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* ShaggyDogStory: Laszlo's and Nadja's season long subplots both end meaninglessly. Laszlo's attempt to raise Colin Robinson to not be as dull as he originally was fails when Colin reverts to his pre-death personality and Nadja's nightclub goes out of business with even her attempt at insurance fraud failing.

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* ShaggyDogStory: Laszlo's Laszlo and Nadja's season long season-long subplots both end meaninglessly. Laszlo's attempt to raise Colin Robinson to not be as dull as he originally was fails when Colin reverts to his pre-death personality and Nadja's nightclub goes out of business business, with even her attempt at insurance fraud failing.
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* InsuranceFraud: Nadja ''attempts'' to burn down her nightclub in an attempt to make some money out of it, but it turns out that the blood sprinklers actually managed to extinguish everything. [[ShaggyDogStory And she never got insurance in the first place]], meaning that even if everything had burned down, she wouldn't have been able to make money. ''And'' she accidentally burned all the cash that she had hidden in her office, since that was the only place of the club where there are no sprinklers, leaving her personally with even more money lost.

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* InsuranceFraud: Nadja ''attempts'' to burn down her nightclub in an attempt to make some money out of it, but it turns out that the blood sprinklers actually managed to extinguish everything. [[ShaggyDogStory And she never got insurance in the first place]], meaning that even if everything had burned down, she wouldn't have been able to make money. ''And'' she accidentally burned all the cash that she had hidden in her office, since that was the only place of the club where there are with no sprinklers, leaving her personally with even more money lost.
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** Nadja's bummed out by their lack of revenue and decides to burn her nightclub down in a fit of emotional despair. But she forgets to remove her secret stash of money, subsequently burning down her own personal wealth in the process. Her attempts to collect insurance money for the burned down club fails because she didn't bother to [[EpicFail actually get an insurance]] beforehand, and it's now too late to get one.

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** Nadja's bummed out by their lack of revenue and decides to burn her nightclub down in a fit of emotional despair. But she forgets to remove her secret stash of money, subsequently burning down her own personal wealth in the process. Her attempts attempt to collect insurance money for the burned down club fails because she didn't bother to [[EpicFail actually get an insurance]] beforehand, and it's now too late to get one.
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* TotallyRadical: Nandor tries to talk to Teen Colin, claiming he knows how to appeal to teens as he used to have many of them in his army. But since Nandor is a centuries old vampire who has repeatedly been shown to be out of touch with the world, his attempts at slang fail miserably.

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** Nadja's bummed out by their lack of revenue and decides to burn her nightclub down in a fit of emotional despair. But she forgets to remove her secret stash of money, subsequently burning down her own personal wealth in the process.

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** Nadja's bummed out by their lack of revenue and decides to burn her nightclub down in a fit of emotional despair. But she forgets to remove her secret stash of money, subsequently burning down her own personal wealth in the process. Her attempts to collect insurance money for the burned down club fails because she didn't bother to [[EpicFail actually get an insurance]] beforehand, and it's now too late to get one.



* InsuranceFraud: Nadja ''attempts'' to burn down her nightclub in an attempt to make some money out of it, but it turns out that the blood sprinklers actually managed to extinguish everything. [[ShaggyDogStory And she never got insurance in the first place]], meaning that even if everything had burned down, she wouldn't have been able to make money. ''And'' she accidentally burned all the cash that she had hidden in her office, leaving her personally with even more money lost.

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* InsuranceFraud: Nadja ''attempts'' to burn down her nightclub in an attempt to make some money out of it, but it turns out that the blood sprinklers actually managed to extinguish everything. [[ShaggyDogStory And she never got insurance in the first place]], meaning that even if everything had burned down, she wouldn't have been able to make money. ''And'' she accidentally burned all the cash that she had hidden in her office, since that was the only place of the club where there are no sprinklers, leaving her personally with even more money lost.


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* SecretRoom: The basement of the house turns out to have one where Colin Robinson stored his many diaries.
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* SpecialEditionTitle: In this episode, "You’re Dead" is replaced by Lazlo singing "Sunrise, Sunset" as Colin’s pictures are replaced by ones of his child self.
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* ShaggyDogStory: Laszlo's and Nadja's season long subplots both end meaninglessly. Laszlo's attempt to raise Colin Robinson to not be as dull as he originally was fails when Colin reverts to his pre-death personality and Nadja's nightclub goes out of business with even her attempt at insurance fraud failing.
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** Nadja declares that she'll simply wing their final plan to save her nightclub by just resurrecting various humans for their entertainment plan instead of researching them. This means that she fails to take into account that most of the Guide's resurrected souls aren't entertainers, but writers and other historical figures with little to no actual skill in direct entertainment.

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** Nadja declares that she'll simply wing their final plan to save her nightclub by just resurrecting various humans for their entertainment plan instead of researching them. This means that she fails to take into account that most of the Guide's resurrected souls aren't entertainers, but writers and other historical figures with little to no actual skill in direct entertainment.entertainment and some of whom don't speak English.
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* BittersweetEnding: Colin Robinson is back and solves all their monetary issues, allowing the vampires to fix up the house. But Laszlo is internally devastated at the fact that Colin has zero recollection about the time his child version spent with Laszlo. Nandor finally gets out of his emotional funk, but is still oblivious to Guillermo's emotional state, which pushes Guillermo to quit being his familiar and seek other means of becoming a vampire.

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* BittersweetEnding: Colin Robinson is back and solves all their monetary issues, allowing the vampires to fix up the house. But Laszlo is internally devastated at the fact that Colin has having zero recollection about the time that his child version spent with Laszlo. Nandor finally gets out of his emotional funk, but is still oblivious to Guillermo's emotional state, which pushes Guillermo to quit being his familiar and seek other means of becoming a vampire.



* FourTwentyBlazeIt: The first number in Colin Robinson's PIN code is 420, which he specifically says as the number 420 rather than the first three digits.

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* FourTwentyBlazeIt: The first number in part of Colin Robinson's PIN code is 420, which he specifically says as the number 420 rather than the first three digits.



** Nadja declares she'll simply wing their final plan to save her nightclub by just resurrecting various humans for their entertainment plan instead of researching them. This means she fails to take into account that most of the Guide's resurrected souls aren't entertainers but writers and other historical figures with little to no actual skill in direct entertainment.
** Nadja's so bummed out by their lack of revenue and decides to burn her nightclub all down in a fit of emotional despair. But she forgets to remove her secret stash of money, subsequently burning down her own personal wealth in the process.

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** Nadja declares that she'll simply wing their final plan to save her nightclub by just resurrecting various humans for their entertainment plan instead of researching them. This means that she fails to take into account that most of the Guide's resurrected souls aren't entertainers entertainers, but writers and other historical figures with little to no actual skill in direct entertainment.
** Nadja's so bummed out by their lack of revenue and decides to burn her nightclub all down in a fit of emotional despair. But she forgets to remove her secret stash of money, subsequently burning down her own personal wealth in the process.



* InsuranceFraud: Nadja ''attempts'' to burn down her nightclub in an attempt to make some money out of it, but it turns out the blood sprinklers actually managed to extinguish everything. [[ShaggyDogStory She never got insurance in the first place]], meaning even if everything had burned down, she wouldn't have been able to make money. ''And'' she accidentally burned all the cash she left lying around, leaving her personally with even more money lost.
* {{Irony}}: As Nadja spells out, after all those times failing, the blood sprinklers ''finally'' work...and it's to put out the fire she tried to set for the insurance.

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* InsuranceFraud: Nadja ''attempts'' to burn down her nightclub in an attempt to make some money out of it, but it turns out that the blood sprinklers actually managed to extinguish everything. [[ShaggyDogStory She And she never got insurance in the first place]], meaning that even if everything had burned down, she wouldn't have been able to make money. ''And'' she accidentally burned all the cash that she left lying around, had hidden in her office, leaving her personally with even more money lost.
* {{Irony}}: As Nadja spells out, after all those times failing, the blood sprinklers ''finally'' work... and it's to put out the fire that she tried to set for the insurance.
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* StatusQuoIsGod: InUniverse, Guillermo’s frustration with this is why he decides to leave.
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* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: Laszlo confirms that Colin Robinson is truly back after he recites from memory his imitation of [[Franchise/StarWars Jar-Jar Binks]] when they went to Sean's house one day.

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* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: Laszlo confirms that Colin Robinson is truly back after he recites from memory his imitation of [[Franchise/StarWars Jar-Jar Binks]] when they went to Sean's house one day.day.
* YourCostumeNeedsWork: One of the visitors during the haunted house mocks the costumes, asking if they were purchased on Amazon. They also show zero reaction to the Goëjlrm.
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* {{Irony}}: As Nadja spells out, after all those times failing, the blood sprinklers ''finally'' work...and it's to put out the fire she tried to set for the insurance.

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* BittersweetEnding: Colin Robinson comes back and solves all their monetary issues, allowing the vampires to fix up the house. But Laszlo is internally devastated at the fact that Colin has zero recollection about the time his child version spent with Laszlo. Nandor finally gets out of his emotional funk, but is still oblivious to Guillermo's emotional state, which pushes Guillermo to quit being his familiar and seek other means of becoming a vampire.
* ChekhovsGag: Child Colin's obsession with hammering holes in the basement turns out to be a compulsion to find the projector and diaries, allowing Colin Robinson to come back.

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* BittersweetEnding: Colin Robinson comes is back and solves all their monetary issues, allowing the vampires to fix up the house. But Laszlo is internally devastated at the fact that Colin has zero recollection about the time his child version spent with Laszlo. Nandor finally gets out of his emotional funk, but is still oblivious to Guillermo's emotional state, which pushes Guillermo to quit being his familiar and seek other means of becoming a vampire.
* ChekhovsGag: Child Colin's obsession with hammering holes in the basement turns out to be a compulsion to find the projector and secret method of finding the original Colin Robinson's diaries, allowing Colin Robinson to come back.



* DiegeticSoundtrackUsage: Laszlo sings "Sunrise, Sunset" from ''Theatre/FiddlerOnTheRoof'' on his piano.

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* DiegeticSoundtrackUsage: Laszlo sings and plays on his piano the song "Sunrise, Sunset" from ''Theatre/FiddlerOnTheRoof'' on his piano.''Theatre/FiddlerOnTheRoof''.
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The housemates deal with the fallout of Colin's puberty.

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* BittersweetEnding: Colin Robinson comes back and solves all their monetary issues, allowing the vampires to fix up the house. But Laszlo is internally devastated at the fact that Colin has zero recollection about the time his child version spent with Laszlo. Nandor finally gets out of his emotional funk, but is still oblivious to Guillermo's emotional state, which pushes Guillermo to quit being his familiar and seek other means of becoming a vampire.
* ChekhovsGag: Child Colin's obsession with hammering holes in the basement turns out to be a compulsion to find the projector and diaries, allowing Colin Robinson to come back.
* FourTwentyBlazeIt: The first number in Colin Robinson's PIN code is 420, which he specifically says as the number 420 rather than the first three digits.
* DidntThinkThisThrough:
** Nadja declares she'll simply wing their final plan to save her nightclub by just resurrecting various humans for their entertainment plan instead of researching them. This means she fails to take into account that most of the Guide's resurrected souls aren't entertainers but writers and other historical figures with little to no actual skill in direct entertainment.
** Nadja's so bummed out by their lack of revenue and decides to burn her nightclub all down in a fit of emotional despair. But she forgets to remove her secret stash of money, subsequently burning down her own personal wealth in the process.
* DiegeticSoundtrackUsage: Laszlo sings "Sunrise, Sunset" from ''Theatre/FiddlerOnTheRoof'' on his piano.
* InsuranceFraud: Nadja ''attempts'' to burn down her nightclub in an attempt to make some money out of it, but it turns out the blood sprinklers actually managed to extinguish everything. [[ShaggyDogStory She never got insurance in the first place]], meaning even if everything had burned down, she wouldn't have been able to make money. ''And'' she accidentally burned all the cash she left lying around, leaving her personally with even more money lost.
* Lol69: The second number in Colin Robinson's PIN code is 69, which he also specifies to be 69 rather than 6 and 9.
* SequelHook: The finale ends with Guillermo trying to bribe Derek into making him a vampire.
* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: Laszlo confirms that Colin Robinson is truly back after he recites from memory his imitation of [[Franchise/StarWars Jar-Jar Binks]] when they went to Sean's house one day.

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