Steven Universe

• Like Who Framed Roger Rabbit, this episode title officially◊ lacks punctuation. Listings still tend to add one.
• It must be inconvenient for Sapphire to cry directly into her own mouth◊.
• "There, there. It's going to be okay. She's going to come back! She's got to come back! If she doesn't then... then, there would be no more Garnet. And... what on Earth would we do without Garnet?" Ah, the classic logic of "That would be so bad, I'm sure it can't happen."
• Pearl and Sapphire are quite a pair.◊ Apparently, Pearl + Ruby = nervous mess, Pearl + Sapphire = sobbing mess, Sapphire + Ruby = cool as a cucumber.
• Amethyst insists Steven play video games with her. I know she's trying to get Steven to relax, but I'd feel way too "in the middle" of things to enjoy video games.
• "He was like all the way out on Brooding Hill, which is totally out of our delivery radius." She better mean that because there's no road going up to it (even if Greg's drove his van there), because I'd be pissed if a pizza place wouldn't deliver within sight of the store◊.
• "She must've been crying because she was like really red." Humans notice gems' weird skin tones, they just have their own ideas explaining them.
• I believe the helicopter chase is the only action sequence in (or rather above) the residential areas of Beach City, away from the cliff and shore.

• "Back when I emerged, the first thing I did was get crammed together with a bunch of other Rubies!" This fits with the bits of the timeline visible in the artbook—it showed Ruby and Sapphire's lives before "The Answer" as being short and/or uneventful.
• Steven made me realize some Crystal Gems came to know fusions that ceased to exist because their parts split up.
• Did Greg take Ruby to the same plain the Cool Ranch from "Gemcation" is on?
• Even if she took a bunch of breaks, Amethyst must have been testing her shapeshifting endurance to be a horse that long.
• "Look at our friend Lonesome Lasso. They call him that 'cause he's lonesome!" That's why they don't call him the "Lone Lasso".
• "I've been waiting to kiss your cute face!" Every point before this, I think it was just Ruby doing the kissing.

• "Oh... just ten. Hm." If you count up all the guests in the audience◊ and group them by household, you actually get nine invitations. I'm not sure if the tenth was for Greg or the Off Colors—the latter couldn't make it, but ended up only three or so days off.
• "I just tried to shatter you." Bismuth already forgot how time works in the bubble.
• "Tiger's Eye! Little Larimar... Beryl, Serpentine, and ohh... Biggs?!" Odd that "Beryl" is an individual, when beryls in real life are a category of gemstone (which includes many disparate gems, like Rubies and Sapphires). Or is she a fusion named for a gem type, like Garnet?
• Holy crap, Bismuth sliced Biggs in half◊. (You can even see her splitting apart a bit before poofing.)
• "Only a diamond could do damage like this." That's an odd conclusion to come to when no one knew the diamonds had that power—not even the diamonds.
• It's great how Bismuth's scream goes just a little longer than you think.
• "You could do one of your signature catchphrases!" Bismuth is just the Fonz of gems.

Act 1

• Steven at peak over-acting.◊
• "I gotta get dressed for our big day now, so no peeking. And no future vision either!" Presumably they would have delayed the ceremony if she saw that coming. But would they hold it before leaving for Homeworld?
• Steven handed Pearl the top hat she wore with the tux the first time, but she decided to leave it out.
• Even Amethyst knows Steven shouldn't messed around on a ladder.◊
• Steven and Amethyst are the same height during the musical number.◊ Maybe they thought "Well, Steven's gonna be taller soon, so we can show him as the same height as Sadie and Amethyst now."
• "No worries! Peridot's gathering more flowers right now." I guess the flowers they're using were the ones she and Amethyst grew together.
• "We're all gonna die here." I can't recall a Homeworld gem directly mentioning gems "dying" (the closest is Blue saying Pink "perish[ed]"), and even Peridot could arguably have learned it from being on Earth. I mean, obviously a gemstone can be destroyed in ways that aren't literally "shattering" or "breaking", but what would they call it something different?
• POV Break: Very distant zooms to Lapis in space and the Cluster underground. One could argue they were imaginary, though.
• Extras fashion: Sadie is very underdressed◊ compared to everyone else. Though Mr. Smiley gets partially credit for combining a suit with shorts◊. Vidalia's shawl◊ looks nice, but also absurdly old fashion for someone who was born ~1980.
• Militant curtsying.◊
• Ruby shows us◊ her shine spark.
• Lion munches on another crystal lizard.◊ Where do those things keep coming from?
• Nanefua is in the crowd at first◊, but she and she alone is missing in the next shot◊, even though her guards remain.
• "We are gathered here today to celebrate Ruby and Sapphire, two of my favorite people, who combine into one of my other favorite people. You all probably know her as Garnet." I imagine most of the audience was pretty lost as to who the wedding was for.
• Ruby wears little boots even under her wedding dress.◊
• Sapphire's gemstone is on her top of glove◊, which makes it seem more like shapeshifted clothing instead of something she put on.
• Dewey can make small talk with Pearl.◊ He's much more upset about his office than her.

Act 2

• "What's the Cluster?!" People tell Bismuth what they tell Amethyst—jack all.
• The Cluster broke Peridot's tractor.◊
• "Everyone, head to your designated shelters." Judging by that evacuation diagram Nanefua was holding up, the shelters are either on the edge of town, or a ways inland.
• To be honest, I would not go to the shelter, I'd take my chances watching. The arm fight seemed to start so fast, the people may have seen in even on their way to.
• "It's in control of itself." Odd that Steven still calls the Cluster "it", even as he starts saying "Cluster" like it's a name.
• Only Connie and Bismuth◊ aren't annoyed at Greg's idea to use "the ol' universe charm".
• Connie was completely beneath Blue Diamond's attention. If Lion hadn't caught her, she could have died from the fall without Blue even noticing.
• The barn drop was primarily a means to give Lapis about twenty seconds to explain herself.
• Lion actually roars for once in a while, but Baker still isn't credited. I guess it's an archive clip?
• Bismuth's Per-jectile◊ was oddly effective, but seems uncharacteristically endangering. If Blue wasn't wailed on the second she got Peridot off her face, she could have well crushed Peridot in her hand, gem and all.
• Steven naturally told the "Cluster" away too soon, though it probably couldn't stay longer. I wonder if they're talked since.
• Yellow Diamond lifted the ship finger off Blue Diamond. Could she have been stuck under it otherwise?

Act 3

• Lion does not get a statue. Can Steven not psychically connect to animals, even sapient ones? (I mean besides the other kind of link he has to Lion.) Greg doesn't either, but he presumably just ran far away again.
• "Don't get shattered!" -> "I can do this!" I've heard a mantra should always be phrased in the positive.
• Yellow and Blue can ignore everyone else mid-fight without much consequence. Maybe the Crystal Gems knew they might be listening to Steven, maybe their attacks were bouncing off harmlessly.
• Lion is gone after Steven wakes up.
• Charlyne Yi is credited as voicing "Rudy". To make things more embarrassing, Ruby hasn't made a speaking role since.

• Greg was looking at Steven when he woke up, but is gone when Blue Diamond is holding him. I can't imagine why he'd leave—even if Blue recognized him, it's not like she was going to care what they did at the Zoo.
• Gems can produce quite a lot of water.◊ It's presumably Hard Light like the rest of their forms, but do they have any "light water" internally?
• "Oh, geez, you don't know what a mom is." I'd say Blue might, but given she didn't seem to know the concept of starvation, she probably doesn't understand human biology at all.
• "How did you even survive?! We blasted the planet and obliterated every Gem on its surface!" Gotta wonder how how they could expect to physically destroy gems, and thus their gemstones, without damaging any objects on Earth.
• "Gently, Yellow." That's the first time Blue acted motherly to someone besides Pink.
• I wonder if Yellow or Blue's healing powers could (at least theoretically) work on non-gems like Pink's do.
• Amethyst didn't seem to know who White Diamond was at all. Did she even know the diamonds existed before Peridot told Steven about them?
• Lion is suddenly back in the desert, probably because they needed him to find Rose's crap shack.
• "This is going to be a diplomatic mission!" "And I'll be with her the whole time!" Connie's parents seem to really trust Pearl.
• Quite a Lion face.◊
• "Let me put this in Earth terms for you. You're about to enter the lions' den." Bismuth knows some stuff about animals.
• Laser pants.◊ "It's a good look for you, Steven!"
• Doug and Priyanka are less phased◊ at the lift-off than Bismuth.
• We still don't know how White Diamond knew to gather the crowd.
• "As for this latest little game of yours." Does she call it "little" because it even six millennia is a small fraction of Pink's life so far, or because White doesn't really care about time even in a relative sense?
• "Oh, stars!" "Thank the stars it's over!" Funny how even the diamonds refer to the cosmos in quasi-religious terms.