History Recap / AmphibiaS3E17EscapeToAmphibia

* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: 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 once chance to return home.

* BittersweetEnding: Anne and the others make it back to Amphibia, but not only is Anne separated from her parents again, Andrias has reduced vast swathes of land to waste with ash falling from the sky.

* {{Hammerspace}}: When mr.X demands to know more about [[BloodKnight Polly's]] plans to 'eliminate her enemies and take over the world, she pulls a list of her enemies' names and reading glasses out of her bow and behind her back, with said list being ''really'' long to boot.

* ShoutOut: Anne fighting the scared FBI agents with her "lightsaber" in a dark corridor is clear reference to ''Film/RogueOne''.

* 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.

* BigEater: One of the things Terri asks for when buying the remaining components to finalise 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.

* ConvenientlyTimedDistraction: Dr. Frakes and Jan split off from the group to steal a generator, causing power to fail when the rest of the group is captured. Anne uses the opportunity to knock out the guards and get everyone out, including the Plantars.

* UnderestimatingBadassery: Mr. X spends a good portion of the episode belittling Anne as "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.

-->''What... happened here?''

* AbsurdlyIneffectiveBarrier: The others escape with the Plantar family in a van, so Mr. X yells to the guard at the entrance to lower the draw barrier. He does so, which makes him and Mr. X convinced that their targets have been stopped. But the van simply plows through, breaking it.

* DrivesLikeCrazy: Anne’s mom shows off some impressive moves in the car while following X and the Plantars.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: When the heroes are escaping from the FBI base, the gate guard tries to stop them by lowering a single railroad-crossing style barrier, which their van smashes right through. The guard even lampshades that he doesn’t know why they thought that would work.

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

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

* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: 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 once chance to return home.

* PortslCut: When a giant praying mantis tries to attack them through the portal, the closing of said portal cuts off one of its arms.

* SuprisinglyRealisticOutcome: When the heroes are escaping from the FBI base, the gate guard tries to stop them by lowering a single railroad-crossing style barrier, which their van smashes right through. The guard even lampshades that he doesn’t know why they thought that would work.

* SuprisinglyRealisticOutcome: When the heroes are escaping from the FBI base, the gate guard tries to stop them by lowering a single railroad-crossing style barrier, which their van smashes right through. The guard even lampshades that he doesn’t know why they thought that wouldn’t work.

%%** 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.
%%** 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.
%%** 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.
%%** 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.
%%** TheReveal: Dr. Frakes's portal projects were unstable because they were using the wrong type of parameters for the various tests. With the Plantars and Anne providing new info, Terri reveals that you need to use specific music notes to lock a target on another dimension.
%%** YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: 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 once chance to return home.

!!Tropes:

!!Tropes:

* ForegoneConclusion: No matter what happens, and regardless of whether or not Anne's parents or any of the Plantars' other Earth allies end up in Amphibia, one thing's for certain: given the following episode descriptions, the Earth arc is ''over'', and Anne and the Plantars at the very least must be in Amphibia by episode's end.

* ForegoneConclusion: No matter what happens, regardless of whether or not Anne's parents or any of the Plantars' other Earth allies end up in Amphibia, one thing's for certain: given the following episode descriptions, the Earth arc is ''over'', and Anne and the Plantars at the very least must be in Amphibia by episode's end.

* ForegoneConclusion: No matter what happens, regardless of whether or not Anne's parents or any of the Plantars' other Earth allies end up in Amphibia, 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.

With one shot at getting the Plantars back to Amphibia, Anne and her parents must go up against Mr. X and the FBI.