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.
Tropes
- Beast and Beauty: Deconstructed Trope. A demon starts a relationship with a stripper, who accepts him even though he eventually reveals his true form to her. Just when the demon looks like he's going to make a love confession, he instead dumps her in a humiliating fashion so she's Driven to Suicide and he can claim her soul. He then expresses his contempt for the Puny Earthlings who need to form such connections out of physical and emotional need.
- Biting-the-Hand Humor: 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.)
- Censor Box: Waylon Figgleif, an insane television censor, sees one on a stripper's breasts when she takes off her bra.
- Death of a Thousand Cuts: 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.
- Disposable Sex Worker: 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.
- Do Wrong, Right: One of the demons, Blurk, was upset that Perry, a motorist he inspired, is only killing prostitutes (and only one self-proclaimed Satanist).
- Driven to Suicide: The fate of the people the demons damned, mostly indirectly.
- Perry tries to hang themselves with his underwear (he fails, then is killed by a serial killer whom he idolized).
- Brock jumps out his window.
- Figgleif shot himself after his mental breakdown was filmed.
- The stripper Toby fell in love with. She slit her throat in the tub sometime after Toby broke her heart.
- The Everyman: Brock
- Grumpy Old Man: What the demons disguise themselves as.
- Hell on Earth: 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.
- Humans Are Morons: What the demons believe humans have become.
- Irony:
- Perry gets killed by his idol, Johnny Mack Potter.
- An Invoked Trope 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.
- Is This Thing Still On?: Figgleif asked if the camera recorded his mental breakdown. When it did, he shot himself.
- The Oldest Tricks in the Book: The other demons scoff at how Greb made a Media Watchdog see a CGI baby demon dancing in his office as this, but Greb points out that as humans have Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions it's actually more effective; instead of seeing a devil coming for their soul, they think they are going nuts.
- Pyrrhic Victory: 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.
- Revenge Is a Dish Best Served: The waiter urinates in Abum's coffee due to his rudeness. He and his friends share a laugh over it.
- Take That!: Hard to imagine one of the victims being a television standards censor as anything else from the writers of a TV show.
- Tears of Joy: Toby, after he caused the stripper to kill herself out of something so trivial as emotional attachment.
- Vignette Episode: 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 realizes Black knows who they really are.
- Villain Episode
