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I made you to bring us together! Not to tear us apart! |
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| —Steven to the Together Breakfast | ||
"Together Breakfast" is the 4th episode of the first season of 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 Temple.[2]
Plot[]
Steven’s completed Together Breakfast.
The episode begins with Steven looking out the window on an early Beach City morning. With the gems nowhere to be found, he decides to make breakfast and starts by stacking a tower of waffles. With each failed attempt at finding the gems, he continues preparing the meal with a new addition. He piles on numerous toppings — syrup, whipped cream, popcorn-completing the breakfast with a strawberry garnish on top before declaring it perfect. When it’s complete, he decides that it’s too delectable for just him to eat, christening it the “Together Breakfast”.
Garnet with the cursed scroll
Garnet suddenly warps into the room and Steven sees this as his chance to share his culinary creation. He invites her to partake in his Together Breakfast, but she declines, saying that she has business to attend to inside the Crystal Temple. She shows him a scroll with strange patterns and voices emanating from it, telling him she has to burn it. Intrigued by it, Steven takes a picture with his cell phone, only for Garnet quickly confiscate it, saying she now has to burn that too and goes into the Temple. Steven tries to open the temple door with his gem. He is unable to and dejectedly goes back to the kitchen. Suddenly, the front door of the Beach House bursts open. A shape-shifted Amethyst as a policeman called the "dumb police" starts yelling that he is dumb. She then squirts a wayward blast from a water gun and Steven quickly jumps in front to save his Together Breakfast from getting drenched. Steven tells Amethyst that he knew of her disguise the entire time, saying the water gun was a dead giveaway. He puts on a new shirt which Amethyst squirts with her water gun again.
Steven falling down a pimped-out waterfall with his Together Breakfast still in one piece (in a matter of speaking)
Her mean-spirited jollies are interrupted when she sees the entrance to her room opening in the door to the Temple and Pearl emerges. She demands to know why Amethyst supposedly had one of Pearl’s swords in her room. Pearl accuses her of stealing it, which Amethyst claims she didn’t. When she also mentions she cleaned up her awfully messy room, Amethyst rushes into the temple to see what damage has been done, much to Steven’s disappointment. When Pearl asks what troubles Steven, he explains that he made Together Breakfast in hopes of sharing a meal with his “best buds”, but everyone keeps leaving him alone. Barely listening, Pearl is about to do the same when she unlocks the door to her own room. Determined not to let his Together Breakfast become “Together Brunch”, Steven quickly follows Pearl through her door without her noticing. He sees Pearl on top of one of her floating waterfall ponds, performing a ritual dance that summons her sword collection where she returns the lost blade to its rightful scabbard. When Steven calls out to her, she is surprised to see him and remotely reopens the door for him, reminding him that the inside of the Temple is dangerous for him. However, Steven ignores her and tries to swim over without getting the Together Breakfast wet. Pearl warns him to stop, but Steven accidentally swims toward a long waterfall and falls over the edge. He frantically tries to swim up to the surface, only to become weirded out by the gravitational anomaly the waterfall turns out to be. It’s current goes from a waterfall to a winding river that ends up dropping him into a lake on the surface.
Steven keeping Together Breakfast out of Amethyst’s ravenous hands
Steven washes ashore still managing to hold his Together Breakfast together and finds Amethyst, revealing this to be her room. Amethyst is busy recreating the chaos of her messy room and is greeted by Steven, who notes that he came in through the waterfall. She explains that Pearl always accuses her of taking her things, but in reality, they always fall down the waterfall into Amethyst's room. She then proceeds to mess up her room again to her standards. To that end, she jokingly throws Steven onto the junk pile, giving him a bird’s eye view of her process. Steven says that it still looks pretty messy, which pleases her. She then notices Steven's breakfast and she insists on eating it. Steven refuses her anywhere near it, telling her that the best part of it is eating it with all their favorite people. Amethyst doesn’t get it and ferociously pounces for it, forcing Steven to run for it. Amethyst chases Steven through a network of reality-bending corridors while Steven vainly tells Amethyst that she’s completely missing the point of Together Breakfast. The whole time, he’s still able to keep it intact long enough for him to eventually reach a red glowing pipeline.
The smoke monster trying to escape it’s fiery fate.
Steven jumps onto the pole just in time for Pearl to arrive. At first, Steven is excited now that Garnet is the only remaining gem, but Pearl nervously tells him to be careful. He looks up to see exactly what he’s hanging onto, much to his speechless amazement. It’s the chamber of the Crystal Heart, a rotunda dedicated to an absolutely humongous crystalline construct in the exact shape of a human heart which Pearl says is wired into the most dangerous areas of the Temple. In other words, the one part of the temple where Steven really shouldn’t be. She tells him to hold still and to not look down but Steven does so and panics, falling down into the depths of the Temple. He eventually slides to a stop above the Burning Room. Then he sees Garnet standing by a pool of lava where she breaks his phone in half and tosses it in. She begins burning the scroll and containing the smoke in a bubble when the other Gems arrive, whispering to Steven that they should leave. Instead, excited that they are all finally in the same room, he calls out to Garnet, distracting her. After repeated failed attempts to get Steven to leave for his own safety, the Smoke Monster escapes from Garnet’s imprisoning and expands into a large dark cloud.
Steven destroying his creation, and the smoke monster along with it.
The Crystal Gems attack the cloud, trying to force it back. The monster rushes at Steven and takes refuge in the Together Breakfast. The breakfast mutates, growing larger, and attacks the Gems. Utilizing the powers of a breakfast, it breaks Pearl's spear and traps her with syrup and whipped cream. It then traps Garnet and Amethyst by smashing them into a wall with a waffle. Refusing to stand by in the presence of his edible symbol for friendship being used as a vessel of evil, Steven gets up and is able to lift and force the Together Breakfast into the lava pool.
Steven and the gems uncomfortably gazing upon the new and improved Together Breakfast (the predecessor of which that tried to kill them).
The others walk over to Steven and he apologizes, saying that sharing a meal with them just wasn’t meant to be. However, Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl help Steven make another Together Breakfast twice the size of it’s predecessor. They finish it and get ready to eat it, but then they realize that they do not have the appetite to eat it as a result of the morning's events, so they decide to order a pizza. Garnet ends the episode by remarking that "It did try to kill us" as the iris closes on her.
Features[]
Characters[]
- Steven Universe
- Garnet
- Amethyst
- Pearl
- Rose Quartz (pictured)
- Smoke Monster (debut/antagonist)
Objects[]
- Pearl's Swords (debut)
- Together Breakfast (debut)
- Steven's Phone (debut)
- Water Gun (debut)
- Evil Spirit Scroll (debut)
Locations[]
- Beach City
- Crystal Temple
- Beach House
- Rose's Room (debut)
- Pearl's Room (debut)
- Amethyst's Room (debut)
- Crystal Heart (debut)
- The Burning Room (debut)
- Crystal Temple
Music[]
Instrumental Songs[]
- "Drop the Strawberry"
- "Pearl's Theme"
- "The Waterfall"
- "Gimme Gimme"
- "Rose's Room"
- "Amethyst's Theme"
Trivia[]
- This is the first episode where Steven's enhanced strength ability is shown, as he was able to force the Together Breakfast in its mutated state into the lava pool without the other Crystal Gems' assistance.
- Despite not liking food, Pearl doesn't object to the creation of a Together Breakfast nor ordering pizza. This is most likely either an oversight or an indication that her dislike for food is retconned. The latter is likely since this is one of the earliest episodes which long predates the revelation of Gems having no need for food.
- However, it’s also likely that Pearl was merely agreeing to the idea of pizza in the sense that she’d rather just generally be in the presence of anything that didn’t turn into a mobster that tried to kill her. Meaning, as long as she didn’t have to eat anything, she was willing to go along with an idea that made everybody else comfortable.
- When Steven dejectedly told the gems his dream of sharing a meal with them was “too big”, he actually wasn’t wrong. Pearl doesn’t like eating and Garnet never does anything unnecessary, which includes eating. For all intents and purposes, Amethyst is really the only one Steven would’ve been able to do this with, even if they hadn’t lost their appetites after the battle.
Cultural References[]
- When the Smoke Monster possessed Together Breakfast is similar from the part of Wander Over Yonder: "The Fancy Party", when Wander saved Lord Hater from getting controlled by Sourdough that he got out of Hater's mouth and got into the Sandwich for 1,000 years.
Continuity[]
- When Steven is sliding down the pole, he briefly passes through Rose's room; he slides down the same pole again to get to the basement in the episode "Catch and Release".
Errors[]
- Note: Time is displayed in [mm:ss]; [00:00] refers to the point after the title card is displayed and before the episode's start.
Plot[]
- [03:27] When Amethyst runs into her room, the door is heard closing, but it does not move. The closeup of Pearl's face following this shows that the door is closed behind her shoulder.
Design[]
- [00:00] The title card uses the sunset background but the color scheme of the sunrise title cards.
- [04:12] When Steven enters Pearl's Room and looks at Pearl arranging her swords, her eyes are black instead of light blue.
- [05:11] Steven refers to his slippers as shoes as he was about to enter the pool in Pearl's room.
- [10:04] When the Crystal Gems help Steven make another Together Breakfast, Garnet's right gem (Sapphire's) disappears when she is toasting the waffles.
Transcript
View the episode's transcript here.
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