Dad Beat Dad

"My daughter wants to see meeee! Take that, depression!"

- Lucifer Morningstar, after Charlie invites him for a visit at the hotel

Dad Beat Dad is the fifth episode of the first season of Hazbin Hotel, and the fifth episode overall. It premiered on January 26, 2024, on Prime Video.

Synopsis

 * Charlie struggles with asking her father, Lucifer, for help. Meanwhile, an unexpected new arrival shakes things up at the Hotel.

Plot
TBA

Characters

 * Employees of the Hazbin Hotel
 * Charlie Morningstar
 * Vaggie
 * Alastor
 * Husk
 * Niffty
 * KeeKee (cameo)
 * Razzle and Dazzle (cameo)
 * Clients of the Hazbin Hotel
 * Angel Dust
 * Sir Pentious
 * Egg Boiz (pictured)
 * The Royal Family
 * Lucifer Morningstar (official debut)
 * Lilith (non-speaking cameo; flashback)
 * Mimzy (official debut)
 * Razzle & Dazzle (official debut)
 * Charlie's phone contacts (names only)
 * Amon
 * Azazel
 * Barbatos
 * Belphegor
 * Cyhyraeth
 * The von Eldritch family (pictured)
 * Frederick von Eldritch
 * Seviathan von Eldritch

Locations

 * Hell
 * Pride Ring
 * Pentagram City
 * Hazbin Hotel
 * Lucifer's mansion

Objects

 * Lucifer's rubber duck collection
 * Charlie's phone
 * Beelzejuice (name only)

Songs

 * "Hell's Greatest Dad"
 * "More Than Anything"

Trivia

 * Charlie reveals in her phone call with her dad that five months has passed since the events of "Overture".
 * It is revealed that Sir Pentious can bake.
 * It is revealed that Mimzy and Alastor knew each other back when they were human.
 * It is also revealed that Mimzy only visits Alastor to ask him to help her get out of trouble.
 * As per Husk, Alastor allegedly "also on a leash", implying he works for someone of higher power who has control over him.
 * It is revealed that Lucifer has developed depression after his wife left him alongside the fact that his daughter barely contacts him.
 * Despite this, he is still shown to have his wedding ring on his finger.
 * It is revealed that Lucifer tried to convince Heaven to stop the genocide against the sinners before Charlie, but, much like his daughter, was also refused.
 * As of this episode, Lucifer has decided to support Charlie's dream of making the hotel a success.
 * During the Hell's Greatest Dad sequence, the scene of Lucifer on his throne is a reference to his character redesign reveal on the official Hazbin Hotel Twitter.

Cultural References

 * The episode title is a reference to the phrase, "".
 * Charlie with the conspiracy board is a reference to the Pepe Silvia meme and scene from the live action sitcom, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, wherein Charlie Kelly (played by Charlie Day) conspires about how Pepe Silvia does not exist.
 * Lucifer's ringtone is a reference to the music often heard in circus performances.
 * The following demons in Charlie's contacts, according to real-life mythologies (excluding Belphegor's), are as follows:
 * Azazel is a fallen angel responsible for introducing humans to forbidden knowledge, as described in the Book of Enoch.
 * Barbatos is the eighth spirit named among the list of seventy two demons in The Lesser Key of Solomon.
 * Belphegor is a member of the Seven Deadly Sins, the Queen Sin of Sloth.
 * Cyhyraeth is a ghostly spirit in Welsh mythology, often depicted as a disembodied moaning voice that sounds before a person's death.

Continuity

 * Vaggie stating how they already tried having a meeting with Heaven is a callback to the first episode.
 * Charlie recalling having done trust falls amongst other group exercises with the gang is a callback to "Radio Killed the Video Star" and "Scrambled Eggs", respectively.

Errors

 * Charlie states that the extermination is in a "couple months" but later in the episode notes that it's been five months since she met with Adam, meaning the extermination is actually in one month. The latter is confirmed in the following episode.
 * When Lucifer notices the bar, his rosy cheeks disappear.
 * During the scene where Charlie asks her dad what he thought of the hotel, Vaggie's arms are resting on thin air rather than on the railings.

Transcript
View the episode's transcript here.

Gallery

 * Dad Beat Dad/Gallery