Line #36 Recap/AmphibiaS1E08TakingCharge


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:Anne introduces the joys of binge-watching to Amphibia.]]
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4	After one of the Plantars mysteriously runs out the charge on Anne's phone, the family embarks on a mission to try and recharge it.
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10	!!Tropes:
11	* AddictiveForeignSoapOpera: Anne manages to get Sprig and Polly hooked on the human soap opera ''Suspicion Island'' within a few episodes. She even got Hop Pop hooked, which led him to drain her battery watching the entirety of the Season!
12	* ArchiveBinge: Anne stops the Plantar siblings from watching too late in the night specifically because of her InUniverse experience with this trope. Didn't reach Hop Pop, though.
13	* ArtisticLicensePhysics: Let's just say that exposing a cell phone to high-voltage electricity wouldn't charge its battery without damaging it.
14	* BeyondTheImpossible: The Zapapedes charge Anne's phone up to '''10,000%.''' She won't be needing another recharge for a good ''LONG'' while. Hop Pop lampshades that "[[LampshadeHanging That's a lot of percentages]]."
15	* BigBallOfViolence: Sprig and Polly form one when they finally had enough of each other's accusations. Anne joins in after trying to stop them and getting hurt by Sprig.
16	* ChainOfPeople: Anne, Sprig and Polly link together to retrieve Hop Pop from the Zapapedes. This causes them all to be electrocuted.
17	* ChewingTheScenery: Hop Pop is in ''fine'' form this episode, especially following TheReveal that he was the one who drained the battery because of his secret love of ''Suspicion Island''.
18	-->"''IT WAS MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!''"
19	* EyeAmWatchingYou: All the Plantars and Anne do it to each other as they leave to find a Zapapede. Sprig even does it to a clock before he leaves.
20	* {{Fanservice}}: In-universe. ''Suspicion Island'' stars four attractive teenagers in skimpy clothing.
21	* GuiltyPleasures: Anne regards ''Suspicion Island'' as this, noting that the show is incredibly stupid, which is a lot of what makes it so fun to watch. Hop Pop confesses to being the one who watched all the episodes of ''Suspicion Island'', despite earlier dismissing the show as rubbish.
22	-->'''Hop Pop''': Hated it? HATED it?! I LOVED IT!
23	* HiddenDepths: Who knew that Sprig could play violin?
24	* HumanSacrifice: Hop Pop was willing to do this in order to recharge Anne's phone!
25	--> '''Anne''': The least you could do is help me fix my phone!\
26	'''Hop Pop''': Fair enough, Anne. How do we bring this thing back to life? Magic? Live sacrifice? I know a guy in town...!
27	* IDoNotLikeGreenEggsAndHam: Anne shows the Plantars the show, ''[[ShowWithinAShow Suspicion Island]]''. Sprig and Polly love it immediately, but Hop Pop dismisses as garbage. Later, a shadowy figure ends up watching ''Suspicion Island'', draining Anne’s phone battery. As per the nature of this trope, it was Hop Pop who watched the show, and that he loved it, watching every last episode.
28	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Hop Pop is horrified when the kids nearly kill each other over who watched the show and confesses that he watched the show.
29	* NotHelpingYourCase: Sprig accuses Polly of running down the battery by saying that he heard her get up, but as Polly turns back at him, that means that ''he'' was up too if he heard her.
30	* OnlySaneMan: Anne by default, which is not saying much as the Plantars all accuse each other of running down the phone. Then even ''she'' gets pulled into the fighting when Sprig accidentally kicks her.
31	* OpenTheIris: Sprig and Polly have this after their first glimpse of Suspicion Island.
32	* PersonAsVerb: Polly and Sprig using the characters from ''Suspicion Island'' as slang.
33	--> '''Polly''': You were trying to Chad her into trusting you!\
34	'''Sprig''': And you're trying to Vivica her into not trusting me!\
35	'''Polly''': Ohhhh, and look at Hop Pop trying to Randy his way out of this!\
36	'''Hop Pop''': I don't even know what that means!
37	* RightForTheWrongReasons: Early on, Polly accuses Hop Pop of running down Anne's phone to prevent them from watching the rest of the show the next day, because he hated it so much. He actually did it because he got even more hooked than they did and stayed up all night watching the rest of the season.
38	* RhymesOnADime: This is the episode where we learn that Sprig is a fiddler, and that he can invent his own song lyrics.
39	--> '''Sprig''': ''A family distrusts each other''\
40	''On a dangerous mission''\
41	''Like the nearly-naked humans on the island of Suspicion''\
42	''Peruvia, Felicia, and Randy... so hot!''\
43	''Beguiling, hostile-ing, we're all Suspicion Isle-ing!''
44	* SecurityBlanket: Anne turns out to be relying on her phone to get by while away from home, as it holds all her videos and picture of her old friends and family. She has a minor nervous breakdown when the charge gets run down and she can't use it.
45	* ShockAndAwe: The Zapapedes are large centipede-like creatures with electrical powers. The Plantars head out to find one to charge Anne's phone.
46	* ShowWithinAShow: ''Suspicion Island'', which appears to be a soap opera mashup of ''Series/{{Lost}}'' and ''Series/{{Survivor}}'' with teenagers.
47	* TerrorDactyl: In ''Suspicion Island'', the teens are attacked by a flock of ''Pteranodon'' (called "pterodactyls" as usual) that are, apparently, the clones of Chad's dead brother.
48	* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Anne realizes grabbing Hop Pop with her bare hands while he's being electrocuted was a bad idea one second after doing so.
49	* WingdingEyes: The zapapedes have one + and one - pupil.
50	* XRaySparks: Hop Pop when he gets shocked by the Zapapedes. Also Anne, Sprig and Polly when they try to save him.

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