<Tr> <Th> 35 </Th> <Td> 22 </Td> <Td> "Starcrushed" </Td> <Td> Dominic Bisignano and Aaron Hammersley </Td> <Td> Dominic Bisignano, Tyler Chen, Evon Freeman, Gina Gress, Aaron Hammersley, John Mathot and Le Tang </Td> <Td> February 27, 2017 (2017 - 02 - 27) </Td> <Td> 222 </Td> <Td> 0.40 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> Star and Marco's class holds a party for the end of the school year at Marco's house . Marco struggles to reconnect with Star after the events of the previous episode . Queen Butterfly and the Magic High Commission invade Ludo's new castle . Star, who also feels uncomfortable about the situation, summons her friends and shares her predicament . The girls convince her to ditch the end - of - year party and instead attend another party where she sees Oskar . Meanwhile, Toffee, who has possessed Ludo's body, drains the powers from the Magic High Commission and nearly kills Queen Butterfly, who retreats with the fallen commission members . When Star returns from the party, Queen Butterfly tells her they are in danger and she will have to leave Earth immediately due to Toffee's return . Star admits to Marco that she does have a crush on him but that she has to leave . </Td> </Tr> <Table> <Tr> <Th> No . overall </Th> <Th> No. in season </Th> <Th> Title </Th> <Th> Directed by </Th> <Th> Written & storyboarded by </Th> <Th> Original air date </Th> <Th> Prod . code </Th> <Th> U.S. viewers (millions) </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 36a </Th> <Td> 1a </Td> <Td> "The Battle for Mewni: Return to Mewni" </Td> <Td> Dominic Bisignano & Aaron Hammersley </Td> <Td> Dominic Bisignano, Aaron Hammersley, Zach Marcus & Cassie Zwart </Td> <Td> July 15, 2017 (2017 - 07 - 15) </Td> <Td> TBA </Td> <Td> 0.51 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> Marco's parents try to console Marco . Star and Queen Butterfly take the Magical High Commission members to the sanctuary, but their carriage breaks down because of the fritz . Some of Ludo's rats try to take away the members while they are camping, but they fight them off . They make it to the sanctuary, but the well spring that is supposed to revive the members is corrupted with dark magic . Queen Butterfly and Star rest and think about what to do next: Queen wants them to stay and hide, but Star wants to fight . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 36b </Th> <Td> 1b </Td> <Td> "The Battle for Mewni: Moon the Undaunted" </Td> <Td> Dominic Bisignano, Aaron Hammersley & Giancarlo Volpe </Td> <Td> Dominic Bisignano, Sabrina Cotugno, Kristen Gish & Aaron Hammersley </Td> <Td> July 15, 2017 (2017 - 07 - 15) </Td> <Td> TBA </Td> <Td> 0.51 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> 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 . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 37a </Th> <Td> 2a </Td> <Td> "The Battle for Mewni: Book Be Gone" </Td> <Td> Brett Varon </Td> <Td> Madeleine Flores, Brett Varon & Nicolette Wood </Td> <Td> July 15, 2017 (2017 - 07 - 15) </Td> <Td> TBA </Td> <Td> 0.51 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> Ludo finds that his wand is now embedded into his hand . He finds Glossaryck, who tells them that the Magic High Commission has been defeated . Ludo wants to celebrate by writing his story into the Book of Spells, but the book will not let him, as he is not the owner of the book anymore . Despite multiple attempts, he is unable to write into the book until he throws the book into the fire, at which it burns up (and Glossaryck along with it). </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 37b </Th> <Td> 2b </Td> <Td> "The Battle for Mewni: Marco and the King" </Td> <Td> Dominic Bisignano & Aaron Hammersley </Td> <Td> Dominic Bisignano, Jushtin Lee & Amelia Lorenz </Td> <Td> July 15, 2017 (2017 - 07 - 15) </Td> <Td> TBA </Td> <Td> 0.51 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> King River tries to take care of the kingdom by partying it up every day, but he and his subjects wear down quickly . Marco arrives, but River has to deal with angry villagers as well as a large monster who approaches the castle after he yelled at it to leave . River tries to hide, but Marco encourages him to stand up to the monster . River rallies the villagers to fight the monster, and it is revealed that the monster thought River was beckoning it to come to the castle, not to go away . It leaves peacefully, but as River is about to have a party to celebrate, Ludo and his minions appear and take over the kingdom . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 38a </Th> <Td> 3a </Td> <Td> "The Battle for Mewni: Puddle Defender" </Td> <Td> Tyler Chen & Giancarlo Volpe </Td> <Td> Tyler Chen, Gina Gress & Sarah Oleksyk </Td> <Td> July 15, 2017 (2017 - 07 - 15) </Td> <Td> TBA </Td> <Td> 0.51 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> With the sanctuary all sludged up, Star and Queen Moon flee and find a new hiding place at Buff Frog's . Star wants to sneak out to fight, so she gets Buff Frog to distract Moon with some Mewnian board games such as Puddle Defender, which Buff and Moon find have a biased perspective towards the monsters instead of the Mewnians . After a heated argument, Buff Frog sides with Moon and forbids Star from leaving . However, Buff's youngest tadpole Katerina later sneaks Star out . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 38b </Th> <Td> 3b </Td> <Td> "The Battle for Mewni: King Ludo" </Td> <Td> Brett Varon </Td> <Td> Casey Crowe, Evon Freeman & Brett Varon </Td> <Td> July 15, 2017 (2017 - 07 - 15) </Td> <Td> TBA </Td> <Td> 0.51 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> Ludo has taken over the kingdom, and has imprisoned Marco and River, but he finds that he is not popular at all among the kingdom's villagers . He tells River to make him popular or else he will levitate him into the sky . Marco uses a stick of butter that Ludo left to free himself, but River has eaten his part of the butter so Marco has to steal Ludo's key . He meets with some of the court entertainers, and they steal the key, but River refuses to escape . Ludo levitates River into the skies while Marco and the entertainers conspire what to do next . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 39 </Th> <Td> </Td> <Td> "The Battle for Mewni: Toffee" </Td> <Td> Dominic Bisignano, Tyler Chen & Aaron Hammersley </Td> <Td> Dominic Bisignano, Tyler Chen, Sabrina Cotugno, Kristen Gish, Aaron Hammersley, Zach Marcus & Cassie Zwart </Td> <Td> July 15, 2017 (2017 - 07 - 15) </Td> <Td> TBA </Td> <Td> 0.51 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> Star attacks Ludo at the castle but Ludo suddenly stops when he gets a signal from his hand . Star tells Ludo that Toffee is controlling him, but Spider is able to capture her in the meantime . Marco breaks her out and calls the entertainers (called Le Resistance) but Ludo arrives and imprisons them except for Star . Ludo asks Star about his wand hand . While Queen Moon and Buff Frog break Marco out, Star agrees to use the whispering spell to free the magic in the wand and there is a big blast . Star finds herself in a sea of dark magic inside Ludo's body, and Ludo is taken over by Toffee again . Queen Moon agrees to return Toffee's finger in exchange for Star's freedom . Toffee resurrects, but tells them that Star is gone . But as he leaves, Star is able to find her magic and come out to Mewni . She defeats Toffee with a magical blast from her restored wand; Ludo drops a pillar on Toffee to finish him off . Ludo asks Star to send him back to the void so he can find himself some more . While King River returns on some eagles, Queen Moon checks on Eclipsa who is still encased in crystal, however as Moon leaves, the crystal that holds Eclipsa starts to crack . </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Th> No . overall </Th> <Th> No. in season </Th> <Th> Title </Th> <Th> Directed by </Th> <Th> Written & storyboarded by </Th> <Th> Original air date </Th> <Th> Prod . code </Th> <Th> U.S. viewers (millions) </Th> </Tr>

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