Loo Loo Land (episode)

Loo Loo Land is the second episode of the first season of Helluva Boss. It premiered on December 9, 2020 on Vivziepop's YouTube channel.

Synopsis
When Stolas hires I.M.P as bodyguards on a trip to Loo Loo Land, things sure do happen.

Plot
The episode begins with a flashback to Octavia as a child crying for her parents. When Stolas gets to her room to see what is wrong, she says she had a nightmare where she couldn't find him anywhere in the palace. Stolas comforts her saying how he will always be there for her, and uses his Grimoire to open a portal to another planet while he sings her a song (You Will Be Ok) as she falls asleep.

It then cuts to the present, where Octavia is awoken by her parents fighting, after her mother discovered that Stolas had slept with an Imp. Getting out of bed, she puts on headphones and picks a song from her hellphone as she walks through the estate, passing a broken pot plant her mother had thrown on her way into the kitchen. In the kitchen, Octavia gets herself a cup of coffee and grabs a box of cereal while her parents continue arguing, with her mother tossing an Imp at her father, asking if he'd like to sleep with this one too, before storming out of the kitchen.

Stolas then notices Octavia is there, and acting like nothing is amiss asks if she slept well and what song she is listening to. As Stolas grabs a piece of meat from the fridge to feed a house plant, Octavia tells him that she is listening to a song called "My World is Burning Down Around Me" by "Fuck You Dad". Octavia then asks if her parents are done screaming for the day, causing Stolas to pause, before he hears his wife break something off screen. Stolas then starts talking about taking Octavia to Loo Loo Land, which Octavia tries to get out of, saying that she isn't five anymore. Stolas continues, asking if she'd like to go anyway, just the two of them, as she was always so happy there.

Octavia says that she would rather kill herself, which Stolas ignores, reasoning anything is better than staying in the house, and that he'll arrange security. Octavia questions why they need security at a theme park, and Stolas tells her that they are rich and hot, saying people want their bodies and money. As Stolas begins dialing a number on a rotary phone, Octavia agrees with the money part, but questions the body part. Stolas quietly says speak for yourself, before loudly saying he's dialing the only man who can fuck him, to Octavia's disgust. Stolas continues as if he hadn't said anything, as Octavia groans and pulls her beanie down over her face.

Cutting to Blitzo's office, focusing on a picture of a partially undressed Blitzo that has had "#1 Bitch" written over to read "#1 Boss", before zooming out to show the rest of the office. Blitzo is playing with office supplies he made into simple puppets of his employees, Millie and Moxxie. Doing fairly poor impressions of them, he pretends they are praising his work ethic and want to sleep with him, and he shoves the puppets down his pants before being interrupted by a phone call. Stolas greets him as "...my big dicked Blitzy", causing both Blitzo and Octavia to spit out their coffee, and the scene cuts between Blitzo and Octavia saying what the fuck. Stolas chides both of them about their language, before telling Blitzo he has a special request. Blitzo tells him he just had a skin treatment, and isn't willing to sleep with Stolas at the moment, before Stolas tells him it's about his daughter. Blitzo asks him to tell her to wash first, causing Stolas to panic slightly before he tells him he is taking her to Loo Loo Land and he wants I.M.P. to accompany them.

Blitzo tells Stolas they are assassins, not bodyguards, and not to invite them anywhere if no one's going to die. Stolas tells Blitzo he'll pay them in money, which Blitzo agrees to, accidentally breaking his phone in excitement. Using a megaphone, Blitzo tells Millie and Moxxie to get in his office as they are going to Loo Loo Land. Moxxie opens Blitzo's office door, questioningly saying Loo Loo Land, while Millie breaks through the window in the door, excitedly saying Loo Loo Land, and Blitzo using the megaphone says Loo Loo Land, causing Loona to yell for them to shut up from off screen.

It then cuts to the theme park as a I.M.P. branded minivan arrives and Moxxie opens the back door for Stolas. Stolas quickly exits the van, while Octavia reluctantly gets out. Stolas puts on a Loo Loo Land hat, as Octavia follows him, pulling her beanie down and closing her jacket. Blitzo and Stolas then talk, with Blitzo telling him this is strictly business and that his company isn't there to satisfy his perversions. Octavia tries to interrupt and talk to her father, but Blitzo asks her to wait, before continuing his conversation with Stolas and warning him not to try and have sex with him in the park, but Stolas cuts him off, telling him he is cute when he's serious.

Octavia says she thinks she's going to be sick, and Moxxie offers her medicine, having brought antacids, ibuprofen, and several syringes of morphine with him. Octavia tells him she was being figurative, and Moxxie dumps the morphine into a pram with a baby demon in it. As Octavia walks away Millie expresses her excitement to be back in the park, as its her first visit since she was a child, commenting how it hasn't changed a bit as a letter falls from a sign. She then points out one of the attractions to Moxxie, who finds it concerning. Millie says its fun, and asks if Moxxie has ever visited a theme park before, and he tells her he hasn't as he finds them disturbing, especially the mascots.

A Loo Loo mascot then walks up to the pair, frightening Moxxie who had his back to it, welcoming them to the park. Stolas points out Loo Loo to Octavia, who questions it on if the park is a rip off of Lucifer Magne's Lu Lu World. The mascot tells her it isn't, and she comments that the park reeks of corporate insecurity, before Stolas takes her to check out the rides. The mascot says to Blitzo that it finds Octavia creepy, and he tells it to wait until her dad tries to diddle it's holes before following Stolas, which confuses the mascot who tries to ask Moxxie what Blitzo is talking about, but he tells it not to talk to him.

Millie and Moxxie then wander through the park, with Millie happily reminiscing about how her parents would bring her and her siblings to the park, when money allowed. Moxxie agrees that the park does seem pricey as they pass a gift shop, commenting on the price of a novelty cup, which Millie brushes off as being because its Loo Loo Land, as Blitzo exits the store behind them wearing a beer holder hat and sipping from one of the novelty cups. Blitzo tells Moxxie to listen to Millie, and orders them to go have fun while he takes the first watch with the Goetia's.

Millie excitedly grabs Moxxie, and holding him over her head says they have to do her favorite ride, a roller-coaster named The Lawsuit. It then cuts to Moxxie vomiting into a bucket, while Blitzo conspicuously follows Stolas and Octavia through the park. Stolas begins flirting with Blitzo, telling him it's thrilling to see him on the job, and Octavia tells them to get a room. Stolas then notices a circus show that he thought Octavia enjoyed as a child, which actually frightened her to tears, and that Blitzo used to work at. Both Blitzo and Octavia comment that they hate the shows star clown, before Stolas politely interrupts to ask Blitzo to do his job, as a group of Imps try to kidnap him. Blitzo shoots one of them and the rest run off, and Stolas takes the pair to see the circus.

Taking a seat, Octavia rips the bag off Stolas from the failed kidnapping attempt before Fizzarolli, the shows robotic clown, takes centre stage. Fizzarolli delivers a brief speech about how Loo Loo Land is legally distinct from Lu Lu World, before breaking into song with a robotic band about the park. It then cuts to Millie and Moxxie walking through the park, as a stall operator calls for people to step up and try a shooting gallery carnival game. Millie falls in love with the game's prize, and Moxxie who's pleased to finally see something he can handle buys tickets. Unfortunately for Moxxie the game is rigged and despite hitting the bullseye the targets don't fall down when hit, but the operator goads him into continuing to buy tickets.

It then cuts back to Blitzo and the Goetia's at the circus, where Fizzarolli has finished his song. Stolas enthusiastically applauds the show, much to Octavia's embarrassment, when Blitzo shoots another Imp before it can attack Stolas. Stolas compliments Blitzo's aim, causing Octavia to storm out of the tent, and Stolas follows her. Having heard Blitzo's name, Fizzarolli notices him in the upper stands, and comments about how kids are still running away from him. Blitzo tells him the O is silent now, causing Fizzarolli to taunt him about how it's just like his audience's were when he was on stage. Blitzo furiously tells him he makes more money killing people than Fizzarolli ever did being a robotic rip off of Lu Lu World. Fizzarolli calls him salty, and that real or not everybody loves him while no one loves Blitzo. Blitzo then comments how he's really good with guns now, and begins shooting at Fizzarolli.

Fizzarolli dodges his gunfire and attacks him, throwing him out of the tent through the roof. Blitzo lands on a cart of flaming torches, scattering them across the ground and igniting the circus tent. The now on fire members of Fizzarolli's robotic band exit the tent, followed by Fizzarolli himself who continues to attack Blitzo. It then cuts back to Moxxie, who has lost a large amount of money trying to win the carnival game, as the stall operator mocks him about his aim. Millie then tries, missing the targets completely, but the operator presses a button to lower the target. Moxxie attempts to confront the operator about how clearly rigged the game is, but the operator tells him to get lost, as he tries to flirt with Millie.

At that moment Fizzarolli and Blitzo's fight reaches the same area of the carnival as Millie and Moxxie, and the stall operator is crushed by Blitzo after Fizzarolli tosses him into the air again. As the pair asks Blitzo what he's doing, he brushes them off and tells them to look for Stolas while he continues fighting Fizzarolli. Blitzo shoots the now fire scarred Fizzarolli in the mouth with a flintlock, but it spits out the bullet and continues attacking him, further destroying the stall Blitzo landed in. The prizes are flung into the air, interrupting a family as one lands on a demon child, whose father berates him for ruining another family photo.

It then cuts to Stolas as he looks for Octavia, who tells him to leave her alone as she enters the carnival Fun House. Stolas enters after her, and is followed by the Imps who tried to kidnap him earlier. As one of the Imps jumps onto his back, Millie and Moxxie catch up with him, and Millie shoots it. Stolas asks them where Blitzo is, and Moxxie tells him he's being a fool, and is setting the park on fire. Stolas then continues through the Fun House, finding Octavia crying while sitting in the ride. Dropping the Loo Loo Land hat, Stolas sits down next to her, finally realizing she's not having fun. He then apologizes for taking her, saying he thought she loved it. She agrees saying she loved it when she was a child, when she didn't have parents who hated each other and a dad who flirted with a weird red dickhead the entire time.

Stolas tells her he's sorry for everything, and Octavia says she wants to go home, but home doesn't feel like home anymore, and that he ruined it. Stolas tries to explain why he cheated on his wife, but struggles to find the words. Octavia asks if he's going to run off with Blitzo, and leave her behind to go where she can't find him, Stolas reassures her, telling her he'd never do that. They then go to leave, as Stolas tells her she was right, and that she's too old for it. As they exit, a Imp jumps down from the ceiling and draws a knife, but Stolas turns it to stone with a glare.

Walking past Blitzo's ongoing fight with Fizzarolli and the other robots to the parking lot, Stolas asks Octavia what she wants to do now. Octavia asks to visit Stylist Occult, a store that sells weird taxidermy, which slightly confuses him but he agrees anyway. Octavia tells him he's not so bad at times, as the park explodes behind them, propelling Blitzo, Millie and Moxxie through the air where they land near the pair. Moxxie sarcastically compliments Blitzo on ruining another good thing, who retorts that it was worth it and Fizzarolli had it coming before passing out.

Characters

 * Blitzo
 * Moxxie
 * Millie
 * Loona (voice only)
 * Stolas
 * Octavia (debut)
 * Fizzarolli (debut)
 * Loo Loo
 * Stella
 * Wally Wackford
 * Lucifer Magne (mentioned)
 * Millie’s parents (mentioned)

Locations
Hell
 * Imp City
 * I.M.P Headquarters
 * Stolas's estate
 * Loo Loo Land
 * Lu Lu World (mentioned)
 * Stylist Occult (mentioned)

Songs

 * "You Will Be Ok"
 * "My World is Burning Down Around Me"
 * "Loo Loo Land"

Transcript
View the episode's transcript here.

Trivia

 * Fizzarolli makes a nod to Charlie' song when he sings the line "I have a dream I'm here to tell".
 * A majority of the imp patrons at Loo Loo Land are the crew's impsonas.
 * This episode is noted for having a lot of firsts.
 * The first episode in which Blitzo and Stolas are seen speaking to each other face to face. They previously only spoken to each other via phone.
 * The first episode wherein Millie and Moxxie interact with Stolas.
 * The first episode where Stolas uses the grimoire instead of Blitzo, Millie, & Moxxie.
 * The first episode in which Blitzo, Millie, and Moxxie don't travel to the world of the living.
 * The first episode in which Loona doesn't physically appear on screen, but you do still hear her yell in one scene.
 * The first episode where no living humans were killed.
 * The first episode where no kids were seen being killed.
 * Blitzo remarks how the “o” has been silent since his resignation from his job at the circus, hinting that “Blitzo” could have been his stage name turned real name.
 * Similar to Medusa, Stolas also demonstrates the ability of petrification.

Cultural References

 * During the overhead view of the theme park when the mascot says "Welcome to Loo-Loo Land", you can see an imp with an outfit that looks similar to the iconic character, .
 * One of the game stand signs reads "MUPPET", which seems to be a direct nod to.
 * The scene where Millie and Moxxie played the carnival game is a reference to a scene from  when Margot, Edith, and Agnes couldn't knock down the spaceship at a theme park carnival game, and the employee working at the game was quite snarky. Both carnival games were very similar, and the employee in Helluva's voice was similar to the worker in Despicable Me. He even wears the same hat.

Continuity

 * This is the second time Blitzo mentions how he is not opposed to having a threesome with Millie and Moxxie.

Gallery

 * Loo Loo Land (episode)/Gallery