A podcast to honor the gods.

This better come with a sacrifice.

Dave X Media.

Welcome to The Bits, hosted by your favorite jam buds, Robert.

And Charlie?

Season 3 boyos.

How's it going, Charlie?

I am so ready to be here.

I'm pumped.

My Kitty is meowing behind me.

We are pumped.

Oh man, but you know what?

I know we just started the I know we just started, but I feel like I need a vacation.

Do you know any good destinations for a vacation?

You could try Super Watermelon Island.

Oh my God, IA 100% could.

And coincidentally, Super Watermelon Island is the episode we're looking at today, Season 3 Episode 1, which premiered May 12th, 2016.

But before we continue, hey Charlie, did the postman bring us any posts?

We've been a hiatus for a while.

Hey Mr.

Postman, bring me a post.

Bring me the post I love the most.

So we got quite a few emails between, I mean, the end of season 2 and actually before we released our little Pride episode, so.

Yeah, so we're gonna be reading.

We're gonna read two of them today and save a couple more for next time.

Exactly.

We we love this, we love the engagement, y'all, it's been great we.

Love the engagement.

Thank you so much for everyone who sent an e-mail.

Thank you so much to everyone who has been vibing with the the hiatus.

We're back.

We're not like Dan and Phil, where we disappear for six years and then come back all of a sudden like hello, hi.

You don't know this Charlie.

You you, you grow up, you grew up a not Dan and Phil gay.

It's it's amazing.

I think I watched like a couple of Dan's videos, but like, I wasn't in the fandom.

I think I was like, OK, like this guy's OK.

And and then I, you know, saw the fan base and I was like, I'm scared.

Yeah, no, that's 100% understand there.

There was recently like a movie premiere or something where there was a video where someone was like, Oh my God, Pedro Pascal, but directly in front of Pedro Pascal where Dan and Phil and the person who uploaded the video was like, I don't know who these are.

I was just, I just uploaded this video because of Pedro Pascal.

Amazing.

So let's get to that mailbox real quick.

We have an e-mail here from my partner Mac, who wants to give us some advice on how to use fluff tissue paper when wrapping birthday gifts.

Howdy y'all, I'm bored and y'all need mail so here's my best.

Try explaining how to use fluff tissue paper bag.

When using a gift bag.

First off, you're going to need the whole package of tissue paper.

I know you're thinking that's so much paper, trust me, it isn't.

If you got a big gift bag, grab 2 packs of tissue paper just in case.

We're going to put volume here.

You're going to do a lot of it.

First step is to loosely wrap the actual gift in the tissue paper.

Don't bother taping it or make sure it's well wrapped.

We're just going for coverage so there's no chance of seeing the gift from the top of the bag.

OK, now we're the important part, the fluff.

Basically what you're going to do is take a sheet of tissue, tissue and completely unfolded.

Then you're going to find the middle and pinch it.

Now you're going to pull all the edges together.

Think about wrapping around a flower bouquet.

That's the shape we're looking for, and just put it in the gift bag.

That part that's pinched is the end going into the bag.

Now all you have to do is do this for all your pieces of tissue until you're out of tissue.

Some tissue is going to get smooshed down as you fit them in the bag, but that's OK.

We want that.

Remember, we're looking for volume.

When they're all in, just kind of fluff the top to make it look nice and fluffy.

Sincerely, Mac.

Mac, that is so much tissue paper.

I didn't realize Mac had tissue paper money to just spend.

Mac, where are you getting this money from?

What is what is this career that you have that allows you to buy tissue paper and nothing else?

He screamed from the other room.

It cost a dollar because other update that's happened between season 2 and 3.

Mac and I moved in together during Pride.

We we moved in in June.

It's we are the epitome of the gay couple.

Our anniversary's in June, we moved in together in June, Pride's in June.

Like what the fuck?

No way pride is in June.

Damn.

We're unfortunately recording this in July so we are now in Wrath month.

We are, we are in the month of wrath.

Also disability pride month so hey shout out to the disabled folks.

Y'all are valid and awesome.

Y'all are super cool.

Is does that mean that their wrath month is in August?

Disability Wrath.

Honestly with how much shit they have to deal with they deserve a wrath month.

Oh, all right, well, well, Mac, Mac, I think you need to film a video of yourself doing this exact full thing for for you know the effect, you know, start sort of wrapping birthday gifts YouTube channel and.

And call it Mac's secret rap career.

There we go there we go.

Hey, hey, if y'all are not our patrons for $5 a month you can get our bonus show Stevens Room where this month we are covering Pearls Secret Rap Career A we love a plug and we got another e-mail for y'all today.

This is from Garrett and it is titled a business e-mail business in quotes and then parentheses.

Does that like negate the quotes?

Hi, Charlie and Robert, it's your faithful listener.

Garrett, I'm here to say, how dare you say we can't write a business e-mail just because you said that I won't talk about business at all.

I definitely know a lot about businesses.

How dare you question me about

it :) :) I always want to write in, but I'm lousy at coming up with good questions.

So here's my best go.

All right, there's a, there's a bunch of questions here.

Which crystal gem would be the best therapist for Camp Half Blood, fusion or not, IE Smokey Quartz or Sapphire?

Who do you, who do you think, Robert?

Who would be the best therapist for Camp Half Blood of the Gems?

None of them.

They all need fucking therapy.

Correct.

We have a correct answer.

Ding Ding, Ding, Ding Ding.

Everyone needs therapy in the show.

I don't think any of them are qualified to be therapists, but maybe, maybe they could be camp counselors.

I think Peridot and Lapis should be camp counselors because they know all about campaigning hearts.

OK.

But Peridot and Lapis?

Or Peridot and Bob?

Yes.

Next question who's a better love story, Garnet or Persebeth?

You know, we have friends who have a podcast whose motto used to be it's it's been a while since they said it is Persebeth the greatest love story ever told, to which I have answered that question.

No, but in the context of comparing that to Garnet, also no.

It's it's Garnet 100%.

I I don't know, because like with with Garnet, we don't have, we haven't seen like the beginning to end, you know, like I feel like I would need to watch it in that context specifically like the the edited video of like pink diamonds, you know, character development.

Like then I need like a OK, here is Garnet and Ruby and Sapphire and all their stuff.

But also I feel like their love story is very short.

They're kind of U-Haul lesbians.

So I think Percy Beth is a better story because it's longer.

Yeah, probably.

I can agree with that.

Do you think Nimona from Nimona haha would get along with the Crystal Gems?

Robert, have you seen Nimona?

I have not.

Cancelled, cancelled.

Everybody go yell at Robert to watch Nimona.

And also if you haven't watched it yet, listener, go watch it.

How's the podcast?

Go watch Nimona, it's on Netflix.

I can't watch it because I'm homophobic.

You are homophobic, it's true.

I think.

I think Nimona could get along with the gems maybe?

My brain is like I don't know if Nimona and Pearl would get along based off of chaotic personality.

From what I understand about Nimona's character, Nimona and Amethyst would get along great.

Yeah, the next question is who would be Nimona's best friend and why is it amethyst, shape shifting and chaotic?

That's why they're besties.

And also what is Gender TM?

What is gender TM?

Honestly Right Same person.

I mean maybe Pearl would like maybe Pearl would would would would mother Nimona and like that could be also a good relationship.

Garnet and Nimona would chill.

Isn't that like 1 of Nimona's things?

That they're like an orphan or something.

Yeah, literally.

Yeah, that tracks.

Garnet and Nimona would be Bros.

Like Nimona would get some good Would shape shift some sunglasses on and and be like, yeah, just hanging with Garnet.

You know, this is what we do.

Do you think the end of future and the end of Nimona are parallels?

Well.

I wouldn't know because I have.

No things.

So we're gonna save that for things.

I know, I know that Charlie is gonna be like Oh my God, you need to watch Nimona.

Hey Charlie, what's that homework that gave you a bunch of episodes ago?

It's not as important as Nimona, so it doesn't matter.

What do you remember what the homework was?

It was to listen to something.

Yes, it was.

Again, don't know one of these things is is queer and one of them is meme I think.

I don't know.

Ethan, if you're listening to this, we got to punch Charlie.

You're welcome, Gary continues.

I literally just thought of that.

Maybe I'll I'm better at questions than I thought.

What would be your ideal crossover with Steven Universe?

I I know it's a meme.

I've been a huge fan of the I'm a huge fan of Steve of there's a Ninja Turtles Batman meme that's like this is where I watched my parents die.

Raphael Cal a bummer.

So I want something like that.

I want Stephen to have to have an adventure with Batman and just be like Batman.

I'm going to sing so I can heal your heart.

Stephen would be the best Robin.

Please do not give Stephen the Robin suit.

He does not deserve that kind of torture.

This is true.

This is absolutely true.

Okay, The question is, are are we talking crossover as in like just people meeting or my my brain also goes to fanfic crossover where it's like, oh, it's like this person but if they were this thing instead.

Where No, no, no, no.

Where.

It's like where it's like even though they're not from the same movie, people wanted Jack Frost and Emma Snow and Snow White to No and Elsa to fuck.

There we go.

Yes, I was in that fandom.

It was Jelso.

That was the first fanfic I ever read was Jelso.

Robert is making faces at me.

I can't be surprised.

I really can't.

This is like, it's like asking, It's like asking a vegetarian what they eat and they say vegetarian, they're vegetarian.

It's like.

And a bisexual first and a person second.

You are a bisexual first and a slut second, but a slut mainly for like attractive drawn people.

I, I feel like both of those are the same thing for, for me at least.

So yeah, I don't know.

I don't know who I've always thought it would be cool if Stephen crossed over with Sailor Moon just because season 1 we have a lot of like villains who are also gem based.

MMM.

True.

So like I, I also love the vibes there.

I love the podcast.

Please keep going until the end.

Obviously we we will keep going.

That's that's the plan we're going to turn.

More.

We're going to turn 30 by the time we finish with the original series and then God knows how long Lars to then the start.

What the fucks it called?

Lars of the Stars.

Lars of the Stars goes on.

I've been thinking about that more recently.

I'm just like, Oh my God, I want to know so much more about like the other planets and everything and like, are we going to find out more gem war things like are we, are we going to, are we going to come across some people that like the gems took over that are also still out there?

Morty, Morty, we're going to do the bits for 100 years.

Morty, Rick and Morty, 100 years of the bits.

It's fine.

It's fine.

We'll, we'll, you know, we have to keep people on on holds as like our backups in case something happens to us.

So like, the podcast can continue.

I've had this ridiculous idea that if I were to ever be diagnosed with a terminal illness, I would make the mean pay.

I would turn the mean page into like the mantle of Doctor Who where I would die and then I would pass it on to someone else who also at some point will die and pass it on to someone else and the damn mean page will be a fresh person every couple years.

Yeah, exactly, Garrett says.

I literally found your podcast right before the SAG after strike and was so bummed that I couldn't keep listening to new episodes.

But I'm glad you stuck to your guns.

You guys are so great to listen to and I get most of your references only most.

So sad.

Thank you for this amazing podcast.

I don't know how to end a business e-mail.

Hi, feel free to answer whichever questions you want or split these questions in episodes.

I know I dropped a lot at one time.

Sincerely Garrett, Regional Manager, JKPS.

How are the dividends doing?

Are the stock investors happy?

Who cares what they think?

PPS How many emails do I have to send?

Slash How many questions do I have to ask for you to start a The Owl House podcast?

It it won't take very much convincing for me, but I do need something to end.

I'm banned for making more content by just about everyone who likes me because I keep saying, oh hey, that show, that book, that thing that would be a great podcast.

And then people are like, Robert, No, I have found out very recently that a friend of mine refuses to recommend me a book that she likes because she's worried I will make it into a podcast.

Robert, here's the thing.

You also have YouTube and like you could branch out with YouTube a little bit if you wanted to.

You could always like do other content that's not just.

Oh by the way, hey if you're if you're listening to this, go watch my hour long fucking video essay about the first Percy Jackson book.

I went to all the locations, it was great.

Please.

It's so far my best performing video, but if you could make it more performing I would not mind that at all.

It was so fun watching Robert's face covered up by trees when you were in the camp half flood forest.

I loved it but.

Yes, I would make it the the Our House podcast.

I just need.

I just thought this was going to end and I don't think it's going to end.

So don't know when that'll happen.

PP PPPs please bring back the classroom gems.

My inner child, he wanted to be a geologist.

Loved it.

I don't know enough about rocks.

I wanted to talk about the classroom gems mostly so that I had a reason to mention the fact that malachite like is scientifically, if you put it the malachite in water, it becomes toxic.

And like how how that relates to malachite as a toxic relationship.

That's literally the only reason why I started it.

And then I just could not continue it because I don't know enough about rock science and so I felt like I was spewing facts that I didn't understand.

PPPPS.

Do you ship Lapidot?

Anyway, love you lots as Hunter from TOH, but that is the last one.

I ship Lapidot the same way I ship Dan and Phil Or I don't need to know what the relationship is, they just have something I appreciate.

I'm pretty sure Peridot is arrow ace, but you can also be an arrow ace lesbian.

I, I was very recently introduced to the concept of, uh, platonic soul mates.

And I'm like, you know what?

Hell yeah, do your thing my friend.

You know, whatever it is that is going on between Lapis and Peridot, they're there.

It cannot be explained by heterosexuals.

It's just, it's just the Dan and Phil of it all.

It's in my brain.

It's just a very gay everything.

That's it Charlie, I'm gonna have you start on episode 1 of Dan and Phil, and that's your homework for the week.

You have to watch all Dan and Phil.

I'm no thank you.

I I don't want to I'm sorry but I I don't care.

Also the the fan dumb is terrifying.

A little bit, yeah.

All right, you want to, you want to talk about the Super Watermelon Island?

Or did you want to like, you know, shoot the shed for another 20 minutes until the podcast ends?

We should shoot the shit until the podcast ends.

So hey, in in news I, I just thought like 6 things at once that I can't say for a bunch of reasons, I can't even tell you, but it's really funny to just to just be like, oh hell yeah, six things.

And that that that'll be the shooting the shit for for for the rest of the episode.

OK, goodbye.

No, what we're going to do now is we're going to talk about Steven fucking Universe.

Steven fucking Universe.

Is that also one of his middle names?

Steven fucking Cutie pie.

Quartz the Mayo.

Diamonds.

Whatever universe.

Yeah, Doctor do for Schwartz, Yeah.

So this episode opens up with Steven waking up on Super Watermelon Island.

I think it's so interesting that it's like for a second you could think what's what's going on here?

Is this Steven waking up?

It's just it's a watermelon.

You definitely don't realize it until something happens to the watermelon and Steven wakes up later in the episode.

A.

Watermelon.

Can we talk about watermelon dog?

I love watermelon dog.

That that, that.

That's who's getting my Pearl pond right now, by the way.

100% that's who's getting my fucking Pearl.

Pond probably, probably I was just going to mention this is this is the same island where they got they got shipwrecked where?

Lars, Sadie and Steven were trapped, Yeah.

Marooned.

Yeah, this is where they were marooned.

The warp pad is like right next to Watermelon Steven.

Broken question mark.

I think it is broken.

Broken question mark see a watermelon dog appears and guides Watermelon Steven to a village and Watermelon's even surprised to see a bunch of other Watermelon Stevens who have been managed, who have managed to relocate and colonize a remote island.

When is the last time we saw Watermelon Steven?

The last time we saw it, I think was in like the original Watermelon Steven episode.

Yeah.

Watermelon Steven episode 34 of season 1, The watermelon dog.

I want to know how they evolved to have dogs.

I want to know how all of this came about.

Like there is so much happening here.

So there's just, there's just they've created their own society.

They're they're making things.

They're planting their own children.

I want to know how they can do that.

Like, do there's the seeds that grow inside of them?

Are they like because they are already living beings, they can plant those in the ground and then make new life?

Are they impregnating the ground?

Is that what's happening?

Yes, question mark.

Honestly, you know, impregnating the ground might be worse than piss sugar anyway.

So they created, they created the dog, they created the horse.

There's a watermelon horse that's pulling their cards.

There's watermelon chicken.

How does?

How does?

How does the watermelon know what to grow into?

Like that's that's my main problem.

The watermelon chickens.

Look at them, Robert.

They have no legs.

They just roll.

What is their?

What is their purpose of any of these?

Creatures.

I wonder if Stevens going to cry over the no legs chicken just like he does with no arms snake.

I would cry.

It has no arms and no legs.

It's just a guy.

Does it lay eggs?

I don't want to know.

I really don't want to know anyway so.

Watermelon chicken?

Does it lay eggs?

So a tremor urges the village to gather around a large statue and choose someone to perform a ritual, which ends up being the new Watermelon Steven.

They decorate it, carried to the edge of a Cliff, and have it gaze off into the scenic ocean.

When Malachite suddenly appears.

She recognizes Watermelon Steven as himself and eats it as a sacrifice, which abruptly wakes up the real Steven.

Robert, I know you want to you want to move it along to like the the plot things, but also you, you have to mention the cults, the cults of the watermelon that is happening in this episode because.

It's not the weirdest thing that's happened to Steven Universe.

I mean, it's, it's one of them.

It's, it's definitely up there.

We have a giant statue of like the original baby melon that sacrificed himself.

And we have our village elder who's got like a Rafiki staff, like teaching the young children about their religion, their cults and like, yeah, put your arms out.

Tipos.

You got a, you got a tipos.

Guys, this is the way, This is the way to go.

And yeah, then they they choose the sacrifice and it's Stephen and he dies.

But then he wakes up and he's regular Stephen, so everything is OK.

Question, does Stephen just sleep on this random like cushion that they put on the ground next to the the barn?

Is that where he's been sleeping for all these days?

What if you didn't ask questions like what's to you?

Does he have a change of clothes?

What is going on?

I want to know that this boy is being taken care of.

I'm so glad that, oh, space travel is still on top of the barn, though.

That's the most important.

Thing to me, space travel.

Peridot feels the ground chick and she's like, Oh my God, it's the cluster.

It's here, guys.

You know how it starts?

It starts with with tiny shakes of earth and then bigger shakes of earth and then it all blows up.

The cluster would then form and destroy the planet.

She's like OK, it's time to start drilling.

But Stevens like it's not the cluster, it's Malachi and she's back.

He explains that he was in control of a watermelon.

Steven and witness Malachi coming back.

Garnett notes that Lapis must be losing control over the fusion, so Pearl, Amethyst, and Garnett decide to go to the island while Paradot and Steven stay behind.

Yeah, and Paradot didn't know about Malachite until now.

Actually, she didn't know that Lapis and Jasper were fused on the bottom of the ocean before this.

Well you know what they say, fusion is just a cheap tactic to make weak gems stronger.

Robert, you didn't do it in the voice.

I don't know.

Fusion is just a weak tactic to make gems stronger.

There you go, there you go.

So the gems told Steven to stay behind and he's like, but I, but I would help.

What can I do?

Kind of it's like, you're rebel, right?

Why don't you rebel?

He's like, I can go back into a watermelon.

Steven.

There we go.

And he does that, and he leaves Paradot behind alone with her thoughts while she's freaking out.

Repair it up.

So he wakes up back on the island.

The gems are there and Malachite is is back up.

She is above the water and the chains are still on her for now.

But now we get a fusion of the greatest kind.

Everyone welcome back.

Alexandra, PP.

Hey, yo.

And Alex?

Mom is back.

6 Our mom is going to fight the toxic relationship here and I, I love this.

It's like literally at one point in this fight, Alexandrite is like, there's there's more of us than there are of you.

Which is technically true.

Well, I'm more powerful so.

Jasper realizes that like, hey, Lapis is like, she's persevering.

She's trying to like, keep them trapped at the bottom of the ocean, but she's also like, hey, you see Alexandra over there and we're going to be fused.

You might as well fuck him up.

Let's do it me and you.

Yeah, I feel like that's all that's that's definitely what's happening here is that Lapis is still like the unbridled rage of however many thousands of years she was stuck in that mirror.

So, you know, we get we get some water versus fire because remember, Alexandrite has fire breath.

We love it.

Was this established last time she was here?

I forgot.

I think it was, I think it was already established that we we knew, we definitely knew that she had two mouths at least.

And then one of them was like more amethyst ish.

And this is when Watermelon Steven is like, I got to do something about this.

So he gathers his troops, his watermelon, and brethren, he's like, I love that.

That's how they talk.

Isn't it great?

Yeah, a little bit.

And so they all, they all go to battle.

They got there.

The little Spears, the little Shields.

My husband sends his wife off to battle.

Gender rolled me nothing.

Gender rules mean nothing, but also there's gender in the watermelons.

Like God help us please.

Like there's, there's gender in the watermelons that like we, we as humans perceive as the normal 2 genders because he's wearing a blue tie and she's wearing like a pink.

What is it like a pink flower or skirt or something or both.

It's like, Oh yeah, obviously girl melon, boy melon.

Also, these are all created by Steven.

So does that mean that Steven has the power of multiple genders?

Question mark, Question mark.

There's a little bit of Steven in every melon, so.

If every watermelon were perfect, we wouldn't have Steven.

Correct, but all of the watermelons are are perfect, so.

So they're all Steven?

Yeah.

So they go off to fight.

They even got the little battle makeup like it's so cute.

Well, we have the big magical world fight happening between the other the the the the fusions and Malachi has Alexandra on the ropes like she's she's got her in this like water icy hands.

She's all you know, she can't get out.

Yeah, she's also Alexandra also almost unfuses, which is like, oh boy, how well our Crystal Gems win.

And it's, you know, the distraction of the Watermelon Stevens which gets, which gives Is Alexandra enough of an advantage to break out of this like icy prison?

Yeah, I think that it's when Malachite is saying, ha, you know, fusion isn't actually that bad.

I I see the advantages now.

This, this is this makes me so much more powerful.

And I feel like it is Garnet inside of Alexandra.

That's like getting very angry about this, you know, being like, Oh no, this is how you use Fusion.

How dare you.

Yeah.

And.

Then we Alexandra uses Sugelite's flail to like, pull her it to pull Malachite in, launches her up, launches her up with Sardonics's hammer, and then finishes her off with Opal's bowl.

So it's like triple whammy.

All the good things.

The arrow pierces through Alakite, causing her to unfuse back into Lapis and Jasper, and they both fall into Alexandra's hands.

Alexander then unfuses and Steven runs towards Pearl, gives her a hug, and they figure out that the watermelon Steven is Steven somehow.

I guess Steven just has like that, that Steven in him so that they know it's Steven.

Listen, I can tell which one is Steven and it's because all the other watermelons look normal.

And then he has like stars as his eyes as the gems are destroying Malachite.

So he's he's got a vibe to him.

You can tell you know that it's Steven.

And they also knew that he could do that like earlier.

So yay, they did it and everybody did a great job.

But now the Earth is quaking and it is in fact the cluster.

This time they lose Jasper.

Jasper falls into a crack as the Earth is breaking apart.

They got Lapis as our last ditch effort.

The gems say Steven you have to go back like the we we can't warp back out of here like the warp is broken.

We believe in you.

You can do this and guard it says I love you on.

The episode him ends with him slowly waking up as the gems cheer him on and wish him the best.

It's like literally the the star iris like closes on them as he's waking up and it's oh beautiful.

Y'all, next episode drill time, it's time to cluster the cluster.

You know what I'm saying?

It's time to cluster the cluster.

But before we do that, hey Charlie, hey.

Robert.

You want to head over to the Crystal Temple.

For some Crystal Temple trivia, a.

100% so this episode name was first revealed in the episode listing on the Cartoon Network website.

In this episode, it is revealed that Alexandra can breathe fire.

OK, so we didn't know that already.

This most likely stems from Ruby's fire abilities.

She's also able to use weapons of the other fusions, such as Opal's bow, Sugelites Flail, and Sardonix's hammer.

It is currently unknown if she has access to Sapphire's ice abilities and future vision, or if she has her own unique fusion weapon.

The sound effect that is played during Sugelite's formation and when she summons her flail and coach Steven, as well as when Sardonix summons her warhammer and cry for help is heard when Alexandrite switches from Sugelites flail to Sardonix's warhammer.

Jasper appears to clench her fist right before she falls into the fissure, meaning she may have regained consciousness, or it might be an animation error.

And now for cultural references.

The opening sequence is an echo of the opening of the first episode of Lost, including the shot of palm trees with the camera straight up and the unexpected dog.

Good to know, I didn't know that was a reference.

On mask islands the watermelon Stevens have a statue parodying the Christ the Redeemer statue.

The OK Why do they say sad statue twice comparing the Christ the Redeemer statue statue in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Stephen spawns inside of Watermelon Stephen, similar to how Agent Smith spawns inside of people in The Matrix films.

Stephen's falling asleep to gain control of the Watermelon Avatar, which looks like him, and then giving a speech to a primitive tribe to inspire them to fight back and he's an alien enemy.

May be a plot reference to Jim Cameron, Avatar.

The method that the Watermelon Stevens used to select Stephen greatly resembles the game Nose Goes they They definitely do noses.

Like, literally.

Steven Universes gender equality themes are exhibited.

A female warrior melon leaves her husband and child to fight Malachi.

A female melon deals a blow to Malachites eyes which helps bring her down.

The watermelon Stevens attacked Malachi like the God.

I can never say this.

Lilliputi.

Lilliputians.

The the guys from Gulliver's Travels.

Those the, the, the, the little people, Right?

Yeah.

Yeah, Lilliput put.

I don't know.

The flying melons may refer to the Ewok fight scene in the Return of the Jedi.

Yeah, they did come in with like, freaking flying machines.

And it felt, it actually felt kind of avatar, I'm not going to lie.

Alexandrite opening her second mouth after breaking out of Malachite's ice hands is a possible reference to Eva Unit 01 going berserk from the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion.

The shot of Alexanderite stepping into the water resembles a shot from Neon Genesis Evangelion of Evangelion unit O2 stepping on a bridge, also causing water to splash up.

The scene when Stephen is running away from the battle while Malachite attacks Alexandra with her helmet may be a possible reference of the opening of the first episode of Mobile Suit Gundam C Destiny.

Malachite's defeat by Opal's blow resembles Zelda's Final Smash from Super Smash Bros.

The shot in which Malachite tells Alexander that she is out of her depth is similar to a shot of Ruby Rulers during his fight with Alpha in the 15th episode of Terrain and Magical Expertise.

Truth tears Ambition.

Their poses are identical, they're both speaking to their opponents, and they both have elements behind them.

With water from Malachite and fire for Ruby.

Ruby rules again.

The Stevie Universe team are a bunch of fucking weeds and we love that.

Yes they are Water Mountain.

Stevens practice of sacrificing members of their tribe to Malachite may be a reference to the ancient Israelites practice of sacrificing children to the God Moloch.

Moloch Moloch.

It may also be a reference to the myth of Perseus.

OK.

And now for Charlie's favorite section.

Continuity.

The Mask Island from Island Adventurers visited again.

The Mask Island warp pad is destroyed during the fight.

OK I got that wrong.

There's a lot of like gem things and crystal things on that island and I got very confused.

When the earthquakes start, Garnett mentions that they will not be able to make it back in time.

At the end of Gem drill, the gems can be seen arriving at the barn warp pad.

While it is not explicitly stated, it can be assumed that they used another warp pad several hours away from Mask Island and.

Then finally, the statue of the watermelon village is built upon around seems to be based on Baby Melon who sacrificed himself with the Crystal Gems.

In fact, this seems to be the reason why the Watermelon Stevens this community makes frequent sacrifices in a similar manner in a similar manner to Baby Melon with her arms wide open.

All right, Charlie, it's time for Pearl Points.

As I said before, I'm giving mine to Watermelon Dog.

Who are you giving yours to?

I think I'm going to give it to watermelon chickens who have no purpose and their life sounds horrible because they they're, they're just, they're just rolling along.

They have no limbs.

I would, I would want to scream.

They're there's, I'm just, I'm going to cry.

I'm going to cry about watermelon chicken.

Oh.

Man, I don't cry, Charlie, because we need to answer the question.

And the question is, have you ever had?

I don't want to use the word lucid dream because that has some connotations to it, but like have you ever like woken up in your dream quote UN quote and had control to do whatever wacky adventure you wanted to do?

Absolutely.

Many a time I've.

It's really, it's really funny when I'm like, oh wait, I'm dreaming, starts flying.

Literally every time I'm just like, Oh my God, guys, I'm dreaming.

I know what to do next.

I can get away from that guy that's chasing me, pushes off on the ground, starts flapping my arms, and then I go up For some reason.

I do in fact need to flap my arms in my dreams because that's the logic of how I can physically get.

Up.

I mean, how else would you fly?

How else?

How else do you fly?

Honestly, you can't just, you know, float.

I can't.

It can't just work.

I do also often be like, Nope, I'm dreaming.

Guess what?

You can't get me because I'm invisible.

Now I do that quite a lot, actually, when there's somebody out to get me in a dream.

Just like I'm invisible.

You can't get to me, so bad luck for you.

Bad luck for you and bad luck for everyone else, but not bad luck for us, because this is another episode that we finish.

Woo.

We did it.

We did it, Robert.

We we really did.

Because you know what?

Hey, Charlie.

Hey.

Robert.

If every podcast were perfect.

We wouldn't have done it.

Bye.

The.

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Well, we finished the Percy Jackson series.

Wait, what are we still doing here?

And what is that music?

Oh, you, you thought it was over bro, we're just getting started.

We, we are Charlie.

What's next for the eldest gods?

Well, Ray, it's time for us to go into our Egyptian era.

We're going to start the Kane Chronicles.

Oh hell yeah.

Wait, why do you have a glowing boomerang?

Don't worry about it, it's just my Egyptian magic wand.

Man, the Egyptian stuff isn't going to be like the Greek stuff, is it?

Not at all, but we'll still cover mythology as it comes up in each chapter.

Are we going to have cabins this season?

Nah, the Kings don't have cabins.

So instead I'm Charlie, following the path of best.

And I'm Ray following the path of GEB.

Join us as we read The Red Pyramid, the first book of The Cane Chronicles, chapter by chapter.

Welcome back to Of the Eldest Gods.

Because I'm a monster.

You are a monster.

This is true.

I'm friends with the monster The.

inside of my head.