Together Breakfast (episode)

Together Breakfast is the fourth episode of Steven Universe. It aired alongside "Cheeseburger Backpack" on November 11, 2013.

Synopsis
Steven makes the ultimate breakfast, waffles with maple syrup, popcorn, whipped cream and a strawberry. He refuses to eat it without the other Crystal Gems, and ventures a little too far to try and get the group together.

Plot
Steven is alone at home, wondering where the rest of the Crystal Gems are. It's breakfast time and he is getting hungry, so he decides to make breakfast. He starts stacking up a bunch of waffles. He calls on the other Gems, but none of them answer. Then he adds a lot of toppings — syrup, whipped cream, popcorn — and calls them multiple times, but still no one answers. He puts the finishing touch, which is a strawberry, on top. He calls them again but he's still alone. This upsets Steven because he made such a beautiful "together breakfast" and he doesn't want to eat it unless all the other Gems eat it with him.

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 Temple to burn something. She shows him a dark and creepy poster with strange patterns and the voices emanating from it. Steven thinks it is cool and takes a picture of it, but Garnet quickly snatches his phone and says she also has to burn that and leaves.

Steven goes back to the table and all of a sudden the door gets busted down. A police man from a team called the "dumb police" starts yelling that he's dumb. Then he squirts a water gun at the together breakfast and Steven quickly jumps in front to save it. Then, 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 and stains it.

Pearl comes out of the Temple using Amethyst's door and gets mad at her for taking one of her swords. Amethyst claims 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 is trying to mess her room back up. 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 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. She tells him to hold still and to not look down, but he does and freaks out, falling 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 her containment 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.

Characters

 * Steven
 * Garnet
 * Amethyst
 * Pearl
 * Rose Quartz (Pictured)

Trivia

 * Amethyst demonstrates her ability to shapeshift when she disguises herself as a male police officer in her "Dumb Police" prank.
 * When Steven was making his together breakfast, a picture of Rose Quartz was seen on the wall.
 * However, her face is never visible.
 * This is the first episode in which no character sings.
 * This is the first episode that we see the inside of the Crystal Temple

Cultural References

 * The phone that Steven had was similar to the iPhone.

Errors

 * When Pearl leaves Amethyst's Room the door stays open while she argues with Amethyst. Once Amethyst enters the room, you hear the sound of the door closing, but it does not move. The closeup of Pearl's face following this shows the door closed behind her shoulder.