STARSITTING





- What happened between Star and stairs. They’re just a letter away from her name, she should be more considerate about their feelings.

She loves slides, though.





- Plese note Star smiling at Marco being pathetic acting silly while trying to raise his self esteem.





- It’s probably just a case of background artists liking simple, space related shapes, but who knows for sure… (I’m talking about the Blood Moon Ball’s symbols)





- I don’t know where Star’s magical constructs go while waiting to be summoned again, but it has to be a horrible, horrible place.





- If they chose bottom right design for the tadpoles they’d actually have been buff babies.

What could have been…





- What’s probably going on in this scene: the storyboarder wanted to show Star being excited and giggly, while acting like Star.

What my Starco eyes have seen: Star is not used to be trusted with delicate tasks, and while bragging she immediatly feels the need to be physically find reassurance in her best friend, the only person who (almost) always trusts her.





- Despite bragging about babysitting, while actually not having any prior experience, in this episode Star is pleasantly aware of what she can and can’t do (with a couple of relapses) like immediatly leaving the “planning part” to Marco.







- Third type of portal leading to Mewni seen in the show, along with the “swampy” one (leading to Ludo’s Castle area) and the blue one (leading to the royal castle/city)





- Aww, Star wants to be the type of parent she never had.





- In this episode Star is more responsible than usual. She still stars things up a little, and she jumps into babysitting despite having absolutely no experience, but she’s also more willing than usual to listen to Marco and “rules” in general.

If not for a mighty -and understandable- need to boop everything would have gone smooth.





- The number of tadpoles changes from shot to shot, but they are 12 (in 11 amniotic sacs, since two share the same one): Boris, Alexi, Anastasia, Mikhail and Leo, Irina, Dimitry, Ana, Igor, Nadia, Sergei, Katrina.

How do they know who’s who.





- Almost every show has a PG-friendly metaphor for alcohol, drugs or even sexual pleasure.

SVTFOE choose “booping cute things” for it. Outstanding.



- Your sass poses are showing, Marco.



- “Mah babies”. “Our babies” was so close. We were almost grasping it.

One day… one day.





- Suddenly Volpe’s ominous tweet made sense.





- After Wand to Wand, and the “fall out” she had with her magic, Star uses the royal heirloom more sparingly, and for small magic. A nice compromise between the in-universe need for the wand to be less reliable, and the real world “we can’t stop showing magic in the show until the still far away big lore heavy episodes were the wand gets repaired” problem.





- At the cost of pointing out the obvious, since I’ve seen people confused by it: Star is “licking the cake batter from the spoon”





- Same old story: Star has been seen as an unreliable mess up for her whole life, then Marco came, and now whenever she can she tries to prove to everyone (and herself) that she can handle things, getting stressed about the prospect of being a let down.



She often creates her own troubles, but she’s slowly getting better and better. After all if she were to grow out of all her flaws the show would be boring (same for Marco), so it’s only to be expected for her to often make the same mistakes, while still growing as a character.





- Just a random coincidence for sure, but the second segment of next episode (September 12th) is titled By The Book.



- I always try to keep my Starco bias at a (relative) minimum for these posts, but come on, you can’t give me a playing family episode, have Star say this to Marco, and expect me not to read a “future parents” general feeling in it.

YOU CAN’T.

And good ol’ Marco doesn’t miss a chance to praise being organized and planning.





- Fifty miles per hour? Wow, fighting monsters does wonder to the body. And the tadpoles are going to be super monsters when all grown up.



This is a never seen before room, probably Marco’s parents one.





- Same family photo picture blasted by the laser puppies in Star Comes to Earth. Marco got better.

Also an incredibly tacky clock, once again showcasing the Diazs’ love for cacti.





- Three bathrooms (counting the one seen in Fetch)? They live like kings!





- Oh no! Star got the gold used to bribe the school’s principal back. Despicable. The poor man just wanted an ice cream.





- Día de Muertos styled doll. And a horribly pixelated background.







- “Serious” talk: if it weren’t for Oskar and Jackie (first time her name is heard in this season), given episodes like Star on Wheels and Camping Trip, I’d seriously consider Star and Marco having hooked up off screen.

And Star has a beef with stairs AND bears.





- Thinking outside the box to use, warp the rules in an unexpected way: something inconceivable to Marco, and yet the only solution to the situation at hand. This is some Battleship Potemkin level symbolism*, folks



*not really





- Marco just can’t stand the sight of a crying monster…





- …but Star as well is becoming less racist likes monsters more. At least the monsters who are not trying to kill her. Anymore.





- Not much to write about the episode’s moral, since they straight up say it. This is also the core of Star and Marco’s relationship, since they’ve been balancing each other starting with the very first episodes (admittedly Star recklesness has rubbed on Marco more than the safe kid’s responsibility did on the princess, but they are slowly getting there).





- This is clearly a gag to close the episode, and a way to highlight the theme of the story.

But no force under the Heavens can convince me that the writers weren’t aiming to, once again, tease the shippers, with a line that’s usually used in shows and cartoons to talk about romantic relationships and such.





- If Tiny Star and Tiny Marco are more aware about their relationship than Regular Star and Marco, then Tinier Star and Marco are already engaged?





ON THE JOB





- Did Buff Frog knit those himself? He got better since his last attempt at art.







- “Hey man, long time no see! Since that time you betrayed us and almost killed us all with a magic explosion!”. Since Boo Fly is still alive I guess that also the other monsters managed to ran away.





- Either Buff Frog was a famous monster even before joining Ludo’s army, or the midget sized ruler was actually a somewhat famous monster, making his lieutant famous as well.

After all Ludo owned a castle and at least two pairs of dimensional scissors, he probably was a “noble” among monsters.





- The rats have been pretty fast in rebuilding the tavern destroyed by Ludo.





- Mewni sure loves corn. The first settlers even came to it (from another planet? From another dimension? From another part of the planet?) to get corn, according to Mewnipendence Day. This makes Star’s gesture towards Buff Frog particularly meaningful.





- Apparently only Mewmans can/are allowed to grow corn, making Star’s gesture in Mewnipendence Day particularly meaningful.

And are intelligent rat not monsters, then?

Also “Monsters are starving”, as a whole, it’s not just Buff Frog’s problem.





- Oh, so the frog can jump like a frog. Maybe it could have helped him in season 1, when Marco and Star kicked his ass. Repeatedly.





- The force field has a butterfly “particle effect”, just like many of Star’s magic. These butterflies are blue and more detailed, though, likely the Queen’s work.







- Green hole, clearly Ludo’s doing. If he managed to make a stable hole in a forcefield than he’s probably getting better with the wand, not just randomly blastin lime energy.





- “Easy there, Yvgeny. Don’t eat him. He’s a friend, not a fly. You can do it.”

so many froggish abilities never used in season 1.





- “…and I let down my kids, who are going to starve.”





- You let yourself go too much, Yvgeny. Being a dad is no excuse to stop being buttfrog.

And put on some pants.





- Did the rat use the stolen corn to start their own crops, or is this a “setting shot” with unrealistic distances to show the king’s fields, the supply route, and Ludo’s new lair?





- Ludo’s style of command is more or less the same he had in season 1, but way more badasser, forged in the wild: iron fist instead of childish tantrums, and corn/wild game instead of milkshake privileges.

Is he stealing corn to feed an army, or just to challenge the royalty? Ludo never cared much for the monsters’ condition, he wanted to crush the Butterflies just to get power, not to take the land back. Maybe he changed, or he just realized that it’d easier to use the monsters’ desire for revenge, or the wand -through Toffee’s arm- is influencing him.

Or something completely different.





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