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Recap / What We Do in the Shadows S3E2 "The Cloak of Duplication"

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The group starts adjusting to their new positions in the Vampiric Council, and Nandor has a scheme to have others use the Cloak of Duplication seduce the gymnasium receptionist that he has a crush on.

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  • Accidental Truth: Colin and Laszlo's abrasive, failed attempts at wooing Meg have them dismiss her as a lesbian. She comes out to the real Nandor when he confesses his feelings.
  • Air-Vent Passageway: The Vampiric Council premises turn out to have a lot of conveniently spacious vents for Guillermo to escape his locked room and wander around in.
  • And Show It to You: Nadja rips out Wes Blankenship's heart with her bare hand after he refuses to pay his Vampiric Council dues, which promptly convinces his friends to pay theirs.
  • Cannot Spit It Out: Nandor asks Laszlo to assume his form and seduce Meg, as he believes Laszlo to be better at seduction than him.
  • Gentle Touch vs. Firm Hand: Nandor's approach to unruly vampires who won't pay their Council dues is diplomacy and compromise, while Nadja's approach is unyielding demand to bow down to her or she'll use force. Nadja is shown to be the more successful this go-around as she rips out Wes Blankenship's heart, instantly killing him and intimidating the others into agreeing to pay their dues.
  • Heh Heh, You Said "X": Guillermo finds Nandor's insistence at making a Number Two hilarious as he keeps provoking Nandor into saying increasingly longer phrases about that subject, only for Nandor to notice that he's being mocked and snap at Guillermo to get out.
  • Homoerotic Subtext: This episode takes the subtext between Nandor and Guillermo's relationship to a whole new level, as Meg's main takeaway from her chat with Guillermo-disguised-as-Nandor is that Nandor really should take his friend (Guillermo) and confess his romantic feelings for him, much to Nandor's befuddlement.
  • The Internet Is for Porn: The archives in the Vampiric Council chambers hold many different genres. However, Laszlo is only interested in the extensive erotica.
  • Incompatible Orientation: Meg very casually tells Nandor that she is a lesbian, much to his dismay.
  • Insistent Terminology: Guillermo is no longer Nandor's familiar, he is now a bodyguard.
  • Laser-Guided Amnesia: Laszlo and Nandor hypnotise Meg into forgetting their respective embarrassing encounters.
  • LOL, 69: One of the erotic books that Laszlo mentions is Roy Cohn, Esquire's 169 Sex Positions.
  • Magic A Is Magic A: The Cloak of Duplication copies appearances, not powers, as Guillermo quickly learns when he tries to fly as Nandor.
  • Number of the Beast: Wes Blankenship lives at "667".
  • Power Perversion Potential: Nadja taunts Nandor by taking his form with the Cloak of Duplication, touching herself, then asking Laszlo for sex as him.
  • Right for the Wrong Reasons: Colin and Laszlo both think that Meg is a lesbian when she doesn't fall for their attempts at flirting, which are actually horrible. Then when Nandor genuinely shoots his shot, it turns out that she is a lesbian.
  • Stealth Insult: When Colin ponders their origins with another Energy Vampire, he accuses Colin of trying to drain him.
  • Take That!: The energy vampire that Colin talks to uses marijuana, sneakers, and drone cameras as talking points to feed on the listener's agitation.
  • Voices Are Not Mental: A rare example that doesn't involve body-swapping, where Colin, Laszlo, and Guillermo each take on Nandor's appearance using the Cloak of Duplication. Instead of speaking in their own voices, Kayvan Novak (who plays Nandor) does his best impressions of each of them.
  • Worthless Yellow Rocks: The Vampiric Council's library has a copy of Aristotle's lost Poetics II. Laszlo skims through it before he drops it and dismisses it as worthless because there's no porn in it.

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