Sprig Vs. Hop Pop

"Sprig Vs. Hop Pop" is the first segment of the sixth episode of the first season of Amphibia, and the eleventh episode overall.

It premiered on June 25, 2019 alongside "Girl Time".

Synopsis
Angry with how the Plantar farm is being run, Sprig decides to overthrow Hop Pop and causes a wreck doing it.

Plot
Anne, Sprig and Polly are doing chores on the farm during a hot day, while Hop Pop sits back and watches them comfortably. When Sprig suggests that they train the cowapillars to eat the weeds for them, Hop Pop tells him to place a note in the suggestion barrel. Polly states that he never reads the notes in the barrel (she had asked for a swimming pool that never got made). The kids discover that under the suggestion barrel is actually a fire pit that destroys the suggestions after Sprig knocks it over. Upset over how things are being run, Sprig rings the Plantar Family Challenge Bell, to challenge Hop Pop to a test of strength to see who will become the new boss. As Polly explains to Anne, "they push each other until someone falls off a lily pad. It's dumb, but fun to watch." Despite losing numerous times in the past, Sprig manages to beat Hop Pop this time, and Anne and Polly celebrate while Hop Pop solemnly wanders off, feeling that he is no longer needed. Hop Pop heads to the Wartwood Cemetery where he encounters an upside-down beetle, who he helps up. Taking a liking to the beetle, Hop Pop names him Jeremy. He then gets "taken" into Jeremy's society. Meanwhile, Sprig delightfully takes over the farm and begins implementing suggestions such as Polly's swimming pool, setting the cowapillars onto the weeds and throwing parties complete with clowns. However, they quickly discover that they are running out of food, and that insects have started draining the pool and laying eggs (the exact reason Hop Pop did not want a pool). With everything falling apart, Anne and Polly demand they get Hop Pop back, but Sprig becomes tyrannical, causing the girls to flee. Anne and Polly find Hop Pop among the beetles, where he claims that he has changed and learned about community, but does not want to return; he changes his mind when he learns that Sprig is sleeping in his bed. He challenges Sprig to a rematch and they have a much more even fight. Hop Pop tells Sprig how he has changed and Sprig admits that his ideas were dumb and the kids "caused permanent damage to the Eco-system". Sprig forfeits the challenge and Hop Pop returns to running the farm with him now taking suggestions seriously; even adding a mini-pool for Polly. Hop Pop continues to read suggestions with Jeremy and the beetles' help.

Cast

 * Brenda Song as Anne Boonchuy
 * Justin Felbinger as Sprig Plantar
 * Bill Farmer as Hop Pop Plantar
 * Amanda Leighton as Polly Plantar

Character revelations

 * Hop Pop doesn't want to listen to the ideas of others and sticks with his own ways.
 * Members of the Plantar family can call out challenges to each other where the winner takes it all.
 * Sprig and Hop Pop have undergone challenges against each other before, with Sprig losing all of them up until now.
 * Hop Pop doesn't like others to sleep in his bed.

Series continuity

 * Sprig's disorder to go (too) far and lose his sense of reason just to keep people together and for family members to like or listen to each other is seen again.
 * Sprig's rebellious nature towards Hop Pop is also seen again and plays a big role in the episode.
 * Anne is helping on the farm doing chores.
 * Hop Pop's mindset that his ways are always better is seen again.

Trivia

 * This is the first episode to have Sprig and Hop Pop's names in the title, and the first episode to have a name in the title that isn't Anne.
 * In "Disney Channel Phone Call", two clips can be seen during Amphibia phone calls. But "Girl Time" is flipped out.
 * During Anne and Sprig's call, the game version has a different bell sound when Polly rings the Plantar Family Challenge bell in "Disney Channel Phone Call".

Edits

 * The word "heck" was cut during the Southeast Asia broadcast.

Errors

 * On Disney+, when Hop Pop challenges Sprig to a rematch, the captions misspelled Plantar as Planter.