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
Series	Helluva Boss
Season	2
Episode	5
Air date	July 8, 2023
Writer	Adam Neylan STORY Vivienne Medrano Brandon Rogers Adam Neylan
Director	Vivienne Medrano
Episode guide
Previous	"Western Energy"
Next	"Oops"

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 sizeable bright building in the Sloth Ring, sneaking under the windows, and then climbing over the drain gutter downspout. He opens a window and then tries to enter the windowsill, but his big horns give 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 before Blitzo asks where his twin sister is. The nurse, revealed to be a rehab therapist, 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. 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 negotiating with a sinner who is potentially their next client when Blitzo returns covered in dirt, brush, and bruises from falling out of the rehab building. Moxxie tries to get his attention and tells him about their next client, but Blitzo, very infuriated, just ignores them and slams his door, locking himself in his office. Moxxie and Millie pick up where they left off and the sinner explains his situation: he was murdered by one of the camp councilors he worked with but doesn't know which one. He drowned in a lake because someone drilled holes in his boat and knows it was one of the other councelors since they're the only ones with the keys to the boathouse and knew he couldn't swim. Moxxie is hesitant about taking the job because their policies do not allow investigations due to the waste of time and effort. Moxxie goes to ask Blitzo about it, and just as he enters, Blitzo is 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 is 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 they'll take the case for the job. Now, Millie is hesitant about Moxxie leading a case on their job. Then she asks if she's up for the task, and then she about Blitzo, but Moxxie reassures her that Blitzo is okay 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 job application but every call he makes ends up nowhere to be found. Then he receives 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 wondered if Moxxie was taking it too far, but Moxxie assured her that it had 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 is 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 did 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 adolescent girl talk but the three teenage girls were very disgusted with Moxxie. Then they insult him and his "disfigurement" of being a digitigrade. Meanwhile, a volleyball was rolling to her, and Millie picked it up before she joined a group of campers playing volleyball. She plays so well that other campers notice her solid athletic skills, attracting the teenage girls and upsetting Moxxie as Millie earns cheers and praise despite accidentally fracturing one of the camper's skulls with a volleyball.

Meanwhile, Blitzo comes to a receptionist about his sister but when the receptionist is clueless about who he is, Blitzo, in blind fury and rage, grabs him, 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 excellent demonic skills and earns a lot of cheers from the campers and counselors despite accidentally crashing into the camper she fractured. However, Moxxie is upset because Millie is getting increasingly popular with her online sensation. Completely dejected, Moxxie reminds Millie that they still have a job but he could not do the job because the campers and counselors swooned over her. Millie insisted on getting their attention since he was supposed to be her sister. Moxxie tries to do what Millie asks at the campfire, 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 became so popular that the camp offered her to perform on stage in front of the local news. Moxxie was in the same foul mood as Blitzo since he was so angry that his solo work didn't go as well as he had 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 her frustration at Moxxie because he wants to do the job "his" way and not vice versa. Two of them got into a heated argument over who was responsible for their mishap before Millie told Moxxie he could do whatever he wanted to do but let her have her moment and walk off with tears. At the same time, 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 living world. He opens the door, and Blitzo enters into the human world, unknowingly entering Camp Ivannakummore.

Millie was upset now on stage because she wasn't sure if Moxxie was in the crowd watching her. Moxxie appeared in front of the audience as she walked up on stage. He addressed Millie to the crowd how much she is proud, grateful, strong, 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. In return, Millie tells Moxxie that the target is walking back to the cabin with someone else. As Moxxie approaches the cabin, he falls on Blitzo, much to their disgust. Blitzo is angry at Moxxie because he and Millie are still on the 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 found his sister in human form. Also, Barbie was shocked that Blitzo was there, too. Moxxie was completely confused and then asked Blitzo if he knew her, and then he confirmed Barbie was his sister.

As Millie begins her performance, Blitzo and Barbie argue. At the same time, Moxxie tells Blitzo that the camp counselor is the target, much to his amusement. Moxxie tries to explain that the camp counselor was the target because he killed a client. 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 told Blitzo that she wasn't going to let them kill her drug supplier.

Barbie says that she finally got a job and a chance to escape 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 will finish the job one way or another. Barbie gets angry and attacks Moxxie, Blitzo ends up getting in a brawl, and while all three of them are fighting, Millie performs on stage. Eventually, one of the fireworks backfires and flies into the cabin before the camp counselor and blows him up. Barbie was infuriated that not only was her dealer killed, she was out of a job. She admonishes Blitzo for ruining her life again. She tells him off before using an Asmodean Crystal to open a portal back to Hell.

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

Back in Hell, I.M.P was 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 got the target for his first solo mission well, but when Moxxie asks if he really means 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.

Features

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

Music

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.
• Vivziepop explained on Bluesky that the entire basis for the episode was about Moxxie's character trait of being a theater kid where he is finally given the chance to be the "lead". She added that there is a lot of nuance and thought put into the episode regarding the characters, and made reference to how Moxxie is actually in-character during the episode.
  • Vivziepop also mentioned that the initial concept for the episode was simply "lets let Moxxie go full theater kid and have it fail immediately".
• 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 reference to the phrase "happy campers" which refers to people getting along well with one another.
  • Additionally, the camp's name, "Ivannakummore", is a play on words of "I wanna cum more".
    • This, in turn is a reference to summer camps in fiction, which are often crude or humorous English phrases written in a style similar to various Indigenous peoples' languages.
• 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 is likely 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 Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers.
• The photocopy machine in I.M.P headquarters is branded "Hel-9000", a nod to HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey.
• 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 Dragonball Z.
• In the song Regular Joe, Millie's head briefly morphed into a handsome face resembling the Handsome Squidward design from SpongeBob SquarePants.
  • 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 Twilight.
  • 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.
  • One of the commenter's profile picture on the live chat resembles Squall Leonhart, the main protagonist from the video game Final Fantasy VIII.
• 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 High School Musical 2 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 It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
• In one scene Blitzo does a pose similar to the Krumping Marge Simpson meme from The Simpsons 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 Owl House.
• 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.
• The online search engine Blitzo uses to look up Barbie's social media profile, called Gaagle, is a parody of Google.
  • Also, the site where he checks Barbie's profile on is a parody of Facebook.

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.
• 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

Video

HELLUVA BOSS - UNHAPPY CAMPERS -- S2- Episode 5