Buck Dewey


 * "Buck Dewey" is the son of Mayor Bill Dewey and a resident of Beach City. His first appearance was in "Frybo". He is one of the "cool kids" that Lars wants to be friends with in "Lars and the Cool Kids".

Frybo
In "Frybo", he's seen running in terror out of Beach Citywalk Fries with Sour Cream, Jenny, and Kiki. While the girls escape, he and Sour Cream are dragged back in by Frybo, and are viciously attacked.

Lars and the Cool Kids
He has a much larger role in "Lars and the Cool Kids." He has a very laid-back personality, and dislikes "nasty stuff." Later on, he jokes that he is "above the law" most likely because he is the son of the influential Beach City mayor.

Joy Ride
He has another major appearance in "Joy Ride" in which he, Jenny, and Sour Cream hand out with Steven and come across Peridot's escape pod. They convince Steven to go into it and disaster strikes

Shirt Club
In "Shirt Club", Steven makes posters to advertise his dad's guitar lessons and Buck suggests they make his posters into T-Shirts. While making the shirts, Steven finds an old poster Buck drew when he was younger advertising his dad's mayoral campaign, but Buck quickly dismisses it. After the shirts are completed, Buck and Steven use a T-Shirt cannon to give everyone a shirt. However, Steven soon learns everyone thinks the shirts are a joke. Steven confronts Buck only to learn Buck purposely made the shirts as a joke because Steven's drawing was so bad. To get back at Buck, Steven turns the poster Buck made for his dad's campaign into T-shirts and gives one to everyone. When Buck sees the shirts, he cries remembering the admiration he had for his dad when he was younger. The episode ends with Buck apologizing to Steven and asking to take guitar lessons from Greg while wearing one of the shirts he and Steven made.

Appearance
A teenager with darker skin and hair than his father, he has medium brown eyes that match his hair, and full lips. He wears a pair of sunglasses, an unfittingly-large red collar jacket with unbuttoned cuffs, a white shirt with a yellow lightning bolt symbol, dark grey slim-fit jeans, and cyan and blue sneakers.

Personality
Buck is a pretty relaxed individual whose favorite activity is hanging out with his friends. He's not the smartest person, but keeps an open mind and appreciates other people's points of view. He both resents and takes advantage of his position as "the mayor's son." He is annoyed with his dad for telling him how to behave, but also feels a certain sense of entitlement afforded from his dad's job.

Major Appearances

 * "Lars and the Cool Kids"
 * "Shirt Club"
 * "Joy Ride"

Minor Appearances

 * "Frybo" (cameo)
 * "Rose's Room" (cameo) (created by the room)
 * "Joking Victim" (cameo)
 * "Ocean Gem" (cameo)
 * "Alone Together" (cameo)
 * "Political Power" (non-speaking cameo)
 * "The Return" (non-speaking cameo)
 * "Full Disclosure" (cameo)

Mayor Bill Dewey
Buck is the Mayor's son. They don't appear to be close and in "Lars and the Cool Kids" he laments that his father never showed as much affection to his son as he does to a baby during one of his speeches. He doesn't seem to be too upset over the lack of fatherly attention, however, as the rebuffs Lars' attempt at sympathy and remarks that the "lack of father kisses" made him who he is. It's shown in "Joy Ride" that Buck also has issues with his dad over his lifestyle as he is constantly telling him to act respectable so as not to ruin his public image. However, in "Shirt Club" his dad seems to try and form a bond between the two, which is constantly rejected by Buck. But after we see a flyer similar to Steven's, it reveals that Buck and his dad used to have a strong bond when he was younger. It is unknown if something happened or he just got older but at some point they stopped having a close bond.

Jenny & Sour Cream
Buck's closest friends, with the three of them being referred to as the "Cool Kids". They can often be seen doing stereotypical teenage acts of rebellion.

Steven Universe
"You're a real champ, Steven Universe."

The two first meet in "Lars and the Cool Kids," and they gradually become good friends. Buck compliments Steven's shirt by telling him it is "rad." His friendliness towards Steven is furthered in "Joy Ride". He, like the rest of the cool kids, genuinely seem to want to hang out with Steven in this episode, as when Steven said he couldn't due to work, they came back once the sun had gone down. He believes Steven offers a "much needed counterpoint to [his] cynical world view." After Steven explains the situation with Homeworld Gems and his mother to Buck, Jenny, and Sour Cream, he helps defend Steven after the Crystal Gems reprimand him. In "Shirt Club", Buck seems to find Steven's affection for his dad "funny", using Steven's drawing of his dad as a part of a personal project, ignoring how Steven would feel about it, possibly due to his own stained relationship with his dad. However, when Steven later made a T-Shirt of Buck's drawing and saw people mock it, he was deeply effected and later apologizes to Steven, even wanting to take guitar lessons with Greg.

Lars
The two first meet in the episode "Lars and the Cool Kids," and gradually came to accept Lars into his group of friends. However, Lars is still rather wary around Buck, always trying to impress him.

Trivia

 * Because he has fuller lips and darker skin and hair than his father, and nothing has been revealed about his mother, it is speculated by some that he may be mixed race.
 * It is possible that his last name is based on Dewey Beach, in Delaware, one of the locations that inspired Beach City.
 * Both his and his father's first name are related to money. A "buck" and a "bill" are slang terms for paper currency.
 * It is revealed in "Shirt Club" that he used to help his father make posters for his election campaigns when he was little, even showing a design he made for his Montessorie friends.
 * His design appears to resemble Garnet, as both have the same lips, similar glasses, and similar skin tone, both have red-heavy color schemes, and Buck has a forehead crease corresponding to Garnet's third eye.