Steven Universe Season 1 Episode 13

Synopsis

Steven learns that the gems are thousands of years vintage and comes to a decision to make up for all the heaps of birthdays they neglected. while the gemstones do now not take kindly to his children's birthday parties, Steven falls right into a step by step worsening melancholy that reasons him to age, the greater scared of outgrowing things.[3]


Conspiracy

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The episode starts with the Crystal gem stones looking the Amethyst's Room for an odor that is contaminating the temple. Steven unearths the source: an Amethyst tuna burrito salvaged from Aqua-Mexican, a restaurant that closed 5 years in the past. Amethyst eagerly bites down, plenty to Steven and Pearl's disgust. Steven then notices a photograph of the gems and Rose Quartz in pioneer apparel. Pearl states that the gems inside the picture have been a few years ago. Pearl tells Steven that they may be immortal and do now not age, even though they can nonetheless get hurt and die, which upsets Steven. nonetheless, Steven is amazed on the age of the gemstones and wonders how they can find a birthday cake huge sufficient for all the ones candles. Garnet then says that he does not have a good time birthdays. Steven is impressed by using this and makes a decision to make up for all the birthdays they missed. Amethyst vomits from meals poisoning because the display goes black.


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Steven first throws a celebration for Amethyst, which turns violent due to the fact he would not pretty recognize a way to celebrate a birthday. Steven then throws a party for Pearl, who isn't thrilled with the idea. Steven acts like a clown during the celebration and tells jokes, which Pearl would not find funny at all. in the end, Steven throws a party for Garnet with the kazoo racers. before doing some thing, Garnet and Pearl inform Steven that they are simply "too big" for the birthday celebration. This makes Steven assume deeply about the childish things he does. Distraught, Steven wanders into city and ponders the character of birthdays and getting older. His forlorn mind-set inadvertently turns on his gem, causing him to age into a youngster, making him hit puberty right away. He keeps to age as he begins to experience older and heads to the big Donut inquiring for  "regulars". Lars is harassed because he would not understand the older Steven. Steven looks into the glass donut case and sees his reflection. greatly surprised by way of his older form, he begins to fear that he now has to start doing older things like consuming sugar-unfastened cereal, so one can age him even greater. He thinks that if he has a reversed birthday, he may be lower back to normal. He asks Lars and Sadie if they could assist him into his "birthday suit", much to Sadie's surprise and Lars' slight enjoyment. Sadie takes this the wrong manner and chases Steven out with a chair.


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Steven starts offevolved jogging returned domestic, growing old swiftly as he runs. He journeys and falls and the lion comes and consists of him in its mouth to the gemstones. because the gemstones smooth up their supplies from Steven's birthday celebration, Pearl admits that it changed into fun with Garnet nonetheless carrying Steven's birthday fit and says that "it's vital" before Lion arrives with Steven. Horrified, the gems try to reverse his age by means of looking to amuse him with birthday celebration activities, but Steven, depressed by means of the notion of outgrowing them, a long time himself even more. Pearl, who couldn't bear to peer Steven getting old so speedy, couldn't carry herself to assist them. when Amethyst asks her to achieve this, she is brought earlier than Steven in his clown dress from earlier. She attempts to make a cake funny story like Steven, but distraught over his deteriorating condition, she starts offevolved to cry, frustrating Amethyst, who accuses her of "killing him faster". unable to preserve herself together, Pearl runs as much as Amethyst and hugs her, sobbing hysterically. , they each freeze as they see Garnet walking over to Steven, looking forward to her response to the worsening state of affairs. however, Garnet selections Steven up and shakes him violently backward and forward. Pearl and Amethyst rush in to forestall Garnet, stunned and horrified by using her desperate moves. The 3 begin arguing about what to do, with a fading Steven looking from the ground. Garnet starts to tear up whilst Steven all at once stands up directly and tells the gem stones to manipulate themselves, reworking into a young person as he speaks.


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The gems understand that Steven's age is fluctuating due to his gem reacting to his country of mind. they are able to make him feel like himself again and reassure him that he doesn't must sense childish if he is simply being himself. He returns to his everyday age, however notices that he nonetheless has grown legs. He playfully bounces and laughs because the starry iris methods.


Details

The authentic title of this episode became "10,000 Birthdays". it's also known as such at the display's video page at the cartoon network Asia website.

Pearl exhibits that despite the fact that the gems are immortal, they can still get hurt and subsequently die. gem stones regenerate, so it's feasible that Pearl is talking about breaking.

There are 3 different humans in the picture subsequent to rose quartz, amethyst, pearl and garnet.

Rose And Gems, pix of Rose Quartz, different gem stones, and three unknown humans.

In caricature community Philippines, the part where Steven stated "however a boy at the verge of manhood cannot spend all day pillaging" turned into reduce.

Steven's middle call is revealed to be Quartz, that's his mother's final call.

It seems that Steven's 1/2-human/1/2-gem makes him age differently than normal human beings. His gem a long time him in response to his nation of thoughts, literally making him as vintage or as younger as he feels.

This can be due to the gem segment of his physiology, along with his age honestly simply being an assumed shape.

But, Pearl's nod to the possibility of Steven's loss of life may additionally mean that because of the human section of his body structure, his age can also have some effect on his body.

When Steven returns to his authentic age, his face looks infantile. this will imply that Steven at the start aged at that point.

Most of the piles in Amethyst's room is a freezer of Lion Lickers.

Cultural references

The image itself appears to be a parody of a 1778 painting by John Singleton Copley entitled Watson and the Shark.

The three automobiles Steven added for the kazoo races appear to be a connection with the solid of Transformers; a yellow Volkswagen Beetle for Bumblebee, a inexperienced Jeep J59 for the Hound, and a harder-to-determine purple sports activities automobile that may be a connection with Cliffjumper or Sideswipe.

Continuity

This episode shows how Onion wins such a lot of arcade tickets, as seen inside the episode "Arcade Mania", by beginning the price tag vaults within the arcade machines with a screwdriver.

inside the episode, Pearl says that she likes pie, seemingly glad about it earlier than Steven attempts to fall onto it. but, Pearl has stated that she hates eating, because of the character of the digestive cycle. this is the second one time she has implied that she likes meals, with the primary time being in "collectively Breakfast" in which she is okay with ordering a pizza, pronouncing "pizza sounds properly".

Mistakes

After Pearl alternatives up the portrait and displays it beside her, Steven and the gems changed positions with out transferring. It appeared as they moved some toes far from Amethyst's pile of stuff.

A number of the hands of Amethyst and the man being pulled onto the boat in the photograph located in Amethyst's room aren't coloured.

At some point of Amethyst's celebration, there was a mat with meals behind where Pearl and Garnet had been sitting. however after Pearl tells Steven about his drawings on balloons, the mat with food disappears, as an alternative, a desk is there.

While Steven suggests the carts, the yellow cart is within the middle. however, later, the location of the cart modifications.

At some stage in Pearl's birthday celebration, Amethyst is seen using two party hats, but when Steven slams the pie onto his face, Amethyst has three birthday celebration hats.

Amethyst picked up the balloons from the ground to smooth the celebration Steven made for them, but while Amethyst become taken aback at Steven's situation, the balloons floated rather than being dropped on the ground.

The crown moved farther from Steven proper after Amethyst calls Pearl to come and assist. The crown is completely long past when Garnet is shaking Steven, and for the relaxation of the episode.

Lion disappeared while Garnet said that they'll paintings at the relaxation approximately the regular Steven nevertheless having person legs.

Amethyst's gem disappears while Pearl says that she likes pie.

While Pearl changed into hugging Steven after he grew to become lower back to normal, her nose disappeared for a short 2nd.

Middle-aged Steven's mouth overlaps his nostril as soon as he loudly announces in marvel that he is vintage.

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