History Recap / AmphibiaS3E17EscapeToAmphibia

* ForegoneConclusion: No matter what happens, one thing's for certain: given the following episode descriptions, Anne and the Plantars at the very least must be in Amphibia by episode's end.

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers:
** Mr. X provides his FBI superior with a list of supplies he'll need for his mission to capture the Plantars, with the final item being "Kombucha on tap". His superior bluntly tells him not to push his luck.
** Similarly, the list that Terri shows to their allies to get the machine going include 50,000 kilowatts of power generators, 400 cubic meters of ice, and 8 gallons of yogurt-covered pretzels.

* UnderestimatingBadassery: Mr. X spends a good portion of the episode belittling Anne as "[[JustAKid just a child]]" while on the flip side he thinks the Plantars have some sort of evil invasion scheme. He learns at the end just how wrong he was when Anne releases some of her powers and utterly curb-stomps an entire squad of FBI agents. It's pretty {{Justified}} though, as up to that point he believed Anne was a normal 13-year-old girl, akin to Elliot from ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'', and failed to realize that [[WrongGenreSavvy he's in a straight fantasy story]], rather than a sci-fi one like he thought.

* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Terri figured out that the portals are sound-based based on music notes for coordinates after the Plantars kept calling the Calamity Box a "music box". She manages to open a portal to Amphibia when asking one of the interdimensional travelers to hum the tune they heard, and tests it out on two keyboards.

* BigEater: One of the things Terri asks for when buying the remaining components to finalize her makeshift portal setup is 8 gallons of yogurt-covered pretzels, it being pretty clear she's looking for a snack and not because they're needed for the machine to work.

** Earlier in the episode, Terri requests that the Boonchuys buy her a tub of yogurt-covered pretzels. Near the climax when the [=FBI=] agents swarm their warehouse, one of them notices the tub and remarks on how good they are.

* EurekaMoment: Terri said that the Plantars and Anne calling the Calamity Box a "music box," plus them mentioning they heard a song while in the portal, made her realize that ''soundwaves'' can unlock interdimensional portals because the musical notes serve as coordinates. She theorizes that the ancient newts that designed the Calamity Box must have reached the same conclusion, millennia ago.

** Similarly, the list that Terri shows to her allies to get the machine going include 50,000 kilowatts of power generators, 400 cubic meters of ice, and 8 gallons of yogurt-covered pretzels.

* NeedleInAStackOfNeedles: Terri mentions this; getting the frequency and melody right for the machine is the only way they'll make it back to Amphibia. Her screens show that there are infinite dimensions, so one wrong coordinate could send them to a barren asteroid.

* ReadingsAreOffTheScale: The massive, cutting-edge generator the group steal from Mr. X's FBI base can barely provide enough power to make the portal to Amphibia slightly larger than before, with Terri noting that it was twice what they'd estimated they needed to provide in order to get a usable portal, sadly noting that even Earth's best technology simply can't create enough power to sustain inter-dimensional travel. When Anne's SuperMode turns out to be capable of powering the portal's energy demands, Terri's sensors are seen going haywire from the power she's outputting, and she's able to make it large enough to allow a car-sized praying mantis to pass through, visually demonstrating just how ''massive'' the energy she's channeling is. And all of that is with a ''partial'' connection to the blue Calamity Gem, implying a full connection would make Anne a PersonOfMassDestruction.

* SureLetsGoWithThat: When Mrs. Boonchuy asks Terri if the '8 gallons of yogurt-covered pretzels' are needed for the machine to work, she just stares blankly at her [[{{Beat}} for a moment]] before saying "yes". [[ExactWords After all]], she can't work the machine if she's hungry.

** Terri opens a portal to Amphibia! Just one problem... it's too small for any of them to fit, even Polly. She needs to figure out how to make it bigger, so they don't waste their one chance to return home.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Anne in previous episodes would lose control of her Super Mode and faint shortly after. Here, she activates it on command ''and'' uses it to power up the portal, making it large enough to get the Plantars to Amphibia, and, while she does faint once she's back in Amphibia, she manages to remain awake for a remarkable amount of time after powering down. Likewise, she's ''ecstatic'' to be back in Amphibia considering how hard she was working to return to Earth... at least until she and the Plantars see what Andrias has done to the whole realm.

** Initally it looks as though Terri and Dr. Jan are taking a risky detour on their rescue mission of the Plantars to steal the base's cutting edge generator will blow their element of surprise and doom the whole covert operation, but it turns out to ''help'' their rescue of them in the end, Mr. X having predicted the Boonchuy's attempts to save their 'alien allies' and having [[LuredIntoATrap laid a trap for them]] that ensnares all but Jan and Terri, getting them locked up in the base's jail cells. When the duo cut the power by stealing the generator, it also opens the electronic cell doors, freeing them and providing them another opportunity to free the Plantars under cover of darkness.

* BlackComedy: After Anne reveals that the Plantars are frogs, one of the temple ladies says she loves frogs... fried in garlic.

* CallBack: A giant praying mantis, larger than the bug it's eating, confirms to the Plantars and Anne that Terri opened a portal to Amphibia. Shame it's too small.

** The plastic lightsaber toys Anne and Mr. Boonchuy stage a mock battle within the department store come in handy when it turns out that he bought the one he was using and gives it to her as an EmergencyWeapon to deal with the FBI goons in Mr. X's base camp

* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: As Mr. and Mrs. Boonchuy tell off Mr. X, they would have been happy to cooperate with the FBI if Mr. X had just ''listened'' and not mistaken the Plantars for being alien invaders, let alone endangering their daughter. They're telling him everything now, so he better shut up and sit down. His response is, "[[ThisIsGonnaSuck Oh goody]]."

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Anne didn't realize the she'd have to leave her parents after reuniting with them when she returns to Amphibia, which ends up depressing her.
* DoorDumb: At one point, freaked out by Anne knocking out his fellow agent, an FBI agent frantically tries to get a door to open so he can run away. After she knocks him out too, she points out that he was pushing on a ''pull'' door.

* EnemiesList: Polly is revealed to have one, consisting of pretty much everyone who ever crossed her.
* EurekaMoment: Terri said that the Plantars and Anne calling the Calamity Box a "music box," plus them mentioning they heard a song in the portal, made her realize that ''soundwaves'' can unlock interdimensional portals because the musical notes serve as coordinates. She theorizes that the ancient newts that designed the Calamity Box must have reached the same conclusion, millennia ago.

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: The list that Terri shows to her allies to get the machine going include 50,000 kilowatts of power generators, 400 cubic meters of ice, and 8 gallons of yogurt-covered pretzels.

* MoodWhiplash: Anne and the Plantars return to Amphibia...success! But it's under control of Andrias and everything for miles around is gloomy and lifeless...cue up that happy ending theme!

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Anne in previous episodes would lose control of her Super Mode and faint shortly after. Here, she activates it on command ''and'' uses it to power up the portal, making it large enough to get the Plantars to Amphibia, and, while she does faint once she's back in Amphibia, she manages to remain awake for a remarkable amount of time after powering down. Likewise, she's ''ecstatic'' to be back in Amphibia considering how hard she was working to return to Earth...at least until she and the Plantars see what Andrias has done to the whole realm.
* PapaWolf: Mr. Boonchuy ''smacks'' Mr. X's hand when he tries giving them the pointer finger, and informs him that of course they'll cooperate. But he's not forgetting that Mr. X hunted down his daughter like a criminal. So Mr. X better listen about the ''real'' invasion.

* ReadingsAreOffTheScale: The massive, cutting-edge generator the group steal from Mr. X's FBI base can barely provide enough power to make the portal to Amphibia slightly larger than before, with Terri noting that it was twice what they'd estimated they needed to provide in order to get a usable portal, sadly noting that even Earth's best technology simply can't create enough power to sustain inter-dimensional travel. When Anne's SuperMode turns out to be capable of powering the portal's energy demands, Terri's sensors are seen going haywire from the power she's outputting, and she's able to make it large enough to allow a car-sized praying mantis to pass through, visually demonstrating just how ''massive'' the energy she's channeling is. And all of that is with a 'partial' connection to the blue calamity gem, implying a full connection would make Anne a PersonOfMassDestruction.

** Anne fighting the scared FBI agents with her "lightsaber" in a dark corridor is a clear reference to ''Film/RogueOne'', complete with similar soundtrack lightsaber sound effects as she swings the toy around. The last agent even pulls a similar situation of begging his allies on the other side of the exit doorway to open it and let him out as she approaches, before she smacks him unconscious.
-->'''Anne:''' Uuhh, it says 'pull', dude.

* SpannerInTheWorks: Thanks to Terri and Dr. Jan breaking away from the group to steal a government generator, the power for the facility is cut off allowing the rescue team to escape their holding cells.

* SureLetsGoWithThat: When Mrs. Boonchuy asks Terri if the '8 gallons of yogurt-covered pretzels' are needed for the machine to work, she just stares blankly at her [[{{Beat}} for a moment]] before saying 'yes'. [[ExactWords After all]], she can't work the machine if she's hungry.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Mr. X believes that he is stopping a hostile threat by arresting a group of strangers and interrogating them with chemicals, and that he's the hero of the story. When the dust settles, Mr. and Mrs. Boonchuy tell him off for how irresponsible he was by threatening a minor and her friends, scaring them to death while not listening to the truth.

* UnderestimatingBadassery: Mr. X spends a good portion of the episode belittling Anne as "[[JustAKid just a child]]" while on the flip side he thinks the Plantars have some sort of evil invasion scheme. He learns at the end just how wrong he was when Anne releases some of her powers and utterly curb stomps an entire squad of FBI agents. It's pretty {{Justified}} though, as up to that point he believed Anne was a normal 13-year old girl, akin to Elliot from ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'' and failed to realize that [[WrongGenreSavvy he's in a straight fantasy story]], rather than a Sci-fi one like he thought.
* VillainOpeningScene: The episode starts with a scene with Mr. X presenting proof of the Plantars to the FBI.

* WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises: {{Inverted}}. When she activates her SuperMode agaisnt the FBI at the end, Anne ''loses'' this as her usual look due to the show's art style and gains wide glowing vibrant blue irises as part of the InUniverse WhamShot to Mr. X, showing him that he's ''not'' in a sci-fi fantasy genre like he thought, and Anne is more than the TokenHuman ally of the Plantars like he believed.
* WrongGenreSavvy: Mr. X is convinced that the Plantars are seeking to invade the Earth, when really they just want to go home and ''stop'' the invasion. He also views Anne as JustAKid, frequently underestimating her to his detriment even ''before'' she uses her SuperMode, showing that the adventure he's in leans more towards fantasy than science fiction.

** Terri opens a portal to Amphibia! Just one problem...it's too small for any of them to fit, even Polly. She needs to figure out how to make it bigger, so they don't waste their one chance to return home.

** Mr. X is hit with one of these by the episode's climax. His original targets successfully escape back to their home world, but in so doing expose that [[WrongGenreSavvy they're 'inter-dimensional', not extraterrestrial lifeforms]] and the Boonchuys prepare to explain to him that there ''is'' [[RightForTheWrongReasons an invasion coming to Earth]], but not because of them.