Together Breakfast (episode)

"I can't let this become Together Brunch."


 * This article is about the episode. For the food, see Together Breakfast (food).

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

Official 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 Gems' 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 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 and 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 precedes 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; 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)
 * Evil Spirit (Antagonist)

Objects

 * Together Breakfast
 * Steven's Phone (First Appearance)
 * Evil Spirit Scroll

Locations

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

Soundtracks

 * Drop The Strawberry
 * Pearl's Theme
 * The Waterfall (instrumental)
 * Gimme Gimme
 * Rose's Room (song) (briefly)

Trivia

 * This is the first episode Amethyst demonstrates her ability to shapeshift: she disguises herself as a male police officer during her "Dumb Police" prank.
 * This is the first episode in which one of the Crystal Gem's weapon was destroyed, in this case, Pearl's spear was snapped in half by the mutated Together Breakfast.
 * This is the first episode in which we see various parts of the temple, in this case: Pearl's Room, Amethyst's Room, Rose's Room, The Burning Room, and the Crystal Heart.


 * This is the first episode where a member of the Crystal Gems is fighting dual-wielded. When they were fighting the mutated Together Breakfast, Amethyst is shown using two energy whips.
 * When the Gems make the final together breakfast, the syrup forms a star in the middle, partially obstructed by all the popcorn.
 * In the end of the episode Pearl says that pizza was good, despite the fact that she said that she disliked eating in a future episode "Fusion Cuisine."

Cultural References

 * The phone that Steven had when he took the photo was similar to the Apple iPhone.

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.
 * 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 gem disappears when she is toasting the waffles.

Transcript
View the episode's transcript here

Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFciWmX7Q6k&list=PL6I8MMk88ieksEnxPoPU_8Gubo5R5tvE3&index=2

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