Funny / Amphibia Season 2

Little too much off the top there, Mar-Mar.

Handy Anne

• The Call-Back to season 1's finale.
  Sprig: So, you're feeling better about the whole Sasha incident?
  (several flashbacks to Anne and Sasha's battle)
  Anne: ...Yep! Totally fine!
  Sprig: (oblivious to Anne's agitation) Oh cool. Because if I had to fight like that, I'd be devastated! Heck, I'd be upset just hearing someone talk about it!
  Anne: (interrupting Sprig) Oh look, Hop Pop and Polly!
• Hop Pop lists all the dangers that the house may be exposed to while the Plantars are travelling, including wildfires, tornadoes, swarms of locusts and flaming locust tornadoes. Sprig tries to reassure Anne that Hop Pop's exaggerating, only for a tornado of flaming locusts to pass by in the background and eat a windmill.
• Chuck arrives at the farm in a cab driven by a comically handsome and extremely muscular frog with flowing, luxurious hair. His snail is equally muscular.
• Anne insisting that she'll "disasterproof" the house herself.
  Anne: Okay, first, I need supplies. But they can't just be any supplies. They have to be the best supplies. Because the Plantars are risking everything for me. Their home, their livelihood, their frog-hopping future! And that means they deserve the best, right!?
  (cut to Anne at a hardware store)
  Shopkeeper: I mean...it's a shovel.
  Anne: I'll take 10!
• Both Anne and Loggle realize just how weird it is for the latter to not contradict himself at the last second.
  Loggle: As a matter of fact, I do!
  (Beat)
  Anne: Huh, that was weird.
  Loggle: Yeah, didn't feel right.
• Loggle starts giving Anne a cryptic warning about how his concoction will awaken a power in the veggies that some would say is better left...
  Anne: I'll take it!
  Loggle: Don't you wanna hear the rest of my cryptic warning?
  Anne: Nope.
  Loggle: Works for me. Cash or credit?
• Part of Anne's disasterproofing involves burying a pile of bladed weapons larger than her body.
• Loggle’s formula causes the farm’s crops to mutate into monstrous vegetables... and a derpy-looking turnip creature with a giant butt.
• Hop Pop pulls a giant cheese grater out of a suitcase and proceeds to skin a potato monster. What sells this moment is the Battle Cry he chooses to shout as he does so: "Hash browns!"
• Chuck demonstrates why he was asked to watch the Plantars' farm when he instantly fixes all of the damage done by the battle.
  Anne: (Slaps her forehead in shock) HOO-BADA-BOOPA!
• This exchange as Anne is about to head off to Newtopia with the Plantars:
  Hop Pop: No turning back now!
  Anne: Did we give the key to Chuck?
  Hop Pop: We're turning back now!

Fort in the Road

• One of Hop Pop's road rules is to never strike a heroic pose. It's a sign of hubris that invites disaster.
• When they accidentally push open the door to the old shelter and fall through, Anne and Sprig end up making the most ridiculous faces just as the camera on Anne's phone goes off.
• There's something amusing about how Anne happily eats cricket ice cream with the Plantars, remarking that there was a time she'd pick the insect bits out.
• When Hop Pop is about to go through Unwilling Roboticization, he doesn't seem to mind the whole process...until he's strapped to the conveyor belt, which is about to head to a device that will crush him.
  Hop Pop: I TAKE IT BACK! I WAS A FOOL!!!
• When the machine states that to cancel the operation, Sprig has to insert a new disk, Sprig says that this will be easy...before pressing all the buttons in a complete panic.
• Sprig frantically asks Anne what a "disk" is and she retorts that she doesn't know because she's from another dimension, not the nineties.
• When the computer keeps saying "insert disk" over and over, Sprig tells it to shut up and jams Hop Pop's rule book into it, causing the computer to say "What the heck, what the heck, what the heck?!"

The Ballad of Hopediah Planter

• When Bailey begs Hop Pop for a story after he runs Judro out of town, Hop Pop says "Oh, there's not much to tell." Cut to a title card reading "3 Hours Later", where Hop Pop is regaling the Bittyburg citizens with a SLIGHTLY exaggerated account of his role in the season one finale.
• Hop Pop struggles to lift Mama Hasselback, who eventually gets fed up and conks him with her Rolling Pin of Doom.
• As Sprig is about to sing another song (probably one that paints Hop Pop in an unflattering light), Hop Pop lets out a scream of rage and smashes Sprig's fiddle so suddenly, Sprig is more stunned by Hop Pop's reaction than angry about the destruction of his fiddle.
• After the Bittyburgers go berserk and mob the Hasselbacks, Bailey snaps out of his rage long enough to explain the townspeople were inspired by Hop Pop's words... namely, the part about fighting for those who can't defend themselves, as Hop Pop was clearly out of his league against the Hasselback Gang.

Anne Hunter

• Hop Pop's idea of roadside cooking: "Stick Surprise". What's the surprise? They're eating sticks because their food supplies didn't last as long as they'd hoped.
• Anne is hilariously confused by "the Sacred Plantar Hunting Dance". Later she ends up having to do it herself to save the Plantars from a ferocious monster.
• Anne insists she's got the eyes of a hawk... right before she nearly walks off a cliff.
• Pretty much all of Anne's interactions with her hallucination of Sprig's disembodied head are hilarious, like Hallucination Sprig face-palming with his tongue, or providing epic rock music for a montage of Anne searching the forest.
• The Stinger has the robot from "Fort in the Road" get stuck trying to go around a tree. It finally seems to figure out where it's going wrong... then it runs right into another tree.

Truck Stop Polly

• After her family accidentally leaves her behind, Polly decides to start a new life at the truck-stop: "I don't know nobody, and nobody knows me!" Cue Soggy Joe from "Anne Vs. Wild" showing up and saying hello.
• After Polly rants about being ignored by her family to the other truckers, she's annoyed when they all point out the mess that resulted from her attempts to get attention was mostly her fault.
  Polly: What the hey-hey? I thought you truckers would be all grumpy and agree with me! What's with all this maturity and biz?
  Trucker: Well, when you spend a lot of time on the road alone, there's not much to do but better yourself.
  Biker Gal: I just got my PhD!
  Trucker: Up top, sister! (the two high-tongue)
• Anne has a surprisingly nonchalant reaction to the roc egg hatching and a single glowing eye peering out at her.
  Anne: Well, that's mildly concerning.
• At the end, the plot of Fergus Frog Finds a Friend turns out to involve Fergus seeking revenge for the death of his wife.
  Anne: (excited) Man, this book is dark!

A Caravan Named Desire

• Anne's disastrous experience with acting involved playing a tooth in a pageant on dental hygiene... then tripping and knocking over the props and lights, accidentally causing a huge fire.
  Anne: Four out of five dentists agree, I was traumatized.
• Instead of hanging out with the actors, Anne decides to busy herself with "a complicated jigsaw puzzle"... called "Koalas of Passion", depicting two koalas doing a Shout-Out to Titanic (1997).
• Hop Pop and Sprig show up and pound the table while complaining to Anne, ruining her puzzle, and completely misinterpreting or ignoring her good advice. Then Polly pops in through the window to say "I love you, girl!" Anne shouts back in frustration "I love you, too, dude!"
• "Movies are better!"

Quarreler's Pass

• As Anne and Hop Pop are saying goodbye to Polly and Sprig before separating from them, Anne does what would be the sensible thing in her world and passes what is, as far as she's aware, the only cell phone in the world to Sprig (who, of course, has no idea what calling with a cellphone even means) and encourages them to call if they get in trouble. Anne almost immediately realizes the problem with this... by which time she and Hop Pop are already on the move and it's too late to turn back.
• While Polly and Sprig are on their adventure, it cuts back to Anne and Hop Pop sitting in awkward silence. Hop Pop tries to break the ice by asking Anne "So, do you have a boyfriend back home?"^note This gets even better when you consider that, among other things, the words "Dang, she was hot!" have left this girl's mouth in the past. Asking an unambiguously straight girl this is already a faux pas; if that remark is any indication of Anne's sexual orientation, it's the dumbest possible thing he could've asked her, and her reaction is as understandable as it is hilarious. Cue an annoyed Anne kicking Hop Pop off the wagon. Later, Anne gets fed up with Hop Pop's unsolicited relationship advice, and he gets pushed off a cliff.
  • Just before Hop Pop says that, his mouth is scrunched up in a "Don't say it, Hopediah" kind of way, and Anne's eyes slowly open and move to look at him as if she's somehow sensed that she's going to find his next words utterly offensive.
• When Sprig and Polly start fighting again, they decide to go separate ways in the narrow tunnel they've been forced to go into.
  Polly: [Sprig] thinks I'm annoying! He's the annoying one!
  Sprig: I can hear you! These rock walls are surprisingly thin!
  Polly: YOU'RE surprisingly thin!

Toadcatcher

• It's funny, in a slightly sad sort of way, to see that Grime has become a bearded, out-of-shape shut-in after his defeat at Toad Tower. He's also gotten hooked on Suspicion Island, just like the Plantars.
• When General Yunan barges into the tavern, the piano player stops the jaunty music and plays a more appropriate, dramatic song.
• When Yunan first announces her title, there's a chirping cricket off-screen to show nobody is impressed, then it cuts to a table where the cricket is the meal.
• The Running Gag of General Yunan getting frustrated that no one knows who she is and pausing to dramatically introduce herself.
  Yunan: Alright, third time today, let's do it!
• Yunan isn't impressed when she sees the state Captain Grime is in, even interrupting her hammy introduction.
  Yunan: Wait, you're Grime?! The fiercest fighter of the Colosseum?
  Grime: Yep, that's me. You here for my autograph?
  Yunan: Nope, I'm here for your head!
  Grime: ...Well, that took a dark turn.
• After seeing what Yunan can do, Sasha decides she and Grimes should book it. "Oookay, we're leaving now!"
• Mixing with awesome is Sasha and especially Grime's Badass Boast after they get rid of Yunan.
  Sasha: Oh, yeah?! Well, I'm Sasha Waybright! Captain of the cheerleaders, top scorer in Super Dance Fusion, and First Lieutenant to Captain Grime!
  Grime: And I'm Captain Grime! Drinker of Bog Grog, grower of beards, and watcher of Suspicion Island!
  Yunan: What? Those titles are weak!
• After defeating Yunan, Grime is more invigorated than he has been in years, to the point that he feels confident enough that he and Sasha can organize a toad army to conquer Newtopia and make a toad the King of Amphibia. But before that, he wants to do one thing:
  Sasha: You totally want to binge the rest of Suspicion Island?
  Grime: (excited) I really do! (runs off laughing giddily)

Swamp and Sensibility

• Hop Pop sprays Polly with a water bottle like a disobedient cat when she gets "distracted by the fancy" in Ribbitvale.
• When Wally's father offers to let the Plantars have lunch at their mansion:
  Wally: Oh no, they couldn't...
  Anne, Hop Pop, Sprig, and Polly: (shoving Wally aside) Oh yes we could!
• While exploring the house, Hop Pop, Sprig, and Polly discover some very strange rich people, including a sauna full of half-naked toads, a room where rich frogs in masquerade masks are smashing expensive furniture, and one where a single frog in a peacock costume is standing among a flock of peacocks.
• Kermit the Frog himself guest stars as the beast-ball announcer Crumpet the Frog. Who is drawn to look more like a muppet frog than an Amphibian frog.
• Ann takes up the role of Wally's steed but pointedly refuses to put the bit in her mouth.
  Not happening, bub!
• When the beast-ball game ends up Down to the Last Play, Wally pulls one of his spare accordions out of Anne's hair in order to score the winning goal.
  Anne: Wally, how long has that been there?
  Wally: Oh ho, a season at least!

Wax Museum

• Anne manages to get the Plantars some spending money by busking for a crowd with weird "human tricks", like wiggling her ears or the "detaching your thumb" illusion.
• The Curator is a greedier frog Grunkle Stan, and gets some great lines.
  Curator: Who are you? A cop? (brandishes a frozen snake-thing) I AIN'T GOIN' BACK TO FROG PRISON!!
  • After he traps Anne, he admits that he's shocked that she just willingly followed him because he was incredibly obviously shady, and then reassures her that she's probably just having an off day.
• The fact that Soos's Amphibian counterpart is simply called "Frog Soos".
• Frog Soos asking the Curator if he ever wonders if they exist simultaneously in multiple parallel universes, completely unaware of the others' very existence.
  Curator: You been licking yourself again, Frog Soos?
  Frog Soos: Heh heh. Caught me again, Mr. Ponds! (starts licking his own arm)
• Polly tries to burn a horrifying many-eyed wax creature to death... only to accidentally set it free by melting the wax off of it.
  Polly: (staring in horror) This is worse.
• One of the creatures displayed in the shack is said to be a "bugball-playing praying mantis". One might assume that the Curator, being a con man, intentionally trapped the mantis with the bugball just to make a more interesting-looking exhibit. However, when the mantis is freed, it's revealed that it actually does play bugball.
• It would appear that alongside the Curator/Grunkle Stan and Frog Soos/Soos, Shmebulock also has a counterpart in this world — albeit one that was trapped in wax.
• The Curator gets dragged by the now-freed wax creatures into a dark room and trapped, with red liquid oozing out from under the door. But then...
  Curator: (from inside the room) Calm down, everyone, it's just wax!
• Polly complains about having to save Anne's bacon all the time. "I am tired of facing my fears, Anne!"
• Hop Pop assuring Anne that everyone is alright... except for the Curator, who is most definitely dead.

Marcy at the Gates

• The flashback to Marcy in the human world has some amusing moments, showing her doing things like falling face-first into a trash can or falling off a loose picnic table.
• Anne is feeling sad that they haven't found Marcy yet. Sprig tries to comfort her in the worst possible way:
  Sprig: Maybe that's a good thing. Your last friend was kind of... totally evil.
  Anne: Hey!
• Polly hangs a lampshade on Chekhov's Gun when she points out the giant holes (made by the barbari-ants) outside the gates of Newtopia. As Hop Pop drags her away, Polly blurts out "I feel like this is gonna come back later!"
• When the barbari-ants are fleeing in their tunnels from Marcy's fire, two of them bump heads with each other.
• Marcy explains Anne how she became Chief Ranger of the Newtopian Knight Guard by drawing parallelisms between Newtopia and her favorite RPG "Creatures and Caverns", gushing over nomenclature in the process. This confuses everybody.
  Polly: Uh... were those words?
• Polly sees Marcy with her crossbow, and immediately begs Hop Pop for one for her birthday. Hop Pop sees Marcy firing a bolt into a wagon wheel right next to them, and says they'll talk about it.
• Marcy's cape keeps catching on fire. The third time it happens, she points out that there wasn't even any fire. The newt strategists are apparently used to this, since one of them helps her don a replacement cloak he just happened to have.
  • The first time it happens, there's water all around her.
• The team leaves the barbari-ant cave by jumping out... and Marcy falls flat on her face.
• One of Lady Olivia's guards snickers after the Plantars trip over themselves bowing to her.
• Immediately after Lady Olivia asks them not to touch anything important, Sprig breaks the arm off a statue. Cue Twitchy Eye from Olivia.
• The servant carrying away the barbari-ant head Marcy brought is holding it at arms' length while going "Ew!" all the way.
• Anne awkwardly sums up the events of "Reunion" by saying "There were maybe some swords, minor explosions..."

Scavenger Hunt

• The "Strawalrus" gag, which falls flat since walruses don't exist in Amphibia.
  • Even better, Marcy draws Anne's impression into her journal, complete with scientific name, "Strawaus Walrus".
• Anne goes from awkwardly sitting with an old newt woman as she shows off pictures of her many children to painting the lady's nails and helping sort out a family feud. Doubles as a heartwarming moment.
• Anne tries to bluff her way through the third and final riddle with a ridiculous string of Bat Deductions.
• The goofy sounds the Sewer Gator makes.

The Plantars Check In

• The king acting so casual and carefree shocks Anne and the Plantars. Lady Olivia has to remind him to be on his best behavior.
  • Plus, we're hearing the famously portentous voice of Keith David acting like an Adorkable goofy dad.
  • Andrias is absolutely enormous, larger than any other character in the show and easily as big as any of the monsters encountered by the Plantars. What's funny is that he's so large that just by moving his hand in front of Anne, he creates a draft strong enough that she has to lean against it to stay standing.
  • Andrias' first line to Anne is asking "'Sup?" before asking as an aside to Marcy if he said it right. He is delighted when she gives a thumbs up, or, as he calls it, "The Thumb of Approval!"
  • To give Anne the unlimited royal credit card, Andrias tells her to pick a hand before very obviously nudging her towards one of them. The hand he nudges her towards is not the one holding the royal credit card.
• Sprig drinking coffee, which even ends up being a Chekhov's Gun.
  Sprig: (extreme close-up) I AM THE TIME LORD NOW.
• Sprig goes to a hairdresser and gets his hair done. After rejecting two elaborate Anime Hair hairdos (from Final Fantasy X and Dragon Ball Super respectively), he gets a fancy bouffant that he finally approves of. Then he covers it all up with his hat, which makes the hairdresser cry.
• Sprig and Bella are racing after the credit card, and he hops up the ferris wheel to get it back:
  Sprig: Glad I'm a frog right about now.
  (Bella swims super fast past him)
  Sprig: Hey no fair, I'm just a frog!

Lost in Newtopia

• A flashback to the time when her mom refused to let her try spicy street food on their Thailand vacation, forcing her to settle for baby carrots and trail mix, causes Anne to have a nervous breakdown:
  Anne: I didn't want the baby carrots, Mom!! I didn't want 'em!! WHY?? WHY?? WHY??
  • With the newt lady in the car next to the tour bus responding by rolling up her window.
• Anne and Polly proudly declare "P'Anne against the world!" before both agreeing that their team name sucks.
• Anne and Polly have some hilariously over-the-top Fire-Breathing Diner reactions to some "extra-spicy" Newtopian cuisine.
• One of the guards admits "I'm being lazy," after giving up quickly on tracking down Anne and Polly.
• Anne and Polly chanting “Tails!” the entire walk to the tails shop — which the shopkeeper immediately joins in on without questioning it.
• Polly manages to come up with another duo name of her and Anne: Ann-olly.
  Hop Pop: Oh, that’s not better.
  Sprig: It’s worse actually.
• Marcy's Little "No" after she spills her drinks all over a tapestry and begs to be told it wasn't hundreds of years old, to which King Andrias responds "Oh, way older than that, actually."

Sprig Gets Schooled

• The montage of Sprig at his lessons includes him doodling a picture of him, Anne, and Polly fighting a mantis, trying to pile books in the library into an elaborate stack, eating the worm he was supposed to dissect in anatomy class, and getting effortlessly shoved down the field by the other players while trying to play an American-football-like game.
• When Anne and Polly go from mischievous chuckling to straight up Evil Laughter, Hop Pop (who was busy being nostalgic about Sprig growing up) scolds them with "Will you two keep it down?! I'm tryin' to cry up here!"
• Hop Pop ultimately decides against having Sprig go to Newtopia University early...or at all.
  Hop Pop: It's home-schooling for you. Forget higher learning or big opportunities. You belong at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder with me!
  Sprig: YAY! Wait, is this a good thing? Aw, what the heck, yay!
• The episode ends with Sprig catching a bug being used as a frisbee disk, as a very brief epic 80's rock ballad sounding jingle expresses the moral of the story.
  ULTIMATELY, COLLEGE AIN'T FOR EVERYONE!

Little Frogtown

• Pretty much any moment Hop Pop interacts with his own Private Eye Monologue is hilarious, especially the ending where he gets "stuck" in narration mode.
• Hop Pop dresses up as a server to sneak into the kitchen, only to be confronted by a giant newt with a Russian accent who tells him he can't be there... before giving him a hairnet (that covers everything but Hop Pop's hair)
  Chef: There. Health code violation.
• After Anne finally loses it with the line cutters, she pretends to be a monster who eats newts, making them cry. Needless to say, she ends up banned from the arcade.
  Anne: Newsflash, kid! I'm a monster from another world! I might eat newts for breakfast! WANNA FIND OUT?
  Newt kids: (cries)
  Anne: Oh, no, no, no. Hey, hey, hey, don't cry.
  Newt in Line: Did she just threaten to eat those kids?
  Female Axolotl: Someone call security!
  Anne: I think I just made a mistaaaaake.

Hopping Mall

• Sprig gets carried away showing off the staff he bought for Ivy, smashing a rack of "Very Breakable's Pottery Shack".
  Very Breakable: My pots!
  Anne: (runs by and picks up Sprig) Sorry, sorry! Bill the king! Bill the king!
• Hop Pop gets distracted trying out a massage chair full of "rumble bugs".
  • Speaking of the massage chair, he ends up buying it with the king's credit card despite saying it's more notable to buy souvenirs with your own money. Hypocritical Humor at its finest.
• Anne meets the standing champion of the Smash & Mash Derby, a hulking newt lady named "Priscilla the Killa"... and her adorable daughter Pearl. The contrast between the two on its own is hilarious.
• Polly gets carried away about how she "haggled" with a shopkeeper to get a fancy golden bucket for cheap, to the point of letting out an Evil Laugh. Later, she manages to haggle for a private snail "chauffeur" named MicroAngelo.
• Anne has an elaborate method for testing out shopping carts, which includes tasting the handle.
  • The first cart she tries out is rather average, and she just casually says "It's a C+ at best."
• Anne and Sprig defeat one of their opponents by parrying them, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate style.

The Sleepover to End All Sleepovers

• Lady Olivia declares that after dealing with the Plantars' shenanigans, she's going to go drink some... juice.
• Among the things Anne, Marcy, and the Plantar kids do during their sleepover is painting mustaches on all the portraits, including on a huge portrait of King Andrias using rollers.
• Polly doodles on a sleeping Lady Olivia's face. When she gets up later, she has "Polly wuz here!" written on her eyelids, along with a moustache and goatee.
• Anne going "Say 'desecration'" while taking a selfie with Marcy at the crypt.
• While fighting off the Shadowfish, Anne is distracted when she looks in the mirror and finally notices she's got leaves and twigs in her hair. Apparently, she somehow didn't know they were there.
• While running away, Marcy says to Anne, "Come on, let's get out of here, Scoob!" Anne then confusedly says "Wait, what did you just call me?"

A Day at the Aquarium

• Lady Olivia angrily taking a wipe from a guard to wipe Polly's Face Doodling off her face.
• King Andrias offering a big tissue for the crying Plantars. "Seriously, you would not believe how big they are." When we see it in the next shot, it's as big as a bedsheet.
• Anne notes they'll need to go back to Wartwood to get the music box. Hop Pop, who actually buried it in the yard, nervously says that it really is true.
• After deciding to go to the aquarium, Sprig happily proclaims that the trip will help them forget about their ongoing misery. Cue everyone remembering and becoming more depressed.
  Polly: Nice one.
• The Plantars breaking into tears about splitting up is sad. But it happens so often in this episode that it becomes hilarious.
• The one person in the audience clapping and cheering when the stingrays escape.

The Shut-In!

• Instead of coming up with her own stories, Polly keeps recounting events of previous episodes.
  • Typical for Polly, this culminates in the story of the first "monster" the family tangled with, much to Anne's displeasure.
• When the kids are showing off what they got while gathering up supplies—after Anne reveals that she got a flamethrower (which appears to be some kind of bug that breathes fire), Polly tosses the axe that she got to the ground in disappointment.
• During "Phone Mo", when the beast attacks "Anna" (Anne's blatant self-insert in the story) she starts throwing plushies at it — one of them is clearly a plushie of Hop Pop. When the plushie lands on the bed after being thrown, you can see it still has a heart-shaped tag attached to it that just reads "Why!?" (This doubles as a Bland-Name Product for Ty.)

Night Drivers

• Sprig and Polly talking about how they can handle the dangers of driving the wagon gives us this gem:
  Polly: I've been eaten eight times Sprig, eight times. (creepy close up) I SORTA LOOK FORWARD TO IT NOW!
• Hop-Pop has a nightmare about his impending mortality... but then his dream turns lucid and he starts cheerfully flying around, turning the monsters in his dream into colorful, cutesy critters. Meanwhile, Anne's cheerful dream of being in a land of yogurt turns into a nightmare... because the only flavor they have is black licorice.
• Hop-Pop is about to punish Sprig and Polly for driving the wagon, but Anne stops him when she points out how sleep-deprived they are.
  Sprig and Polly: A ghost! A ghost! A ghost with the most! Without Mr. Nettles, we'd surely be deadles! Pbbtt! Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! (fall sleep)

Return to Wartwood

• Their first day back in the valley is a humid one... as evidenced by Anne getting a case of the frizzies so bad, her hair completely conceals Polly.
• Wally is among the crowd welcoming the Plantars back to Wartwood, saying he hasn't seen them in a while, and definitely not on their trip to Newtopia.
  Polly: Whatever you say, Walliam.
• Anne tries to convince Hop Pop to confess that he forgot to buy souvenirs for everyone.
  Anne: Lying will only make it worse! I feel like we've learned that lesson by now.
• The Plantars indulge in some Bad "Bad Acting" when the Chickalisk (which they summoned to destroy the fake gifts) shows up.
  Hop-Pop, Sprig, and Polly: (in unison) Oh no! Who could have predicted this?
  Anne: Don't overdo it.
• Anne commends Mayor Toadstool for using Toadie's stone body to protect themselves from the Chickalisk's fire attack...only to be surprised by his response.
  Mayor Toadstool: Wait, he's stone?
• On seeing Ivy ask Sprig out on a date (to make up for not getting her a souvenir), Anne has a squeeing fit so severe she goes catatonic, forcing an annoyed Polly to drag her away.
  • Sprig freezes up after getting a kiss from Ivy, prompting Maddie to throw a cure for the Chickalisk curse at him.
• The mere fact that the plot of this episode involves the Plantars using black magic and performing a kid-friendly version of a satanic ritual to get out of forgetting the town's presents.
• The Chickalisk itself, which, for a giant, fire-breathing chicken monster, is oddly polite, and even capable of being offended when the town tries scaring him off by forming a bird-shaped people pyramid.
  Chickalisk: Okay, that's just offensive, you guys.

Ivy on the Run

• Ivy's anger at her mother's perfectionism leads to steam coming out of her head, and the sounds produced makes Felicia worry she left a kettle on the stove.
• Anne's mother enrolled her in Muay Thai classes just to get her to stop making noise in the kitchen all the time. Any parent can relate.
• When Ivy comes to get Sprig, he's shooting rocks at a target on his door with a slingshot. Right after he shoots one, she throws a rock at the back of his head to get his attention, causing him to believe that he shot the rock around the world.
  Sprig: [looks down at the slingshot] Wow. How'd I do that?

After the Rain

• Hop-Pop's idea of "armor" is ridiculous-looking bulky padded suits that severely reduce the wearer's mobility.
• After her argument with Hop-Pop, Anne moves back into the cave where she lived before she met the Plantars... including her "room-mate", Rocky.
• Polly is apparently getting tired of Soggy Joe's habit of popping out of bushes.

The First Temple

• Anne points out some of Marcy's "in the zone" moments in the past, like when she overflowed an ice cream cone; got distracted during a school production of Peter Pan, resulting in Anne falling into the audience; and wandered into the zoo when all the snakes broke out. All in one day.
  Anne: That was the worst Saturday of my life.
• Joe Sparrow (a giant sparrow) hitting on Bessie (who's a giant snail). And judging from Marcy's tone, he's done this multiple times.
• With only one seat on Joe Sparrow, the group barely squeezes Marcy, Sprig, and Anne holding Polly onto it, leaving Hop Pop to wonder where he's supposed to sit. Cue a Gilligan Cut to Joe Sparrow carrying Hop Pop by his claws through the air, with Hop Pop screaming for dear life.
• While Anne and Hop Pop start to argue, the group wonders how long they're going to go at it. It then shows a timecard with an art style that wouldn't be out of place in a SpongeBob episode.
• Anne is forced onto the opposite side of the giant chess-like game board. While Sprig and Hop-Pop look surprised, Polly calls her a traitor.
• Marcy's Black Bead Eyes face◊ when she finds out that the Flipwart game is rigged.

New Wartwood

• Between her excessive enthusiasm and the locals' distrust of outsiders, Marcy does not make a good first impression in Wartwood.
  Marcy: (to One-Eyed Wally) Omigosh, are you a vagrant? Is that an accordion? Is that eye really gone?
  Wally: Too many questions! (smashes a window with his accordion and jumps inside)
• When Marcy accidentally breaks the statue of the town founder, one of the townsfolk exclaims, "The town founder whose name I don't even know, how dare she?!"
• Anne tries to assure Marcy that the folks of Wartwood will warm up to her. Marcy points out a small angry mob with Torches and Pitchforks (and Polly brandishing a trowel) standing right next to them.
  Anne: C'mon, guys! She's with me!
  Villagers: Alright, if you say so... (reluctantly disperse)
  Anne: Wait, is that Polly?
  Polly: I go where the mob goes, Anne!
• "I just got a spit of approval!"
• Anne's way of introducing Mayor Toadstool to Marcy.
  Anne: He's like if the Monopoly man had a baby with a piece of fried chicken.
  Toadstool: That better be a compliment, Boonchuy.
• The mayor's balloon is drifting away, apparently for the third time on this day.
• Upon unveiling the new golden statue, Mrs. Croaker asks out loud if "he's" single. She isn't even fazed when Wally reminds her that it's a statue.
• The way Marcy calls Joe Sparrow to her side being a reference to Mobile Fighter G Gundam becomes this the moment you realize this is Marcy we're talking here about, so there is a good chance she intentionally taught him that.

Friend or Frobo?

• Marcy and Hop-Pop nerding out about seeds.
• Frobo causing constant property damage when Polly tries to teach it to have fun, especially when it dives into the fountain in the town square and causes a minor flood.
  Polly: (staring at the approaching Frobo) This might have been a mistake.
• Toadstool steps out of a barber shop with a pompadour hairstyle.

Toad to Redemption

• Toadie is seriously freaked out by the Mayor's sudden attack of conscience.
  Toadie: Who are you, and what have you done with my beautiful mayor?!
• When Toadstool uses Puppy-Dog Eyes to persuade Anne to help, she's so weirded out by them that she agrees to help if he promises to never make that face again.
• Anne apparently had a third plan that involved siccing a Trogdor look-alike on Jacinda, but she has second thoughts about it and refuses to bring it up.
• When Polly asks if they can ask Frobo and Marcy for help, Anne explains that Marcy is off studying how Frobo works, and wonders how that's going. Cut to a nearby shed, where a green glow and a small explosion sounds from within, and Marcy can be heard sputtering from the smoke and saying "Fascinating..."
• While Anne and Sprig are being arrested for "robbing" their market stand, Polly laughs at their predicament.
• As Toadstool prepares to bluff Bog and the Toad Tower gang, he says "Time for me to do what I do best: lie to a fairly large group of people."

Maddie & Marcy

• Marcy's introduction attempt to Maddie where Maddie accidentally throws a fire bomb at her back.
• When Maddie says she's going to kill her little sisters for messing with her spell book, her dad just says "Be sure to resurrect them when you're done!"
• Hop Pop being mistaken for a corpse by the girls.
  Marcy: Of corpse not, Hop Pop.
• Marcy shows off the "horrible abomination" she created in her magic lessons, which is basically a living version of one of those singing-and-dancing mechanical flower toys.
• When Maddie shows Marcy what her sisters had done to her books, we get a double gem in Marcy and her creation's reaction:
  Marcy: Geez, they didn't even draw in the lines.
  Flower: (shaking head in disapproval) Tsk, tsk, tsk.
• While Maddie's sisters are wreaking havoc in town, the scene cuts to Anne and Sprig (who were absent the entire episode) who comment on one of the shows they're watching.
  Sprig: Do you ever think it's weird when the main characters aren't in an episode?
  Anne: Eh, you don't miss 'em.
  • What makes this moment even funnier is remembering back in "Return to Wartwood", when everyone thought life was boring without the Plantars causing mayhem. This, however, is one disaster the town can't blame on the Plantars.
• "You grow tulips!"

The Second Temple

• Hop Pop gets his own personal seat when riding Joe Sparrow, and it's called the Hop Pocket.
• The Plantars cuddle around Anne to keep her warm, but she notices she has some trouble moving around.
  Anne: Hop Pop, did you gain weight?
  Hop Pop (in a cheerful tone): It's impolite to ask, Anne.
• Anne reveals a bit of self-reflection when Valeriana accuses her of only thinking of herself
  Anne: You're wrong! I'm not...that selfish.
• Among Valeriana's criticisms of Anne are that she lied to the Plantars, took the family snail for a joy-ride, and snores.
  Anne: (blushes in regard to the last one) You could've kept that a secret.

Barrel's Warhammer

• It turns out Captain Beatrix is Grime's sister...and reveals his real name is "Grimothy".
• What's the signal Sasha tells Percy and Braddock to give if things get too intense? Giving a kawaii pose.

Bessie and MicroAngelo

• The flashback to Marcy and Sasha's last few attempts to give Anne a makeover end with Anne freaking out after being shaved bald.
  Marcy: Too short?
• Bernardo tells Anne that the barbarian look is in style this season, and Sprig tells her it couldn't hurt to try. Then Bernardo brings out a suit of armor covered in poisonous barbs.
  Sprig: Nevermind, that looks like it would hurt.
  Anne: SPRIG!
• When Bessie saves MicroAngelo from the giant bird-monster at the climax of the episode, Anne can't see what's going on through the visor of the helmet she's wearing. "Someone narrate what's going on!"

The Third Temple

• Sasha first met Anne and Marcy as kids when she helped them stand up to some older kids who were hogging the swings. This consisted of her ineffectually charging at them and constantly face-planting into things, until the older girls got weirded out by Sasha's stubborn determination and left.
  • The head bully's weird lispy voice is hilarious.
• While Joe Sparrow is able to carry the Plantars and the girls without much issue, bringing Frobo along for the ride is a little too much for the poor bird, and Joe collapses in exhaustion after landing. Frobo pats Joe's head as a way of saying thank you.
• The poor Plantars are severely dehydrated by the heat of the volcanic caverns. When Anne offers them some lip balm, Hop Pop proceeds to smear the stuff all over his face. Anne tells Hop Pop he can keep that one.
• Grime's big entrance is somewhat spoiled by the fact that he's almost as dehydrated as the frogs.
• The Totally Radical inscriptions the temple gives are rather funny.
  • Even funnier, while the inscriptions in the first and second temples were riddles, the ones of the third, dedicated to strength, are a little more on the nose.
    [in a room with only a bench press table inside]
    Marcy: "Sup broseph? Do you even lift?"
    Anne: They're not even trying anymore.
  • The temple entrance also speaks for itself. Literally.
    Marcy: Well, this can't be right. "Lift to enter, brah"?

The Dinner

• When the Plantars point out that Sasha tried to kill them at Toad Tower, Marcy defends her by saying she never tried to kill anyone back home.
  Sprig: That you know of...
• Grime orders Sasha to leave behind her sword and her "hidden daggers". When she pours out a massive amount of knives from her right boot, Grime wonders "How did you even walk?"
• Sasha greets Anne and Marcy in a low, ominous voice before gleefully declaring the band is back together and hugging them. Sasha, Anne, and Marcy's squeeing leads Polly to complain "Human friendships are loud!"
• The endless awkwardness at the dinner itself:
  • The Plantars assure Anne that they won't freak out when Grime and Sasha visit. When they arrive (and Grime sports a Slasher Smile), they shriek and Sprig threatens them with a slingshot while Polly tries sacrificing Hop Pop.
  • When Sasha has a brief tiff with Sprig over who gets to sit next to Anne, Grime and Sasha start awkwardly clearing their throats. Hop Pop quips, "Anyone need a cough drop?"
  • Grimes compliments the freshness of the Plantars' produce, and asks what frogs they exploit to get it. Understandably, it kills the mood a bit.
  • Hop Pop tells an offensive joke about toads at the dinner table, leaving an extremely tense silence complete with horrified looks from Marcy and Anne. Anne even drops her fork. Grime looks like he is about to crush Hop Pop, but instead slaps him on the back and roars in laughter, with the others awkwardly laughing.
    • When Hop Pop first starts telling the joke, Anne is already having a horrified expression as if she knows exactly what is coming.
• The absolute nonchalance with which Grime misnames Marcy while she tries to get Anne and Sasha to stop fighting.
  Grime: I have to agree with... I want to say, Marsha?
• After the volcakeno erupts, destroying the Plantars' house, and they're eating dessert after the hornet battle, Hop Pop comes to a realization:
  Hop Pop: Where are we gonna live?

Battle of the Bands

• Soggy Joe is disappointed when Mayor Toadstool's "Wheel of Fun" lands on "Battle of the Bands" instead of "Massage Train".
• After Sasha walks out on the band, sending Anne and Marcy into a funk, Polly chimes in with "You guys done moping? 'Cause Frobs and I charge by the hour."
• The band acts prior to Anne and Marcy's:
  • Chuck has somehow managed to grow giant singing tulips. Needless to say, it's more botanically interesting than musically satisfying.
  Mayor Toadstool: (sighs) This is gonna be a long night.
  • Mrs Croaker literally plays her pet spider Archie like a theremin by pulling his webs back and forth. Even funnier, a baffled-looking Toadstool gives the act the lowest score of the evening, while Duckweed gives it the highest score.
  • Sprig, Hop Pop, Wally, and Loggle are in a jug band together. Their act is cut short when Loggle (on spoons) falls off the haystack he was sitting on, and the band gets a mediocre score, but they're happy:
  Hop Pop: That's good enough for me!
  Sprig: Mediocrity is comforting!
• After the girls put on an amazing performance, Grime comes in. He's seemingly about to do something sinister when he pulls out....a harp. Not only that, he plays the harp for 3 hours, wows everyone, and wins.

True Colors

• Poor Joe Sparrow has to carry everyone, plus Sasha and Grime, to Newtopia. No wonder he's completely worn out when he finally lands.
  Marcy: For Joe's sake, no one else is allowed to join our party.
• Anne breaking off her friendship with Sasha is both awesome and sad, but it's also juxtapositioned by a quick cut to the Plantars' awkward reactions to the unfolding scene.
  Polly: Oh, snap...
• Grime getting his face caved in by Barrel's Warhammer — twice.
• Lady Olivia interrupting General Yunan's Badass Boast because, frankly, they don't have the time.
• Hop Pop distracts the toad guards with his acting skills. Olivia doesn't think it'll work, but soon he's got the entire group bawling their eyes out.
• As Anne describes each member of their Ragtag Bunch of Misfits' roles in freeing Andrias and overthrowing the toad rebellion, when she gets to Polly's role, she gives her a task the Cute Bruiser tackles with aplomb...taking the fight directly to the toad forces inside the city.
  Polly: (leaping into the middle of a crowd of toads playing cards and drawing a toothpick-sized dagger) Get ready for the pain!!!
  (The toads stare at her, then burst into laughter.)
  Anne: (in voiceover) Oh, and take Yunan and Frobo with you.
  (Frobo and Yunan jump down besides Polly, the former with her Wolverine Claws extended and a Slasher Smile, the latter with rocket launchers coming out of his shoulders, his hand turned into an axe and a Death Glare at the toad troops)
  (Beat)
  Toad Soldier: ....Oh crud.
• After discovering the Dark Secret about King Andrias from his mural, Grime comments that it's a good thing that they overthrew him.
• As Anne successfully starts closing the gates on the incoming toad army, one warrior runs ahead of the others marching steadily in formation up to the gates, manages to hop inside, and cheers that he's the first to the battle... and then the gates promptly slam shut behind him and he's knocked out by Frobo.
• As Toad Tower is destroyed (again), one sentinel's reaction is to simply go "Nope!" and get the hell out of Dodge.
• After King Andrias reveals Marcy’s Dark Secret, he has a bit of a Kick the Dog moment, but it Crosses the Line Twice as he says it in a way the girls' generation will understand.
  Andrias: Oops! Looks like I "spilled the tea", as you kids say!
  • Also likely unintentional: when begging Andrias to spare Sprig, Anne declares him to be her "best friend, in this world or any other world." While this is very touching, her human best friends (Sasha and Marcy) are right beside her as she is saying this. Granted, after what they did to her, it's understandable they would think Anne would disown both of them as friends.
• Polly's legs finally coming in just in time to save herself from King Andrias is a Crowning Moment of Awesome...which is slightly undone when she has trouble keeping balance.
  • Hop Pop going gaga over his granddaughter's big achievement is hilarious, considering the dire situation they're in at the moment. On the other hand, Sprig is just weirded out.
• When Anne calls out Andrias as being evil, the latter rolls his eyes and groans "Here we go," implying he's been told that enough times to become desensitized to it.

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