SLEEPOVER

- This scene doesn’t take place in Marco and Star’s bathroom, it’s the one briefly seen in Starsitting, likely the Diazs one.



There is also another bathroom, at the first floor, seen in Fetch. They live like kings.

- Starfan13, the girl obsessed with Star, is voiced by Daron Nefcy, the show’s creator. Star is loosely based on Daron’s childhood. Things get very meta in this episode.



- The “character cooks something horrible and he’s the only one who can stomach it” gag is common, but Star likely also has weird tastes in food. At least she appreciates Marco’s nachos.



- Since the music stops when Marco stops playing (the beats, not the base), I guess that he really knows a little about music. A man dork of many talents.

- As seen in the intro, Jackie’s “beautiful” actually unsettles me for some reason.



- Thanks to the truth box we know that, before Marco’s confession, Jackie probably never gave much thought about Marco. So she’s always smiling to people like that, even while they’re making themselves ridiculous, without any deep meaning?



- …was Jackie going to eat the brownie? The writers forgot that they’re supposed to be horrible?



- Pony Head’s voice sounds strange for a couple of seconds in this scene, as if they switched to a lower quality microphone.







- We have seen Star acting as Marco’s wingman in Matchmaker, Freeze Day and Interdimensional Field Trip, but I don’t think that’s what she’s trying to do in this episode (by putting Marco in a situation where he’d be forced to confess his crush). She doesn’t even think about what kind of secrets could be revealed. I think she just honestly wants to share the experience with him, play this new game together. In this season these two are literally inseparable, she even brought him to a family gathering in another dimension (Game of Flags)

Later in the episode she even tells Marco that he doesn’t have to tell about his crush, if he doesn’t feel like.



- Meanwhile Janna might have realized what’s going to happen. But she likes messing with Marco in any case, so it’s hard to tell.

- Starfan13 has a banana hanging around her neck, to mirror Star’s crescent moon.



Meanwhile, Janna might be wearing Marco’s jamjams, seen in Sleep Spells. They are not exactly the same, but they’re close enough to suspect that Janna stole them from Marco’s closet (differencies in color and design can be explained by the two episodes being animated by different studios, with different methods). She has his keys since Mewberty, and we now know that she likes to steal from Marco.

And Jackie might like seashells. But I’m not too sure.





- Given Pony Head’s line it’s the first time she plays this game, so she probably didn’t know how dangerous things could have get.

Or she’s a sociopath. And she is.





- Is Pony Head from Mewni, or from another dimension? And if she’s from Mewni, then Kingdom of Mewni ≠ Dimension/Planet of Mewni, meaning that there are other kingdoms (ie. Pony Head’s one) in other geographical areas?





- Starfan choose her favorite color on the spot after hearing Star’s one. And the Cube proves that she was telling the truth, so she believes it in her very soul.



She’s a dangerous girl and I fear for Star’s life.





- Not even Pony Head, someone who almost killed Marco due to jealousy, reacts to being pushed aside. She knows that the girl with braces is not someone she should mess with.





- Maybe it’s an unfortunate coincidence, maybe the animators just botched the expressions. But in this scene, when Janna tells the truth about her favorite color, and the cube stops tickling them, everyone says “Pink?!”, surprised by the revelation.

Look at Starfan13. Look at her face. Her position. Her eyes. And Star’s position.

Is…

Is she saying “Pink” not due to Janna, but ‘cause she’s looking at Star’s underwear?

- Pony Head’s anatomy remanins a mystery.

- Oh hey look who are thre characters holding hands in this scene when the Cube asks about crushes I’m sure there is no meaning behind it.

No, really. It might just be ‘cause they were the closest ones.

Or not.

(as usual these considerations just reflects my personal views on the show. They are clearly not absolute truth, but I try to keep as close to the canon as possible)



A short premise, not following the order of scenes, before talking about the cube and lies and all that: the whole episode’s “morale” is about changing feelings, and how hard is to know what one truly wants. So one might say “Then everything is relative and there’s no complete truth said in the episode”. But since this is still a work of fiction, following the rules of narrative, there are some things that might be implied while still bearing no importance whatsoever for the story. The truly important revelations in Sleepover, in my opinion, are:

• Marco honestly has a crush or Jackie and/or is genuinely interested in getting to know/date her



• Jackie wasn’t romantically interested in Marco before his confession, but she is clearly intrigued after it



• Star has a crush on Oskar, and she has a crush on Marco. She might not be aware yet about the latter, but it’s heavily implied that she, at the very least, realized that her feelings for Marco have changed in some way, more or less recently



everything else (Janna teasing Marco, the truthfulness of Starfan13 crush…) is there, sure, teased or implied. but it’s not the focus of the episode.

Star’s monologue can clearly be applied to everyone’s feelings, but to us viewers it applies to hers.

The Cube, according to what it tells, is able to know the deep truth, discerning when someone is lying to themselves, even if it’s “with complete conviction”.

When it asks a question, it switches to green only when everyone has told the truth. It doesn’t say, individually, who’s lying or who is being sincere -with the exception of congratulating Marco, but that’s just a gag-

When in the trash compactor the Cube says “Truth” only when Star yells “Marco Diaz!”. It was still set on the “crush” question, and Star was the only one who still hadn’t answered “honestly”. Now, things get complicated here, ‘cause one could argue that truth is relative and if not even Star is sure about her feelings then even a magical cube should be able to read them and all that. Reasonable ojections, but

IT DOESN’T MATTER

this scene doesn’t need to be 100% coherent with the episode, when it’s CLEARLY just a way to tell us, the viewers, that Star has (be it consciously or not) a crush on that huge dork that is Marco Diaz.

The cube even waits for Star to yell the full name, surname included, before becoming green. And the episode made sure to show us that, previously, everyone answered to the question with name AND surname of their crushes (except for Jackie, but that probably means that she didn’t even know about guy’s name)





- “Are we ever going to know her real name?” Daron kind of teases it on Twitter when asked (well, it’s not like she has many other ways to answer), so maybe we’ll eventually know.





- Hard to tell if Pony Head is annoyed by Starfan getting too chummy with her bestie, or if she’s just looking with sass at the Cube’s general direction (if that’s the case her eyes should follow it more, though)

- “Does Janna have a crush on Marco? She just likes messing with him? Or she just likes teasing everyone?”

The only right answer is “The writers love messing with us”.

Also Marco looks relieved about not being her crush.

- [CONSPIRACY THEORY INTENSIFIES]





- Notice Janna’s lack of a change of expression, typical of a “Duh. Everyone except Jackie knew it already” situation.





- Probably everyone already knows it, but Marco loses his “coll guy” jacket when he opens his heart and tells what he really thinks.

Also kudos to the writers ‘cause this is one of the best possible ways to show that Marco is not stupid, and that he knows that his crush on Jackie is just superficial, but honest enough to make him say “I know that Jackie is probably not like the girl I’ve always imagined, but I’m still ready to get to really know her, to see what reality is like”

Reminder that Marco has been crushing on Jackie since grade school (or even more)





- I honestly expected for Jackie to already have some kind of crush on Marco as well, after Interdimensional Field Trip. But she has some new, budding feelings for sure now, after the sleepover.

I’m not sure about what Marco’s face here means. They’re probably just all thinking hard about Star’s words.

And Jackie was keeping her hand there even after having helped him up( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)





- I don’t even want to know if there’s any meaning behind Jackie losing the grip on Marco’s arm and Janna taking it. This episode has way too much teasing. It’s not good for my heart.

- Starfan is flyiiiing





- “Does Star know about her crush on Marco?” I sure hope not, or it means that she just put all her friends in mortal danger just ‘cause she didn’t want to tell the truth…





- (again) “Does Star know about her crush on Marco?”. Maybe not, but I’m pretty sure that she noticed that her feelings for him -maybe not all the time, maybe just in certain situations, certain moments- are changing. In this scene she looks specifically at Marco while talking about “feelings about something you thought you already knew change”. Not exactly subtle.





- “You said the Cube turned green only when everyone has answered honestly to rthe question. Why is it reacting to Star only now? Then maybe it reacted to Star only when in the trash compactor as well?”

That’s why I said that it’s impossible to tell for sure how the Cube works. Narrative > Rule of a fictional board game. This doesn’t change that Star has a crush on Marco.





- Broken men.

Women.



- Marco’s on cloud nine, Star is on cloud “Ahahah my best friend is soon going to spend more and more time with Jackie, leaving me alone, right when I’m starting to feel… different about him and what he means to me. Life is suffering.”

She’s immediatly trying to do some “damage control”





- One last time: “Does Star know about her crush on Marco?”.

My money is on “She definitely noticed that her feelings are changing”. When did this happen? Hard to tell. Maybe before season 2, so what’s in chapter 11 in the journal is about this matter. Maybe it’s something else.

I’m pretty sure, however, that she was already feeling something in Camping Trip. Not only the whole episode is a big similitude for “Dad is antogonistic with her daughter’s boyfriend/future husband”, but in this scene, at the beginning of the episode, Star definitely delivers the line with a strange tone: almost expectant, not her usual over excited one. Putting a video since audio is needed to properly appreciate it.

And she’s strangely supportive and considerate with Marco for the whole episode as well, often looking at him. Can’t be sure, but in the light of Sleepover is sure feels like Star was already starting to (unknowingly?) crush on Marco here.

Pictured: Star acting in an un-starrish way, interested about Marco’s trivia about a geyser

These heart-shaped magics might also be something more than just Star being heart-themed.



The key used to open the “secret closet” in My New Wand when Star dipped down

And the magic used in Wand to Wand to stop Cloudy, after having saved Marco.





- Star likes “taking breaks” from her problems. It might take a while for her to sort out her confused feelings.

Then again in the same scene he says that everyone needs a Marco to unwind. So she’s going to take breaks from the Marco problem… by hanging out with Marco.

My god. This actually explains everything.









GIFT OF THE CARD





- The episode doesn’t address Rasticore’s gem eye, but it looks like those seen on the dogs in St. Olga School For Wayward Princesses. Maybe it’s just an aesthethic detail connected to the school, maybe it serves some kind of purpose (mind control? Rasticore didn’t look like a mindless drone, but he might be influenced by the gem).





- Barely visible in the scene, easily noticeable in the clean background shared by one of the artist on Tumblr, Heinous has a portable kennel in her room -there is even a poop in front of it. Just a detail to show how bad and dirty the place is, or did she bring one of the dogs from school with her?





- As Pony Head said in Goblin Dogs, Miss Heinous is no longer at St. Olga -she likely left immediatly after the rebellion, for unknown reasons. She couldn’t bring order back in the school, having lost too many guards?







- Heinous probably is a Butterfly, as shown by her cheekmarks (and Game of Flags showing only women in the Butterfly family having cheekmarks). In St. Olga School For Wayward Princesses she notices Star’s hearts, and she immediatly knows that the girl is from Mewni. Maybe she thinks that she’s just a random noble, and not the royal princess, but she’s still ordering Rasticore to kill a relative.

Marco has to be brought in alive, though. Maybe she just wants to punish (ie.torture and or brainwash) him for having caused the rebellion, maybe it’s related to him being from Earth, as discovered by Heinous thanks to the hairpin.





- Rasticore’s detector looks exactly the same as the one used by Toffee in Marco Grows A Beard. The lizard lawyer is seen using technologically advanced tools in Mewnipendence Day as well. Maybe his species can’t use magic, and tried to compensate for it with technology?

The hairpin is the one lost by Marco in the brainwashing chamber, and found by Heinous





- Dimensional scissors are not the only way to open portals.



- Mewnian money, with the face of the Queen, as already seen in Camping Trip. A further, if needed, evidence for Heinous being a mewman -and a Butterfly?-





- Marco’s Space Unicorn wallet. It’s ironic.





- • Aren’t ballet shoes incredibly uncomfortable?



• This was clearly Janna’s idea



• Don’t know if Janna looks at Marco like that ‘cause she’s she’s jealous about Marco’s shoes (they’re pink), if she’s annoyed by Marco scolding them, or if she’s just thinking “Is this guy for real”



• Either Star is impressed by Marco’s shows, or she’s completely smitten and they drew her looking at her friend like that, awestrukc, on purpose. She has a canon crush this is not just wishful thinking anymore.



- This is definitely not something one says to their fiancé we now know that Star has been on Earth for six months + the time the card took to almost expire.





- Marco doesn’t want to die. That’s reasonable.

Star uses puppy eyes. Marco caves in.

Star is happy because she gets to give her friend a gift.

Marco is happy ‘cause his friend is happy. About making him happy.





- Janna still has Marco’s wallet, but he later has it in the pocket at Quest Buy.





- Similarities between Quest Buy and Gift of the Card





- Same chips as Ludo’s. Still unclear where Ludo was while floating in space (before being pushed in a portal to Mewni). Near Earth, given the chips and satellite? In By The Book Star talks about having thrown him “in the abyss”





- Either Janna is completely out of fucks to give in this episode, or Star and Marco’s friends stopped a long time ago questioning monsters trying to find them.



- = teeth from monsters.

Dead monsters.





- In this episode: magical items know your deepest desires and are impervious to Star’s wand





- Note the difference between “Using puppy eyes to persuade someone” and “puppy eyes because you care a lot about your friend and you absolutely want him to get something that’s going to make him happy”

Star is pushy and incredibly affectionate, not manipulating.





- Star’s hearts break in both episodes involving Quest Buy.





- For someone whose wardrobe is 99% red hoodies, Marco is extremely opinionated about clothing.

And this is a multidimensional Grumpy Cat.





- That’s a handy grill.





- Topical reading.





- That’s not even fine print.

And this is not stated and just my completely personal opinion, but since the card is called “friends to the end” I can see Star immediatly signing for it without a second thought, thinking “Awwww just like Marco and I are going to be friends forever!”





- In case you still didn’t think that Rasticore is the best character ever, here’s the buff lizard trying to act cool (alone) after having fallen out the portal.

And we hyped this guy for months after having seen him in the intro.





- In these episodes, Marco’s secrets.





- “Why this inconsistency with favorite colors right after Sleepover?”



• The two episodes have been storyboarded by different teams and people at the same time



• They did it on purpose for the “everchanging rainbow of feelings” thing (unlikely, Marco already declared his love for red in Matchmaker)

• Marco, being a man with style, knows that you can’t mix red clothes with red accessories. The bluish hues are his favorite when talking about wallets.

“Bad boy” wallet?







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- Except for some comments about “having to read the fine prints” and “Marco being too picky”, there has been no arguing about whose fault it is. The episode immediatly skipped to the second part of the trope, “admitting their own faults”.

Star just wanted to get her friend the best possible gift, and Marco is just sorry about having ultimately sealed their fates ‘cause he can’t decide.

This show wants me dead.





- This scene is an odd one, in the world of fiction. It’s not a particularly tense or dramatic one (like the hug in Storm the Castle or the ending of Mewberty), but it’s not completely played for laughs either: after having been saved Marco and Star are not embarassed by what they did and said, or things like “Oh. Ahahah, I feel stupid now..”

This show wants me dead x2.

“Friends”. Yeah. That’s exactly what they’d think. Just friends.







- “We never see Marco’s face during a hug!”

We do now. It’s a face of happiness. Seconds away from being zapped into oblivion.





- “Card” is voiced by Susan Bennett, the voice of SIRI, Apple’s vocal assistant.





- The sloths have no rights. Maybe that’s why they don’t feel like working?





- Again, the scene is meant to be funny, but it’s not completely played for laugh, Star is still happy about Marco’s comment (which was probably sincere, not just a way to save themselves)





- When holding one hand is not enough





- The handholding from the episode’s poster. The ceiling explodes, but they still didn’t let go eachother’s hand.





- They now know that Heinous is on their tracks. Lets see how many episodes it takes for them to bring the subject up.





- Dimensional chainsaws apparently work as conventional chainsaws as well.





- No reason for the hand not to get pulverized as the rest of the body. Either they did that just to have something to send back to Heinous (but they could have sent the eye gem, or the chainsaw), or Rasticore is going to regenerate from what’s left of him (foreshadowing for Toffee doing the same from his arm bones?)





- Star was ready for Marco to say “No I don’t like the color”…





- Being happy about having found the perfect gift for Marco, not about still being alive.

Sounds legit. For Star.





- Hypocritical much, Star?

At least it looks like she just loves knowing as much as possible about Marco.

Not in the creepy Janna way.





- Janna is a dangerous stalker more than a friend who likes to mess with Marco.

And the dork’s password is a sword.





- (why did Quest Buy send the hand back) Rasticore died holding the chainsaw, but the hand is sent back with the locator, that’s still signaling Marco’s last location, at the store. I guess that there’s a reason for this, it’s not just a continuity error.

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