History Recap / StevenUniverseS1E4BubbleBuddies

The episode begins with Steven riding his bike down the steps of the Gems' home while Pearl discusses a series of earthquakes, theorizing that they are too close together to be natural. After a brief talk with the Gems, Steven heads to the beach where he tries, and fails horribly, to get the attention of a girl sitting on the beach, reading a book. After knocking it over and running off crying, Steven returns to find the gems have been watching him the whole time, figuring out that Steven has a crush on the girl. Pearl tries setting up a play date but Amethyst shoots her down and tells him to just go talk to her, promising not to mess with his "Funky Flow" by watching. Steven then grabs a glowing ring from the freezer and heads out.

As Steven goes to talk to her, another earthquake happens, sending a torrent of rocks down on top of her. Steven dives to save her, accidentally creating a magical protective bubble from his Gem. Steven finally introduces himself to the girl, Connie, and soon fills her in on just who he is and what he does, while Connie reveals her dad's in private beach security, and as such she moves around a lot, and thus is unfamiliar with the city. Steven attempts to have them roll home, but the temple's steep slope prevents them from rolling up and the Gem's not watching means they can't see them.

Deciding to go another route, Steven heads to the Big Donut to get Lars and Sadie's help. Lars proceeds to tease Steven about Connie and kiss, and for some reason lick, the outside of the bubble while Sadie tries to open it with a hammer, to no avail. Sadie then tries breaking a chair over it, with no effect. Steven tries another plan, this time having Onion Fryman fire a harpoon at the bubble, which only results in it destroying a ship Connie happened to like. Steven then tries one last plan: letting a rollercoaster at Funland hit the bubble. Despite how dangerous the plan is, and Connie's misgivings about it, Steven tries it anyway after an earthquake, but after the coaster is aburuptly stopped, it sends the bubble flying into the ocean.

Under the sea, Steven and Connie find the source of the earthquakes: A giant worm monster with a gem inside it that eats glowing seaweed. The monster proceeds to accidentally send Connie and Steven deeper into the ocean via a crack created by it going underground. Connie finally breaks down, bursting into tears as she explains how no one but her parents will miss her due to having no friends. Steven promptly pulls out the glowing ring from before, a bracelet and gives it to her, offering to be her friend and explaining he saw her drop it a year ago at a parade. Touched by the action, Connie admits she had a great time.. just as the bubble finally pops. The two quickly swim to the surface and arrive back on shore... as does the worm monster, who's now after Connie's bracelet. After realizing this, Steven takes it from her and gets the creature to tie itself around the dock, causing the dock to collapse on it, destroying it. The Gems arrive and Connie talks about how amazing Steven was while garnet collects the beasts gem. Steven returns the bracelet and Amethyst and Pearl start to talk to Connie before Garnet carries them off, telling them not to mess with "his funky flow". As Connie questions what this means, we iris out on an embarrassed Steven.

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* BelligerentSexualTension: What Steven thinks Sadie and Lars bickering amounts to. Of course, he also refers to Lars as his BFF, so his interpretation should be taken with a grain of salt.
* BlatantLies: "I'm helping Steven on his date."
* BrickJoke / StrangeMindsThinkAlike: "Funky flow?"
* ChekhovsGun: The earthquakes, which turn out to be caused by a giant worm monster under the sea.
** Pearl saying the earthquakes were too frequent to be natural.
** The glowing ring Steven takes out of the freezer, which turns out to be Connie's. It also comes in handy when dealing with the MonsterOfTheWeek.
* ChekhovsGunman: Connie, who appeared in the title sequence for the entire run of the series before showing up here
* EpicFail: Steven's attempt at impressing Connie at the beginning. He attempts to ride his bike on sand, which works about as well as you'd expect. Then he tries bragging about said bike, which fails horribly. Finally, he accidentally knocks it over and runs away crying as she stares at him in confusion.
** The harpoon gun.
* HeroicBSOD: Connie finally snaps at Steven's cheerfulness, bursting into tears after revealing she has no friends. Steven promptly snaps her out of it by revealing he'd saved her bracelet for her from a year ago.
* InsaneTrollLogic: Steven's defense of his plan to have a roller coaster ram into the bubble to free them.
-->'''Connie''': What happens to us after the bubble pops?
-->'''Steven''': We'll be free!
* TheLoad: Lampshaded. Pearl's first instinct upon seeing Steven near the collapsed dock is to ask "Steven, what did you do?!" Subverted in that while Steven is technically responsible, he did it deliberately to destroy the monster.
* MonsterOfTheWeek: The Underwater Worm, which turns out to be the cause of the earthquakes throughout the episode.
* OnlySaneMan: Garnet, who is the most helpful with Steven's romantic situation, shooting down Pearl's play date idea, advising him to just talk to her, and then carrying her sisters off at the end of the episode to give him and Connie some alone time. She also respects his wish not to watch them.
-->''Garnet'': Don't mess with his funky flow!
** Connie also qualifies. Despite not having heard of the Gems before the episode, she quickly realizes that they're the only ones who could probably break the bubble, despite Steven's repeated attempts at doing otherwise. Of course, Steven said as much at first, and simply went to his backup plans when he couldn't immediately reach them.
* [[SecondEpisodeIntroduction Fourth/Seventh Episode Introduction]]: Connie.
* TeamMom: Emphasized with Pearl here, who acts like a typical mom dealing with her son's first crush.

The episode begins with Steven riding his bike down the steps of the gem's home while Pearl discusses a series of earth quakes, theorizing that their too close together to be natural. After a brief talk with the Gems, Steven heads to the beach where he tries, and fails horribly, to get the attention of a girl sitting on the beach, reading a book. After knocking it over and running off crying, Steven returns to find the gems have been watching him the whole time, figuing out that Steven has a crush ont he girl. Pearl tries setting up a play date but Amythst shoots her down and tells him to just go talk to her, promsing not to mess with his "Funky Flow" by watching. Steven then grabs a glowing ring from the freezer and heads out.

As Steven goes to talk to her, another earthquake happens, sending a torrent of rocks down on top of her. Steven dives to save her, accidently creating a magical protective bubble from his Gem. Steven finally introduces himself to the girl, Connie, and soon fills her in on just who he is and what he does, while Connie reveals her dad's in private beach security, and as such she moves around a lot, and thus is unfamiliar with the city. Steven attempts to have them roll home, but the temple's steep slope prevents them from rolling up and the Gem's not watching means they can't see them.

Deciding to go another route, Steven heads to the Big Donut to get Lars and Sadie's help. Lars procedes to tease Steven about connie and kiss, and for some reason lick, the outside of the bubble while Sadie tries to open it with a hammer, to no avail. Sadie then tries breaking a chair over it, with no effect. Steven tries another plan, this time having Onion Fryman fire a harpoon at the bubble, which only results in it destroying a ship Connie happened to like. Steven then tries one last plan: letting a rollercoaster at Funland hit the bubble. Despite how dangerous the plan is, and Connie's misgivings about it, Steven tries it anyway after an earthquake, but after the coaster is aburubtly stopped, it sends the bubble flying into the ocean.

Under the sea, Steven and Connie find the source of the earthquakes: A giant worm monster with a gem inside it that eats glowing seaweed. The monster proceedes to accidently send Connie and Steven deeper into the ocean via a crack created by it going underground. Connie finally breaks down, bursting into tears as she explains how no one but her parents will miss her due to having no friends. Steven promptly pulls out the glowing ring from before, a braclet and gives it to her, offering to be her friend and explaning he saw her drop it a year ago at a parade. Touched by the action, Connie admits she had a great time.. just as the bubble finally pops. The two quickly swim to the surface and arrive back on shore... as does the worm monster, who's now after Connie's bracelet. After realizing this, Steven takes it from her and gets the creature to tie itself around the dock, causing the dock to collapse on it, destroying it. The Gems arrive and Connie talks about how amazing Steven was while garnet collects the beasts gem. Steven returns the braclet and Amytheist and Pearl start to talk to Connie before Garnet carries them off, telling them not to mess with "his funky flow". As Connie questions what this means, we iris out on an embarrassed Steven.

* OnlySaneMan: Garnet, who is the most helpful with Steven's romantic situation, shooting down Pearl's playdate idea, advising him to just talk to her, and then carrying her sisters off at the end of the episode to give him and Connie some alone time. She also respects his wish not to watch them.

* BelligerentSexualTension: What Steven thinks Sadie and Lars bickering amounts to.
* BlatantLies: "I'm Helping Steven on his date"
* BrickJoke / StrangeMindsThinkAlike: "Funky Flow?"
* ChekovsGun: The earthquakes, which turn out to be caused by a giant worm monster under the sea.

** The glowing ring Steven takes out of the freezer, which turns out to be Connie's. It also comes in handy when dealing with the MonsterOfTheWeek
* ChekovsGunman: Connie, who appeared in the title sequence for the entire run of the series before showing up here
* EpicFail: Steven's attempt at impressing Connie at the begining. He attempts to ride his bike on sand, which works about as well as you'd expect, then tries bragging about said bike, which fails horribly, then finally, he accidently knocks it over and runs away crying as she stares at him.
** The Harpoon Gun
* HeroicBSOD: Connie finally snaps at Steven's cheefulness, bursting into tears after revealing she has no friends. Stevenn promptly snaps her out of it by revealing he'd saved her bracelet for her from a year ago.
* InsaneTrollLogic: Steven's defense of his plan to have a rollercoaster ram into the bubble to free them.

* TheLoad: Lampshaded. Pearl's first instinct upon seeing Steven near the collapsed dock is to ask "Steven, what did you do?!" Subverted in that Steven not only didn't create the monster of the week this time, but was responsible for it's distructionn (though he usually is. )
* MonsterOfTheWeek: The Underwater Worm, which turns out to be the cause of the earthquakes throughout the episode. For the second time, Steven didn't create the monster.

** Connie also qualifies. Despite not having heard of the gems before the episode, she quickly realizes their the only ones who could probably break the bubble, despite Steven's repeated attempts at doing otherwise.

* TeamMom: Ephasized with Pearl here, who acts like a typical mom dealing with her son's first crush.

-->''Steven''': We'll be free!

* BrickJoke/StrangeMindsThinkAlike: "Funky Flow?"