STAR
VS. THE FORCES OF EVIL
Disney
Television Animation
MAIN
CAST:
Created by Daron Nefcy,
Star vs. the Forces of Evil centered on the adventures of Star Butterfly
(Eden Sher), the trouble-making heir to the royal throne of the dimension of Mewni. On her 14th
birthday, she inherited her family’s magic
wand, with which she accidentally set fire to the castle. Her parents decided
to send her to Earth as a foreign exchange student so that she could safely
(for them) practice her magic. She befriended and took up residence with human
boy Marco Diaz (Adam McArthur) and his family in a fictional suburb
of Los Angeles and attended Echo
Creek Academy with him. Of course, misadventures followed as her spells
often materialized in unplanned ways and she gained a pair of dimensional
scissors that allowed her to whisk Marco away to a variety of worlds. Not to
mention there were evil doers who would have loved to get their hands on her
wand and Magic
Instruction Book, aka the Book of Spells, to conquer her kingdom.
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| Star and Marco hanging out with Tom and Pony Head enjoying a meal under water. |
Those evil doers took on several
forms. The initial antagonist was Ludo Avarius (Alan Tudyk), a diminutive
bird-like being whose terrible childhood gave him a need to prove his worth and
sought Star’s wand to conquer the universe. Because his army of
Monsters was incompetent, he often hired Toffee (Michael C. Hall),
a humanoid lizard with regenerative abilities that once led an army against
Mewni and murdered Star’s grandmother. Toffee would eventually usurp Ludo and
kick him out of his own castle, but Ludo made a comeback with new minions in
the form of a bald
eagle and giant spider
(both Dee Bradley Baker). Miss Heinous
(Jessica Walter) was a Mewman-Monster hybrid who ran St.
Olga’s Reform School for Wayward Princesses, which was dedicated to beating
all rebelliousness out of princesses and make them conform to expected norms,
along with her robot assistant, Gemini (Jeff Bennett).
Star and Marco (disguised as a princess) eventually deposed her and got her
kicked out of the school. Heinous would come to discover her real name was
Meteora Butterfly and she was the legitimate heir to the Mewni throne; having
been switched out with peasant girl Festivia
because of her bloodline. Mina Loveberry (Amy Sedaris) was a Mewman warrior
that Star idolized and wanted to be like before she attempted to conquer the
Earth in disgust of America’s democracy. Mina was made a magic-resistant super
soldier by former queen Solaria
(Gemma Whelan) and was dedicated to eradicating all Monsters on Mewni.
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| Concept art of Star. |
Nefcy created the initial pitch for Star
for Cartoon Network’s
The
Cartoonstitute, an initiative created by Cartoon Network
executive Rob
Sorcher and led by Rob Renzetti
and Craig
McCracken that would have showcased animated shorts created
without the input of executives and focus testing; similar to The Cartoon
Cartoon Show/What a Cartoon!
Show over a decade earlier.
This version saw Star as a regular 4th grade girl who believed herself
to be a magical girl like Sailor
Moon and Marco (named Sol) as
a boy who was obsessed with Dragon Ball Z and
martial arts. The two of them would have been enemies instead of friends, and
Star would have used the force of her determination to solve problems. Nefcy
was heavily influenced by her love of anime, and a desire to see the kinds of
characters she liked from them on American television. However, Cartoon Network
had a stance against girl shows and passed on her idea. Nefcy continued to work
on and refine the idea in between making other shorts, graduating from CalArts, and working at Warner Bros.,
Nickelodeon
and eventually Disney.
It was while at Disney that she pitched her revised version of Star and was
given the greenlight to develop a show. However, it was suggested that she age
Star up to a teenager and give her actual magical powers, requiring a complete
overhaul of her concept on the fly. As a result, her eventual pitch to Vice
President of Disney
Television Animation Eric Coleman
flopped. But, after a bit of time mulling over the new concept and developing
new ideas, she got a chance to pitch the show again and it was finally given
the go ahead in 2013 with Jordana
Arkin and Dave Wasson overseeing
the development.
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| Star and Marco ready for all challengers. |
Nefcy wanted Star to exhibit and
maintain her individuality; fighting against the “perfect princess” her parents
wanted her to be. She also downplayed the significance of high school on the
lives of the teenagers, choosing not to make it a central focus but just
another location. Nefcy removed the trope of having Star try and pass as a
normal human by hiding her magical powers—instead, everyone was aware of them
and generally cool with it (unless, of course, they were on the receiving end
of one of her spells gone wrong). Nefcy stated that Star was very much like
her. To balance out the hyperactive Star, Marco was made her straight man,
although he had his own quirks such as looking for anything that could help him
shake his “safe” image. McArthur portrayed him as smart and thoughtful while
not really leaning into his being nerdy or unlikeable. Marco was largely based
on Nefcy’s husband, filmmaker Bobby Miller
(who provided some voices for the series).
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| The Butterfly kingdom on Mewni. |
Star vs. the Forces of Evil was
only the second series to be created for Disney Television Animation by
a woman, the first being Sue Rose’s Pepper
Ann 17 years prior, and the third series overall following Doc McStuffins from Chris Nee. It was set to premier
on Disney
Channel in the fall of 2014 but ended up debuting on January
18, 2015 before moving to Disney XD
in March as part of Disney’s restructuring to make XD their cartoon-exclusive
channel. Prior to its release, the title sequence was shown at San Diego Comic-Con
2014 during a Gravity
Falls panel in order to build
up hype for the show. And it worked, as a leaked viral recording of the intro
started a wave of fans and fan art. Disney sitcom stars Olivia Holt
and Kelli
Berglund also participated in promoting the series; with Holt
dressing up as Star in a series of short videos
shown on the network and Berglund occasionally joining in.
The result was that Star’s debut was the highest in Disney XD’s history,
drawing in 1.2 million viewers on average, with the initial Disney Channel
airing having 2.33 million. Disney quickly greenlit a second season and then a
third following the first season’s conclusion. A final fourth season was
greenlit during the transition to season three. Season four saw the show move
over to Disney Channel for its initial broadcasts, followed shortly after by
re-airings on Disney XD.
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| Star faces down Ludo. |
Nefcy stated that the show was
storyboard driven, with the storyboarders taking a two-page outline and turning
it into a full script. These storytellers were comprised of Nefcy, Arkin,
Wasson, Mike
Mullen (who also directed), Ian Wasseluk,
Aaron Hammersley
(also a director and producer), Lane
Lueras, Dave
Stone, Zeus
Cervas, Bert
Youn,
Carrie Liao,
Danielle Koenig,
Dominic Bisignano
(also a director and supervising producer), Mike Yank,
Piero Piluso
(another director), Christofer
Graham, Carlos
Ramos, Scott
O’Brien, Nate
Federman, Kyle
Neswald, Carder
Scholin, Nate
Cash, Tyler Chen
(director also), Jushtin Lee,
Evon Freeman, Le Tang, Giancarlo Volpe (director,
too), Katie Crown, John Mathot, Amy Higgins, John Infantino, Brett Varon (director), Amalia Levari, Aleth Romanillos, Sabrina Cotugno, Amelia Lorenz (both eventual
directors), Annisa Adjani, Mark Ackland, Riccardo Durante, Zach Marcus, Cassie Zwart, Sarah Oleksyk, Eric Acosta, Robert Snow, Christian Magalhaes, Bryan Caselli, Chris Walsh, Gina Gress, Nicolette Wood, Casey Crowe, Charlotte Jackson, Madeleine Flores, Kenny Pittenger, and Matthew Yang. Each episode was
comprised of two 11-minutes segments aired together to form a half-hour, with a
few full half-hour episodes here and there--particularly the season finales.
During the second season, some segments were broadcast as individual episodes.
A telefilm, The Battle for Mewni, led the transition from the second to
third season and was later broken up into the first seven episodes of season
three. The characters were designed by Rachelle
Reyes, Becky Dreistadt, Stephanie Ramirez, Devin Taylor, Cheyenne Curtis, Lynn Wang, Jenny Goldberg, Angela Mueller and Adam Rosette. Animation duties for the
first season were handled by Mercury
Filmworks and Toon City Animation,
then moved to Rough Draft Korea
and Sugarcube for the remainder.
The series’ theme was composed by Brad Breeck,
with Nefcy, Ego Plum and Brian H. Kim doing the ending themes
performed by Shen for the first two seasons and Agnes Shin for the last two.
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| Star takes the Diaz family to another dimension. |
The first two seasons took place
primarily on Earth, centering on Star’s trying to acclimate to human culture
while mastering her magic. There was also the ongoing will they/won’t they
relationship subplot between her and Marco. Earth characters included Marco’s
parents, Rafael
(Artt Butler) and Angie (Nia Vardalos), who thought Star
would be a good influence on Marco and were very supportive of him; Ferguson
O’durguson (Nate Torrence)
and Alfonso
Dolittle (Matt Chapman),
Marco’s best friends; Jackie Lynn Thomas (Grey Griffin), Marco’s long-time
crush and eventual girlfriend, although ultimately she ended up in a
relationship with a French girl named Chloé (Jessica Paré) making her the
first female Disney character in a same-sex relationship; Principal
Skeeves (Bennett), the principal of Echo Creek Academy who was very
emotional and often acted more like a student than the principal; Miss
Skullnick (Dee Dee Rescher), Star and Marco’s homeroom math teacher that
accidentally gets turned into a troll; Sensei
Brantley (Nick Swardson), an
instructor at the strip mall karate dojo where Marco trained who learned all
his karate from instructional videos; Oskar
Greason (Jon Heder),
Star’s initial crush at school who dropped out of school and lived in his car,
playing keytar; Jeremy
Birnbaum (Joshua Rush),
a spoiled rich kid whose parents sponsored the dojo and was Marco’s rival;
Janna Ordonia (Abby Elliott), a mysterious student that hung out with Star and
Marco with an interest in the occult; StarFan13
(Nefcy), Star’s biggest fan who dressed like her and tried to mimic her as much
as possible; and Brittney
Wong (Minae Noji), the
spoiled head cheerleader that was constantly annoyed by Star’s antics.
Glossaryck (a play on “glossary”, voiced by Jeffrey Tambor & Keith David)
was Star’s Magic guide that dwelled within her spell book and trained her in
the use of spells; however, he was bound to the book and served whoever possessed
it. Eventually, the Diaz family was expanded when Marco gained a sister: Mariposa
(Spanish for “butterfly”).
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| Moon and River Butterfly. |
The last two seasons moved primarily
to Mewni, where the Butterfly family history and history of Mewni was explored,
as well as who really was meant to rule the kingdom. Marco followed Star and
served as her squire, with even further complications to their romance
developing. The ongoing subplot however dealt with the discrimination Monsters
faced from Mewmans and the destructive lengths some would go to to eliminate
them rather than understand them. Mewni characters (some of which had crossed
over to Earth for visits previously) included Star’s parents, Moon (Griffin,
with Katie Driver portraying
her younger self), whose experiences in battle against Toffee and utilizing
dark magic made her overprotective of Star, and River (Tudyk, with Ashbourne Serkis as his younger
self), a member of the Johansen
family that were Viking-like barbarians fond of the outdoors; Pony Head (Jenny
Slate), a floating unicorn head, fellow princess and attendee of St. Olga’s
that was Star’s best friend and initially jealous of her relationship with
Marco; Tom Lucitor (Rider Strong), a hot-headed three-eyed demon that was
Star’s ex-boyfriend who eventually rekindled his romance with her; Buff Frog
(Fred Tatasciore using a Russian accent), an anthropomorphic frog that
initially served as Ludo’s spy but came to befriend Star and Marco and settled
down with his family; Kelly (Dana Davis), a Woolett and old
friend of Star’s whose turquoise hair could cover her entire body and initially
dated a diminutive hairy creature that lived on top of her hair named Tad (Greg Cipes); Eclipsa Butterfly
(Esmé Blanco), the former queen of Mewni and mother of Meteora who was imprisoned
for using dark magic and eloping with a Monster, Globgor (Jamie Camil), but was
eventually freed by Moon in exchange for helping to defeat Toffee; and the Magic
High Commission, a group of powerful beings that guarded magic in the
universe comprised of Moon, Hekapoo (Zosia Mamet), who created the dimensional
scissors and could duplicate herself, Omnitraxus
Prime (Carl Weathers),
manipulator of space and time, Lekmet (Baker),
a goat-headed demon Glossaryck created, and Rhombulus (Kevin Michael Richardson), who
served as an enforcer that could encase prisoners in unbreakable crystal.
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| Love-crossed: Marco with Jackie, Star with Tom. |
Disney decided to let the series end
with the fourth season. During its run, it racked up numerous awards and
nominations, including the Annecy International Animated Film Festival, BTVA Voice Acting Awards (of
which it won three), the Annie Awards, a
Daytime Emmy Award (which it won), and a Kids’ Choice Awards Mexico. Despite
bringing almost everything to a conclusion, Nefcy left the ending a bit open in
the hopes of someday getting to revisit the world with another project, as well
as leave fans something to build off with their art and fanfiction.
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| Glossaryck and the spell book's forbidden chapter. |
Several video games based on the
series were released to the Disney XD website and for download to mobile
devices. 2015 introduced Creature Capture, a
tile-matching puzzle game, and Star vs. the Dungeon of Evil,
an action-adventure game that saw Star and Marco captured by Ludo and
having to escape his castle. Quest Buy Rush was
made available in 2016 and was an endless runner platforming game featuring
Star going through Quest
Buy (an allusion to Best Buy), a
maze-like retail store featured on the show. Star and Marco were also playable
characters in the platforming puzzle game Hero Trip, which
featured characters from various Disney XD shows.
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| Eclispa uses the power of commercialism to subdue Meteora. |
Joe Books published four of
a planned eight-issue comic series beginning in 2016. Star vs, the
Forces of Evil: Deep Trouble was written by Marcus and illustrated by Taylor.
It was cancelled due to poor sales. The released issues were later collected into
a trade
paperback. Joe Books also released a Cinestory
Comic of the first episode which utilized stills rather
than original art. A second
Cinestory Comic was released in 2019 based on
“Starcrushed”. Disney Press released Star
and Marco’s Guide to Mastering Every Dimension in
early 2017, a “guide to life” book written by Marco, Star and Pony Head
(but really by Amber Benson,
Bisignano, Taylor and Cindy
Plourde). A Stump Day Edition with additional content was set to
release that September but was pushed back to October. Benson also wrote The
Magic Book of Spells in 2018 with Nefcy,
which was a real-life reproduction of Star’s spell book. Funko would release Star, Marco, Tom and Ludo
as part
of their Pops! line in late 2018, early 2019. Butterfly Mode Star would
be made exclusive to Hot Topic stores.
Toy company PhatMojo would debut a Star
plush as a Comic-Con exclusive in 2018, then made it available for retail
later that year. Other products included additional plushes,
cosplay
items, coloring
books, earrings,
costumes,
keychains,
notebooks,
blankets,
bags
and more. Although the series has not yet been released to home video, it has
been made available for streaming on Amazon
Prime Video and on Disney+.
EPISODE
GUIDE:
“Star
Comes to Earth / Party with a Pony” (1/18/15) – Star is sent to Earth to learn
her magic and she befriends Marco after enrolling in school. / Star’s best
friend Pony Head visits and competes with Marco for her affections.
“Matchmaker
/ School Spirit” (3/30/15) – Star plots to get a better grade by fixing her
teacher up, but instead Ludo attacks and her teacher ends up becoming a troll.
/ As the school prepares to battle on the football field against their rivals,
Star takes the concept a little too literally.
“Monster
Arm / The Other Exchange Student” (4/6/15) – Star uses her wand to fix Marco’s
broken arm, turning it into a tentacle that wants to conquer the world. / The
Diaz’s former exchange student visits and becomes the center of attention, but
Star suspects something is off.
“Cheer
Up, Star / Quest Buy” (4/13/15) – While hiding from Ludo’s army in a shed,
Marco tries to cheer up Star when her crush doesn’t call her after she left her
number. / Star and Marco head to an inter-dimensional store to get a charger
for her wand, and Ludo happens to be shopping there at the same time.
“Diaz
Family Vacation / Brittney’s Party” (4/20/15) – Star takes the Diaz family to
Mewni as an anniversary gift and must keep her father from seeing her off
Earth. / Star and Marco crash Brittney’s birthday party on a bus, which is then
further crashed by Ludo.
“Mewberty
/ Pixtopia” (6/15/15) – Mewberty causes Star to break out into hearts around
boys and eventually turns her into a butterfly creature that steals them away.
/ Unable to pay the bill for the prank calls on Star’s mirror, Star, Marco,
Alfonzo and Ferguson must go work in a mine.
“Lobster
Claws / Sleep Spells” (6/22/15) – Marco tries to help Lobster Claws reform
after Ludo fires him. / A bout of sleep-spelling is revealed to be Star
defending herself from an intruder who wants to steal her face.
“Bood
Moon Ball / Fortune Cookies” (7/20/15) – Star’s ex invites her to a ball
stating that he’s changed, but Marco has his doubts. / Marco tricks Star into
thinking fortune cookie fortunes are real, and Ludo and Toffee plan to use this
to their advantage.
“Freeze
Day / Royal Pain” (7/27/15) – Star freezes time so Marco can make his daily
head-nod with Jackie but is then unable to UN-freeze it. / River gets kicked
out of the castle and comes to visit Star, becoming enamored with Earth
activities and overstaying his welcome.
“St. Olga’s Reform School for Wayward
Princesses” (8/10/15) – Star and Marco go to bust Pony Head out of school for
her birthday only to discover she’s been brainwashed into compliance.
“Mewnipendance
Day / The Banagic Incident” (8/17/15) – Star enlists help to reenact Mewni’s
Independence Day battle, which Frog infiltrates to get her wand. / When Marco
refuses to get Star a wand she wants, she heads into town herself and ends up
attacking a pirate restaurant believing they’re real pirates.
“Interdimensional
Field Trip / Marco Grows a Beard” (9/14/15) – A boring field trip inspires Star
to take the class to another dimension where they end up captured by a yarn
monster. / Star’s spell to help Marco impress Jackie goes out of control and
his beard grows to monstrous lengths.
“Storm
the Castle” (9/21/15) – Toffee has taken over Ludo’s castle and captured Marco,
and Star is forced to destroy her wand to save him.
Season
2:
“Mr.
Candle Cares / Red Belt” (7/18/16) – Marco discovers the guidance counselor’s
poor advice stems from his being in league with Tom. / Marco discovers his
sensei never earned his red belt because the tape ended up stuck and they go on
a quest to find a new tape.
“Star
on Wheels / Fetch” (7/25/16) – Marco teaches Star how to ride a bike—but she
hasn’t quite figured out how to stop. / Star ends up taking care of a dog who
ended up with her wand in her mouth.
“Star
vs. Echo Creek / Wand to Wand” (8/1/16) – Star goes on the run when a sugar
high causes her to accidentally crush a police cruiser. / Ludo tries to learn
how to use his new wand while Star attempts to use hers to clean the Diaz
house, causing an even bigger mess.
“Starstruck
/ Camping Trip” (8/8/16) – Star encounters a homeless girl from Mewni whom she
decides to mentor, and who decides she wants to take over the world. / King
Butterfly joins the Diaz camping trip, causing trouble with the park ranger and
ruining Marco’s plans to show Star a geyser.
“Starsitting
/ On the Job” (8/15/16) – Marco and Star end up disagreeing on how to watch
after Buff’s tadpoles. / While investigating the theft of Mewnian corn with
Boo, Buff keeps thinking about his tadpoles causing him to become distracted
and klutzy.
“Goblin
Dogs / By the Book” (9/12/16) – Going for the goblin version of a hot dog turns
into a grand quest. / Marco tries to get Star and Glossaryk to reconcile after
they have a falling out over Star’s study habits.
“Game
of Flags / Girls’ Day Out” (9/19/16) – Star devises a way to get involved in
the games at the family reunion. / Star gets sent to detention where she’s told
she’s the mayor and is responsible for fulfilling the other detentionees’
needs.
“Sleepover
/ Gift of the Card” (9/26/16) – Star hosts a sleepover with a game of truth or
dare where a magical cube punishes a liar until the game is over. / Miss
Heinous hires a bounty hunter to get revenge on Star while Star has to get
Marco to use his Quest Buy gift card before it—and its giver—expires.
“Friendenemies
/ Is Mystery” (10/3/16) – Tom and Marco start to become friends when they
realize they have a lot in common. / Buff ends up captured while investigating
a hole in the corn field wall and discovers Ludo is back.
“Hungry
Larry / Spider with a Top Hat” (10/10/16) – Star and Janna summon Hungry Larry
to make Mr. Diaz’s haunted house scary, but Larry ends up eating everyone. /
Spider with a Top Hat wants to be summoned for use by Star, and not just
entertainment for the other wand monsters.
“Into
the Wand / Pizza Thing” (11/7/16) – When Star’s wand malfunctions Glossaryck
has her go inside it to find and remove an object that doesn’t belong. / Going
for a pizza turns into a misadventure when Pony Head tags along with Marco.
“Page
Turner / Naysaya” (11/14/16) – Glossaryck is called away after telling Star not
to turn to a page of dark magic, and Star enlists Marco’s help to give into the
temptation. / Marco finally gets up the nerve to ask out Jackie just as Tom
puts a curse on him so he can’t ask out Star.
“Bon
Bon the Birthday Clown” (11/21/16) – Star lets Marco go out with Jackie and
spies on them, letting her jealousy distract her from Ludo swooping in to steal
her spell book.
“Raid
the Cave” (2/6/17) – Star sets out to retrieve the book from Ludo.
“Trickstar”
(2/7/17) – Star discovers that the magician hired for Marco’s sensei’s birthday
party is stealing the joy of the attendees.
“Baby”
(2/8/17) – A fairy is sent to evaluate Star and if she fails she could be
forced to return to Mewni.
“Running
with Scissors” (2/9/17) – Marco abuses the dimensional scissors, causing
Hekapoo to snatch him and reclaim them since Pony Head stole them from her in
the first place.
“Mathmagic”
(2/13/17) – Star uses magic to try and get out of answering a math question but
ends up causing a time loop.
“The
Bounce Lounge” (2/14/17) – Star and Pony Head round up their old crew to throw
a fundraiser to save their favorite party venue.
“Crystal
Clear” (2/15/17) – Rhombulus believes Star is responsible for glitches affecting
dimensions and encases her and Marco in crystal.
“The
Hard Way” (2/16/17) – Ludo learns about the forbidden chapter in the book and
makes Glossaryck show him, causing Toffee to take possession of Ludo.
“Heinous”
(2/20/17) – Miss Heinous arrives at the Diaz household to make “Princess Marco”
pay for costing her her job.
“All
Belts are Off” (2/21/17) – Marco becomes upset when Jeremy is asked to
represent the dojo for the Grandmaster’s visit and decides to gather video
evidence of his unworthiness.
“Collateral
Damage” (2/22/17) – Star accidentally destroys a possum statue that means a lot
to the school and tries to change their perspective to eliminate its
importance.
“Just
Friends” (2/23/17) – Star bonds with Jackie when they and Marco go to a concert,
but it turns to jealousy when couples begin kissing.
“Face
the Music (Part 1)” (2/27/17) – Songstrel Ruberiot is tasked to write a song
about Star for Mewman Song Day and exposes all her biggest secrets, including
her crush on Marco.
“Starcrushed
(Part 2)” (2/27/17) – Moon leads a raid on Ludo with the Commission and takes
back the book before going to Earth and telling Star she must return home.
Film:
Season
3:
“Club
Snubbed / Stranger Danger” (11/7/17) – Star confronts Tom to find out why he’s
been avoiding her at the Silver Bell Ball. / Star’s friendly chat with Eclipsa
is interrupted by the Commission who arrive to crystalize her.
“Demoncism
/ Sophomore Slump” (11/8/17) – Star and Pony Head set out to rescue Tom from a
demoncism that is meant to turn him more normal. / Marco gets everyone tired of
his stories of Mewni and Jackie breaks up with him so that he’s free to go
back.
“Lint
Catcher / Trial by Squire” (11/9/17) – Marco returns to Mewni but Star is
indifferent and assigns him the job of squire of the Knight of the Wash. / At a
blowout sale at Quest Buy, another squire ridicules Marco under the assumption
he only became Star’s squire because they’re dating.
“Princess
Turdina / Starfari” (11/13/17) – St. Olga’s is throwing a celebration for
Marco’s alter ego, but he wants to come clean and reveal his true identity to
them. / Star sets out to understand why Mewmans treat monsters poorly.
“Sweet
Dreams / Laval Lake Beach” (11/14/17) – Star discovers that she travels in her
butterfly form in her sleep. / Helping Kelly with her relationship trouble
makes Marco face his repressed feelings for Star just in time to catch her
kissing Tom.
“Death
Peck / Ponymonium” (11/15/17) – In trying to get the only holdout to sign
Star’s petition to treat monsters better, Marco accidentally breaks the royal’s
leg and is sentenced to death. / Star becomes close to Pony Head’s sisters who
then confide in her their plan to frame Pony for murder.
“Night
Life / Deep Dive” (11/16/17) – Marco helps Hekapoo deal with rampant random
portals, causing him to ignore his duties as Star’s squire. / Star and Janna
set out to find what’s causing Star’s transformations, but she ends up
entranced to stay in the Realm of Magic.
“Monster
Bash” (11/16/17) – Star holds a party to bring Mewmans and Monsters together,
but an investigation into disappearances leads to a revelation about Miss
Heinous’ true identity.
“Stump
Day / Holiday Special” (12/2/17) – Marco decides to celebrate Star’s birthday
rather than the holiday of Stump Day, causing the Stump to angrily attack. /
The spells within the wand are leery of the Seeing-Eye spell, which just
watches them and reveals their truths to each other.
“The
Bogbeast of Boggabah / Total Eclipsa the Moon” (3/3/18) – River takes Star on a
hunt for the Bogbeast, which Star tries to rush through. / Moon and Eclipsa
infiltrate the Royal Archive to learn about the truth of Eclipsa’s daughter.
“Butterfly
Trap / Ludo, Where Art Thou?” (3/10/18) – The Butterflies use the trial of
Eclipsa to get to the truth. / Dennis goes on a hunt across dimensions to find
his brother Ludo.
“Is
Another Mystery / Marco Jr.” (3/17/18) – Monsters begin a mass exodus from
Mewni considering growing discrimination. / Marco learns he’s going to have a
baby brother and has a Mewni artist paint his picture for him, only to end up
disfigured when the artist gets it wrong.
“Skooled!
/ Booth Buddies” (3/24/18) – Meteora invades St. Olga’s to learn about her
origins and decides to retake the Mewni throne. / At a wedding, Star and Marco
become trapped in a magic photo booth until they manage to take a sincere
picture together.
“Bam
Ui Pati! / Tough Love” (3/31/18) – Pony Head falls into a deep depression over
Meteora stealing her horn, becoming addicted to Korean dramas. / Moon and
Eclipsa head to the Pigeon Kingdom to stop Meteora’s path of destruction.
“Divide
(Part 1)” (4/7/18) – As acting queen, Star puts Marco in charge of defending
the kingdom from Meteora while she searches for her mother.
“Conquer
(Part 2)” (4/7/18) – Meteora seems unstoppable, but despite Tom pleading to
retreat to his home dimension Star is determined to make a stand.
Season
4:
“Escape
from the Pie Folk (Part 2)” (3/10/19) – Moon is found among the Pie Folk
without her memories, and they discover they are descended from Pie Folk.
“Moon
Remembers / Swim Suit” (3/17/19) – Moon decides to leave with River, not fully
trusting Eclipsa and choosing to respect Star’s decision to cede the throne. /
Star is called on to settle a dispute between Eclipsa and Rhombulus over
freeing her husband from his crystal prison.
“Ransomgram
/ Lake House Fever” (3/17/19) – After receiving a ransomgram, Star and Marco
head out to rescue Nachoes from the Neverzonian Wraiths. / Star ends up stuck at
Tom’s house due to a fire rain and deals with awkwardness from his mother.
“Yada
Yada Berries / Down by the River” (3/24/19) – Star and Marco investigate who
put Yada Yada Berries—which turn people into stone—in Eclipsa’s food. / An
annoying family forced off their land moves in next to Moon and River in the
woods.
“The
Pony Head Show! / Surviving the Spiderbites” (3/24/19) – Pony Head’s plan to
endear Eclipsa to everyone via a talk show falters when Seahorse hacks
everyone’s phones so they can’t turn it off. / Visiting dignitaries from the
Spiderbite Kingdom reveal that Globgor ate their ancestor, prompting Star to
hide her piece of spell book from Eclipsa.
“Out
of Business / Kelly’s World” (3/31/19) – Overwhelmed by the crowds at Quest
Buy’s Closing Day sale, Janna disguises herself as an employee and takes Star
and Marco into a restricted section. / Marco spends a day with Kelly to cheer
her up but keeps ending up in misunderstandings with local customs.
“Curse
of the Blood Moon” (3/31/19) – Believing their feelings are the result of a
curse, Star and Marco follow Tom to the underworld where they give up their first
memory of falling for each other.
“Princess
Quasar Caterpillar and the Magic Bell / Ghost of Butterfly Castle” (4/7/19) –
Ludo falls back into old habits, especially when he learns Eclipsa now has
Star’s wand. / Moon’s home in the woods has become a community that relies on
her to solve their problems, resulting in her heading to haunted Butterfly
Castle to retrieve her ledger to keep track.
“Cornball!
/ Meteora’s Lesson” (4/7/19) – Star sets up a game that puts monsters and
Mewmans on the same teams—with explosive results. / While Eclipsa’s away,
Glossaryck takes Meteora back in time to teach her a lesson.
“The
Knight Shift / Queen-Napped” (4/14/19) – The other knights gang up on Marco
when he quits being one of them shortly after being knighted. / Eclipsa ends up
kidnapped and Star and Marco must rescue her.
“Junkin’
Janna / A Spell with No Name” (4/14/19) – Trying to show Tom how to have fun
lands him and Janna against a crow monster. / Star and Eclipsa must work
together to stop a dangerous spell.
“A
Boy and His DC-700XE / The Monster and the Queen” (4/21/19) – Tom gets a dragon
cycle to join the Dragon Cycle Club on a ride. / Eclipsa finds Star’s piece of
the book and restores it, having Globgor’s freedom in her hands.
“Coronation”
(4/21/19) – Star holds a coronation for Eclipsa, but everyone goes into panic
when Globgor is revealed to have escaped his prison.
“Doop-Doop
/ Britta’s Tacos” (4/28/19) – Marco and Janna decide to return to Earth while
Star wants to go traveling with Tom…or does she? / Marco and Star reconnect
with all of their old friends and see what they’ve been up to in their absence.
“Beach
Day / Gone Baby Gone” (4/28/19) – Recalling her future photo of her and Marco
at the beach, Star decides they should have an actual beach day. / Hekapoo
appears to give Marco a warning about returning to Mewni and allows Meteora and
Mariposa to travel through her portal.
“Sad
Teen Hotline / Jannanigans” (5/5/19) – Tom breaks up with Star and both
discover they’re unable to open a portal to or communicate with Mewni. / Star,
Tom and Marco turn to Janna to try and remember how she got to Mewni without a
portal.
“Mama
Star / Ready, Aim, Fire!” (5/5/19) – The kids lock themselves in Oskar’s car as
they travel through the Magic Realm and end up attacked by a dark unicorn. / The
kids arrive to find Mewni is under attack by Mina and the High Commission.
“The
Right Way / Here to Help” (5/12/19) – Star and the others manage to defeat
Mina’s battle armor, only to discover she has an entire army at her disposal. /
Moon and River arrive and Moon tries to convince Eclipsa to surrender.
“Pizza
Party / The Tavern at the End of the Multiverse” (5/12/19) – Eclipsa surrenders
to Moon in exchange for her family’s safety, but Mina betrays Moon and is
determined to wipe out all monsters. / Star discovers that she’s destined to
destroy magic, but when she does Marco will be sent back home forever.
“Cleaved”
(5/19/19) – Star decides to destroy magic and heads into the magic dimension
with Marco, however she’s not powerful enough to do it until joined by all the
queens of Mewni.
