Plantar's Last Stand

"Plantar's Last Stand" is the second segment of the ninth episode of the first season of Amphibia, and the eighteenth episode overall.

It premiered on July 1, 2019 alongside "Lily Pad Thai".

Synopsis
After a rent increase on the food stand, Anne convinces Hop Pop to sell Plantar’s Potions.

Plot
After Mayor Toadstool increased the food stand tax, Anne convinces Hop Pop to sell Plantar's Potions, which is just vegetable juice being branded as "health improving," as Anne states that these were all the hype back in the human world. Hop Pop hesitates as the Plantar stand is all about honesty, and selling the potion would mean lying. Seeing that he needs to embellish and remove the truth to sell the juice, Hop Pop decides to sell the potion to make enough profit to save the stand. The juice becomes a great success through its false claims like "increasing your lifespan," but it's still not enough to pay the tax. Seeing that they're out of vegetables, Hop Pop decides to gather garbage and leftovers to make more juice.

The "new" potion is also a great success, and they make enough money to save the stand. Then Mrs. Croaker, who's a loyal customer of the Plantars due to their honesty, also buys the potion claiming if Hop Pop said the potion was good for you, then it was, even though she herself never really believed in these potions. Hop Pop feels guilty, and before the townspeople can take a drink, he knocks the potion out of Mrs. Croaker's hand and tells the truth to everyone, and apologizes. While he's apologizing, giant flies came and started picking off people, including the kids. Hop Pop sees that they're attracted to the garbage juice and takes the barrel to push it off a cliff. The flies drop the kids and take the barrel away into the sunset. Hop Pop then gives the town a refund on the potions they had bought and loses the stand, but he is happy to be honest again, and Mrs. Croaker states Hop Pop's father would've been proud of his honesty in telling the town the truth and giving them a refund.

Cast

 * Brenda Song as Anne Boonchuy
 * Justin Felbinger as Sprig Plantar
 * Bill Farmer as Hop Pop Plantar
 * Amanda Leighton as Polly Plantar
 * Laila Berzins as Sadie Croaker
 * Jack McBrayer as Toadie
 * James Patrick Stuart as Wally, Thin Green Frog (credited as additional voices)
 * Kaitlyn Robrock as Felicia Sundew

Additional voices

 * Sam Riegel as Blue Frog with Hat
 * John DiMaggio as Gentle Jon
 * Eden Riegel as Kid Customer

Character revelations

 * Mrs. Croaker's first named is revealed to be Sadie.

Series continuity

 * The Plantars' stand in the market is seen again, only for Hop Pop to lose it at the end of the episode.

Trivia

 * This episode was aired in Southeast Asia along with "Lily Pad Thai" on October 23, 2019, which is a holiday in Thailand, Chulalongkorn Day.
 * The scene where Sprig plays a song farthing, is the song Für Elise, by German composer Ludwig von Beethoven.

Edits

 * The words "heck" and "sucker" were cut out in the Southeast Asia broadcast.