The Devil will get his due, one way or another.
Following on from "Sweater Off Dead".Not wanting to deal with the auditor again, the Devil heads back to claim Cuphead's soul, which proves impossible thanks to the enchanted invisible sweater Mugman made for him.
Meanwhile, the boys prepare to go to a new amusement park ride, one that might play into the Devil's hands.
Tropes
- Bait-and-Switch: The new ride that boys want to ride has a tagline boasting that it goes so fast, it will "tear off your clothes", making the audience believe that will destroy the sweater, especially since Cuphead and Mugman didn't read that part. Turns out Cuphead took the sweater off hours before the boys even reached the front of the line.
- Big Damn Heroes: Mugman arrives in the nick of time with the sweater just as his brother's soul is being pulled out of his body, and distracts the Devil to stop him from killing Cuphead, whose life and soul are (literally) hanging by a tail thread. Mugsy then dresses the Devil up in the sweater that electrocutes the latter and zaps him back to the Underworld; and while the Devil is getting zapped, Mugsy places Cuphead's soul back into his nearly-colorless body, reviving him once again.
- Big "WHAT?!": Mugman shouts out "You... WHAAAAAAT?!" when Cuphead tells him that he had taken off the sweater back home earlier after giving Mugman the funnel cake.
- Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?: While Mugman runs off to find the sweater, Cuphead has a friendly chat with the Devil while waiting in line resulting in the two of them becoming chummy. Of course, this all goes out the window once the Devil realizes Cuphead isn't wearing the sweater.
- Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?: Cuphead tricks the Devil into painting their fence so that they can leave and go on a ride.
- Empty Eyes: While the Devil is slowly yanking out Cuphead's soul with the tips of his fingernails, one can look at Cuphead's body as it's getting drained of color while still standing and his eyes become empty without blinking, indicating that he is dying, and may surely be dead if not for Mugman.
- Everything's Better with Rainbows: When the Devil uses magic to paint the fence, he uses his imagination as the white paint cans turn into the colors of the rainbow. As part of the dance, he gathers all the colors together in a mystical circle and spreads them out in every direction all over the fence, creating a beautiful rainbow fence.
- Failure Montage: The Devil keeps appearing in every place where he intends to steal Cuphead's soul, only to get constantly zapped each time.
- Fully-Clothed Nudity: The boys lose their clothes after riding The Obliterator, but are still shown to be wearing underwear. Likely an example of censorship where they're "canonically" actually nude.
- Invisibility Cloak: Apparently the invisible sweater acts as a cloaking device for the Elder Kettle's radio, as shown when Mugman is searching the room for the sweater.
- Mood Whiplash: Cuphead and the Devil manage to make the most of their time in the line laughing over jokes. Then when the Devil gives Cuphead a friendly pat on the shoulder, he realizes Cuphead isn’t wearing his sweater and the Devil advances to collect the cup's soul.
- Mundane Made Awesome: When Cuphead and Mugman tease the Devil over struggling to paint a fence, the Devil starts using his powers to put on a show in painting, getting fancy with it. It's implied he does it to show off to the boys... who have blown him off.
- Offscreen Moment of Awesome: While the Devil is made to go around the back of the Elder Kettle's house, Cuphead quickly takes off the sweater, camouflages the Elder Kettle's radio with it, and takes them both upstairs to his room and sets them on the floor before heading back downstairs to join the back door, all behind Mugman and the Devil's backs.
- Oh, Crap!: Mugman discovers that Cuphead had left his sweater back home, so he needs to go get it before the Devil finds out.
- Cuphead, too, discovers that he doesn't have the sweater on him when he is caught, and tries to stall for time waiting for Mugman to arrive by lying his way out of a desperate situation and backing away from the Devil until he is backed up against the wall before he realizes that he is doomed and that the Devil can claim his soul at any minute. And then his soul gets that reaction when he's about to be taken by the Devil as his body is getting drained of life and color. Cue the Big Damn Heroes moment.
- Pass the Popcorn: While the Devil is getting electrocuted off-screen with disturbed bystanders looking on, an elephant continues to eat his popcorn.
- Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: Two of them, actually. The first is when Cuphead discovers that he is not wearing his sweater and lies his way out of a desperate situation waiting for Mugman to appear, the Devil laughs gleefully and corners the former.The Devil: [reaches into Cuphead's body] Are not!
- And when the Devil starts yanking Cuphead's soul out of his body with a Slasher Smile, we get this one from Mugman.Mugman: [arrives with the sweater] You're right, Devil! He's not wearing the sweater! You are!!! [places the sweater on the Devil]
- Public Domain Soundtrack: A snippet of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Toccata and Fugue in D minor" plays at the intro title, and a snippet of "In the Hall of the Mountain King" plays when the Devil starts showing off his powers at painting the fence while the cup brothers leave behind his back.
- Right on Queue: The line to the Obliterator is so long it takes the whole day for the cups to get to the ride!
- Right Out of My Clothes: The Obliterator is said to be so fast your clothes will fall off. The Devil realizes that would include Cuphead's sweater and joins the cups on the line, waiting for this to happen (and not knowing that Cuphead already took it off at home). In the end, the cups walk away from the ride in their underwear.
- Rooftop Confrontation: Once Cuphead and the Devil are at the top of the Obliterator's tower, and the Devil gives him a pat on the shoulder, the battle for his soul ensues, as the panicked crowds can do nothing but watch as the Devil corners him and starts pulling out his soul before Mugman enters the fray by quick thinking and places the sweater on the villain, pushes his brother's soul back into his body, and watches the fireworks along with everyone else before getting on the ride with his brother.
- Scheherezade Gambit: When Cuphead discovers that he is caught not wearing a sweater while his brother's out to get it, the former tries stalling for time waiting for Mugman to return by lying his way out of a desperate situation, and then backs away as the Devil is advancing on him until he is cornered against the wall, afraid that his gambit may not work. When the Devil then reaches into Cuphead by the tips of his fingernails and slowly starts yanking his soul out of his body, it takes long enough for Mugman to finally arrive with the sweater in the nick of time, not to put it on Cuphead however, but to distract the Devil from claiming his soul by shouting so that Mugman can put the sweater on the villain and restore Cuphead's life by placing his soul back in his body.
- Before that, however, when Mugman discovers that the Devil is planning to get Cuphead's soul on the Obliterator ride, unaware that Cuphead had taken off the sweater, Mugman urges his brother to get back home for the sweater; and when that fails, Mugsy goes back for the sweater himself, leaving Cuphead to keep a social distance from the Devil and make the most of the time to tell jokes to the Devil and make him laugh, up until they both reach the top of the tower. Then the Devil gives him a pat on the shoulder, and that's where things are headed in the aforementioned paragraph...
- Sequel Episode: To "Sweater Off Dead".
- Stalker without a Crush: The Devil is so determined and desperate to collect Cuphead's soul that he appears almost everywhere Cuphead is such as his bedroom, the beach, and even a clothing store.
- Status Quo Is God: At the end of this episode, the sweater is locked away in a vault in an undisclosed location of the Underworld, and the Devil is still plotting to get Cuphead's soul.
- Trail of Bread Crumbs: When the Devil finishes painting the fence, he discovers that the cup brothers are nowhere to be seen. Then he sees the white-painted footprints that the cup brothers had left behind while they were sneaking away, and this gets the Devil ticked off.
- Villain Decay: In the first episode, the Devil terrified everyone by appearing out of nowhere. Now he spends the whole day at the carnival and nobody there finds anything strange about it.
