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Recap / Disenchantment S 4 E 1 Love Is Hell

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Bean arrives at hell with Dagmar trying to arrange a marriage between her and Satan, but she wants out of it. She attempts to run away. Luci sobs while he is stuck in heaven. Bean talks to Luci's head, while underground dwellers try to bring the rest of Luci's body back to life. Meanwhile, the elves attempt to make their move to take power in Dreamland. Elfo, captured by ogres, tries to escape. Bean attempts to make Satan dislike her and stop the marriage, with Jerry and Luci helping her flee.


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  • Affably Evil: Satan seems genuinely suave, charming, and debonair. He doesn't drop his polite demeanor even as he's rethinking marrying Bean while she's nagging in his ear, and asks Dagmar if she's okay (with seeming genuine concern) after Bean runs away.
  • Ambiguous Situation: It's unclear if Dagmar was really surprised by Bean switching their hands at the last second to marry Dagmar off to Satan instead, or if she was counting on Bean doing this (given how she places her hand directly below Bean's and pauses while posing the dagger over her hand, knowing how impulsive and resourceful Bean is...) to manipulate her way into marrying Satan instead without the other suspecting.
  • Ambition Is Evil: Lampshaded by Bean, who notes that Satan is ambitious to an extent, but he could go further. Cue Dagmar.
  • Are We There Yet?: Elfo does this to the Ogre carrying his cage, angering said ogre into opening the cage.
  • Back from the Dead: Both Jerry and Luci get resurrected.
  • Blatant Lies: After Dagmar blows Bean's cover in trying to Reverse Psychology Satan into no longer wanting to marry her, he claims he was one step ahead of her the whole time. Bean lampshades this, calling him a liar.
  • The Bluebeard: Satan is implied to be this. Not only is this his 50,000th wedding, with his previous brides nowhere to be seen, but his sinister winking in the mirror suggested he didn't have a good fate in store for Bean before she ran away.
  • Brick Joke: Early on, Gomer the Goon is scolded by Dagmar not to eat any lipstick. When Bean escapes the wedding, she runs into Gomer, who apparently has acquired some more for himself.
  • Cats Are Mean: God tells Jerry that there are no cats in heaven. Cats are later shown among the demons sitting on the groom's side of the wedding chapel in Hell.
  • The Cat Came Back: While in Heaven, Luci's stuck in a robe which comes back no matter how often he throws it away.
  • Chekhov's Gag: Way back, Alva managed to beat Bean to his penthouse suite and claimed he used the freight elevator. The episode ends with Bean discovering the freight elevator, which does indeed go to Alva's penthouse. And Hell.
  • Cliffhanger: When using the elevator to get out of Hell, Bean and company learn they have arrived in Steamland. Specifically in Alva's office.
  • Continuity Nod:
    • The bridesgoons use the same shushing technique Dagmar used back in "The Disenchantress".
    • Several of the attendees on Bean's side are members of the royal family seen back in the season 2 opener.
  • Feed It a Bomb: The Gnomes do this to one of the ogres during their battle, blowing a hole in said ogre's torso
  • Ghost City: On resurrection, Jerry and Luci find Maru is entirely abandoned.
  • Glamour: Satan's debonair appearance is implied to be this, since his reflection in the mirror is significantly less glamorous.
  • Growing Wings: The trogs sacred goo gives Luci's body wings.
  • Loophole Abuse: Satan was technically promised "The Queen of Dreamland" as a bride, which Bean is quick to realize means she's become queen as a plot by Dagmar to get out of marrying Satan herself. While Bean was recently crowned, Dagmar is technically still Queen of Dreamland since she was married to Zog but they never got divorced. Bean uses this to her advantage by pressing Dagmar's bloody palm into the marriage contract instead of her own at the last second.
  • The Mirror Shows Your True Self: As Satan escorts Bean and Dagmar to the wedding, his reflection in the mirror is much more robust, hairy, and sinister-looking than in person.
  • Mobile Shrubbery: Elfo tries to sneak away by hiding in the decapitated head of an ogre. It fails.
  • More Deadly Than the Male: Once Satan and Dagmar's bloody marriage contract is stamped, it becomes very clear very quickly who the bigger threat is.
  • No-Sell: Satan tries to charm Bean into falling for him before the wedding, but she's not interested.
  • Offscreen Inertia: When God revives Jerry by returning his soul to his body, it is revealed his dead body is in Maru, still lying on the floor where it was last seen in Part 2.
  • Opportunistic Bastard: Dagmar looks surprised by Bean switching her hand at the last second to stamp the bloody marriage contract, yet doesn't waste a second giving orders as the new Queen of Hell.
  • Our Souls Are Different: After Luci dies, his soul goes to Heaven. Pretty standard for this show, except his severed head remains alive for a good while, and his body gets revived and able to move and verbalize on its own thanks to the Trogs' Sacred Goo.
  • Palm Bloodletting: As part of the infernal wedding ceremony Satan and his bride slash their palms with a ritual dagger and press a bloody handprint into the contract. Bean manages to wrestle the dagger into slicing Dagmar's hand instead of hers.
  • The Reveal: The specific "Debt to Hell" Dagmar has mentioned before is revealed that Dagmar has promised the Queen of Dreamland to be Satan's bride.
  • Reverse Psychology: Bean tries to trick Satan into backing out of their wedding by acting like a stereotypical needy, clingy, nagging wife-to-be, but Dagmar sees right through it.
  • Running Gag: Luci keeps trying to get rid of his angel robe, but it is always right back on him next time the camera cuts back to him.
  • Senseless Sacrifice: While Luci has become the first demon to go to Heaven by performing a Heroic Sacrifice, God points out multiple times that Luci didn't actually manage to accomplish anything for doing it.
  • Shout-Out:
    • A wild-haired naked organist opens the marriage ceremony.
    • As they fall from Heaven back to Earth, Jerry refers to Luci, who is wearing jewellery stolen from God, as "Luci in the sky with diamonds".
  • Swiss-Army Tears: A tear from Bean wakes up Luci's decapitated head, even though his soul is still in heaven and his body is elsewhere. Luci claims it works because it annoyed him.
  • This Is Gonna Suck: Satan gets this twice.
    • Played for Laughs when Bean plays up the "clingy, needy, hysterical wife-to-be" trope to try to get him to rethink marrying her, which he seriously considers.
    • Played for Drama after Bean escapes. His face screams this once he realizes he's stuck being married to Dagmar, who is much worse than she seems.
  • What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Among some of the attendees are some of Alva's lightbulb robots.
  • Your Television Hates You: Bean enters Alva's office as he's watching a "Squalid Squirrel" cartoon where's she's taunting a beaver about his bad luck. Beavers having prominent front-teeth, like Bean.

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