Steven Universe
Cry for Help
TV Flash files “Cry for Help” as hour 63 of 154 in the TV Flash guide — Steven Universe (2013–2019) on Cartoon Network, season 2, episode 11, aired 2015-07-13, 15 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E11: listed hour 63 of 154 in the Steven Universe guide, hour 11 of 26 in season 2. It aired 2015-07-13 (15 min). The listed hour before it is “Chille Tid” (S02E10). Next is “Keystone Motel” (S02E12).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
A magical disturbance causes an interruption to Steven's favorite show.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Cry for Help sit in the Steven Universe guide?
S02E11 is listed hour 63 of 154 — hour 11 of 26 in season 2, season 2 episode 11.
When did Steven Universe S02E11 air?
Cry for Help aired 2015-07-13 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…