History Recap / HarleyQuinn2019AVeryProblematicValentinesDaySpecial

Couples all over the DC Universe are celebrating Valentine's day. Harley tries to throw Ivy the best Valentine's she's ever had. Clayface gets catfished and gets enamored with his own bottom half. A lonely and despondent Bane gets roped into assisting a dominatrix before accidentally wreaking havoc. These plotlines converge on a shirtless poetry reading by ''Series/TedLasso'''s sexiest South Londoner, Creator/BrettGoldstein.

* RaceLift: Hawkman is black here, as he was in the recent ''Film/BlackAdam'' movie. Hawkgirl (Hawkwoman?) is AmbiguouslyBrown.

** Numerous romantic couples -- both heroes and villains -- are interviewed in the manner of the interviewed couples in ''Film/WhenHarryMetSally'' The final couple are Harley and Ivy who [[BreakingTheFourthWall Break the Fourth Wall]] and address the episode's viewers.

** Ivy reveals that the best Valentine's Day she ever had was when Harley visited her prison cell in Arkham and recapped the entire plot of ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2'' for her. At the end of the special, Harley offers to recap ''WesternAnimation/Shrek3'' for the audience, but Ivy cuts her off.

* SceneryCensor: Many, many things get hidden away by the scenery -- but only ''just barely''.

** A giant, nude, and aroused Bane stands with a billboard advertising [[SomethingElseAlsoRises hotdogs]] in front of his crotch. Several other elements of the scenery cover his crotch as he rampages.

* ThatCameOutWrong: Harley cheers that she'll give Ivy a great VD, before lampshading the phrasing.

* MarriedTooSoon: During Aquaman and Mera's interview, Mera says they got married within a year of meeting each other; the look on her face when saying this suggests that this likely wasn't the best idea (even though it turns out their marriage succeeded in uniting their respective kingdoms).

** Bane says lines from ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'', a film which co-starred Bane.

** When told not to hold back with Betty, a confused Bane replies [[Film/TheDarkKnightRises "It would be extremely painful...for you."]]

* AnythingThatMoves: Due to his recently acquired giant size, Bane inhales a proportionately larger dose of Ivy's pheromones, making him so insatiably horny that he uncontrollably humps everything in sight, which at his size is buildings.

* AsYouKnow: Subverted and parodied with Bane's talk with Riddler about how reckless disregard of language turns him off. Despite Bane talking about the subject in a way that suggests that this is something commonly known about him, Riddler questions does anyone actually know this about Bane, implying that this detail not only is in reality not that well known as much as Bane made it out to be but also that not even Riddler himself knew about it prior to Bane bringing it up. Bane's follow-up response of "You do now" to Riddler's question then confirms this to be the case.

* {{Dominatrix}}: An actual one named Betty mistakes [[DressedLikeADominatrix Bane for a fellow professional in the business]], but he plays along for the chance of a Valentine's date with her. Soon they're both really attracted to one another for real.
* EvilLawyerJoke: Killer Croc managed to charm Enchantress with one when they first met. She asked him if he had seen any spawns of Satan running through the dermatologist's office they were in (she had just summoned them and they got away), and he responded by pointing her towards the law firm next door. Croc admits it was low-hanging fruit, but Enchantress found it funny anyway.

* GagPenis: Bane swears his penis is decently large, it just looks small on the rest of him. The results of a penis enlarging potion that go wrong because he's on venom turns him into a giant, with his penis now censored by [[ShadowDiscretionShot shadow]] and [[SceneryCensor scenery]] as he demolishes buildings trying to have sex with them. At the end, he's seen using the shipping container trailer of a freight truck as a condom of sorts to censor it.

* GoneHorriblyRight: Harely's attempt to give the best Valentine's Day ever to Ivy ends up causing her pheromones to spread all over the city. This causes ''every'' living person and animal to become perpetually horny and want to copulate with the nearest anything nearby. Harley argues that all things considered this isn't ''that'' bad, which Ivy concedes to [[TemptingFate before a giant-sized Bane shows up]], also horned up by Ivy's pheromones and [[FromBadToWorse humping buildings until they collapse into rubble]]. This gets Ivy's beloved restaurant Mama Macaroni's destroyed.

** Clayface lampshades that Harley's proposal, for him to disguise himself as a giant Brett Goldstein and essentially reverse seduce Bane, is problematic on multiple levels. This is slightly more dubious. Bane is NotHimself due to Ivy's pheromones, and needs to be brought back for his senses before he likely rapes Brett. Since Clayface is not trying to have sex with him, it's more ethical than committing rape by deceotion. At the same time, this also puts Clayface at risk of Bane trying to have sex with him if it doesn't work.

* SideEffectsInclude: Etrigan gives Bane a magic potion to enlarge his penis. Bane skims through the "do not take"ifs like being pregnant or having kidney problems and hastily applies it. When it gives him an intense burning sensation, only then does he realize that the bottom item says ''not'' to take if on HGH...which he is, being on venom. It turns him into a giant.

** Darkseid is one of the couples interviewed throughout the episode, partnered with [[LawyerFriendlyCameo Melania Trump]]. They met at the Republican National Convention where he was a guest speaker, locking eyes across the room where he fell in LoveAtFirstSight and demanded she be his queen or else be destroyed.

* HelicopterBlender: Ivy tosses an evil CEO into the blades of his helicopter, which beheads him and chops his body up into pieces.

* BoomHeadshot: Harley and Ivey's waiter is taken out this way.

* HotSkittyOnWailordAction: Bane is cured of his insatiable lust but is still a giant. Betty shows up and is still interested in spending time with him. Harley and Ivy lampshades that it doesn't seem like a physically feasible relationship.