OKAY so, Jailbreak was AMAZING/ again SO MUCH happened in that episode that is worth discussing. BUT, something in particular caught my attention and had me wondering.
Jasper says the following insults upon arriving in Beach City:
“Some lost, defective pearl”
“A puny, overcooked runt,”
NOW. Amethyst has a possible explanation for Jasper’s insult, which can be found here.
But what about Pearl?
‘Defective’ is pretty harsh. But if we assume the reasoning behind Jasper’s words at Amethyst are correct, then Jasper is probably hinting at something…And the potential answer smacked me in the face when I was reading up on pearls and other gemstones.
I found the following (courtesy of wikipedia of course)
“The ideal pearl is perfectly round and smooth, but many other shapes (baroque pearls) occur. The finest quality natural pearls have been highly valued as gemstones and objects of beauty for many centuries.”
…wait
“The ideal pearl is perfectly round and smooth,”
Okay…so a ‘perfect’ pearl looks like this/ should look like the following to be given that classification:
….Perfectly round and smooth. Cool, it looks pretty sweet-…but wait, Pearl’s gemstone doesn’t look like this
-Oh….
“many other shapes (baroque pearls) occur”
And Additionally:
Pearl’s particular shape (though stylized for cartoon purposes I totally understand) isn’t even on this chart. If I had to call it, I’d say her gemstone most resembles a baroque pearl…
But what is the definition of a baroque pearl?
“Baroque pearls are pearls with an irregular non-spherical shape. Shapes can range from minor aberrations to distinctly ovoid, curved, pinch, or lumpy shapes.”
So…those pearls aren’t considered to be as nice, or valuable as a perfect, more rounded pearl is…
“The finest quality natural pearls have been highly valued as gemstones and objects of beauty”
…
And Jasper called her defective….
PLUS when you apply this possibility to her character, it makes sense??
She insists on things being symmetrical and everything being organised in the most efficient manner possible, she LOVES being right or in the right, and in Coach Steven we see one of her greatest insecurities is not being strong enough…not being good enough.
….Oh Pearl…;A;
(I could TOTALLY be wrong on this of course, but food for thought??)
I hate it when foreign cartoons get dubbed over but I love it when said cartoons have songs that need to be translated as well because often you can just hear the desperation of the poor fuck who had to translate the lyrics in such a way that it conveys the song’s original message but also still rhymes.
You haven’t lived until you’ve heard the Dutch version of the Fairly Odd Parents theme song.
Unless you don’t speak Dutch in which case you wouldn’t understand the translated lyrics anyway so I guess you’re not really missing out on anything.
Why don’t you translate the song into english so we can live?
episode idea: steven’s dad tries to get out of giving his kid The Talk by dumping that responsibility on pearl, only to end up having to give her the talk instead. pearl is mortified
