#wwdits s6e4

[beansprean]

How could you do anything but run off shirtless to another state to raise an army against capitalism after this

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ID: Scene redraw from season 6 episode 4 when Guillermo comes home drunk. Chest up of Nandor sitting in his wingback chair with Guillermo standing behind him, hands planted on the back of the chair and leaning forward to press his chest to the back of Nandor's head. Nandor is tinted yellow-green, frozen with shock, cheeks flushed, a glowing green line behind his head indicating a total flatline of brain activity. Guillermo, tinted red-violet, is seemingly oblivious to the turmoil below him, smirking with one eyebrow raised as he speaks indistinctly to the rest of the household offscreen. /end ID

[thewaywardfangirl]

Nandor giving up pride for honest emotion over the seasons is my favourite thing about his character

The way Nandor has to stop himself from saying "my familiar" and then when he does, absolutely has a meltdown and gets so angry as to STOP THE CAMERAS FROM FOLLOWING HIM??

To my knowledge that's the first time he's ever had to do that. Like. Bro is feeling REAL emotions, not pretending for the cameras. Eiuuugh he makes me sick someone set me on fire

[meideixx]

WWDITS S6E4 has some The Office references?

Okay now why would Guillermo choose this type of watch out of the others?? I mean he could have chosen a normal one but he chose this one and it is the exact thing that Dwight Schrute has in The Office

Plus, episode 4 reminded me a lot of "The Office"

Like this pic below for example, Colin holding that cup reminds me of Michael and his World's Best Boss cup, the receptionist holding the phone just like Pam, and the people behind Colin and Laszlo pretending to work just like the staff at Dunder Mifflin.

These details hit me hard because I'm a fan of The Office, so when I watch the episode, I know that I have seen this before

Don't take it seriously tho, I'm not claiming what I thought was right

Edit: oh found out that Guillermo has been using that watch since seasons before lmao ignore what i said then

[lamplightjuniper]

Okay okay, I'm on my computer now so let me put a few more pins on the board to explain:

(Spoilers for WWDITS S6 and Frasier (1993) lol)

Niles is Frasier's brother, Daphne is a live-in careworker for his and Frasier's dad

She was effectively also their maid/housekeeper.

Niles/Daphne was a long slow-burn pairing between 2 main characters.

Niles pined over Daphne for 6 seasons before his feelings were revealed.

During those 6 seasons Niles was in love with Daphne but:

A) already married, then

B) going through a bitter and drawn out divorce, then

C) in another relationship where they eloped after 6 months

(bc Daphne had gotten engaged to Niles' divorce lawyer lol)

The divorce was drawn out in part because his ex-wife knew he had feelings for Daphne, and was using this as legal basis for "alienation of affection"

(Niles lies to his lawyer, aka Daphne's boyfriend/future fiance, and denies this)

In Frasier season 7, Niles' feelings were accidentally revealed to Daphne by Frasier while he was heavily drugged.

Ultimately, Niles and Daphne get together hours before Daphne's wedding at the end of season 7

This caused a huge fallout with their exes (the divorce lawyer and a high-society surgeon)

In Frasier S8E5 during all this fallout, Frasier hires a butler to replace Daphne.

The butler warns against employer/employee relationships at first, but then is so moved by their love for each other that he quits his butler job to go pursue a high-born lady he once worked with and had feelings for, but had left because of the class differences.

Okay, so maybe some loose parallels between 2 sitcoms, but what else?

So there are at least 2 specific Frasier references in WWDITS:

In S03E8 - The Wellness Center, Nandor quotes Frasier's catchphrase "Goodnight Seattle, and good mental health!"

He says this right before leaving the vampires, and refusing to turn Guillermo because he cares about him too much.

Niles and Daphne were specifically mentioned in-universe in S4E7 Pine Barrens

When Nadja was introduced as Guillermo's girlfriend and also his maid, his family said it was like Daphne and Miles from "Frasier."

There was no protest from his family about the nature of their supposed relationship, except to point out that the character Daphne was actually a Physical Therapist and not technically a maid.

This was also the episode where Guillermo came out as gay, and reaffirmed that even though he is a slayer by blood, he will keep aligning himself with the vampires.

Now at the very center of the corkboard we have Sam Johnson. He is a TV writer and producer who wrote for both Frasier and What We Do In The Shadows.

He only wrote a few episodes of Frasier, but produced almost every single episode starting from season 7 up through season 11.

Now let's take a quick look at the list of episodes he wrote for WWDITS:

S2E08 - Collaboration (Guillermo leaves to work for Celeste, and Nandor relents and agrees that he was a good familiar, and gave him a present when he comes back home)

S2E10 - Nouveau Theatre des Vampires (The Guillermo moment of all time, with Nandor first pretending that he didn't care Guillermo left, and then cheering for him to murder a bunch of vampires)

S3E2 - The Cloak of Duplication (Guillermo + Meg's conversation about the feelings "Nandor" has for "Guillermo")

S3E9 - A Farewell (Confirmed Guillermo has direct knowledge of Nandor's dick)

S3E10 - The Portrait (homoerotic fight followed by proposal to turn him into a vampire)

S4E3 - The Grand Opening (Dick wish)

S4E6 - The Wedding (The best man speech, Marwa likes what Nandor likes, Nandor tenderly covering Guillermo so he can sleep)

S5E6 - Urgent Care (Guillermo confesses he loves Nandor while heavily drugged)

S5E10 - Exit Interview (If I am lying, kill me now)

S6E2 - Headhunting (Made it abundantly clear that they are no longer employer/employee, familiar/master, or any other power imbalance*)

S6E4 - The Railroad (Guillermo fires Nandor and he loses his shit entirely)

It's like a list of Nandermo greatest hits.

Unfortunately Sam Johnson is not credited as a writer for any of the remaining episodes of S6, so I don't know what (if any) conclusions we can draw about the nandermo endgame based on this info.

I'm also not saying that these two couples are direct parallels -- the show formats are different, the characters and their roles in the story are different, the nature of their relationships are very different (tbh I would not have been shipping Daphne/Niles in 1996)

But can we agree that the spirit of a classic slowburn sitcom romance was present and influencing the writing of WWDITS?

I think yes, and I will die on the hill that there was an intentional bend towards nandermo to some degree from at least S2 onward.

Is it just a stock sitcom cast photoshoot pose? Maybe. But indulge me a little bit.

Do you see it?? Is it just me with my red string on a cork board here??