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"A Very Special Episode" is the 6th episode of Steven Universe Future and the 6th episode overall.
Official Synopsis
Rainbow Quartz 2.0 promised to hang out with Onion the same day Sunstone scheduled a home safety Geminar! How can Steven be in two places, and two fusions, at once?[2]
Plot
The episode starts with Rainbow Quartz 2.0. and Onion playing with some toys. Later, Rainbow 2.0 decides to help Onion clean his bedroom while singing a song for entertainment. "The Tidying Song". But they are interupted by Garnet, who reminds Steven about the geminar. Steven soon arrives at the beach house, where he sees the uncorrupted gems scared after hearing Garnet say they would get shattered. Both of them fuse into Sunstone, who gives the gems advice on home safety, such as turning off sinks when not in use. But they are interrupted by Pearl, who tells Steven that Onion was destroying the house. They fuse again, and try to put Onion to sleep, but it doesnt work. Later, Steven goes to check on Garnet, They fuse again, and Sunstone takes the gems to a skateboard park, where she teaches the gems to always wear a helmet when necessary. She also teaches them how to cross the street. But they are interrupted again by Pearl, who is freaking out over Onion. Its revealed that Onion was making drawings of him and Rainbow. He also breaks a cookie jar. But then Rainbow tells him not to do that, and takes him to the geminar. But then, Onion makes flute sounds with some grass and the gems follow him. The grass floats in the sky, and the gems fall off a cliff. The CG's dispute over who should rescue them, but then Amethyst comes telling Steven, she hadn't seen him in 11 minutes, the length of the whole episode. Then, Steven collapses, and Garnet lets out a 'Noo....' into the air. At the end of the episode, its revealed that the events in it where just a safety video made by Sunstone, who then breaks the 4th wall by telling the viewers to manage their time properly, and the episode ends.
Features
Characters
- Rainbow Quartz 2.0
- Onion
- Pearl
- Steven Universe
- Garnet
- Ocean Jasper
- Heaven Beetle
- Earth Beetle
- A Nephrite
- Sunstone
- Lion
- Amethyst
- Ronaldo Fryman (non-speaking)
- Cat Steven (pictured)
- Steven Jr.
- Onion's Snake
Objects
Locations
Music
Songs
Instrumental
Trivia
- Amethyst breaks the fourth wall by mentioning she has not seen Steven in 11 minutes, about the average length of an episode.
- While Steven states that they are "hanging out" with Onion, it is implied that Rainbow (and by extension Steven and Pearl) are babysitting Onion for Vidalia.
- Pearl admits to Steven that he was a "good kid" and was never like Onion when raising him.
- Sunstone can be seen on a set similar looking to the one used in the Dove Self-Esteem Project videos.
Cultural References
- The title of the episode is a reference to "very special episodes", a trend in TV shows, normally dramas and sitcoms, of releasing an episode that tackles a major social issue.
- Rainbow Quartz 2.0's song, The Tidying Song, is a reference to Mary Poppin's song, A Spoonful of Sugar, as well as the way they send Onion up the stairs.
- Additionally, the rainbow they can conjure with their hands may be a reference to Spongebob Squarepants.
- Sunstone's "safety lesson" shown at the end is a reference to the Sonic Says segments in which the titular character teaches viewers about various topics.
- The scene where Onion plays a marching tune while accidentally luring the gems onto the cliff is a homage to a 13th century German legend called The Pied Piper of Hamelin, in which the titular character of the legend plays a pipe to lure the infesting rats out of the village and into a nearby river. However, it also pays homage to another part of the plot where the Pied Piper, in an act of revenge for the town's mayor not agreeing with his salary, lured the children out of the village into various sceneries before disappearing along with the Piper himself. (In some versions, the children were lured by the Pied Piper to their deaths by leading them into the river or cliff, depending on the narrative.)
Continuity
- Steven's commercial for Little Homeworld filmed during "Bluebird" is seen briefly on the TV.
- Garnet terrifying the Gems with all the ways they die is similar to how she scared Steven in the episode "Future Vision".
- Pearl tells Onion that he has a beautiful bag of hair, which could be Greg's hair, which Greg put into the ocean in "Bluebird".
Errors
- Pearl slips onto the trail of mayonnaise on the floor but none of it stains her outfit.
- The remains of the cookie jar Onion broke disappear on the next scene.
- When Rainbow Quartz 2.0 said, "Hey Garnet, how's it about taking another student?", their tongue isn't colored pink in one frame.
- Ruby and Sapphire's gemstones are missing on Sunstone's hands when they are throwing the water bottle.
Transcript
View the episode's transcript here.