Unhappy Campers

"It matters how I feel about myself. And for once I feel…Like I'm important! Like I'm someone to be proud of…And I had hoped that my husband would be there to support me half as much as I've supported him this week!"

- Millie, arguing with Moxxie

Unhappy Campers is the fifth episode of the second season of Helluva Boss and is the thirteenth episode overall. It premiered on July 8, 2023, on Vivziepop's YouTube channel.

Synopsis

 * Moxxie gets to lead a mission for the first time, and things sure do happen.

Plot
The episode begins with Blitzo sneaking around a large bright building in the Sloth Ring, sneaking under the windows, and then climbing over the drain gutter downspout. He opens a window and then he tries to enter the windowsill, but his big horns gave him a struggle before he finally falls inside the room. He looks around, but then, a hand holding a taser device shocks him painfully at the crotch below his tail.

The taser was revealed to be in the hands of a nurse who warns Blitzo that he is not allowed to be in the room, despite sodomizing him several times with a taser every time he comes back. Then they exchange insults to each other before Blitzo asks where his his twin sister is. The nurse revealed to be a rehab therapist, she tells Blitzo that his sister checked out months ago, and she didn't even bother to tell Blitzo about it, which infuriates him. Before Blitzo heads out through the window again, the nurse warns him that his sister has a new life and now she's free of the rehabilitation, but Blitzo responds by insulting her and calling her a "pussy-face" before crashing down.

At the I.M.P Headquarters, the imp couple, Moxxie and Millie are discussing with a demon sinner who is their potential next client. When Blitzo returns, he's all bruised and covered in dirt and brush, then he leaves after falling out of the rehab building. Moxxie tries to get his attention and calls him about their next client, but Blitzo, very infuriated, was not in the mood and slams the door of his office, ignoring Moxxie and Millie. The demon sinner requested for I.M.P to kill a camp counselor who killed him. However, the client tells Moxxie and Millie that he doesn't know who killed him after he drowned in one of his boats, because someone drilled a hole in them, and since the camp counselors have the keys to the boat all the time, they know he cannot swim. Moxxie was hesitant about taking the job because their policies do not allow them to do investigations, due to the waste of time and effort. Moxxie goes to ask Blitzo about it, and just as he enters, Blitzo was flipping through his contact booklet to see who knows where his sister is, still ignoring Moxxie by the door.

Moxxie tries to explain the situation, but he keeps getting shut down by Blitzo who was trying to find the contacts, despite Moxxie's persistence. Irritated with Moxxie, Blitzo tells him to handle the case himself and threatens him out of his office. Moxxie, ecstatic, tells the client that they'll take the case for the job. Now, Millie was hesitant about Moxxie leading a case on their job, and then she asks if she's up for the task, and then she about Blitzo, but Moxxie reassures her that Blitzo is fine with it, much to her surprise.

In his office, Blitzo is still searching for his sister, and he even tries to check her social media and even her job application, but every call he makes ends up nowhere to be found. Then he received another call from a contact who tells him where his sister is and hangs up the phone before he runs out of the office, still ignoring Millie and Moxxie, who made an investigation wall to determine the killer of their client. Millie was wondering if Moxxie was taking it a little bit too far, but Moxxie assures her that it has to be perfect.

Moxxie and Millie enter Camp Ivannakummore in the middle of a summer day. They each took a disguise with Moxxie disguised as a girl named "Moxxine" while Millie is disguised as a boy and his brother, "Millerd". Millie spots one of the camp counselors wearing a trench coat and holding a big sack on his back. Moxxie tries to dismiss the counselor, but Millie tells him it's clear that the camp counselor was holding a bag of drugs, money, and a drill. Moxxie is still dismissive of Millie's obvious observation, but she didn't want to insist, since this was his first solo case and she does her best to fit in with Moxxie's ideal investigation.

Moxxie spots a group of three teenage girls and tries to "blend in" by giving them a stereotypical teenage girl talk, but the three teenage girls were very disgusted with Moxxie and then they make insults him and his “disfigurement” of being a digitigrade. Meanwhile, a volleyball was rolling to her and Millie picks it up before she joins a group of campers playing volleyball. She plays so well, that other campers notice her very strong athletic skills which attracted the teenage girls and upset Moxxie as Millie was earning cheers and praise, despite her accidentally fracturing one of the camper’s skulls with a volleyball.

Meanwhile, Blitzo comes to a receptionist about his sister, but when the receptionist was clueless about who he was, Blitzo, in blind fury and rage, grabs him and holds him violently against the wall, and slaps his face with his tail. He further interrogates him and beats him senselessly, until, the receptionist finally tells him that Barbie is out on pickup.

Back at the camp, Millie continues to show off her amazing demonic skills that earned a lot of cheers from the campers and counselors, despite accidentally crashing into the camper she fractured. However, Moxxie is upset because Millie was getting more and more popular with her online sensation. Completely dejected, Moxxie reminds Millie that they still have a job to do, but he cannot do the job because the campers and counselors were so very swooned over her. Millie insisted on getting their attention, since he is supposed to be her sister. At the campfire, Moxxie tries to do what Millie asked him to do and he ends up singing a horrible campfire song which creeps out the other campers. However, Millie ends up upstaging Moxxie with her banjo playing, greatly upsetting Moxxie even more.

Demoralized, Moxxie cries in shame and hides in a camp lavatory, completely miserable about his failed attempts to get into the crowd. Millie cheers up Moxxie and tells him to do his best at what he is. Moxxie tries and does very well to investigate, but each day is a disaster, getting hit by a volleyball, getting attacked by a shark, getting mauled by a bear, and then finally, getting to be an outcast, while Mille continues with her popularity. She becomes so popular, that the camp offers her to perform on stage in front of the local news. Now Moxxie was in the same foul mood as Blitzo since he was so angry, that his solo work didn’t go so well as he planned. Finally, he vents his frustration at Millie for slacking off, instead of doing the job of killing the camp counselor who killed their client. In return, Millie vents out her frustration at Moxxie because he wanted to do the job " his " way and not the other way around. Two of them got into a heated argument over who was responsible for their mishap before Millie tells Moxxie he can do whatever he wants to do, but to let her have her moment and walks off with tears, while Moxxie feels guilty for making her cry as he realizes how much this chance to shine means to his wife.

Blitzo, after endlessly searching for his sister, comes across a dealer and threatens him with his flintlock until the dealer gives him what he asked for: an Asmodean Crystal that has access to the real world. He opens the door and Blitzo enters through into the human world, unknowingly, entering Camp Ivannakummore.

On stage, Millie was upset now because she wasn’t sure if Moxxie was in the crowd watching her. As she walked up on stage, Moxxie did appear on stage in front of the audience. He addressed Millie to the crowd how much she is proud, grateful, strong, and happy, and the love of his life, but he didn't know he was creeping the crowd out.

Moxxie hands Millie the microphone to give them a performance and in return, Millie tells Moxxie that the target is walking back to the cabin with someone else. As Moxxie approaches the cabin, he ends up falling on Blitzo, much to their disgust. Blitzo was angry at Moxxie because he and Millie are still on a job even though it's been a week. Nonetheless, they both came to the cabin and kicked the door down, and, much to his shock and surprise, he finds his sister in human form. Also, Barbie was shocked that Blitzo was there, too. Moxxie was completely confused and then he asked Blitzo if he knows her, and then he confirmed Barbie is his sister.

As Millie begins her performance, Blitzo and Barbie argued, while Moxxie tells Blitzo that the camp counselor was the target, much to his amusement. Moxxie tries to explain that the camp counselor was the target because he killed a client and so the client wants him dead because of it, much to her disappointment before the camp counselor confessed that the client found out about the drugs. Barbie dismissed him and tells Blitzo that she isn't going to let them kill her drug supplier.

Barbie says that she has finally got a job and a chance to get away from Blitzo. She revealed that she seduced the camp counselor to help deal drugs. However, Moxxie has had enough of the drama after spending a whole week on the mission and he declares that he is going to finish the job one way or another. Barbie gets angry and attacks Moxxie, Blitzo ends up getting in the brawl, and while all three of them are fighting, Millie does her performance on stage. Eventually, one of the fireworks backfires and flies into the cabin in front of the camp counselor and blows him up. Barbie was infuriated that not only was her dealer killed, she was out of a job. She admonished Blitzo for ruining her life again and tells him off before using an Asmodean Crystal to open a portal back to Hell.

Moxxie returns to the stage and apologized to Millie for being rude to her. Millie forgives him and, together, they end up getting aroused and start having sex on stage, but they didn't know that they were having sex in front of the crowd, and the the news crew, while still under the guise of being human siblings.

Back in Hell, I.M.P were watching the news about Millie's tarnished reputation as a horny illicit with an incestuous relationship, which ruined her popularity, too. Despite that, Blitzo tells Moxxie that he did a good job getting the target for his first solo mission, but when Moxxie asks does he really mean it Blitzo tells him that he was just kidding and that he's such a disgrace, much to Moxxie's sadness and Millie's frustration, as Loona is asleep with her head on the table, completely unaware about the whole thing.

Characters

 * Employees of I.M.P
 * Blitzo
 * Moxxie
 * Millie
 * Loona (non-speaking cameo)
 * Barbie Wire (debut)
 * Seven Deadly Sins
 * Satan (name only)
 * Asmodeus (icon only)
 * Robo Fizz (pictured)
 * Unnamed sinner demon (debut; cameo)
 * Unnamed Lust Ring succubus (debut; cameo)
 * Camp Ivannakummore staff (debut)
 * Counselor Jimmy
 * Lifeguard Dude
 * Camp Ivannakummore campers (debut)
 * St. An's Hospital staff
 * Dr. Somna (drawing only)
 * Unnamed rehab nurse (debut; cameo)
 * Unnamed pharmacist (debut; cameo)
 * Unnamed news reporter (debut; cameo)

Locations

 * Hell
 * Pride Ring
 * I.M.P Headquarters
 * Lust Ring (cameo)
 * Sloth Ring
 * St. An's Hospital
 * Earth
 * Camp Ivannakummore (debut)

Objects

 * Blitzo's pistol
 * Millerd's guitar
 * Asmodean Crystals

Songs

 * "Regular Joe"
 * "Everybody, Look at Me!"
 * "You Got the Power (Millie's Big Show)"

Instrumentals

 * "Regular Joe"
 * "Everybody, Look at Me!" (end credits)

Trivia

 * This is the only episode to not have animatics or storyboards in the 2022 trailer that showed up to the seventh episode of season 2.
 * As shown on the poster of Millie's performance for "You Got The Power", the last day of their mission is on July 17th on a Friday, making the first day of their mission start on July 13th on a Monday.
 * Adding onto this, the most recent year where a July 13th occurred on a Monday was in 2020, however in "Seeing Stars" Moxxie is given a coin with "2021" on it, meaning the episode would take place after 2021, which the nearest July 13th on a Monday, while also being after 2021, will occur again in 2026, possibly hinting that the week-long mission took place from July 13 to July 17, 2026.
 * This is the first episode where on-screen lyrics appear when a song is performed in a karaoke-esque fashion, thus encouraging the viewer to sing along.
 * The newscaster in the episode bears a striking resemblance to Katie Killjoy, particularly her hairstyle.
 * The fact that Blitzo was able to show the news broadcast in the conference room indicates that Hell can also pick up on Earth's transmissions.
 * The episode title is a play on words of "happy campers".
 * Additionally, the camp's name, "Ivannakummore", is a play on words of "I wanna cum more".
 * The client of the episode's stomach has a similar lava lamp-like effect to Bombproof and Beelzebub.
 * It is revealed that Barbie has access to Asmodean Crystals as she is seen opening her own portal. Whether or not Asmodeus himself gave her the crystal is not revealed.
 * It is similarly revealed that, because of this, Barbie has a human disguise. With her crystal being disguised as part of her wristwatch.
 * At one point, Vivziepop revealed that Millie would be singing a funny song in a future episode. This could be referring to the song "Regular Joe".
 * This song is also Millie's first solo, excluding her singing along with Moxxie in "Oh Millie".
 * Moxxie reveals that I.M.P usually does not do investigations of the client's murder.
 * Despite being on bad terms with Blitzo, Barbie does not pronounce the "o" in Blitzo's name the first time she sees him, as he prefers.
 * It is revealed in this episode that Millie somewhat trusts Blitzo's decisions more than Moxxie's.
 * This was first hinted at during the brief shot of Blitzo and Millie's text exchange shown in "Seeing Stars" regarding the sex toys Moxxie might like.
 * The words "Boss Bitch" on Blitzo's mug is stylized similarly to the show's logo.

Cultural References

 * The title of the episode may be a reference to the subname of the 1988 slasher film .
 * The photocopy machine in I.M.P headquarters is branded "Hel-9000", a nod to from .
 * The scene where a camper got pummeled into the ground from Millie's volleyball move is a nod to Yamcha's death pose from the anime series .
 * In the song "Regular Joe", Millie's head briefly morphed into a handsome face resembling the Handsome Squidward design from .
 * The Breading Cat meme can be briefly glimpsed in the live chat during the song.
 * One of the commenter's profile picture on the live chat features her reading what appears to be the cover of .
 * One of the other comments in the live chat of the song says "CLICK HERE FOR PRIZE >>> scam(dot)ly". A reference to real-life comments online made by bots to get unsuspecting people's accounts hacked or devices get installed with viruses.
 * According to storyboard artist Gavin Arucan, for the song "Regular Joe", the choreography of Troy Bolton performing the song "Bet on It" from the Disney Channel movie  was used as direct reference for Millie's movements throughout the song.
 * The scene where Moxxie and Millie use the whiteboard may be a reference to the Pepe Silvia meme from .
 * In one scene Blitzo does a pose similar to the Krumping Marge Simpson meme from  episode "Little Orphan Millie".
 * When Blitzo says "Byeeee!", it may be a reference to the same running joke started by Hunter in the Disney animated series, .
 * The TikTok-esque post about Millerd and Moxxine's incestuous makeout has the hashtag "millerdisoverparty", a reference to the similar hashtag format people use in real life when they are trying to "cancel" a famous influencer or celebrity.

Continuity

 * Moxxie getting mauled by a shark on Earth is a callback to "The Harvest Moon Festival".
 * A drawing of Loona brutally attacking Dr. Somna is seen on the drawing board behind Blitzo in the I.M.P conference room, alluding to the events of "Western Energy".
 * Blitzo mentioning how Barbie was in rehab is a callback to when Verosika Mayday first mentioned it in "Spring Broken".

Errors

 * The first time Millie sings the lines "I'm simple and plain…", and "I'm a Regular Joe", the apostrophes are missing from the "I'm" in the in-episode subtitles.
 * When Moxxie and Millie first appear in their human disguises, Moxxie's toes are not drawn on his feet for the majority of the episode.
 * Millie's electric guitar from her final performance at the camp only has five strings instead of six.

Transcript
View the episode's transcript here.

Gallery

 * Unhappy Campers/Gallery