The Dinner

"The Dinner" is the first segment of the nineteenth episode of the second season of Amphibia, and the seventy-third overall.

It premiered on April 24, 2021, alongside "Battle of the Bands".

Synopsis
Anne and the Plantars invite some old adversaries over for dinner to try to bury the hatchet.

Plot
This episode takes off with the Plantars setting up a nice dinner to welcome Sasha back (along with Grime), but are still hesitant because she tried killing them. Anne insists that Sasha has changed Felicia Sundew rented a spare room to her and Grime for their stay in Wartwood. When Anne invited her to dinner at the Planters’ farm Grime reminded her to keep up the nice act for the plan to work; Sasha is confident that she can keep Anne and Marcy in the palm of her hands and once they conquer amphibia she can get her friendship with the girls under control once again. As they arrived Anne, Sasha and Marcy are all elated to be together again. They arrive for dinner and Grime has brought a devastatingly delicious dessert, an exploding chocolate vol-cake-no, which will result in a cataclysmic explosion of chocolatey goodness. Over dinner, there are a few Amphibia cultural faux pas, with Grime asking what frogs the Plantars (who are frogs themselves) extort for their delicious produce, and Hop Pop’s toad-based jokes (though Grime actually finds it quite funny). During dinner Sasha was actually impressed by Hop Pop’s cooking, then she and the girls reminisce about the time they skipped theater rehearsal to throw a wild party on the school roof, but things got awkward for Sasha when she was reminded that Anne took the blame and got punished when they got caught.

Hop Pop suggests the group play a rousing game of Drawsidoodle (witch is basically Pictionary with a different name). While playing, we see Grime and Hop Pop getting along rather well, while Sasha buckles under the pressure of seeing how well Marcy and Anne were getting on without her presence. When it's her turn to draw, we get a rapid-fire succession of memories about the fall of Toad Tower, each hitting nerves with Sasha and even Grime, but it turns out that her drawing was of a simple tree. Just then the Vol-cake-no Grime brought over grows to epic proportions and hot chocolate lava comes pouring out everywhere. Grime explains that toads have a grand battle during desert just he was paralyzed by giant hornets that started flying out of the cake. As the hornets began swarming all around everyone, the human girls work together when they discovered they can penetrate the insects' hard exoskeletons with their own stingers. After they defeat the hornets and toss them all the chocolate just before it hardens, Sasha apologizes and explains she is not sure she wants to change because she likes the way she is. Anne tells Sasha that while she knows it is difficult for her to change, she needs to accept the fact that Anne has done so. Sasha does see the truth in what Anne is saying and hugs her.

Grime awakes after having been stung by a hornet, and he introduces everyone to  the chocolate covered hornets and find that they are quite delicious.

Cast

 * Brenda Song as Anne Boonchuy
 * Justin Felbinger as Sprig Plantar
 * Bill Farmer as Hop Pop Plantar
 * Amanda Leighton as Polly Plantar
 * Haley Tju as Marcy Wu
 * Anna Akana as Sasha Waybright
 * Troy Baker as Captain Grime

Non-speaking cameo

 * Felicia Sundew

Mentioned

 * Mrs. Boonchuy
 * Mr. Boonchuy

Trivia

 * This is the first time Sasha is shown with her hair down.
 * This episode, along with "Battle of the Bands" and "The Shut-In!", were the only episodes of Season 2 to be uploaded as a full episode on the official YouTube Channel of Disney Channel.

Revelations and significant events

 * Sasha and Grime are now living with Felicia in her Tea Shoppe in Wartwood.
 * Sasha keeps daggers in her armor.
 * It's revealed that Sasha made Anne and Marcy go up on the school roof which Anne took the blame for and got grounded for a month.

Continuity

 * Sasha mentions the events of "The Third Temple".
 * The Plantars remind Sasha and Grime about the destruction of Toad Tower in "Reunion".
 * Anne and Marcy mention the ant queen from "Marcy at the Gates".
 * Anne wears the same dress as in "Lily Pad Thai", just with different colors.

Errors

 * When Sasha and Grime get ready for the dinner and Sasha sits on a chair, the red lines on her boots are missing.
 * The darker spot on Sprig's head is missing for the entirety of the episode.
 * Continuity errors:
 * Although Polly mentions that Hop Pop knows his way around the kitchen, "Hop Luck" and "Amphibia Food!" show that he is in fact, bad at cooking.