When Anne's bedroom floods, she and Sprig must bunk together.
Anne is helping Sprig out with farm work, evicting burrowing bugs that have tunneled underneath their vegetable patches on the farm. Sprig follows the bugs underneath through their mole-esque tunnels whilst Anne waits above with a tennis racket, swatting the bugs away when Sprig forces them above ground. Complementing each other on their teamwork with a secret handshake, the duo are approached by One-Eyed Wally, who finds the blooming friendship between the young frog and a 'monster from the woods' unnatural. The two just respond with how natural it is for two best friends to get along, proclaiming their catchphrase 'Spranne against the world!' At that point, they hear Hop Pop screaming from the house and rush to investigate.
They find Anne's basement room is almost completely flooded, with Hop Pop swimming about trying to locate the source of the leak, claiming that burrow bugs must have chewed through the water pipes. Anne is distraught about the loss of her room and possessions. Hop Pop reveals that he did manage to save her backpack, but couldn't save her mattress, pillows and sleeping gear from getting thoroughly soaked, floating around on the water's surface. Anne demands to know when this will be fixed, to which Hop Pop responds that he still needs to find where the water's coming from first and patch it. Sprig offer to help, but Hop Pop turns him down flat, pointing out that this is river water, and it's possible for various aquatic monsters to have snuck into the room through it. Unseen by any of them, behind Anne's floating mattress, a pair of eyes emerge, looking around for a bit before submerging again…
Tropes:
- Bookends: The episode starts with Anne and Sprig working together to drive off some pests that are upsetting the farm's crops. They repeat the same process again against the lampreys in the episode's end, showing how they're back to friendly terms again.
- Chekhov's Gun: Anne's mattress and pillows, rendered unusable early on due to getting throughly soaked in the flood, are used by Anne and Sprig to defend themselves from the river lampreys, the mattress providing a safe haven from the aquatic monsters and the pillows serving as makeshift weapons.
- Feud Episode: Anne and Sprig start getting on each other's nerves sharing a bedroom.
- Here We Go Again!: Just as Anne is getting comfortable in the couch, the living room floods.
- Insistent Terminology: Sprig is annoyed that Anne calls his toys "dolls", when they are actually "action figures".note
- Noodle Incident: Hop Pop also had a roommate in his past.note It didn't go well for him, either.Hop Pop: You think you know someone until they're in your space, and you're in theirs... and you can't stand how they whistle all the time, and they complain whenever you clean your web crusties out! YES, I HAVE TO DO IT IN OUR ROOM, IT HAS THE BEST LIGHTING!
- Poor Communication Kills: Part of what strains Anne and Sprig's relationship as roommates is that they're not coming clean with how one feels about the other's respective habits.
- Rule of Symbolism: Sprig's favorite action figure represents his patience and willingness to let Anne bunk with him. When she accidentally break said-action figure, it becomes the metaphorical straw that broke the camel's back.
- Slippery as an Eel: The river lampreys have eel-like, slimy bodies as well as eyes on stalks and, naturally, a Lamprey Mouth.
- Spectacular Spinning: The final attack the river lampreys make is twisting their bodies together and spinning around rapidly, effectively turning themselves into a living buzzsaw. After Anne and Sprig defeat them regardless, the lampreys use it to dig a role out of the room to flee through, which also incidentally drains the water in the process.
- Waist-Deep Ocean: After Anne's room floods, she's able to stand waist-deep in it... until the river lampreys pull her under the water, at which point the water is far deeper than it should be — with Sprig and the lampreys being able to swim with no indication of where the floor is until the lampreys burrow through it. When the water drains away, Anne is shown to have been standing waist-deep again.
