Wicky finds himself reliving his youth when called to clean the den of online influencer Hosea and discovers it's a shrine to the 1980s, before realising said influencer is desperately lacking a father figure (after his parents moved abroad without him when he was 16) and gets enlisted to recreate the crime scene to boost Hosea's flagging profile.
Tropes:
- Audience-Alienating Era: Hosea is suffering from this in-universe. A social media influencer, he was popular when he was a sixteen year-old living on his own, but is less so as a man in his early 20s living on his own. He had hoped that showing a scene of utter carnage in his den would boost his flagging profile, hence his horror when he finds that Wicky's cleaned it up.
- A Bloody Mess: Intentionally invoked, as Hosea and Wicky deliberately set out to recreate the blood splatter patterns after the latter has cleaned up.
- Brand X: Inverted when Wicky opens and swigs from an actual 1980s Coca-Cola can, only to find that the product contained within has deteriorated somewhat. Later invoked when he makes a cola drink with Hosea's SodaStream machine and points out that it can't be called by one of the obvious cola-related brand names, "because it's shit".
- Cool Car: Hosea's Lotus. Which he may or may not be able to drive.
- Embarrassing First Name: Hosea's actual first name is Bernard.
- Fan of the Past: Hosea is this to The '80s to the point where his den is full of stuff from that decade.
- Given Name Reveal: Hosea's real name is Bernard.
- Insistent Terminology: Hosea's manager refers to the crime scene / blood as "content".
- Mysterious Cube of Rubik: Hosea sees his Rubik's Cube as this, and is stunned when Wicky easily solves it.
- Parental Abandonment: When Hosea was 16, his parents wanted to move to Italy. He did not, so they just left him at home.
- Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: On both sides of the divide:
- Wicky doesn't know what "like and subscribe" is. Or The Real Housewives of Atlanta.
- After learning that Hosea's social media presence is inspired by the pop culture of The '80s, Wicky naturally quotes the Trope Namer for We Don't Need Roads, only for Hosea to stare blankly, as he doesn't know the quote. He also isn't familiar with "Pump Up the Jam".
- Shout-Out:
- Hosea namedrops Stranger Things as the inspiration for his online persona.
- Hosea's online persona is derived in part from Home Alone, although he was somewhat older than Kevin was when he was left at home by his parents, and it was a deliberate choice as he refused to move abroad with them.
- There's No Kill like Overkill: Although accidental, the death in this episode resulted in several major blood vessels being severed and blood spurting out all over Hosea's den as a result.
