MONSTER ARM





- Martial arts movie posters in Marco’s room. What a nerd.

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- Star’s feud with wood gets referenced again in Buff Frog’s note in Mewnipendence Day.

And she looks so surprised, like someone that finally found an ally after years of loneliness. What happened with Star and trees.







- Marco talks about a Tang Soo Do tournament (a korean martial art). However this is never mentioned again, as they usually talk just about “karate”. So I really wouldn’t know if they usually say karate and use karate-y lexicon (the teacher at the mall dojo gets called sensei) ‘cause karate is way more widely known, or if they just forgot about the whole Tang Soo Do thing.





- Marco broke his arm because he hit the cinder blocks, not because he overdid with the boards.







- Star really likes spiders.





- In part the whole incident is Marco’s fault. I wonder if it’s going to be addressed in a future, likely “Marco gets influenced by Monster Arm again” episode.





- The spell sounds like dog latin for “Release the infesting demon”. Was Monster Arm inside Marco all long, is it just a (exasperated and heightened) manifestation of Marco’s anger and resentment?

Who knows. Not me.

The test on the background shows us Star’s optimism.





- So how does the wand works? The owner yells random words hoping for them to have some effect?





- Close ups from the book

There is a note with corrections to the magic. So either Star, despite being so carefree, actually read the book, or one of Star’s ancestors had her same taste in cute things (I’m leaning toward this option, when opened the book was full of dust and insects, as if unused for years. Then again Star already knew about the book, so it was probably a visual gag. Anyway, cute scribbles.)

Even if there is a hourglass this is not the same page from Freeze Day.

“Negative || Dark - (or a small “and?) Light”



A magic to get illuminating eyes.

Looks like a memo for an appointment…

Glossaryck’s cameo. Can’t read anything on the pages.





- I thought that they were having breakfast at school, since Monster Arm interrupted the one at home, but it’s lunch time according to the clock in the next scene. And in the scene after that some time passed, so it probably wasn’t set a random time. ECHS serves ice cream, jello cubes and pig-branded snacks for lunch?





- I don’t want to point out animation errors, but I thought that this was funny: in the background they used the animation of the guy asking Star to be turned into a piñata from Brittney’s Party. It looks really weird, since he’s not talking to anyone. Chelsea too (the chubby girl on the right) is talking alone.





- Janna says “I want it to be my boyfriend!”.We could say that “Janna likes weird and occult things”…

But then there is this post from Carder Scholin, season 1 storyboard revisor.

This makes me think that Francis is not exactly (breathing heavily) due to ammiration toward Marco. Nnnnnope.

Then, later in the episode, we have this shot with people’s reaction at Marco’s slimy appendage.

There are times when fan ought to get their minds out of the gutter and stop seeing dirty jokes everywhere.

This is not one of those times.. They probably storyboarded this episode while having a big “I’VE SEEN ENOUGH HENTAI” poster in the meeting room.





- That’s two nights up without sleeping. More to come in the next segment.





- Monster Arm was indeed influencing Marco even before starting to talk, but maybe this is something that deep down Marco already thought (again, the “inner demon” thing)





- I’m probably overthinking things, but to me it looks like Monster Arm was trying to bit Marco’s head off. And later he tries to strangle him. Killing the host would allow it to be free? Or he doesn’t need the host to be alive.







- Definitely Not Foreshadowing™





- Jeremy wins just ‘cause he cheats? He unnerves Marco and he loses concentration? How can this twerp beat a guy that fights monsters? Stupid monsters, but still ten foot tall monsters. In Banagic Wand Jeremy looks scared by the angered Marco.

This will probably be addressed.





- Every time this show avoids giving us gratuitous friendship drama an angels grows wings.







THE OTHER EXCHANGE STUDENT



(WHAT THE HELL IS GUSTAV DOING TO MRS. DIAZ) this is a weird episode. Not a bad one, but probably one of the “emptier” one. Marco and his family act stupidly, not seeing all the holes in Gustav’s story, and Star plays the role of the straight man (at least until the misunderstanding). At least it gave us a cute final moment and some insight on Marco’s past before Star…





- So 47 days passed since the beginning of the show. “Time flowing” and “cartoons” rarely mix well, but they could surprise us by giving us more time frames in future episodes (Birthdays? Star’s birthday was probably just a few days/weeks before her coming to Earth)







- Is Star an attention seeker, or is she not used to be appreciated despite being a princess (more used to be called irresponsible or be reminded of her duties and all that crap)? Probably a little bit of both.







- Are the Diazes bored by their lives? That’s why the took so many exchange students?







- Another time frame reference





- So even with her particular situation Star is officially considered a foreign exchange student. Does she have all her papers in order? Can she be deported?



[Distressing thoughts about future “I can’t fall in love with an exchange student” or “she’s going to go way someday” plots insensify]







- Marco looks the same in all the pictures, not looking any younger. Also, there are a friggin’ robot and a llama. I may be wrong but I think that this background was meant more as a joke that as a “let’s foreshadows meeting with other exchange students.” I mean, we already have a headband wearing blonde with little concern for Marco’s personal space.





- As I said before, there are lots of holes in Gustav’s stories. And yet no one suspects him.







- Rated S for Short Shorts. Quality gaming.





- Strangely enough Gustav’s book talk about “scandinavian” as if it was a language, and Scandinavia a country. Maybe HE wrote them!







- A spider, again.





- The paranoia induced notes of a madwoman.





- Not much to see on Star’s wall of madness. A matryoshka, Pony Head, Gustav kissing a meatball (ew) and “Porgnyr”. According to google it’s an icelandic name? Maybe they used a random scandinavian sounding word.





- Who doens’t love some body horror.





- Someone in the family has an obsession for cacti.





- In this episode Star was probably pettier than usual, but at least she didn’t spoil the Diazes happiness.

And while Gustav turned out not to be a cannibal, he still didn’t say why he was measuring the Diaz in their sleep. That’s plain creepy. Good riddance.





- Three days without sleeping (she’s been stalking Gustav since his second day, so 48th day for Star). Poor Star. Five sleepless night in an episode.





- Awwww.

Two segments in a row ending wih a Starco hand-on-shoulder-moment.

And every time Marco compliments Star, she looks so happy







- By this line I’d say that they weren’t faking to believe Gustav’s story just for his sake or for meatballs. They really don’t have a clue. Weird episode.





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