History Recap / WhatWeDoInTheShadowsS2E4TheCurse

* TheBlackDudeDiesFirst: Guess which Mosquito Club member is left behind during the raid? A hint: it isn't [[Creator/CraigRobinson the big name actor]]. (The idea that the vampires might go after Derek especially hard was [[{{Foreshadowing}} foreshadowed]] in the last episode with the unsubtle hints that he's a virgin.)

* ApocalypticLog: Tonya tries to leave one, popping into a closet to talk into her helmet cam and leave a warning for the world (raising the FridgeLogic of who, exactly, she expects to find a recording left in the vampires' house other than the vampires themselves). Unfortunately she only gets one line into it before she realizes that this "closet" is where [[OhCrap four of the vampires happen to sleep]].

* TheHunterBecomesTheHunted: [[FridgeLogic In hindsight]], it seems pretty obvious that the reason the vampires were pretending to be asleep in the middle of the night (which is the middle of the day for them) and the house was so quiet when the hunters arrived is that they knew they were coming and the hunters were LuredIntoATrap, and this isn't the first time they've done this to a bunch of humans for sport. Of course, this trope applies ''twice''-- it was very bad luck for the Hustle Dynasty (and good luck for the Staten Island Mosquito Collectors, sans Derek) that one of the hunters happened to be very [[IncrediblyLamePun familiar]] with vampires and to have Van Helsing blood run through his veins.
* IncrediblyLamePun: An extremely predictable punchline that's nonetheless worth it for the sheer commitment the actors bring-- Nadja tries to just make up an email address for Bloody Mary ("bloodyfuckingmary@aol.com") and send the letter back to her as a way of CuttingTheKnot, only to have an extreme FreakOut when this gets a reply from a "mailer-daemon".

* POVCam: The hunters set themselves up with helmet cameras to document the raid on the vampire house, giving us the opportunity for some really scary shots from their perspective of the vampire attack. (This does, of course, raise the usual FridgeLogic questions of why this would be necessary, given that the {{Mockumentary}} crew apparently also diegetically exist and go in with them.)

* UncertainDoom: The last we see of Derek is him being snatched by a vampire from above and pulled offscreen. As of Season 2's ending, we have no confirmation of his fate, with a lot of fans pulling for him to turn out to have been sired as a vampire. (Although that would raise FridgeLogic questions of why as of the finale there were no vampire witnesses to testify to the Council that Guillermo, not the trio, was responsible for the vampire deaths in this episode.)

* FamilyOfChoice: Up to this point, vampires in this franchise have mostly referred to the fellow vampires that they live and hunt with as "roommates" (except for Laszlo and Nadja being a married couple). These disco vampires, by contrast, are repeatedly referred to as a "family", to the point of all posing for a group photo with chintzy '70s T-shirts saying "It's a Family Thing". The degree to which this effectively makes them far creepier than the vampires that we've met before might be a subtle TakeThat to works like ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''.

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: It turns out that the whole time we thought of Nandor, Nadja and Laszlo as "the Staten Island vamps" there was a ''whole family'' of ''at least a dozen'' much more powerful, dangerous and bloodthirsty vampires living a short drive away. (Emphasis, by the end of this episode, on [[KillEmAll was]].)

* WhatAnIdiot: As Guillermo repeatedly points out, the vampire hunters pull a lot of boneheaded moves in this episode, starting with the basic idea of scheduling their attack on a vampire stronghold for ''the middle of the night'' (because Derek's mom needs to use their van during the day). Derek takes an extra prize for just standing around casually rifling through the vampires' stuff while everyone else is screaming and fleeing, though (not a wise thing to do ''whether or not'' the inhabitants really are vampires or are regular humans who might call the cops).
** Claude, who was trying so hard to come off as a tough, experienced vampire hunter, also gets recognition here for allowing a vampire in bat form to somehow trick him into ''literally shooting himself in the foot''-- with a crossbow, no less.

** When it turns out the mansion the Mosquito Club wasn't Nandor, Nadja and Laszlo's house, Guillermo thinks that the manor might just be full of regular humans. Subverted, as it is actually ''is'' a family of vampires.

* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Derek seems incapable of remembering he's on a vampire hunt and that a vampire hunt is a serious life-or-death affair for more than a few seconds at a time. This ends up getting him (ambiguously) killed.
* TheBlackDudeDiesFirst: Guess which Mosquito Club member is left behind during the raid? A hint: it isn't [[Creator/CraigRobinson the big name actor]]. (The fact that the vampires might go after Derek especially hard was [[{{Foreshadowing}} foreshadowed]] in the last episode with the unsubtle hints that he's a virgin.)

* ConscienceMakesYouGoBack: Guillermo manages to make it out of the house unscathed only to realize none of the hunters are behind him and they're still in the house being tortured. He [[CowardlyLion visibly hesitates]] before screwing up his courage for a ''major'' BigDamnHeroes moment.

* CutApart: Guillermo suspects the Mosquito Club made his masters' house, only to be relived they referred to a different manor instead.

* DiscoDan: Literally. It turns out the vampire nest the hunters stumbled upon happens to be obsessed with TheSeventies, the same way Nadja and Laszlo are stuck on VictorianLondon. The CallBack to this episode in the Season 2 finale reveals they went by the name "The Hustle Dynasty".

* FamilyOfChoice: Up to this point, vampires in this franchise have mostly referred to the fellow vampires they live and hunt with as "roommates" (except for Laszlo and Nadja being a married couple). These disco vampires, by contrast, are repeatedly referred to as a "family", to the point of all posing for a group photo with chintzy '70s T-shirts saying "It's a Family Thing". The degree to which this effectively makes them far creepier than the vampires we've met before might be a subtle TakeThat to works like ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''.

* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: As we watch Guillermo flip the double bird to the vampires and escape out the window, the vampires suddenly realize the documentary crew are filming them and slowly turn to face them, leading to an OhCrap moment followed by ShakyPOVCam of the crew themselves desperately fleeing the building.
* TheHunterBecomesTheHunted: [[FridgeLogic In hindsight]], it seems pretty obvious that the reason the vampires were pretending to be asleep in the middle of the night (which is the middle of the day for them) and the house was so quiet when the hunters arrived is that they knew they were coming and the hunters were LuredIntoATrap, and this isn't the first time they've done this to a bunch of humans for sport. Of course, this trope applies ''twice'' -- it was very bad luck for the Hustle Dynasty (and good luck for the Staten Island Mosquito Collectors, sans Derek) that one of the hunters happened to be very [[IncrediblyLamePun familiar]] with vampires and to have Van Helsing blood run through his veins.
* IncrediblyLamePun: An extremely predictable punchline that's nonetheless worth it for the sheer commitment the actors bring -- Nadja tries to just make up an email address for Bloody Mary ("bloodyfuckingmary@aol.com") and send the letter back to her as a way of CuttingTheKnot only to have an extreme FreakOut when this gets a reply from a "mailer-daemon".

* LetsGetDangerous: We've known since the end of the last season Guillermo had the blood of a true vampire slayer running through him; this episode is the first time he really gets to show it.
* MotorMouth: Shanice is an awkward nerd who's prone to rattling off inane trivia when she's under stress, like starting to name constellations for no reason while staring at the glowing star stickers on the vampire children's ceiling. (Many fans have pointed out this is a trait she seems to share with, of all people, Colin Robinson.)
* POVCam: The hunters set themselves up with helmet cameras to document the raid on the vampire house, giving us the opportunity for some really scary shots from their perspective of the vampire attack. (This does, of course, raise the usual FridgeLogic questions of why this would be necessary given the {{Mockumentary}} crew apparently also diegetically exist and go in with them.)

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: The Mosquito Club is primarily made up of a bunch of kids with a zealous enthusiasm for vampire killing but no professional training, so when they try to raid a vampire's home, they are made playthings by the various vampires dwelling there despite the sheer number of crosses and stakes they have on them and Guillermo has to save all of them.
** The harshest moment of this is when the hunters are sitting morosely in the van nursing their wounds in silence and Tonya finally brings up they still have to bring the van back to Derek's mom (and, presumably, come up with some way to tell her that her son is dead).

** Claude, who was trying so hard to come off as a tough, experienced vampire hunter, also gets recognition here for allowing a vampire in bat form somehow trick him into ''literally shooting himself in the foot'' -- with a crossbow, no less.

* RealityEnsues: The Mosquito Club is primarily made up of a bunch of kids with a zealous enthusiasm for vampire killing but no professional training, so when they try to raid a vampire's home, they are made playthings by the various vampires dwelling there despite the sheer number of crosses and stakes they have on them and Guillermo has to save all of them.
** The harshest moment of this is when the hunters are sitting morosely in the van nursing their wounds in silence and Tonya finally brings up they still have to bring the van back to Derek's mom (and, presumably, come up with some way to tell her that her son is dead).