The vampires are invited by their neighbor Sean to take a jaunt over to Atlantic City, but things take a turn for the worse when their ancestral soil is removed from their hotel rooms.
Tropes
- Bait-and-Switch: When the vampires announce their upcoming vacation, it seems they are talking about Las Vegas. They are actually talking about Atlantic City.
- Casino Episode: The main storyline is all about the nightwalkers having fun at a casino, in which Nandor in particular is taken in by the slot machines.
- Casualty in the Ring: The end result of the vampires rigging the boxing match is that the boxer they chose to win hits his opponent hard enough to decapitate him.
- Chekhov's Gunman: There are various posters all around the casino advertising an upcoming boxing match. Guillermo ends up hatching a plan to use them to rig a bet to make enough money to pay off Sean's debts.
- Diegetic Soundtrack Usage: Laszlo plays the opening notes for the opening theme "You're Dead" on his piano.
- Failed a Spot Check: Nadja completely fails to notice that the Sinatra performer is a completely different ethnicity from the actual Sinatra, which Laszlo picks up on but dismisses it after the performer says "Ring-a-ding-ding!"
- Gone Horribly Right: The vampires hypnotize the boxers to ensure their chosen fighter wins... but this comes with the teensy side effect of said win being a punch with such force that it decapitates the other.
- Insignificant Little Blue Planet: Colin completely shakes Nandor's worldview by pointing out to him that Earth is not the center of the universe, but just one of many, many planets.
- Involuntary Shapeshifting: A variant where losing their ancestral soil wrecks a vampire's ability to control what animal form they take, as Laszlo turns into a sparrow instead of a bat.
- Made of Plasticine: Under the vampires' hypnotic influence, one of the boxers is able to not only decapitate the other with an uppercut, but send his opponent's head flying into the back seats.
- Mistaken Identity: Nadja is convinced that the Rat Pack tribute band at the casino is the actual Rat Pack (who she knew personally), even though they're completely different ethnicities.
- Pet the Dog: Laszlo feels genuinely remorseful for depleting Sean's credit card once he learns that Sean's fallen back into a gambling addiction and has no money left. He actually organizes a scheme to get it back and repays the "gentlemen's debt" in full. (Of course, being both vampires and clueless, their scheme results in horrific bloodshed, and Laszlo gives Sean the money at a card table. Sean swears not to gamble again, only to be heard betting it all on "lucky number twelve" as Laszlo and the others walk away.)
- Sleep Deprivation: One side effect of a vampire losing their ancestral soil is being unable to sleep. The three vampires become increasingly loopier from sleep deprivation as a result.
- Shout-Out:
- Several to The Big Bang Theory; the slot machine Nandor plays is themed after the show, the vampires are seen watching the show, and at one point Nandor laments that even Sheldon had a girlfriend while he doesn't. Also, when Nandor and Colin discuss the shape of the Earth, they make detailed scientific drawings on the wall, the same way the characters from Big Bang Theory would on whiteboards.
- Nandor genuinely believed that the world is flat, and supported by 4 elephants standing on the back of a giant turtle.
- Special Edition Title: Rather than the usual opening sequence, "You're Dead" plays over shots of all the characters traveling down to Atlantic City.
- The Unreveal: Guillermo is a word away from coming out to the vampires as gay when Sean interrupts dinner to send the party out into the casino.
- Vacation Episode: This episode takes a complete shift away from the usual Staten Island setting. The group goes over to Atlantic City for Sean's vow renewal party as an explicit fun holiday, and then Guillermo ends up having to rush over to the UK, Greece, and Iran to grab a new batch of ancestral soil (room service vacuumed it up during the day while Colin was distracted by the TV). Guillermo notes that he's on the job, but also going to Europe is actually pretty exciting. The shakeup in setting is emphasized by the usual opening credits of the group's household portraits being replaced by a montage of Atlantic City.
