History Recap / WhatWeDoInTheShadowsS1E5AnimalControl

* AnythingThatMoves: Nadja... ''rode'' Gregor back when he had reincarnated as a horse.

* EntertaininglyWrong: It turns out that the bat freed from animal control was not Laszlo. Instead they freed a bat meant to be treated for rabies and has now been set back into the wild, Laszlo having since regained consciousness and was still in a cage.

* GeniusBonus: The word that Jenna's roommate is trying and failing to pronounce in the ColdOpen is "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscillococcinum oscillococcinum]]", which does have fewer side effects than Nyquil-- because it's a homeopathic remedy that, according to anyone with a medical degree, has no effect at all.

* ValuesDissonance: Laszlo is fine with sneaking into someone's house as a bat to eat them (when he's already full), but can't break a "gentleman's agreement" to free the cats. Turns out, [[AnimalsHateHim the cats hate him.]]

* RealityEnsues: Vampiric hypnotism seems to work a lot like actual hypnotism, with the vampire unable to make the human do anything that they wouldn't ''want'' to do.
** Though this might be more of a subversion and only applies to Nandor, as when Nadja uses hypnotism, she has no trouble getting in and freeing Laszlo and Nandor.
** Nadja regressing Jeff through all his past-life memories as Gregor so he will remember that she's his soulmate, only to casually abandon him a few minutes later for Laszlo, doesn't leave him in the best mental health. The episode ends with him [[BedlamHouse institutionalized]].

* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: It turns out that Nadja could have used her hypnotic abilities to reinvigorate the memories of Jeff's past lives in him at any time. It is not until she finds out just how unsatisfying Jeff himself is after a date with him that she does so.

* ActorAllusion: Jeff being flooded by vivid, perfectly accurate memories of all his past lives, making him an InstantExpert in all manner of skills (like archery, horseback riding and dancing), feels like a reference to Jake [=McDorman=]'s previous starring role on ''Series/{{Limitless}}''.

* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Nandor takes on the form of a dog to trick the animal catcher to let him into the room where they're keeping Laszlo. He announces he was there to rescue them from a cage, the same predicament that Laszlo was in, with no means of getting out of it.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Nadja has an iPhone in this episode, which Guillermo calls as a last resort after both Nandor and Laszlo have been trapped in animal form at the shelter. This conflicts both with the idea that vampires can't use touchscreens in "[[Recap/WhatWeDoInTheShadowsS1E1Pilot Pilot]]" and Nadja being just as hopeless with technology as the other two in "[[Recap/WhatWeDoInTheShadowsS2E4TheCurse The Curse]]" (where Guillermo has no way to call the vampires except on the landline in their house).
* EntertaininglyWrong: It turns out that the bat that animal control had caught was not Laszlo. Instead they freed a bat meant to be treated for rabies and has now been set back into the wild, Laszlo having since regained consciousness and was still in a cage.
* EpicFail: Nadja tried to encourage Jeff to try an archery game, remembering a previous incarnation of Gregor being a master archer. He could not even get the arrows past the desk of the booth, the arrows falling the moment he lets go of them.
* GeniusBonus: The word Jenna's roommate is trying and failing to pronounce in the ColdOpen is "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscillococcinum oscillococcinum]]", which does have fewer side effects than Nyquil because it's a homeopathic remedy that, according to anyone with a medical degree, has no effect at all.

* InterspeciesRomance: Any/every relationship Nadja has had with Gregor is this, but special mention goes to the time Gregor was reincarnated as a horse.

* RagingStiffie: Even while knocked unconscious and in the form of a bat, Laszlo is such a LovableSexManiac he apparently has a permanent boner, which the animal control employees gleefully pass around photos of.

* WomenAreWiser: Nadja normally isn't much of an example of this trope, but this episode plays it pretty straight -- as soon as she arrives at the animal shelter she gets Laszlo and Nandor out in ''seconds''. (Of course, this is mostly because her hypnosis seems to work much more consistently than Nandor's, but may also be because she thought to just ask the shelter employee what the passcode on the door was instead of directly ordering him to open it for her.)
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: It turns out that Nadja could have used her hypnotic abilities to reinvigorate the memories of Jeff's past lives in him at any time. It is not until she finds out just how unsatisfying Jeff himself is after a date with him does she do this.

* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: Guillermo can't get into the cage area without a code. Nadja hypnotizes the clerk to relate the code...."1-2-3-4-5."
-->'''Nadja''': Humans....

* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: It turns out that Nadja could have used her hypnotic abilities to reinvigorate the memories of Jeff's past lives in Jeff at any time. It is not until she finds out just how unsatisfying Jeff himself is after a date with him does she do this.

* RagingStiffie: Even while knocked unconscious and in the form of a bat, Laszlo is such a LovableSexManiac he apparently has a permanent boner, which the animal control employees gleefully pass aronud photos of.

* AStormIsComing: When Jenna's corpse awakens on the way to the ambulance, it's greeted by a roiling stormy sky with mutters of thunder gathers almost instantly on what had been a clear sunny day (protecting her from the obvious consequences of running around outdoors as a vampire).

* GeniusBonus: The word Jenna's roommate is trying and failing to pronounce in the ColdOpen is "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscillococcinum oscillococcinum]]", which does have fewer side effects than Nyquil because it's a homeopathic remedy that, according to most medical experts, has no effect at all.

* ShoutOut: Nadja tells Jeff that she has "[[Film/BramStokersDracula crossed oceans of time to be with [him].]]" Later, she turns into a colony of rats similar to when Dracula did so.

* BiTheWay: Nadja had relations with at least one of Gregor's female reincarnations.

* EntertaininglyWrong: It turns out that the bat that animal control had caught was not Laszlo. Instead they freed a bat meant to be treated for rabies and has now been set back into the wild, Laszlo having since regained consciousness and was till in a cage.

Laszlo is captured as a bat by Animal Control, leaving Nandor and Colin to rescue him; Nadja seeks out Jeff again.

* AnythingThatMoves: Nadja... ''rode'' horse!Gregor back in the day.

* {{Hypocrite}}: In the previous episode, Nadja considers a horse having sex with Laszlo to be a sign of the hat's curse. In this episode, Nadja recalls her erotic outings on horse!Gregor. It may be a case of IfItsYouItsOkay, though.

* MustBeInvited: Nandor nominates Guillermo to retrieve Laszlo from the neighbor's house because he is the only non-vampire and thus he does not need inviting into the house. He would rather be invited in anyway because it's polite. Later, Colin and Nandor try asking for permission to enter the animal shelter.

* TakeThat: Colin takes a moment to mock "nightwalker" vampires and their [[WeakenedByTheLight weakness to sunlight]].
* ValuesDissonance: Laszlo is fine with sneaking into someone's house as a bat to eat them (when he's already full), but can't break a "Gentleman's agreement" to free the cats. Turns out, [[AnimalsHateHim the Cats hate him.]]

* HistoryRepeats: Apparently ''every'' reincarnation of Gregor has died by beheading. Nadja is worried that the same will happen to Jeff.

* RealityEnsues: Vampiric hypnotism seems to work a lot like actually hypnotism, the vampire unable to actually make the human do anything that they wouldn't ''want'' to do.

* {{Reincarnation}}: The Nadja/Gregor[[spoiler:-Jeff]] subplot revolves around this.

* InterspeciesRomance: Any/every relationship Nadja has had with Gregor is this, but special mention goes to the time Gregor was reincarnated as a horse.

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