Truck Stop Polly

"Truck Stop Polly" is the first segment of the third episode of the second season of Amphibia, and the forty-fourth episode overall.

It premiered on July 25, 2020, alongside "A Caravan Named Desire".

Synopsis
Feeling unappreciated, Polly hatches a plan to make the family pay attention to her.

Plot
It's nighttime on the road to Newtopia. In the fwagon, Polly begins feeling homesick upon realizing the long journey ahead, mistaking a lump of wood for Mrs. Croaker and getting scared when a giant eel hits the window. To make herself feel better, she tries to initiate family activities with the others like story-time. However, Hop Pop falls asleep while reading her a bed time story. She then tries to get Sprig's attention while he and Anne are driving, but her distraction causes Sprig to lose the map and Anne to nearly crash off the side. After Hop Pop sends the kids inside to check on their rations, their fungus food supply withers when Polly floods the fwagon with bath water. Anne and Sprig are drenched, and Hop Pop bursts inside wondering what the noise is. Hearing Hop Pop complain that he's too tired, Polly tries to wake him up with a game of zap tag, but because the fwagon's interior is covered in water, she accidentally zaps Anne and Sprig as well. With everyone in bad spirits, they decide to make a pit stop to rest and refuel.

At the truck stop, Polly overhears her family talking about how unruly she's being, with Hop Pop even stating he should have left Polly home. Offended, Polly runs off, not staying to hear the rest of them agreeing they're being too hard on Polly. Polly decides to get back at them using a pink stone reminiscent of her and switches places with it. Instead of the family freaking out, however, they instead leave immediately, having believed that the fake Polly's asleep and don't want to wake her. At the truck stop diner, Polly voices her frustrations to the trucker venue, where truckers provide an accurate diagnosis of Polly's familial troubles in a mature way, much to Polly's surprise who was hoping for more rough and tough truckers. Just then, another trucker enters inquiring about the pink stone, as the stone is actually the egg of a roc, a colossal bird that devours Amphibians. Realizing the family is in danger, Polly and Soggy Joe race off to rescue them.

Back at the fwagon, Anne, Sprig and Hop Pop discover the fake and that Polly has been left behind, but at that moment, the egg hatches into a giant roc that destroys their fwagon. Soggy Joe and Polly arrive in time to witness the roc ascend. Polly rubs herself on Soggy Joe's bee fur seating to create electricity and launches herself at the roc, electrocuting it, and driving it away. Reunited with her family, Polly apologizes for her actions. Anne, Sprig, and Hop Pop also apologize for the way they treated her, as they also miss home and they need to stick together. Soggy Joe offers to tow them the next stop to repair their fwagon. On the ride, the family sits in the fwagon reading a bedtime story together for Polly.

Cast

 * Brenda Song as Anne Boonchuy
 * Justin Felbinger as Sprig Plantar
 * Bill Farmer as Hop Pop Plantar
 * Amanda Leighton as Polly Plantar
 * Fred Tatasciore as Soggy Joe & Bartender (credited as additional voices)
 * Dee Bradley Baker as Bessie & Green Male Trucker (credited as additional voices for both)

Additional voices

 * Eden Riegel as Female Trucker
 * Sam Riegel as Bird Seller Trucker

Mention

 * Sadie Croaker

Trivia

 * It's revealed Polly's middle name is Petunia.
 * The map Sprig and Anne use outside the wagon is smaller than the one Polly looked at inside the wagon.

Revelations and continuity

 * The book "Fergus Frog Finds a Friend" has a message on the first page saying "For Sprig, ♡ mom".
 * At the beginning of the episode, Polly sits at the window of the family wagon, like she does during the season 2 credits.
 * The Plantars still call their family wagon a "fwagon".
 * Anne calls it a "fwagon" too, even though she dislikes doing so in "Handy Anne".
 * Everyone except Polly (cause she started it) gets electrocuted just like back in "Taking Charge".

Allusions

 *  - One of the books is named "Wart and Peace", after the 1869 historical novel.
 *  - Another book is named "The Great Gnatsby", after the 1925 tragedy novel.
 * Fergus Finds a Friend - The book Polly wants to read is named "Fergus Frog Finds a Friend", after the 2010 children book, but its story is based on crime drama.