YMMV / Hazbin Hotel S1E0 "That's Entertainment"

• Awesome Art:
  • Similar to Vivienne's previous work on her webcomic Zoophobia, the series adapts the same art style with very fluid animation and vibrant colors. The design of Hell itself is also extremely vivid and detailed. As mentioned on the Awesome page, Paul Dini praised it as "Gorgeous! The timing and character work is the best I've seen in a long time."
  • A number of background artwork has been provided by Faustisse for the pilot and they are just simply gorgeous looking. These include some portraits of Lilith and the poster for Jeffrey Dahmer's cooking show.
• Crosses the Line Twice:
  • Angel Dust has already said things that cross it quite a few times, and is likely to cross it more in the future.
    Vaggie: Your little stunt made us look like a fucking joke!
    Angel Dust: No, no, no, babe. Jokes are funny. I made you look uh... sad, and pathetic, like an orphan, with no arms, or legs, uhh... with progeria!
    • When Sir Pentious has Angel Dust tied up in chains, he jokingly says "Harder, daddy." Pentious is briefly gob-smacked, giving an emotional, almost teary-eyed look before asking "son?" while Angel gives him a deadpan look.
  • A brief gag in Charlie's song has her hug a puppy in Fluffy Cloud Heaven... before dropping it off the edge of the cloud she's on.
  • Katie explains to Charlie that the only reason she got her interview was that another demon named Jeffrey couldn't make it for his cannibal cooking segment. This is none other than the infamous real-life cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer as evidenced by the poster for his cooking show It's Dahm Good! shown in the newsroom as Katie explains things. The poster further comes with the tagline "Guaranteed Cannibalicious!".
    • Even better is the little sticky-note in the corner that reads "Who approved this show?!"
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Alastor's If I Wanted You Dead... remark to Charlie and Vaggie would wind up being conclusively proven incorrect by the actual show since Charlie is inherently much stronger than him and Vaggie is a Fallen Angel who can only be killed with Angelic steel, meaning Alastor really is just being a braggart with nothing to back it up in this moment.
• Narm Charm: So "Inside of Every Demon Is A Rainbow" may be Cute, but Cacophonic incarnate... but it's still so much fun to watch.
• Signature Scene: Alastor's terrifying "If I wanted you dead" while staring at the camera with a Slasher Smile and making the screen flicker is the pilot's most iconic scene due to being pure pants shitting horror.
• Special Effects Failure: For the most part, the animation is solid and definitely impressive for something done by a small team on a low budget. However, there are moments where the character animation becomes noticeably stilted, as some shots were done utilizing Flash/Toon Boom tweening instead of hand-drawn; it's forgivable, however, given a lot of animators were needed to help complete the mostly self-funded pilot.
• Woolseyism: In the Japanese dub, Kaitie Killjoy's "Tooth and nail" pun doesn't really work since that isn't a phrase in Japan. Instead, she uses Cherri Bomb's name as part of a pun to call Tom Trench a "Cherry Boy", a Japanese slang term for "virgin".