The BEST episodes directed by Giancarlo Volpe
#1 - Face the Music
Star vs. the Forces of Evil - Season 2 - Episode 40
The songstrell Ruberiot is ordered to write a song about Star for the tradition of Song Day, but Star is reluctant to participate because it portrays princesses as being perfect. Ruberiot ultimately convinces her to let him write a song about the real her, but inadvertently reveals to the people of Mewni that Star lost the book of spells, and that she has a crush on Marco.
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#2 - Bon Bon the Birthday Clown
Star vs. the Forces of Evil - Season 2 - Episode 27
Star and Janna plan a séance to bring back the spirit of Bon Bon, a clown who had died 100 years ago, but the event coincides with a school dance that Star had planned to go with Marco. Star lets Marco go to the dance with Jackie, who finds the dance boring but changes it to a date instead at a park. During the seance, when Janna falls asleep, Star checks up on Marco with a spy spell, only to find that he and Jackie are having a good time together, which makes her jealous. Star is surprised by Ludo, who steals Star's spellbook. Marco and Jackie share a kiss, but when they hear Star in trouble they rush to help her. They pull Star from being sucked through a portal. Glossaryck wakes up to find Ludo as his new master.
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#3 - Moon the Undaunted
Star vs. the Forces of Evil - Season 3 - Episode 2
Queen Moon shares her story of when she was a teenager and her mother (Star's grandmother) had died. She had to decide between signing a peace treaty or going to war against the monster army, led by "The Lizard". She partly melts the ice encasing Eclipsa, to learn some dark magic from the forbidden section of the Book of Spells. She confronts The Lizard (Toffee) and uses the dark magic to sever his finger, which he is unable to regenerate. Toffee flees.
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#4 - Baby
Star vs. the Forces of Evil - Season 2 - Episode 30
Star's parents send a fairy godmother named Baby to evaluate Star, who takes the task seriously, as failing the eval would mean she would have to return to Mewni. At first, Star cleans up her room, shoving stuff in closets or dimensional pockets, but when Baby starts asking Star questions, and things start falling out of the pockets, Star's responses are met with the same neutral phrase "Interesting." followed by jotting down of notes. Meanwhile Marco tries to help Star by bringing Baby food. Baby then asks Star to bring her an apple using magic, but Star fails to do the task despite repeated tries. Baby concludes that Star failed, but Star tries one last time and ends up using the apple seeds to grow an apple tree which drops an apple for Baby. Star's parents learn from Baby that despite not being organized, losing the book of spells, and failing to do simple spells, Star has magic potential way ahead of when her mother was her age, and might even be comparable to Queen Eclipsa.
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#5 - Sozin's Comet: The Old Masters (2)
Avatar: The Last Airbender - Season 3 - Episode 19
While on the island, Aang seeks guidance from his past lives, but is not pleased with what he is told. The island, in fact, turns out to be a lion turtle from which Aang is given the guidance he had been seeking. After the tracker is unable to track Aang, the rest of the group decide they must find Iroh. Meanwhile, while tracking down Iroh, the group meets up with The Order of the White Lotus, a group that transcends the division of the four nations. After a discussion with Iroh the team decides to split up: Sokka, Suki, and Toph head to stop the Fire Nation's air fleet, the masters head to reclaim Ba Sing Se, and Katara, Zuko, and Appa head to defeat Azula.
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#6 - The Day of Black Sun: The Invasion (1)
Avatar: The Last Airbender - Season 3 - Episode 10
The day of the eclipse has arrived, and the invasion force gathers together to make last preparations. They infiltrate the island and the battle begins. Meanwhile, Aang searches for the Firelord.
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#7 - Friendenemies
Star vs. the Forces of Evil - Season 2 - Episode 19
Tom invites Marco to a movie marathon featuring Mackie Hands, Marco's favorite kung-fu film star. They start to become friends on the way there after learning they both like Mackie Hands and a band called Love Sentence, but when Marco wants to leave to catch the marathon, Tom refuses to let him go, and gets angry, voiding his chance to earn an anger management graduation badge. Tom apologizes and tries to win back Marco with a Love Sentence song, and then raises Mackie Hands from the dead. Although they cannot get into the theatre, Tom and Marco watch Mackie lay a beatdown on the movie's security guards.
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#8 - Raid the Cave
Star vs. the Forces of Evil - Season 2 - Episode 28
Star tries to find Ludo and retrieve the Book of Spells. She packs a large amount of stuff and goes to Buff Frog, who gives Star and Marco a map of Ludo's hideout. There they find some monsters that have taken over the place but see no sign of Ludo. Star uses the seeing eye spell to find Glossaryck and pleads for him to come back, but he refuses, saying that he has to follow Ludo now.
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#9 - Appa's Lost Days
Avatar: The Last Airbender - Season 2 - Episode 16
In this special episode, we flash back to the moment Appa was stolen, find out where he has gone, who he has met along the way, and—most importantly—where he is now.
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#10 - Avatar Roku: Winter Solstice (2)
Avatar: The Last Airbender - Season 1 - Episode 8
To contact the spirit of the previous Avatar, Aang must reach a temple in the Fire Nation before the sun sets on the following day. There he will learn what he must do to restore balance to the world. Zuko must defy his banishment to follow Aang.
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#11 - The Firebending Masters
Avatar: The Last Airbender - Season 3 - Episode 13
While teaching Aang firebending, Zuko finds that he has lost all his firebending skills. Now to regain his powers, Zuko and Aang must seek the original source of firebending within the ruins of a lost civilization.
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#12 - Sokka's Master
Avatar: The Last Airbender - Season 3 - Episode 4
Feeling as though he isn't contributing enough to the group, Sokka seeks out an elusive swordsmaster from whom he can learn the ways of the blade.
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#13 - The Drill
Avatar: The Last Airbender - Season 2 - Episode 13
Having made it to the outer wall of Ba Sing Se, the kids confront a Fire Nation army that is driving a massive Fire Nation drill, which poses an imminent threat to the last Earth Kingdom stronghold. Meanwhile, Zuko and Iroh make crucial mistakes which begin to attract Jet's suspicions.
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#14 - The Guru
Avatar: The Last Airbender - Season 2 - Episode 19
Aang receives guidance from Guru Pathik at the Eastern Air Temple; Sokka is reunited with his long-lost father; Princess Azula has something diabolical in store for her enemies; Uncle and Zuko run their own tea shop.
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#15 - The Chase
Avatar: The Last Airbender - Season 2 - Episode 8
Tired from trying to escape a machine that shows up every time they try to sleep, Aang and the gang have to escape Azula and her team, but their exhaustion leads to a tight situation. Meanwhile, Zuko must deal with something personal. And Iroh bonds with an unlikely individual.
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#16 - Naysaya
Star vs. the Forces of Evil - Season 2 - Episode 26
Marco shyly tries to ask Jackie Lynn Thomas out on a date, but finds that he is blurting out embarrassing things about himself. He then discovers he has sprouted a small little head out of the side of his neck that is saying all those things. It is a Naysaya, a curse that Tom had placed on Marco so that Marco would not be able to ask out Star. The Naysaya can only go away when it is appeased, so Marco tries giving it what it wants, which is some cereal, but it doesn't go away. Marco meets Jackie again but the Naysaya starts to act up, so Marco decides to spill out all his insecurities in front of Jackie.
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#17 - The Avatar State
Avatar: The Last Airbender - Season 2 - Episode 1
Plagued with nightmares featuring the devastating power of his Avatar State, Aang and the gang meet an Earth Kingdom general who has big plans for defeating the Fire Nation. Meanwhile, Prince Zuko and Uncle Iroh, having survived the failed attack on the North Water Tribe, have a surprise visit from the Prince's sister with seemingly good news.
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#18 - The Ember Island Players
Avatar: The Last Airbender - Season 3 - Episode 17
A play recounting the gang's adventures does not sit well with Aang and his friends, except for Toph who enjoys it very much. Meanwhile, Aang confesses his love to Katara, but the response is ambiguous.
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#19 - Puddle Defender
Star vs. the Forces of Evil - Season 3 - Episode 5
Buffrog helps Star escape from Moon's ever-protective watch.
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#20 - Mr. Candle Cares
Star vs. the Forces of Evil - Season 2 - Episode 3
Guidance counselor Mr. Candle tells Star that she is fated to be Queen of Mewni. She has to read her mother's book on how to act like a queen but she gets frustrated and decides to dress up in a more rebellious punk style. Meanwhile, Marco, who is displeased of Candle's career suggestion of being the head janitor on Garbage Island, discovers that Mr. Candle is actually in cahoots with Tom, who planned to ensure "Starco" doesn't happen. He confronts Mr. Candle but is captured by Tom, and must duel Tom to get his freedom.
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#21 - The Awakening
Avatar: The Last Airbender - Season 3 - Episode 1
Aang awakens to find himself aboard a captured Fire Nation ship with a full head of hair and sustaining serious injuries from the previous battle for Ba Sing Se. At his side are Katara, Sokka, and their father Hakoda who recount the events that led the four to the ship and contemplate their next move. Aang struggles to fight his own desire to face the Fire Lord before he is ready. Meanwhile, the once exiled Prince Zuko deals with his own issues as he makes his long-awaited journey home, with the fear of his father's rejection hanging over his head.
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#22 - Witches of the Mist (3)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Season 3 - Episode 14
The path to evil may bring great power, but not loyalty. Anakin and Obi-Wan, sent to track down the mysterious figure behind the deaths of several Jedi, soon find themselves on the trail of the monstrous apprentice that Ventress has created: Savage Opress, who has been trained in the ways of the Sith by Dooku. Dooku sends Opress to Toydaria to capture King Katuunko. The monstrous apprentice clashes with the Jedi, and in the course of the battle he kills the king. Opress returns to Dooku's flagship having failed his Master. It is then that Ventress strikes, with Opress at her side, against Dooku. A three-way battle for dark side supremacy ends with Dooku triumphant, Ventress fleeing, and a disillusioned Savage abandoning his loyalties to the Sith. He returns to Mother Talzin, who gives him a new task. To seek the Outer Rim for his long-lost brother....
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#23 - The Waterbending Master
Avatar: The Last Airbender - Season 1 - Episode 18
When Aang tries to find the north pole, he is found by the north pole instead. When they are taken there Aang and Katara are eager to find a water bending master only to find that girls are not allowed to learn waterbending.
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#24 - Girls' Day Out
Star vs. the Forces of Evil - Season 2 - Episode 16
Star is sent to detention for disrupting Miss Skullnick's class when she frees the class's pet hamster Marisol. Although she could easily escape, she is convinced by Janna and the other detention students that she is the Mayor of Detention, and is assigned to help the students out with their needs. She helps all of them except for Toby, a kid who wants replacement batteries for his remote so he can watch a pro wrestling show on TV. Star and Janna try to find replacement batteries by sneaking out to Oskar and getting ones from his keytar. Meanwhile, Marco is tasked to find Marisol and gets his hand stuck in a drain pipe.
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#25 - By the Book
Star vs. the Forces of Evil - Season 2 - Episode 14
Star has not been following the advices of Glossaryck when it comes to mastering new spells causing the two of them to have a falling out. Marco does various things in order to get Star and Glossaryck to reconcile. Meanwhile, Ludo hears the voices from within the wand that tell him what he needs to master his wand.
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#26 - Star vs. Echo Creek
Star vs. the Forces of Evil - Season 2 - Episode 7
After getting a sugar high from seasoning her burrito with sugar, Star sets off some magic that accidentally causes a sign to fall and crush a police cruiser. While trying to evade the police, Star encounters a woman by the river bank named Brigid who likes making things out of discarded hair and taking care of injured animals. She later encounters an underwater sea creature who tells her that hiding out is a good thing, but it is revealed the creature is actually her own conscience trying to convince her that she hasn't made a big mistake. Missing her family and friends, she returns to a very worried Marco and turns herself in to the police who have her wash the other squad cars as part of her police-supervised community service.
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#27 - The Runaway
Avatar: The Last Airbender - Season 3 - Episode 7
When Katara expresses her disapproval to Toph's new way to make quick cash, the group finds her too motherly and tension grows between Katara and Toph. When Katara finally decides to participate in this scam to disprove Toph's accusations, they are left vulnerable and are forced to face the dire consequences.
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#28 - Bato of the Water Tribe
Avatar: The Last Airbender - Season 1 - Episode 15
Aang feels neglected as Katara and Sokka reunite with Bato, an old friend of their father’s from the South Pole. They begin to reminisce on their times in the past while they wait for a message to arrive from their father; in which Aang believes Katara and Sokka will abandon him and go out to find their father should the message arrive. However, when the messenger gives Aang the message to give to Bato, Aang betrays his friends in a way Katara or Sokka could never imagine. However, when Zuko recruits a bounty hunter named Jun to track Aang down, his friendship is put to the test as he must deal with the fact that he betrayed his friends while defending himself from yet another fight.
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#29 - The Library
Avatar: The Last Airbender - Season 2 - Episode 10
When Aang and his friends find a professor who knows of a library that contains information about the world, Sokka decides to go there to hopefully find some information to use against the Fire Nation. The library is guarded by the knowledge spirit, Wan Shi Tong, who doesn't welcome humans into his library, because he believes they only seek information for evil purposes. When Wan Shi Tong discovers Sokka wasn't being truthful with him, he begins to sink the library, bringing the kids down with it. Will everyone be able to escape the library in time? And who are the strange benders who have kidnapped Appa?
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#30 - Nightsisters (1)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Season 3 - Episode 12
The swiftest path to destruction is through vengeance. Troubled by Asajj Ventress' growing prowess with the dark side of the Force, Darth Sidious commands Count Dooku to eliminate her. But Ventress survives Dooku's assassination attempt, and the jilted former apprentice vows to take revenge, enlisting the aid of her kinswomen -- the mystical Nightsisters -- in her sinister scheme. Mother Talzin, leader of the Nightsisters, veils Asajj and her fellow assassins in a cloak of invisibility, and they infiltrate Dooku's palace on Serenno. Though they fail to kill the Count, their use of captured Jedi lightsabers leads Dooku to mistakenly believe that the Jedi have tried to kill him. Interested in protection, he requests a new apprentice from Mother Talzin.
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#31 - R2 Come Home (2)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Season 2 - Episode 21
Adversity is friendship's truest test. When a band of bounty hunters leads Anakin and Mace into a deadly trap on Vanqor, it's up to R2-D2 to battle his way back to Coruscant and warn the Jedi.
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#32 - The Warriors of Kyoshi
Avatar: The Last Airbender - Season 1 - Episode 4
The gang arrives at Kyoshi Island and are captured by some Kyoshi warriors. When Aang reveals that he is the avatar, news quickly spreads out and suddenly reaches to Prince Zuko who then goes to Kyoshi Island to capture him.
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#33 - Hostage Crisis
Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Season 1 - Episode 22
A secret shared is a trust formed. To free crime lord Ziro Hutt, bounty hunters seize control of the Senate Building and take hostages—completely unaware at first that Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker is still inside.
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#34 - Crystal Clear
Star vs. the Forces of Evil - Season 2 - Episode 34
Rhombulus captures Star and Marco and encases them in crystal, believing that the former is the cause of the glitches that are affecting the dimensions. When he inadvertently encases his boss, and then his own hands for wanting to tell the high council, he unfreezes Star and shares his predicament. Star agrees not to tell the high council about the situation provided that Rhombulus not tell them about Star's losing the Book of Spells and Glossaryck.
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#35 - One Plus One Equals Two
The Boys Presents: Diabolical - Season 1 - Episode 8
Even a great American hero like Homelander had to start somewhere…
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#36 - Weapons Factory (3)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Season 2 - Episode 6
No gift is more precious than trust. Luminara and Anakin act as decoys to divert new enemy super-tanks, while Padawans Barriss Offee and Ahsoka attempt to destroy a Separatist droid factory.
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#37 - The Swamp
Avatar: The Last Airbender - Season 2 - Episode 4
A mysterious tornado pulls the kids into a supernatural swamp where Katara, Sokka and Aang have mysterious visions. Meanwhile, Momo and Appa are chased by rogue swamp dwellers and only Aang and the gang can save them.
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#38 - I'm Your Pusher
The Boys Presents: Diabolical - Season 1 - Episode 3
Ripped from the pages of the original THE BOYS comics - Billy Butcher, with Terror in tow, terrorizes a narcotics supplier into spiking a certain supe’s fix.
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#39 - All Belts Are Off
Star vs. the Forces of Evil - Season 2 - Episode 37
Marco is angry because Jeremy is the person representing the dojo for their karate sensei to become an official karate dojo.
#40 - Wand to Wand
Star vs. the Forces of Evil - Season 2 - Episode 8
Star tries to use her wand to clean up the Diaz home before Marco's parents return, but ends up summoning a whimsical cloud that makes an even bigger mess. Meanwhile, Ludo tries to activate his so he can fight off some rats at a tavern, learning that it works when he gets beat up and enraged.
#41 - The Zillo Beast (1)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Season 2 - Episode 18
Choose what is right, not what is easy. The Republic's new super-weapon awakens the fearsome Zillo Beast of Malastare. Now the Jedi must devise a way to contain the deadly creature.
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#42 - Grievous Intrigue (1)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Season 2 - Episode 9
For everything you gain, you lose something else. A Jedi Master is taken hostage and tortured by General Grievous. Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Adi Gallia devise a daring rescue plan, but they soon realize the General has a plan of his own.
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#43 - The Academy (2)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Season 3 - Episode 6
Those who enforce the law must obey the law. Ahsoka Tano is assigned to teach a class at a leadership academy on Mandalore. Soon after she arrives, Duchess Satine's zealous nephew -- Korkie Kryze -- and his classmates uncover a nefarious plot. Prime Minister Almec is revealed to be an active part of the Mandalorian black market conspiracy on Mandalore, and he attempts to permanently silence Duchess Satine and the cadets before they expose his corruption. Ahsoka and the cadets defeat Almec before he can succeed.
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#44 - The Great Divide
Avatar: The Last Airbender - Season 1 - Episode 11
While on their way to the North Pole, Aang and his friends arrive at a giant canyon where two groups of refugees are bickering over who should get to go across. Aang decides to walk across with the two groups to ensure they don’t fight one another. However, he soon learns that the two tribes have been feuding for one hundred years and they both believe their actions are justified. But when the predators inside the canyon start to come out, Aang is stuck trying to defend both tribes from each other and the vicious wildlife.
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#45 - Lightsaber Lost
Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Season 2 - Episode 11
Easy isn't always simple. When a wily pickpocket steals Ahsoka's lightsaber, she enlists the help of an ancient Jedi to track down her weapon and reclaim her honor.
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#46 - Corruption (1)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Season 3 - Episode 5
The challenge of hope is to overcome corruption. Padmé, on a diplomatic mission to Mandalore, guarantees the pacifist planet the Republic's full protection, but she and Duchess Satine soon find something sinister lurking beneath the planet's serene façade. Moogan smugglers have been sneaking in supplies, including bottled tea destined for the Mandalorian schools. To increase their profits, they have been diluting the tea with a hazardous chemical.
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#47 - Blue Shadow Virus (1)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Season 1 - Episode 17
Fear is a disease; hope is its only cure. Padmé and Jar Jar are captured while searching for a secret Separatist bio-weapons lab, sparking Anakin, Obi-Wan and Ahsoka to try and save their friends and halt the release of a deadly virus.
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