The BEST episodes of Star vs. the Forces of Evil season 2
Every episode of Star vs. the Forces of Evil season 2, 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 2!
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.
#1 - Running with Scissors
Season 2 - Episode 31 - Aired 2/9/2017
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.
#2 - Starcrushed
Season 2 - Episode 41 - Aired 2/27/2017
At the Echo Creek graduation party, Marco struggles to reconnect with Star after the events of Face the Music. While Queen Moon invades Ludo's new castle with the Magic High Commission, Star is convinced by her friends to ditch the graduation party and instead attend a party with Oskar. Meanwhile, Toffee takes possession of Ludo's body and regrows his severed arm from Ludo's wand, draining the magic of the Magic High Commission and nearly killing Queen Moon. When Star returns, Queen Moon informs her that they will have to leave Earth. Star confesses to Marco about her feelings for him and tearfully leaves him forever.
#3 - Bon Bon the Birthday Clown
Season 2 - Episode 27 - Aired 11/21/2016
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.
#4 - Face the Music
Season 2 - Episode 40 - Aired 2/27/2017
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.
#5 - Spider with a Top Hat
Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 10/10/2016
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'.
#6 - Baby
Season 2 - Episode 30 - Aired 2/8/2017
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.
#7 - Page Turner
Season 2 - Episode 25 - Aired 11/14/2016
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.
#8 - Into the Wand
Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 11/7/2016
Star's wand malfunctions, making a mess of her spell casting. Glossaryck tells Star that the way to fix it is to go inside the wand and to fetch the item that does not belong. Star finds that the inside is connected to her memories, but when she gets distracted she loses touch with Glossaryck, and must find the item before her duplicate selves overwrite her past memories. She eventually finds the item in a room highlighting her mother's lineage.
#9 - Raid the Cave
Season 2 - Episode 28 - Aired 2/6/2017
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.
#10 - Just Friends
Season 2 - Episode 39 - Aired 2/23/2017
Star surprises Marco with tickets to a Love Sentence concert, but also invites Jackie. When Star and Jackie start having fun together, Marco starts to feel jealous and wants them to go on without him, but Jackie convinces him otherwise. At the concert Jackie and Marco engage in a kiss, which results in Star running off out of jealousy. As Star leaves the concert, she fires a blast of tainted magic, destroying a billboard.
#11 - The Hard Way
Season 2 - Episode 35 - Aired 2/16/2017
Glossaryck agrees to teach Ludo stuff from the Book of Spells. He first makes Ludo do some physical exercises as Ludo wanted to learn the hard way. Ludo learns and masters a levitation spell and is quite proud of his accomplishment. But when he learns there is a secret chapter that Glossaryck withheld from him but showed Star, he makes Glossaryck unlock them. Ludo reads the forbidden chapter and gains some dark magic, but when he talks with Glossaryck, he now has the voice of Toffee, who has possessed him.
#12 - Friendenemies
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 10/3/2016
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.
#13 - Game of Flags
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 9/19/2016
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.
#14 - Sleepover
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 9/26/2016
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.
#15 - Ludo in the Wild
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/11/2016
After the destruction of his castle, Ludo is thrown into the cosmos by Star and lands in a forested location. He competes with a giant spider as they go ice fishing. When a bag of potato chips is found, he and the giant spider fight until he wins. He also tames a bald eagle. When he spots Star in the woods, he chases her until he realizes he is back on Mewni. He also obtains a wand of his own which holds the other half of Star's wand magic.
#16 - Naysaya
Season 2 - Episode 26 - Aired 11/14/2016
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.
#17 - Mr. Candle Cares
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/18/2016
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.
#18 - Gift of the Card
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 9/26/2016
After having lost her job at St. Olga's Reform School for Wayward Princesses, Miss Heinous hires a lizard-man bounty hunter named Rasticore to destroy Princess Star and to capture Princess Marco. Star begs Marco to use his Quest Buy gift card. Marco agrees, but because it's a "friends to the end" card, he has to use it on something he really wants, and if he doesn't redeem it by midnight when it expires, they will expire too.
#19 - Hungry Larry
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 10/10/2016
After Mr. Diaz fails to scare some kids with his haunted house, Star and Janna summon Hungry Larry, reputed to be a very scary spirit, to haunt the house. Janna goes missing and screams attract the kids back to the house. But the kids get scared and go missing; Star and Marco are attacked. Mr. Diaz arrives to find Hungry Larry has eaten everyone, and rescues them.
#20 - Goblin Dogs
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 9/12/2016
Star, Marco, Pony Head, and a bush-themed female named Kelly go to an unidentified desert-themed dimension to purchase a Goblin Dog (a goblin version of a hot dog). They end up having a hard time when they must deal with the various jobs of the goblin vendor Roy and the many lines that lead to the Goblin Dog truck.
#21 - Girls' Day Out
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 9/19/2016
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.
#22 - Fetch
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 7/25/2016
Star throws her wand by accident and it ends up in the mouth of a growling dog who refuses to let it go. She has to take care of the dog and find its owner. Meanwhile, Marco struggles to get a straw into his juice box and has to take care of the laser puppies. She eventually discovers the dog named Willoughby is actually an extra-dimensional being who didn't like life on her planet, so Star has her adopted by a strange lady named Lydia.
#23 - Star vs. Echo Creek
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 8/1/2016
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.
#24 - Mathmagic
Season 2 - Episode 32 - Aired 2/13/2017
Star is called to solve a problem in Miss Skullnick's math class, but she refuses to do it. She tries to cast some magic to get out of it but ends up in a time loop. However with each iteration, the scenario is slightly different. Star goes to Father Time's dimension, but Father Time is too busy to help her, and she gets advice from Omnitraxus Prime, who is in charge of space-time. Star must solve the problem or her world will fall apart.
#25 - Starstruck
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 8/8/2016
While foraging for donuts that are being tossed at the end of the day, Star encounters Mina Loveberry, a magical girl from Mewni who is Star's idol. Mina has been living as a homeless person on Earth. Star follows Mina and tries to train in her ways, which annoys Marco. At a park, when Mina announces she plans to take over the world, the people decide to hold a vote on whether Mina should rule, and Star is left to break the tie.