The cast go to a neighbor's Super Bowl Party, but Laszlo and Nandor accidentally overdo a hypnosis, while Nadja reconnects with an old lady she played with when the latter was a child.
Tropes
- Accidental Truth: The neighbor calls the Nightwalkers vampires as a joke about their nocturnal habits, leading them to believe He Knows Too Much.
- Amnesiac Lover: Inverted Trope: the brain-scramblies have rekindled the neighbor's passion for his wife.
- Cassandra Truth: 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.
- Childhood Friend: Nadja to the old lady, though granted Nadja's idea of fun was pinning the kid to the ceiling for hours on end.
- Creature-Hunter Organization: Guillermo finds himself joining the Mosquito Hunting Club (which is actually a group of Vampire Hunters) thinking they would be easy virgins to pick.
- Fantastic Racism: 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 objectively correct and Guillermo can't really argue with it.)
- 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.)
- Gaslighting: Nadja gaslights the neighbor's mother fairly easily because everyone is pretty sure she's senile due to her age.
- Internal Deconstruction: 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.
- It's Personal: 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 quite aware the Staten Island vamps have a new problem.
- I Was Quite the Looker: Nadja compliments the old lady's beauty from her wedding photo.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: Attempted with the double-hypnosis, but is overdone and causes brain-scramblies.
- Last Day to Live: The Nightwalkers give their neighbor one last night of vampiric spectacles before they Mercy Kill him. Much to his horror.
- Lazy Husband: The neighbor, much to his wife's chagrin.
- Non-Indicative Name:
- The Nightwalkers believe this is a festival to honor the coming of a "Superb Owl." Guillermo doesn't bother to correct them, and Colin only makes a token attempt.
- 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.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: 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.
- Not Using the "Z" Word: 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 Fang Gang", and... "Vampires".
- Sex as Rite-of-Passage: 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.
- Shout-Out: The proposal that everyone have group sex as a ritual before they go out monster-hunting is a subtle one to Stephen King's IT. The fact that everyone derides it and the person suggesting it seems kind of pathetic might make it a Take That!.
- Title Drop: Used to describe the level of mental damage caused by the double-hypnosis.
- Tragic Keepsake: A necklace from Nadja's mother just before her death, said to contain her final screams.
- Too Dumb to Live: Why they decide to Mercy Kill the neighbor after his brain-scramblies.
- Who Wants to Live Forever?: The old lady asks to be turned by Nadja, who explains she would remain in elderly form. She decides against it.
