Line #21 Recap/IZombieS2E11FiftyShadesOfGreyMatter


1	Investigating the murder of a romance novelist complicates Liv's love life.
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3	* AboveTheInfluence: Liv and Drake decide to abstain from sex until the effects of romance novelist brain wear off.
4	* AnswerCut: Babineaux and Bozzio discuss their plan to find the Chaos Killer by tracking a GPS chip in a victim's dog. Cut to Major and Minor at the dog groomer's.
5	* TheCameo: Liv and Clive discover an audiobook version of the dead woman's novel, which is said to be narrated by Kristen Bell. We then get to hear an excerpt from it, read by Bell herself.
6	* ControlFreak: The victim's husband, who would even tell her what to wear so as to his friends not look at her.
7	* CutApart: The show cuts between Babineaux and Bozzio tracking Minor's GPS chip and Major rushing to recover Minor from the groomer and hide him. Then, it cuts to Babineaux and Bozzio on the street near the park where Major abducted Minor's owner, discovering the discarded leash with the chip in it.
8	* DoubleEntendre: When Liv is asking about Ravi and Major wrestling, she ends mentioning "who ends up on [[{{Seme}} top]]?"
9	* EatingTheEyeCandy:
10	** Liv is thirsty on librarian brain, and targets Clive, Major and Ravi in her looks.
11	** Clive can't stop glancing at Liv's chest when she's leaning over his desk wearing a bit less than usual, even though he'd really rather not.
12	* GuyOnGuyIsHot: Liv spends a while imagining and asking Ravi and Major to wrestle shirtless and oiled up.
13	* HotLibrarian: The victim.
14	* InternalReveal: Peyton finally discovers who "John Deaux" actually is. Unfortunately, this is only after she has slept with him.
15	* ItsAllAboutMe: The killer murdered his wife because he was afraid that, by publishing the book, everyone would see him as a man who couldn't give it to his wife.
16	* ItsForABook: Liv and Clive suspect Grace's co-worker Muriel after they find out she wrote a murder mystery with hemlock poisoning as the cause of death. Inverted since Muriel is not the killer.
17	* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Liv listens to the audiobook reading by Kristen Bell and remarks, “I’ve always felt a kind of connection to her.” Kristen Bell starred in ''Series/VeronicaMars'', a show about a snarky blonde woman solving mysteries (frequently utilizing voice over), created by Rob Thomas. Sound familiar?
18	* MaleGaze: Parodied with a camera shot straight at Liv's cleavage, as she's dressing more revealingly than usual after eating erotica novelist brains.
19	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Peyton reacts this way when she slept with Blaine and finds out what Blaine had done.
20	* NaughtyByNight: The victim.
21	-->'''Ravi''': Liv, did you eat a librarian from a porno?
22	* NotThisOneThatOne: Liv and Clive go to the victim's home to interview her husband as a suspect. The man who answers the door is bald, burly, and covered in tattoos. He identifies himself as the husband's home health aide. The husband then enters in his wheelchair.
23	* ARareSentence: "Wait! I roofied you with horny librarian brain."
24	* ShoutOut:
25	** The title of the episode is a reference to ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey''.
26	** While telling Clive that the victim was poisoned with hemlock, Ravi fulfills his destiny as "Most likely character from the show to quote ''Film/RealGenius''" ("Well, I believe it was Socrates who said of hemlock, 'I drank what?'") while Liv goes for a ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' [[ShoutOutToShakespeare reference]]. Clive is unimpressed.
27	--->'''Clive''': Will one of you give me a hand signal or something when you're about to say something useful?
28	** Peyton wants to take a ''Film/{{Silkwood}}'' shower after having slept with Blaine. It's a movie about a woman who, while investigating safety violations at a nuclear plant, is exposed to dangerous levels of radiation. Those plants do serious safety showers.
29	** Flirting with Peyton, Blaine remarks that she looks like [[Film/WeirdScience she was built in a computer]] by a couple of 14-year-old boys.
30	* ShowerOfAngst: Peyton mentions wanting to take a Silkwood shower after finding out that Blaine is a ruthless killer after she slept with him.

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