You know, I think one of the funniest things about this episode of Steven Universe is that, paired with the title, the cable description of “A look inside Steven’s bathroom” is hilarious. Or gross, depending. At least it’s not terribly indicative.
Steven gets ready for bed, and somehow totally misses the lime flavored dorito at the foot of it until it’s too late. Peridot drags him through the warp to the warp hub in a desperate attempt to get off of Earth. She figures that, since she doesn’t have any of her little robot buddies anymore, Steven could probably fix the warp pad much like he fixed Lapis’ gem. It doesn’t work, though, since it doesn’t always work, and Peridot has a mental breakdown, tipping the card that something she was involved it was going to destroy the Earth. And then the others show up and beat her down.
Steven still has some misgivings about the whole “the Earth won’t be anything soon enough” thing, and wishes he could talk to peridot for just one second more, which opens Rose’s room. After being more specific, it provides him a path to the basement. He decides to let Peridot out of her bubble and we find that she has hilarious little limbs.
After a nerdy slap fight, and dropping some indication of her knowledge of “the cluster”, Peridot decides to make a break for it, making it from the temple room all the way to the front door of the beach house. Sadly for her, the Gems just happened to be hanging around the kitchen counter, and Steven tries to keep them from poof-ing her again. Every possible escape route gets totally shut down, and Peridot locks herself in the bathroom.
Steven tells the Gems that he’s the reason Peridot got free of her bubble. Specifically, because she knows something about the ominous Cluster. The Gems decide that Peridot’s more useful to them like this, and decide to keep her locked in the bathroom. Without a bathroom, Steven is forced to pee on the beach.
The next morning, Steven asks Peridot to let him into the bathroom to get ready for the day. As a means of placating her, he gives her the foot she blew off back in Friend Ship, and she lets him in. It’s funny how she thinks every object in there is a weapon, which gets even funnier when you realize that a marine would absolutely consider every single object in there as a potential weapon. Steven asks her to move so that he can use the toilet, and the episode ends.
Final Thoughts:
– Peridot was incredibly quotable in this one. “Look! Over there! Another planet to betray!”
– Steven points out that they keep making him pee outside, a callback to Keystone Motel.
– Toothbrush? Weapon. Comb? Weapon. Towel? Weapon. Toilet? Weapon of mass destruction.
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