History Trivia / AmericanHorrorStory

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* Trivia.AmericanHorrorStoryAsylum

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[[folder: Murder House]]
* TheDanza: [[spoiler:Jessica ''Lang''e as Constance ''Lang''don. Both "Langdon" and "Lange" are derived from the German word for "long", so its close enough]]
* FanNickname:
** Brohst (bro-ghost) for [[spoiler: Travis, Constance's boyfriend]].
** Frankenbaby, for the...creature in the basement from the first episode [[spoiler: AKA - Nora's returned-from-the-dead child.]]
* HeyItsThatGuy: [[Film/StarTrek Spock]] apparently channels Martha Stewart.
** [[TrueBlood Russell Edgington]] is still as AxeCrazy as ever.
*** Tara's mom still has issues and started seeing Ben for counseling.
*** And Bill's lady guard from season 4 now cleans houses.
*** Queen Mab looks hotter as a charred corpse/ghost than a faerie.
* TimMinear: He works as a consulting producer on the series. Hopefully, his [[ScrewedByTheNetwork curse won't]] [[{{Cancelled}} affect]] this show.
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[[folder: Asylum]]
* ActorAllusion: Welp, it's the not the [[spoiler: first time [[{{Series/Heroes}} Zachary Quinto]] played a scarily calm SerialKiller.]]
** It's also hard to watch [[spoiler: Thredson's origin story and not think of Sylar's own parental and abandonment issues. Except that the extent of Thredson's crimes and his clear lack of remorse makes Sylar look positively angelic in comparison.]]
* HeyItsThatGuy: [[Series/BreakingBad Hector Salamanca]] hunted Nazis in his spare time.
* [[IronyAsSheIsCast Irony As He Is Cast]]: Dr. Thredson advocates behavior modification to treat and cure homosexuality. Zachary Quinto is [[StraightGay openly gay.]]
** Joseph Fiennes is cast as Monsignor Timothy Howard, one of the very few characters in the show who is actively against bloodshed and violence and merely wishes the best for everyone; it is this alongside his good looks that makes him the secret object of Sister Jude's desire. This gels not only with Fiennes' previous roles as young romantic heartthrobs in films such as [[ShakespeareInLove Shakespeare In Love]], but also with the fact that his more well-known elder brother Ralph Fiennes has pretty much played almost every bad guy it's possible to be interested in, from Pharaoh to Nazi to Genocidal Snake-Man Wizard. It makes a weird metafictional sense that he'd have an easily-upset younger brother, adored by the girls.
* {{Expy}}: Bloody Face is a conglomeration of Ed Gein, [[Film/{{Psycho}} Norman Bates]], [[TheSilenceOfTheLambs and Buffalo Bill]], with [[spoiler: his civilian identity similar to Hannibal Lecter.]]
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[[folder: First Season]]

* TimMinear: He works as a consulting producer on the series. Hopefully, his [[TooGoodToLast curse]] [[ScrewedByTheNetwork won't]] [[{{Cancelled}} affect]] this show.

* ActorAllusion: Welp, it's the not the [[spoiler: first time [[{{Series/Heroes}} Zachary Quinto]] played a scarily calm SerialKiller. Are we sure Hiro didn't dump Sylar back in time after stealing Bennet's glasses?]]
** It's also hard to watch [[spoiler: Thredson's origin story and subsequent psychosis and not think of Sylar's abandonment issues and mommy issues. Except that the extent of Thredson's crimes and his clear lack of remorse makes Sylar looks positively angelic in comparison.]]

** It's also hard to watch [[spoiler: Thredson's origin story and subsequent psychosis and not think of Sylar's abandonment issues and mommy issues. Hell, the extent of Thredson's crimes makes Sylar looks positively angelic in comparison.]]

** It's also hard to watch [[spoiler: Thredson's origin story and subsequent psychosis and not think of Sylar's abandonment issues and mommy issues. Hell, Sylar looks positively angelic in comparison.]]

** Joseph Fiennes is cast as Monsignor Timothy Howard, one of the very few characters in the show who is actively against bloodshed and violence and merely wishes the best for everyone; it is this alongside his good looks that makes him the secret object of Sister Jude's desire. This gels not only with Fiennes' previous roles as young romantic heartthrobs in films such as [[ShakespeareInLove]], but also with the fact that his more well-known elder brother [[RalphFiennes]] has pretty much played almost every bad guy it's possible to be interested in, from Pharaoh to Nazi to Genocidal Snake-Man Wizard. It makes a weird metafictional sense that he'd have an easily-upset younger brother, adored by the girls.

* ShoutOut:
** The Nazi war criminal currently known as [[spoiler:Arthur Arden]] was, according to Anne Frank, named [[DieHard Hans Gruber]] when he was conducting his experiments at Auschwitz.
** There appears to be some kind of NamesTheSame theme going on, as one of the patients at the asylum is named [[ComicStrip/ThePhantom Kit Walker]].

* CastingGag[=/=]ActorAllusion: Welp, it's the not the [[spoiler: first time [[{{Series/Heroes}} Zachary Quinto]] played a scarily calm SerialKiller. Are we sure Hiro didn't dump Sylar back in time after stealing Bennet's glasses?]]

* CastingGag[=/=]ActorAllusion: Welp, it's the not the [[spoiler: first time [[{{Series/Heroes}} Zachary Quinto]] played a scarily calm SerialKiller. Are we sure Hiro didn't dump Sylar back in time?]]
** It's also hard to watch [[spoiler: Thredson's origin story and not think of Sylar's abandonment issues and mommy issues.]]

** It's also hard to watch [[spoiler: Thredson's origin story and not think of Sylar's abandonment and mommy issues.]]

* {{Expy}}: Bloody Face is a conglomeration of Ed Gein, [[Film/{{Psycho}} Norman Bates]], and [[TheSilenceOfTheLambs and Buffalo Bill]], with [[spoiler: his civilian identity similar to Hannibal Lecter.]]

* {{Expy}}: Bloody Face is a conglomeration of Ed Gein and [[TheSilenceOfTheLambs and Buffalo Bill]], with [[spoiler: his civilian identity similar to Hannibal Lecter.]]

* CastingGag[=/=]ActorAllusion: Welp, it's the not the [[spoiler: first time [[{{Series/Heroes}} Zachary Quinto]] played a scarily calm SerialKiller.]]

* TimMinear: He works as a consulting producer on the series. Hopefully, his [[TooGoodToLast curse]] [[ScrewedByTheNetwork won't]] [[{{Cancelled}} affect]] this show.