Harley decides to visit her family after losing Ivy and her crew.
Tropes:
- Adaptational Villainy: What little we know of Harley's family in the comics seemed to indicate they were a little screwed up but not outright evil, at least not the type to try and kill their daughter.
- Adapted Out: Harley's nephew Nicky and niece Jenny aren't present due to her brother Barry dying before he could have children in this continuity. Barry was also apparently Harley's only sibling here, as no acknowledgment is made of her other brothers Frankie and Ezzie.
- Bait the Dog: Harley's father does seem to have genuinely turned a corner, despite still being in with the mob, but it turns out he is trying to collect on Harley's bounty and was only acting nice so she'd stick around and make an easy target.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Both of Harley's parents put on a facade of caring for her, her mother more successful than her father at first.
- Black Comedy: Harley's grandmother expresses concern over how much longer she has to live due to brain cancer... moments before having her head blown apart by an assassin's bullet. The same thing happens later with Harley's grandfather, high blood pressure, and his chest.
Both times her father exclaims how serious their illness must have been. - Call-Back: Joshua Cobblepot still holds a grudge against Harley for ruining his bar mitzvah back in "A High Bar" and it's revealed he's the one who put the bounty on Harley's head.
- Company Credit Card Abuse: Joshua gets a dressing down from Bane for using the Legion of Doom Corporate card that Penguin gave him to pay for a bounty to kill Harley, when he should have paid for the hit in cash. Furthermore, he points out that the card is for emergencies only, but indicates that Joshua's purchases have been candy, vape pens, and "something suspiciously labeled 'Dolphin Encounter". To teach Joshua a lesson, Bane cancels and destroys the card, first by trying (and failing) to cut it, then resorting to bending it.Bane: Because I am this credit card's reckoning!
- Credit Card Plot: Parodied with Joshua Cobblepot, the Penguin's teenage nephew. In the end, it turns out the hit on Harley was because of him abusing the Legion corporate card given to him for emergencies (he also used it on candies, vape pens, and something "suspiciously labeled 'dolphin encounter...'") and Bane, unamused, stops all of it. The lesson? When you put out a hit, pay in cash.
- Darkest Hour: Right before the end of the episode, Harley feels abandoned by everyone, including her own family. And Ivy is being prepped for "harvesting" at a secret facility. Things take a slight turn for the better when Frank comes to rescue the first to help the latter.
- Death by Adaptation: Harley's brother Barry, who's depicted in comics as a loser would-be rock musician, is shown to be deceased in the mock family-show introduction, "The Quinzels", and his urn is kept on their mantle.
- Do Wrong, Right: Bane gets on Joshua's case for putting a million-dollar bounty on Harley using the Legion credit card. Bounties should be paid in cash.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Though she was a hypocrite, even a bitch like Sharon believes that Harley shouldn’t be with a person like Joker.
- Eye Scream: Harley tosses a fork into the second assassin's eye.
- Fingore: Harley's father had his thumb taken by the mob for gambling debts. He loses the other one when it's shot off at the mob restaurant.
- Foreshadowing: The supposed mob assassin conspicuously targets Harley instead of her father, and her father kills him before he can tell Harley why he was there.
- Formerly Fat: It's revealed that Harley's mother gained a bunch of weight at some point in her life, and then lost it all later.
- Heroic RRoD: Harley is so badly injured after her parents try to take her out that she collapses less than a minute after leaving the house.
- Hypocrite: Right after losing a fight he initiated by trying to kill his own daughter, Harley's father says family doesn't kill each other.
- Hypocritical Humor: After Bane tells Joshua that he will get mature as he gets older, he throws a tantrum after running into a chair.
- Jerkass Has a Point: Sharon pointed out that the only reason Harley’s crew left her was that she kissed Joker. Even Sharon thinks Harley shouldn’t be with a guy like him.
- Like Parent, Like Spouse: The way Harley is manipulated by her father both in the present and past is eerily similar to how Joker manipulated and used her when they were still together.
- Mood Whiplash: After the dramatic reveal that Scarecrow is the one who kidnapped Ivy, the episode switches to a comical scene of Bane admonishing Joshua for putting Harley's bounty on a Legion credit card.
- Mythology Gag: Harley's grandma is based on the older The Animated Series version of Harley who appears at the end of Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: When Gus is outside talking on his phone, he sees a dandelion puff on the ground and blows on it, causing one of the seeds to miraculously enter the building and land on Ivy's hand where she uses the seed to grow a dandelion to tell Frank to get Harley to rescue her.
- Not Worth Killing: Harley decides her parents aren't worth killing after beating the crap out of her father for trying to sell her out for a cut of the bounty, which her mother went along with.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: After being established as a rather big gossip in a relaxed setting, Scarecrow appears before Ivy unnervingly quiet.
- Oh Me Accents Slipping: In-universe. Harley's voice gradually grows more Brooklyn the more time she spends with her family.
- Punch-Clock Villain: Gus, the goon guarding Ivy, only took up gooning to supplement his income from his teaching job. He's always polite and friendly sounding, though even so is very callous and does some pretty nasty things of his own volition - like taking the opportunity to make Harley think Ivy hates her so Harley won't come looking for her.
- Raging Stiffie: One of the effects of hallucinogenic honey is a massive erection on the car's owner, which lasts long enough for Frank to drive the guy's car from Mexico to Harley's family home in New York.
- The Reveal:
- Scarecrow is responsible for capturing Ivy.
- The bounty on Harley's head that fueled the A plot was because Penguin's nephew Joshua still harbored a grudge over being embarrassed at his Bar Mitzvah.
- Shout-Out: When Ivy sends the dandelion to Frank, he talks like in Lassie:Dandelion: (speaking "plant"}Frank: You mean Ivy's stuck in a well...guarded building?"
- Spanner in the Works: Harley would have believed the text sent by Gus from Ivy's phone that tells her Ivy is done with her had Ivy not sent a dandelion to tell Frank to get Harley where he reveals Ivy is in danger.
- Subverted Sitcom: Harley goes home to visit her parents — who are parodies of Al and Peg Bundy — in their suburban home. When her mother opens the front door the scene switches to a pastiche of old sitcom openings: it introduces the Quinzels through a vintage establishing montage over a hokey theme song about "togetherness". Harley and Sharon get standard sitcom photos, but then her father (who has ties with the mob) gets violent images and the segment introducing her brother cuts to a jar of ashes, showing that her family is deeply dysfunctional.
- That Liar Lies: “You are a LYING LIAR!”
- They Would Cut You Up: Scarecrow plans to "harvest" Ivy; for what, precisely, goes unsaid.
- Throwing the Fight: When Harley was younger, her father made her dive into a gymnast competition because he bet against her since the odds were in her favor, meaning if she lost, he would win big. She never forgave him for doing so.
- Ungrateful Bastard: After Harley saved her father from the mob assassins, he still tries to turn her in for the bounty.
