At this bed and breakfast, guests ARE the breakfast!
The Plantars visit a bed and breakfast for the night, but Polly discovers the caretakers aren't what they seem.
This episode has examples of these tropes:
- Affably Evil: The horned bull frog family seem like genuinely pleasant, polite, family-oriented hosts who never swear and are always courteous to their guests ... whom they happen to trap, drug, and eat.
- Alone with the Psycho: Polly finds the innkeeper's wife cornering her in Hop Pop's room. She's too scared to fight, so she flees down the laundry chute.
- Ascended Fridge Horror: Sprig, Polly and Hop Pop are horrified when they find a bunch of abandoned snails in the same barn where Bessie is. They realize the owners must have been eaten.
- Call-Back: Hop Pop uses the command "Bessie, things are getting messy!" to get Bessie to run, first seen back in "Anne Theft Auto".
- Cannibal Clan: The horned frog innkeepers.
- Captain Obvious: Lampshaded in this small conversation between Sprig and Hop-Pop.Sprig: We're the 'breakfast' in Bed and Breakfast!Hop-Pop: Yeah, obvi!
- Chekhov's Gun: The laundry chute in each bedroom. Polly uses it to escape the innkeeper's wife.
- Combat Pragmatist:
- The horned frogs point out laughingly that Polly is too small to fight them head-on. She agrees; instead she uses her bow as a boomerang to knock over the marinade, causing the toads to slip and giving everyone a chance to run.
- Anne, to make sure that they don't get followed, blows up the inn and everyone inside it.
- Collapsing Lair: At the end, Anne blows up the inn by mixing a giant barrel of baking soda with a giant barrel of vinegar.
- Cooking the Live Meal: One of the few comedic things about the episode's featured Cannibal Clan is watching them rotate a drugged Anne, Hop Pop and Sprig on a rotisserie over a fire. Otherwise, the clan's doings are largely Played for Horror.
- Creepy Doll: There are some dolls in the room Polly tries to sleep in which creep her out. One of them is Cricket Green.
- Darker and Edgier: What else can you say about an episode of a light-hearted show that focuses on cannibalism?
- A Day in the Limelight: Polly is the central focus of the episode.
- Don't You Dare Pity Me!: Polly refuses to eat the cookies that Hop Pop offers her because she considers them a pity prize for having to sleep with him. This ends up accidentally saving her because she's not drugged.
- Dope Slap: Polly wakes up her family with a slap. It works like a charm.
- The Family That Slays Together: The horned frog family who drug and eat guests also seem to consist of a Happily Married couple and their supportive relatives.
- Family-Values Villain: The horned frog family seem to consist of a Happily Married couple and their siblings. They're polite, courteous, wholesome, and supportive of each other... which happens to involve drugging and eating guests.
- Fright-Induced Bunkmate: At the end, Polly wants to sleep with Hop Pop after being scared by the day's events. They are then followed by Anne and Sprig. Hop Pop's only issue is that Sprig's feet are cold.
- Gosh Dang It to Heck!: A rather extreme case with the horned frog family, who're so wholesome that they don't even use watered down swear words. They simply use family-friendly expressions like, "Oh no!" and "Goodness gracious!"Frog Husband: Oh dear.
- Improbable Weapon User: Polly uses her bow as a boomerang to knock over the marinade.
- Inn of No Return: The proprietors of the Dandy Lion Inn kill and eat their customers.
- Letting the Air out of the Band: Right at the start of the episode, the theme music grinds to a halt as the Plantars notice that their path out of the valley is still blocked by ice.
- Monster in the Ice: When Anne and the Plantars are inspecting the pass leading out of the mountains to see it's still filled with snow, a large insect is shown frozen inside.
- Nobody Here but Us Statues: Subverted. Polly tries to pose as one of the dolls on the shelf when the innkeeper's wife is chasing her. The wife knows her dolls, and gives an Evil Laugh.
- Oh, Crap!: The horned frog family when they notice that Anne has started to mix a TON of baking soda and vinegar.Frog Husband: Oh dear.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Blood Knight Polly being scared out of her wits is a sign of how serious things have become.
- Out-of-Genre Experience: This episode is more like a Twilight Zone homage.
- Shout-Out: Polly's bedroom at the inn has a wooden doll of Cricket Green in it.
- Shown Their Work: Horned frogs in real life are predators that eat smaller amphibians, so they are an ideal choice for a Cannibal Clan.
- Slipping a Mickey: Martha's slumberdoodle cookies.
- Tempting Fate: Twice within minutes of each other.
- When Bessie stops on the road due to snail trouble, Sprig comments on how nice a day it is. Cue the Rain.
- Hop Pop refuses to waste money at the inn because he managed to pack a tent for them to stay in. A gust of wind blows the tent into the air, where it's incinerated by three simultaneous lightning strikes.
- [Verb] This!:Polly: Marinate THIS, you cannibals!
