Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26536537-20150627041737

The common idea is that they watched Lil' Butler together before Rose gave up her form for Steven, and they stopped after Rose was gone. This doesn't seem to fit for me for a couple reasons. First, in "Maximum Capacity" Greg tells Steven they watched it when he was little, and obviously didn't expect Steven himself to remember, so he was most likely talking about Greg and Amethyst watching it while Steven was a baby. Also, I don't really see Greg leaving Rose for days at a time to watch TV with Amethyst.

Now, my theory is that after Rose gave up her physical form, Greg and Amethyst became closer friends, bonding over the show and their shared grief over the loss of Rose. They kept watching the show, and hanging out, using each other for comfort, but at some point Greg maybe wanted to spend time with his baby son, or just wanted a break, and Amethyst wanted him to stay. She shapeshifted to Rose to get him to stay, and it worked. He might've liked seemingly having at least the semblance of rose back, but after a while he came to his senses and realized how messed up the situation was. And in the aftermath he and Amethyst didn't hang out anymore, and Greg had an added dislike of shapeshifting (he didn't seem bothered by it when he first saw Amethyst do it when he was young, and even thought it was cool). 