#not surprised this ep had the same writers as brain scramblies the Laszlo is soft for his special human Sean truthers

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I saw the take that Freddie as an episode is framed differently “we're not supposed to laugh”, “Nandor is the villain” and “Guillermo's feelings are really hurt” and I do agree but I would add something: it's the first time Guillermo lets himself feel and express those feelings (from suppressing his feelings for Nandor so hard that the first time they came out he's in disguise, the killing catching up to him when he hears Jenna's friend talk, how private he is about his life) Nandor is a repressed himbo but Guillermo isn't that much better.

Nandor hurts him emotionally on multiple occasions and Guillermo has different reactions to them: 2x8 after Nandor tells him that Benjy is the best familiar he has ever had and he should go we see Guillermo turn around and cry and talk to himself about how overlooked and underappreciated he is, 3x10 he snaps at Nandor but Nandor's not really listening to what he's saying and so he uses violence to drive his point home and then Nandor reveals it was all a test and everything is forgiven and 4x1 Guillermo tells Nandor he's dead to him and Nandor has the face to ask "What the fuck did I do" and then dry him off to calm him down while not listening to what he has to say about not going on the trip with him (a lot would have been solved if Nandor had instead of blindly "forgiving" him).

In 4x9 Guillermo doesn't stop talking, he doesn't just walk out, he confronts Nandor not by raising his voice or using violence, he tells Nandor exactly how it is, Nandor tries to stop him but Guillermo is beyond that and we're shown the most vulnerable Nandor we have ever seen (with another person): his voice gets soft his demeanor a little submissive but the spell is broken when he glances at the camera but the difference this time is that Nandor listened to him...he actually HEARD what he had to say and didn't blame Guillermo for how he felt about the situation or find a way around the fact that his actions after this conversation weren't "his plan after all" but a response to what Guillermo said and felt.