Satan

Satan functions as a mythic invocation rather than a participating character: a cultural shorthand for transgression, moral otherness, and comic excess. Staffers summon the name to displace ethical discomfort and puncture political tension — here, Toby's quip about running into 7‑Eleven to fetch a pack of cigarettes for Satan lightens an escalating debate over a flag‑burning amendment. The figure remains offstage and non-agentive, operating entirely as rhetorical currency that reframes fraught decisions through dark humor rather than advancing plot actions.