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* BitingTheHandHumor: When Waylon Figgleif breaks into a FOX studio during the filming of an X-Files-like show and kills two of the actors, FOX responds by packaging it into a new show, ''When Humans Attack!''. (At the time, FOX was notorious for exploitative real-life-footage shows like ''When Animals Attack''.)
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* DisposableSexWorker: Perry's main victims were prostitutes as they were easy targets. Blurk finds this boring and tried to get him to move on to bigger targets until he got bored with him and had him jailed.
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* VignetteEpisode: Four demons tells stories about they try to damn a soul, and each time they encounter Frank Black who can see their true forms. Toby realize Black knows who they really are.

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* VignetteEpisode: Four demons tells stories about they try to damn a soul, and each time they encounter Frank Black who can see their true forms. Toby realize realizes Black knows who they really are.
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* DisappointedInYou: One of the demons, Blurk, was upset that Perry, a motorist he inspired, is only killing prostitutes (and only one self-proclaimed Satanist).

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* DisappointedInYou: DoWrongRight: One of the demons, Blurk, was upset that Perry, a motorist he inspired, is only killing prostitutes (and only one self-proclaimed Satanist).
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* DeathOfAThousandCuts: One of the demons drives people crazy by putting up No Parking Signs and ringing them up in the middle of the night as a phone salesman.
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* CensorBox: Waylon Figgleif, a television censor, sees one on a stripper's breasts when she takes off her bra.

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* CensorBox: Waylon Figgleif, a an insane television censor, [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness sees one on a stripper's breasts breasts]] when she takes off her bra.
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* BeastAndBeauty: Subverted when a stripper falls for Toby even knowing he's a demon. He still drives her to suicide, [[TheFarmerAndTheViper because that's what he does]]. He then shows contempt for the PunyEarthlings who'd kill themselves over something so petty as physical and emotional need.

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* BeastAndBeauty: Subverted DeconstructedTrope. A demon starts a relationship with a stripper, who accepts him even though he eventually reveals his true form to her. Just when a stripper falls for Toby even knowing the demon looks like he's going to make a demon. He still drives love confession, he instead dumps her to suicide, in a humiliating fashion so she's DrivenToSuicide and [[TheFarmerAndTheViper because that's what he does]]. can claim her soul]]. He then shows expresses his contempt for the PunyEarthlings who'd kill themselves over something so petty as who need to form such connections out of physical and emotional need.
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* TheOldestTricksInTheBook: The other demons scoff at how Greb made a MediaWatchdog see a CGI baby demon dancing in his office as this, but Greb points out that as humans have OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions it's actually more effective; instead of seeing a devil coming for their soul, they think they are going nuts.

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* TheOldestTricksInTheBook: The other demons scoff at how Greb made a MediaWatchdog see a [[Series/AllyMcBeal CGI baby demon dancing in his office office]] as this, but Greb points out that as humans have OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions it's actually more effective; instead of seeing a devil coming for their soul, they think they are going nuts.

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* BeastAndBeauty: Subverted when a stripper falls for Toby even knowing he's a demon. He still drives her to suicide, [[TheFarmerAndTheViper because that's what he does]].

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* BeastAndBeauty: Subverted when a stripper falls for Toby even knowing he's a demon. He still drives her to suicide, [[TheFarmerAndTheViper because that's what he does]]. He then shows contempt for the PunyEarthlings who'd kill themselves over something so petty as physical and emotional need.



* {{Irony}}: Perry gets killed by his idol, Johnny Mack Potter.

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Perry gets killed by his idol, Johnny Mack Potter.Potter.
** An InvokedTrope when Perry is convinced to kill a Satanist, who's calling on Satan to save her while she's being murdered. Needless to say, Satan doesn't bother making an appearance.



* MediaWatchdog: The demon Greb tells a story about one. Where he made him see a CGI baby demon dancing in his office, and he begins to go insane.

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* MediaWatchdog: TheOldestTricksInTheBook: The demon other demons scoff at how Greb tells a story about one. Where he made him a MediaWatchdog see a CGI baby demon dancing in his office, and he begins to go insane.office as this, but Greb points out that as humans have OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions it's actually more effective; instead of seeing a devil coming for their soul, they think they are going nuts.



* RevengeIsADishBestServed: The waiter urinates in Abum's coffee due to his rudeness. He and his friends share a laugh over it.

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* RevengeIsADishBestServed: The waiter urinates in Abum's coffee due to his rudeness. He and his friends [[ArsonMurderAndAdmiration share a laugh over it.it]].
* TakeThat: Hard to imagine one of the victims being a television standards censor as anything else from the writers of a TV show.
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** Perry tries to hang themselves with his underwear (he fails, then is killed by the serial killer he's a fan of).

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** Perry tries to hang themselves with his underwear (he fails, then is killed by the a serial killer he's a fan of).whom he idolized).

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* SomethingCompletelyDifferent
* StillGotIt: Toby

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* SomethingCompletelyDifferent
* StillGotIt: Toby
RevengeIsADishBestServed: The waiter urinates in Abum's coffee due to his rudeness. He and his friends share a laugh over it.
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* IDrankWhat: Abum tasted the waiter's pee on his coffee, and he liked it. He even thanked him before leaving.
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* NotSoDifferent: The demon Toby and an old stripper, realizing they've lost their touch and times have changed which makes them feel old-fashioned.
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* BeautyAndBeast: Subverted when a stripper falls for Toby even knowing he's a demon. He still drives her to suicide, because that's what he does.

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* BeautyAndBeast: BeastAndBeauty: Subverted when a stripper falls for Toby even knowing he's a demon. He still drives her to suicide, [[TheFarmerAndTheViper because that's what he does.does]].
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* BeautyAndBeast: Subverted when a stripper falls for Toby even knowing he's a demon. He still drives her to suicide, because that's what he does.
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** Perry tries to hang themselves with an underwear.

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** Perry tries to hang themselves with an underwear.his underwear (he fails, then is killed by the serial killer he's a fan of).



** The stripper Toby fell in love with. She slit her through in the tub sometime after Toby broke her heart.

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** The stripper Toby fell in love with. She slit her through throat in the tub sometime after Toby broke her heart.
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* DarkIsNotEvil: Played straight with the demons.
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* PyrrhicVictory: Toby can still damn a soul, but then Black tells him "you must be so lonely." Which affect the other demons listening his story.

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* PyrrhicVictory: Toby can still damn a soul, but then Black tells him "you must be so lonely." Which also affect the other demons listening his story.
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A group of demons convene in a doughnut shop to share stories of tempting and damning humans. However, their stories all seem to include one mysterious figure who can see them for who they really are - Frank Black.

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* CensorBox: Waylon Figgleif, a television censor, sees one on a stripper's breasts when she takes off her bra.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Played straight with the demons.
* DisappointedInYou: One of the demons, Blurk, was upset that Perry, a motorist he inspired, is only killing prostitutes (and only one self-proclaimed Satanist).
* DrivenToSuicide: The fate of the people the demons damned, mostly indirectly.
** Perry tries to hang themselves with an underwear.
** Brock jumps out his window.
** Figgleif shot himself after his mental breakdown was filmed.
** The stripper Toby fell in love with. She slit her through in the tub sometime after Toby broke her heart.
* TheEveryman: Brock
* GrumpyOldMan: What the demons disguise themselves as.
* HellOnEarth: Lampshaded by the demon Abum, where ordinary joes' normal, routine lives are a "living hell", even if the person doesn't even realize it. An example being his story of one named Brock.
* HumansAreMorons: What the demons believe humans have become.
* IDrankWhat: Abum tasted the waiter's pee on his coffee, and he liked it. He even thanked him before leaving.
* {{Irony}}: Perry gets killed by his idol, Johnny Mack Potter.
* IsThisThingStillOn: Figgleif asked if the camera recorded his mental breakdown. When it did, he shot himself.
* MediaWatchdog: The demon Greb tells a story about one. Where he made him see a CGI baby demon dancing in his office, and he begins to go insane.
* NotSoDifferent: The demon Toby and an old stripper, realizing they've lost their touch and times have changed which makes them feel old-fashioned.
* PyrrhicVictory: Toby can still damn a soul, but then Black tells him "you must be so lonely." Which affect the other demons listening his story.
* SomethingCompletelyDifferent
* StillGotIt: Toby
* TearsOfJoy: Toby, after he caused the stripper to kill herself out of something so trivial as emotional attachment.
* VignetteEpisode: Four demons tells stories about they try to damn a soul, and each time they encounter Frank Black who can see their true forms. Toby realize Black knows who they really are.
* VillainEpisode
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