Louis has to deal with unforeseen circumstances at one of his brothels — namely, that the local alderman sodomized one of his ladies, and she not only beat him up but also decided to, as delicately put as possible, deposit the end products of her catfish dinner upon his crotch.
After a fight over Louis killing an important member of New Orleans society, we see the pair in their coffins... and then Lestat calmly says, "I don't like sleeping angry."
In episode 2, as dinner wraps up, Louis brings in a guy who looks like a bouncer for a Berlin techno bar. As Louis feeds on his neck, the guy... dispassionately looks at Daniel, asks how he likes Dubai, and recommends Kite Beach ("They have kites"). Once Louis is done feeding, the guy gets up... and, severely anemic, stumbles and collapses a few feet from the table, having to be carted out by Rashid. Not exactly the rapturous and ecstatic feeding one expects.
Daniel: I think you may have a drinking problem.
As Louis describes his experiences immediately post-turning, he delivers a highly poetic description of how it felt, which Daniel summarises thusly:
Daniel: You were fuckin' loaded. Louis: Beyond articulation.
As Louis recounts a story about being left alone with his infant nephew, he suddenly breaks off and goes off on a long tangent about how he no longer kills humans in order to feed and prides himself on his restraint. Danny keeps trying to interrupt him to ask what pretty much everyone in the audience is wondering: "Did you eat the baby?"
Despite the entire endeavour being treated with a pretty solid air of tragedy by Louis in the present, Louis and Lestat coming to the simultaneous realization that giving a fourteen-year-old with no impulse control, teenage girl hormones, and a bottomless pit of a stomach the blood hunger and powers of a vampire might not have been the greatest idea is utterly hysterical.
Claudia:[having drained a man twice her size not five minutes prior, whining] I think I'm gonna die. Is that how vampires die? From starvation?
Despite being very disturbing, and a sure sign that Louis' decision to turn Claudia probably wasn't a wise one, Claudia's attempts to hide the body parts she took from the 56 people she killed from the police while drunk off of her latest victim's blood are still hilarious in how catastrophically they fail. Every area in her room she tries to hide a trophy she forgot about only reveals more and more of them, ending in her discovering a man she forgot to kill still bleeding and moaning in her wardrobe.
To add to the comedy, this doesn't even get her caught; the policeman walks into her bedroom while she feigns getting changed and exits mortified and none the wiser when she scolds him for walking into a young girl's room unannounced.
What really sells it is the audaciousness of it all: Claudia has unconvincingly draped a large bit of fabric around herself and indignantly and theatrically says she's getting changed when the officer opens the door. Once he quickly apologises and leaves, she drops the fabric with the most unimpressed look on her face possible. While her victim is still trapped in her wardrobe.
And then right after she drops the fabric, the poor guy falls out of the wardrobe and lands on his face to add an exclamation point to the sequence.
This enjoyment of body part trophies gets a callback long after Claudia's ceased her serial murders, when Lestat comes bearing Antoinette's cut-off finger (with a ring still attached) in an attempt to basically bribe her into not prying further into whether or not he really killed her.
Episode 4 features Lestat, Louis, and Claudia laughing their heads off at a picture show. The picture in question? Nosferatu!
Lestat gets...very annoyed when Claudia won't stop writing in her diary. It leads to an argument in French between him and Louis, all the while Claudia is enjoying the show and documenting it with the biggest giddy smile on her face.
Daniel has Dr. Fareed Bhansali administering an IV treatment for his Parkinson's disease throughout episode 6's interviews. Every attempt by Daniel or Louis to engage him is met with a blunt "I'm not here."
Made funnier by the fact that Louis is still obviously recovering from his injuries. He likely mustered up most of his limited strength just to spite Lestat.
Also, the fact that Lestat is positively ecstatic and appears to be saying "Yes, yes! I love you!" as Louis throws him around the room.
In hindsight, Louis feeding from Rashid as Daniel eats across the table from them becomes this with the reveal that Rashid is actually the vampire Armand, as feeding from each other is a vampire version of sex. Right in front of Daniel.
Another thing that becomes funnier with hindsight is that Louis and Armand were so committed to the pretense that Armand was Rashid that they kept up the charade even when Daniel was asleep in episode 6.
Though it's also possible that his laptop was still recording, so they decided to keep the act up to give him some extra intrigue when he listened to it later.
Season 2:
Daniel passive-aggressively gets back at Armand for the deception by constantly referring to the real human servant Rashid as "Real Rashid."
The fact that Louis pointing out Daniel's shortcomings as a husband to his ex-wife Alice doesn't seem to bother Daniel at all. Not because Daniel doesn't have some regrets about his treatment of Alice, but rather because Daniel has zero illusions about himself.
The crowner is him and the vampires engaging in their usual Snark-to-Snark Combat where Louis relates a memory of his wife telling him she was pregnant and him responding with 'Let's talk about this later, yeah?' Present-day Daniel snarks that he thinks it was the 'yeah' that annoyed her most, followed by agreement from Louis.
As Armand and Louis try to explain the likelihood of vampires knowing each other globally to account for the apparent coincidence of Lestat founding the coven, we see Daniel typing furiously on his computer. Rather than taking notes, he's searching up ''Nadia's Theme'', which he then proceeds to blare over the vampires' narration. But it's his following dialogue that really takes the cake.
Daniel:...and then, Juan looked up at the painting and saw that Theresa's dead husband was Roberto. He had eloped with his enemy's widow! It's a telenovela! I mean, come on! Lestat's painting on the wall?!Are you kidding me?Really?! ...I'm done thinking. Bring me the tequila and the popcorn, let's flip to channel three-hundred-something, it's a Univision night!
Claudia's play at the theatre called My Baby Loves Windows is corny as hell, with Claudia dressed like Shirley Temple singing "I Don't Like Windows When They're Closed", presenting herself as a cute baby with a Deathwish. Estelle plays the hapless governess trying to stop Lulu from jumping to her death and Celeste as the careless Mother who's more focus on her canapes. It's silly, but the Grand Guignol loving audience eats it up.
The later performances also help, Santiago yells in anger backstage at how much he hates the song.
Claudia's annoyed monotone delivery makes it funnier, especially with some of the audience dressed like her. Before her last line, she looks to the audience as they repeat it. She's almost relieved it's over.
Then when forced to wear the costume 24/7, she is handing out flyers when a drunken passably starts singing the song and she kills him in revenge.
Daniel's shock and amusement when he realizes that Armand and Louis "both fucked Lestat!"
Armand's succinct and contemptuous description of sex with Lestat: "He tasted like vermouth and annihilation."
Even though Daniel doesn't remember much of what happened on the night he met Louis, he takes it as a matter of course that he and Louis probably had sex.
Daniel: Our first interview... it's a fog. I mean, it's the '70s. All a blur[...] Louis: What's the question, Daniel? Daniel: We had drinks, you paid. We cabbed to your place in in Divisadero, you paid. Louis: That's right. Daniel: Did we...?
Also, Louis keeps Daniel dangling for a minute before revealing that they didn't.
After Louis gives Daniel drugs, the young man matter-of-factly removes his shirt to fulfill "[his] part of the social contract". Louis just asks if Daniel does all of his interviews while shirtless.
Louis flashes his fangs at young Daniel and lunges for him. Once he gets over the initial shock (which prompts him to ask Louis if he's the Zodiac Killer, of all things), Daniel asks him to "do the fang thing again." An amused Louis indulges him, and Daniel seems genuinely delighted.
There's something darkly hilarious about Armand and Louis' argument when they begin a round of Misery Poker complete with imitating the other. Armand's attempt at a Southern accent, before simply repeating "Lestat" over and over is just funny. Let alone Louis' "I'm the vampire Armand and my daddy vampire groomed me into a little bitch!
Young Daniel's shocked reaction when Armand reveals Louis' true body count.
Armand: 128 boys he's brought here– Daniel:He said five... Armand: –and you're the first he didn't consummate and drain.
Armand returning to the penthouse in Malik's visor sunglasses.
For context, Armand goes out for lunch, and Louis and Daniel spend the whole episode recovering their memories of an incredibly traumatic five days in 1973. At the end of the episode, the source of all the trauma and memory-erasure confidently rolls back in wearing his victim's ludicrous Lady Gaga sunglasses.
As part of his treacherous ruse, Santiago rages at the theater company over the writing and storms off to present a front for Armand. He then goes out of his way to mentally reach out to the playwright and apologize while reassuring him that Santiago really does love his work.
Santiago's insistence that the first girl he slept with only though his penis was small "because my testicles are so enormous!"
Near the end of the Season 2 finale, fledgling vampire Daniel licks his teeth as he eyes his next victim: a man who just walked out of an Arby's.
In a pathetic sort of way, when Louis asks Lestat why he didn't say he saved Louis before, Lestat fake modests that he doesn't like to point out his virtues. He also did it so Louis would eventually figure it out and Lestat could say he was right. Funny for two reasons, as Louis didn't figure it out but Daniel did, and given that it's been over 70 years with Lestat feeling and looking wrecked, it really was not worth it.
