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Behold... Steve! Yes, this is Steve's first appearance in the series! He is voiced in this episode and ONLY in this episode by Alex Hirsch, having a different VA for the rest of the series. It's actually quite jarring to hear him voiced by Alex Hirsch in this one episode (you can tell when a character is voiced by Alex Hirsch if you watch Gravity Falls enough).
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LUZURA DIES?
As it turns out... yes, she does in fact die. But like William Afton, she comes back.
Piniet, the evil publisher who turns his authors into cubes, is voiced by Andre Sogliuzzo, who also provided the voice of Steamer the engineer and Smokey the fireman in my favorite horrifyingly delightful Christmas film, The Polar Express.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfXiW4_eDlQ
Oh yeah, if I recognize any VA's from anything else, I'm going to mention it here.
There's this fun little sequence showing how Boiling Isles books are made by blacksmithing. Yes, blacksmithing.
Oh dear, that's horrifying.
Well... that's quite disturbing.
Ah, the founding of Hexside... on the bones of its rival school. This was only the beginning of Hieronymus Bump's slow descent into madness.
Eda sure knows how to distinguish types of snow by taste. Perhaps you too can learn this valuable skill... just don't eat the yellow snow.
And right after this, Edric tries eating snow himself before Emira knocks the snowball out of his hand.
Anyways, the whole King sub-plot of him running a boot camp with his stuffed animals (who he brings to life using one of Eda's potions) only for them to revolt on him was pretty fun. I honestly miss Season 1 King, the little guy loved pretending to be a despotic ruler so much. First time I ever watched this show, he was probably my favorite thing about Season 1.
King tries to convince Hooty to destroy his boot camp, but Hooty refuses:
"You said I was being desperate, so now I'm playing hard to geeeeEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeet!"
After Hooty eventually does destroy all of King's revolting stuffed animal soldiers, King remarks that the day shall live in infamy, a reference to Franklin D. Roosevelt's famous "Day of Infamy" speech following the December 7th, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.
And of course, in this episode, Luz learns her second glyph by realizing that the Titan's magic is all around her. Once again... I have a feeling the Titan himself may have been guiding her.
"I WILL BE HAUNTED BY MY ACTIONS FOREVER... HOOT HOOT!"
Luz with her sock puppets of herself and Eda... but notice how the Eda sock puppet has one golden eye and one gray eye... much like the real Eda by the end of this season.
Gus congratulates Luz on getting into Hexside... but accidentally uses the wrong illusion (he wanted to cover all the bases just in case).
Gus wishes Luz good luck on her first day... but his illusions backfire again.
"THE CHOOSY HAT... IT BROKE FREE!"
DO NOT TRUST THIS MAN AROUND CHILDREN.
Luz, now in detention, is so happy to see Willow and Gus that she wants to squeeze their faces.
Gus promises to get Luz out of detention dead or alive... poor choice of words.
Despite Willow's objections, Gus tests the detention teacher's resolve to sleep through anything.
This episode has quite a few good moments between Willow and Gus, where Gus says or does something he probably shouldn't and Willow comes at him with that almost motherly disappointment.
Poor Bump... he only had 300 years to go until retirement.
And here, for the first time, we see a basilisk. And it won't be the last.
Apparently they went extinct. How did they come back? Well... that's another story.
And finally, I will conclude this post with King being the world's best... him. I'll say it again, I miss the adorable little guy who so desperately craved power and obedience.
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