The Harvest Moon Festival

"Why struggle to run a business that is rigged against you when you can partner up with me and kill the unkillable? Starting with the one that treats you like a plaything. We can be the most dangerous beings in Hell, Blitzo."

- Striker to Blitzo

The Harvest Moon Festival is the fifth episode of the first season of Helluva Boss and is the fifth episode overall. It premiered on April 30, 2021 on Vivziepop's YouTube channel.

Synopis
Blitzo sees a horse. Things sure do happen!

Plot
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Characters

 * Blitzo
 * Moxxie
 * Millie
 * Loona
 * Demons of Ars Goetia
 * Stolas
 * Octavia (non-speaking cameo)
 * Stella (cameo)
 * Wally Wackford
 * Millie’s family (debut)
 * Joe
 * Lin
 * Sallie May (cameo)
 * Millie’s brothers (pictured)
 * Striker (debut)
 * Fizzarolli (pictured)
 * Stolas’s butler (non-speaking cameo)

Locations

 * Hell
 * Pride Ring
 * Imp City
 * Moxxie and Millie’s apartment
 * Bedroom
 * Stolas's mansion
 * Master Bedroom
 * Dining Room
 * Wrath Ring (debut)
 * Rough n’ Tumbleweed Ranch
 * Lin and Joe’s House
 * Hideaway Motel
 * Earth (mentioned)

Songs

 * "Striker's Song"

Instrumentals

 * TBA

Transcript
View the episode's transcript here.

Trivia

 * Millie’s full first name is revealed to be Mildred.
 * The scene with Stolas and Blitzo’s conversation regarding the Harvest Moon Festival was shown as a preview during the BLM Helluva Charity Stream hosted on Ashley Nichols's YouTube channel on June 10, 2020.
 * Additionally, "C.H.E.R.U.B" was initially supposed to be the third episode of the first season, as revealed in the description of the BLM Charity Stream, with this episode being the fifth and "Spring Broken" presumably being the fourth.
 * An early version of the animatic revealed that the scratch track voice actor Kestin Howard also initially recorded for Blitzo in the early animatic stage, assuming Brandon re-recorded the scratch track for either the purpose of the streams or for when revisions of the animatic took place.
 * This is Ang Vondra's only storyboarded episode. Their shots were minorly revised for the final release.
 * The scene where Blitzo pours hot sauce on his "cheese on a stick" snack is an inside reference to the Helluva Signing Stream on Vivziepop's YouTube channel where Brandon Rogers was shown pouring hot sauce on a cheese slice during the stream.
 * It is revealed that Moxxie and Millie are both native to the Wrath Ring.
 * According to Striker, not many Imps start businesses on their own.
 * It is stated by Stolas that the Wrath Ring provides majority of the food supply for the entirety of Hell.
 * Similar to Fat Nuggets, the hogs native to Hell appear to have glowing marks similar to eyes growing across their backside.
 * It is said in a Tweet that Striker’s horse is revealed to be named Bombproof.
 * It is implied that the other Rings have some concept of war, though what form this takes is left unsaid.

Cultural References

 * Loona jokingly snarks "That's what she said." after hearing Blitzo's accidental innuendo, a phrase that is widely attributed to the popular TV show franchise, ', but can be traced back to the test reel of the Alfred Hitchcock film, '.
 * While Striker is performing "Sweet Victory" a large representation can be seen of him in the mountains, a reference to the "Screaming Cowboy" meme derived from Kirin J Callinan's music video, Big Enough.
 * Moxxie's ringtone on his Hellphone appears to be the theme music for The Phantom of the Opera.

Continuity

 * Blitzo is, once again, shown to be stalking Moxxie and Millie in their apartment.
 * Blitzo recalls their failed bodyguarding job back in "Loo Loo Land".

Errors

 * A part of Joe’s mouth clips over his mustache when he suggests for Striker and Blitzo to enter the Pain Games.
 * During Blitzo and Moxxie's fight with Striker, the door to the room switches sides when Loona opens it.
 * Several scenes such as Stolas' announcement speech for the festival were animated at an inconsistent and much more slower speed. This is not only due to the different framerates animated but also because in-between animators were used for this episode.
 * During the dinner scene between the Goetia Family, Octavia's neck and upper torso are white in colour, when they are usually grey.
 * When the Wrath Ring is mentioned by Stolas at the beginning of the episode, Blitzo states that he had "never really been" there, which contradicts his conversation with Verosika Mayday in Spring Broken, where she stated that he once maxed out her credit cards on horseback rising lessons while there.
 * However, a possible explanation for this may be that by Blitzo's wording, "never really been", he was referring to not spending much time actually looking around the Wrath Ring, aside from where he learnt to ride horses in the previously mentioned incident. Another reason might simply be Blitzo didn't want to bring up his past history with Verosika in front of Stolas and decided to act like he had never been there before.

Gallery

 * The Harvest Moon Festival/Gallery