Together Breakfast (episode)

"I built you to bring us together! Not to tear us apart!"

"Together Breakfast" is the 4th episode of the first season of Steven Universe, and the 4th episode overall.

Synopsis
Steven attempts to get the Crystal Gems to take part in his special breakfast tradition, but instead finds himself tumbling through the magical rooms of the Crystal Temple.

Plot
Steven is at home alone, wondering where the rest of the Crystal Gems are. It's breakfast time, and he is getting hungry. He decides to make breakfast and starts stacking a tower of waffles. He calls for the other Gems, but no one responds.

He continues preparing the meal by piling on numerous toppings — syrup, whipped cream, popcorn — and calls the Gems several times with no answer. Steven completes the breakfast with a finishing touch: a strawberry garnish on top. After several additional attempts to gather the Gems, Steven gives up, rather upset. He made such a beautiful "together breakfast" and does not want to eat it without the Gems.

Garnet comes in and Steven asks if she would like to have some of his together breakfast, but she declines because she has to go into the Crystal Temple to burn something. She shows him a dark and creepy poster with strange patterns and voices emanating from it. Steven thinks it is cool and takes a picture of it, but Garnet quickly snatches his phone, says she also has to burn that too and leaves.

Steven goes back to the table and all of a sudden the door gets busted down. A police man from the "dumb police" starts yelling that he's dumb. He then squirts a water gun at the together breakfast and Steven quickly jumps in front to save it. Afterwards, the dumb police man reveals himself as Amethyst using her shape shifting powers. Steven said he knew it all along as he puts on a new shirt which she squirts with her water gun again.

Pearl comes out of the Temple using Amethyst's door and gets mad at her for taking one of her swords. Amethyst says she didn't, and rushes back in after Pearl mentions that she cleaned Amethyst's Room. Steven asks if they would like to have his together breakfast with him but before he knows it, they both have gone back inside. Steven quickly follows Pearl through her door without her noticing. He sees Pearl on top of her waterfall dancing with her sword collection and putting everything back in place. When Steven calls out to her, she gets mad at him for being in the Temple, but Steven ignores her and tries to swim the breakfast over to her. Pearl warns him to stop, but Steven accidentally swims toward the long waterfall and goes over the edge. It is a strange, gravity defying, swirling waterfall, yet he manages to hang onto the waffle stack and keep it dry.

Steven lands in Amethyst's room with the breakfast perfectly intact. Amethyst seems to be fine with Steven being in the Temple. She complains that Pearl always accuses her of taking her things, but in reality, they always fall down the waterfall into Amethyst's room. She then procedes to mess up her room again to her standards. Steven says that it still looks pretty messy, which pleases her. Then she notices Steven's breakfast and she insists on eating it. Steven starts running, telling her that it is for everyone, but regardless she chases him through the Temple.

Steven eventually jumps onto a red glowing pole and Pearl comes in and starts freaking out because he is on the Crystal Heart, a glass heart that is connected to the most dangerous areas of the Temple; it is also connected to Garnet's room. As stated by Pearl. She tells him to hold still and to not look down. Alas, Steven looks down, freaks out, and falls down into the depths of the Temple. He eventually slides to a stop, managing to keep his together breakfast in place. Then he sees Garnet standing by a pool of lava where she breaks his phone and tosses it in. She begins burning the poster when the other Gems arrive, whispering to Steven that they should leave. Instead, excited that they're all finally in the same room, he calls out to Garnet, distracting her. The soul escapes from its containment orb and expands into a large dark cloud. Amethyst and Pearl help her fight the evil soul. Steven tries to help, but the soul rushes him and goes into the together breakfast, possessing it. It rises up as an evil waffle-stack monster. It easily traps Pearl with syrup and whipped cream and even destroys her staff. It then squashes Garnet and Amethyst with a waffle. After seeing it hurt his friends, Steven somehow manages to push it into the lava and destroy it. Steven apologizes, saying that all he wanted was to have breakfast with the other Gems.

Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl help Steven make another together breakfast which is bigger and better so they can all share it. They finish it and get ready to eat it, but then they realize that they don't have the appetite to eat something that almost killed them, so they decide to order a pizza instead. The iris closes in on Garnet; and she simply states "It did try to kill us".

Characters

 * Steven
 * Garnet
 * Amethyst
 * Pearl
 * Rose Quartz (pictured)
 * Smoke Monster (debut/antagonist)

Objects

 * Pearl's Swords (debut)
 * Together Breakfast (debut)
 * Steven's Phone (debut)
 * Water Gun (debut)
 * Evil Spirit Scroll (debut)

Locations

 * Beach City
 * Beach House
 * Crystal Temple
 * Rose's Room (debut)
 * Pearl's Room (debut)
 * Amethyst's Room (debut)
 * Crystal Heart (debut)
 * The Burning Room (debut)

Music

 * "Drop the Strawberry"
 * "Pearl's Theme"
 * "The Waterfall"
 * "Gimme Gimme"
 * "Rose's Room"

Trivia

 * Numerous aspects of the Crystal Temple are revealed.

Continuity

 * When Steven is sliding down the pole, he briefly passes through Rose's room; he slides down the same pole again to get to the basement in the episode "Catch and Release".

Errors

 * When Pearl leaves Amethyst's Room, the door stays open while she argues with Amethyst. When Amethyst runs into her room, you hear the sound of the door closing, but it doesn't move. The closeup of Pearl's face following this shows that the door is closed behind her shoulder.
 * When Steven is lying on the counter, the Together Breakfast appears to have a stack of eight waffles instead of four. This happens again when Steven first enters Pearl's Room, and looks at Pearl.
 * When falling into the Burning Room, the plate holding the Together Breakfast produces sparks a little bit before it should.
 * When the Crystal Gems help Steven make another Together Breakfast, Garnet's right gem (Sapphire's) disappears when she is toasting the waffles.
 * When Steven enters Pearl's Room and looks at Pearl arranging her swords, her eyes are black instead of light blue.

Videos
Together Breakfast