Steven Universe
Monster Buddies
TV Flash files “Monster Buddies” as hour 23 of 154 in the TV Flash guide — Steven Universe (2013–2019) on Cartoon Network, season 1, episode 23, aired 2014-09-11, 15 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E23: listed hour 23 of 154 in the Steven Universe guide, hour 23 of 52 in season 1. It aired 2014-09-11 (15 min). The listed hour before it is “Steven and the Stevens” (S01E22). Next is “An Indirect Kiss” (S01E24).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Steven attempts to tame a Gem monster's wild form when he accidentally releases it from its bubble.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Monster Buddies sit in the Steven Universe guide?
S01E23 is listed hour 23 of 154 — hour 23 of 52 in season 1, season 1 episode 23.
When did Steven Universe S01E23 air?
Monster Buddies aired 2014-09-11 and is listed at 15 minutes.
Kids' show or all-ages drama?
Children's animation with emotional literacy and landmark queer representation. Kindness as strategy, not a joke. Executives underestimated it; fandom did not.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Rebecca Sugar's half-gem boy and alien guardians treat empathy as a superpower: fusion, trauma, songs that carry plot, kindness as strategy. Landmark queer-friendly kids' animation that executives underestimated. Musical lore denseness and emotional literacy — children's television that argued, week after week, that feeling things was the point.
So about the hiatus pain: Crewniverse fandom treated every delay like a spoiler (I said spoiler-free; continuity was the spoiler). Rebecca Sugar's Cartoon Network series (2013–2019) is a half-gem boy and alien guardians unpacking trauma, identity, and love while protecting Earth — Zach Callison's Steven, Estelle's Garnet, Michaela Dietz's Amethyst, Deedee Magno Hall's Pearl. Empathy as a superpower. Fusion, songs that carry plot, kindness as strategy. Lana can keep the premiere gown; this timeline wanted the…
Filed against
- Zach Callison as Steven Universe
Zach Callison’s Steven Universe treated empathy as a superpower — Rebecca Sugar’s half-gem boy, alien guardians, fusion, trauma, songs that carry plot, kindness as strategy. Landmark queer-friendly kids’ animation that executives…
- Estelle as Garnet
Estelle voiced Garnet on Steven Universe — fusion as love, trauma as lore, Rebecca Sugar's half-gem boy and alien guardians treating empathy as a superpower. Landmark queer-friendly kids' animation executives underestimated. TV Flash…
- Michaela Dietz as Amethyst
Michaela Dietz’s Amethyst gave Steven Universe a loud, messy guardian pulse — Rebecca Sugar’s 2010s half-gem boy, fusion, trauma, songs that carry plot, kindness as strategy. Landmark queer-friendly kids’ animation executives…
- Deedee Magno Hall as Pearl
Deedee Magno Hall’s Pearl made Steven Universe a song with a spine — Rebecca Sugar’s half-gem boy, alien guardians, fusion, trauma, empathy as a superpower. Landmark queer-friendly kids’ animation executives underestimated. TV Flash files…
- Shelby Rabara as Peridot
Shelby Rabara voices Peridot on Steven Universe — Rebecca Sugar's green technician whose fury, fusion, and eventual softness let a kids' epic treat empathy as strategy instead of a lecture. Musical lore, alien guardians, a half-gem boy…