What the fish?!
Written by Jeremy Slater and directed by Mohamed Diab.
Steven Grant blacks out and suddenly finds himself to be part of an ancient conspiracy with a strange voice in his head.
Released March 30, 2022.
Tropes:
- Accidental Misnaming: JB calls Steven "Scotty" even after Steven tries to correct him.
- Actor Allusion: Among the atrocities Harrow lists to Steven that could've been prevented by Ammit's release is the Armenian genocide. Steven is played by Oscar Isaac who starred in The Promise, which dealt heavily with the subject.
- Agony of the Feet: The Cold Open has Harrow crush a glass, put the broken shards into his shoes, then put the shoes on and walk around, seemingly indifferent to the glass' presence. Throughout the rest of the episode, a faint sound of glass clinking can be heard whenever he walks.
- All Just a Dream: What Steven assumes when he wakes up in his bed after the Alpine car chase. He's very upset when he realizes he lost two days and stood up his date.
- Ambiguous Situation: At this point, we don't know which alter (if any) is the "real" one, nor what caused their situation.
- And I'm the Queen of Sheba: Steven says to the new fish, "If you're Gus, I'm the bloody Queen of Sheba."
- Animated Tattoo: The scales on Harrow's arm move and change color when he judges someone.
- Apologetic Attacker: During the cupcake truck chase, Steven tries to fight off one of the cult's goons by smashing a cupcake into the man's face. When it doesn't work, he actually apologizes to the goon.
- Arc Words: A soundtrack variant. The two songs heard repeatedly through the episode ("Man Without Love" and "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go") both have choruses that refer to "waking up", tying into the episode's theme about dreams, sleepwalking, and Steven metaphorically "waking up" to Marc's existence.
- As You Know: Steven introduces himself to the audience by correcting Donna when she calls him "Stevie". He points out his nametag as if it's the first time Donna is hearing about it, despite her being his boss for quite some time now. Donna replies that he should do his job, which is selling stuff to children at the museum. It shows how Donna treats Steven with contempt as he struggles to find something meaningful in his soul-crushing retail job.
- Bad Date: Steven is supposed to have a date with a colleague on Friday, but after he goes to the restaurant and waits for hours only for her not to show up, he calls her and finds out that it is already Sunday and he stood her up. He decides to still eat at the steak house, despite Donna earlier noting he's a vegan, but is so shaken that he can barely tell the waiter his order.
- Bait-and-Switch:
- For viewers familiar with the comic, JB calling Steven "Scotty" could imply that he has another alter with that name. It turns out that no, JB just doesn't care what Steven's name is.
- At first, during his lunch break, it looks like Steven is sitting on stone steps and chatting with a statue like a lunatic. Then a couple of tourists ask him to take a photo with him, and we see that he was sitting on the edge of a fountain talking to a living statue, i.e. a man covered in gold paint, which only makes him seem a bit rude (and he does remind people to tip, as well as tip himself, so maybe not even that) and a little bit strange.
- Bilingual Bonus: The van that Steven takes has "Süßwagen" written on it, which is a pun: "Süßwaren" means "confectionery" and "Wagen" means "vehicle".
- Brick Joke: During the alpine chase, a truck hauling logs crashes, taking out one of the cars and spilling its cargo all over the roadway. A little later, after the chase descends further down the mountain, Steven's pursuers get crushed beneath falling logs from the truck.
- Cassandra Truth: Steven has absolutely no idea of what is happening to him and is fully willing to give Harrow the scarab he's looking for, only to be literally jerked around and enters into a chase when Khonshu forcibly takes control of his body to prevent that from happening. Harrow even brings it up once he realizes that Steven genuinely has absolutely no idea of what's happening, even saying that Steven is like the Boy Who Cried Wolf.
- Catapult Nightmare: Steven sits up in bed in a panic when he wakes up from the "nightmare" in the Alps.
- Company Cross References:
- The pet store owner references Finding Nemo when telling Steven that all the fishes in her store have two fins, despite Gus having had one fin.
- In the museum, when Arthur makes his speech about how Ammit was betrayed by her avatar, Steven, to defuse the tension, says, "Avatars. Blue people. Love that film."
- Compartment Shot: The shot from inside the hole Steven discovers in the wall of his apartment.
- Continuity Nod: When Steven is researching the Egyptian Ennead, a Freeze-Frame Bonus shows he has textbooks on the history of Asgard and Wakanda.
- Creepy Child: A young girl can be seen among the cultists when Steven is trying to hand back the scarab.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Twice.
- The first doubles as an Off Screen Moment Of Awesome. Steven is surrounded by four armed guards, temporarily blacks out, and wakes to find himself unscathed and surrounded by four bloody bodies.
- The second time he willingly (if reluctantly) gives control to Marc, he beats the crap out of a dog-jackal-demon creature.
- Dangerous Clifftop Road: A Car Chase ensues on one in the Alps.
- Double-Meaning Title: Firstly, "the goldfish problem" is that your goldfish is very obviously not your goldfish, compounded by the pet shop lady's refusal to explain how the hell that happened. Secondly, "the goldfish problem" is the name the media has given to the phenomenon where a lot of people are releasing their goldfish into lakes, which, since it's an East Asian species of fish, messes up the ecosystem of a North American lake — just like the American guy who sometimes uses your body for his own purposes messes up your British life.
- Double Take: Steven, when he realizes that his fish has two fins.
- Dream Reality Check: Steven slaps himself and tells himself that it's only a dream when he is locked in the bathroom with the demon-dog-jackal creature trying to get in. However, Marc assures him that everything is real.
- Establishing Character Moment: In the first scene, we see Harrow crush a glass and then fill his shoes with the glass shards. He then puts on the shoes and walks away without exhibiting the excruciating pain one would expect. With the entire scene set to "Every Grain of Sand
" by 
Bob Dylan (one of his notably devotional pieces), it helps spell out how this guy is extremely hardcore and does not seem fully human.note - Even Evil Has Standards: After tracking Steven to London, Harrow first tries to intimidate him into giving up the scarab, then tries to judge him, clearly assuming Steven would be killed and the scarab could be easily retrieved. When neither of these tactics works, Harrow calls off his men, then waits until after the museum closes and nearly everyone is gone before summoning a demon to clean up the mess.
- Evil Hand: Steven genuinely tries to hand over the scarab to Harrow, but his hand either refuses to open or moves out of the way on its own.
- Fell Asleep Standing Up: Steven briefly falls asleep leaning against another passenger in the bus because he is so tired.
- Flipping the Bird: A poultry driver does this to Steven during the car chase.
- Foreshadowing:
- Steven tells a little girl in the museum about the Egyptian afterlife, where a person's soul is judged.
- Steven points out to Donna that the museum forgot two gods from the Ennead. As we'll see later in the season, the Ennead themselves despise two of their number, Ammit and Khonshu.
- While in the Alps, Steven/Marc is wearing a white hoodie, which he puts on while trying to hide from Harrow's men. He's directly emulating Moon Knight's hood before he appears at the end of the episode.
- When Steven is walking through the Egyptian exhibit looking for what he thinks is a lost dog, he glances at a glass display case with two reflections of himself looking like they're standing side by side. As he keeps walking, both of his reflections stay put watching him and then turn to look at the jackal-dog monster stalking Steven—foreshadowing both Marc Spector and Jake Lockley.
- Friendless Background: This episode cements that Steven doesn't really have anyone in his life. No one at the museum cares to remember his name, and the only person he can chat with is a living statue. That said, he's nice enough that Marc was able to get him a date with a coworker.
- Hates Being Nicknamed: Steven doesn't like Donna calling him "Stevie".
- Hearing Voices: Steven consistently keeps hearing two voices in his head: one, a dismissive man calling him an idiot (Khonshu), and another belonging to a man named Marc.
- Heartbreak and Ice Cream: After Steven realizes that his date at the steakhouse was actually two days ago, Steven goes back to his apartment and numbly munches on the box of chocolates he was going to give her.
- Hidden Depths: You wouldn't expect a guy who works in a gift shop to have any knowledge about how to deal with getting shot at, but Steven instinctively runs in a random zigzag, making him more difficult to hit - that might be attributed to muscle memory, considering what his alters tend to do.
- Horrifying the Horror:
- Harrow is calm and detached when passing judgement on his followers or siccing a bestial monster on Steven, but he becomes noticeably unsettled when his tattoo doesn't judge Steven good or evil and notes that there is "chaos" in him.
- Steven is being chased by a jackal-like monster. He agrees to give over control to Marc, the monster breaks into the bathroom, and seconds later it's running away from him.
- Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: The gunmen at the cult village just cannot seem to hit Steven. It helps that he's running in a zigzag over uneven ground, spoiling their aim.
- Improbable Weapon User: Steven uses a cupcake against one of the cult goons, and, as Moon Knight, throws a sink into a hound's face.
- In the Hood: At the alpine village, Steven tries to cover himself in a hoodie. It only works for so long before the cultists catch on.
- Jerkass God: Khonshu doesn't seem to think highly of Steven, calling him an idiot several times. Of course, given the kind of things that Steven keeps waking up to, he's clearly annoyed that Steven keeps taking control away from Marc in the middle of life-or-death situations.
- Jerkass Has a Point:
- Steven's boss Donna is justifiably frustrated by Steven's frequent attendance issues, but she chooses to bully and belittle him in response.
- Khonshu spends most of his time insulting Steven, but it might be more justified when looking at things from Khonshu's perspective: his chosen avatar keeps passing out, and a nebbishy shop assistant who couldn't be any more unsuited for what Khonshu wants takes his place. It'd be enough to annoy anyone.
- Knight Templar: Harrow claims to Steven that Ammit wants to pass judgement on evil souls before they commit any crimes. Harrow's own tattoo, connected to Ammit, passes judgement on a woman who claims to have done nothing but good in her life, killing her.
- Last-Second Word Swap: When Steven sees his beloved goldfish somehow has two fins when he knows for a fact it should have one, he goes "What the— (cut to pet shop) fish?!"
- Locked Out of the Loop: Though Steven is aware he's losing time and sleepwalking, he's unaware of Marc or Khonshu's existence, though both are well aware of him and are working to keep him in the dark. It's unclear whether it was the violence in the Alps or encountering the scarab, but Steven wakes up in the middle of one of Marc's missions.
- Malicious Misnaming: Donna intentionally keeps calling Steven "Stevie" even after being corrected.
- The Man in the Mirror Talks Back: When Steven finds Marc's stash and calls Layla, Marc's voice warns him to stop. Assuming someone his hiding in the bathroom, Steven throws open the door only to be shocked when his shadowed reflection shakes its head at him. At the end of the first episode, Steven ends up talking to his reflection — Marc — about what the hell is going on. Marc responds that he can only help Steven if he takes control of their body, which Steven ends up permitting. Marc even does this earlier, warning Steven to "stop looking".
- Menacing Museum: When evil forces chase Steven after closing hours at the museum.
- Mirror Scare: One scene has Steven staring into a mirror before his reflection shifts into his Moon Knight persona. When he's trapped in the museum bathroom with a beast sent by Harrow threatening to tear down the door to get him, three of the walls are covered with mirrors, accentuating Steven's mental breakdown as his reflection in each mirror starts moving and acting independently of him, begging him to let Marc take control to save them both.
- Missing Time: Steven keeps blacking out and finding himself somewhere else, or occasionally just a few moments later, after a bout of offscreen ass-kicking.
- Mood Whiplash: Steven's "hallucinations" and blackouts lead to several whiplash moments.
- There's a long, extended scene of Steven terrified for his life as to what's going on, and is positively scared shitless of Khonshu about to enter the elevator... before it cuts it to reveal a sweet old lady entering instead.
- There is a sequence in which Steven is trying to give Harrow the scarab, but his body is refusing to obey him due to Khonshu's influence. This is played for comedy, with Steven's panicked incomprehension and Harrow's exasperation adding to the effect. Steven then flees and is grabbed by a bunch of cultists... at which point he blacks out. The next thing we see is Steven back in control, but with literal blood on his hands and the bodies of four dead cultists at his feet.
- Then there's a wacky chase scene with Steven in a cupcake truck while "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" plays. One cultist is about to shoot him, and Marc takes over. When Steven wakes up, the music has stopped, he has a gun in his hand, the windshield is shattered, and he sees that he shot someone in the forehead. After another blackout, he wakes up to find himself driving the ice cream truck backwards down the mountain!
- Mook Horror Show: The episode shows Moon Knight as a terror to his enemies — and also to Steven. The episode is seen entirely from Grant's point of view (until the end), and at one point, he is surrounded by four hostile mooks. Then he blanks out for a few seconds, and when he wakes up, there are four dead mooks on the ground and other people are fleeing from him in terror. Then, at the end of the episode, Grant is running from a monster and trapped in a room, and Spector speaks to him, begging to take control. The monster breaks in — and a moment later, it is trying to flee before the unleashed Moon Knight beats it to death with his bare hands.
- My God, What Have I Done?: In the middle of his confrontation with the cultists, Steven blacks out and wakes up to find himself covered in blood and surrounded by dead cultists. He is appropriately horrified.
- My God, You Are Serious!: When Harrow confronts Steven at the museum, he explains that he thought Steven was just messing with him and was shocked to find Steven really is a gift shop employee.
- Mythology Gag:
- Amongst all of Steven's missed calls from Layla, one caller is DuChamp, referencing Jean-Paul "Frenchie" Du Champ, a French pilot that was an ally of Marc in the comics.
- DuChamp's call is the 32nd missed call. Moon Knight and Frenchie debuted in Werewolf by Night #32.
- Nice to the Waiter: Steven knows everyone's name at work, though they don't return the favor, and he likes to sit and chat with a man playing living statue in the street, encouraging passersby to tip.
- No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Marc is somehow able to do this to multiple attackers during an uncertain but brief period of missing time for Steven; the fight is vicious enough that Steven wakes up covered in their blood and the large crowd previously around him has fled in terror of him. Later, Moon Knight can be seen giving one of these to the dog-jackal creature in the final shot of the episode, showing how he's not holding back when he's in that identity.
- No-Sell: Harrow's tattoo apparently allows him to judge if somebody is (or will be) good or evil, with those who are good (scales tipping green) being spared and praised for it, and those who are evil (scales tipping red) getting the life sucked out of them. When he tries to use it on Steven, it fails to work at all (scales tipping back and forth, staying black) due to his particular issues, something which greatly unsettles Harrow.Harrow: There's chaos in you.
- Nothing Is Scarier: The audience is never shown how Marc beats the crap out of people in this episode, only that it's very bloody.
- Offscreen Moment of Awesome:
- We're never shown how Marc keeps saving Steven, only that people end up dead. How he manages to escape from Harrow's forces and get back to London also goes unseen, to the point that Steven writes off the experience as a bad dream. It apparently wasn't easy, as Steven has been missing for two days when he wakes up.
- The very first clue as to what exactly is happening with Marc at the helm can be implied from what little we see of the fight between Moon Knight and the jackal-hound. With how the bathroom ends up wrecked, it must've been short, but brutal. The jackal-hound does flee from him in terror, after all.
- Oh, Crap!: Steven ends up driving a cupcake truck to evade his pursuers, and briefly shuts down only to wake up to find himself wielding a gun, and then he freaks out when he sees he has a gun and that he shot someone's brains out.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
- Steven is a vegan, which Donna points out when she finds out he has a date at the steak house. He originally intended to eat a salad or some bread, but when he realizes that he has missed his date by two days, he orders a steak, showing how upset he is.
- Arthur, who literally puts broken glass in his shoes and drains the life out of people who don't meet his standards, is visibly unnerved when his judgement tattoo is thrown out of whack by Steven due to the multiple personalities.
- People Puppets: Khonshu seems to take direct control of Steven/Marc's body when Steven tries to hand the scarab over to Arthur Harrow. Steven is understandably baffled when this occurs.
- Pet the Dog:
- The waiter at the restaurant where Steven is supposed to have his date is very kind and understanding to Steven when Steven starts breaking down after realizing he's lost almost two days.
- Donna congratulates Steven as soon she learns he got a date.
- Pitiful Worms: Khonshu calls Steven "worm" and "parasite" during the times he takes control from Marc.
- Powers in the First Episode: Steven's new powers are hinted at in this episode.
- Precrime Arrest: More accurately, a precrime execution. When Arthur judges an old lady and his tattoo determines her to be guilty, she pleads with him saying that she hasn't done anything, and Arthur agrees that she probably hasn't done anything now, but Ammit can judge a person for what they will do in the future, and then proceeds to drain her life.
- Priceless Ming Vase: Subverted when Steven manages to catch the vase he toppled at the museum... only for the sound of him catching it to alert the creature stalking him.
- Readings Are Off the Scale: When Harrow tries judging Steven's life with his tattoo, the scales of the tattoo shift wildly, unable to make a judgment, and Harrow simply remarks that Steven has "chaos" in him, albeit while looking alarmed at the occurrence.
- Real After All: After finding himself at home, in his own bed, seemingly unharmed, Steven writes off the chaos in the Alps off as a dream. When he sees Harrow on a bus, he's horrified to realize that it was all real.Steven: [terrified to find every person in a bus glaring at him] Oh my god, he's real.
- Refuge in Audacity: Played with. Many of Steven's actions come off as this to Harrow and his minions, since they do not realize that they are dealing with multiple personalities. One minute, they are facing a tough mercenary who killed two people to get the scarab, and the next one he is telling them that he is just a gift shop employee trying to get back to London. He then seems to troll Harrow by doing the whole "my body parts are not obeying me" schtick. It takes Harrow a while to realize that Steven is not fooling around and genuinely has no idea what is going on.
- Reluctant Gift: An involuntary case. Steven is perfectly willing to give the golden scarab to Harrow when asked for it, but Marc/Khonshu takes control of his hand while doing so, forcing him to close his fist and rendering him unable to open it. When he finally manages to pry the scarab from his own fingers with his other hand, Marc/Khonshu once again forces his arm away from a decidedly annoyed Harrow.
- Replacement Goldfish: Literally. The pet shop owner Steven talks to mentions that he (Marc) came to her shop to buy another fish with a missing fin, implying Gus died of neglect while Marc was off fighting Arthur's cult.
- Rewatch Bonus: Watching the series a second time suggests that the most extreme unseen action sequences might not be Marc but could be Jake. Marc is certainly competent, but the extreme violence of the defense of the scarab and driving backward down an alpine ess-bend while having a shootout suggest the far bloodier third alter.
- Rule of Symbolism:
- Steven's pet goldfish, Gus, has one fin. After Steven wakes up from his chase scene with the cupcake truck, he has two fins. This is presumably reflecting how Steven feels there was something "off" about himself.
- Marc appears as Steven's reflection throughout the episode, and fully appears in the mirrors of the restroom Steven gets cornered in. When Steven surrenders control over to Marc and they transform into Moon Knight, the mirrors are all now shattered, displaying how Marc/Moon Knight has finally broken out of Steven's mind to beat the tar out of the jackal creature.
- Sadly Mythtaken: A brief one, but when Steven correctly points out that the Ennead posters only show seven gods instead of the accurate nine, he lists Horus among them. Horus was not considered a primary member of the Ennead (which consisted of Atum, Shu, Tefnut, Geb, Nut, Osiris, Isis, Set, and Nephthys), and was mostly considered an occasional tenth member.
- Scenery Dissonance: Steven's vivid "nightmare" of being in the Alps chased by gun-toting henchmen and a crazy, creepy, murderous cult leader occurs against the backdrop of a gorgeous spring or summer day.
- Self-Harm: Harrow puts broken shards of glass in his shoes and walks around.
- Shout-Out:
- When Arthur goes on a diatribe describing "Avatars", Steven is confused as to whether he's referring to the blue people or the "anime".
- When Steve tells the pet shop seller that his fish used to have only one fin, she replies that fish don't look like the ones in Finding Nemo.
- The scene with Steven trying to hand the scarab over and getting overruled by Khonshu is very similar to what Venom does to Eddie in his movie.
- Sickening "Crunch!": These can be heard when Steven wakes up with his jaw dislocated while he tries to get it back to normal.
- Sleep Deprivation: Steven listens to a "Staying Awake" podcast because of his "sleepwalking". The podcast instructs him to solve puzzles or read a book to keep his mind alert.
- Small Role, Big Impact:
- Steven's goldfish is just a small piece of his life, but when Steven wakes up after the cupcake truck chase and notices that he has two fins, whereas the original Gus only had one, it begins his discovery that his life isn't what it seems.
- Likewise, the pet shop owner brings up how Steven arrived yesterday, when he supposedly was in the Alps, which also has him start questioning what's been going on with is life.
- Soundtrack Dissonance: Of all the tracks to play while Steven is driving a cupcake truck and being chased and shot at by Harrow's thugs, it's "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" by Wham!.
- Spanner in the Works: Marc has apparently been assuming command of Steven's body long enough to have built up an entire identity and contact list separate from him without his knowledge, and has seemingly been operating on several successful missions without him being aware of it. Though not shown, it's implied the damage sustained to their body during Marc's heist of the Scarab was sufficient to "shock" Steven awake and wrest control from Marc, making him aware of the existence of his alter.
- Spotting the Thread: Steven's goldfish Gus has only one fin, so Steven realizes something is wrong after waking up after the cupcake truck chase when he suddenly has an additional one.
- Sudden Soundtrack Stop: The song that plays over the Marvel Studios logo suddenly stops when the next scene begins, but continues playing a short while later.
- Superpowered Evil Side: Downplayed, as Marc doesn't seem to be outright "evil" per se, but he's much more willing to commit violence and devastate his enemies than Steven, at one point leaving the poor guy to wake up drenched in the blood of four Mooks he brutalised with his bare hands. He also seems to be the one in command of the powers of Moon Knight, as Steven surrendering control to him at the episode's climax allows him to don the Moon Knight garb, along with the Super-Strength that apparently comes with it; Marc then proceeds to beat the monster attacking them to death, at one point even stopping it from crawling away from him to finish it off.
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Because no one was around to feed poor Gus during the days Steven was in Harrow's village, he ended up starving to death.
- Surveillance Station Slacker: J.B., the security guard watching the cameras at the museum, dedicates his time to taking calls and watching otter videos instead of doing his job.
- Tempting Fate: The girl that Steven discusses the Field of Reeds with snarkily notes that he must've been rejected from it. Steven states it's impossible. After all, he's alive. But if this is going like his comic book origin is going...
- That Was Not a Dream: Steven is shocked to realize that everything that happened in the Alps was real when he sees Harrow and everyone in a bus staring at him.
- Through the Eyes of Madness: Steven keeps constantly seeing Khonshu everywhere... unless he is everywhere.
- Throwing the Distraction: When Steven is stalked by the demon-dog creature, he hides behind a showcase and throws his bag to the side to distract it while he makes a run.
- Throwing Your Gun at the Enemy: After Steven wakes up to find himself holding a gun and a man with a bullet in the head falling out of the truck he's driving, he panics and throws the gun at the car behind him. Khonshu is appropriately annoyed.
- Trying Not to Cry: Steven barely keeps it together when he realizes that he stood up his date and missed two days.
- Un-Paused: Steven has no recollection of what happens whenever he "blanks out", reacting as if no time at all has gone by. For example, when the "nightmare" of being pursued by cultists in the Alps suddenly ends, he wakes up in a panic on his bed in London, as if just coming out of it... despite it being a day or two after these events, as discovered later.
- We Are Everywhere: Steven is horrified to learn that Harrow's cult members are everywhere, including the security guards at his museum.
- Wham Line:
- When Steven wakes up in the Alps, a disembodied voice says "Go back to sleep, worm."
- The pet shop owner explaining to Steven that he came in to buy a new goldfish with one fin yesterday — as Steven noticed that the fish in his tank had two — which he doesn't remember at all.
- After waking up, Steven looks at the clock and realizes he's going to be late for his date. When she doesn't show, Steven calls her, thinking she might have forgotten. Cue her angrily telling him that he stood her up, two days ago.
- After his phone call with Layla, to which she asks, "What's wrong with you, Marc?!" Steven goes to his bathroom mirror... and his reflection approaches him while hissing, "Stop looking, Steven."
- Upon seeing Arthur Harrow in the museum, Steven asks for a security guard, one Steven actually knows by name, mind you, for help. The security guard mutters, "Praise Ammit", showing how far the cult has spread.
- Wham Shot:
- Steven wakes up after a terrible nightmare and goes to say his morning to Gus, his one-finned friend. But then he notices that Gus has two fins.
- Steven looks at his reflection shaking his head before moving forward.
- Steven assumes that his adventures in the Alps, along with the giant abomination with a bird skull stalking him across a dark hallway, was a dream. Then, as he leaves the bus for work, he sees that same giant bird-skull monster on the sidewalk and he races off of the bus...and then he sees Arthur Harrow glaring at him as the bus leaves.
- Arthur tries to judge Steven's soul, only to find his scale tattoo shifting wildly.
- When Steven sees Arthur at the museum, Steven races for a security guard... who then rolls up his sleeve and shows a scales tattoo on his arm.
- What Year Is This?: Steven asks the waiter what day it is after his date claims that it's Sunday while he thought it was Friday.
- Wiper Start: The wipers on Steven's cupcake truck turn on when he gets cornered by the baddies, which gives the stern scene a wacky undertone, since they're wiping away at empty air due to the windshield being destroyed.
