Steven Universe: Keep Beach City Weird!

October 31, 2014 2:45 PM - Season 1, Episode 31

Steven gets taken in by Ronaldo Fryman's conspiracy theories about the strange happenings in Beach City.
posted by Small Dollar (5 comments total)

Poor Ronaldo. Looking so hard for something that isn't there when the truth — mysterious Crystal Gems with extra-dimensional powers — is so much more interesting.
posted by ob1quixote at 2:53 AM on November 1, 2014 [1 favorite]

I laughed out loud at Pearl's dismissal of humans' attempts to make sense out of their short, pointless lives.
posted by signal at 9:44 AM on November 1, 2014 [1 favorite]

Did you know that you can follow Keep Beach City Real on tumblr?
Also I feel like the polymorphic rocks thing is basically the gems. I hope he secretly stumbles upon the truth!
posted by sleeping bear at 9:36 PM on November 1, 2014 [2 favorites]

No Home Boys makes that look more and more likely, sleeping bear, that Ronaldo's new conspiracy theory is uncomfortably on the nose.

Spoilers for No Home Boys:

Remember, he said the polymorphic sentient rock people want to hollow out the Earth. We found out that new gems have been born on the Earth, and that Amethyst was one of them, and they emerge from the ground.
posted by JHarris at 11:28 PM on February 5, 2015

I really loved the moment where Ronaldo knocks out Steven, we get Steven's POV of Ronaldo saying "Wakey Wakey, Mr. Snakey" and then the soundalike Kill Bill riff came in.

That's good out-of-the-blue homage.
posted by Navelgazer at 8:25 PM on June 28, 2019 [1 favorite]