Spring Broken

Spring Broken is the third episode of the first season of Helluva Boss. It premiered on January 31, 2021 on Vivziepop's YouTube channel.

Synopis
When Blitzo's ex-girlfriend steals his favorite parking spot, he will do whatever it takes to get the spot back, but things sure do happen.

Plot
The episode opens with Blitzo driving to work in the company van, with Loona in the front seat and Millie and Moxxie in the back. Upon arrival at the car park behind the building, Blitzo is about to park in the one remaining spot when another car cuts in front of him and takes it. Leaning out of the window, Blitzo begins shouting through a megaphone at the car's driver about how they have three seconds to get out of his parking spot, before he recognizes the driver, Verosika Mayday. Blitzo begins insulting her, falling out of the van in the process, about how he should've known she was here because he could smell fish when the nearest ocean is three rings down. Verosika retorts by saying she should have known he'd be here when she heard the Amber Alerts, which Blitzo responds to by calling her a alcoholic, and asking what she did to be let out of rehab. Verosika says they let her out because she was famous, and that rehab is for sad loser washups, and that Blitzo's sister says hi.

Blitzo tells her she has taken the only spot I.M.P has, and to take her car elsewhere. Verosika points out it has her name on it, pointing out that the spot which originally said I.M.P. has been painted over to say Verosika. She then tells him she is freelancing for one of the more successful companies in the building for that week, being brought in to lead their team during Spring Break. Blitzo furiously tells her she is not parking there for a week, and Verosika taunts him about their breakup, asking if he's going to run off and leave someone else with the bill for the hotel room, stealing their car to run it around three rings and max out their credit cards on horse riding lessons.

Verosika then begins walking to the building with Blitzo following her, as he tells her to move her car or else, he's interrupted by Verosika's Hellhound, Vortex. As Verosika and Vortex walk away, the rest of the company gets out of the car to ask him how he knows her, and if he really dated a pop star. Blitzo's asks them why that's surprising to them, with Loona telling him because it's Verosika Mayday, Millie saying because it's Blitzo, and Moxxie asking if she's blind or suffering from brain damage. Blitzo tells them that they are making it into a bigger deal than it actually is, and that he doesn't pry into their personal lives, something everyone else points out he constantly does.

Blitzo orders everyone to drop it, asking Millie to find a temporary spot for the van and for Moxxie and Loona to follow him. Entering the building, Loona begins worrying about her makeup, and despite Blitzo reassuring her it's fine, Loona uses a pocket mirror to check it and accidentally bumps into Vortex. Blitzo then gets between them and asks Vortex where his employer is. He informs Blitzo there wasn't room on the second floor and Verosika had to rent office space on the same floor as I.M.P. Moxxie asks if Blitzo would like him to go try and reason with Verosika, before going on a tangent about how he doesn't listen to pop music, before Blitzo tells him to shut up. Moxxie enters Verosika's office, introduces himself, and brings up the importance of their parking space, before Verosika and the other workers in the office take on full demonic forms to sexually assault him.

Moxxie gets out of the office and tells Blitzo he's going to lie down, and angry at what just happened Blitzo storms into the office himself. Telling her that if she's going to be shitty to his employees he's going to challenge her. Asking what he is challenging her to, Blitzo says that Spring Break in the mortal world is prime time for crime, and he bets I.M.P can kill more targets than the succubi can have sex with by the end of the day, a challenge Verosika accepts. Cutting to I.M.P's meeting room, Blitzo explains his plan, which consists of finding lots of clients, portalling up to the mortal world and going on a rampage, piling the corpses into a canoe, lighting it on fire before pushing it out to sea for sharks and maybe a goose to eat, and after winning the bet they rub it in Verosika's face.

Blitzo asks if anyone has questions, and Moxxie asks why that was nonsense, which Blitzo brushes off as not being a question, before the two get into an argument about Blitzo's plan. Loona then interrupts them to asks if she can join them on this job. Blitzo tells her absolutely not, as Spring Break is no place for vulnerable goth girls, before the show breaks the fourth wall to call out people making porn about Loona. Loona then points out she can blend in with the humans, which surprises Blitzo, with Millie asking if she has a human disguise, and Loona confirms she does. As her coworkers sit in stunned silence, Loona realizes the rest of the company has been operating in the mortal world undisguised the entire time.

Before she can say anything, Bitzo then comes up with a new plan, where Loona lures targets to them and they take care of the rest. Moxxie then points out the biggest hole in Blitzo's plan, that they need a client who is willing to pay for enough kills to win the bet. The episode then cuts to a street in Imp City where Blitzo is attaching a flyer advertising a Spring Break discount to a power pole. Moxxie says there is no way one badly spelt flyer is going to win the bet, when a crowd stretching down the street forms around it. Blitzo elbows Moxxie about the plans success, before asking the crowd who is first.

It then cuts to the mortal world, where I.M.P hides under a pier on a beach with a Spring Break party. Blitzo goes over a few last minute details of the plan, such as how they can't risk causing a panic with loose gunfire, and Loona puts on her human disguise. Blitzo comments that Loona looks awful disguised, and tells her to go to work. A montage of murders with Loona luring targets into side alleys for the others to kill is then shown, alongside other kills without her help. As Blitzo ties the knot on a bag with a corpse in it, Verosika dramatically arrives, taking over a concert stand to put on a show in human disguise.

As Verosika sings her fellow succubi begin working over the crowd, and Blitzo angrily comments about the song. He asks Loona if a beach goer vomiting near them is on their list, and Loona who's distracted says they are. Blitzo goes to kill them, as they turn around and mistake him for a leprechaun, which he agrees with, before killing them. As he turns to ask Loona to find the next target, he realizes she has disappeared. Asking where his baby has gone, Millie sees that she has gone to talk to Vortex, who is also disguised and acting as stage security for Verosika.

Making her way through the crowd, she goes to talk with Vortex, but he knocks out a member of the crowd who attempts to rush the stage, and drags them away. As Loona goes to follow him, one of the succubi accosts her, and she punches him in the face. Verosika then tosses a hipflask full of Hell made alcohol into the crowd where it ends up in the ocean and begins mutating a fish into a demon. Loona finally reaches Vortex, awkwardly introducing herself, and Vortex recognizes her as working for Blitzo, but says he isn't paid enough to care or get involved in Verosika's feud with him. Loona flirts with him, before Blitzo interrupts them, and gets into a argument with Vortex. Moxxie says they've lost Blitzo, and that it's up to him and Millie to finish out the hit list, and they leave the beach to kill targets who are in buildings along the waterfront.

Loona tells Blitzo to leave before he gets them caught, but Blitzo asks her to get back to work, and Loona asks if she isn't entitled to breaks. Blitzo says there's a parking space on the line, before Vortex tells him to relax, and Blitzo tells him to stay out of it. Loona asks if he can stay out of her face for five minutes, saying Blitzo isn't her real father and she was almost eighteen when he adopted her. Blitzo says that it counts, which Loona disagrees with, telling him he didn't need him then and she doesn't need him now.

It then cuts back to Millie and Moxxie, as the pair hide on a table of kegs and prepare to take out a target with a crossbow. A drunk party goer then flips the table, sending them flying into the crowd. Moxxie is then mistaken for a possum by the drunken crowd and stuffed in one of the kegs, where he begins drinking some of the beer. As the crowd with the keg rushes past, Loona tries to apologize to Blitzo for her outburst, Blitzo tells her to enjoy her break, and that he is going to go kill something.

Vortex then asks if Loona is alright, and compliments her for sticking up for herself. It then cuts to Millie, who has found the keg Moxxie was stuffed into abandoned by the crowd. Tipping it over, a drunk Moxxie spills out with whats left of the beer, and asks Millie where she got four heads, and that he wants to kiss them. The fish that had the hipflask spilt on it then rises out of the ocean, mutated with legs and now the size of a three story building. The fish then grabs Moxxie with it's tongue and swallows him. Millie then stabs a party goer and takes his towel and drink, using them to make a fire bottle which she throws at the fish monster.

The fish monster falls over into the surf, and Millie swims out to it, climbing up to it's mouth. There she finds Moxxie clinging to its tonsils to prevent being swallowed, and as she tries to pull him out he high fives her, before she grabs him and cuts him free from its tongue. The fish spits him out, and Blitzo catches him back on the beach. Millie, who is still in the fish monsters mouth, gets it to spit her out before letting it swallow her, then cuts it open from the inside, killing it.

Millie swims back to shore, asking Blitzo if Moxxie is ok. He tells her he's fine, before dropping him. They are then approached by Verosika and the other succubi, who backhandedly compliment them on how obviously they handled the fish monster. Millie then tosses Verosika her hipflask, telling her how bad it would look if they revealed she was behind the fish monster. Verosika then points out they would also get in trouble for being undisguised, when Moxxie says he was mistaken for a possum, and he's not a possum. Blitzo then says he won't mention anything if they let him use the parking space, which Verosika agrees to. Blitzo begins celebrating and rubbing their victory in Verosika's face, and she calls to Vortex that they're leaving. Vortex tells Loona that he's got to go, but gives her his number, saying his girlfriend throws great parties.

Blitzo then tells Loona to come over so they can park their car in their space, and the Imps go back through a portal to Hell. As Verosika leaves the beach, Blitzo pops back out of their portal, flipping her off, angering her. Verosika and her group then leave the beach for the foreshore, where they are arrested by police, and Verosika tells the rest of the group to get ready to have sex with them.

Characters

 * Blitzo
 * Moxxie
 * Millie
 * Loona
 * Verosika Mayday (debut)
 * Vortex (debut)
 * Travis (non-speaking cameo)
 * Loona’s biological father (mentioned)
 * Barbie Wire/Tilla (mentioned)

Locations

 * Hell
 * Pride Ring
 * Imp City
 * I.M.P Headquarters
 * Human beach

Songs

 * Vacay to Bonetown
 * Mustang Dong

Transcript
View the episode's transcript here.

Trivia

 * The title of the episode is a play on words on the term “Spring Break”.
 * This is the first episode in which Stolas doesn't appear.
 * Travis makes a cameo among the demon clients who are reading Blitzo's flier.
 * During the meeting scene the fourth wall is broken by Blitzo, referencing the "fan art" of Loona.
 * It is revealed that some demons can transform into a human disguise while in the living world. However, it is not clear if this is true for all demons or certain types of demons.
 * Loona's and Verosika both imply that imps can also use human disguises and that the rest of the I.M.P. team either has no knowledge on how to do so or simply never bothered to try.
 * It is revealed that Blitzo adopted Loona when she was nearing 18 years of age.
 * Blitzo mentions that the nearest body of water is three Rings nelow the Pride Ring.

Cultural References

 * Millie remarks that Moxxie fantasizes sex with Michael Crawford while a note from pipe organ plays. This is a reference to , a musical that starred Michael Crawford.
 * Millie makes the iconic jump sound effect from Super Mario Bros. when Blitzo tosses the van's keys to her.
 * Blitzo’s nickname for Loona in this episode, “Loonie Tooney”, is a reference to the animated series Looney Tunes.

Continuity

 * TBA

Errors

 * Millie's eyelids switch from black tinted to only a little shine on several occasions.
 * The star pattern on Loona’s tanktop briefly disappears when she first bumps into Vortex.
 * The eyes of Verosika and her crew are colored white whereas Moxxie’s remained yellow during his confrontation with them.
 * During the scene wherein Verosika confronts Blitzo on how they defeated the monster fish, two of her co-workers (excluding Vortex) are missing the entire scene and only reappear once she and her team are captured by the police.

Gallery

 * Spring Broken/Gallery