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'''Original airdate:''' January 13th, 2014

'''Production code:''' 1020-007
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* {{Fainting}}: Steven passes out when he enters the last room of the maze he and Garnet are in after he remembers a traumatic ride on the Teacups with her that endangered everyone [[NiceJobBreakingItHero due to his own upset stomach]].

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* {{Fainting}}: FaintInShock: Steven passes out when he enters the last room of the maze he and Garnet are in after once he remembers a traumatic ride on the Teacups with her that endangered everyone [[NiceJobBreakingItHero due to his own upset stomach]].stomach.
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While navigating out of an ancient maze, Steven tries to prove himself worthy to Garnet.

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While navigating The episode begins with Steven waking up in Funland. He then sees that all of the teacups on the ride have been thrown out of an ancient maze, position with everyone else riding in them. The episode then surges to two weeks after the incident with Steven tries and the other Gems in the teleporter, Garnet mentioning that this is his first serious mission. Steven brings his ukulele, but it floats away, causing him to prove himself worthy go after it. The Gems arrive at the Gem Battlefield, and Steven falls out of the warp stream into a patch of strawberries. While covered in strawberry jelly, Steven is suddenly attacked by a small swarm of butterflies and Garnet says, "They're just butterflies, Steven". Steven thought they looked bigger when on his eyeballs. As Amethyst laughs at Steven's words, Pearl thinks she is having second thoughts of having Steven with them but Garnet shushes her and says just look at him.

While walking through the strawberry field, Pearl mentions how it used
to Garnet.be a battlefield for the Gems, represented by all the swords in the ground. Eventually, the Gems find a large, upside down pyramid temple. Inside, there are murals of depicting the traps that lie within the maze as well as a picture of Rose Quartz, battling another Gem. Steven finds a strange, smaller pyramid and touches it, causing it to flip over. Everyone inside then begins to gravitate towards a hole in the ceiling. Eventually, they fall into a large room with multiple doors. Pearl decides the group should split up and suggests that she should stay with Steven. Amethyst picks Steven up, suggesting to go with him, but Pearl takes Steven back, saying that Amethyst and Steven are just a disaster waiting to happen. Garnet chooses to take Steven with her while Pearl goes with Amethyst.
Garnet and Steven travel through three trap rooms, with Garnet doing most of the work and Steven usually needing to be saved or carried. In the third room, which was incredibly dangerous with axes, fire, spikes, and lava, after feeling queasy, Steven has a flashback to the Funland trip two weeks ago, where he and the Crystal Gems went on the teacup ride. Pearl was riding with Amethyst, misunderstanding the point of the ride. Meanwhile, Steven was riding with Garnet, but Steven eventually gets sick and falls out of the ride, landing on Mr. Smiley and breaking the lever. The ride speeds out of control, sending all the teacups flying with the riders inside. Mr. Smiley then angrily banned Steven from all the rides forever after Steven woke up. Back in the present, Steven wakes to realize Garnet carried him through the third room because he fell asleep.
After exiting, they find themselves in the room where they started. Pearl finds them and tells Garnet that they arrive back where they started after three rooms no matter which path they take. Amethyst is seen running through the doorways trying to find an exit but gets progressively more injured by the traps and hazards. Pearl admits she doesn't know what's going on, and Amethyst flies out in a block of ice. As Pearl goes to free her, Steven asks Garnet what they should do. She says they'll have to keep going in as long as it takes for them to find the exit. Horrified, Steven has a small breakdown as he believes it's his fault he's in this situation, just like with the teacups. Pearl tells him not to think that way but Steven realizes that the temple must have been like the teacup ride. Each room they entered rotated to connect them to another room, sending them out another door leading into the main chamber.
Garnet breaks through the floor and they all fall into a large mechanism that causes the temple's rooms to rotate. Garnet throws Steven at his request to the centerpiece and he removes the gem controlling it, causing the temple to explode. The Gems emerge from the rubble and compliment Steven on his ingenuity. The episode ends with Steven strumming on his ukulele singing the Serious Song, only to be interrupted as he's attacked by a swarm of butterflies once again attracted to the berry jam coating his body.
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Pearl brought a teapot to the Teacups ride.

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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Pearl brought a teapot to the Teacups ride. Bonus points for being one of the rare cases where the one who missed the point acknowledged it first.

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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Garnet is [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands spontaneously]] able to [[SummonToHand summon the key to the temple into her hand]], rather than pulling it out of either or her gems (which even then is usually something only Pearl does).

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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Garnet is [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands spontaneously]] able to [[SummonToHand summon the key to the temple into her hand]], rather than pulling it out of either or of her gems (which even then is usually something only Pearl does).


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* ExpositionAlreadyCovered: Garnet breaks the floor to reveal a spinning mechanism under the room they were trapped in. Pearl deduces that this made the corridors they explored always wrap around to the main chamber, creating a seemingly endless loop, only for Garnet to interrupt that Steven already figured that out. Pearl quickly shuts up in embarrassment.
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* SpikesOfDoom: The second room Garnet and Steven go into. Steven accidentally activates them trying to read the symbols on the walls.

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* SpikesOfDoom: The second room Garnet and Steven go into.into has spike-covered pillars descend from the ceiling. Steven accidentally activates them trying to read the symbols on the walls.
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* ScoobyDoobyDoors: When Steven and the Gems enter the pyramid, every door that leads to a trap is essentially these doors. Luckily, Steven finds the actual way out.
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-->'''Steven:''' (looking at a pattern on the wall before the trap is triggered) It looks like there’s lots of triangles hidden in this room.

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-->'''Steven:''' (looking ''(looking at a pattern on the wall before the trap is triggered) triggered)'' It looks like there’s lots of triangles hidden in this room.

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* BigWhat: Steven yells "Whaaat?" when he and Garnet travel down three room in a straight line and end up in the same room.



* ChekhovsGun: When Steven and Garnet enter the second hallway, there's a rumbling sound even though nothing visible is moving. It turns out that was the ''entire room'' rotating ninety degrees.



* RapidfireNo: Pearl refuses to let Steven go off an explore the pyramid with Amethyst.

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* RapidfireNo: Pearl refuses to let Steven go off an to explore the pyramid with Amethyst.

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* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent:
** After the group enters the pyramid, a mural in the background depicts Rose Quartz standing up to another Gem.
** The mural also contains other friezes that hint at various bits of Gem lore.

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MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: After the group enters the pyramid, a mural in the background depicts Rose Quartz standing up to another Gem.
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* {{Fainting}}: Steven passed out when he enters the last room of the maze he and Garnet are in after he remembers a traumatic ride on the Teacups with her that endangered everyone [[NiceJobBreakingItHero due to his own upset stomach]].

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* {{Fainting}}: Steven passed passes out when he enters the last room of the maze he and Garnet are in after he remembers a traumatic ride on the Teacups with her that endangered everyone [[NiceJobBreakingItHero due to his own upset stomach]].
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* {{Fainting}}: Steven pass out when he enters the last room of the maze he and Garnet are in after he remembers a traumatic ride on the Teacups with her that endangered everyone [[NiceJobBreakingItHero due to his own upset stomach]].

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* {{Fainting}}: Steven pass passed out when he enters the last room of the maze he and Garnet are in after he remembers a traumatic ride on the Teacups with her that endangered everyone [[NiceJobBreakingItHero due to his own upset stomach]].

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* {{Fainting}}: Steven pass out when he enters the last room of the maze he and Garnet are in after he remembers a traumatic ride on the Teacups with her that endangered everyone [[NiceJobBreakingItHero due to his own upset stomach]].



* HeroicBSOD: Steven suffers from this when he enters the last room of the maze he and Garnet are in after he remembers a traumatic ride on the Teacups with her that endangered everyone [[NiceJobBreakingItHero due to his own upset stomach]].
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* BuildLikeAnEgyptian: The episode takes place in FuturisticPyramid that, like much ancient gem technology, [[SufficientlyAdvancedBambooTechnology is very ancient in appearance]].

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* BuildLikeAnEgyptian: The episode takes place in a FuturisticPyramid that, like much ancient gem technology, [[SufficientlyAdvancedBambooTechnology is very ancient in appearance]].
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Garnet is [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands spontaneously]] able to [[SummonToHand summon the key to the temple into her hand]], rather than pulling it out of either or her gems (which even then is usually something only Pearl does).



* SymbolicBlood: Gems don't bleed, but strawberries grew over a Gem battlefield around the pyramid. So everywhere you look, there are weapons covered in red.

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* SymbolicBlood: Gems don't bleed, but strawberries grew over a Gem battlefield around the pyramid. So everywhere you look, there are weapons covered in red.red.
* UnnaturallyLoopingLocation: The chamber above the entrance of the Pyramid Temple contains a multitude of hallways, each leading to three boobytrapped rooms, which simply loop back around to the main chamber. Underneath the floor there's another room with loads of little spinning pyramids that [[MobileMaze make the hallways rotate]], powered by a Corrupted Gem [[PoweredByAForsakenChild stuck inside the obelisk in the center.]]

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* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: After the group enters the pyramid, a mural in the background depicts Rose Quartz standing up to another Gem - most likely [[spoiler: White Diamond.]]

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* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: After the group enters the pyramid, a mural in the background shows Rose Quartz fighting against three other Gems.

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* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: After the group enters the pyramid, a mural in the background shows depicts Rose Quartz fighting against three standing up to another Gem - most likely [[spoiler: White Diamond.]]
** The mural also contains
other Gems.friezes that hint at various bits of Gem lore.
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* SkewedPriorities: As Garnet is deflecting spike traps falling from above her and Steven, he pauses to re-tune his ukelele.

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* SkewedPriorities: As Garnet is [[LoadBearingHero deflecting spike traps falling from above her and Steven, Steven]], he pauses to re-tune his ukelele.
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* PrettyButterflies: They're pink and fluttery and love strawberries. They swarm up to Steven when he keeps getting covered in squished berries.
-->'''Steven:''' [[MinorInjuryOverreaction Aaaaaaaaaah they're in my eyes!!!]]
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Pearl brought a pitcher of tea to the Teacups ride.

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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Pearl brought a pitcher of tea teapot to the Teacups ride.



'''Steven:''' [[ConfusingMultipleNegatives Definitely... always... never]] do it!

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'''Steven:''' [[ConfusingMultipleNegatives Definitely... always... Definitely… always… never]] do it!



* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: After the group enters the pyramid, a mural in the background shows Rose Quartz fighting against three other gems.

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* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: After the group enters the pyramid, a mural in the background shows Rose Quartz fighting against three other gems.Gems.



-->'''Pearl:''' Nooo--no no no, you two are a disaster waiting to happen.

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-->'''Pearl:''' Nooo--no Nooo-no no no, you two are a disaster waiting to happen.



* SkewedPriorities: As Garnet is deflecting spike traps falling from above her and Steven, he pauses to retune his ukelele.

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* SkewedPriorities: As Garnet is deflecting spike traps falling from above her and Steven, he pauses to retune re-tune his ukelele.

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