Dungeons and Dragnet is the 5th episode of Paradise PD.
Paradise PD is tasked with (or rather, blackmailed) to track down and arrest every single person who plays Dungeons & Dragons which the Paradise Pentecostal Church's preacher Paul claims made his son homosexual as well as warning the game can open a portal to Hell that will unleash Satan himself. Meanwhile, Bullet tries screwing the preacher's incredibly beautiful but brainwashed daughter Chastity who will only do as the Bible says.
Tropes
- Ambiguously Gay: Satan himself, as he enjoys playing as a very feminine girl (Wandalind Fairyheart) and Satan defends her mental and intellectual strengths above her physical ones.
- Bait-and-Switch: Satan and Randall both have weapons materialize out of thin air into their hands, then they charge at each other. Then they sit down onto a table, drop their weapons and start playing Dungeons and Dragons.
- Big "NO!": Downplayed, but Satan exclaims "No!" several times during his Villainous Breakdown.
- Boomerang Bigot: Preacher Paul is very homophobic, but then we see at the end that he himself is gay and is married to another man. Even so, despite being the preacher of a Pentecostal Church, Paul admits that he doesn't really believe religion is real and is rather surprised that Satan did pop out of the game as he prophesized.
- Brainless Beauty: Chastity, Paul's beautiful blonde daughter, who has been mercilessly brainwashed by her father into accepting Christianity and the Bible literally to the letter. Chastity is incapable of forming her own opinions and only does what the Bible tells her to do, which Bullet exploits so that he can use Chastity as his own prostitute or sex doll.
- Corrupt Church: The Paradise Pentecostal Church is viciously homophobic and hostile towards anyone who plays Dungeons & Dragons, even sending them to a re-education camp.
- Distracted by the Sexy: Satan gets distracted by "Jesus" having coitus with Chastity which makes him roll only a 4 with his dice, thus costing Satan the game and so his chance to conquer Paradise and drag all its inhabitants to Hell.
- Foreshadowing: Kevin casts a spell to destroy an evil wizard, sending it back to hell. Later, he sends Satan back to hell by defeating him at D&D.
- Go-Go Enslavement: Gina gets forced to put on a Princess Leia-slave bikini and use a gaffi stick to sexually stimulate the comic book store owner for more information about the D&D players' locations. Gina is embarrassed to do so, but accepts if she gets paid $100. Both Randall and Kevin offer her $100 to do so.
- Hypocrite:
- Chastity comes off as one. She defends the Bible wholeheartedly (as she was brainwashed), but she hasn't even read the Bible herself and so has no idea what the Bible is saying.
- The Paradise Pentecostal Church is also this, as they claim that Christianity is entirely true in spite of its mythological folklore of superstitious beings while D&D is unbelievable fantasy.
- Insane Troll Logic: The Dungeons & Dragons re-education camp is completely based on this:
- The D&D giant is a fantasy, but Goliath the giant is fact. Goliath is presented as the D&D giant but only without the helmet.
- D&D's fire-breathing dragon is fantasy, but a 7-headed dragon coming out of the lake of fire is fact.
- The Witch of Endor (summons ghosts) is a fact, but the Hag of Neverwinter who summons wraiths is bullshit.
- I Surrender, Suckers: Inverted. Kevin turns himself in to the D&D re-education camp so that he can break his fellow D&D players out, but he didn't really come up with a plan or method on how to break his friends out and so just suffers with them. Though later on he remembers the lactose intolerance of the whiny glasses boy and so force-feeds him cheese so that his diarrhea kills the security guard to take away his keys.
- One-Hit KO: Neil ultimately casts Life Drain on Wandalind, which is an insta-death attack.
- Only in It for the Money: Randall doesn't really believe the D&D game to be a threat to the youth of Paradise, he just wants the money that the churchgoers donate to the police force. The pilot episode did establish that Paradise is in severe financial trouble forcing Paradise PD to work on a tight budget.
- Shout-Out: Bullet's alterations for the Bible using a copy machine, using glue and a precision knife to cut out letters and paste them on other copies of the Bible page, are a nod to the Better Call Saul episode Fifi where Saul Goodman tampers with legal documents over a bank's address by simply switching the last two digits to prevent the bank from subjugating his love interest Kim Wexler's law business.
- Villainous Breakdown: After getting defeated by Randall, Satan throws a fit.
