What We Do In The Shadows Recreated (& Mocked) Twilight’s Weirdest Scene

FX’s What We Do In The Shadows both recreated and mocked one of the weirdest scenes from Twilight. In the first Twilight film (and book), Edward (Robert Pattinson) and his vampire family invite Bella (Kristen Stewart) to a remote baseball field where they proceed to play an extreme version game using their heightened abilities. The scene is presumably there to showcase the vampire’s powers as well as to establish relationships amongst the characters, but it comes off looking a little silly, from amusingly acrobatic pitching to the absurdity of climbing a whole tree and flying through the air to field a ball that was struck hundreds of yards into the distance.

What We Do In The Shadows season 3, episode 3, “Gail,” features a similar competition in the form of a kickball game between the vampires and the werewolves. When Nandor (Kayvan Novak) discovers his love interest, Gail (Aida Turturro), kissing a werewolf, Nadja (Natasia Demetriou) proposes a fight to the death, but Guillermo’s (Harvey Guillen) cooler head prevails when he proposes they resolve the dispute, “Twilight style” — by playing kickball.

The scene is a clear recreation of the memorably odd moment in Twilight, and it also mocks the iconic film by satirizing the ridiculousness of super-human beings entertaining themselves with a trivial human sport. The What We Do In The Shadows episode even used the same music as the awkward Twilight scene, blaring “Supermassive Black Hole” by Muse. The FX show mocks the film as Laszlo (Matt Berry) uses his vampiric abilities to transform into a bat to go around the bases, making him virtually impossible to tag out. The vampire’s bat form is so small and quick that even his teammates lose track of him and wonder if he might have just left to go home before he suddenly reappears in human form on home plate. The self-aggrandizing celebration that follows parodies the very idea of vampires celebrating themselves for being better at sports than humans.

The immediate aftermath of the scene also mocks the protagonist of Twilight, Bella, and her vampire/werewolf love triangle. Gail has already been turned by her werewolf boyfriend, but when Nadja accidentally kills her with a kickball to the face, Nandor rushes in to save her life by also turning her into a vampire. This is a nod Bella’s relationships with Jacob (Taylor Lautner), a werewolf, and Edward, a vampire, and the fact that the audience last sees Gail struggling to fly away as a comically gruesome bat/wolf hybrid highlights the ridiculousness of such a love triangle.

The scene serves as a multi-layered comical callback to Twilight, and it’s another hilarious installment in a long list of comedic references to other popular vampires in What We Do In The Shadows. Audiences have certainly enjoyed the humorous nods to other vampiric pop culture in the past, and this scene is no exception. With Twilight spanning a movie franchise, viewers can potentially be on the lookout for more references to the iconic vampire movies in future episodes of What We Do In The Shadows.

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