STAR ON WHEELS





- I know, that’s probably not what the scene wanted to be. It’s just a way to begin the episode “in medias res”. But they weren’t going or coming from school -no backpacks. Maybe Star just likes to ride the bike around, aimlessly, with Marco.

- So did Star think that Marco is a powerful wizard, able to operate the magical contraption that the bike is?





- As soon as Marco promise to hold her she goes from “scared” to “wheeee!”. That’s how much she trusts him. Makes sense for her to feel so betrayed later.







- Beside safety and organizing, there are two things Marco does best: off handedly compliment Star, and being candid while bragging about the smallest things.





- I know that this transition was just a joke. I know. You don’t have to tell me.

But I still can’t avoid smiling at panicked Star being all casual and cheery as soon as Marco calls.

Also this comfirms portable magic mirrors (seen in Fetch as well)





- The Safe Kid is worried enough to forget about seatbelts! Unbelievable.





- He really does live in his car. Quite the catch you got there, Star.





- Oskar’s ferret, Gene.





- Star now believes that she killed a lady and her baby and she’s fine with it.





- This comifrms that Glossaryck can inhabit any book, so it’s extremely likely that he does know what Star’s journal says about Marco, explaining why he knew that the boy reading it would have made the princess “dip down”





- Glossaryck is a bit of a jerk, but at least he worries enough about his protegée to wonder why Marco has the wand…





- …just to then being completely passive about Star being in danger. He just doesn’t care? He saw what was happening and he wanted to “test” Marco, to see what he would have done to save his friend?





- Maybe Glossaryck is ignoring the situation on purpose, but Oskar’s chillness overflows into indifference.





- When Star is in danger Marco forgets even about seatbelts. But there is one thing that not even extreme concern can defeat.

His sassiness.

Also Oskar is an idiot way too passive about life to work with Star, who needs someone counterbalancing her wildness while still getting excited about sharing experiences with her.





- We finally see mewberty wings again. Looks like using them isn’t exactly easy, but we are getting closer and closer to “Star’s wings fully blossom and she uses them to save Marco from certain death”







- Maybe it’s a little petty for Star to be this offended by Marco “white lie” about holding her, but she clearly values Marcos’ word a lot, and he had promised.

The Banagic Incident ending, as confusing as it was, showcased this perfectly. Star likely knew that she had messed up a lot during her quest, but hearing from Marco that her best friend himself never had faith in her made her react as we all know. A little petty, but valuing Marco’s opinion of her above anything else.

Same thing for Blood Moon Ball. In that case there were many things at play, but Star’s reaction to Marco’s intrusion stemmed from “I value your opinion a lot, Marco. By not trusting me after I explicitly told you so I feel like you have no faith in me. I don’t want a babysitter, I want a friend who’s the first person in my life to trust me, even with all the starring things up I do.”







- Star is still crushing on Oskar…’s appearance. ‘Cause as good at starring things up as she is I don’t think she could even find Greason’s personality really interesting.





- Poor Marco.

And Glossaryck was almost ready to help, but only after Star risking death half a dozen times. Is he just like that? Is he moving the strings, a master puppeteer? He wanted to see if Star would have dipped down again if left to herself long enough?





- Glossaryck can control/move the wand, at least from a short distance. This might mean that even the wand’s weird behavior in My New Wand, and it pushing Marco in the closet, were all his doing.





- This is the first time we see Marco struggling with getting his head around Mewni’s concept. It’s obviously a stretch for the sake of the episode, but “having to pedal backwards” is, for Star, as absurd as believing in invisible goats is for Marco.





- The magic word to make Marco believe in huge see-through caprids is “Star”





- This scene is not seen through Star’s crush filter. Those are Oskar’s real eyes. And he also “plays” other instruments aside from his keytar.





- Why is there a mewnian invisible goat on Earth. Magic? Glossaryck’s doing? Did he manage to conjure it before barfing, and he wanted Marco to be the one saving Star? Is Glossaryck trying Star and Marco’s bond, or are am I reading waaaay too much into random jokes? Likely the latter.





- Can’t really stay mad at Marco. And she’s… transparent in her emotions.





- Just like in Mr. Candles Cares Marco’s words manage to seep through Star’s thick, stubborn skull.





- Self explanatory scene. Have it anyway.

And yet there are all those posts about Starco being dead after Mr. Candle Cares for a measly “platonic”.





- A relieved Marco hugging Star just like in Mewberty, Star smiling and ready for the hug, Marco keeping his hands on Star’s shoulder and then on her waist for three shots for no real reason. They want us dead.







- It’s probably just ‘cause aother “Star is crushing hard” scene would have clashed with the current tone, but after her quality moment Star is not that interested in Oskar, and asks for Marco to hop on the bike. She wasn’t looking for some alone time with her crush.







- Safety rubbed off on Star too.

Or they are just required to show seatbelts and helmets by standard & practices.





FETCH

A dumber than usual Marco, almost out of character. Could be explained by him being focused on opening the juice pack. A dumb thing (not that there is anything bad with dumb plot points, but this one felt a little… off, to me), but School Spirit, Cheer Up Star and Red Belt showed how much Marco can focus on the task at hand, to the point of ignoring what’s happening around him.





- I see absolutely no parallelism with a couple at the park with their toddlers here.

Nope. Juuust projecting my Starco shipping.





- This is likely just a joke, but the theme of “believing” from last episode carries over to the beginning of this one, just as the “future / growing up” theme from Mr. Candle Cares was in Marco’s dream at the beginning of Red Belt.

And it’s cute how serious Star is about something as silly as piercing a juice pack.





- Every episode so far has the queen calling/being called at least once





- The wand doesn’t change with its new owner. Maybe it’s ‘cause a dog is holding it, maybe it’s ‘cause they didn’t want to waste a transformation sequence on a “silly” episode, maybe it’s broken.





- In this episode Marco is the clueless, while Star is -kinda- the “straight man”.

Still a Star-styled straight man.





- What.





- Star gets really grumpy when she’s lacking sleep.

Poor Jackie, her first non dream appearance in season 2 and she gets told to shut up.





- …was she doing it on purpose?





- The phone hits the store clerk off screen. What’s with phones and faces in this show.





- More cliché “family life” antics between Star and Marco.

GIVE ME MORE.





- Grumpy cat, a turtle named “Ninja” and, maybe, a reference to this. Or it’s just an ugly cat ironically called “Princess”





- Sensei’s mother and their dog





- Let’s take a moment to think about how this dog wanted to magically lobotomize herself to put an end from the stress that comes with being sapient.

Also seems like words about Star’s wand traveled through the dimensions.







- That’s not nice, Marco. She’s slowly growing. Sure, for the whole episode she hanged up on her mother reminding her to thank her aunt, and in Mr. Candle Cares she had a mental breakdown while thinking about her future, and…

…

She definitely needs Marco.

At least in My New Wand she didn’t chicken out from calling her mom to ask for help.





- In these episodes Star is using her wand way less than in season 1. So far she used it to give a dog a chewy toy, and to tide up the house after her in Red Belt (and to summon warnicorns in Mr. Candle Cares…). Maybe they don’t want to show the wand being used too much, since it’s still broken, until the show gets to more plot heavy episodes, but the feeling I get is that - @skleero​‘s words- “from a narrative point of view, it may be interpreted as Star growing up and being more responsible with her wand; from a meta-level, this solves the whole ‘why don’t they just use the wand’-thing, solving the overpowered problem of S1, so the stakes seems always a bit higher".

In Star on Wheels she does stop the bike without needing Marco’s help, in Red Belt she hangs up the poster without magic, and in Fetch she’s the one driving the plot further, without other characters (just Marco, a little bit). Seems like she’s slowly growing up.





- The juice pack is open, and Marco’s brain can finally start working again. He’s back to being the sensible one.





- Can’t have an episode withouth reminding us how much Star loves and values Marco, right? She mentions it after he stopped her from throwing the wand away. Again. So Marco is both her anti stress and her way to avoid messing up too much.





- No “What did you do” moments in this episode. The new recurring joke is Star ignoring her mom.





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