List of Star vs. the Forces of Evil episodes
Star vs. the Forces of Evil is an American animated comedy adventure television series produced by Disney Television Animation.[1] The first episode was shown on January 18, 2015, on Disney Channel as a special preview, and the series officially premiered on March 30, 2015, on Disney XD.[1] The show was created by Daron Nefcy, who had worked on storyboards for Wander Over Yonder and Robot and Monster. Nefcy became the second woman to create an animated series for Disney Television Animation (the first being Sue Rose, who created Pepper Ann), and the first woman to create a Disney XD series.[2][3] On February 12, 2015, Disney renewed the series for a second season prior to its premiere on Disney XD.[1] The second season will premiere on July 11, 2016.[4] On March 4, 2016, it was renewed for a third season.[5]
Series overview
| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
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| First aired | Last aired | |||
| 1 | 13 | January 18, 2015 | September 21, 2015 | |
| 2 | TBA | July 11, 2016[6] | TBA | |
Episode list
Season 1 (2015)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date [9][10] | Prod. code [11][9] | U.S. viewers (millions) |
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| 1a | 1a | "Star Comes to Earth" | Mike Mullen | Mike Mullen | January 18, 2015 (Disney Channel) March 30, 2015 (Disney XD) | 101 | 2.33 (DC)[12] 1.14 (DXD)[13] |
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On her 14th birthday, Princess Star Butterfly receives a magical wand, but when she sets fire to the castle, she is sent to Earth to train. There, she enrolls in Echo Creek Academy where the principal pairs her with Marco Diaz, a reputed "safe kid". Upon befriending Marco, Star ends up discovering her skills when she is attacked by Ludo and his army of monsters. | |||||||
| 1b | 1b | "Party with a Pony" | Mike Mullen | Ian Wasseluk | January 18, 2015 (Disney Channel) March 30, 2015 (Disney XD) | 101 | 2.33 (DC)[12] 1.14 (DXD)[13] |
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Star receives a visit from Flying Princess Pony Head, her best friend from Mewni. Pony Head is jealous that Marco is Star's best friend on Earth. She invites Star and Marco to various dance clubs, but she competes with Marco for Star's attention and tries to strand him at a video arcade. Meanwhile, guards have been hot on Pony Head's trail. Eventually, King Pony Head arrives to have the guards take Pony Head to St. Olga's Reform School for Wayward Princesses. | |||||||
| 2a | 2a | "Matchmaker" | Aaron Hammersley | Aaron Hammersley, Daron Nefcy, Lane Lueras & Dave Stone | March 30, 2015 | 102 | 0.90[13] |
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Star fails her first test, so she tries to play matchmaker for their math teacher Miss Skullnick to get a better grade. However, she winds up turning her into a troll. When Ludo and his minions attack, one of the monsters falls for Skullnick. | |||||||
| 2b | 2b | "School Spirit" | Aaron Hammersley | Zeus Cervas & Aaron Hammersley | March 30, 2015 | 102 | 0.90[13] |
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Echo Creek Academy prepares for a football game against their rival school. Marco tries to protect Ferguson, who has become the team mascot, from being kidnapped. Star takes the concept of going to battle literally, and booby traps the field with bombs, evil kittens, and giant birds. | |||||||
| 3a | 3a | "Monster Arm" | Aaron Hammersley | Aaron Hammersley & Bert Youn | April 6, 2015 | 103 | 0.83[14] |
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Marco breaks his arm before a karate tournament. Star uses her wand to fix it, but transforms it into a tentacle arm. As Star tries to find a spell to reverse it, Marco begins to like his new powers associated with the arm. However, the arm harbors an evil sentience that intends to take over the world. | |||||||
| 3b | 3b | "The Other Exchange Student" | Mike Mullen | Carrie Liao | April 6, 2015 | 103 | 0.83[14] |
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When the Diaz family receives a visit by their former foreign exchange student Gustav from Scandinavia, Gustav soon becomes the family favorite with his meatballs, that Star feels neglected. She senses something is wrong when she discovers Gustav harbors some books and media about how to act like a Scandinavian in his backpack. | |||||||
| 4a | 4a | "Cheer up Star" | Aaron Hammersley | Carrie Liao, Aaron Hammersley & Dominic Bisignano | April 13, 2015 | 104 | 0.57[15] |
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Star and Marco are trapped inside a tool shed by Ludo's army. As Marco tries to fashion something to fight them off, he recounts how he tried to cheer up Star because she left her phone number for her crush, a keytar-playing student named Oskar, but he has not called her back. Guest star: Jon Heder as Oskar | |||||||
| 4b | 4b | "Quest Buy" | Aaron Hammersley | Dominic Bisignano | April 13, 2015 | 104 | 0.57[15] |
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When Star's wand runs low on power, she and Marco visit Quest Buy, a large inter-dimensional retail store to buy a new charger. However, the location of the charger department proves extremely difficult to find and to get to. Meanwhile, Ludo and his minions, who are shopping there for a beak sharpener, pursue Star to try to take her wand. | |||||||
| 5a | 5a | "Diaz Family Vacation" | Piero Piluso | Zeus Cervas, Christopher Graham & Piero Piluso | April 20, 2015 | 105 | 0.57[16] |
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As an anniversary gift for Marco's parents, Star invites them and Marco to Mewni, but must avoid being seen by her father as Star is not allowed to leave Earth. While they visit a Mewni village, Star sees her father strolling about, and directs the Diaz family into a deadly forest. | |||||||
| 5b | 5b | "Brittney's Party" | Mike Mullen | Mike Mullen & Ian Wasseluk | April 20, 2015 | 105 | 0.57[16] |
| 6a | 6a | "Mewberty" | Aaron Hammersley | Aaron Hammersley & Dominic Bisignano | June 15, 2015 | 106 | 0.74[17] |
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Star experiences "mewberty", that is, her skin breaks out in hearts whenever she is near boys. Although Marco thinks it's much like the Earthling condition, Star's is more extreme. She sprouts hearts all over her body, and transforms into a butterfly creature that captures boys and seals them away. Marco turns to the Glossaryck, a genie inside Star's book of magic, for advice on how to stop her. Guest star: Jeffrey Tambor as Glossaryck | |||||||
| 6b | 6b | "Pixtopia" | Mike Mullen | Christofer Graham, Mike Mullen & Carlos Ramos | June 15, 2015 | 106 | 0.74[17] |
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After making prank calls on Star's magic mirror, Marco, Alfonzo, Ferguson, and Star must go to Pixtopia: Land Of The Pixies and pay the bill. When they can't pay it, they are forced to work in a mine shaft. The Pixie Empress flirts with Ferguson. Guest stars: Anna Camp as Pixie Empress, Danny Woodburn as Pixie Taskmaster | |||||||
| 7a | 7a | "Lobster Claws" | Mike Mullen & Piero Piluso | Scott O'Brien & Piero Piluso | June 22, 2015 | 107 | 0.52[18] |
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Ludo fires his minion Lobster Claws after he accidentally takes off Deer Beard's antler when trying to get Star's wand. Marco tries to help Lobster Claws become good while Star thinks he cannot be reformed. | |||||||
| 7b | 7b | "Sleep Spells" | Mike Mullen | Mike Mullen & Ian Wasseluk | June 22, 2015 | 107 | 0.52[18] |
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Star and Marco try to determine who has been redecorating her room, with Mr. Diaz only accounting for a small project. Marco discovers that Star has been "sleep spelling", that is, casting spells when sleepwalking. He tries psychology to try to treat her but learns that she is actually trying to defend herself from an intruder, revealed to be Princess Smooshy, an ugly "goblin-elephant" princess who wants to steal Star's face so she can avoid getting sent back to St. Olga's Reform School for Wayward Princesses after escaping it. | |||||||
| 8a | 8a | "Blood Moon Ball" | Aaron Hammersley | Dominic Bisignano & Aaron Hammersley | July 20, 2015 | 108 | 0.67[20] |
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Star's ex-boyfriend Tom invites her to the Blood Moon Ball, an Underworld event that occurs once every 667 years. Tom claims he has turned over a new leaf, having hired an anger management consultant. Marco does not believe Tom has changed but Star decides to go anyway. When Marco disrupts Tom's plan to take Star for himself under the Blood Moon's light, Tom reverts to his old self. Guest star: Rider Strong as Tom[19] | |||||||
| 8b | 8b | "Fortune Cookies" | Mike Mullen | Carrie Liao & Mike Mullen | July 20, 2015 | 108 | 0.67[20] |
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Following yet another victory over Ludo and his minions, Marco and Star eat at a Chinese restaurant. Marco tricks Star into thinking the sayings in fortune cookies can really predict the future. Meanwhile, Ludo hires a monster named Toffee to shape up his minions; they come up with a plan to take advantage of Star's fortune cookie obsession. | |||||||
| 9a | 9a | "Freeze Day" | Mike Mullen | Carrie Liao & Mike Mullen | July 27, 2015 | 109 | 0.37[21] |
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Star freezes time with her wand so that Marco can appear at Echo Creek Academy on time for his morning greeting nod with his crush Jackie Lynn Thomas. But when she is unable to cancel out the effects, she and Marco visit the Plains of Time in order to get Father Time to restart time again. Guest star: Jim Gaffigan as Father Time | |||||||
| 9b | 9b | "Royal Pain" | Piero Piluso | Piero Piluso & Ian Wasseluk | July 27, 2015 | 109 | 0.37[21] |
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Star gets an unexpected visit from her father who had been kicked out of the house for not picking up after himself. After getting excited over Earth activities such as using a flush toilet and playing miniature golf, he ends up overstaying his welcome. He hosts a party with his inter-dimensional friends, but it is soon crashed by a sun character named Helios. Guest star: Jamie Kennedy as Helios | |||||||
| 10 | 10 | "St. Olga's Reform School for Wayward Princesses" | Piero Piluso | Piero Piluso | August 10, 2015 | 110 | 0.50[22] |
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Star and Marco go undercover as new princess students in order to break Pony Head out of St. Olga's on her birthday. They discover Pony Head has been brainwashed to be a compliant princess and try to evade the robot guards and the reform school's headmistress Miss Heinous. Guest stars: Jessica Walter as Miss Heinous, Jodi Benson as Singing Teacher | |||||||
| 11a | 11a | "Mewnipendance Day" | Aaron Hammersley | Dominic Bisignano, Aaron Hammersley, Kyle Neswald & Carder Scholin | August 17, 2015 | 111 | 0.51[23] |
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Star Butterfly recruits her classmates (as well as Miss Skullnick) to participate in a battle reenactment of Mewni's Independence Day. Ludo and Toffee use a special floating eye device to spy on Star and her activities. Ludo's minion Buff Frog infiltrates the reenactment as one of the monsters to try to steal the wand. | |||||||
| 11b | 11b | "The Banagic Incident" | Mike Mullen | Dominic Bisignano, Nate Cash, Mike Mullen, Kyle Neswald & Carder Scholin | August 17, 2015 | 111 | 0.51[23] |
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Impressed by a commercial for a "magical" Earth product called a Banagic Wand, Star tries to get Marco to buy it, but Marco refuses as he has karate class. Star ends up going into town by herself where she confuses a pirate-themed restaurant for having real pirates and trashes the place. Meanwhile, Marco's karate instructor wants his students to channel their emotions to walk across hot coals. | |||||||
| 12a | 12a | "Interdimensional Field Trip" | Piero Piluso | Piero Piluso & Ian Wasseluk | September 14, 2015 | 112 | 0.55[24] |
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Miss Skullnick's class finds the field trip to the Echo Creek Museum of Paper Clips boring, so Star volunteers to lead a trip to the Dimension of Wonders and Amazement. But when she lets the students do whatever they want, she puts the entire class in danger. Meanwhile, Miss Skullnick visits an exhibit on troll history. When a yarn monster captures the class, Star and Miss Skullnick must work together to save them. | |||||||
| 12b | 12b | "Marco Grows a Beard" | Mike Mullen & Piero Piluso | Tyler Chen | September 14, 2015 | 112 | 0.55[24] |
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Star botches a spell that would help Marco grow a beard in order to impress Jackie Lynn Thomas. The hair grows out of control, engulfing the house, and Star loses her wand in the midst of it. Meanwhile, Ludo leads his minions through the overgrown beard to find the wand. After Star defeats them, Ludo is shocked when he is overthrown by Toffee. | |||||||
| 13 | 13 | "Storm the Castle" | Aaron Hammersley | Dominic Bisignano, Christopher Graham, Aaron Hammersley & Ian Wasseluk | September 21, 2015 | 113 | 0.68[25] |
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After an argument over their recent adventure of retrieving a sandwich, Star discovers that Marco has been abducted and held ransom for her wand. She allies with Buff Frog (and the kicked-out Ludo) to storm the castle and beat up Ludo's former minions and free Marco. However, Toffee arranges for the box imprisoning Marco to gradually collapse, forcing Star to destroy her wand in exchange for sparing Marco. After consulting with Glossaryck, Star's parents determine that there is one more piece of the wand that must be found in order to repair it. | |||||||
Season 2
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code | U.S. viewers (millions) |
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| 14a | 1a | "My New Wand!"[6] | Unknown | Unknown | July 11, 2016 | 201 | N/A |
| 14b | 1b | "Ludo in the Wild"[6] | Unknown | Unknown | July 11, 2016 | TBA | N/A |
| 15a | 2a | "Mr. Candle Cares"[26] | Unknown | Unknown | July 18, 2016 | TBA | N/A |
| 15b | 2b | "Red Belt"[26] | Unknown | Unknown | July 18, 2016 | TBA | N/A |
| 16a | 3a | "Star on Wheels"[27] | Unknown | Unknown | July 25, 2016 | TBA | N/A |
| 16b | 3b | "Fetch"[27] | Unknown | Unknown | July 25, 2016 | TBA | N/A |
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