Steven Universe is an American animated television series created by Rebecca Sugar for Cartoon Network. The series revolves around Steven Universe, who protects his hometown of Beach City alongside Garnet, Amethyst and Pearl, three magical alien guardians known as the Crystal Gems. Episodes of Steven Universe and its sequel, Steven Universe Future, have variously been broadcast once a week, most recently on Friday nights, or in blocks of multiple new episodes in the course of a week, which are marketed as "Stevenbombs", or back-to-back as specials with an umbrella title. A television film, , was released on September 2, 2019, following the fifth and final season. A concluding limited series, Steven Universe Future, premiered on December 7, 2019, and ended on March 27, 2020.
Series overview
Episodes
The order and length of the first three seasons is inconsistent between official sources; this list uses the "intended order" of the episodes as specified by Ian Jones-Quartey, which re-orders six episodes from the first two seasons compared to the broadcast order.
Episode premieres initially occurred weekly on Monday nights.
Episode premieres moved to Wednesday nights beginning with the episode "Steven the Sword Fighter".
Episode premieres moved again to Thursday nights beginning with the episode "Coach Steven".
The episodes "Open Book", "Shirt Club", and "Story for Steven" were bumped to air during the second season in order to facilitate airing the final 'arc' of season one over five consecutive nights.
The episode "Say Uncle" was produced and aired as part of the second season, as denoted by its different production code. However, though non-canon, in terms of story chronology it occurs late in the first season, and is included here per Quartey's list.
The episodes "Super Watermelon Island", "Gem Drill", "Same Old World", "Barn Mates", and "Hit the Diamond" aired as a four-week special event titled In Too Deep.
The remaining episodes of the season all aired during another four-week special event titled Summer Adventures.
Season 4 (2016–17)
The episodes "Kindergarten Kid" and "Know Your Fusion" were the last two episodes to air during a four-week special event titled Summer Adventures.
"Steven's Dream", "Adventures in Light Distortion", "Gem Heist", "The Zoo", and "That Will Be All" aired as a four-night special event titled Out of This World.
Episode premieres moved to Fridays beginning with the episode "The New Crystal Gems".
Season 5 (2017–19)
The episodes "Stuck Together", "The Trial", "Off Colors", and "Lars' Head" aired together as a one-hour special, under the umbrella title Wanted.
The episodes "Lars of the Stars" and "Jungle Moon" aired together as a half-hour special, under the umbrella title Stranded.
Episode premieres moved to Monday nights beginning with the episode "Your Mother and Mine".
The episodes "Now We're Only Falling Apart", "What's Your Problem", "The Question", "Made of Honor", and "Reunited" aired as a five-night special event titled Heart of the Crystal Gems.
The episodes "Legs from Here to Homeworld", "Familiar", "Together Alone", "Escapism", and "Change Your Mind" aired as a five-week special event titled Diamond Days.
A limited series, Steven Universe Future, intended to serve as an epilogue to the main series, premiered on December 7, 2019.
Shorts
Season 2 (2015)
All six digital shorts combined make up one full production code of the second season.
Season 4 (2016)
All five of these shorts combined make up one full production code of the fourth season.
Dove Self-Esteem Project shorts (2018–19)
These shorts are written solely by Rebecca Sugar and are animated by Chromosphere Studio.
Home media
Depending on the customer's region, Steven Universe is available through various video on demand services such as Hulu, Google Play, iTunes, Amazon Video, and Microsoft Movies & TV. In North America, Warner Home Video has released several single-disc compilation DVDs featuring select episodes, as well as "Complete Season" DVDs. In Australia, Madman Entertainment follows a similar pattern, but releases their "seasons" on both Blu-ray and DVD, with a different episode order to Warner's. Manga Entertainment released the first season in the United Kingdom, using content from Madman's release; a release of the second season was planned for March 16, 2020, but was cancelled before release. Several episodes are re-ordered on home video. In the table below, the episodes are listed in the order they appear on the disc, and are numbered according to the [|episode tables above].
