History Recap / TheFlash2014S1E12CrazyForYou

* ShipTease: Barry and Caitlin again. Not only do they basically go on a date (which Caitlin dresses up very nice for), but he takes her home when she's drunk, helps her change (with her mentioning that it's fine if he peeked a little), and then he stays with her until she falls asleep. The next day, she admits she needs to move on from Ronnie and find someone else to "be crazy about" while giving him a look.

* MaleGaze: When Caitlin enters the bar, the camera first focuses on her legs.

* MaleGaze: When Caitlin enters the bar, the camera first focuses on her [[ShesGotLegs legs]].

* ShesGotLegs: Caitlin's dress for her and Barry's date allowed her to showcase it.

* AccidentalPervert: Caitlin suddenly strips down in front of Barry. He looks away, but she later stated (because she's so drunk) that it's OK if he "took a peek".

* BaitAndSwitch: When Barry learns the name of the inmate who stabbed his dad, we think he's going to do something horrible. Turns out, all he is does is Troll the guy: take him outside Iron Heights so he'll be caught trying to escape and have 5 years added to sentence or give the Flash information. He gives the Flash what he wants, and Barry just leaves him there to be caught.

* ChekhovsSkill:
** Once upon a time, Barry said he had been planning for years how to get his dad out of prison, and with super powers, that is finally possible. Tonight he uses that skill to kidnap and interrogate a prisoner...by threatening to leave him where they were standing so he'd be caught and convicted for attempted escape.
** Barry will use his singing for an important step in his life later in the series.

* ImprovisedWeapon: Shawna fights Flash using her spyglass as a club.

* MaleGaze: When Caitlin is entering the bar, the camera first focuses on her [[ShesGotLegs legs]].

** Shawna uses her skill to teleport to Clay's bed.

** After a close call with getting shot, Barry remarks that he's [[Franchise/{{Superman}} faster than a speeding bullet.]]

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Cisco ''really'' should've know better than to let Hartley out. However once the rest of Team Flash find out his motives for doing so, they really don't make a big deal about it.

* TailorMadePrison: Shawna's cell in the Pipeline has one-way glass so she can't see out, which keeps her from warping away.

* UngratefulBastard: After giving quite an effort of freeing him, Peek-a-Boo's boyfriend just left her when The Flash figures out her power's weakness.

* {{Blackmail}}: After Barry realizes that Julius was the man who hurt his dad, Barry releases him from prison to make him tell when would Markus work with the threat to frame him as someone who attempted to escape and make longer his sentence.

* {{Fanservice}}:
** Clay Parker has a shirtless scene.
** After a night at the bar, Caitlin strips down to her bra to change. Her dress at the bar also counts.

* MundaneUtility: Barry uses his super speed to change Caitlin's clothing to her pajamas.

* TheNickNamer: This time it's Caitlin and not Cisco who comes with Shawna's villainous name, Peek-A-Boo.

* {{Fanservice}}: After a night at the bar, Caitlin strips down to her bra to change. Her dress at the bar also counts.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Cisco ''really'' should've know better than to let Hartley out. However once the rest of Team Flash find out his motives for doing so, they really don't make a big dea about it.

** Once upon a time, Barry said he had been planning for years how to get his dad out of prison, and with super powers, that is finally possible. Tonight he uses that skill to kidnap and interrogate a prisoner... by threatening to leave him where they were standing so he'd be caught and convicted for attempted escape.

* TheReveal: It is finally revealed what precisely happened to Ronnie. (He was turned into energy and merged with Martin Stein.) It is also revealed what exactly happened to Grodd who is seen to have escaped into the sewers and is implied to be causing power fluctuations in the city for an unrevealed goal.

* ChekhovsSkill: Once upon a time, Barry said he had been planning for years how to get his dad out of prison, and with super powers, that is finally possible. Tonight he uses that skill to kidnap and interrogate a prisoner...by threatening to leave him where they were standing so he'd be caught and convicted for attempted escape.

* TheCastShowoff: ''Series/{{Glee}}'' star Grant Gustin gets to sing again.
* ChekhovsSkill: Once upon a time, Barry said he had been planning for years how to get his dad out of prison, and with super powers, that is finally possible. Tonight he uses that skill to kidnap and interrogate a prisoner... by threatening to leave him where they were standing so he'd be caught and convicted for attempted escape.

* BewareTheNiceOnes : Cisco is perfectly willing to use extreme measures and give Rathaway some intense pain if he tries to escape or betray him.

* ChekhovsSkill: Once upon a time, Barry said he had been planning for years how to get his dad out of prison, and with super powers, that was finally possible. Tonight he uses that skill to kidnap and interrogate a prisoner... by threatening to leave him where they were standing so he'd be caught and convicted for attempted escape.

* MaleGaze: When Caitlin is entering the bar, the camera first focused on her [[ShesGotLegs legs]].

** Barry and his dad's conversation about the Flash is basically a meta on-screen PassingTheTorch moment [[Series/{{The Flash 1990}} from the old Flash]] [[RemakeCameo to the new one]].

** Barry framing the guy who stabbed his father for escaping the prison just to add his sentence is perhaps the most {{Anti Hero}}ic thing he did in the series (barring the HatePlague) so far.

* TheReveal: It is finally revealed what precisely happened to Ronnie. (He was turned into energy and merged with Martin Stein) It is also revealed what exactly happened to Grodd who is seen to have escaped into the sewers and is implied to be causing power fluctuations in the city for an unrevealed goal.

* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Barry's response to Linda when the latter asked if he and Caitlin are a couple.

** The song Barry and Caitlin sang is Summer Nights from the movie/play ''Film/{{Grease}}''.

* TailorMadePrison: Shawna's cell in the Pipeline has one way glass so she can't see out, which keeps her from warping away.
* TitleDrop: More or less dropped. When Barry and Caitlin were singing the song, "Summer Nights," there was line Barry sang which said, "I met a girl crazy for me." And near the end of the episode after Peek-A-Boo has been captured, Barry says,"Some people are worth being crazy for." Caitlin says shortly afterwards that she should move on and find someone new to be crazy about.

* VillainsNeverLie: Hartley did indeed keep his end of the bargain with Cisco.

** As mentioned below, Cisco is far from his usual easy-going self when dealing with Hartley, creating a RestrainingBolt that can cause him intense earache.

* BulletDodgesYou: Played with. The Flash grabs a bullet right behind his neck as fired by Clay Parker just as it broke the skin. He does note [[MythologyGag he's a lot]] [[Franchise/{{Superman}} faster than a speeding bullet]].

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Once Hartley makes his escape, he's not seen again and Team Flash doesn't make his recapture that big of a priority. This point becomes moot after Barry rewrites the timeline later on, as Hartley never escapes and makes a HeelFaceTurn instead.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Once Hartley makes his escape, he's not seen again and Team Flash doesn't make his recapture that big of a priority. This point becomes moot after Barry rewrites the tieline later on, as Hartley never escapes and makes a HeelFaceTurn instead.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Once Hartley makes his escape, he's not seen again and Team Flash doesn't make his recapture that big of a priority.

** Although given the track record of Iron Heights, a prison with security level of Swiss cheese, do we really know he got caught?

* TitleDrop: More or less dropped. When Barry and Caitlin were singing the song, "Summer Nights," there was line Barry sang which said, "I met a girl crazy for me." And near the end of the episode after Peek-A-Boo has been captured, Barry says,"Some people are worth being crazy for." Caitlin says shortly after wards that she should move on and find someone new to be crazy about.

* NotADate: Barry and Caitlin's.

* ShoutOut: The stinger with Grodd attacking the workers has a shot pulled from ''Film/JurassicPark'', with the victim clinging to the edge of a wall while being suspended by the killer animal.