The BEST episodes of Star vs. the Forces of Evil season 1

Every episode of Star vs. the Forces of Evil season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Star vs. the Forces of Evil season 1!

After having skirmished with a number of dangerous monsters, Star Butterfly arrives on Earth to live with the Diaz family. However, rather than living a normal life, Star continues on having to battle villains both throughout the universe and in their high school, although if only to protect her extremely powerful wand, an object which she is still confused with.

Last Updated: 9/13/2024Network: Disney ChannelStatus: Ended
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Storm the Castle
star
8.45
140 votes

#1 - Storm the Castle

Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 9/21/2015

Toffee has taken over Ludo's castle; he has one of Ludo's minions abduct Marco. Star allies with Buff Frog (and the kicked-out Ludo) to storm the castle and beat up Ludo's former minions and free Marco. However, Toffee arranges for the box imprisoning Marco to gradually collapse, forcing Star to destroy her wand in exchange for sparing Marco. The resulting explosion destroys Ludo's castle and Toffee, after which Star banishes Ludo. Star is left with a new wand that is missing a piece.

Directors: Aaron Hammersley
Watch Now:Amazon
Blood Moon Ball
star
8.26
147 votes

#2 - Blood Moon Ball

Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 7/20/2015

Star's ex-boyfriend Tom invites her to the Blood Moon Ball, an Underworld event that occurs once every 667 years. Tom claims he has turned over a new leaf, having hired an anger management consultant. Marco does not believe Tom has changed but Star decides to go anyway. When Marco disrupts Tom's plan to take Star for himself under the Blood Moon's light, Tom reverts to his old self.

Directors: Aaron Hammersley
Watch Now:Amazon
St. Olga's Reform School for Wayward Princesses
star
8.03
115 votes

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

Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 8/10/2015

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.

Directors: Piero Piluso
Writer: Piero Piluso
Watch Now:Amazon
Mewberty
star
8.01
174 votes

#4 - Mewberty

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 6/15/2015

Star starts sprouting hearts all over her body, the telltale sign of "Mewberty."

Directors: Aaron Hammersley
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Mewnipendence Day
star
7.93
103 votes

#5 - Mewnipendence Day

Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 8/17/2015

Star Butterfly recruits her classmates, Miss Skullnick, and the Dojo Sensei to participate in a battle reenactment of Mewni's Independence Day. Ludo and Toffee use a special floating eye device to spy on Star and her activities. Ludo's minion Buff Frog infiltrates the reenactment as one of the monsters to try to steal the wand.

Directors: Aaron Hammersley
Watch Now:Amazon
Freeze Day
star
7.93
124 votes

#6 - Freeze Day

Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 7/27/2015

Star freezes time with her wand so that Marco can appear at Echo Creek Academy on time for his morning greeting nod with his crush Jackie Lynn Thomas. But when she is unable to cancel out the effects, she and Marco visit the Plains of Time in order to get Father Time to restart time again.

Directors: Mike Mullen
Watch Now:Amazon
Interdimensional Field Trip
star
7.92
118 votes

#7 - Interdimensional Field Trip

Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 9/14/2015

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.

Directors: Piero Piluso
Watch Now:Amazon
Star Comes to Earth
star
7.84
428 votes

#8 - Star Comes to Earth

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/18/2015

Star receives the royal magic wand but her parents panic and send her to Earth.

Directors: Mike Mullen
Writer: Mike Mullen
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Quest Buy
star
7.80
158 votes

#9 - Quest Buy

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 4/13/2015

Star and Marco must navigate through a maze-like store, Quest Buy, to get a new wand charger before Star's wand dies forever.

Directors: Aaron Hammersley
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Monster Arm
star
7.80
231 votes

#10 - Monster Arm

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/6/2015

Marco's hurt arm is accidentally turned into a giant tentacle.

Directors: Aaron Hammersley
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
The Other Exchange Student
star
7.80
170 votes

#11 - The Other Exchange Student

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/6/2015

Gustav comes to visit the Diaz family.

Directors: Mike Mullen
Writer: Carrie Liao
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Party with a Pony
star
7.68
247 votes

#12 - Party with a Pony

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/18/2015

Star's best friend from her home dimension visits and is threatened by Star's new friendship with an earthling named Marco.

Directors: Mike Mullen
Writer: Ian Wasseluk
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Match Maker
star
7.66
253 votes

#13 - Match Maker

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/30/2015

After failing a math test, Star tries to convince her teacher to change her grade.

Directors: Aaron Hammersley
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Fortune Cookies
star
7.65
95 votes

#14 - Fortune Cookies

Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 7/20/2015

Following yet another victory over Ludo and his minions, Marco and Star eat at a Chinese restaurant. Marco tricks Star into thinking the sayings in fortune cookies can really predict the future. Meanwhile, Ludo hires a monster named Toffee to shape up his minions. They come up with a plan to take advantage of Star's fortune cookie obsession.

Directors: Mike Mullen
Watch Now:Amazon
Cheer Up Star
star
7.59
181 votes

#15 - Cheer Up Star

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/13/2015

Marco tries to cheer up Star and ends up summoning Ludo and an army of monsters!

Directors: Aaron Hammersley
Watch Now:Apple TV
Marco Grows a Beard
star
7.58
84 votes

#16 - Marco Grows a Beard

Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 9/14/2015

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.

Writer: Tyler Chen
School Spirit
star
7.56
204 votes

#17 - School Spirit

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/30/2015

Star misunderstands when she hears that the school football team is going to "get slaughtered".

Directors: Aaron Hammersley
Watch Now:Apple TV
Diaz Family Vacation
star
7.53
178 votes

#18 - Diaz Family Vacation

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 4/20/2015

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

Directors: Piero Piluso
Watch Now:Apple TV
Sleep Spells
star
7.52
97 votes

#19 - Sleep Spells

Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 6/22/2015

Star and Marco try to determine who has been redecorating her room, with Mr. Diaz only accounting for a small project. Marco discovers that Star has been "sleep spelling", that is, casting spells when sleepwalking. He tries psychology to try to treat her but learns that she is actually trying to defend herself from an intruder, revealed to be Princess Smooshy, an ugly "goblin-elephant" princess who wants to steal Star's face so she can avoid getting sent back to St. Olga's Reform School for Wayward Princesses after escaping it.

Directors: Mike Mullen
Watch Now:Apple TV
Royal Pain
star
7.51
96 votes

#20 - Royal Pain

Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 7/27/2015

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.

Directors: Piero Piluso
Brittney's Party
star
7.38
159 votes

#21 - Brittney's Party

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 4/20/2015

Star crashes a birthday party but has to fight off Ludo's monsters.

Directors: Mike Mullen
Watch Now:Apple TV
Lobster Claws
star
7.34
146 votes

#22 - Lobster Claws

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 6/22/2015

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

Watch Now:Apple TV
Pixtopia
star
7.33
145 votes

#23 - Pixtopia

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 6/15/2015

Marco and his friends travel to a dimension of pixies and are forced to work in the Shard Mines.

Directors: Mike Mullen
Watch Now:Apple TV
star
7.25
87 votes

#24 - The Banagic Incident

Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 8/17/2015

Impressed by a commercial for a "magical" Earth product called a Banagic Wand, Star tries to get Marco to buy it, but Marco refuses as he has karate class. Star ends up going into town by herself where she confuses a pirate-themed restaurant for having real pirates and trashes the place. Meanwhile, Marco's Dojo Sensei wants his students to channel their emotions to walk across hot coals.

Directors: Mike Mullen