History Recap / StevenUniverseS1E43MaximumCapacity

** What looks like an O'Reilly Media programming guide to "[[UsefulNotes/{{UNIX}} DNIX]]" is part of the mess inside Greg's storage locker.

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* CatchPhrase: Li'l Butler's is "You people have too much money!" spoken in a scolding tone. Greg and Amethyst know it well enough to say it on cue with the tape.

* ServileSnarker: Lil' Butler's got "sass and pep" and his CatchPhrase is a crack at the family that took him in.

* AmbiguouslyHuman: It's not entirely clear ''what'' Li'l Butler is supposed to be. [[RuleOfFunny Which is kind of the point.]]

* ShowWithinAShow: ''Li'l Butler''.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: When Amethyst agrees to help greg sort through his storage unit, she remarks "I've seen your junk before."

* TouchOfTheMonster: One of the books in Greg's collection, ''Passions of Xanxor'', features a gender-flipped version with a GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe cradling a muscular pretty-boy in two of her three arms.

When they get there, though, the storage unit is packed to overflowing. There is literally not enough room for one more thing. Steven and Greg decide the unit needs to be cleaned out. Steven says one of the Gems should help, and takes off to go get her. He returns -- with Amethyst. By Steven's logic, Amethyst has seen lots of messes and they don't freak her out, so she should be the one to help. Greg says he was expecting Steven to bring Pearl. They briefly squabble over the KEEP, SELL, BURN boxes and whether they should be burning anything at all. Greg bequeaths a box of books to Steven, pleased and surprised that "books are cool again". Steven agrees they are, especially in light of his having been grounded from watching television for 1,000 years -- which Greg had not taken seriously and had pretty much forgotten altogether.

As they dig deeper into the mess, Greg finds the picture of himself and Rose, the frame of which was broken during the hunt for Rose's laser light cannon, and is briefly melancholic -- until Amethyst finds a bunch of old [=VHS=] tapes of their favorite old show, ''Li'l Butler'' -- about a little kid who happens to look and behave like an elderly, seasoned, English butler. Greg cheerfully reminisces good times watching the show with Amethyst while Steven was very small. Steven, dutifully honoring his having been grounded the night of the dinner party, refuses to watch even though Greg and Amethyst are willing to let him off the hook.

Amethyst and Greg's conversation escalates, Amethyst mockingly shapeshifting into Greg and sidling up to him faux-flirtatiously. Greg acknowledges that he knows Amethyst enjoys making him uncomfortable; he says he can't humor her anymore because he needs to be there for his son. Amethyst snaps that she used to have someone who was there for her all the time, until Greg ''stole that person'' from her. Greg tries to stop the discussion, saying that they already had this fight before. Amethyst taunts Greg that he would stay if she was "her"... and she shapeshifts again, this time into a purple version of Rose Quartz! Greg, expecting this, and by his expression, dreading it -- turns away from her and asks her to stop. He says he wants to be friends again, but he can't let her do this to him again. As Amethyst begins to press the issue, Steven interrupts.

* AdoptAServant: PlayedForLaughs with the wacky sitcom ''Lil' Butler'', which is about a wealthy family who raise their DoorstopBaby as a butler.

* AffectionateParody: ''L'il Butler'' is a parody of cheesy live-action sitcoms from the 1980s, which one of the show's staff even [[http://ianjq.tumblr.com/post/112189134869 described as]] "an unholy mix of ''Series/MrBelvedere'' and ''Series/{{Webster}}''".
* AmbiguouslyHuman: It's not entirely clear ''what'' L'il Butler is supposed to be. [[RuleOfFunny Which is kind of the point.]]
* AndStarring: In-universe, the title character of ''L'il Butler'' has his actor credited last in the opening.

** The TV that Greg and Amethyst watch L'il Butler on is a [[Creator/{{Sony}} "SUMY."]]

** Greg's storage locker from "Laser Light Cannon" is revisited. All that hoarding has finally filled it past capacity.

** Greg's discomfort with shape shifting was foreshadowed all the way back at the beginning of "Cat Fingers", where Amethyst's transformations were shown to visibly unnerve him. This episode reveals the reasons for that.
** Steven mentions, time after time, [[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E32FusionCuisine that he's grounded from TV for 1,000 years.]]

** Amethyst is still very upset about the loss of Rose. She refers to her as someone who used to hang out with Amethyst all the time until Greg took her away. We learned in "On The Run" that Rose was most likely the one who found [[WildChild feral, hole-grown]] Amethyst and [[ParentalSubstitute brought her into the group]].
** Greg is wearing a sweater shown in "Winter Forecast", which is apparently not his sole "nice" shirt, as that one is a turtleneck. He also appears to have only the one holey-kneed pair of sweatpants by way of winter clothing, as the pants made their first appearance in "Winter Forecast".

* DudeNotFunny: In-universe, Greg realizes he's missing New Years, so Amethyst shapeshifts into Steven to "cheer him up", which doesn't help at all. Then she goes entirely too far by turning into Rose just to screw with him.

-->'''Greg:''' I haven't really cleared this place out since your mom... ''(Greg coughs)'' [[ChangeTheUncomfortableSubject Maybe this is good timing!]]

* ShowWithinAShow: "Li'l Butler".
* TouchOfTheMonster: One of the books in Greg's collection, "Passions of Xanxor", features a gender-flipped version with a GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe cradling a muscular pretty-boy in two of her three arms.

The next morning, Greg and Steven return to have another go at the storage unit, only to find it completely cleared out. Pearl and Garnet are just finishing up. Greg asks if it was Pearl's idea, but Pearl says it was Amethyst's. The purple gem kind of avoids Greg's gaze, before she finally explains that they put all the stuff from the storage unit in the temple, in her room, where it will go unnoticed as part of her larger mess. She has one box left marked KEEP, which she hands to Greg.

* EasilyForgiven: Greg

* KickTheMoralityPet: Amethyst taunts Greg with her Shapeshifting powers, escalating into turning into Rose Quartz, the deceased love of his life. And Greg's reaction indicates that this isn't even unexpected. It's the sight of ''Steven'' yelling at her, and Steven's obvious pain and shock at the sight of his own dead mother, that sends Amethyst into real remorse.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Amethyst when Steven catches her taunting Greg in the form of Rose Quartz. After Steven tells them they have to let go of the past, she runs off ashamed.
* NeverSayDie: Greg can't bring himself to actually call where Rose has gone ''anything'', but the way he phrases himself makes it sound like he's talking about her having died, which really drives home how much he misses her. In this instance, he catches himself at the end of the sentence, and clears his throat.

* PetTheDog: After their fight, Amethyst picks up a new frame for Greg's photo of himself and Rose and gets the other Gems to help her clear out the unit and move the stuff to the temple so Greg won't have to throw anything out.

* BrokenBird: Like almost every episode where Amethyst has the limelight.

** Greg's storage locker is revisited. All that hoarding has finally filled it past capacity.

** Greg's discomfort with shape shifting was foreshadowed all the way back at the beginning of Cat Fingers, where Amethyst's transformations were shown to visibly unnerve him. This episode reveals the reasons for that.

* ExpositoryThemeTune: Li'l Butler has one, about how they found him and he teaches them about themselves while keeping the house clean.
* EasilyForgiven: Steven either decides to not make a big deal out of the fact that Amethyst shapeshifted into his dead mother in order to taunt his still-emotionally traumatized father, or is just too young to process how utterly horrible doing a thing like that is. He still yells at her, but the incident never gets mentioned again.

* WealthsInAName: The title character of ''[[ShownWithinAShow Li'l Butler]]'' works for the Money family.

* AffectionateParody: ''L'il Butler'' is a parody of cheesy live-action sitcoms from the 1980s, which one of the show's staff even [[http://ianjq.tumblr.com/post/112189134869/the-demo-for-the-lil-butler-theme-from-the-steven described as]] "an unholy mix of ''Series/MrBelvedere'' and ''Series/{{Webster}}''".

** When Steven walks in, and [[http://66.media.tumblr.com/7a11d97dc962a0bb3d93f794f3b3e746/tumblr_inline_nkf2c2yh331rpltvp.png the full horror of the situation dawns on everyone]].

** The TV that Greg and Amethyst watch L'il Bulter on is a [[Creator/{{Sony}} "SUMY."]]

* WhamShot: Amethyst shapeshifting into Rose and taunting Greg to look at her, while Greg is clearly freaked out and begs her to stop.

* DudeNotFunny: In-universe, Greg realizes he's missing New Years, so Amethyst shapeshifts into Steven to "cheer him up", which doesn't help at all.

** Greg mentions how shapeshifting bothers him. No doubt that's at least partly because of the time Steven turned into a mass of cats. It's also implied Amethyst may have taken Rose's form to upset him before that, and even earlier in that same episode Greg freaked out when Amethyst transformed into Steven.