Now that you mentioned Zelda, the pantry kind of reminds me of the Bombers Gang from Majora's Mask, if their goal was to minorly inconvenience the town instead of do good.

I always suspected Onion was a Baseball Fury. Him having his own gang proves it.

We might solve a mystery! Or flash a Boardie!

The implication I got is that their families are seasonal workers. Beach City is probably much more populated during the summer months; I've heard of similar seasonal towns whose populations quadruple during their peak months.

Their masks kind of reminded me of the gang of children in Nightmare Before Christmas.

I'm trying to think of what to speculate about, but the Summer of Steven pretty much answered every pressing open-ended question I had about the show. Lapis is now a part of the crew, Jasper got some good character development before getting taken out, the Ruby Squad was taken care of in probably the most…

Not even that long. Between Steven's birth and when the Gems assumed full-time care of him, Pearl had to go from Rose's lovestruck second in command to a mother figure for a child she has no frame of reference for how to care for. Amethyst had to go from the happy-go-lucky baby of the group with no real…

I nominate Jasper for Worf.

Lapis working at a maid cafe is bound to inspire some fan artists out there.

Also possible. I've just read articles that focused on the Looney Tunes influence. Both possibilities paint a fairly narrow window of opportunity for this natural disaster to occur and meld the timelines.

True, though she falls in the grey zone of being too young to reliably remember anything pre-war other than what's been passed down to her by older survivors.

Definitely not an impossible problem to overcome, it just rankles the history buff in me.

That's probably the best way to think of it, but I'll admit that the Crewniverse's approach to historical worldbuilding isn't my favorite part of the show. Casually mentioning things like "World War II never happened" ignores the fact that history isn't a static sequence of unrelated events. Events have implications…

Right. That one kind of bothers me for the same reason Marceline knowing a modern day song kind of bothers me, but Simon and other human survivors knowing one doesn't. I suppose you could say that BMO had it installed by Moe, but it still nags at me. I was just trying to rationalize why some songs bother me and…

I've thought a lot about how Pearl and Amethyst had to grow and change after Rose died as well. Immortals like them aren't used to have to change personalities at all, much less in such a short amount of time. It left their relationship in a tenuous position (though not as openly spiteful as some would say), and…

After some reflection, a big part of it might be the context of their inclusion. The theme songs get a pass for me because they're being passed down by survivors of the Mushroom War, people who would have a chance of actually knowing them. For a character who never experienced that time to suddenly burst into a…

I'm glad the comments explained the title reference for me. When I first saw this episode title announced, my immediate connection was "Last Flight out of Saigon", which put me in a completely different mindset than this episode delivered on.

My personal favorite result of the Pewey ship: http://quinepeather.tumblr.com/post/115882279261/when-two-love-birds-fuse-into-a-larger-sweatier

In the upcoming corporate-mandated crossover, Pearl and Superman go to the DMV to get licenses together.

Didn't you read the sign? It clearly said "Ocean City: No longer on fire!"