History Recap / StevenUniverseFutureS1E6AVerySpecialEpisode

* BadBadActing: After Steven collapses from exhaustion, Garnet gives a drawn out, DullSurprise-sounding BigNo while looking upward.

* AmbiguousSituation: How much the "[[ShowWithinAShow Safety Zone starring Sunstone]]" show exists in-universe, if at all, is unclear.

* TakeThat: Sunstone treats motion smoothing on televisions as on par with potentially fatal home accidents.

* NiceJobBreakingitHero: Onion gets tired out at one point and looks ready for a nap. Rather than carrying him upstairs, Rainbow zooms him up the stair bannister to his room, which immediately wakes him up and causes him to keep running back down to sit on the bannister so Rainbow can do it again.

* ShoutOut: Rainbow's resemblance to MaryPoppins is played up; their song references "A Spoonful of Sugar".

* FiveSecondForeshadowing: When Steven collapses from exhaustion, Garnet lets out a BigNo... filled with DullSurprise and BadBadActing. We then cut to Sunstone and learn the entire events were part of a PSA lead by Sunstone.

* NoEnding: We don't see how the falling Gems were rescued, if they were even in any real danger. The episode has a GainaxEnding, so whether any of these events even happened is unclear.

* ShowWithinAShow: The GainaxEnding has "Safety Zone starring Sunstone" appear Sunstone tells the audience not to make the same mistake Steven did, though Pearl is confused by who Sunstone is talking to, and it's unclear how much of the episode ''actually'' happened, how much was in the ShowWithinAShow, and how much the show exists in-universe.

* TakeThat: A rarity for this show. The episode takes a few jabs at motion smoothing on televisions.

* GainaxEnding: The episode's climax is that Onion accidentally leads some Gems off a cliff. Garnet asks Steven to fuse with her to save them, but then Pearl insists Steven fuse with her. Then Amethyst shows up and says she needs Steven because [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall she hasn't seen him in eleven minutes]]. Steven then collapses from exhaustion and says he shouldn't have overbooked himself, causing Garnet to give a BigNo...but in a way filled with DullSurprise and BadBadActing. We then cut to Sunstone watching the sequence on a television screen, who tells the audience not to make the same mistake Steven did. Sunstone then makes more public service announcements (showing the Gems are all right, and prompting Pearl to ask whom Sunstone is talking to) before the episode ends with the title "Safety Zone starring Sunstone". It is unclear how much of the episode actually happened in-universe, how much was part of a ShowWithinAShow, and ''whether said ShowWithinAShow actually exists in-universe''.

* GainaxEnding: The episode's climax is that Onion accidentally leads some Gems off a cliff. Garnet asks Steven to fuse with her to save them, but then Pearl insists Steven fuse with her. Then Amethyst shows up and says she needs Steven because [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall she hasn't seen him in eleven minutes]]. Steven then collapses from exhaustion and says he shouldn't have overbooked himself, causing Garnet to give a BigNo...but in a way filled with DullSurprise and BadBadActing. We then cut to Sunstone watching the sequence on a television screen, who tells the audience not to make the same mistake Steven did. Sunstone then makes more public service announcements (showing the Gems are alright, and prompting Pearl to ask whom Sunstone is talking to) before the episode ends with the title "Safety Zone starring Sunstone". It is unclear how much of the episode actually happened in-universe, how much was part of a ShowWithinAShow, and ''whether said ShowWithinAShow actually exists in-universe''.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Near the end of the episode Amethyst shows up and tells Steven, Pearl, and Garnet that she needs him. Steven asks "what is it" and Amethyst states that she just misses him, and that she hasn't seen him "in like 11 minutes".

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Onion covers his mouth and stares horrifyingly at the gems falling off the cliff after he led them to it.
* MythologyGag: When the camera pulls back to Sunstone showing the previous events as a video, she's on the set of the [[WebAnimation/DoveSelfEsteemProjectXStevenUniverse Dove Self-Esteem Shorts]]. In the back, you can see a picture of Peridot posing with the director (Lamar Abrams).
* NoEnding: We don't see how the falling Gems were rescued, if they were even in any real danger. See GainaxEnding above.

* AnAesop: Manage your time wisely.

* MagicMusic: Onion plays a blade of grass like a flute, letting him lead several Gems around like the ''Literature/ThePiedPiperOfHamelin'', even off a cliff. [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane It presumably isn't actually magic]], but given how much of the episode possibly never happens, it may as well be.

* MagicMusic: Onion plays a blade of grass like a flute, letting him lead several Gems around like the ''Literature/ThePiedPiperOfHamelin'', even off a cliff. [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane It presumably isn't actually magic]], but given how much of the episode possibly never happen, it may as well be.

* AudienceWhatAudience: At the end of the episode, Pearl asks Sunstone who's she's talking too.

* TwoTimerDate: The classic setup of scheduling multiple obligations at the same time gets an extra twist where the same person is half of different fusions, and the other half of each fusion is incapable of properly handling the situations alone. That said, it varies from the usual format in that Steven is entirely honest with both Pearl and Garnet about his other obligations, though he still tries to do both.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Onion causes trouble and destruction on a regular basis and even in this episode nearly drove Pearl insane in a short time, but when he leads the Gems to a cliff and accidentally makes them jump off it, he has a horrified look on his face, clearly not wanting that to happen. Downplayed slightly when it is revealed everything was just another PSA by Sunstone, making it unclear how genuine of a reaction this was from Onion and how much was just acting.

* Ambiguous Situation: How much the "[[ShowWithinAShow Safety Zone starring Sunstone]]" show exists in-universe, if at all, is unclear.