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After having to leave 667 Dark Avenue, the Baudelaires are sent to a village called VFD that has too many unnecessary rules. Jacques and the Librarian follow. Unfortunately so does Count Olaf. He disguises himself as Detective Dupin, and Esme as Officer Luciana. The Baudelaires live with the Handyman, Hector. When the crows roost in the Nevermore Tree, they leave a couplet poem from Isadora. They do everyone else's chores as a cover for searching for Isadora and Duncan. Jacques and Count Olaf go head to head.

The crows sleep in Nevermore Tree at night. That's a reference to "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe.

Hector has a book called The Pony Party. The cover is the reverse side of the book jacket for Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography. Hector also has The Littlest Elf. This is a book that Lemony Snicket has mentioned writing (under the pseudonym Monty Kensicle, an anagram of his name). It's presumably his first book, because he detests it. Gustav Sebald adapted it into a movie.

The painting of the firefighter is the show's director, Barry Sonnenfeld.

Detective Dupin is named after C. Auguste Dupin, a detective from various short stories by Edgar Allan Poe.

When Mr. Poe explains that a village will take care of them in The Vile Village and the Baudelaires ask how it would be possible, he says, "Maybe they will draw lots like in that wonderful Shirley Jackson story!" In a story known as "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson, people draw lots and whoever gets the paper with a dot on it will be stoned to death, which is quite the unfortunate end.

Mr. Poe accidentally calls Count Olaf "Count Omar" because The Daily Punctilio calls him Count Omar.

When hector is showing the orphans his library on the air balloon there is a book with the title of lucky smells, this is the factory where the orphans stayed near the end of season 1

"Nevermore tree" takes it's name from the famous poem of Edgar Allan Poe "The Raven".

While in the car ride, Mr. Poe compares the V.F.D. to a Shirley Jackson story. Shirley Jackson is a writer known for "The Lottery". The story takes places in a dystopic small village.

Officer Luciana is named after Luciana from Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. Luciana tears up an address so that the complete information will never be found, just as Esmé tears up the Quagmires's notebooks so that they can never be fully reassembled.

VFD stands for Village of Fowl Devotees and the villagers seem to especially reverence crows. Crows, however, are not fowls since fowls are domesticated birds kept for their flesh or eggs.

User reviews


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    • Author: Morlunn
    Wow. This was great. I like Hector and it was suspenseful. Recomendooooo
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    • Author: Rias
    The actress they cast as Esme was super annoying, other than that, it was a good episode. Tony Hale is Hilarious!
  • Episode cast overview, first billed only:
    Neil Patrick Harris Neil Patrick Harris - Count Olaf
    Patrick Warburton Patrick Warburton - Lemony Snicket
    Malina Weissman Malina Weissman - Violet Baudelaire
    Louis Hynes Louis Hynes - Klaus Baudelaire
    K. Todd Freeman K. Todd Freeman - Arthur Poe
    Presley Smith Presley Smith - Sunny Baudelaire
    Lucy Punch Lucy Punch - Esmé Squalor
    Sara Rue Sara Rue - Olivia Caliban
    Nathan Fillion Nathan Fillion - Jacques Snicket
    Usman Ally Usman Ally - Hook-Handed Man
    Matty Cardarople Matty Cardarople - Henchperson of Indeterminate Gender
    Ithamar Enriquez Ithamar Enriquez - Hector
    Mindy Sterling Mindy Sterling - Elder Anabelle
    Carol Mansell Carol Mansell - Elder Jemma
    Ken Jenkins Ken Jenkins - Elder Sam
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