Fixing Frobo

"Fixing Frobo" is the first segment of the fifth episode of the third season of Amphibia, and the eighty-third episode overall.

It premiered on October 30, 2021, alongside "Anne-sterminator".

Synopsis
Polly tries to bring Frobo back to life.

Plot
Anne introduces Sprig and Hop Pop to the internet and they are browsing the endless expanse of knowledge that is the internet, only to fall down a dark hole of cat videos. Polly then interrupts and shares that she has fixed Frobo, the frog robot that Polly befriended in Season 2 that was destroyed in the season finale, but the Plantars still had the head and that got transported back to Earth with them thanks to the Calamity Box.

Polly brings the family into the garage to see her newly-fixed friend and just as she's about to power him on, the group expresses their displeasure in the decision, suggesting that she wait until they get back to Amphibia. Polly is frustrated and turns on Frobo anyway, who isn't calibrated just right and starts firing beams and blasting holes in the Boonchuy's home, destroying Mr. Boonchuy's new package.

Hop Pop tells Polly to stop working on Frobo, with Anne saying that she agrees with him and Sprig tells Polly that they should wait until they get back, and Polly reluctantly agrees, though likely won't. She asks Anne if she could use the computer which she agrees. That night, Polly jumps on the computer and finds videos by a lesbian couple of users known as the I.T. Gals, who specialize in programming and fixing robots. Polly stays up all night watching the videos and working on the robot, and when she gets to a problem with powering Frobo, calls the duo directly who help her learn what battery to put in place of the two AAs she stole out of the TV remote.

Even the I.T. Gals tell her not to power it on in the garage, take it to an empty warehouse or open space, and even offered to help her find one before Polly disconnects the call and goes to power on Frobo. Frobo comes alive, but has been factory reset, forgetting all the memories he had of Polly and the Plantars, and blasts up into the sky, with Polly attached as he tries to find a signal.

As he launches, the I.T. Gals show up looking for the girl they were talking to, and Anne and the Plantars just point up. Frobo's boosters start to fail, and the two start on path crashing back to Earth. Polly, mourning her lost friend, starts to sob and the tears seep into Frobo's hard drive, shorting him out and restoring his memory. He places Polly in the dryer portion of his torso that Polly has given him to keep her safe, and they smash back into the ground.

Polly was now upset and realized that her family was right. But then, while all of his body is destroyed, Frobo's head stays intact and powered on, still able to communicate with Polly, making her very happy that her friend was ok.

The I.T. Gals show up and discuss with Polly how to fix him. Just as Anne, Hop Pop and Sprig agree that the internet should be used for education, they get distracted by a cat video as Mr. Boonchuy runs out screaming over the damage to the backyard.

Cast

 * Brenda Song as Anne Boonchuy
 * Justin Felbinger as Sprig Plantar
 * Bill Farmer as Hop Pop Plantar
 * Amanda Leighton as Polly Plantar
 * Brian Sounalath as Mr. Boonchuy
 * Matt Braly as Frobo
 * Melissa Villaseñor as Ally, Female Movie Actor (credited as additional voices)
 * Dana Davis as Jess
 * Domino

Additional voices

 * Matt Braly as Frobo
 * Silver Paul as Teddy Lovekins, Male Movie Actor

Non-speaking cameo

 * Marcy Wu (flashback)
 * Sasha Waybright (flashback)
 * Captain Grime (flashback)

Mentioned

 * Leopold Loggle

Revelations and significant events

 * Mr. Boonchuy is revealed to be an online gamer.
 * Frobo returns to life and manages to remember Polly.
 * Polly's eye color is revealed to be purple.
 * Frobo's production number is F0-R1.
 * Anne's username is Anna_Banana

Continuity

 * Flashbacks from the episodes "Friend or Frobo?" and "True Colors" are shown.

Allusions

 * - When Anne, Sprig and Hop Pop are looking at videos on Anne's laptop this famous cat video meme appears.
 * - Mr. Boonchuy is seen carrying a box that looks like the Amazon box, except with the logo upside down/holding the box upside down to avoid trademark issues. Later on in the episode while Polly is looking at stuff for robotics on Anne's laptop, this famous site appears on the screen.
 *  - While Polly is still searching for ways to get Frobo fixed, a video titled "New Epic Robot Skin Forknife" a reference of this famous game.
 *  - While Polly is still searching for ways to get Frobo fixed, a video titled "Robot Dance Meme Tigtog Compilation #100" A reference of this famous social media site.
 * - Polly contacts the IT Gals through Vroom a parody of this social media site.
 *  - In Anne's garage, there's a totem of Stan Pines.
 *  - Teddy Lovekins is a reference to the famous animatronic.
 * - Polly looks up robotics info on a parody site called Doogle.
 * - The video site Polly looks at videos is a play on wording of the site of the same name. The logo, however, is YouTube music, a sub-app of the website.
 * - The "Big Ol' Wiki" website is a reference to the website.
 *  - Anne, Sprig and Hop Pop are watching a movie, where a line similar to Anakin's line about hating sand can be heard. Anne questions why they like the prequels, a reference to how the Star Wars prequels were initially bashed on. In addition, DVDs with covers that resemble the posters for The Empire Strikes Back, The Last Jedi and A New Hope can be seen.
 * - While Polly is still searching for ways to get Frobo fixed, a parody robot toy is shown on the famous website.
 * - Anne's laptop is an Apple brand, by judging on the tab buttons being lights and the logo of the monitor being a bell.
 *  - The logo on the laptop looks like the power up from said game.
 * - The washing machine Polly used to build Frobo is a Hurley. It was the name for the washing machines for the company, Thor, back in the 1920s.
 * Best of Angry Gamers (Sept 2020) - One of the videos on Polly's screen is called Best of Angry Gamers SEPT 2020, a real life video trend on YouTube where real gamers rage on games they're playing and lose it after losing on the online server.
 * Game controllers (GameCube and PS5) - also on the thumbnail the controllers on it are (top) GameCube with the buttons changed to A, B, C and D buttons instead of A, B, X and Y and (bottom) PS5 controller with X, Minecraft styled No square, /, and O (circle)
 * Another thumbnail shows the PS5 console with said PS5 controller.
 * Sleep Lofi - A relaxing 24/7 live stream video by the channel of the same name on YouTube.
 *  - The thumbnail for the video titled "Robot's are cool. i'm 5 years old", the kid in it has a poster on his wall called "My Hero Macadamia Nut".
 *  - Like in "Friend or Frobo?", the references are shown.
 *  - The RPG game Anne's father plays on his gaming PC is a possible parody of the fantasy MMORPG.
 * Dancing Kermit - The Bibsy_busts_a_move.gif is based off of the Dancing Kermit meme with the exact same idea.
 *  - Bibsy in the gif is textured to look like Bonnie from Five Nights at Freddy's.