History Recap / WhatWeDoInTheShadowsS2E8Collaboration

* AnythingThatMoves: Karen, who seems to be willing to have sex with any of the other familiars who will have her ("You don't even have to do anything!") She's the only one who raises her hand when Celeste proposes her familiars working out their issues with her via orgy, to no one's surprise.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Benjy remarks that the pillow that Guillermo sleeps on every night is the same one that he had when he lived there as Nandor's familiar, and he "beat off into it every night". Nandor apparently assumed that Guillermo knew this, was okay with it, and has been using the pillow for the same purpose, since his peace offering is a brand new pillow that he bought him for "beating-off purposes".

* SpottingTheThread: Celeste uses blood-infused vape pens, saying that humans would find it disgusting. Nandor, however is equally bemused by the smoke.

* ActuallyNotAVampire: Celeste claims that she was turned for her loyalty and offers the same to the other familiars for a shorter servitude. In reality, she just wanted to pretend while her master was away.

* DirtyCoward: After her master returns home unexpectedly, Celeste offers her former familiars as a meal to her.

* TheNewTens: Celeste (and presumably her absent master) are a demonstration of what a vampire's narcissistic upper-class sense of style would look like if actually updated to current trends, with her preference for ultramodern interior design, ambient electronic music, pastel lighting, artistic photography, interpretive dance, etc. Celeste even comments that she prefers a couch to a coffin because "all the young vampires are switching", insists on vaping blood rather than drinking it, and wields an iPad to control her home's settings. (That last one [[SpottingTheThread turns out to be a clue that she's scamming them]].)

* OhCrap: The familiars' collective reaction when Celeste's master shows up at the front door and it dawns on them what's actually going on.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Celeste's master appears 12, but is at least 160 years old.
* PedoHunt: Celeste's [[NeverGrewUp eternally-adolescent]] master left her house to [[TheHunterBecomesTheHunted hunt for perverts in Florida,]] much like a few from the movie.

* UnfortunateNames: Celeste's master is named "Houston", in a mild TakeThat toward trendy names for white girls based on place names.

* CastTheExpert: Laszlo and Nadja's musical act is a joke about this-- Matt Berry is, in fact, an accomplished musician outside of his acting career, while Natasia Demetriou's singing skills are... [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=129&v=pqNY9KjYHvo questionable]].

* BeenThereShapedHistory: Laszlo wrote many popular songs such as [[Music/DexysMidnightRunners "Come on, Eileen"]], "Row, Row, Row Your Boat", and [[Music/TheBeachBoys "Kokomo"]].

* AnythingThatMoves: Karen, who seems to be willing to have sex with any of the other familiars who will have her ("You don't even have to do anything!") She's the only one who raises her hand when Celeste proposes her familiars working out their issues with her via orgy, to no one's surprise. Guillermo seems to find her an AbhorrentAdmirer, fueling fan speculation that he's asexual or [[HoYay only has eyes for Nandor]].

* ItIsPronouncedTropay: For some reason Nandor repeatedly insists on saying the word "golf" as "jolf".

Laszlo discovers his musical work has been copied by the mainstream. Meanwhile, an old familiar has returned to Nandor.

* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: Celeste gets hit with this ''hard'' as the only familiar we've ever seen actually "graduate" to becoming a vampire themselves, although the narcissism seems to be an unavoidable trait of being a vampire in general. Gets subverted, though, when it turns out she was faking it the whole time and ''intentionally'' playing the role of an imperious vampire aristocrat to see how it felt.
* ActorAllusion: TheReveal of Laszlo's centuries-long musical career is a nod at the fact that [[http://www.themattberry.co.uk/ Matt Berry is an accomplished songwriter]] in RealLife.
* ActuallyNotAVampire: Celeste claims she was turned for her loyalty and offers the same to the other familiars for a shorter servitude. In reality, she just wanted to pretend while her master was away.

* AnythingThatMoves: Karen, who seems to be willing to have sex with any of the other familiars who will have her ("You don't even have to do anything!") She's the only one who raises her hand when Celeste proposes her familiars working out their issues with her via orgy, to no one's surprise. Guillermo seems to find her an AbhorrentAdmirer, fueling fan speculation he's asexual or [[HoYay only has eyes for Nandor]].

* BeenThereShapedHistory: Laszlo wrote many popular songs such as [[Music/DexysMidnightRunners "Come on, Eileen"]], "Row, Row, Row your Boat", and [[Music/TheBeachBoys "Kokomo"]].

* BreadAndCircuses: Celeste appeases her increasingly unruly familiars with hors d'oeuvres, interpretive dance parties and an attempted orgy.

* CastTheExpert: Laszlo and Nadja's musical act are a joke about this -- Matt Berry is, in fact, an accomplished musician outside of his acting career, while Natasia Demetriou's singing skills are... [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=129&v=pqNY9KjYHvo questionable]].

** A familiar abandoned 40 years ago in a Deleware gas station returns to his master after recovering his lost memories.

* CatsHaveNineLives: Hilariously, this is the ''second'' time an episode has ended in a massive bloodbath with one of the few lucky survivors turning out to be Sam the cat.
* DaintyCombat: One of Celeste's mistress' friends peels off her coat to reveal a leotard and begins doing somersaults as the bloodshed begins -- presumably the fact that she adopted the persona of a gymnast to go on her Florida PedoHunt is a bit of a TakeThat at adult men who are into girls' gymnastics.
* ADateWithRosiePalms: Benjy remarks that the pillow Guillermo sleeps on every night is the same one he had when he lived here as Nandor's familiar and he "beat off into it every night". Nandor apparently assumed Guillermo knew this, was okay with it and has been using the pillow for the same purpose, since his peace offering is a brand new pillow he bought him for "beating-off purposes".
* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Celeste clearly had no long-term exit strategy from her plan, and ''best case'' would've become a pariah in the familiar community after all her friends abandoned her when she broke her promise to vampirize them. (And the worst case was the horrific, brutal deaths of her and everyone she knows, which is what actually happened.) Her final screams of "I just had to know how it felt!" seem to indicate she had some kind of nervous breakdown when it really sunk in [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone how bad a deal becoming a familiar is]].

* DoItYourselfThemeTune: After TheStinger the EndingTheme switches to "Vampire Love Song (Up and Down)", as performed by Laszlo and Nadja in the episode, and which is a parody of Matt Berry's actual song "That Yellow Bird".

** When Celeste appears at the familiar mixer she's wearing a [[FurAndLoathing tacky green faux-fur coat]] as a subtle ShoutOut to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branden_Miller Joanne the Scammer]].
** Celeste claims to vape blood instead of drinking it after she's been turned, and says that mere humans would find the smell and taste disagreeable, but when she blows blood-smoke in Nandor's face it makes him cough just like everyone else.

* GoneHorriblyRight: Colin signed up Laszlo and Nadja to the open-mic night and told them to do all of their new material first specifically so that they would bore and irritate the audience. Unfortunately for him, he forgot that by the time they would go through all of their new material, they would go into the old material, many of which [[BeenThereShapedHistory having been turned into beloved songs that everyone would have heard of]].
* HiddenDepths: Once Guillermo defects to become Celeste's familiar he turns out to be a very talented sketch artist, an ability Nandor never knew about because he never bothered to ask.

* IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Nandor gets a big PetTheDog moment when, after trying and failing to win Guillermo back, he quietly tells Celeste, "Be kind to Guillermo" and leaves.

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Sam the cat familiar's return plays up the ambiguity over whether as a cat familiar he's sapient and has special abilities or is just a regular cat. He never does anything un-catlike onscreen, but Celeste tells us he prepared the charcuterie board for the familiar initiation party all by himself ("with his little paws").
* MeetTheNewBoss: Celeste's new system predictably turns out to be this -- after a promising beginning, before long she starts peremptorily snapping at her familiars like slaves, making them scurry back and forth at her whims, and going back on her promise to vampirize them just like any other vampire. What's less predictable is that the ''whole thing'' was a scam from the very-much-still-human Celeste just to "know how it felt" to be the master for once before her scam's inevitable bloody end.
* TheNewTens: Celeste (and, presumably, her absent master) are a demonstration of what a vampire's narcissistic upper-class sense of style would look like if actually updated to current trends, with her preference for ultramodern interior design, ambient electronic music, pastel lighting, artistic photography, interpretive dance, etc. Celeste even comments she prefers a couch to a coffin because "all the young vampires are switching", insists on vaping blood rather than drinking it and wields an iPad to control her home's settings. (That last one [[SpottingTheThread turns out to be a clue that she's scamming them]].)
* NoRespectGuy: Guillermo takes up Celeste's offer of servitude after realizing he has spent 11 years in service without being turned.
* NotHyperbole: Nadja and Laszlo claim they killed at Open Mic night... along with taking some lives.

* PetTheDog: Zigzagged: Nandor abandons his old familiar at a gas station again... after granting him the vampirisim he promised.

** The creators seem to like roasting this time period; after the DiscoDan vampires we met back in "[[Recap/WhatWeDoInTheShadowsS2E4TheCurse The Curse]]", this episode gives us a brief GoodTimesMontage of Nandor and Benjy's adventures back in the Nixon era. Highlights include the fact that Nandor was apparently a staunch supporter of Nixon/Agnew in 1972 at the same time that he was a staunch antiwar protester (which tracks with the amount of [[CloudCuckoolander political awareness]] he has in the present day).

* SpottingTheThread: Celeste uses blood-infused vape pens, saying humans would find it disgusting. Nandor, however is equally bemused by the smoke.

* WildTeenParty: All of the familiars are older than teenagers (one hopes) but this is still the classic scenario that plays out from this trope -- Celeste misleads her fellow familiars into thinking her mistress sired her and then generously gave her the apartment to use as a new lair, but of course her mistress has done no such thing and was just away on business in Florida. And when she [[HomeEarlySurprise returns early]] to find a bunch of humans making themselves at home in her pad she's [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge somewhat displeased]].

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Benjy remarks that the pillow Guillermo sleeps on every night is the same one he had when he lived here as Nandor's familiar and he "beat off into it every night". Nandor apparently assumed Guillermo knew this, was okay with it and has been using the pillow for the same purpose, since his peace offering is a brand new pillow he bought him for "beating-off purposes".

* BeenThereShapedHistory: Laszlo wrote many popular songs such as [[Music/DexysMidnightRunners "Come on, Eileen"]], "Row, Row, Row your Boat", and [[Music/TheBeachBoys "Kokomo"]]

* ShoutOut: This episode has a bunch, but one that stands out is Benjy overcoming Nandor's 40-years-old MindWipe just by using the [[https://www.lumosity.com/en/ Lumosity]] app.

* IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Nandor gets a big PetTheDog moment when, after trying and failing to win Guillermo back, quietly tells Celeste, "Be kind to Guillermo" and leaves.

* MeetTheNewBoss: Celeste's new system predictably shapes up to this -- after a promising beginning, before long she starts peremptorily snapping at her familiars like slaves, making them scurry back and forth at her whims, and going back on her promise to vampirize them just like any other vampire. What's less predictable is that the ''whole thing'' was a scam from the very-much-still-human Celeste just to "know how it felt" to be the master for once before her scam's inevitable bloody end.