History Recap / StevenUniverseS5E9SadieKiller

-->'''Sadie:''' ''[as Lars]'' Hey, you missed a spot.\\

-->'''Buck:''' Doo-doo. 🎵 Butts. 🎵 The government 🎵 Corrupts.

-->''' Sour Cream:''' Whoa, Sadie, you have a dark side.\\

-->"Tired. From work. Hate. My job…"

-->'''Buck:''' You can't help being cute any more than I can being cool.

-->'''Sadie:''' I quit!

* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: One of the ideas the cool kids have for their band's style is "Rap-a-billy". The sound they settle on in "The Working Dead" has elements of emo-metal, horrorpunk, dub and darkwave.

On goes the video. Sadie is surprised Jenny knows Bulgarian horror. Steven, peeping out between his fingers, suggests they should be practicing. Sour Cream likes the creepy background music from the film,samples it and adds a drum beat. Jenny lays down a bassline. Steven picks up and adds a ska-esque chord. Buck approves and mentions they only need lyrics now, which Sadie ad-libs:

** Dr. Maheswaran and one of the fusion monsters from "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS2E19NightmareHospital Nightmare Hospital]]" appear briefly... [[RecursiveCanon on one of Sadie's movie covers]].

* ThatWasNotADream: Misplacing the directions to the music gig rather randomly makes Buck think everything is a dream. Judging by Jenny's exasperated reaction, this isn't the first time he's thought this.

** Sadie sees what her job has turned her into after seeing Steven's attempt at replicating her drama.
* ExhaustedEyeBags: Sadie is sporting these to show how much Lars's absence and the workload from her dead-end job are getting to her. She later uses [[RedEyesTakeWarning red lipstick to accentuate them as part of her improvised Sadie Killer costume]].

On goes the video. Sadie is surprised Jenny knows Bulgarian horror. Steven, peeping out between his fingers, suggests they should be practicing. Sour Cream likes the creepy background music from the film and samples it. Jenny lays down a bassline. Steven picks up and adds a ska-esque chord. Buck approves and mentions they only need lyrics now, which Sadie ad-libs:

Sadie sings, in a monotone, about being the Working Dead, lurching for minimum wage but would prefer to be eating brains. She goes on to equate her dead-end job with being a zombie. As the song progresses she puts red lipstick under her eyes and bites messily into a jelly donut to imply eating brains.

* BurgerFool: Sadie feels that she "[lost her] youth" working at the Big Donut, and without Lars she continues it only for a sense of normalcy. Keep in mind she said she started [[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E21JokingVictim "two summers ago"]], and that was less than two years earlier InUniverse. She ends up making a song about how her job makes her feel like a zombie.

* IrisOut: Over Sadie's [[GrinAudacity grinning]] face after she tells the others she quit.

* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: One of the ideas the cool kids have for their band's style is "Rap-a-billy". Also, the sound they settle on in "The Working Dead" has elements of emo-metal, horrorpunk, dub and darkwave.

* ThreeChordsAndTheTruth: Parodied with Buck's proposed song. It's literally the same three chord tune played over and over with Buck saying the lyrics during pauses between repeats.

* ThreeChordsAndTheTruth: Parodied with Buck's proposed song. It's literally the same three chord tune repeated with Buck saying the lyrics during pauses in between.

* ThreeChordsAndTheTruth: Parodied with Buck's proposed song. It's literally the same three chord repeated with Buck saying the lyrics during pauses in between.

When a nonplussed Sadie looks for an explanation, Steven tells her he's started a band with Sour Cream, Buck Dewey and Jenny Pizza. Steven goes on to explain it’s a nice change of pace from Gem related issues. Immediately reminded that if not for “Gem Stuff”, Lars Barriga would still be at the Big Donut, slacking off, if not actually working. He asks Sadie how she's holding up. She admits to worrying about Lars. She goes on to say she's used to doing all the work, but it's harder to do it without Lars around.

-->'''Sadie [as Lars]:''' Hey, you missed a spot.
-->'''Sadie:''' Oh. Sorry!

The next practice brings Buck with exciting news: he got their band a gig at the Del Marva seafood festival. The band now has an imperative to find their sound. Steven noodles on his guitar and sings a sweet ditty about friendship and music.

Jenny nixes this idea, indicating that people are going to the festival to have fun. She begins jamming on her bass only for Sour Cream to shake things up with distorted Electronica.

-->''' Sour Cream:''' Whoa, Sadie, you have a dark side.
-->'''Sadie:'''... More like a dork side.
-->''' Jenny:''' Oh my gosh, you have “The Lurch”? You guys have got to see this!

--> ‘’Tired. From work. Hate. My job…’’

Sadie sings, in a monotone, about being the Working dead, lurching for minimum wage but would prefer to be eating brains. She goes on to equate her dead end job with being a zombie. As the song progresses she puts red lipstick under her eyes and bites messily into a jelly donut to imply eating brains.

They pile into the pizza jeep and start heading for the festival, but they're not sure of the directions. As they try to find them, Sadie arrives calling for them to wait. She tells them she will be able to join them for their performance and all rehearsals after. When they ask what about work, she proudly pulls off her Big Donut tee and waves it triumphantly over her head.

--> '''Steven''': We're still trying to figure out our sound, but it's been fun just playing music with other people. It's also nice to have an outlet that doesn't involve space and Gem stuff and everything else going on.
* BurgerFool: Sadie feels that she "[lost her] youth" working at the Big Donut, and without Lars she continues it only for a sense of normalcy. Keep in mind she said she started [[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E21JokingVictim "two summers ago"]], and that was about two in-series years earlier. She ends up making a song about how her job makes her feel like a zombie.

* CharacterDevelopment: Sadie overcomes her stage fright and self-consciousness at singing in front of other people to freely produce a song with Steven and the Cool Kids, a step up from [[Recap/StevenUniverseS2E20SadiesSong the last time she was unable to do so.]]

* CriticalStaffingShortage: Sadie's been run ragged from manning the Big Donut by herself. Granted, Lars is such a [[TheSlacker slacker]] that she was ''already'' doing most of the work. [[GoMadFromTheIsolation Sadie just can't stand being alone while doing so]].

'''Steven:''' We know. We followed you. ''(hastily, in embarrassment)'' Sorry-if-that's-weird.
* FailedASpotCheck: Sadie comments that she runs out of napkins, and Steven remarks with how weird it is...as he's taking all the napkins in full view of her, with some flying off the stack. ''Twice''.

-->'''Steven:''' OK, I'll have one jelly doughnut with powdered sugar on the side, three chocolate frosted, one frosted chocolate, [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs two chocolate-frosted chocolate]], one dog-nut--medium well--one coffee with milk and sugar, hold the coffee. I also have several methods of payment I'd like you to split this order across evenly.\\
''(Steven puts down a combination of bills, coins, two debit/credit cards, and a gift card)''
* RhetoricalQuestionBlunder:

** Among Sadie's movie collection includes ''[[Film/EvilDead2 Malevolent Cadavers 7]]'', ''[[Film/ArmyOfDarkness Return of the Army of Malevolent Cadavers 3]]'', ''[[Film/PrinceOfSpace Archduke of Space]]'', ''[[Film/SpaceMutiny Galactic Insubordination]]'', and ''[[{{Film/Nosferatu}} Bossferatu]]''.

** Among Sadie's movie collection are ''[[Film/EvilDead2 Malevolent Cadavers 7]]'', ''[[Film/ArmyOfDarkness Return of the Army of Malevolent Cadavers 3]]'', ''[[Film/PrinceOfSpace Archduke of Space]]'' and ''[[{{Film/Nosferatu}} Bossferatu]]''.

'''Buck:''' Doo-doo. 🎵 Butts. 🎵 The government 🎵 Corrupts.

-->’’’Sadie [as Lars]:’’’ Hey, you missed a spot.
-->’’’Sadie:’’’ Oh. Sorry!

‘’‘Buck:’’’ Doo-doo. 🎵 Butts. 🎵 The government 🎵 Corrupts.

-->’’’Sour Cream:’’’ Whoa, Sadie, you have a dark side.
-->’’’Sadie:’’’... More like a dork side.
-->’’’ Jenny:’’’ Oh my gosh, you have “The Lurch”? You guys have got to see this!

-->’’’Buck:’’’ You can't help being cute any more than I can being cool.

-->’’’Sadie:’’’ I quit!

→’’’Sadie [as Lars]:’’’ Hey, you missed a spot.
→’’’Sadie:’’’ Oh. Sorry!

→’’’Sour Cream:’’’ Whoa, Sadie, you have a dark side.
→’’’Sadie:’’’... More like a dork side.
→’’’ Jenny:’’’ Oh my gosh, you have “The Lurch”? You guys have got to see this!

→ ‘’Tired. From work. Hate. My job…’’

→’’’Buck:’’’ You can't help being cute any more than I can being cool.

→’’’Sadie:’’’ I quit!

Steven and the Cool Kids start a band, but they have trouble finding their sound.

* ExhaustedEyeBags: Sadie is sporting these to show how much Lars's absence and the workload from her dead-end job are getting to her.

* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: One of the ideas the cool kids have for their band's style is "Rap-a-billy".

* BreatherEpisode: Compared to the previous four episodes, which dealt with the fallout from Steven's HeroicSacrifice, this one has Sadie dealing with working alone and Steven and the Cool Kids forming a band, and is much lighter as a result, "The Working Dead" notwithstanding.

* BreatherEpisode: Compared to the previous four episodes, which dealt with the fallout from Steven's HeroicSacrifice, this one has Sadie dealing with working alone and Steven and the Cool Kids forming a band, and is much more light as a result, "The Working Dead" notwithstanding.

* CensorShadow: Sadie biting into a jelly donut [[MundaneMadeAwesome is made to look like something from a horror movie]] by showing her heavily shadowed figure chomping shark teeth into [[ABloodyMess a mass of pink goo]]. Strangely, the position of her hair causes an uncanny resemblance to ''Lars'' (whom Steven previously had to assure was not a zombie).

'''Steven:''' We know. We followed you. ''(Rushing out of embarrassment)'' Sorry-if-that's-weird.

* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: One of the ideas the cool kids have for their band's style is "Rap-a-billy"