History Recap / HarleyQuinn2019S3E3The83rdAnnualVillyAwards

* EvilIsPetty: The android eats the "Best Couple" envelope just to spite Harley for beating him.

* AllForNothing: Harley beats up the robot guarding it to find out who won Best Couple, only for the robot to snatch it back and eat it. She and Ivy talk about it and agree to leave the Villies... just before Joker confirms that they won best couple.

** Bane still wants the pasta maker back. And nobody still respects him, as Cheetah walks away when he asks about an after party.

--> *''[[DudeWheresMyRespectBlack Manta fist pumps and nods in approval]]''*

* CriticalResearchFailure: InUniverse, Clayface tries disguising himself as James Gunn, but researches the Wikipedia page for Creator/SeanGunn, his brother, by mistake.

* AllForNothing: Harley beats up the robot guarding it to find out who won Best Couple, only for the robot to snatch it back and eat it. She and Ivy talk about it and agree to leave the Villies...just before Joker confirms that they won best couple.

* FreezeFrameBonus: Guests at the ceremony include [=KGBeast=], Zod, Metallo, Captain Cold, Sinestro, Toyman, Maxie Zeus, Nora Fries, Solomon Grundy, Firefly, Killer Croc, Black Manta, The Dollmaker, Calendar Man, Cheetah, Gorilla Grodd, Killer Frost, Man-Bat, and Reverse Flash.

** Bane still wants the pasta maker back.

* FluffyTheTerrible: Catwoman has a pet tiger named Princess.

* YankTheDogsChain: Billy Bob Thornton sees through Clayface's disguise, but actually admires his gumption and offers to take him on as an apprentice. Then Clayface accidentally sends him to the wrong room and he gets eaten.

* TakeThat: Important guests at the 83rd annual Villy Awards include Sinestro, Solomon Grundy, and Creator/KevinSpacey.

* AccidentalMisnaming: When Harley and Ivy meet Riddler and Clock King, Harley accidentally calls the latter "Cock King", which Clock King corrects, pointing out that that's another villain entirely. Later, when she's fighting the robot holding the winners, she calls an invisible person in the stall "Invisible Kid", which he corrects as "Imperceivable Man".

** Catwoman berating the lack of racial diversity in the nominations sounds very similar to the [[https://www.google.com/amp/s/variety.com/2020/film/news/oscarssowhite-nominations-diversity-april-reign-1203467389/amp/ #OscarsSoWhite]] critique

* TheMissusAndTheEx: Joker [[InvokedTrope invokes]] this trope on purpose by sitting Ivy and Harley at the same table as Kite Man.

* ShoutOut: Kite-Man thinks the [[Franchise/{{Alien}} fluid that came out from the android looks like milk]].

* TakeThat: Important guests at the 83 annual Villy Awards include Sinestro, Solomon Grundy, and Creator/KevinSpacey.

* GirlfriendInCanada: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. At first it seems like this is what Kite Man is going for by claiming that his 100% real girlfriend is just running late and Harley and Ivy definitely think so. Then, however, Ivy goes outside for some air and runs into a girl who turns out to actually be Kite Man's new girlfriend but is too anxious to go inside. Ivy convinces her to be there for Kite Man and things end well.

* CelebrityCameo: Creator/BillyBobThornton plays Thomas Wayne in the biopic Clayface is working in. Later in the episode he is killed by Catwoman'a tiger and Clayface decides to pretend to be him.

* ChekhovsGun: At the start of the episode Catwoman tells the gang to not open a green door in her flat. Later Creator/BillyBobThornton mistakes it for the bathroom door, opens it and promptly gets eaten by a tiger who lives in the room.

* FreezeFrameBonus: Guests at the ceremony include KGBeast, Zod, Metallo, Captain Cold, Sinestro, Toyman, Maxie Zeus, Nora Fries, Solomon Grundy, Firefly, Killer Croc, Black Manta, The Dollmaker, Calendar Man, Cheetah, Gorilla Grodd, Killer Frost, Man-Bat, and Reverse Flash.