History Recap / StevenUniverseS2E5StoryForSteven

* {{Determinator}}: Greg doesn't care about a purple, talking owl saying that if he keeps asking stuff, it would have to kill him or the fact that there's a fence blocking the way, super strong ladies that come out of beams of lights threatening him or [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers his super jerk manager trying to control his life]]; he would not stop at anything in order to be with the mysterious pink lady.

* DoubleEntendre: [[{{Jerkass}} Marty]] asks Greg "how big" Rose was, obviously [[BuxomIsBetter referring to her bust]]. Greg, who has a thing for tall women, gushes that she was probably 8 feet.

** Amethyst has RapunzelHair in the present but shorter hair here. When she meets Greg, she tells him that she likes his hair.

{{Flashback}}: Young Greg Universe is college aged, and is peforming his song, "Comet". But when the song ends, it turns out that the audience is empty. Dozens of folding chairs are spread out before the makeshift stage, but no one is in them. However, in the back, there's a beautiful, tall, pink-haired woman, applauding. Greg gives his thank you spiel and plugs the merch table, where Marty is -- supposed to be waiting to sell merch, but isn't. Greg goes to man the table, and the beautiful pink-haired woman greets him there. They talk briefly about his album, Space Train to the Cosmos -- Greg, poetically, but Rose taking his words in a more literal sense. He gives her a free CD, and is about to give her a T-shirt. Her size isn't on the table, though, so Greg asks her to wait long enough for him to go get one.

He goes to the back of his van, only for the doors to burst open, revealing Marty and his current squeeze, a young woman he introduces as Vidalia. Marty scolds Greg for giving away free merch, and reminds Greg that he's diminishing his 75% by doing so. But once they get on the road, they'll make more money.

He sees a purple owl sitting on the fence while he pensively considers what to do next. To his surprise the owl talks -- in the voice the viewers would know as Amethyst. Greg, undaunted, asks if she knows where to find the tall pink-haired woman. The Amethyst owl replies "I could tell you but then I'd have to kill you," and flies off, laughing. Undaunted and un-freaked by the sight of a talking owl, he follows her to the cave.

As Marty drives the van out of Beach City, Greg's mind is still on the town they left behind, and the woman who so caught his attention. Marty mistakes him for waxing poetic and suggests he save it for performing. Greg becomes enraged at his manager's cavalier and dehumanizing attitude toward women when Greg describes the women we know as the Crystal Gems. When Marty turns to tell Greg that Marty decides what's important because he's the manager and Greg just a spaced out kid, and nearly drives them into a head-on collision with a semi-truck in doing so, Greg reaches his limit. He kicks Marty out of the van, then turns around and puts pedal to the metal back to Beach City, driving straight through the fence and onto the beach.

and Rose, wearing the Mr. Universe T-shirt he brought her, emerges. She asks him politely to go away, saying he's very cute, and she'd love to play with him, but his life is short and she wouldn't want to get in betwen him and what he wants.

* AutoErotica: Subtly implied to be what Marty and Vidalia were doing in the van.

* CheerfulChild: Despite being several thousand years old, Amethyst comes off as this when Greg meets her for the first time, looking more like an 8-year-old girl in a tomboy-like dress than the young-adult/older teenager she looks like in the present day.
* ChubbyChaser: Greg is one. When he mentions to Marty he met a woman that he likes, the first thing Marty asks about her is how big she was.

** During one of the shots in the flashback, you can see a box full of the red-with-yellow-shirts that Steven always wears in the back of Greg's van. Not only that, but back in ''Lars and the Cool Kids'', Steven mentions that he doesn't know where his clothes came from.

* {{Determinator}}: Greg doesn't care about a purple, talking owl saying that if he keeps asking stuff, it would have to kill him or the fact that there's a fence blocking the way, super strong ladies that come out of beams of lights threating him or [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers his super jerk manager trying to control his life]]; he would not stop at anything in order to be with the mysterious pink lady.

* TheDogBitesBack: Greg had enough of Marty controlling his life just to get quick cash.

* ForegoneConclusion: Since we already know how they got together. This is lampshaded when Greg mentions that he's told this story to Steven before, except without mentioning Marty.

* GetOut: What Greg tells Marty so he can be with Rose.

* HowDadMetMom: The episode is Greg telling Steven how he first met Rose Quartz.
* IdTellYouButThenIdHaveToKillYou: Amethyst says this to Greg when he asks about Rose. Greg is more intrigued by the possibility of finding Rose than scared of an owl threatening him.

* {{Jerkass}}: Marty, who calls Greg a kid and only cares about making money from concerts.
* LiteralMinded: To show how disconnected they are from humans, Rose assumes Greg's "space train to the cosmos" to be a literal train and is confused as to why he wouldn't want to come back. Later on, Pearl answers Greg's "what time is it" question with "nighttime" instead of a specific hour.
* LongHairedPrettyBoy: Greg in his 20's was quite cute and not only had his very long hair, but also a pompadour-like hairdo.

* LuminescentBlush: Garnet when Rose caught her almost throwing Greg over the fence, Pearl when Amethyst and Garnet giggled over her jealous remark and Steven while playfully teasing his dad over his love for Rose.

* ReallyGetsAround: Implied with Marty's "multiple smaller women" comment.

* TheRockStar: Greg, who dropped out of community college to follow his dream of being one.

* RuleOfThree: The lyrics to Greg's first song kind of parallel his path to Rose:
** "I fly like a comet": Greg planned to fly to stardom.
** "I soar like a comet": Marty planned to launch Greg to greater heights in big cities.
** "I crash like a comet": He crashes --literally-- in Beach City and is happy to settle there after meeting Rose -- and discovers that his "starchild" schtick has brought him to a genuine person from space.

* ItIsDehumanizing: When Amethyst is telling Pearl about her encounter with Greg, Pearl asks whether "it spoke to you?" However, once she realizes Greg is actually present, she uses male pronouns.

** Greg has the reframed photograph of himself and Rose in his van, which appeared in "Maximum Capacity".

** He also has the picture of Steven with cat fingers that Ronaldo took in "Cat Fingers".

* CallBack: Back in "Laser Light Cannon", Greg mentioned that Rose was the only attendee to his one-man show. Sure enough, when Greg finishes his song and the effects go away, all the seats are empty and Rose is clapping.

* LoveConfession: ''[[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming "You're everything I want!"]]''

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Marty being a jerk towards Greg made it easy for him to decide to stay in Beach City. Greg even lampshades it.

Greg wanders his way to the beach, with the temple on the hill, but it's all fenced off with a sign that says KEEP OFF THE BEACH ... Please.

-->Well that's gonna be a problem...''you're'' everything I want!

* HarsherInHindsight: Once you know more about both Greg and Rose, Rose's insistence that Greg not throw away his dreams to be with her, especially when you remember that he alienated his family to do so, looks a little different considering [[spoiler: Rose's prior identity dreamed of conquest and she threw it away, fooling her family, to protect humans and be with them and Pearl.]]

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: It's never made clear where Vidalia went, nor whatever happened to Marty. It can be inferred he just left her at whatever party he had come from.