Headscratchers / Helluva Boss

General/Pilot

• Where do demons go when they die? Do they go to a different afterlife, reappear in Hell after some time or do they just stop existing?
  • This series shares a universe with Hazbin Hotel—per Word of God, demons who die literally become the dirt Hell is founded on. Probably a total cessation of existence, soul and body—if you want more Nightmare Fuel with that, maybe the souls of departed Hellborn stay aware even as their bodies liquify/turn to dust/do whatever to turn into Hell's infrastructure.
• The trailer shows that demons are actually capable of traveling to earth, wouldn't it be easier to send them there to deal with the overpopulation, at least to delay the problem? I mean, the universe is big and empty so there's lots of room and demons don't need earthlike conditions or oxygen, right?
  • It shows them drawing out some kind of summoning circle, and Blitzo mentions something in the commercial about having "special access to the living world". This implies that the means to get out of Hell through other means are fairly expensive and/or hard to come by, and would likely be beyond invaluable; if this were the case, it would make sense for Blitzo and his employees to have access to it due to the nature of their company. Besides, if a demon were to escape Hell and get back to Earth at all, things would likely get... very bad, to say the least.
  • It's actually stated that Blitzo and his associates aren't actually demons. They're Imps. From what is seen, it can be assumed that Imps aren't sinners sent to hell, but creatures born or created in hell. Though it's currently unknown whether all imps can travel to Earth, or just Blitzo and his cohorts.
  • Now that the pilot is actually out, we know that the whole reason that I.M.P can go to Earth is because they stole a magic book from a demon named Stolas, who looks to be a rather powerful person. It's entirely possible that if their secret to reaching the mortal realm was ever revealed, it might turn to complete chaos as demons fight over getting the book and leaving Hell, with I.M.P. themselves possibly being murdered by Stolas for letting this get out into the public.
  • Episode 1 reveals that Stolas is very well aware of I.M.P entering the mortal realm using his book and it is indeed an "illegal" move. However, he is willing to let them keep the book in exchange for returning it to him once a month, so we can rule out him being angry at them. How much the rest of Hell know about I.M.P using Stolas' grimoire along with the consequences will be likely revealed in future episodes.
• Why was Loona in that video in the beginning of the episode killing someone? I thought she was just a receptionist.
  • It was an advertisement, so they could probably take a few more liberties and include her for show. Plus while she is the receptionist, there doesn't seem to be anything actually stopping her from taking a case.
    • Looks like it. In Episode 1, Loona doesn't go with the group on their job
    • The fact that Blitzo had to call her after they finished the job to make a portal for them suggests that they need the grimoire with them to make a portal, so the fact that they left Loona behind with the grimoire implies that either the book is too valuable to risk losing or can't actually pass through the portal. Either way, it seems that no matter what they need to leave someone behind in hell to open a return portal for them.
  • Hell equivalent of having a cute dog doing people stuff in the commercial?
    • With confirmation that Loona is Blitzo's adopted daughter, it might be the equivalent of showing the owner's kid playing at the business to make the audience go "Aww. A nice family business!".
  • The I.M.P crew could work in rotation with Blitzo, Millie and Moxxie being the primary workers and Loona on standby for transport. They could trade places if ever someone is temporarily unavailable or sustained injuries
    • Another possibility is skillset. Moxxie and Millie's preferred killing styles are inconspicuous enough in most situations (or at least can be explained away as being human work). Loona might be more inclined to go for mauling, which is messier and might raise eyebrows in more places.
• So if they can just open a portal to earth, why not go colonize there to deal with the overpopulation problem? I mean demons are immortal so they wouldn't even have to deal with the living, just piss off into space.
  • One of Vivz's Q and A's stated that imps are not immortal, it's only sinners and royals who don't age. And it's only the royals who have the means to create portals.
  • Also, angels would probably take umbrage with that idea and slaughter them.
• Why do the imps all have random white splotches on their bodies?
  • Camouflage against the background of hell or a sign of virility. That's the usual reason for nature doing weird stuff.
  • A more recent theory posits that those white spots are actually areas where imps have survived serious injuries and are basically a form of scarring.
• Why does Loona want a cure for syphilis? I don't think demons would be affected by human diseases (and in fact would get some kind of twisted joy out of spreading them, especially considering how much they hate and look down upon humans; indeed, episode 3 shows that there's a whole type of demon tasked with spreading STDs).
  • Two explanations I can think of.

1: It affects Hellhounds differently to succubi and She actually has unpleasant symptoms.2: Loona doesn't actually have syphilis and was just fucking with Blitzo.

• It's literally Hell which is supposed to be hellish, why wouldn't its inhabitants be able to get sick?

• The entire situation with Eddie was caused by Moxxie accidentally shooting him while aiming for someone else. How, then, is it possible for Moxxie to have blamed the situation on Loona having given him the wrong information, and for it to have turned out that Eddie was the correct target all along?
  • Moxxie not wanting to admit it was entirely his fault, and Loona just wanting to kill the bratty kid?
  • It's entirely possible that both of them screwed up. One possible scenario is that the client gave Loona some faulty information that she either didn't bother to double-check or somehow garbled further, resulting in them going to the wrong location... but then Moxxie also screwed up by shooting Eddie rather than the person they thought was the target thanks to the inaccurate information they got. More generally, it's possible that Loona messed something up, resulting in them going after the wrong target, then Moxxie shot Eddie rather than the person they thought was the target.
  • Perhaps the client gave I.M.P a photo for ID purposes and it had both the mother and child in frame. And Loona, being Loona, didn't pay full attention and simply assumed that it was the mother who was the target at the time. And when she contacted the client later to inform them of the delay, they let her know they actually got it right.
• Since Exorcists come down to hell to take care of the over-population crisis, does that mean they traverse through other Rings, or do they only take care of the sinners that reside within Pride?
  • Since the overpopulation is caused by dead humans who are functionally stuck in hell for eternity since theyre already dead (hellborn demons appear to be long lived but can die of natural causes), and human souls are restricted to the Pride ring, likely the Exorcists stay there. Since thats where they can exterminate the highest concentration of sinners.
  • The first episode of Hazbin Hotel explains that Lucifer had made an arrangement with Heaven regarding the Exterminations, and that Hellborn demons are exempt from being targeted. Since Sinners are bound to the Pride ring, the Exorcists have no reason to visit the other rings.
• Since Loona is a member of I.M.P, why was she watching the live broadcast of Charlie advertising the hotel ?
  • She was bored and had nothing better to do.
• Why does Blitzo use a flintlock? They're extremely slow firing compared to modern pistols.
  • Style over substance/Rule of Cool? Blitzo is a former performer and has an interest in acting. He may simply use a flintlock because he likes the look of it rather than its practicality.
  • It is possible that they were born when there were such weapons, and they are simply used to and / or feel more comfortable using them. ^{what's more} As noted in fridge logic, due to the lack of grooves on the barrel of the weapon due to its muzzle-loading nature, which means that The bullet can't be traced back to a singular weapon
• This one is a cross-show question: in Hazbin Hotel, a large portion (if not the vast majority) of dead sinners we see have an animal themed appearance. Yet in Helluva Boss, all of I.M.P.'s clients we've seen have all been Big Red Devil. Why the difference if they take place in the same universe? EDIT: Just rewatched "Spring Broken" and noticed some animal-themed clients in line for the discount murders, but it still stands that all of I.M.P.'s named clients are classic devils.
  • To be fair, I.M.P has only had two official clients so far in the series proper—Mrs. Mayberry in episode 1, and Loopty Goopty in episode 4. If we count Lyle Lipton and the testimonial demon from the pilot, we've only seen four official sinners onscreen in this 'verse—it's possible there are more to come that will be more animalistic. Alternately it may just be a stylistic choice to visually differentiate between the two series.
  • Differentiating the series is a pretty good possibility for the answer — the majority of Hazbin characters wear bowties due to Author Appeal, so when designing the cast of Helluva, Vivzie deliberately controlled herself and gave a bowtie to only one character, Moxxie. Perhaps she made a similar decision about sinners with Animal Motifs.
• Why doesn't Blitzo simply take out the 'o' in his name, instead of just making it silent?
  • He is eccentric and must do eccentric shit. Likely, he wants to stick out in people's minds, something very common in people who change their names.
  • Further, it's very hard to legally change one's name—there's paperwork and fees, and I imagine Blitzo just can't be bothered enough to go through the trouble.

• Considering she had a difficult upbringing and well it's hell I understand why Loona is a bitch most of the time.. But why is she so cruel to Moxxie? I get that he's often victimized for the sake of comedy but I find it weird that she singles him out so much.
  • Blitzo's her dad figure, and Millie will fight back with words (and teeth) if need be. Loona can't yell at clients, so that unchecked aggression has to go somewhere—Moxxie just happens to be the softest target.
• If Stolas's implications that there was never any love between him and Stella is true, than why haven't they gotten divorced yet? It's not like Stella has more power in the relationship than him since he ranks higher than her as a member of the Ars Goetia. Sure, there could be a scandal if the truth about Stolas's infidelity with an imp were to be brought to light, but Stolas doesn't seem to care too much about keeping it a secret since he openly flirts with Blitzo in public and the two frequently pop up in each other's Instagram posts. Plus Truth Seekers showed that Stolas is more than powerful enough to take on anybody who would give him shit about it.
  • The most recent episode "Ozzie's" seems to hint that either they're divorced now, or at least aren't living together anymore. Before that though, it's just the stigma of divorce-Stolas would essentially be admitting he screwed up a serious relationship like marriage, and along with that, Stolas and Stella have a huge mansion, property, and a lot of stuff to work through before the divorce would be finalized, as it isn't like divorce doesn't involve legal proceedings and allocation of items and all that. Also, Stella might have been, as much as she hated it, unwilling to end the relationship because of the bad press it would cause, or Stolas was unwilling for Octavia's sake or a desperate hope he'd be able to figure something better out. It's a messy business, marriage, and when it starts falling apart, it is all but guaranteed to not be so easy or simple.
  • Additionally, in a divorce it tends to be the mother who gets custody. Octavia is extremely important to Stolas.
• Why is Hell's society so weirdly heteronormative? Monogamy seems rather embraced and polyamory unheard of, to say nothing of marriage being an institution at all. Seems rather odd considering the society was founded in the wake of defying the leadership of an arguably quite stifling God.
  • It really isn't. Heteronormative just means heterosexuality is the norm and that's clearly not the case given that there are demons of multiple different sexual orientations running around. And as for monogamy being embraced, that's not entirely the case either. Looking at Hazbin Hotel, Travis had no problem sleeping with Angel Dust despite being married, with the latter even cheekily telling Travis to say hi to the missus for him. And Asmodeus even praises Stolas, even if it is in a backhanded way, for exhibiting true lust by squandering his family just to satisfy his libido. Hell doesn't care about fidelity, but it does prioritize the strong looking down on the weak, hence why Stolas sleeping with an imp is seen as shameful. As for why this status quo is upheld despite Hell's reputation of rebellion, Hell is full of hypocrites.
• How come nobody I.M.P has ever killed that went to Hell try and locate them for revenge, or at least to get answers? A lot of the people they kill probably aren't aware enough of who killed them or might not be that mad, but there's bound to be a few aware enough to put two and two together.
  • Considering that the reason they would be dead in the first place because of I.M.P. is because someone put a hit on them, it basically means there was someone who wanted them dead. They may be a touch preoccupied in dealing with the people who sicc'ed Blitzo and crew on them once they're dead, and then having to find a way to make a living (killing?) in their new existences as recently deceased sinners.
• Why does Stolas even have a portal to the human world, his grimoire gives him access to said portal, but why would he really need to head to the human world in the first place?
  • The Stolas from real world demonology is said to possess extensive knowledge on astronomy, history, herbs, and precious stones. Since this version of Stolas is also heavily associated with stars and has a large collection of plants, it's most likely that he is summoned by humans so that they can learn from him.
• How does the Grimoire work? Does it conveniently drop them off where they're needed or is there more to it?
  • ...Ummm, I'm a little lost on what the question is exactly, but I'll give my best shot. Yes, the Grimoire, apparently, when used properly, will open a portal between wherever the circle is drawn (such as on the wall of a building in Episode 1 to the middle of the forested space where Martha and her family lived) and wherever the target needs it to. Whether this is due to some specifics in drawing the circle, or it's straight out "make the circle while thinking of such and such place" kind of automatic magic, is not certain. The Grimoire has spells in it that do quite a lot judging by Stolas needing it for his job (whatever that might be overall), and the portal is the one IMP, and Stolas at times, use most frequently.
• Why exactly does Millie let Blitz abuse Moxxie so much? She's been shown to be very defensive of her husband towards other individuals, yet for some reason Blitz gets a pass. Even the excuse of "He's her boss, so she doesn't wanna get fired" doesn't add up when she's willing to be openly antagonistic to Blitz's daughter, something would probably get him more upset.
  • Ignoring the pilot (which is of dubious canonicity anyway) most of the people Millie was defending Moxxie from were either threatening to or actively trying to kill him.^{As for Asmodeus}Asmodeus is the only one who didn't, but he did push Moxxie hard enough to knock him over, something that caused Millie to stand up in concern. Blitzo is a snarky asshole but he'd never actually hurt Moxxie.
• How come Stolas's relationship with Blitzo is such a big deal if other royals are allowed to date commoners just fine, Charlie's dating Vaggie, Ozzie's dating Fizz and now Bee's dating Tex? Is it because the others are so much higher ranked than Stolas that no one can do anything about it?
  • To start, Stolas is married—not only is he dating an imp, he also happens to be cheating with one. Ozzie and Fizz's relationship is only ever hinted at with little looks and touches, so they have plausible deniability. Charlie and Bee might have similar "immunities": Charlie may be Princess of Hell, but she's also not respected by a majority of demons because she isn't as powerful/feared as her parents. Bee looks to be half-Hellhound, the lowest of Hell's social classes, and so is probably similarly not as respected outside her ring—she can date a commoner simply because she's beneath notice of the other Princes.
• Can Hellhounds just naturally generate disguises? Stolas obviously knows a spell for it, and Barbie (presumably Verosika's crew as well) has an Asmodean crystal that seems to generate her disguise. When Loona transforms, it's accompanied by different magical sparkles and a wolf howl—this seems like a unique Hound ability, but to what end? Why would Hellhounds—lowest of Hell's low—have a powerful magic like that? And if it's external, where does Loona's disguise come from?
  • It's possible that Loona found the spell in the Grimoire and decided to use it one day for the hell of it.
  • The shooting gallery attendant in Loo-Loo Land used a Finger-Snap Lighter to light the joint he rolled out of Moxxie's money. It could be that all demons are capable of using magic but only nobles have the time to master it, lesser demons focus more on "practical" skills and most only learn one or two spells. Loona seemed surprised that the imps didn't have human disguises so it's presumably easy to learn/obtain.
• The premise states that imps are the lowest in Hell's hierarchy, but is that really true? They don't seem to be segregated from the other species not the Goetias and we don't see any institutional anti-imp discrimination apart from the woman and her kid in the Sloth Ring. In fact, one could argue the Sinners are the marginalized ones, since they're confined to the Pride Ring to be picked off by the Exorcists while the other species can travel between rings.
• Why do demons insert Satan into exclamations where one would put God when he isn't even the highest being in the setting, that being Lucifer?
  • Bearing in mind that which swear words are used in which culture isn't always logical, but some possible explanations:
    • Watsonian: Satan is the Prince of Wrath, and people tend to swear when they're angry; both are used by the denizens of Hell, but we've only heard "Satan" on camera; because Lucifer is further up the hierarchy, using his name in vain is seen as much more offensive than using Satan's and demons don't do it as much.
    • Doylist: In English, "Satan" is used for the Devil more often than "Lucifer", so the word has more impact for an English-speaking audience.
    • Both: "Satan" is just a more satisfying curse word than "Lucifer".
• How come Stolas never catches on to the fact that Blitzo doesn't love him/is using him for the book until Season 2? Blitzo is clearly scolding him and frowning whenever he's around Stolas before that time.
  • Well, yeah - it's a profoundly dysfunctional relationship. There are people whose partners beat them senseless on a regular basis, but still swear blind that their partner loves them more than anything. If demons are like humans and can compartmentalize, Stolas could be telling himself any or all of the following: "Blitzo does love me, he just has trouble expressing it", "If he stays around long enough, then he'll eventually realize he does love me (and so it's okay for me to use extortion so he'll have sex with me)", "It doesn't hurt that Blitzo doesn't have the same feelings about me that I do about him", "I'm not in love with Blitzo, we're just having a fun time together"- or, if he's being honest with himself, "I'm lonely and desperate for affection, and I think Blitzo is attractive and I like having sex with him and he doesn't constantly scream at me, plus I have at least a modicum of control in this relationship, so while it's not great, it's the best thing I've ever had."
• Why didn't Stolas bother to save Blitzo in Murder Family despite loving him? He could do it in Truth Seekers and Blitzo was clearly under stress when being called, so what's stopping him from saving his life then?
• What's with Blitz's fascination with cats? Moxxie wakes up to find him watching him and purring,the trio dress up as felines in C.H.E.R.U.B.,Blitz is seen swishing his tail in the opera scene of that same episode....surely there's a reason for it.
  • It's funny, same as his thing for horses.

Murder Family

• In the first episode of Helluva Boss the kid in the corner sings a line about Mrs. Mayberry's husband's birthday being today, how did he know that?
  • Mrs. Mayberry is shown to have a close connection with her students, so it’s not unreasonable to assume they would know details about her life like that.
• While Blitzo having an inverted crucifix as his scope's crosshairs is forgivable, the point where the two lines meet is below the scope's center. Isn't he concerned about that throwing off his aim?
  • It depends on how the rifle is zeroed. The rifle's sights and scope could easily be adjusted to zero on the point of the inverted crosshair.
• One of the alarm lights on Loona's desk is labeled "ghost". How can there be a ghost in Hell?
  • Could be another kind of entity that's not necessarily a human ghost. Imps are alive as they're born in hell to begin with. Perhaps they deal with imp ghosts on occasion.
  • Blitzo also had lights for "Horny Client", "Client Giving Birth", and "Soiled my Pants", he might just be Crazy-Prepared.
    • "Client Giving Birth" at least can also potentially be another emergency button exclusive to Hellborn citizens rather than dead humans. Unlike humans, who are dead and thus cannot have children, those born and living in hell Can get pregnant and thus give birth (hence Stolas having a daughter and that imp whose baby stroller Loona punted in the pilot episode).
  • It might also be a reference to Loona's Hell-oween costume, and Blitzo's reaction.
• When Martha trying to burn Millie and Blitzo to kill them didn't work, she then tries to shoot them, which Blitzo says will work better. Except it's been confirmed that demons can't die unless they are killed by an exorcist weapon. So how did Blitzo know that would work?
  • Firstly, Hellborn demons like imps are mortal, it's only former humans that need angel weapons to be killed. Second, that misinformed Satanist was trying to send them back to Hell.
• How much time passed between Mrs. Mayberry's murder-suicide and her requesting I.M.P to kill Martha? We see a montage of Martha being praised as a hero by various people for surviving the murder attempt, yet Blitzo says that she just got out of the hospital when he asks Moxie if he would like to shoot her and she still has a bandage around her head. Did something happen to send her back to the hospital temporarily or did very little time pass?
  • Likely very little time passed. Keep in mind also that serious wounds like what she survived would likely require multiple hospital visits and consultations and treatments and even additional surgeries. People don't quickly bounce back from trauma like what she was implied to have endured.
  • The answer to this generally depends on if you take the various Instagram posts to mean events are happening in "real time" relative to us. In the first episode, the kids state that Mrs. Mayberry's murder-suicide happened on January 8th at around 9:00 AM. Why is the Instagram important? Blitzo revealed that he recently finished his eel tank on October 31st, the day the first episode aired. If we take this to mean that the incident in the office and the contract happened relative to the actual date of the Instagram post and the family was having dinner, then about 9 months, 23 days, and probably 8-10 hours have passed since then. A long time, sure, but considering a chainsaw and a gun were involved it's likely that a series of surgeries and a long recovery process was needed.
  • Also keep in mind that I.M.P is specifically a Paid assassin service. And not a very well known one likely. In all likelihood before getting to this point Mrs. Mayberry would've had to 1) Arrive in hell, 2) Find a job to earn money (assuming demons arrive in hell with nothing but the clothes on their back and no money), 3) Find out about I.M.P and what they do, and 4) Earn and save up enough money to both have her everyday expenses and be able to pay for I.M.P to take the hit. Which would've definitely taken some time depending on how much I.M.P charges and how good of a job she can find.
• What even do they need the grimoire for? When they opened the portal in "Murder Family" it looked like Loona was just reading silently while Millie drew a circle on the wall. Is the book itself magic or do they need to trace glyphs in it to cast the spells or something?
  • Pretty much yeah. That and it's likely the power to run the portal is coming from the book. Given how difficult it's implied to be to access the living world from hell and the fact that only demon nobility are able to, it would make sense that a rare artifact like the grimoire is needed for both instructions and empowerment.
  • It's explicitly stated by Stolas that they need the grimoire to move between Hell and the living world. Anyone can use it, but they still need the book in some way to make the portals.
• Mrs. Mayberry was a school teacher in life. Is she still working as a school teacher in Hell? If so, who does she teach? Children who died and became demons? How do those children pay her salary? Or maybe she teaches demon spawn like Charlie, who were born in Hell? Whatever her job, she is able to hire I.M.P to do a hit with her salary.
  • Two potential options. 1) The aforementioned idea that she teaches the children of demons who are growing up in hell, using her skillsets she learned in life. 2) She's found some alternative job that she fit into in some other way. Hell clearly has some form of functioning economy and infrastructure, as they use money, have services like televised news broadcasts and firefighters, and have an entertainment industry. Even if she's not personally powerful enough to become a new demonic crime lord, there's clearly a number of other, normal jobs she could take to earn enough money to pay I.M.P for her hit.
• Moxxie is an imp that was born and raised in Hell. Why does he, in the first episode, seem to have close to human morals?
  • Charlie was also born and raised in Hell, and she has even more human morals than Moxxie. There's actually a theory that "native" demons have more varied morality than damned souls, due to being originally from there rather than having been sent there after a life of sin.
    • Another possibility is that ALL the souls in Hell do have some degree of morality, just that living in Hell tends to skew it a bit.
• Why would Mrs. Mayberry's students accept Martha as, seemingly, their new teacher AND call her a hero? It was because of her that made their beloved former teacher snap, kill her husband, try to kill her, and commit suicide out of guilt.
  • It really just seems like hyperbole to drive Mayberry's point home but, simple answer? They're kids, and kids are naive & manipulatable - if everyone else starts calling Martha a hero there's a decent chance they would do it just because that's the commonly accepted viewpoint on her at the time. It seems ambiguous that she actually is their new teacher, given that she's wearing her everyday clothing when she meets the classroom and there's another person in the room dressed more like a teacher, so it may be instead that someone opted to have the class meet Martha as some form of closure for seeing what Mayberry did.
  • In the scene, there's another adult who's dressed more formally than Martha, and the blackboard has "How To Deal With Trauma 101" written on it. Based on these, the other adult is actually the students' new teacher and it would appear that Martha was invited to the class as some sort of special guest speaker to most likely talk about how she survived and overcame her traumatic experience. Given the rest of the montage has people giving exaggerated heaps of praise and attention to Martha for simply surviving, that's most likely the case here. As for the kids calling Martha a hero, it would appear that they, just like apparently everyone else, were drawn into the narrative that Martha was a victim in all of this and her surviving what happened was something inspirational. This despite being the literal witnesses to what actually occurred.
  • On that subject: do the kids understand what they saw? Depending on their age, they might not have understood the whole "cheating" thing—all they saw was their teacher's husband with another woman, and then said teacher flipping the hell out on both of them. If they didn't know what was going on, it would look a lot like Miss Mayberry was the one who was more in the wrong.
  • To be fair, their are signs Mrs. Mayberry wasn't as great a teacher as she thought she was. She doesn't just stop at Martha, she asks for her (presumably innocent) children to be killed as well. She also shows signs that random outbursts of rage weren't out of character beforehand if the kid in the dunce cap and the eye twitching were any indication. Finally she physically neck-lifted the student who tried to stop her, so even if she was a good teacher between that and the grisly murder they might have turned against her on their own.
    • Actually, no, Martha was the only target, since I.M.P. didn't kill them and didn't try, and Mrs. Mayberry says nothing to indicate that, so I don't know where the fizz you got that nonsense. It is very true that their are implications of Mrs. Mayberry having problems and not being perfect, but considering her students did seem to love her, earnestly and honestly singing that they love her, and seeming quite happy, even the dunce cap kid, it seems more like she had flaws, and the students might have known she had a temper at times, but she was still caring and fun. The above explanations make more sense, since most of what I'm responding to here seems to be just vague speculation based on stating the obvious without much nuance.
• How do the average Joes of Hell get information about the Living World? I can get how royalty like Stolas is able to see into Earth, but how would people like Mrs. Mayberry know about current events after they died?
  • Might just be part of her punishment, seeing the person she hates most still alive living a good life.
    • Hell doesn't really seem to HAVE set punishments in Hellaverse, though - going by the hotel crew, the sinners make each other miserable by being as shitty as they were in life, but there's no formalised punishment.
  • Or they have access to the internet of the world of the living? Blitzo is able to both receive and make calls to Hell on his smartphone when in the living world.
  • Or she just talked with some of Martha's victims. It is implied that Martha was a honeypot, she would seduce the victim and bring them home to be murdered. ** That sounds unlikely; if she was aware of Martha's true nature, she'd most likely have told Blitzo and the gang. Murdering a harmless woman is one thing, going up against a family of Ax-Crazy serial killers is a whole other deal.
  • It's very likely that Earth media can still be viewed through Hell. Moxxie is shown to be a fan of Michael Crawford in spite of the latter not even being in Hell and Blitzo's favorite movie is Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron. Mrs. Mayberry probably kept up with information about Martha through news coverage.
• If Mayberry somehow knew the specifics of what was going on in Martha's life, how did she not also know that Martha & her family were insane gun-toting Satanists? Or if she did know, why wouldn't she tell I.M.P about it, since it definitely has some bearing on them successfully killing her?
  • She might have said it to Blitzo, but he didn't tell it to the rest of the team (if she talked with some of Martha's victims in Hell). Or, if she learned the information from having access to media from the world of the living, she didn't know she was a cannibal. Only that she survived and people are calling her a hero.
• What's this about Martha getting shot by Mrs. Mayberry? Yes, Mrs. Mayberry shot her husband Jarold and then herself, but with Martha, we clearly hear a chainsaw.
  • There is some kind of banging sound right after she chainsaws Martha, and multiple gunshots afterwards, so maybe that's when she did it? Either that or, given that Gerald & Martha were in the middle of getting it on when Mayberry killed them so they'd likely be close to each other, she may have pulled off a One-Hit Polykill when she shot her husband.
  • In the episode when Mayberry was ranting about how Martha didn't deserve all of the praise, she said that getting shot was the best thing that happened to her before saying that is why she wanted her dead to Blitzo. She did use a chainsaw but Martha might have gotten away from it so she switched to shooting her. Martha was shot first and looked dead because Jarold exclaimed that she had a family before Mayberry shot him and later committed suicide through gunshot.
• When Martha tried burning Blitzo and Millie at the stake but it doesn't work because of being Imps. But why didn't the ropes burn?
  • Cartoon Logic at play. The ropes don't burn because what they are tying up doesn't burn, so Blitz and Millie still have to be untied.
• Isn't blackmailing someone into sex by holding the ability to do their job over their head kind of, uh... rape? How come Blitzo doesn't seem to mind in later eps, when he's so uncomfortable here and in the pilot and this never got addressed?

Loo Loo Land

• How is Loo Loo Land allowed to operate? It's blatantly ripping off a property owned by Hell's head honcho, so you'd think he would've had it shut down and punished Mammon for plagiarizing him long ago.
  • Depending on the mythos you subscribe to, Mammon has historically been included among the seven demon princes of Hell. It's entirely possible that this Mammon is also a pretty big deal in the Hazbinverse, and so it could cause political strife if Lucifer were to go after him directly—adding to that, the mascot very clearly dares people to sue the park, which means they probably have some damn fine lawyers on their side.
  • Another possibility is that Lucifer doesn't actually care or may even find it amusing. It's not necessarily an actual threat to him or his power, so he sees it as amusing (in the same regard as someone in power might take digs at themselves on TV or as a satirical work.
  • Lucifer is the Demon Prince of Pride—it may even be an ego boost for him, being popular or infamous enough to get a knockoff version of his theme park.
    • Plus, as the Demon Prince of Pride, he may also enjoy a chance to take digs at Mammon that HIS park is more successful. It'd feed his pride to let someone else try to copy him, only to not do nearly as well.
  • Why are there theme parks in hell in general?
    • Panem et Circenses (bread and circuses). Perhaps it's a way to keep lesser denizens (and, apparently, some Goetic royalty) entertained and keep them from thinking of going against the higher-ups
    • It is Hell. The best possible product you could sell in Hell is happiness and/or fleeting pleasure.
    • Note that a lot of the employees and patrons of the park seem to be imps. And Millie mentions going there as a child with siblings. Hellborn creatures like imps clearly have a lot of normal lives given they're not being punished for sins, as they're still alive. The amusement park was probably built to draw in those who live in Hell rather than those who died and are stuck there.
• How does the timeline of the series work? Stella is directly told by Blitzo right after the first time that he has sex with Stolas that they're having an affair - we see that in the pilot flashback. And assuming the Instagrams are canon, which to all indications they fully are, Stolas and Blitzo's relationship seems to have been going on for *quite* a while between that flashback and episode 2. So why is Stella reacting in episode 2 like she *just* found out?
  • Most likely answer, it's simply Stella being angry again at finding out that Stolas slept with Blitzo. Octavia's dialogue and etc. in episode 2 heavily imply that Stella screaming at Stolas for continuing to sleep with Blitzo has become a regular occurrence ever since the affair was first discovered, so much so that Via no longer needs to ask for context for what's happening anymore.
  • The way Stella phrases it and Stolas' reaction ("I didn't have time to go to a motel!") makes it sound like she caught them in bed together and that's what set her off. Blitzo just says, "Sorry, I fucked your husband" without giving further detail that we see—it's possible the full details were never revealed, only eked out in pieces.
• Given how this exchange between Stolas and Blitzo goes,
  Stolas: I have a special request.
  Blitzo: (groans) Look, I just had a chemical peel, so you'll have to find someone else's face to plant that feathered ass.
  Stolas: It's for my daughter?
  Blitzo: Ah. Well, make sure she washes it.

  Blitzo appears to be fine with the idea of Octavia sitting on his face. Even assuming he doesn't know her age...why??

  • It's mostly just senseless Rule of Funny, but if you really need a concrete answer, my best guess is that Blitzø was either saying that because he thought it was just a new thing Stolas decided to add as part of their "transaction" and he just felt it wasn't worth arguing against by that point, or...well, I had assumed Blitzø meant he thought Octavia was going to be the one that would seat her ass on his freshly peeled face, so he was advising Stolas to remind her to wash her ass beforehand.
  • Blitzo was clearly more than a touch miffed at the fact Stolas's phone call interrupted his private time. And given how little Blitzo interacts with him outside their transactional sex, he likely had no idea about anything related to Octavia including her age. As to why that was his immediate response regardless of all that, it's possible he was just trying to get back at Stolas by saying the most potentially upsetting thing that the situation presented. Had Stolas not reacted with repulsion its possible Blitzo would have just backpedaled and rescinded the offer if Stolas was serious.
  • He's being sarcastic.
• Speaking of which, hasn't anyone else noticed that sexual talk in front of your underage child is classified as a form of sexual abuse in itself? In this case it's out of dumbness, not malice, but it's still not cool.
  • Assuming the question here is, "Why is he doing that?" A lot of Stolas's behaviour can be summed up in three words: bird's got issues. One of them is that, probably from growing up very isolated and being pushed into an Arranged Marriage at a young age, he missed out on some of the socialization around how to behave when you're in an adult relationship. In some ways he acts a lot like a teenager with their first sexual partner: he thinks he's being a lot more subtle than he is, he talks about it in situations that aren't appropriate, etc. The thing is that it's a lot creepier when it's a guy in his thirties with a teenage child of his own around than when it's a hormone-crazed high schooler.

Spring Broken

• How do Verosika & her employees have access to the mortal realm? It's well established that it's very hard to get there from Hell; Blitzo had to borrow Stolas' grimoire in order to go there and it's heavily implied that what I.M.P is doing is technically illegal (insofar as Hell can be said to have laws).
  • She is a succubus and a famous popstar in Hell. Blitzo says that one of the jobs of succubi and incubi is to spread STDs in the Human World. If she is a famous popstar, it is possible she got VIP access somehow.
  • It' not really hard to get to Earth from Hell, you just have to have the right connections and access. Stolas mentions that he needs his magic book to carry out his duties, so Hell's demons do carry out activity on Earth. Blitzo's access to Earth is more likely "unique" because he's a lowly imp and not a prince.
  • If Verosika is a celebrity in Hell and the Human World, it's likely there are human occultists who act as her (and co.)'s liaisons/secret keepers. One thing they might do is to wait for their mortal devotees to draw a pentagram on the floor, utter some incantations with intense focus, and presto: a portal to the Human World.
    • It's also possible that succubi and incubi get special privileges which allow them to travel back and fourth between the human world. They can't do their job without going to the human world, after all.
  • "Oops" provides an answer, when Stolas is negotiating for a crystal from Asmodeus, he mentions how Asmodeus' Inccubi and Succubi are some of the only demons that can access the mortal realm freely and legally.
• How is Loona even confused about the imps not having disguises? We've seen them with humans and they aren't bothered at all what they look like or mistake them for smaller animals or just "freaks"? Late on the shock value, hun.
  • Easy; there are punishments for demons not going to earth in human disguises which could result in the whole I.M.P going under.
    • They might not even need disguises anyway due to Moxxie being confused for a Possum, and the drunk party goer confusing Blitzø, an Imp born in the Abrahamic Hell, for a Leprechaun from the Irish/Druish Mythology. Still killed the guy anyway so regardless his identity is safe.
    • Also best way to maintain stealth, is to leave no witnesses. Which I.M.P does being in the Assassination business.
  • "Truth Seekers" shows that there are demon hunters trying to prove that demons exist, and running around without a disguise does draw their attention.
• In the line of customers when Blitzo posts his flyer, there is a character with an animal skull head, and he's wearing a blue sweater that has a Vote for Me pin on it. Is he a Politician in Hell? So far the 7 rings have been hinted at as Absolute Monarchies.
  • Perhaps he's so egotistical as to continue wearing his campaign pin from when he was alive long after he's been rendered ineligible for office?
  • Note that even under monarchies, there was a degree of local voting for leadership. The head demons of a region of Hell likely aren't getting involved in the nitty-gritty and, judging by what we see, are somewhat hands-off. There's almost certainly room for local elections, whether formal or informal.
• Some imps can be seen standing in line to make a contract with I.M.P... but imps are native demons, not sinners, so why would they be interested in what the company has to offer?
  • Perhaps that's why they didn't hire them in the first place. They're basically dumb customers. Alternatively, they're sinners that just look like imps.
  • Could also be a power trip, or even just For the Evulz - they are demons after all, so killing a human being for the hell of it might be entertaining to them.
  • Keep in mind that every victim on the list they got that day was on that beach — one might assume that the entire premise of the promotion (not outlined on Blitzo's flyer, naturally, but explained to the lined-up clients afterward) was for the customers to choose someone on the beach that day at random and pay I.M.P. to murder them, purely for their own amusement. It's Hell, everyone in that line would probably genuinely get a kick out of that.
• Does Blitzo really have any reason to be intimidated by Verosika or her posse? He's an assassin who's perfectly fine to kill other demons if need be, always packs heat, is supported by Moxie & Millie who are skilled killers in their own right, and is on good terms with one of the most powerful beings in all of Hell - what does he have to fear from a singer and her staff?
  • Have you ever seen Scott Pilgrim vs. The World? Famous singers have the tendency to make BreakUpSongs, and she could've potentially ruined his career if anyone cared.
  • Not to mention she has Vortex on her side—the only time Blitzø actually seemed cowed by Verosika or anyone in her crew was when he had a gigantic, muscled hellhound standing right behind him. For the most part, Blitzø seems perfectly fine with antagonizing Verosika.
  • Also, it's possible that Blitzo isn't willing to start real beefs with people in Hell who have power and influence. At the end of the day, he's just a common imp who's good with a gun. Blitzo can call her every name in the book, but when it comes down to it, Verosika probably has way more influence and ability to get what she wants than he does.
• Why the fuck did nobody notice the amount of murder going on?
  • Presumably the same reason why nobody learned that Martha was a complete psycho even after she became a celebrity - this version of Earth is a Crapsack World and most of the humans in it are lethally stupid. On the other hand someone did apparently call the police, so it's possible people did notice but it took a while for the authorities to arrive, maybe? As far as why the people at the beach party itself didn't really notice, again, they were stupid, horny, drunk, or all three.
  • Also the Imps were intentionally going stealth mode with all of their kills. Using Loona in human disguise to lure hapless victims off of the public beach and into more isolated locations where the murder wouldn't be noticed, such as empty alleyways. Likely someone would've noticed a bunch of people had gone missing within the next few days after, but so long as the murders are discrete enough that they can't be traced to any earthly culprits, there wouldn't be much they can do. Not to mention the fact the latter half of the day was shaken up by both Verosika's concert and the appearance of the giant demonized monster fish. So probably there were just too many big events for people to have noticed what happened from IMP earlier in the day.
  • Don't forget that Verosika was using her song, which is strongly implied to be magical in nature and was severely distracting all of the humans with uncontrolled lust. That, combined with the fact that everyone was extremely drunk (to the point that they thought Moxxie was a possum) meant that no one was really paying any attention.
• Did Josh not realize that Loona wasn't a human or was he trying to get with her in order to piss off Blitzo?
  • Had a hard time figuring out who was a demon or not myself during that concert scene. Think this adds to how poorly planned "The Battle for a Parking Space" was. No one knew who each other was unless asked.
  • Verosika’s crew in human form all have pointy ears, pointy teeth, and when you see them they tend to have hearts floating around them. It is not hard to distinguish who is a sex-crazed human under the influence of Verosika’s song and who is a sex demon plying their trade among the aforementioned sex-crazed humans.
  • Also, Josh was probably asked by Verosika to sleep with Loona to piss Blitzo off. Which luckily didn't happen as he probably would've murdered ALL OF THEM.
  • There's also no rule saying that he can't hit on Loona. They don't seem all that worried about losing the contest what with how many humans are willing to sleep with them at the moment, so he probably didn't mind if she wouldn't have "counted".
• This seems a bit overlooked but has been noticed by a few reviewers. How the hell are all of I.M.P's clients in a single beach? Even if spring break did attract all the intended targets, wouldn't they be at other similar beachfronts as well? Was I.M.P. planning on continuing to other beaches if it wasn't for Verosika's concert?
  • Presumably, the parameters of the wager were very much confined to this beach where Verosika was scheduled to perform; ergo, the clients lined up at Blitzo's discount flyer got to pay half of I.M.P.'s usual rate to choose a random target on that beach for them to take out, purely For the Evulz.
• For what reason does Verosika and her gang have to agree to I.M.P.'s blackmail? Yes, there's the threat that she could get in trouble for the accidental giant catfish causing interference in the human world, but don't I.M.P. interfere with the human world all the time by killing people there? Why can't Verosika just report them for doing the same thing?

  • Verosika was out of rehab to do a job for somebody. One of the assumptions is that she is actually on probation. If she messes this up, she gets locked up in rehab again. Hell is ultra capitalistic, Hell has rehab, people in Hell can literally own other people. Potentially, the sequence of events is: Verosika is too addicted to be useful, so whoever "owns" her forces her into rehab to make her useful. Some time passes and whoever "owns" her needs to test whether she is now useful or not. If she fails the test she goes back into rehab (at best). At worst, the "owner" concludes she cannot be made useful and gets rid of her by killing her. Any trouble during the test means she fails. Getting arrested for starting an orgy is probably an expected risk of the job. Getting arrested for killing people is not.

  • Also, the succubi are one step higher on Hell's hierarchy than imps, AND Verosika's a famous star. If I.M.P. is somehow excused for murdering folks on Earth, what's stopping Verosika from using her higher status to fake innocence or pin the blame of the catfish on Blitzo and his company?
    • As Millie points out, the flask is clearly Verosika's, and the fish was changed by Beezeljuice, which Verosika drinks constantly and would be known to do so, especially since she had just got out of rehab. Her employers, and any other higher-ups, would see her as an obvious suspect for it, whereas I.M.P. would have no signs of using that alcohol, nor taking it to Earth with them. Hell might have a hierarchy, but it doesn't seem to be so much one that would enable Verosika to get away with something that is clearly her fault, more she's just given more respect and some degree of notoriety for being a succubus and a pop-star, but in terms of serious matters she's not more or less above suspicion, as nobody in Hell actually cares about her or anyone beneath them on a general level. As stated above, if she's a liability to Hell, her ass is out, no questions asked, especially with something as serious as transforming an Earth creature in a way that directly points to supernatural influence, and by accident, which would make Verosika look too sloppy and reckless to be trusted to do her job. All the I.M.P. team would have to do is say to someone higher-up, like say Verosika's employers, that she had been the one definitively responsible, and point out all that they saw and knew about what went down, and Verosika would be done. Also, Millie killed it, which would help make it less of a spectacle than if it had just rampaged, so they would have the "We were there too, but we helped lessen how bad it was" card to play if pushed, and Verosika's gang don't seem to have weapons like I.M.P. does, so that would point against them having killed it, and humans would've used bombs or bullets. Essentially, everything pointed to Verosika being the one to cause that disaster, and I.M.P. had things pointing away from them having done it, so Verosika didn't have much chance of being believed if she tried to fake innocence or pin the blame on the Immediate Murder Professionals. She's in a better position respect-wise, but not in so good a position she can just get out of whatever she wants. She's famous and looked down on less, but isn't connected like some elites and crime bosses in the real world. She's more like a lackey of such powerful people, safe as long as she doesn't step out of line too much, but helpless on her own. Also, she didn't seem to think of that anyway, since all she could come up with is jabbing at them for openly killing the fish, not a smart way to threaten someone who solved a problem you caused, and then that they aren't in disguises, which didn't have any obvious problems as already pointed out.
• The fish that was transformed by the Beelzejuice was quite obviously a catfish. Why is a catfish in the ocean? They're freshwater fish.
  • There are some species of saltwater catfish who live around the southeast Atlantic, the gulf of Mexico, and off the gulf coast of North America. We never find out where exactly the beach in this episode is located, but it's probably in an area with saltwater catfish.
• What would have happened if Verosika's crew won the Demon Duel? Blitzo only says what the duel is onscreen, not what's at stake. Presumably I.M.P would have gotten their parking space back even if they won and didn't blackmail her. But with Vortex and the succubi and incubi crew, Verosika seemed to have the parking spot pretty secured under her, so it wasn't like she was at a high risk of losing it before the bet was made. She doesn't have that much else to gain from I.M.P, what did Blitzo offer to convince her to wager the spot in the challenge?
  • She might not have made I.M.P wager anything. She just wanted to beat Blitzo in something.

C.H.E.R.U.B.

• Why was the heavenly organization C.H.E.R.U.B's advertisement aired on a Hell TV station in the first place?
  • Heaven is shown to be a planet in the sky in Hazbin Hotel, so they could receive radio waves from up there.
  • Heaven for all of its apparent purity also has a serious problem with pride as shown by Cletus during his emotional breakdown. Despite probably knowing it's just plain cruel, they can't help rubbing it in hells collective faces how much better they've got it.
• If Lyle and Loopty's machine only aged them because they accidentally set it to age them up, why didn't Lyle just change the machine's setting to de-age him and go back in?
  • Lyle missed Loopty so much he tried to commit suicide. Even if he could, he had no reason to get his youth back.
  • In addition to the above, it could be the machine straight up didn't work the way they intended it to. Loopty flat out admitted that they both jumped into the machine together without any prior human testing due to overconfidence in their inventing abilities. Lyle may have paid someone to go in after the fact and test the proper setting, only to find out that the reversed ageing function didnt even work, even though the age acceleration did. Thus further contributing to his initial state of completely giving up on life, having lost both his best friend and his youth in one fell swoop.
  • The EMTS could have destroyed the Control Panel to unlock the door, or alternatively, the Police shut it down to investigate potential foul play in Loopy's death.
  • Lyle's health was too fragile at that point to withstand the strain the machine would put on his body. Using it would be a death sentence in of itself and pointedly a much more painful terrifying death sentence then simple asphyxiation. After all Loopty aged with him and suffered a massive heart attack/heart failure that probably wasn't just due to his age.
• Loopty claims to have died on the very same day he hired I.M.P. to kill Lyle. If that's the case, how was Lyle able to profit so heavily off the age-altering invention on the same day it was perfected?
  • They already had a multi-billion dollar corporation before inventing the age-altering device.
• Who hired C.H.E.R.U.B? Cleetus just said they were there “on behalf of those who benefited from his advances.”
  • Presumably exactly that, people in heaven whose lives were improved by Loopty and Lyle's inventions. Given the age machine, the two may have invented other medical adjacent devices that improved the lives of eventually heavenbound souls. Thus giving them enough of a following and good reputation that one or several someones wanted to keep Lyle from ending it after thr accident.
  • On that note, how does C.H.E.R.U.B decide who to save at any given time? There’s three of them, and they work together, to cover 7 Billion (and counting!) people on earth. They seem to be the only freelance guardian Angel agency, so are some requests not getting fulfilled?
    • It may be possible that C.H.E.R.U.B is a much bigger organization than that of I.M.P. Blitzo just started with two other imps and a hellhound. Meanwhile, we've only seen Cletus, Colin, and Keenie. Now that they are kicked out, there may be a chance they will be replaced.
    • More likely that C.H.E.R.U.B. really is only the three of them, but they're not safeguarding the entire population of Earth from death, people die all the time after all, they specifically preserve the lives their clients ask them to. They're a foil to I.M.P., who very specifically kill mortals for revenge purposes and find themselves occasionally struggling to drum up enough business. And remember, Hell, namely the Pride ring where sinners live, has a massive overpopulation problem. There probably simply aren't enough people in Heaven to make C.H.E.R.U.B. overly busy.
  • It's hinted that the Angels up in Heaven are just as bad as the Demons down in Hell. So it's possible that they were hired by the rich and powerful up in Heaven to try and get the old man into Heaven for their own personal gains.
• If Blitzo didn’t feel that death by accident caused by the cherubs counts as a successful assassination, then why was he going to let, and then later convince, Lyle to commit suicide?
  • It likely wasnt the fact that he died by accident which caused his death to be a failure. Remember, the main reason C.H.E.R.U.B. was there was to remind him of the beauty of the world and convince him to not kill himself and use his remaining life in a better way. Which could be considered a form of repentance. And Loopty's specific desire was to see Lyle sent to hell. So him being convinced to want to live and then being killed may have been cause for his his soul being sent to heaven had he not been a ruthless capitalist who experimented on the poor. Additionally, in many religious circles, suicide is considered to be a sin, or at least a reason to be denied entrance to heaven. With Loopty's specific desire being to have Lyle sent to hell, him willingly "committing die" would have likely been a completely acceptable way to go since doing so would condemn him to hell either way.
• Do angels need to be in disguise while on earth, since the cherubs are shown to be out in the open multiple times.
  • They've never needed disguises.
  • If descriptions and depictions of cherubim are to be believed, those forms WERE their disguises.
• If C.H.E.R.U.B. are required to save human lives, then where were they when I.M.P. were slaughtering a bunch of people during “Spring Broken”? Sure, they can’t be there for every death, but surely they should respond to, y’know, a mass murder taking place.
  • Because, like I.M.P, they have to be commissioned to do so by the deceased; Sinners hire I.M.P to kill someone they hate, Saints hire(well, more like ask) C.H.E.R.U.B to protect someone they love. Only other difference is that I.M.P requires payment while C.H.E.R.U.B refuses payment.
• If Loopty had just died how does he already have the money to pay I.M.P. in advance? The saying goes "You can't take it with you" and he is unlikely to be able to access his Earthy bank accounts. Its not clear to me if you can keep any personal items you have on you when you die, as it seems your appearance changes quite a bit and Loopty was shown wearing different clothes when he died. Even then he would be limited to the money he had in his pockets at the time.
  • We still don't have much info about if sinners can take anything from Earth with them to Hell. Being a rich inventor, it's likely that Loopty was carrying around a fairly large sum of cash. And even if he wasn't, he probably gave his new demon abilities a quick test run by robbing a bank.
• How did Moxxie and Millie get tied together and thrown into the wreckage of the rigging Blitzo was standing on? Presumably, they were still spinning through the air. Did Keenie and Collin get a random boost in competence and suddenly capture the rapidly-spinning, heavily-armed imps?
  • Their spinning may have gotten them entangled in some stage rigging. Or even the rope they were holding onto once it snapped.
• Why did Loopty lie about his motivations for hiring I.M.P.? They'd be happy to accept his money either way.
  • We as the audience know that I.M.P. is on hard times, but Loopty doesn't. He probably thought it would be better to play it safe rather than risk having I.M.P. refuse to do the job.
  • Blitzo appeared incredulous about Loopty's reasons for wanting Lipton dead after the fact, since none of it explained how exactly this constituted a reason to want him dead. As said above, Loopty was probably worried about them not taking the job on account of it not being for revenge. So he made up his flimsy reason that Blitzo ended up accepting on the spot.
    • To the both of you, it's not a matter of I.M.P. being financially desperate, it's the fact that they're freaking demonic hit men (and women). Someone like that would be as unfettered as it gets. In the pilot they were shown taking a job from a murderer to off the dude who caught him burying the body for crying out loud. Why would they suddenly get cold feet just because the client had less-than-vile motives? It's not like they're doing it For the Evulz.
    • Loopy didn't know that, though. He had just arrived to Hell, he probably assumed I.M.P (and demons in general) were much ruthless than they already are.
    • Okay, you've got a good point there. I honestly should've been able to think of that.
  • I got the impression he wasn't lying and he really was mad at his old partner. It seemed like he just changed his mind once he was reunited with his friend.
• Why didn't Lyle simply set the ageing machine to the proper setting and climb back in?
  • A few potential reasons. He was clearly in bad shape when the paramedics found him, as he immediately had to be put on oxygen, so he wouldnt have gotten the chance. Fear his body wouldn't survive the strain of the machine given his age. Was immediately taken to the hospital and then his home, and couldn't convince anyone to take him back to the lab to try. Remember, he was incredibly feeble due to advanced age and likely couldn't make the trip under his own power. So if the people overseeing his health refused to take him, for reasons such as his worrisome health or thinking he was just rambling insanely due to his new age, he would be helpless to do anything about it.
    • The paramedics would've found a famous Mad Scientist who was no older than his thirties just last week, now clearly old and decrepit, sitting in the chamber of a machine labeled the "De-age-ifier," with a lever labeled "old" and "young." Why on Earth would they dismiss his claims that the machine could restore him to the proper age as "rambling insanely"?
    • Most humans in this setting are terminally stupid and missing the obvious constantly, violently insane, or like Lyle an amoral genius. It wouldn't even be that surprising to see them make age based assumptions while ignoring all available evidence to the contrary. As mentioned it's one option out of many.
    • Its also possible the machine just didn't work as intended, unable to restore his youth, which is likely much harder to do than rapid aging.
  • Lyle was clearly depressed after the whole affair. He likely wasn't thinking straight about how he could undo the damage. He was too devastated by the death of his friend, his ruined health, and how he'll have to say goodbye to his money and so jumped to the immediate extreme. Then he had I.M.P and C.H.E.R.U.B. pestering him the whole time afterwards, giving him no time to think about the De-age-ifier.
• Instead of waiting for Lyle to kill himself, why didn't I.M.P. just kill him themselves?
  • This question has already been answered, both on this very page, and on the Fridge page for this show, and I will directly quote the latter: "I.M.P not killing Lyle directly may seem unusual considering their line of work. But remember, this was an unusual job. Before, I.M.P was just killing with no stipulation on where the soul went. This job specifically requires Lyle to end up in Hell, and suicide is considered by some as a one way ticket. I.M.P trying to convince Lyle to commit suicide is not them being lazy with the job, its a guarantee Lyle ends up in hell."
    • Except you're missing two things:
    • 1. Shouldn't Lyle's experiments on the poor and such be enough to send him to hell? I'm pretty sure Loopty and Lyle's experimenting on poor folks was brought up within the episode.

    • 2. Why not shoot Lyle before the cherubs are actually successful in convincing him to live?
    • I.M.P. didn't actually know much about Lyle or his immoral behavior. He didn't mention it until after his death and anything Loopty mentioned might have only applied to himself or been taken as his eccentric nonsense. Combined with the Cherubs interfering they might have assumed a non-suicide death would keep him out of hell since heaven clearly wanted him.
• Why is Moxxie suddenly fine with the slaughter of innocent people in the theater? He struggled with Martha before she'd revealed her batshit side in Murder Family, and in Spring Broken he told Blitzo that they need to focus on actual listed clients rather than going up to massacre. None of the humans at the opera were listed targets from what I know of.
  • He either got over it after Murder Family, as he's shown in the newest Truth Seekers to be willing to kill people who attack him rather viciously and most notably to me gives a Slasher Smile before they get started on the agents, or he was too busy focusing on the Cherubs and...well, getting busy with his wife, to notice or care, and after that they had to leave in a hurry. A third possibility is he considered it not the same as directly killing innocent people since the people in the theater weren't who they were aiming for so Moxxie might have rationalized it as an accident, like when they dropped the stage-light on the opera singer. Moxxie just might have a problem, all along or have changed to it, with killing innocent people on purpose for the most part, but collateral damage or accidents are something he might want to avoid, but not make as big a fuss over.
  • Given what we know of Moxxie's backstory as of season 2, the circumstances of Martha's contract may have been the deciding factor rather than any percieved innocence in itself. Martha was a mother, and one beloved by her young children. Ralphie, similarly, proved himself to be a good (if morally-skewed) father to those same kids. As someone who lost his own mother young and grew up under the beastly thumb of his father, Moxxie would hesitate to put children into that same situation.
• We've seen eight angels/cherubs/whatever; seven of them aren't human and four are sheep. Is the Heavenly Host just, like, full of sheep? Why?
  • Sheep are mentioned in the Bible over 500 times, more than any other animal—God is often compared to a shepherd tending His flocks of followers. Jesus himself has been represented by a lamb. Heaven has a lot of connections to sheep and shepherding in Christian canon, why not in HB canon?
  • Because Cake were right: sheep go to heaven, goats go to hell.

The Harvest Moon Festival

• Why would Stella hire someone to kill Stolas when she could have targeted Blitzo instead; the very imp that her husband not only tolerates the most, but fancies enough to blatantly have an affair with?
  • Blitzo is single and has no obligation to Stella—his only connection to her is through Stolas. Stolas, on the other hand, is her husband who is deciding to cheat on her and spit all over their marriage vows. Further, there is a power imbalance that means it's more likely that Stolas approached/seduced Blitzo first rather than the imp convincing Stolas to start the affair—Stolas can say no if a commoner tries to woo him, but it would be much harder for an imp to refuse a demon prince.
  • It's also likely that Stella considers an Imp like Bitzo so far beneath her, that it's not worth taking revenge directly on him. To her, arranging for the assassination of an Imp would be tantamount to arranging the assassination of a goat or a pig. She likely doesn't even bother with remembering Blitzo's name or that it was a specific Imp that Stolas cheated on her with.
  • Granted, this could all change when she realizes that Blitz is the one who is interfering in the assassination attempts, having no choice but to deem him a threat.
  • Firstly, Blitzo isn't her husband and isn't the one who's cheating on her. Secondly, considering that she gives the assassination orders in front of Stolas at the dinner table, it's probably less about trying to actually kill him and more like escalating her temper tantrum from yelling and throwing his potted plants across the room. It's just about getting his attention and causing him trouble.
  • Another possibility is personal benefit. Killing Blitzo doesn't get her anything besides a dead Imp. But if Stolas were to die, she might stand to benefit from his TRAGIC demise and inherit his status and such.
  • If Blitzo died, it's likely that Stolas would find another imp to have fun with as well. I mean, it seems like their marriage has been going bad before Stolas met Blitzo.
  • It's also possible Stella doesn't even realise Stolas has been cheating with the same imp consistently this whole time. When yelling about it in Loo Loo Land she asks him if he wants 'to sleep with this one [their imp butler] too?' so it's possible she just assumes Stolas has a thing for imps in general, or that he chose an imp specifically to humiliate her. In other words, it's possible that she hasn't realised that Stolas is only obsessed with Blitzo in particular, and it's unlikely she even knows his name (Octavia seems to have realised Stolas is interested in Blitz in particular, given she's worried he'll run off with him, but she's probably paying closer attention to Stolas than Stella is). Given her Fantastic Racism she might have considered it beneath her to even bothering remembering who he was or what he looked like.
  • Stella doesn't love Stolas and doesn't give a crap if he loves her either. She's not heartbroken because Blitzo alienated her from Stolas's affections; she's royally (no pun intended) pissed off because he is, as she put it in "Loo Loo Land", a goddamn embarrassment. Being unable to keep her husband from cheating already causes her to lose face, especially since it's implied that in the eyes of the demon aristocracy, Stolas is kind of a weenie who should be grateful to have a smoking hot wife in the first place. The fact that he's off chasing after an imp instead of a social equal just makes it all the more humiliating for her. Also, she hates that she's lost most of her power over him. It's got a vibe like the boss who's always threatening to fire you but is enraged when you quit.

Truth Seekers

• How did the agents gain specific footage of the imps? Granted the footage is reused episode clips but certain areas and angles such as in the woods, on a beach, and the rafters of a theater would make camera exposure extremely unlikely.
  • Maybe they used drones.
• In addition to questioning Blitzo and Moxxie, why didn't the agents take a blood or tissue sample for more credible proof that these were real demons? They would have had plenty of time to do so while the two were unconscious.
  • ...For exactly the same reason the interrogation was an absolute joke, Agents One and Two are a pair of immature incompetent buffoons who have no clue what they're doing beyond what you'd get out of a spy movie. Moxxie himself points out when he regains consciousness that they're incompetent and points out as proof that he and Blitz have been tied up for hours already, and they apparently didn't even bother to do anything to Blitz or him in that time, and in terms of questioning hadn't even asked them "What exactly we are..."
• Why didn't Stolas just kill all the agents? Leaving a few alive would be far too risky, especially given the ending.
  • He probably couldn't. IMP flies under the radar given they're basically nobodies in hell's power structure and nobody cares if a few dozen extra humans die every so often. Provided they don't get caught or wander into the business of one of the nobles nobody cares what they get up to. Stolas by contrast would raise eyebrows by killing someone on Earth because hes very important and very power. Stolas personally killing someone off would draw attention and questions that wouldn't pan out well for him. If he'd been more pragmatic he could have had one if the imps do it but was more concerned with getting them home before his presence drew too much notice.
  • There's a strange sort of sense in this. The last Stolas saw of these agents, they were near-comatose with terror because of his interference. All of those monitors Stolas knocked over proves they have some kind of surveillance in the place, and there is still an entire compound worth of bodies left behind. Let's say Stolas does kill everyone—anyone who comes looking would naturally wonder what the hell happened, and with no witnesses left to spill the beans checking the security footage would be the logical next step. Leaving someone alive with the message "Do NOT mess with these imps, or else you have to deal with me," gives them a chance to go "Holy shit, we have to erase everything and never tell a soul". Unfortunately Stolas seems to have underestimated the Agents' determination; had they been weaker-willed, they may well have swept everything under the rug for fear of incurring Stolas' wrath again.
  • There's the implication that the agents aren't taken seriously by the higher-ups. Stolas probably expect said higher-ups to assume the agents did all the killing and faked the footage. He also has some connections in the human world who could get rid of the agents if they get too troublesome.
  • Stolas says as much of the above when he finishes terrifying the agents. People like them are not believed commonly, and seen as kooks, so what risk is there really, at least in Stolas' mind? The OP question was answered in the episode by Stolas himself.
• Related to the above, how can the agents consider this a triumph? Sure, they have proof that demons exist, but absolutely nothing to combat them. Most of their fellow agents are dead. They don't know why I.M.P comes to the human world, so it's not like they can predict where they'll pop up next. And while they were at least able to put up a fight against I.M.P, they were completely powerless to do anything against Stolas. The knowledge that there are potentially countless other demons just as or more powerful than Stolas, including Lucifer, is not a victory, it's terrifying.
  • They don't have any way to fight the more powerful demons because no one takes them seriously. But now that they have proof, they'll have vastly more resources at their disposal to research ways to fight them.
  • Said evidence may also be submitted to various religious organizations all over the world so that they will have a chance to prepare themselves. Given the show's penchant for Black Comedy, however, it's likely that instead of being comprised of well-trained adult, an elite demon-hunting group will have a bunch of part-timing Ordinary High-School Student as members. It will be a chance to poke fun at a well-established anime trope.
  • Again, that's assuming anyone even believes that this footage is legitimate in the first place. They already had videos of I.M.P during past episodes, including one where Millie killed that giant demon fish, and they're still not taken seriously. What's to stop people from just assuming the footage is just really elaborate CGI or practical effects? And as mentioned a few points previously, not even the bodies of the dead agents are proof because their superiors will just think they snapped and killed everyone themselves or had somebody else to do it. These guys are the kind of overdramatic nutcases who arm their agents with Edo-period weapons just because it looked cool. It's not a stretch to assume that they went off the deep end, tore the place up with weapons, and blamed it on demons or sicced some dogs on them and said it was from a hellhound.
  • There's a 50/50 chance that the footage will somehow get leaked onto the internet even if Agent One and Two continues to be considered as kooks. It will not only attract the attention of the aforementioned religious organizations, but also countless wizards, sorcerers, occultists, etc. of varying reputations and philosophies. If they meet, it's an Anchorman-style free-for-all brawl ready to happen.
• Why was Moxxie wearing a Pimped-Out Dress in Blitz's hallucination? I mean what does that symbolize? Because while everyone is talking about they symbolism of Blitz and Stolas' relationship dynamic, no one points out the reason why Moxxie's clothes switch from his usual tux to a ballgown.
  • Blitzo finds Moxxie sexually attractive but imagines him in a more feminine light due to the size and personality difference. He is bisexual and has made implications of a three way before, it would appear he presumes he'll be on top.
  • That's probably the result of Moxxie's The Phantom of the Opera hallucination bleeding into Blitzo's. The dress and the haughty way Moxxie carries himself almost makes him seem like Carlotta. Naturally, Blitzo would consider Moxxie a prima-donna, but it also ties into their relationship and reconciliation. Carlotta is humiliated during a performance by the Phantom's sabotage and goes into hiding. Blitzo, essentially Moxxie's Phantom, constantly belittles and harasses Moxxie but is ultimately afraid that Moxxie will leave, which Moxxie himself voices by asking "Are you worried that one day I'll get tired of it?" and then fading away once Blitzo snaps at him. But Carlotta eventually returns to the opera house later, just as Blitzo and Moxxie come to bury the hatchet.
  • This troper wonders if it might also be an indication that Blitzo views Moxxie as potential competition should Stolas ever get tired of him - Moxxie is more cultured and more educated, and as shown in "C.H.E.R.U.B." is willing to dress up in traditionally female clothes when the situation calls for it (even changing his body language to match the outfit he's in), meaning he'd be easier to dress up like some China doll pet. In "Loo Loo Land," Moxxie is also the one to explain why Blitzo has gone AWOL in the third act, and speaks with Stolas on a professional but familiar level; later on in "Truth Seekers," it appears to be Moxxie who reaches out and physically pulls Stolas' hand from Blitzo's face when the Prince is dressing the group down. Both of these indicate a level of respectful fearlessness that Stolas doesn't even seem bothered by. It might be that Blitzo believes that Moxxie would make a better plaything for Stolas, and that Stolas himself might one day decide the same if Blitzo once again sabotages the relationship. Notice that Blitzo doesn't snarl at Moxxie the second time until after Moxxie sets foot on the staircase, picks up one of the leftover feathers, and transforms.
    • That, or Blitzo's mind is working against him again even under the effects of the truth serum, and what we're seeing is the beginning of another self-destructive spiral that could lead him to ultimately sabotage one or both of his relationships with these two, as well.
• What exactly happened at Blitzo and Moxxie's capture? One second the combatants were standing off and suddenly, one of the agents press a button on the side of his gun and the imps are suddenly electrocuted. I didn't see any taser lines being fired nor did I see any mines/gadgets on the ground. What just happened?
  • At that point, Moxxie was shot with an injection but it was still in his body. I think that injection was electric. Although it is the web gun that does the charging sound before electrocution. Might be a charge inside the injection.
• Even if nobody believed the footage that D.H.O.R.K had of the imps before Blitzo and Moxxie were captured was legit, shouldn't the giant demon fish be proof enough? A carcass that huge near a public beach is not going to go unnoticed and would certainly have people uploading multiple videos of it online. And what about the marine biologists who would be chomping at the bit to examine this giant unknown, vaguely demonic-looking sea creature? Wouldn't they find traces of Verosika's Beelzejuice in its bloodstream?
  • Likely they either didn't do any of that, because stupid humans, or they did investigate, but what would that actually prove about demons since to anyone in the real world and the Earth of Helluva Boss/Hazbin Hotel investigating this thing, it would be some bizarrely mutated fish with some unknown substance in its system. Without a means to know what is and isn't specifically from Hell/demons the investigation into what the fuck happened to that poor fish would still be open, and any "impossible/unprovable theories" would be discarded, or only considered, but not taken as worthy of specific investigation attention. If they'd captured it alive, or better, gotten a hold of the Beezljuice flask and could test the similarity to its contents, that would've given a more concrete "this came from sentient beings, and what we do with it shows it has strange effects on Earth, so this may not have come from Earth, and is perhaps supernatural due to how beyond normal reach these effects are". This is likely part of the reason D.H.O.R.K. was so focused on interrogating and capturing the I.M.P. crew, as they can give more concrete information that can give humanity a definitive concept of what Hell and demons are compared to Earth, and how to detect and define what their influence is and isn't.
• Could Blitzo and Moxxie hear each other while they were hallucinating? While they spoke in different tones and meters the general topics were pretty similar between the two hallucinations.
  • Nothing definitive for it really from the episode, but the implication seems to be that the two different hallucinations were connected in some way, but considering that this is some fictional truth serum that two supernatural demons were breathing in, my guess at least is that it was literally a shared hallucination, in that the two were out of it, and seeing and hearing different things, but it having that similar subject matter at certain points was because they were both coming from the same thing.
• Considering how stupid and unobservant the humans in this show have proven to be, would anyone even believe or care about Agent One and Two's proof? Hell, I.M.P had no problem showing up at a human hospital without disguises and even dumped Eddie's body through a portal on a live newscast without anybody batting an eye.
  • We'll see when those events come out really, since it's possible not all humans are that stupid in this world. Somebody at a corporation or agency commissioned the existence of D.H.O.R.K. in the first place after all, and gave them the funds to have all those weapons and agents and any related expenses for their organization. Whoever is behind them might listen after all, even if only out of obligation...
• Why did Loona bother keeping up her human disguise in the D.H.O.R.K. facility? She wasn't supposed to be in there either way, so she might as well have switched to her more combat-capable true form.
  • Surprise and misdirection. The agents clearly know how to handle demons on a basic level, so if Loona revealed her true form they'd be better prepared to take her down. If they just see a skinny goth teenager, they only prepare the appropriate defenses for a human intruder and get totally blindsided when she destroys them.
  • She may have thought it wasn't worth breaking The Masquerade until she was sure they were in truly deep shit.
• How did Blitzo not know if Moxxie gets pegged or not? Doesn't he constantly spy on him and Millie? How did he never see that happen on his own?
  • Moxxie says Millie pegs him "sometimes". Even Blitzo can't be watching them every time they bang. Also, having realized that Blitzo watches them, Moxxie might insist on extra privacy precautions around the kinkier stuff. Maybe they do it once a month when they know Blitzo is with Stolas.

OZZIE'S

• Okay, how did Verosika (along with her workers and Vortex) find her way back to Hell? We saw her get arrested by the police at the end of "Spring Broken".
  • Presumably by "sucking lots of pig dick" like she said.
  • Also, they have Vortex along. I assume as soon as they have a moment, they'll be opening up a portal and getting home.
• When Blitzo gets home, he finds a note from Loona saying she left to go to a party with Vortex. Since Vortex is Verosika's bodyguard, shouldn't he have been at Ozzie's with her?
  • Vortex isn't introduced as Verosika's bodyguard, but as her hellhound. It's implied that demons need hellhounds to help them cross over to the mortal world. Vortex can do double duty (and is pretty easy on the eyes), which may be why Verosika chose him, but she might only strictly need him in particular when she's doing a human gig.
  • Probably he had the night off, or Verosika only has him out when she feels she actually needs a bodyguard, like when she's working, not when she's just doing a publicity thing down in Hell.
  • A swanky and high end place like Ozzie's presumably already has its own security, such as the doorman who initially turned Blitzo away. So Verosika having an extra bodyguard when the place already has top notch security, as well as the literal Lord of Lust in the building, probably let her feel safe enough she didn't feel the need to have Vortex on with her that night. Hence why he could be at the party.
• Why would Stella separate from Stolas and take Octavia when she hired Striker to assassinate him?
  • She might have called the hit off after coming to the realization that, for as much as she hates Stolas, killing him would bring Octavia considerable grief and she might not want to put her daughter through that pain. On a less sentimental note, it's possible they're not officially divorced and Stella just doesn't want to live under the same roof as Stolas anymore while she waits for Striker to finish the job.
  • I wouldn’t imagine they would just drop that plot point. Stella doesn’t need to be living with Stolas for a hitman to kill him (in fact keeping Octavia out of the house is safer in this case so she won’t get hurt).
  • Stolas said that Octavia was with Stella for the weekend, implying they have some kind of joint custody while separated. Also those two things don't seem mutually exclusive. Stella likely still wants Stolas dead, she just doesn't want to live him anymore until he is killed.
  • Adding to that, she may want to be as far away from Stolas as possible, because of the possibility that Blitzo/IMP will be acting as bodyguards, and a fight between them and Striker is likely to end with a LOT of collateral damage if both parties go all in. So she's getting away from that blast radius with Octavia.
  • Stella doesn't seem to care much about Octavia herself, but she probably knows how much Stolas loves his daughter. taking her away from him is even worse than killing him.
• Just how Blitzo managed to preserve all those photos he watches during the final Tear Jerker scene, given the Running Gag of him constantly breaking his smartphones (and by "breaking", I mean literally breaking them into tiny little pieces, which in one instance literally got shredded in a blender)?
  • Knowing the whole Crazy-Prepared aspect of him having all those phones as backups in the first place, he probably literally backs up everything from his original phone onto every single one he has the moment he gets it, so he doesn't lose any important data or contacts when he breaks or loses them. That, or he has some sort of Cloud-like program that works independently of his phones that they all connect to, so the data isn't actually stored on just the phones.
• Fizzarolli makes a goofy bug-eyed expression when he's forced to lift Asmodeus during his pole-dance. But earlier he shows that his limbs are robotic, so doesn't that mean he shouldn't be able to feel the weight?
  • He's able to control them at will like organic limbs so they must be wired into his nervous system somehow. Even if they weren't they would still react to the weight and apply force onto his still flesh and blood torso.
• How is it that the Robo-Fizz from Loo-Loo Land made more money than the Robo-Fizz sex bots? Even if Robo-Fizz was Loo-Loo Land's star attraction, it's still only one robot doing shows for kids in a rundown theme park in one ring while the sex bots can be sold to demons all over Hell, especially in the Lust Ring where Fizz is particularly popular.
  • That "rundown theme park" is in the Greed ring, while most sex bots are sold in Lust ring. We don't know the exchange rates for money between the rings (or if even there is one), but it can be assumed that Greed is more affluent than Lust.
  • Also, profit margins. You build a few crappy animatronics that get replaced less than once a decade, and once you've made enough in ticket sales to pay for them, your costs are practically zero (you only gotta look at the Loo Loo Band to know management's not spending much on maintenance). Meanwhile, in manufacturing, you have to pay at least the cost for materials and labour for every unit you sell.
• Considering even demons seem to be terrified of clowns, how many people want a sexbot clown?
  • Well, there's that one client at Ozzie's who bought four, Fizz's whacko stalker who seems to have bought at least one, and somebody in the crowd at the show who's using one right there. So, at least three?
• What's the deal with Asmodeus's legs? The design vaguely implies some kind of high-heel boot, but they're colored as though the bottom portion is a hoof with nail polish, and his legs are just covered in feathers. So which is it?
  • Probably just an unusual design aesthetic chosen by him for his boots, which would probably make sense given Asmodeus’s flamboyant persona.
  • They're thigh high heeled boots with embellishments on the backs and differently colored heels and toes. There are feathers hanging near them from under his coat, but none on his legs themselves. If there has to be any reason for the coloration on the toes and heels, it may be meant to invoke the claws on a rooster or other bird, like how Asmodeus is based on.

• Is there any real reason why Verosika leaves Moxxie alone? Sure it’s nice and all, but this is the same person who was petty enough to friggin rape him just to get back at Blitzo. If anything, she should probably be more inclined to harass Moxxie, given that she could easily grow jealous of his happy, stable love life.
  • Doylist reason: the major theme of the episode is victims of Blitzo and Stolas’s lustful behavior coming back for revenge. Having Verosika target Moxxie too would feel out of place and might even make her Unintentionally Unsympathetic, since she’d be attacking someone who wasn’t really involved. Watsonian reason: In “Spring Broken”, Moxxie personally tried to defend Blitzo to Verisoka, so she got upset and beat him up. In “Ozzie’s”, Moxxie was too shocked to say anything when Blitzo was being attacked, so Verosika didn’t involve him. Even in “Spring Broken”, Verosika didn’t involve any of Blitzo’s employees until they defended Blitzo. She’s very much a “leave me alone and I’ll leave you alone” type of chick.
  • Even when Moxxie defended Blitzo from Verosika, it seemed less "Oh you're on his side? Well then I hate you too." and more "Oh Blitzo has friends? I'll fuck with him, that should get under that bastards skin!" So even then her motivation was to piss off Blitzo. What's the point of fucking with him by proxy when he's right there?

• How is Stolas initially unaware that Ozzie's is owned by Asmodeus, a demon he seems to have a history with and whose name is displayed in bright neon lights at the top of Ozzie's?!
  • He Failed a Spot Check
  • Ah, but it doesn't say "Asmodeus" at the top of the club, does it? It says "Ozzie's". Since they're not spelled remotely similarly, Stolas probably didn't make the connection until Fizzarolli mentioned Asmodeus by name, at which point he immediatly realizes the gravity of the situation.
  • Well Stolas obviously didn't know where they were going specfically, as Blitz only said they were going a club. Even they Asomdeus may not have been there that night. A bit of Fridge Brilliance as well. Blitz wasn't freaking out about Asmodeus being there. He was freaking out about Fizzarolli being there, since they know each other, which would ruin his plan to spy on Moxxie and Mille.
  • I was under the impression he did know, he just wasn't expecting Oz to show up personally at that specific time.

• Ozzie's doesn't deal in Lust at all; it deals in Gluttony. Lust is the overwhelming and overpowering want for a particular thing, driving someone to destructive and self-destructive behaviour to acquire it. It's falsely approximated to sex in the modern day, but the rampant sexual gratification Ozzie's pushes is just Gluttony: the refusal to stop consuming pleasures and indulging oneself. If the patrons had to put themselves through extreme scenarios in order to get what they wanted, it would be more in line with Lust, as their obsessions would be brought out and engaged, but when you can sit in a chair and pay money to have depravity brought straight to your mouth and your lap, it's not Lust anymore... you're just a Glutton.
  • Not to say there isn't an overlap, but there are distinctions as well. You can argue that Greed is also the same thing as Lust in that you **desire** something. Greed, however is more focused on simply possessing something for the sake of a perceived value. Gluttony is a lack of self-control and consuming more than is needed. Lust is normally associated with physical desires but can be argued as any powerful desire, but at its core, it's about pursuing pleasure for pleasure's sake. In this context, it serves as a critique of Stolas and Blitz's relationship, which is built purely on physical satisfaction, which while enjoyable in the short term, is ultimately unfulfilling, unlike Millie and Moxxie who have a deep emotional connection, that goes beyond desire, physical or otherwise.
  • You might be overthinking it a bit. Ozzie's is just an upscale, sex themed nightclub for demons to spend money at.
  • Lust is defined in some places as the extreme desire for immaterial things, such as sex and power, while Gluttony is the extreme desire to consume material things and Greed is the extreme desire to hoard material things.

• Why would Moxxie take his wife to Ozzie's to romantically celebrate their first anniversary when it's apparently some sort of sex club? Was he not aware?
  • In comparasion to the other more vulgar named clubs in the Lust ring, and the prestige OZZIE's has to the point the waiting list is "always booked", OZZIE's might be the classiest of all the clubs, and he just wanted to take his wife to the fanciest place a couple can be in for their first anniversary. The wrong was on Moxxie for thinking that the Lust ring would celebrate a wholesome, romantic connection at all in the first place. If Moxxie was more cowardly, he would've saved his serenade for when they returned to the privacy of their home, but he's secure in his relationship enough to withstand the mockery.
• If Ozzie's is such a hedonistic place of non-vanilla pleasure, why does it only allow couples in? Shouldn't they not be enforcing monogamy like this?
  • The doorman may have meant it as only people who are romantically involved in some way are allowed in. Blitzo was clearly trying to sneak in after Moxxie and Millie, who most likely only had a dinner reservation for two. Since we can see that Stolas' butler brought a whole Harem in with him, it was most likely the reservation thing and if someone has multiple partners, they can come in provided they are all on the reservation.
• Why was Blitzo driving Stolas home in his piece-of-crap van? Stolas arrived via portal from his palace, why doesn't he go back the same way?
  • Because if he didn't then Blitzo's car would still be there, he's gotta take it home somehow. Does the portal open wide enough and for a long enough time for a car to pass through, or just a person?
    • But that only explains why Blitzo is driving himself home. Why is Stolas in the van too?
  • Possible explanation: Blitzo assumed Stolas wanted to have sex, so he drove the two of them back to the palace, but then when they got there, he realized he didn't want to do it/couldn't go through with it after all.

Queen Bee

• When Blitzo is drunkenly bemoaning how he believes he's going to die alone, he mentions that Fizzarolli said it. Except the only Fizz that said that was his hallucination version of him and he wasn't the only one to say it. Was that what Blitzo was talking about or did he drunkenly believe that the real deal said it?
  • It’s possible that the real Fizz told him that at some point, most likely during their fallout prior to the series.
  • Maybe a little of column A, little of column B. The hallucination may very well be a twisted memory of a time the real Fizz told Blitzø he'd die alone.
  • Alternatively, the two statements could be completely seperate from one another. Blitzø says "Fizz was right. I'm going to die alone." It's possible what he meant was "Fizz was right about my love life being total shit. And that's the reason I'm going to die alone."

The Circus

• So it turns out Stolas and Blitz first met at the circus. It was only one day, sure, but why hasn't it come up before? Stolas and Blitz visit Loo Loo Land together and have numerous phonecalls, but Stolas only refers to Blitz as his first friend in this episode only, and never implies they knew one another before their one night stand in other episodes. Given it obviously meant something to him, why doesn't Stolas bring it up at any other time?
  • Their second meeting was much more impactful and immediately relevant to Stolas' living situation. By his own admission, Stolas barely remembers Blitz' name. It was a nice playdate that introduced the idea of friendship to Stolas, whereas their second meeting was a whirlwind of passion that reinvigorated him and changed the course of his life.
• Did Blitzo remember their meeting? It's probably less strange that he forgot instead of Stolas given that his life was more chaotic and he'd naturally have met more different people than Stolas, but if so why doesn't he find it odd that Stolas knew he worked at the circus and his name used to pronounce the O at the end?
  • Presumably Blitzo remembers the meeting. The entire reason he was there was to steal the grimoire, which Stolas introduced to them during their first encounter. It's unlikey Blitz would have known about it otherwise.
• So the episode conveys that Stolas is in his early to mid-thirties. But the Pseudomonarchia Daemonum and Lesser Key of Solomon, upon which Helluva Boss' demonic hierarchy is based, are both hundreds of years old. Is the Ars Goetia of the real world used as a snapshot for the current royalty of the Helluva Boss setting? What does Stolas' youth mean for more powerful demons like Asmodeus and Lucifer?
  • There are a few possibilities here. Maybe there's more than one Stolas, or "Stolas" is just a name given to a Goetia demon who is born to fulfill a specific role.
  • Since this Stolas doesn't look like the Ars Goetia Stolas, who was a goggle-eyed non-anthro owl with a normal owl body and really long legs, and the Goetias seem to age and reproduce the same way as humans do, I presumed the original Stolas was his ancestor, the name was reused, and the family became more furry bait in appearance over the centuries.
• Speaking of demonic hierarchy, where does King Paimon fall in the totem pole? Is each region of Hell overseen by their own king or queen while Lucifer keeps them all in line?
  • This is a question only future worldbuilding can answer.
• Hang on, Stolas and Blitzø spent an entire night together in Stolas' marriage bed...where did Stella sleep? It's not very likely she would miss something like a whole naked imp in her bed.
  • While they were seen sharing a bed when Octavia was younger it's not unreasonable to speculate that their relationship had degenerated to the point of sleeping in separate rooms by the time of the "not divorced yet" party.
  • Except during their argument in "Loo Loo Land", Stella specifically calls him out for sleeping with an imp in their shared bed. It's unlikely they were sleeping seperately before the affair started and then moved back into co-sleeping after.
  • It being their shared bed could have been an artifact of an earlier time in their marriage; Stella does not have to be specific to drive the point home. It could also have been that Stella didn't go to bed that night. She's with the same friends from the evening before, so it's possible the festivities went through the night and carried on in a lighter fashion into the morning.
  • Who said Stella wasn't sleeping in someone else's bed? She's primarily pissed off at Stolas fucking an imp rather than someone higher-class, not the infidelity itself, and she does seem to have a creepy thing going with her own brother already. I think the devs did mention they had an open marriage and the imp thing was the problem more than the affair, but don't quote me on that.
• If Stella never even bothered to hide her true feelings about Stolas, how did Octavia come to the conclusion that the affair was what ruined everything?
  • Perhaps Octavia was more perceptive than her parents knew. She knew that Stolas and Stella weren't good to each other, but recognized that her father was putting in the effort to make them happy. It's why she's closer to him than to her mother. But with the affair and divorce, the last semblance of a functional family is now gone and it's his doing.
  • It could be a retcon. Stolas announced his intention for a divorce after being caught, but in Season 1 there's a very clear attempt at some kind of reconciliation or keeping up of appearances. Season 2 shows that the hoot hoot household was never civil, and Octavia is smart enough to recognize that.
  • Probably retcon but it's also possible Stella was trying to hide it from Octavia even if not from Stolas. There's been no indication so far of what their relationship is like and she might at least care enough to want to not fuck the future heir up.
• Why did Buckzo charge such a small amount for Blitzo's company when surely Paimon barely knows the value of money and would hand over far more if asked, without the risk of stealing? The only answer I can think of is the Fridge Horror possibility that he's done this before or will again and doesn't want to price himself out of the market for everyone else.
  • He has such a low opinion of his own son that it doesn't occur to him that anyone would pay more.
• How exactly did Blitzo expect to get away with taking grimoire? If he had managed to sneak in and steal it, it's reasonable to believe that he wouldn't be found. However, not only is he caught, but gives Stolas' his real name and spends an entire night in Stolas' room before absconding out the window. Who did he think Stolas was going to suspect when he discovered the grimoire missing?

Seeing Stars

• How do the denizens of Hell know of Azathoth enough that they name a meteor phenomenon after him when Azathoth was created by H. P. Lovecraft in 1919, practically yesterday compared to the age of Hell? Is there an actual Azathoth out there?
  • Well yeah, that's what Stolas described. It just happens to be an ancient eldritch being that cries the tears of all that which never came to be rather then the version Lovecraft described.
  • At the same time, it's shown that the series' version of Earth is different from ours in one way or the other, with Hollywood being called "Holly's Wood", not to mention that there's an expy of Brandon Rogers called "Brennon Ragers" whom Blitzo is mistaken for. As a result, it's highly possible that the Cthulhu Mythos, as well as Lovecraft himself, would differ from ours in some way.
• Why would Octavia ask the Grimoire to take her "to the stars" instead of to see Azathoth's Tears, which is what she actually wanted?
  • It's possible that Octavia is too upset with Stolas and Stella's argument at the moment to slow down and think. This, combined with her inexperience in casting spells, caused her to make a vague request that the Grimoire interprets as "take me (Octavia) to Holly's Wood, LA".
• Shouldn't Octavia be a little more advanced with her magic? She doesn't seem to have access to a human disguise like her father or Loona and Stolas says at the end of the episode that he hasn't taught her spells like portal creation. Not to mention she doesn't think to try using the Grimoire again after she arrives in LA. The most we see her do is conjure up a small flame to light Loona's cigarette. Stolas began studying the Grimoire when he was a child and Octavia is almost eighteen.
  • Pointedly the instance we see of Stolas as a child is when his father revealed what his duties to the family would be, and provided an example to entice him, not when he actually handed over the Grimoire to Stolas permanently. That, and as Octavia is a "precautionary heir" meant to take his place if Stolas perishes, there's less pressure on her to perform so Stolas is likely taking her education at a more even pace.
  • Octavia never makes any attempt to hide herself from humans, so we don't know if she's incapable of conjuring a disguise. As to why she doesn't use the grimoire again, she's convinced the spell has given her what she wanted right up until the end of the episode.
• Stolas says that his powers are limited in the human world when he doesn't have his grimoire... so how do we explain everything we saw him do in back in "Truth Seekers" which was all accomplished in the human realm while he didn't have his grimoire....
  • Because he was still in Hell until the possessed Agent Two and zombies summoned him? Which is classical loophole abuse, as mentioned above: he used them to get summoned.
• Why does Stolas have to be the one supervising the moving of Stella's things instead of delegating it to his staff so he can spend time with Octavia? It's not like Stella can be any angrier with him than she already is plus she likely wouldn't want Stolas near her stuff anyway since he encourages the movers to break them.
  • He was on a power trip after standing up to his abusive ex-wife and/or under a lot of stress because Stella suddenly demanded that he empty an entire palace of her stuff within 48 hours, and he forgot about his plans with Octavia. This is why she was convinced that he hated Stella more than he loved her until Loona assured her it wasn't the case.

Exes and Oohs

• Why didn't Moxxie's father do a huge background check on Chaz to see if he was truly rich or not? The dude literally had his plan drawn out in the trunk of his car. And Moxxie's dad is supposed to be a high class mafia man. Just have his contacts and goons do a thorough checking of Chaz's past, his house and his car and he could've found out that this shark-man was playing him for a fool.
  • Crimson is overconfident and prideful. Considering it is the greed ring he would probably never tell any of his goons that he needs money. He may have thought that no one was dumb enough to try to cross him and considering that Chaz used to work for him he probably didn't see the need for a background check.
    • If Crimson's prideful and thinking no one's stupid enough to double cross him, why does he have all those demon part trophies in his house? Pretty sure some of those demons have crossed him too. Also, didn't Crimson dislike Chaz while he was dating Moxxie? Why trust him if he doesn't like him?
  • Yeah, likey a case of Refuge in Audacity. Chaz worked for Crimson and should know exactly what kind of person he is. Its also worth noting that Chaz's scheme was a Missing Steps Plan, he would have been exposed very quickly when he wasn't able to provide the money he was promised. Crimson would presumably be aware of how quickly Chaz would get exposed if he was faking... which in turn made him believe Chaz wasn't faking because he might've thought not even Chaz was that stupid.
  • How reliable are background checks in actual Hell, anyway?
• Why did Moxxie say "It's been 84 years..." in a hoarse voice in his story of his and Chaz's romance? Yes, it's a Titanic reference, Blitzo immediately Lampshades it, but references, including in this episode, usually have a logical context.
  • People make references in real life. It could be Moxxie was thinking about the necklace flashback (if it really happened), or he was just being dramatic for the sake of storytelling. He does appreciate theatre, after all.
• Wait, how did Chaz know Crimson was hurting for money? His whole plan hinges on the fact that Crimson's need for Chaz's money outweighs his dislike/revulsion of the shark, guaranteeing Chaz gets made one way or another. Crimson, as a crime lord and as, well, him, would never make it public knowledge that he needed more money. His pride wouldn't allow it, plus publically looking weak as a mafia boss is tantamount to painting a target on your back. So how did Chaz know to go to Crimson with his "came into money" story?
  • Considering that Crimson is shown to be greedy anyways, Chaz was mostly just banking on using that as a way in. Crimson needing money was just a bonus and made it easier for Chaz to convince him that he has worth again.
  • Chaz works, or at least worked, for Crimson and seems to have been pretty highly placed if he was partnered with the Bosses kid. Even if Chaz fell from grace after the bank robbery incident it's a safe bet he has a good appraisal of Crimsons organization and thus its financial situation. Chaz honestly seems to be just clever and well informed enough to get himself into extremely deep trouble, but not enough to properly take advantage of his knowledge.
  • Did Crimson "need" money at all? He had enough to get motorised sex toys installed throughout the house for no reason. He's a mob boss in the Greed ring, even if he had plenty of money of his own he'd jump at the chance for more.
• Why didn't Millie kill Crimson? Sure, the latter knew he stood no chance against her and let Moxxie go, but he is still an abusive monster who will undoubtedly use his mafia connections to threaten I.M.P., which indeed is implied to be the case.
  • There are a lot of complex emotions tied up in abusive relationships, particularly in cases where the abuser is a parent to their victim. There's clearly no love between Crimson and Moxxie, but Moxxie might still gain some psychological trauma from seeing his wife murder his only living parent right in front of him. Without outright saying "Hey Moxx, you good with me offing your dad?", Millie has no idea how Moxxie might feel about the whole thing.
  • Maybe there was also an element of Cruel Mercy to it; She might’ve left Crimson alive to let him really soak in his failure to get what he wants and the humiliation of not just all his men getting taken out by ”a broad”, but also finding out that Chaz was trying to scam him and he was dumb enough to fall for it, as one giant middle finger to him. She could've also figured that she'd made her point to Crimson, what with her having single-handedly systematically slaughtered every single one of his goons, and at that point, getting Moxxie to immediate safety took priority.
• Why didn't Crimson force Moxxie to divorce Millie before forcing him into marrying Chaz? As long they're still married, then Moxxie legally can't be married to another individual. And before you mention that it's Hell so no one cares about laws, we see a jail in this episode, meaning that there is some kind of law system.
  • The law is inconsequential here. All it takes is Chaz being stupid (or coerced) enough for Crimson to go "Okay, you're married into my family, now gimme your stuff," and he'll hand over all his assets. The Mob works below the radar of the law anyway, one sham wedding isn't going to be stopped by pesky bigamy laws whwn the don's son is involved.
  • Even putting the mob connections aside is also worth noting they are still in hell. There is a decent chance that polygamous marriage is total legal, as is marrying someone off who is bound and gagged for the ceremony. One more way for Lucifer to spite the big G by letting every unapproved variant of marriage prosper in his damned kingdom.
  • Pretty sure he intended to either murder Millie or take her for himself, though that ought to have been done before making Moxxie marry Chaz.

• Small one, but why is the sign for the city in Greed so insistent it isn't run by the mafia? Sure, it doesn't do a good job, but this is Hell, an entire world of card-carrying villainy.
  • Moxxie was able to be thrown in prison for running a bank heist...and he's the son of a Don. Greed obviously has some rudimentary police force at hand, and just like the real world the Mob would want to keep things hush-hush to prevent their capos from getting pinched.
  • Being the King of Greed, Mammon wouldn't appreciate people stealing his property, which the money in his banks would be in his mindset as an absolute monarch and Anthropomorphic Personification of Greed. So naturally he'd have a security force with all the powers of police but a narrower focus (explaining how the mob keeps getting away with murder).
  • Mafia means organization that is doing organized crime. Crime means doing something that is illegal. If there are no laws in the first place, there can be no such thing as "doing crime". Mammon is technically a law maker and not part of organized crime. It is almost zen: rebelling against authority of the law and doing every criminal activity under the sun for the sake of greed while at the same time being the law. Besides, there are still contracts and lawsuits and commerce between the rings. If the whole ring is outed as not respecting contracts, that commerce will stop.
• When Moxxie and Blitz meet in prison,Blitz says he needs to "get out for his daughter" and "the babysitter will kill me". Is Blitz that insecure that he'd leave Loona,a legal adult or close to it,with a babysitter,or is there possibly someone else in the equation? Given that it's never been revealed how long time passed (or even the order of events) between their imprisonment,Loona's adoption and the founding of I.M.P.,the idea that Blitz may have had an actual daughter could be a real thing,but given his life choices,it's likely that she wasn't with him for long. Notice too that most of what Blitz is telling Moxxie in that conversation is drowned out,so we don't hear the whole story.

Western Energy

• How is Andrealphus supposed to gain anything from Stolas alive? Like he said, Via would inherit everything either way, so what do you think his plan from there will be?
  • It seemed like he was trying to help Stella bleed Stolas dry in divorce court, I would guess he's going to try and discredit Stolas further, maybe make him look like an even worse parent than Stella.
    • Adding to that, Andrealphus may be using Stella for his own ends. She bleeds Stolas dry in court, but then Andrealphus has someone he KNOWS he can manipulate, AND possibly blackmail material (He knows Stella sent Striker, and can easily use that to discredit her if she steps out of line.)
  • Obviously this all depends on the laws in Hell and what kind of prenup they have, but this would be a possibility: Stolas might be legally obligated to pay spousal support to Stella as long as he lives (or maybe Andrealphus thinks he could get Stolas to agree, out of guilt or exasperation, to pay de facto alimony to Stella to get her to shut up and go away), and he'd be required to pay child support as long as Octavia is dependent; but as soon as he dies, his estate would pass in whole to Via, who has no obligation to support her mother. Also, even if the divorce isn't final and Stella's still his next of kin, if she is connected to Stolas's murder, she'd likely lose any entitlement to his estate.
  • It's also possible that, as long as Stolas is alive, some kind of reconcilation could be engineered. If he's dead, that's definitely out of the question.
• What did Striker mean when he said that Royals, including Stolas, took everything from?
  • Considering the way we see imps get treated by every royal who isn't Stolas, it was likely random nobility shenanigans, business decisions, power plays, or some other royal bullshit.
  • Striker also might not have meant Stolas directly, but was simply lumping him in because he's royalty and, in his mind, part of the same group.
• Who told the paparazzi to be ready at the hospital? They seemed to know someone important was being transported in the I.M.P. van, but M&M wouldn't alert the media at a time like this, Striker wasn't planning on losing the fight, Andrealphus and Stella probably weren't either, and Blitzø didn't even realize Goetia could get hurt.
  • Maybe some stalkers trailing Stolas for a scoop. If there are people waiting in the shadows to kidnap him than there’s likely paparazzi stalking him whenever he goes out as well.
  • It's very possible it WAS Andrealphus. He's the cunning one of the family, and something like this could very easily help weaken Stolas' image to the general public in such a way that it helps his play. After all, a Goetia was just taken to a hospital, badly beaten, and being guarded by IMPS. In a hierarchy like Hell's, where power is HUGE... That could be a very bad thing
• Why doesn't Striker just slit Stolas's throat or something the second he got to the train tracks instead of just stalling by stabbing him at random points?
  • Stolas basically asks this too, and Striker explains that Stella isn't just paying him to kill Stolas. She wants to make her husband suffer, and Striker is more than happy to oblige.
    • Except that Stella literally said that she wanted Stolas dead in The Harvest Moon Festival episode.
    • She still wants him dead. It's just that since "The Harvest Moon Festival", Stolas has done things to piss her off even more ^{such as}go out in public with Blitzo on an obvious date, where he was seen and publicly humiliated by Asmodeus himself, and kick Stella out of the palace while telling the movers to feel free to break her stuff . So now she wants him to die slowly and painfully.
• If Striker is so sick of hearing the Mariachi imps singing his theme song and perturbed at the fact that they follow him everywhere, why didn't he just kill them?
  • He might think they're Not Worth Killing. After all, even if the song is annoying, it's also harmless (and bragging about how awesome he is). Not to mention, when he told them off, they did leave him alone.
• If Striker is so well known as an assassin, why isn't he living anywhere nicer? Surely he has to have the money for it from all the jobs he takes.
  • Given his rant to Stolas and the discrimination imps face in general, it's possible that Striker, as a hybrid, has been forced to make do with meager payments and hard to come by housing, and thus settled for living in a mineshaft where he hordes a bunch of equipment and memorabilia.
• Since Striker is a well-known assassin, why was he allowed to work with Millie's parents and participate in the pain games? Millie isn't allowed to be in the pain games for causing a bunch of funerals yet the killer with his own wanted posters is?
  • It's possible that Striker's reputation as a wanted assassin isn't very well-known in the section of Wrath where Millie's family lives. Additionally, we never see a wanted poster for Striker in his debut episode; they might not have been put up until after he tried to kill Stolas the first time.
  • I think that was pretty well explained in this exchange:
    Lin: Your sister doesn't have a neighborhood headcount!
    Millie: She so does!
    Sallie May: (strolling by with a bag slung over her shoulder) It doesn't count if they don't find the bodyyyyyyy~!
    • Presumably, Striker either doesn't kill people in that particular part of the Wrath ring, or he kills people in a way that he can't be legally implicated, even if it's blatantly obvious he's the one doing it.

Unhappy Campers

• Why on Earth would the client get a job at a lakeside summer camp if he didn't know how to swim?
  • There are other activities counsellors can do that don't involve swimming—setting up arts and crafts, getting meals ready, cabin inspections...lots of things that don't involve the lake. Heck, even the fact the counsellor was taking a boat out on the water in the first place speaks to some confidence in his ability to not sink—had the boat not been tampered with, he would have been fine.
• On that note, why would someone who couldn't swim take a boat out alone in the first place? There were obviously no witnesses, otherwise they wouldn't have hung up MISSING posters around the camp.
  • People die from making stupid, inadvisable decisions all the time. Maybe even more so in the Helluva Boss world, where humans are even more stupid and senseless than they are in real life.
• Where exactly were Moxxie and Millie staying when they were at the camp? Did they go back to Hell every night or did they manage to worm their way into the cabins?
  • Moxxine, at least, had a tent set up in the woods. It gets vandalized with the word BITCH before Moxxine gets attacked by the wildlife.
• Why did none of the counselors question two "campers" that seemingly just appeared out of nowhere?
  • The same reason none of the counselors raised much of a fuss over a camper going missing. They're irresponsible and negligent.
• Why would one dead supplier put Barbie out of a job? Surely there are more drug dealers on planet Earth?
  • Barbie was angry, so she might've been exaggerating or oversimplifying a little when what she meant was "Thanks Blitz, this particular job's toast! Now I've gotta find a new human to manipulate!" If it really did cost her her job entirely, it might be that Sloth's process, if they even have one, is to set up demons with certain people or assignments, and with Barbie's supplier dead, she might be considered a failure and be barred from doing that work again. That, or the process to start again is done so poorly that Barbie might as well not have the job if she has to wait so long or do a ton of work to get another avenue for drug-dealing, like if your pharmacy were to fail and you had to start a new one from the ground up, as a comparison. We don't know much, so there isn't a lot to go on here. Probably the next time Barbie comes back on the scene or we see more of the Sloth Ring we might get more answers...
• The part where it cuts to Millerd doing a guitar solo while the fight between Blitzo and Moxxine against Barbie and Jimmy is shown in a montage. There is one particular segment that has Blitzo gesturing to catch someone and he gets kicked by Moxxine, based on the leg attire. Any idea what was that about?
  • YMMV, but it looked like Blitzø was doing more "Whoa , whoa, whoa," hands, or else raising them to shield himself. Could be he saw Moxxine headed his way from above amd was reaching to cover his face.
• Two alleged siblings fucking gets attention, but why is no one concerned about what they think are two preteens fucking?
  • Humans in this universe have an extraordinary ability to miss the point and make shallow moral judgments while ignoring anything that might complicate the matter (e.g., Martha is a hero because she survived a murder attempt - even though she was fucking someone else's husband at the time). "Influencer commits incest with his sister" is a fast headline that drums up lots of outrage; thinking about the fact that the siblings are also children would require a level of nuance and reflection (like understanding that this kind of behaviour in kids typically means they've been badly mistreated by one or more adults), so the humans just don't bother.

Oops

• If Fizzarolli lost his limbs and horns in a circus fire and Blitzo got his scars from the same fire, then why did the first episode state that imps are Immune to Fire?
  • In Murder Family, Blitzo says, "Your fire doesn't really hurt us." Fizzarolli's birthday cake was probably lit with some special hellfire, after all, it was green.
• Some dinosaur demons make an appearance in Greed. The shark demons could be interpreted as a Visual Pun on Loan Shark, but what do dinosaurs have to do with Greed?
  • ...oil, maybe? It's very expensive and commonly said to be made of dead dinosaurs, so there's a possible connection. Other than that they might just be interesting filler.
• I understand the episode and the backstory wasn't written at the time, but is there an "in universe" reason why Blitz wasn't fazed by Loo Loo Land, a circus themed park set on fire and the image of his former friend burning in front of him? I get that he was pissed at the Fizzbot, but the trauma must have had some effect.
  • It's possible it did affect him, but this was before Blitzø went through a teensy bit of character growth—the Blitzø we see in Loo Loo Land would NEVER let anyone see how badly something from his past was fucking with his head. Also Robo-Fizz seems to be a bit more fireproof than meat Fizz, so "Oh crap I blew up my friend again!" could quickly become, "Oh, fire isn't hurting you? Cool, then allow me."
  • By that point, Blitzo has been sitting on his grudge towards Fizz for 15 years and was likely happy to consider him a "sellout jester" who went big and left Blitzo behind. And so, he was probably eager to take some of his anger out on Robo-Fizz (who appears to have embodied Fizz's worst qualities and would be a good target for the projection of Blitzo's insecurities). It likely wasn't until the bad trip in Truth Seekers followed by the dressing down in OZZIE'S that his armour cracked and he began to reconsider the events of the past few years.
• This episode's reveal that Fizzarolli has lost his limbs and Blitzo had received his facial scar in a fire that happened when they were young adults suddenly makes some parts of the episode "Loo-Loo Land" seem rather odd. The episode "Loo-Loo land" shows that Blitzo had been working with Robo Fizz possibly before he received his scar (his scar extends to his neck, as some eagle-eyed viewers noticed). However, Blitzo hadn't received his scar and Fizzaroli hadn't lost his limbs (which in turn inspired the Robo Fizz robot line) until after the incident that burned down their family circus. However, Blitzo does have clown makeup over his face during his flashback in Loo-Loo Land, so maybe he could've had the scar underneath? But still, why was Blitzo working at a circus-themed business if his family circus had burned down?
  • At that point, it may have been all he knew how to do and he was willing to work for anyone, considering his father likely disowned him if he learned about Blitzo being the reason for the fire.

MAMMON'S MAGNIFICENT MUSICAL MIDSEASON SPECIAL (ft. Fizzarolli)

• Why did Mammon say he was looking for people who were funny when all of the acts seem to be focused more on being impressive and showing off over humor?
  • He probably wanted funny acts at first because that's what clowns are supposed to be. Then it turned out that letting people make up their own acts was more profitable because more people liked it. Since money is all he cares about, he stopped caring about humor and just went with what worked.
  • It could just be a disconnect between what a clown is actually supposed to do and the fact that the show is an animated musical. Western animation had subsumed the DNA of circus and vaudeville ages ago, so watching Fizzarolli perform a comedy routine might come off as staid.
  • Hell is so incredibly jaded to the entire concept of sex selling well that ironically a performer needs to be legitimately entertaining to get any attention at all. Otherwise they just fall into the background of endless fanservice driven advertisers. Mammon wants someone funny because having an actual personality outside of being sexually attractive is the only way to get his products to stand out while comedy isn't the most well respected skill anyway making it easier to take advantage of Fizz.
• What's the point of forcing Fizzarolli to compete if Mammon wasn't going to let him go regardless? Fizz's panic attacks make it sound like he's afraid of being replaced, but to hear Mammon talk he wouldn't accept Fizz resigning even if the Glam girls won.
  • It's all to keep Fizz on a leash. Mammon already knows that Fizz feels like he'll lose everything if he loses his job. So he's using that fear to drain everything he can out of him.
  • Aside from that, Mammon wants to be the one holding the reins. In his mind, there's a big difference between him firing Fizz after he stops being profitable and Fizz quitting of his own free will.
  • He also most likely wants to make sure that his money maker is still showing that he's still the best performer in Hell.
  • It's also just good business. Mammon was raking in cash during the event.
• What's stopping Fizzarolli from getting prosthetic horns when he's already part cyborg with robo-arms and legs? He, Asmodeus, and Mammon already have a bunch of money, so what's stopping any of them from using their funds to simply replace Fizz's horns?
  • Fizz probably doesn't like thinking about them. If he wears his hat, he can hide his broken horns from the world and himself. If he gets prosthetics, then he has to face the fact they're gone.
  • Mammon might not be willing to pay for it because keeping Fizz mobile and able to perform is more important than replacing something that no one's going to see anyway.
  • Imps don't seem to use their horns for anything, so getting them replaced wouldn't have a practical purpose. That may enter into the equation.
• Why's Fizzarolli not under contract with Mammon? If Mammon wanted to keep Fizz on a leash so badly and prevent him from ever quitting, just keep him under contract!
  • There's probably a lot of paperwork involved in that. Keeping Fizz in line with threats and blackmail is easier - and cheaper.
  • It's very possible that he is. But what's to keep Fizz from breaking it? Fines and damages? It's Hell's worse kept secret that Fizz's boyfriend is Asmodeus, who is much richer than him. Fizz breaks his contract, gets sued for everything he's worth, and then goes back to living comfortably with a titan of industry.
• Fizzarolli outright says he deals with creepy, thirsty fans all the time. Why does it take only one asshole fan insulting him to make him go into a panic attack? What makes Creepzo so different?
  • Creepzo's been "sniffing around" Fizz since the latter was a child/teenager—it's possible there were even creepier moments offscreen that the then-obscure teen Fizz would have had no idea how to deal with. In real life, this is the reason that abusers can have a hold on their victims for so long, even after the latter become strong or independent enough to fight back. Psychologically, Fizz's brain has filed the creep away as a super dangerous person, and so it's triggering to see him again. Add to that the crowd already making Fizz kind of nervous, and the fact that Creepzo seems to actively intend to harm Fizz even in front of a huge crowd of people (the clawing hands, getting uncomfortably close, the sneer and insults...) and it's enough to tip anyone over into a panic.
    • Additionally, Fizz has clearly been in a fragile state of mind all day thanks to the pressure from Mammon and the competition, so Creepzo ended up just exacerbating that.