History Recap / HelluvaBossS2E2SeeingStars

* BrokenAesop: Loona's speech to Octavia about parents not getting everything right when they try to be good parents rings and the importance of giving them a second chance rings hollow considering she follows it up by hitting Blitzo in the crotch.

* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: A Music Dude never receives any punishment or comeuppance for being a Jerkass and UngratefulBastard towards Moxxie, but then, when Moxxie leaves, he starts to get upset in a background scene.

* TemptingFate: After Blitzo calls Stolas to let him know that Octavia stole the Grimoire, he said that it "went better than I thought". Moments later, Stolas charges through the door in full demon form, screaming "BLITZ!" at the top of his lungs.

* InstantlyProvenWrong: After Blitzo calls Stolas to let him know that Octavia stole the Grimoire, he said that it "went better than I thought". Moments later, Stolas charges through the door, screaming "BLITZ!" at the top of his lungs.

* CantTakeCriticism: Loona becomes ''very'' hostile and violent when Blitzo gently suggests they make a "few tweaks" to help her be more people-friendly. (This is carried over from the pilot, when her reaction to Millie reasonably asking why she would drink on a work day prompted Loona to run out and kick a baby carriage to blow off steam.)

* ContrivedCoincidence: The day Azathoth's Tears are visible just happens to be the day after Stolas declared his divorce. This kicks off the plot.

* RuleOfSymbolism: Loona struggles to light her lighter until she talks positively about Blitzo, with the sky clearing of smog right after to see the moon and stars like Octavia wanted.

* ToughLove: Invoked by Blitzo, who (hesitantly and reluctantly) calls Loona's bluff when she sarcastically asks why he doesn't just replace her as his secretary if he feels her people skills are that bad. He then cites that it's time for some ToughLove and (timidly) suggests she march back to her desk.

** A couple of FreezeFrameBonus shots show, like in the alley Blitzo and the others portal from, a set of Public Health Warning posters. They say that Los Angeles' water supply was recently analyzed to contain ''2% sewage overflow and 98% '''literal''' acid'' and should not be consumed under any circumstances. Near the end, while Blitzo fights off a group of security guards and angry fans for disrupting a show he is supposed to run, Stolas throws one of the water bottles, which soaks the show's director and ''burns him'', causing chaos in the studio and allowing them both to escape and finally continue their search for their daughters.

** The kennel director says that Loona will "age out next month" when Blitzo sees her in a flashback. This tracks with [[Recap/HelluvaBossS1E3SpringBroken "Spring Broken"]], where Loona says that she was almost eighteen when Blitzo adopted her. Additionally, the oversized red shirt Loona is wearing is the same one she's wearing in the selfie Blitzo takes with her that can been seen on his phone in [[Recap/HelluvaBossS1E7Ozzies "OZZIE’S"]], indicating that the selfie was taken the same day.
** Stolas barges down I.M.P's front door in his shadowy full demon form from [[Recap/HelluvaBossS1E6TruthSeekers "Truth Seekers".]]
** Stolas is the only one who finds Blitzo's comedy routine genuinely funny, just like he did as a child in [[Recap/HelluvaBossS2E1TheCircus "The Circus."]]

* CensorshipBySpelling: Stolas tells Octavia her mother is being a "B-I-T-C-H" while on the phone with Stella, whose outburst prompts him to suggest that she'd never given any indication that she could read.

* DefenestrateAndBerate: A variant — Stolas doesn’t ''directly'' destroy any of Stella's things, but makes it very clear to the movers who are packing them into moving vans that he has no qualms about ''them'' doing it for him. Stella is, of course, livid.

* WorfHadTheFlu: Stolas' magic is severely limited since he never memorized his spell without the grimoire, which Via stole from I.M.P and used to go to the human realm. As such, when the rest of the demons go to Earth, only Loona and Stolas can use a HumanDisguise with their magic.
* WretchedHive: All of LA's real-life sins are cartoonishly distilled and exaggerated to create a city Blitzo explicitly says is indistinguishable from Hell.

* BreakingOldTrends: This is arguably the first episode to not feature a central antagonist. The conflict instead is about Blitzo; and Stolas’s daughter issues.

* BreakingOldTrends: This is arguably the first episode to not feature a central antagonist. The conflict instead is about Blitzø and Stolas’s daughter issues.

** The kennel director says that Loona will "age out next month" when Blitzo sees her in a flashback. This tracks with [[Recap/HelluvaBossS1E3SpringBroken "Spring Broken"]], where Loona says that she was almost eighteen when Blitzo adopted her. Additionally, the oversized red shirt Loona is wearing is the same one she's wearing in the selfie Blitzo takes with her that can been seen on his phone in [[Recap/HelluvaBossS1E7Ozzies "Ozzies"]], indicating that the selfie was taken the same day.

*** The tour guide on Octavias bus is the same from [[Recap/HelluvaBossS1E4CHERUB "C.H.E.R.U.B"]]

* {{Flashback}}: Blizto recalls the time where he adopted Loona before she was kicked out of the hellhound orphanage.

* GoneHorriblyRight: Since he can't use magic to put on a HumanDisguise, Blitzo goes to a local shop in L.A. and gets a set of comically large ears to hide his horns. It works a little too well, since the disguise makes him look like TV star Brennon Ragers, causing the star's agents to grab Blitzo and throw him the back of a van, stalling out their search for Octavia.

* JerkassHasAPoint: While Moxxie is ''way'' too smug about Blitzo threatening to replace Loona, he does have a point that a receptionist with poor people skills might reflect badly on [=I.M.P.=] and can cause some clients to wonder how competent they are at their jobs if they can't even hire a receptionist who's good with people.

** After Octavia's first encounter in the living world leaves her panicking in a TroubledFetalPosition, it cuts to Blitzo doing the same thing back in the I.M.P. office.

* TheNoseKnows: Loona identifies the place Octavia went to as L.A. by the scent of urine and desperation that came through the portal. But once through she can't smell anything over the city's usual potpourri and winds up stalking her Sinstagram.

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: The imps and Octavia are able to walk around L.A. with no HumanDisguise because everyone who bothers to notice thinks that they’re just wearing costumes.

* MatchCut: After his TraumaButton is pressed, Blitzo fades out from holding a dog's leash into a flashback where he's holding the bars of a kennel. At the end of the flashback, a series of rapid-fire cuts occurs between a crying Loona and a shell-shocked Blitzo, then Match Cuts again to Blitzo on the soundstage.

* ParentsAsPeople: Discussed. This is what Loona tells Octavia when she finds her; their dads may not be perfect, but at least they’re trying their best to be {{good parents}}.

* SuperGullible: Moxxie and Millie are too hung up over Moxie wanting to buy trashy art to help Blitzo and Stolas, Moxxie convinced that he has support them under the assumption that it's ''all'' good.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: When he goes off-script because the child actress's character stating she wants to adopt the dog triggers a flashback to when he adopted Loona, Blitzo shouts that said actress isn't fit to be a mother since he literally saw her gleefully do a line of coke in the dressing room, [[FreezeFrameBonus something that you can see when the teleprompter is first shown]].

* DareToBeBadass: Stolas gives this to Blitzo when he freaks out secinds before his TV performance.

** The kennel director says that Loona will be "aged out next month" when Blitzo sees her in a flashback. This tracks with [[Recap/HelluvaBossS1E3SpringBroken "Spring Broken"]], where Loona says that she was almost eighteen when Blitzo adopted her. Additionally, the oversized red shirt Loona is wearing is the same one she's wearing in the selfie Blitzo takes with her that can been seen on his phone in [[Recap/HelluvaBossS1E7Ozzies "Ozzies"]], indicating that the selfie was taken the same day.
** Stolas barges down I.M.P's front door in his shadowy owlbear form from [[Recap/HelluvaBossS1E6TruthSeekers "Truth Seekers".]]

* OrphanageOfFear: The place where Blitzo adopted Loona from was little more than a kennel, even though Loona was a sentient hellhound. While Loona wasn't helping things by constantly attacking everybody, it's also shown that Loona was sad, afraid, and alone, complete with a lot of tick marks on the wall suggesting that she'd been there for a while. The director also said that she'd be "out of their hair when she ages out next month, and good riddance" while Loona goes into a TroubledFetalPosition.

* PoundsAreDoggyPrison: An even worse example than most since the dogs in question all have humanlike sapience; the kennel Blitzo adopted Loona from was basically a canine JuvenileHell where young hellhounds are kept in squalid conditions, cramped together in dimly-lit cells while the social worker in charge of the place openly disdained them and did fuck all to stop them from attacking one another.

* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Octavia leaves in a huff while her parents argue on the phone. She then infiltrates I.M.P to get her dad's grimore so she can see the stars but, with no experience with the book, she finds herself lost in Los Angeles.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Octavia goes to a densely populated city on Earth like Los Angeles to see the stars, only to not see anything due to a mix of smog and light pollution. Even when some of the clouds part to make the moon visible, it still only shows a tiny fraction of the stars to be visible. When Loona talks to her at the observatory, Octavia expresses her frustrations that she can't even see the night sky.