"Cheer Up, Star" is the seventh episode of the first season of Star vs. the Forces of Evil.
It premiered on April 13, 2015, alongside "Quest Buy".[1]
Synopsis[]
Star is feeling down when she doesn't get a call from her new crush, Oskar, so Marco tries to cheer her up but accidentally summons Ludo and his army of monsters both old and new.[1]
Plot[]
While taking cover from Ludo's minions inside a shed, Marco nervously admits to being the one responsible for these monsters attacking them while building some armor. The episode then flashes back to when Marco was having a bad day. He missed the bus, got hit in the face with a stop sign, fell into heaps of trash, got teased by a bicyclist for a picture of him kissing a ninja on his shirt, was annoyed by Jeremy Birnbaum, and broke Jackie's skateboard. Marco felt so miserable that Star tried everything to cheer him up. Moustaches and juggling laser puppies did not seem to work until she finally made him laugh after getting herself trapped inside a giant, transparent fish.
Then sometime before the monster attack happened, Star met a boy named Oskar, with whom she immediately became infatuated when she heard him playing his keytar. Star gave him Marco's phone number with her name on it and went home to wait for his call. She waited and waited for Oskar to call through Marco's phone, but by the time it got dark, Oscar never called, leaving her upset. Marco couldn't help feeling sorry for Star, so he decided it was his turn to cheer her up. He tried dressing up as a clown, but ended up scaring her instead. Then he attempted to pull off a dangerous stunt that failed horribly, which only frustrated her. Just then, noticing her wand, he decided the best way to cheer her up was to get her to fight monsters. Using her wand as bait, he lured a member of Ludo's army, the two-headed monster, to come to Earth and fight Star. However, he also accidentally lured in Ludo and more of Ludo's army, including two unfamiliar, larger monsters.
After finally giving Star a full explanation, the monsters have managed to get into the shed and one grabs Marco. Star frees him and the two friends return to fighting Ludo's minions. Already, Star feels a lot better and no longer cares if Oskar calls her or not. But after she speaks, Star receives a call from Oskar, much to her joy. She tries to speak to him while fighting, but after Bearicorn roars in her face, Star puts Oskar on hold and angrily blasts all of Ludo's minions with a tsunami of maple syrup. With all the monsters beaten, Star goes back to talking to Oskar, and after saying goodbye, she thanks Marco for cheering her up, and gives him a hug. Unfortunately, because Marco is covered from head to toe in sticky maple syrup, Star ends up stuck to him, and the bicyclist from before comes by and laughs at this.
Characters[]
Major characters[]
Minor characters[]
- Jeremy Birnbaum
- Echo Creek Academy students
- Principal Skeeves
- Guy on bike
- Linda Diaz
- Laser puppies
- School bus driver
- Echo Creek Academy students
- Ludo's army
Production notes[]
Songs[]
Title in other languages[]
| Language | Title | Translation |
|---|---|---|
| Chinese | 打起精神來 星星 | Cheer Up Star |
| Dutch | Star Opvrolijken | Cheering Up Star |
| French | Courage Star! | Cheer Up Star! |
| German | Der schlimmste Tag | The Worst Day |
| Hebrew | תתעודדי, סטאר | Get Up, Star |
| Hungarian | Fel a fejjel, Csillag! | Cheer Up, Star! |
| Italian | Non ti abbattere, Star! | Don't Break Down, Star! |
| Japanese | 元気をだして！ | Cheer Up! |
| Korean | 힘 내, 스타! | Cheer Up, Star! |
| Polish | Rozchmurz się Star | Cheer Up Star |
| Portuguese (Brazil) | Animando a Star | Cheering Up Star |
| Portuguese (Portugal) | Anima-te, Star | Cheer Up, Star |
| Russian | Не унывай, Звёздочка | Do Not Be Depressed, Star |
| Spanish (Latin America) | Ánimo, Star | Cheer Up, Star |
| Spanish (Spain) | Animando a Star | Cheering Up Star |
| Turkish | Neşelen Star | Cheerful Star |
| Ukrainian | Зірко, не сумуй | Star, Don't Be Sad |
Transcript
View the episode transcript here.
Gallery
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Trivia[]
- This episode was released early on WATCHDisneyXD.com, the WATCH Disney XD app, and Disney XD on Demand on April 7, 2015.
- Jon Heder guest-stars for the first time as Oskar Greason.
- The object Marco tapes to Star's face as "armor" is a tool known as an animation disk. The disk she wears happens to have an ACME peg bar installed.
- Star's failed test from "Match Maker" can be seen on her desk as she waits for Oskar to call.
- In real life, school bus stop signs open on the opposite side of the boarding doors.
- According to Aaron Hammersley, Carrie Liao storyboarded this episode before he and Dominic Bisignano rewrote certain sections of it while keeping most of Liao's storyboards intact.[2]
- This episode was on the 2015 Emmy Awards nomination ballots for "Outstanding Short-Format Animated Program", but it didn't get nominated.
Revelations and continuity[]
- This episode reveals that Marco once kissed a ninja at a convention called Karate-Kon in 2012, as shown on his shirt.
- Jeremy Birnbaum knows Marco has a crush on Jackie.
- Marco's cell phone number is 555-0111.
- Marco's cellphone ringtone is Space Unicorn, composed by Parry Gripp.
- In this episode, Star is revealed to be coulrophobic (afraid of clowns).
- Star's enthusiasm to attend a dead clown séance in "Bon Bon the Birthday Clown" contradicts this, though her reaction to Marco's clown routine in this episode could merely be attributed to him unintentionally presenting himself in a creepy manner that spooked her.
Allusions[]
- The heading of the newspaper that Marco put over his shirt reads "Las Cebollas" (Spanish for "The Onions"), which may refer to the American digital media company and news satire organization The Onion.
Errors[]
- "Honeybee Tornado Swarm" is transcribed as "Put him in the Tornado Swarm" in the television broadcast's closed captions.
- After Marco gets hit by the school bus stop sign as it opens, it is seen closed in the next shot.
- In the flashback of Star trying to cheer Marco up, she isn't wearing her headband until she gets stuck inside the transparent fish.
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 TV News Desk (2015-03-27). Disney XD Announces April 2015 Programming Highlights. Broadway World. Retrieved on 2017 March 5.
- ↑ Aaron Hammersley (2017-03-29). Hey there Aaron! You mentioned that Mewberty was.... Tumblr. Retrieved on 2017 July 26.