DIAZ FAMILY VACATION





- In both scenes Star’s “snapping” makes the same sound effect as the cameras’ flash





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- Just ‘cause they don’t trust her to wander through the dimensions with the wand, or for a yet to be revealed reason? It’s still not clear why they chose to send her to a magicless dimension to train magic.







- I’ll say it every time: Star often acts without thinking about the others, but she’s not self centered. She cares about her friends, not only about Marco.

If anything she’s so spontaneous around Marco that he’s the one often getting the short end of the stick…





- Star has the expression of someone that thinks that the Diaz are “so cute”, while ignoring the unsettling sexual tension. So pure.

Or oblivious.

Or she’s into it.

Meanwhile King Butterfly is wondering if he chose the right host family.







- What’s with this episode and this face.





- They really do like traveling. Maybe that’s why they never really noticed/payed attention to Star and Marco’s escapades.







- So many different architectural styles. Probably just a gag, but I wonder if they are all parts of the royal castle or if there are other big noble families. Power struggles between cadet branches when?







- As adventurous as Star is she probably knew what a slum the “real” Mewni is, yet seems like she wasn’t expecting what the Diaz saw





- Mewmans really do hate goblins.





- Clearly Toffee in disguise.





- Not necessarily a Gravity Falls’ reference, but they already put a Bill’s cameo in last episode, so it’s not impossible.





- The runes in the open market are the same from Star’s book. I don’t think they can be translated, though. Despite the references this is not Gravity Falls.





- Oh, Marco. Always looking for others’ approval.





- Marco’s parents, powered by Love™, are apparently swifter than the fighter princess.





- Have a gif that no one asked for, but everyone needs.





- No comment needed. More gif about these two dorks bein a team in this post by trapped-in-cartoon-hell

I like to think that wherever they write the episodes a huge “THEY ARE A TEAM” banner is hanging in the middle of the room.







- Since Marco, despite kicking monsters asses, has problem beating Jeremy, one could think that Ludo’s monsters are just really, really weak.

But here he is, uppercutting a hydra.







- It did just save their lives, so she might not be exactly unbiased, but not only Star didn’t mock Marco’s fann©ypack, but she also looks eager to know what else it can do.







- “And here”, Daron said to the storyboarder, “draw Star with the face of someone that has just indirectly killed her best friend’s parents.”







- Whole fandom hoping for the king to be revealed as a warrior/not a noble that made the queen fall in love. We want those sweet generational parallelism.







BRITTNEY’S PARTY

The title on the poster is “Party Bus”, they probably changed it later in the production.





- I already said it and I stand by it, Star enjoys attention, but that’s ‘cause on Earth she’s finally appreciated for being herself, and that nets her many friends that she subsequently tries to make happy. That’s the point of both the segments in the episode:

• In “Diaz Family Vacation” she tries her best to give the Diaz a great, personal gift. Then she overdoes it (admittedly why also trying to evade her dad) and they all almost die.



• In “Brittney’s Party” Star can’t even understand how Brittney doesn’t want to be her friend (as usual, pushy and adorable), and she tries her best to make the party fun for the bored partygoers. The monsters’ attack is not directly her fault.







- This character, called just “Starfan13″ by her character designer, is voiced by Daron Nefcy. Daron has said many times that, as a kid, she wanted to be Sailor Moon and things like that, so she was basically like the first draft for Star (delude 12 years old girl with no real magic).

So… Star is more or less who Daron played make believe to be, and Starfan13 is who Daron really was? HOW DEEP IS THE HOLE?

Star is not concerned at all by her stalker, whom managed somehow to snap a pic of Star in the nightgown. I’m honestly surprised by the lack of a torn up Marco’s pictures with a big red “X” on it.

Star has a pic of her stalker stalking her. So meta.





- Is… is this poort guy still alive? When the scene changes, drowned by the sound of blows, a “Is it… is it candy?” can be heard.

No, random out of screen guy. It’s not candy. Those are entrails.





- In case someone missed it, Star didn’t deliberately crash the party, she honestly thought that she was been invited.







- And we get sick of your lies, Marco.

One of the few times they forgot about continuity (this, and Marco suddenly stopping being the safe kid after half an episode…).





- Oskar’s car is not the only vehicle with a magicly changing plate.





- Marco is the butt of this episode. So, fittingly, the episode has a focus on his butt.

Rolled dollar bill in the karaoke video. Cocaine use is a plague for Echo Creek’s youth.







- I really have no idea what’s happening in this scene. He’s not trying to “impress” Jackie by doing half assed push ups, that’s for sure, he notices her only after this. He’s trying to wobblily get up without giving in to the nausea? It’s some king of exercise to counter motion sickness?





- This is the only episode in the season where we hear the characters thoughts/they have internal monologues instead of saying things outloud.

This and the change of title from the poster makes me think that it was one of the first storyboarded episodes.







- Brittney’s hatred for Star is not completely unjustified (even though she acted bitchy in School Spirit even before the whole incident), but Star didn’t try to steal her spotlight, she just wanted to make the party funny for everyone. Not for Marco, though. Screw Marco.





- Where does this puppy go when the bus crashes.

In the background Justin says “I wish my dog could spell that good!”





- Same guy repeteadly injured in Lobster Claws, he shouldn’t ride a bike.







- I know that this old man is speaking japanese, but I can’t find a translation anywhere.





- This episode could have been improved by making some of the other kids (namely Jackie) do something to help Marco taking control of the bus. Since there are other oddities to this episode (the different title in the poster, monologues…) maybe this was one of the first storyboarded episode and they hadn’t established the personalities yet? Or they just missed a chance for character developement.





- Can’t have a party episode without an age-appropriate reference to drinking, can we?





- The party was a success, and yet Brittney still hates Star.

Marco immediatly interrupts his barf fest to encourage her.







ADDENDUM TO LAST EPISODE

CHEER UP STAR

- No meaning, foreshawdowing for future “Marco is going to break Jackie’s heart”, or he did broke her heart by breaking the board? In School Spirit she has the same skateboard, in the intro it has a shell motif.



QUEST BUY

- No official word on it, but Ludo looks a lot like a kappa, a japanese folklore creature.





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