The BEST episodes directed by Piero Piluso

Running with Scissors
star
8.78
86 votes

#1 - Running with Scissors

Star vs. the Forces of Evil - Season 2 - Episode 31

Marco borrows Star's Dimensional Scissors to find a place to walk the laser puppies, but he soon becomes accustomed to its conveniences, opening a bunch of portals from his bed to access things. Hekapoo, the forger of all of the Dimensional Scissors, pulls Marco into her dimension and confiscates the Scissors as they did not belong to him or Star (Pony Head had stolen them and gave them to Star). Marco must earn the scissors by having to blow out the flame atop Hekapoo's head. Star goes to Hekapoo's dimension to recover Marco, who had chased Hekapoo for 16 years before winning the challenge. When they return, Marco reverts to his teenage body as only a few minutes have passed on Earth time.

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Spider with a Top Hat
star
8.31
97 votes

#2 - Spider with a Top Hat

Star vs. the Forces of Evil - Season 2 - Episode 22

Spider With a Top Hat has been entertaining Star's wand monsters at a party. Afterwards, he tries to learn a fighting move where he tries to blast through a wall. Despite getting training from Narwahl and Rock, he is unable to break through the wall. The other monsters are summoned for a fight but they are beaten up. Encouraged by Rock's words, Spider is finally called to fight a monster'.

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Page Turner
star
8.23
101 votes

#3 - Page Turner

Star vs. the Forces of Evil - Season 2 - Episode 25

Glossaryck lets Star pick any page in the book to learn some new magic. Star chooses a mysterious chapter, but Glossaryck tells her it is very dark magic and that he will only let her get a short peek at the page. However, Glossaryck is summoned to the Bureau of Magic; he tells Star not to turn to that page, and his consciousness is dragged away into another dimension. While Glossaryck must deal with a not-so-helpful receptionist and has a difficult time getting to the top floor because the magic system is "on the fritz", Star is tempted to turn the page, and enlists Marco to help do it.

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Game of Flags
star
8.11
144 votes

#4 - Game of Flags

Star vs. the Forces of Evil - Season 2 - Episode 15

During a reunion between Star's parents' families – the Butterflies and the Johansens – Star is placed at the kids' table. The two families compete in Flags, a king of the hill game where whoever plants their flag atop a dangerous hill full of obstacles gets to look down on the rival family members for a year. Against the wishes of her mother, Star fashions a decoy at the table and participates in Flags. Marco tries to keep up with Star and later tries to convince her to stop when he realizes how serious the participants are in winning.

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Sleepover
star
8.10
141 votes

#5 - Sleepover

Star vs. the Forces of Evil - Season 2 - Episode 17

Star hosts a sleepover with her girl classmates(Janna, Jackie, & Starfan13) and Pony Head. They recruit Marco to play a truth or dare game called "Truth or Punishment", where the Truth or Punishment cube administers punishments to everyone when someone lies, and refuses to free everyone until the game is over. The cube's final question is who is their greatest crush. Marco admits he likes Jackie, but the cube insists someone has lied, and informs that Marco wasn't the one who lied. When Star makes a monologue to the cube about how a person's mind and heart disagree, and how feeling are always changing, the cube starts to malfunction after Star makes some examples and self-destructs. After everyone goes home, the discarded cube springs to life one last time, answering the question about Star's crush, but it gets destroyed before the audience gets a clear answer.

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St. Olga's Reform School for Wayward Princesses
star
8.03
115 votes

#6 - St. Olga's Reform School for Wayward Princesses

Star vs. the Forces of Evil - Season 1 - Episode 19

Star and Marco go undercover as new princess students in order to break Flying Princess Pony Head out of St. Olga's on her birthday. They discover that 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.

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Interdimensional Field Trip
star
7.92
118 votes

#7 - Interdimensional Field Trip

Star vs. the Forces of Evil - Season 1 - Episode 22

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.

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Starsitting
star
7.81
126 votes

#8 - Starsitting

Star vs. the Forces of Evil - Season 2 - Episode 11

Star and Marco are put in charge of watching Buff Frog's tadpoles. Marco wants to follow the Buff Baby handbook, while Star just wants to cuddle them and poke at them. Things get complicated when the tadpoles sprout their legs and hop around.

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Star on Wheels
star
7.79
156 votes

#9 - Star on Wheels

Star vs. the Forces of Evil - Season 2 - Episode 5

Marco teaches Star how to ride a bicycle, but Star does not know how to stop. To make things worse, she refuses to listen to Marco's request to pedal backwards since Marco had tricked Star into thinking he would not let go of the bike. Marco gets a car ride with Oskar as they pursue Star to get her the wand. Glossaryck appears and joins in the fun.

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Camping Trip
star
7.73
101 votes

#10 - Camping Trip

Star vs. the Forces of Evil - Season 2 - Episode 10

Marco wants to show Star the geyser ″Old Youthful″ during a Diaz camping trip. King Butterfly joins them on the trip to learn what Earth camping is like. But, King Butterfly's antics get him in trouble several times with the park ranger. When Marco reveals he wanted to show Star the geyser, and the ranger says it's likely the last time it will ever erupt, the three try to rush there to see it.

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On the Job
star
7.62
97 votes

#11 - On the Job

Star vs. the Forces of Evil - Season 2 - Episode 12

While Star and Marco are babysitting his tadpoles, Buff Frog goes on a mission with Boo Fly and other monsters on finding who has been stealing Mewnian corn, but he keeps thinking about his tadpoles during the job, causing him to be a little distracted and klutzy.

The Bounce Lounge
star
7.62
70 votes

#12 - The Bounce Lounge

Star vs. the Forces of Evil - Season 2 - Episode 33

Pony Head tells Star the bad news that the Bounce Lounge, their favorite partying venue, is closing. Star and Pony Head round up their former Bounce Lounge posse. They start partying and raise enough funds to save the place, however the owner Milly tells them that she is still closing the place because she is tired from having partied over 5,000 years. Afterwards, the Bounce Crew members and Marco take a group picture in a photo booth.

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Red Belt
star
7.59
107 votes

#13 - Red Belt

Star vs. the Forces of Evil - Season 2 - Episode 4

Marco trains for a red belt in karate. However, after visiting his sensei's home, he discovers his sensei lives with his mother and does not even have a red belt. Sensei explains that he never got to watch the instructional video for the red belt as the tape got jammed in his video player. Marco and sensei visit thrift shops and eventually come across a rare video store where they have to defeat the store owner to win the tape. Meanwhile, Star looks all over the house for a hammer in order to put up a new poster that she just obtained.

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Marco Grows a Beard
star
7.58
84 votes

#14 - Marco Grows a Beard

Star vs. the Forces of Evil - Season 1 - Episode 23

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.

Diaz Family Vacation
star
7.53
178 votes

#15 - Diaz Family Vacation

Star vs. the Forces of Evil - Season 1 - Episode 9

Star forgets to get the Diazes an anniversary present, so she invites them on a trip to Mewni.

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Royal Pain
star
7.51
96 votes

#16 - Royal Pain

Star vs. the Forces of Evil - Season 1 - Episode 18

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.

Lobster Claws
star
7.34
146 votes

#17 - Lobster Claws

Star vs. the Forces of Evil - Season 1 - Episode 13

Star and Marco attempt to help Lobster Claws adjust to life on Earth.

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Pizza Thing
star
7.23
74 votes

#18 - Pizza Thing

Star vs. the Forces of Evil - Season 2 - Episode 24

Star, Marco, and Pony Head are about to have a Friendship Thursday by curling up under a blanket on the sofa and watching a television show. Pony Head finds the concept boring and tags along with Marco to pick up a pizza from Emilio's shop. But problems arise when Pony Head gets distracted with buying some skinny jeans, inadvertently confuses a taxi ride with a carjacking, and when Marco makes a casual remark about Emilio's pizza that Emilio takes to heart.

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