Occasionally, the gags do get very dark. During Chrissy’s first lesson in demonic possession, she exits a little boy’s body just in time for the kid to come to as his father — who’s been driven to desperation by Chrissy and Satan’s supernatural taunting — is strangling him. Dad and daughter have already moved on, but Little Demon lingers on the unnamed family long enough to take in the terror on the child’s face and the horror on his father’s, and there’s no doubt the incident has left them with the sort of trauma that’ll take a lifetime of therapy to unpack. It’s deeply fucked-up and, if that’s your sense of humor, deeply funny.

When a character is forced to shoot himself by Satan, he doesn’t aim for the head, or the stomach, or the foot — he blows a hole through his dick. “Why?” the victim wails. Satan’s response: “Comedy.” Little Demon really wants to make you, and itself, laugh.

Amid this endless stream of jokes, the show’s soul can get a little lost.

Little Demon isn’t subtle about what it’s trying to say here. “Maybe I’m drawn to dark shit because deep down, I think I’m too screwed up for anything better!” Laura yells at one point, lest anyone in the audience miss the point.

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