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  • Jason Carl calling Seattle by Night "Gothic Grunge."
  • The group generally jokes around and has a lot of fun with out of character statements as well as joke.
  • The constant shade the group throws on Tacoma.
  • Jerry Holkins spending a good ten minutes of the first session of Season 2 describing his Masonic Lodge haven and the surrounding neighborhood that is full of hipsters.

Amanda

  • Amanda taking notes about Kindred lore on a yellow pad. This is a homage to LA By Night's Annabelle, who did the same thing.
  • Amanda being consulted on the occult when she clearly knows absolutely nothing, just because she's Tremere.
  • Amanda getting "delivery" of a vessel as sent by her father. The vessel assumes she has a rare blood disease and that he can help by donating blood.
  • Amanda yelling at her dad in Elysium when she discovers he's a ghoul.
  • All the shade Amanda gets for "sleeping" with a Giovanni.

Tom

  • Much is made of the fact Tom wears socks with Crock.
  • Tom continues to eat two-dollar nachos, throw them up, and keep eating them because he doesn't realize vampires can't eat food.
  • Tom vomiting up a banana milkshake up on the Brujah Anarch Remy.
  • Tom taking his shirt off in Elysium to show off his body art to a Toreador.
  • Tom creates a taco/blood blend with a centrifuge in the Tacoma hospital.
  • In Season 2, episode 1, Tom explains how he's heard of wights.
    "I played a lot of D&D."
  • In Season 2, episode 3, Tom attempts to find orange juice and hot pockets in Jamison's fridge.
  • In Season 2, episode 3, Tom asks some interesting questions about social media.
    "Should I send her a picture of my penis?"
  • In Season 2, Episode 4, he has a Mushroom Samba encounter with Cherry Moon and ends up "hugging the moon."
  • In Season 2, Episode 6, Tom attempts to buy Cherry Moon (a Thin Blood drug) from a local drug dealer who directs him back to where they normally get it.

Betty

  • Betty lives in Bellevue and the cast says this explains everything about her.
  • Betty asking if it's too late to get on the ground floor of Uber.
  • Betty completely flubbing her rolls to try to get a read on Mr Drew. And then getting pissed off enough by said failures that she threatens to take her lipstick to his suit coat get him to talk - which is what gets him to crack.
  • Betty telling Amanda her father is a very sexy man. Then explaining to her that he's a ghoul even if that's a rude word.
  • Betty planning to murder a guard with a straw in order to avoid having to drink his blood directly. Thankfully, she's talked out of it.
  • Her Moral Myopia at being disgusted at feeding the "other way" (i.e. with the Kiss) and the guard asking if it was good for her too.
  • Betty complaining about how "you brought a girl flowers" before you drink someone's blood.
  • In Season 2, Episode 4, Betty explicitly denies having any Belligerent Sexual Tension with Dahvid while doing a bunch of hilarious double entendres like how he's going to finger the group.
    • She insists she could never be involved with him because he wears a turtleneck.
  • In Season 2, Episode 4, Betty reacts with her Team Mom energy to finding out the group has knocked the Prince's enforcer, Rafe, into torpor.
  • In Season 2, Episode 6, Betty feeds Jamison horse's blood as a pick me up.

Jamison

  • Betty, having interposed a waiter between herself and a falling chandelier, shoves her not-long-for-this world meat shield over to an injured Amanda and Jamison. Without hesitation, Jamison unhinges his jaw, locks eyes with Amanda, snarls "Don't," and begins to feed.
  • In Season 2, Episode 1, Jamison attempts to explain how to woo women through the power of texting and the secret that all women crave is the animated gif.
  • In Season 2, Episode 3, Jamison has a bizarre digression about his time hanging out with the Rat Pack that ends with him singing.
  • In Season 2, Episode 6, Jamison drinks some horse's blood and ends up believing he's developing horse-like qualities as a result, including desiring to sleep standing up in a stable.

Enrique

  • Enrique's obsession with figuring out whether Betty has other people regularly in her car or not causes the entire first session to stop for a few minutes as everyone finds it a horrible invasion of privacy.
  • Enrique receives much praise from the group when he finally gets the classic Seattle put down of, "The bathroom is for customers only."
  • In Season 2, Episode 7, Enrique describes his character as "chaste" only to the vicious mockery and eye rolls of the rest of the cast. Including Jason!

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