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* EurekaMoment: In "Phone-Mo", after the beast flinches from Anna saying it's not cute at all, Anna realizes the beast's weakness is dislike and hatred and proceeds to use such to defeat it for good.
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[[caption-width-right:350:viewer beware, you're in for a scare!]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:viewer [[caption-width-right:350: [[Literature/{{Goosebumps}} Viewer beware, you're in for a scare!]]scare!]]]]
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* SeldomSeenSpecies: The Seamstress in Sprig's story turns out to be a glass frog.
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* FairyRing: During Hop Pop's story, the first hint that Mr. Littlepod is more than just another traveler for Hop Pop's wagon business is that Littlepod's introduced standing within a fairy ring, having not been there when Hop Pop first pulled up.

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* FairyRing: During Hop Pop's story, the first hint that Mr. Littlepod Littlepot is more than just another traveler for Hop Pop's wagon business is that Littlepod's Littlepot's introduced standing within a fairy ring, having not been there when Hop Pop first pulled up.



** When Anna looks at the cursed video, she notices there are no negative comments, which she finds weird. This later turns out to be the beast's weakness.

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** When Anna looks at the cursed video, she notices there are no dislikes or negative comments, which she finds weird. This later turns out to be the beast's weakness.



** Mr. Littlepot first appears in a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_ring "fairy ring"]] hinting that he's something supernatural.

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** Mr. Littlepot first appears in a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_ring "fairy ring"]] FairyRing, hinting that he's something supernatural.



* IHaveThisFriend: Anne's story doesn't feature her, but someone named "Anna."

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* IHaveThisFriend: Anne's story doesn't feature her, but someone named "Anna.""Anna".



* ThePowerOfHate: In the climax of Phone-Mo, Anna defeats the monster by berating it, disliking the video, and sending a nasty comment.

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* ThePowerOfHate: In Anne's story, this turns out to be the climax of Phone-Mo, monster's weakness. Anna defeats the monster it by berating it, repeatedly disliking the video, and sending a nasty comment.



* SerialKiller: The Seamstress is Sprig's story is straight out of Film/SilenceOfTheLambs, a frog with glass skin who steals the skin of other frogs to cover herself up.

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* SerialKiller: The Seamstress is Sprig's story is straight out of Film/SilenceOfTheLambs, ''Film/SilenceOfTheLambs'', a frog with glass skin who steals the skin of other frogs to cover herself up.



** The ending where Polly looks at the Blue Moon and is turned into some kind of werewolf creature refers to ''Franchise/{{Goosebumps}}'' book ''Full Moon Fever'' where siblings are turned into wolf-like monsters after they gaze up at the Halloween full moon.

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** The ending where Polly looks at the Blue Moon and is turned into some kind of werewolf creature refers to the ''Franchise/{{Goosebumps}}'' book ''Full Moon Fever'' Fever'', where siblings are turned into wolf-like monsters after they gaze up at the Halloween full moon.



* SpecialEditionTitle: The intro is given a Halloween-style theme to it in celebration of the holiday, and the end credits are reminiscent of Season 1's credits, but with Anne and Sprig's skeletons.

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* SpecialEditionTitle: The intro is given a Halloween-style theme to it in celebration of the holiday, and the end credits are reminiscent of based on Season 1's credits, but with Anne and Sprig's skeletons.



* VignetteEpisode: The episode consists of a series of Anne and the Plantars telling each other scary stories.

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* VignetteEpisode: The episode consists of a series of scary stories told by Anne and the Plantars telling each other scary stories.to one another.



* YouMeanXMas: Even though they keep insisting that the Shut-In's not a holiday, it's still basically Amphibia's equivalent to Halloween, right down to putting up decorations and gathering up supplies in the same kids would go trick-or-treating for candy in Anne's homeworld.

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* YouMeanXMas: Even though they keep insisting that the Shut-In's not a holiday, it's still basically Amphibia's equivalent to Halloween, right down to putting up decorations and gathering up supplies in the same way kids would go trick-or-treating for candy in Anne's homeworld.

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* AgeLift: Anne's story has the humanized versions of Sprig, Polly, Maddie, and Toadie as all around her age and attending the same school as her, meaning they'd be roughly 13. Sprig however is 10, Maddie is hinted to be close in age to Sprig, Polly is 5, and Toadie was confirmed by the writers to be in his 30's.
* AndYouWereThere: Anne's story features humanized versions of her friends and neighbors in Wartwood (such as Sprig and Polly becoming "Twig" and "Molly").



* AndYouWereThere: Anne's story features humanized versions of her friends and neighbors in Wartwood (such as Sprig and Polly becoming "Twig" and "Molly").
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** Anna answers Twig's call with "[[WesternAnimation/KimPossible what's the sitch?]]".
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* YouMeanXMas: Even though they keep insisting that the Shut-In's not a holiday, it's still basically Amphibia's equivalent to Halloween, right down to putting up decorations and gathering up supplies in the same kids would go trick-or-treating for candy in Anne's homeworld.
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* FairyRing: During Hop Pop's story, the first hint that Mr. Littlepod is more than just another traveler for Hop Pop's wagon business is that Littlepod's introduced standing within a fairy ring, having not been there when Hop Pop first pulled up.
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* WorstWhateverEver: Anna finishes off the monster by sending the nasty comment "Worst video ever."
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* ThePowerOfHate: In the climax of Phone-Mo, Anna defeats the monster by berating it, disliking the video, and sending a nasty comment.


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* TheShutIn: Right there in the title. On that day, the frogs of Amphibia lock themselves in their homes during a literal blue moon, and they are not to go back outside until morning because anyone who looks at the blue moon will turn into a hideous beast.
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** The plush dolls "Anna" throws at the monster in "Phone Mo" resemble Beanie Babies, complete with red heart-shaped tag.

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* CompanyCrossReferences: Mr. Littlepot's appearance is very similar to that of Mr. Dark from Disney's 1983 live-action film ''Something Wicked This Way Comes''.



** Mr. Littlepot's appearance is very similar to that of Mr. Dark from Disney's 1983 live-action film ''Something Wicked This Way Comes''.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Littlepot presents himself as a charming gentleman just fulfilling his duties as the Frog Reaper. Yet he clearly enjoys the brutality of his work and happily uses Hop Pop's honest business practices to torment him and force him into obedience.
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* ArtisticLicense: In Anne's story, Anna defeats the monster by giving it multiple dislikes; in reality, when she repeatedly pushed the dislike button, it would've added and removed her dislike instead of giving loads of them.
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* BreatherEpisode: This episode has no relation to the main story, and is generally considered a filler.
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* IgnoredAesop: The moral of Anne's story is stated to not do things just because everyone's doing it. Then Twig talks about a new burger place at the haunted part of town and everyone goes there despite what they just went through with the video.

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* IgnoredAesop: The moral of Anne's story is stated to be to not do things just because everyone's doing it. Then Twig talks about a new burger place at the haunted part of town and everyone goes there despite what they just went through with the video.
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That is strictly a Christmas episode trope. Look under Halloween episode for those details.


* YouMeanXmas: The Shut-In is similar to Halloween, with frogs going door-to-door and asking for supplies to board their house with like how humans go trick-or-treating. They also make jack o' lanterns, which are called "fear gourds" in this universe.
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* YouMeanXmas: The Shut-In is similar to Halloween, with frogs going door-to-door and asking for supplies to board their house with like how humans go trick-or-treating. They also make jack o' lanterns, which are called "fear gourds" in this universe.
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* SerialKiller: The Seamstress is Sprig's story is straight out of Film/SilenceOfTheLambs, a frog with glass skin who steals the skin of other frogs to cover herself up.
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* TheBusCameBack: The episode is set back in Wartwood (evidently it's either OutOfOrder or else entirely non-canon), allowing most of the residents from Season 1 to return in this episode.

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* TheBusCameBack: The episode is set back in Wartwood (evidently it's either (it's OutOfOrder or else entirely non-canon), and intended to be an "evergreen" episode), allowing most of the residents from Season 1 to return in this episode.
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** In his story, Hop Pop mentions to Mr. Littlepot that their fits stop'd owner, Old Man Hopkins, has red leg, a sickness first mentioned in "Contagi-Anne".

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** In his story, Hop Pop mentions to Mr. Littlepot that their fits stop'd first stop's owner, Old Man Hopkins, has red leg, a sickness first mentioned in "Contagi-Anne".

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* TheBusCameBack:The episode is set back in Wartwood (evidently it's either OutOfOrder or else entirely non-canon), allowing most of the residents from Season 1 to return in this episode.

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* TheBusCameBack:The TheBusCameBack: The episode is set back in Wartwood (evidently it's either OutOfOrder or else entirely non-canon), allowing most of the residents from Season 1 to return in this episode.


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** Without her hat, Ivy looks like a Troll doll with her head of hair.

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