Monster Buddies

Monster Buddies is the 23th Episode of Season 1 of Steven Universe. It airs along a rerun of Steven and the Stevens.

Synopsis
Steven accidentally releases a monster from a Gem bubble and attempts to tame its wild, violent instincts.

Plot
The Gems and Steven were first shown fighting an ice monster in an icy mountain. The ice monster bumps into the wall, causing the ice ceiling to fall bit by bit. The rocks are starting to fall on Amethyst and Garnet bubbled Steven. Steven lands in the Temple, and he falls out of it, accidentally activating the Centipeetle as well. The Centipeetle is small of size, and is scared, so Steven tries to tell the Centipeetle to relax. However, the Crystal Gems come back and see the Centipeetle. They think that it is a threat, with Garnet almost about the kill it, but Steven tells them that it didn't harm him at all, and that he will try to train the Centipeetle. Garnet allows it, although Pearl still thinks that it is dangerous.

Characters

 * Steven
 * Centipeetle Mother
 * Garnet
 * Amethyst
 * Pearl
 * Lion
 * Ice Monster

Songs
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Continuity

 * The Centipeetle Mother from "Gem Glow" returns for a second appearance in this episode.

Trivia

 * This episode reveals 5 secrets:
 * Garnet can bubble other Crystal Gems like Steven (who is also half human).
 * When a Crystal Gem ejects a bubble, it will get teleported to the Garnet's Room in the Crystal Temple.
 * Steven learns to bubble Gems, as of this episode and is shown to be able to bubble objects such as a bag of chips.
 * This makes the first time Steven bubbled an object. It is unknown that he will do it again.
 * Rose Quartz has tried to tame Monsters before, just like Steven did in this episode, but has failed at "healing" them.
 * This marks the first episode where a "villain" is reformed.
 * As of this episode, Amethyst is the only Gem who has not been shown bubbling away a gemstone.
 * It appears that all gems have different colors when bubbling a gem or an item.
 * Like Pearl in the episode "Steven the Sword Fighter", the Centipeetle Mother goes through many past forms while regenerating such as a humonoid, a large centipede-like form seen in the episode "Gem Glow", and a much smaller centipede form which is used for most of this episode.
 * This is the fifth episode not to end with a star-shaped iris as 2 star-shaped irises closes at the chips and the centipeetle, The first four were Giant Woman, Lion 2: The Movie, Coach Steven, and Steven and the Stevens.
 * So far, this is the second episode to end with more than one star-shaped iris. This first happened at Coach Steven.

Transcript
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