Have fun, kids, and keep a sharp eye on your personal possessions!
Anne's music box goes missing at the mysterious and exclusive Bizarre Bazaar.
Full Recap
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Tropes:
- All for Nothing: In the end, Anne doesn't learn anything about her music box from visiting the Bazaar.
- Ambiguous Situation: Hop Pop neither confirms nor denies killing a man when Sprig asks him if he has, only saying that "What happens at the Bizarre Bazaar stays at the Bizarre Bazaar."
- Bazaar of the Bizarre: Anne and Sprig sneak off to one, and while things are fun at first it quickly goes downhill.
- Big "NO!": Anne lets out one when she loses the music box to the Wrecker.
- Continuity Nod:
- The Plantar family revisits the Wartwood Town Archives, but are unable to find any information on Anne's music box from it.
- This is a follow-up to the ending of "Anne vs. Wild" when Anne presents the music box to the Plantars and Hop Pop is revealed to secretly have knowledge of such.
- Costumes Change Your Size: The big, buff Wrecker fills out his clothes, so he's much larger than Hop Pop on stilts. His mask is Latex Perfection.
- Double Standard: Vendors at the Bazaar can steal anything from any of their potential customers with no consequences. If they try to take their property back by force however, it's only then the Bazaar's bouncers show up to enforce the rules, the only hope you getting your property back is either by buying it or winning it in a race.
- Dramatic Irony: The audience knows that Anne's music box is the Calamity Box and Hop Pop knows about it, since they've learned back in "Anne vs. Wild", but Hop Pop keeps it a secret in her presence.
- The Dreaded: The Wrecker. Anyone who's ever heard of him flees in fear because, according to legend, he'll "wreck yourself if you don't check yourself".
- Eyepatch of Power: The Wrecker, a badass cockroach racer, has one eye covered with an eyepatch.
- Heads I Win, Tails You Lose: Once Marnie steals Anne's backpack, the only way she can get it back is if she wins it. However, her opponent, the Wrecker, is actually Hop Pop, meaning either way it's back in the Plantars' hands. Subverted once Hop Pop buries the Calamity Box to keep it away from Anne.
- Hold Your Hippogriffs: When the Wrecker wins the race, the announcer calls out, "Winner, winner, cricket dinner!"
- Mistaken for Romance: The game master calls Sprig Anne's "little pink boyfriend." She tries to correct this first, then is slightly offended by Sprig's refutal.Anne: WHOA! Not my boyfriend!
Sprig: Yeah, heh, she's way too old for me.
Anne: Yeah! Wait, what? - Our Monsters Are Weird: Although they're not "monstrous" in the usual sense of Amphibia's predatory wildlife... a small pack of, um... creatures
◊ (which look like they might've migrated from Adventure Time,) walk past the Plantars, en route to the Bazaar.Hop Pop: Hey! Get outta the way you... whatever the heck you are! - Plot Coupon: The egg that Sprig discovers in the tree.Sprig: It's an entry ticket to the Bizarre Bazaar!
- Sequel Hook:
- The Calamity Box is buried, with Hop Pop having lied to Anne that he knows nothing about it when in fact he does, and it won't be until the next season for her to learn this.
- After Anne runs off to find her stolen backpack, Valeriana wonders aloud if she is the "one she is looking for". This, too, doesn't get explored further until a later second season episode.
- Shout-Out: The Wrecker defeats Anne and Sprig by using a very familiar looking flying blue shell...ed beetle. Also a bit of a Take That! as Sprig feels the item isn't very balanced, if only he had a Super Horn...
- Combined with Freeze-Frame Bonus and Company Cross References, one of the prizes at the Cockroach Racing stand resembles the Infinity Gauntlet.
- The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday: The entire Bazaar.Sprig: It's a mysterious night market that only passes through once a year! Exotic foods, games, mysterious treasures...
- There Are No Rules: In Cockroach Racing, you are allowed to do anything to cross the line before your opponent.
- Wham Episode: Hop Pop buries the music box out of Anne's sight, thus not finding any answers to her request and lying to her.Hop Pop: Sorry, Anne, but I can't have you showing this thing around. Too dangerous for all of us. Now it's where it belongs. Where no one can find it.
