural antics they had. Nadja only denies it in front of her hosts to maintain the masquerade.
* ChildhoodFriend: Nadja to the old lady.
* IWasQuiteTheLooker: Najda compliments the old lady's beauty from her wedding photo.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Attempted with the double-hypnosis, but is overdone and causes brain-scramblies.
* LastDayToLive: The Nightwalkers give their neighbor one last night of vampiric spectacles before they MercyKill him. [[SubvertedTrope Much to his horror.]]
* LazyHusband: The neighbor, much to his wife's chagrin.
* NonIndicativeName: The Nightwalkers believe this is a festival to honor the coming of a "Superb Owl." Guillermo doesn't bother to correct them.
* TitleDrop: Used to describe the level of mental damage caused by the double-hypnosis.
* TragicKeepsake: a necklace from Nadja's mother just before her death, said to contain her final screams.
* TooDumbToLive: Why they decide to MercyKill the neighbor after his brain-scramblies.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: The old lady asks to be turned by Nadja, who explains she would remain in elderly form. She decides against it.

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