Girls just wanna have a basic amount of freedom.
Fed up with her mother's strict rules, Ivy concocts a plan to run away.
Full Recap
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Tropes:
- Another Story for Another Time: Felicia casually mentions that she met Ivy's father during one of her tea travels.
- Both Sides Have a Point: The root of Ivy and Felicia's argument.
- Ivy is understandably frustrated with her mother being so uptight about her chores, which includes criticizing her over every little imperfection like a loose neck on the swan napkins.
- Yet, Felicia's claim about Ivy being too rebellious and not very concerned for her safety is solid considering the Death World that Amphibia is.
- A Day in the Limelight: Ivy is the star of the A-plot for the episode.
- Duels Decide Everything: Felicia decides to let Ivy leave out on her own... if she can best her in martial arts combat. Ivy thinks she'll win easily, but Felicia turns out to be a surprisingly good fighter.
- Foreshadowing:
- Felicia is able to save her tea set and silverware from falling without breaking her stance. This hints towards her being a skilled martial artist.
- The three posters on Ivy's wall are seen at the start of the episode, signaling their importance later.
- Full-Name Ultimatum: Felicia calls Ivy by her full name when she has the bees chase her and Sprig.Felicia: Ivy Hibiscus Matcha Sundew!
- Hidden Depths: Felicia turns out to be adept at fighting. She has to be, as she travels around Amphibia to collect her exotic teas and has learned many things during that time. One-Eyed Wally also exemplifies such adept fighting to Anne & Polly's surprise.
- High-Pressure Emotion: Ivy gets so annoyed over her mother getting on her case that she lets out steam from her head. Felicia hears this and wonders if she left a kettle on.
- Leeroy Jenkins: Anne is teaching Polly Muay Thai, but Polly just wants to jump and attack right away. Anne simply dodges her repeatedly, explaining that she needs to learn patience as well. Polly only gets it when she watches Ivy and Felicia fight, and Felicia dodges Ivy just as Anne did her.
- Miles Gloriosus: Sprig exaggerates his travel stories to Ivy and boasts that he has friends all over Amphibia. But he soon regrets his words when Ivy decides to run away with him, claiming that he can use his "friends" to help them get by.
- Poor Communication Kills: It turns out that all the chores and tea stuff Felicia was making Ivy do was a way of training her in martial arts, to make sure she was ready to go out in the world. She could have just told Ivy that and avoided the conflict.
- Rage Breaking Point: Felicia's criticism of Ivy's tablecloth skills is what causes the latter to snap and decide to run away.
- The Runaway: Ivy decides to run away with Sprig because she's tired of her mother's strict rules and duties. Felicia stops her and fights her for the right to leave, but in doing so makes Ivy realize that her duties were actually to prepare her for leaving out into the world when she was ready.
- Running Gag: For the third time in the series, a dispute between a child and parent is solved via combat.
- Shout-Out: Anne, as a little kid in her flashback, is shown hitting pots and "singing", "I'll tell you what I need. What I really really need."
- Supernatural Phone: Felicia uses honeybees, which function as mobile walkie talkies, to communicate with her daughter.
- Wax On, Wax Off: Turns out all of Ivy's chores that Felicia was being so perfectionist about were also training Ivy in martial arts.
- You Are Not Ready: Felicia has always been aware of her daughter's desires to travel the world and learn how to fight, but Ivy doesn't know the world outside of Wartwood like she does. If Ivy wants to do all that, she needs to learn patience.
