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Recap / What We Do In The Shadows S 4 E 9 Freddie

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Guillermo's boyfriend from the UK is coming by for a weekend visit. Meanwhile, Nadja and Laszlo have a dispute over Child Colin's contracted appearances for the nightclub.

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  • As Himself: Jim Jarmusch, Sofia Coppola, and Thomas Mars from the band Phoenix have come as a group to take a look at Nadja's nightclub. The latter two promptly get eaten by other vampires but Jarmusch sticks around, having rejected the Special since he wouldn't be able to afford it and finds Nadja's to be disappointing overall.
  • Celebrity Casualty: Sofia Coppola and Thomas Mars from the band Phoenix have come to check out Nadja's, wondering what the Celebrity Special is. Coppola and Mars then get murdered by vampire customers to be fed on. Nadja expresses amazement that her Celebrity Special ploy of getting relatively famous people to ask for it and then being murdered keeps working. She also saved some of Coppola's blood for herself, mixing liquor in it later to get drunk on it.
  • Clone by Conversion: Nandor immediately falls in love with Freddie but, not willing to divorce or cheat on Marwa, wishes her to be transformed into him body and mind.
  • Dramatic Irony: Guillermo comments that he's so glad he finally has something to focus on outside of his life as Nandor's familiar, thinking that he must have been reaching a breaking point because he imagined Nandor being in the audience at the musical they were watching. Nandor exits the theater a few seconds later behind Guillermo, having actually come there with his own Freddie.
  • Screw Yourself: The two identical Freddies seem to have come to this conclusion by the end as they're seen dating in London.
  • "Shaggy Dog" Story: Nandor's attempt at finding companionship ends with him letting Marwa (as a clone of Freddie) go out and travel, wasting his time and wishes from the Djinn.
  • Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Thanks to Nandor’s hypnosis, this is how the two Freddies regard each other.
  • What the Hell, Hero?: Guillermo tears into Nandor for turning Marwa into Freddie, essentially making time with his first boyfriend all about Nandor.

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