Anne-sterminator

"Anne-sterminator" is the second segment of the fifth episode of the third season of Amphibia, and the eighty-fourth episode overall.

It premiered on October 30, 2021, alongside "Fixing Frobo".

Synopsis
A dangerous enemy finally locates Anne and the Plantars.

Plot
The episode begins with the Cloak-Bot having finished repairing and upgrading itself using construction equipment and hardware tools as replacement parts. King Andrias contacts it to see how it was doing and expresses displeasure at its lack of progress and Anne is still alive (and that he got Cynthia Coven book 3 instead of Book 2 (which was sold out)), so he gave an ultimatum; destroy Anne in an hour or the bomb inside the robot that was just activated would self-destruct it and ended his transmission.The Cloak-Bot then receives a signal from the recently reactivated Frobo and follows it. Meanwhile, at the Boonchuy residence, Anne is amazing everyone by doing the laundry, taking out the trash, washing the dishes and using a coaster all at breakneck speed. Her mother and father tell her how proud they are of her new responsible behavior, which causes her to drag Sprig into the kitchen to tell him she can’t keep the secret about Andrias anymore and that she's decided to tell her parents.

Anne then pulls everyone into the living room to finally explain what is happening, when Cloak-Bot suddenly arrives in front of her house. It attacks and the Boonchuys and Plantars run upstairs into the exercise room, only to find that it had been converted into a shrine of sorts for Anne. She notices that there are numerous art pieces, including one of her dressed as a doctor, which Anne assumes means that her mother has high expectations for her. Cloak-Bot enters, but cannot decipher the real Anne from the sculptures and they use it as a distraction as everyone escapes into the Boonchuy van and drive away as fast as they can.

As the Cloak-Bot chases them down the highway Mrs. Boonchuy asks why it was after them, so Anne reluctantly tells her parents that the king of Amphibia is trying to destroy them, and Sprig tells them she punched the King in the face shocking Mr. and Mrs. with disbelief. Meanwhile Hop-Pop inadvertently tells the Boonchuys that this was not the first time they encountered the killing machine shocking them both even further. They then hide under the highway, but the Bot finds them. After briefly evading the Cloak-Bot the families make their way to a junkyard where Mrs. Boonchuy explodes into anger at Anne for keeping secrets, while Anne rebuffs her by saying she lied because she wanted to keep her loved ones safe and she was under a lot of pressure from her parents about becoming the daughter she and her husband wanted which stunned Anne’s mother. As the Cloak-Bot closes in, Anne asks her parents for their help in defeating it; Mr. Boonchuy agrees without hesitation while Mrs. Boonchuy is reluctant as she is still processing all this, but Anne comes up with a plan and manages to convince her to help.

Just as the Cloak-Bot catches up to them Mrs. Boonchuy uses her artistic skills to create a bunch of fake Anne dummies out of junk to confuse and distract the Cloak-Bot long enough for everyone to severely damage it. As a last ditch effort the Cloak-Bot decides to kill everyone with its self-destruct sequence, but Anne uses her powers with her right foot to kick it into Earth's orbit before it explodes, saving their lives and astonishing her parents. Anne says she has so much to tell her parents before she passes out right after used her abilities. As Mr. Boonchuy drives everyone home, Mrs. Boonchuy comforts her unconscious daughter now understanding the kind of pressure she was putting on Anne, and tells the frogs she now knows she was just trying to keep them safe and promises that the Boonchuy family will help the Planter family however they can.

Meanwhile, 2 male Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents in an office at an undisclosed location find a paused screen of a traffic camera video footage showing Anne and the Plantars escaping from Cloak-Bot on a computer and decide to contact Mr. X about those findings.

Cast

 * Brenda Song as Anne Boonchuy
 * Justin Felbinger as Sprig Plantar
 * Bill Farmer as Hop Pop Plantar
 * Amanda Leighton as Polly Plantar
 * On Braly as Mrs. Boonchuy
 * Brian Sounalath as Mr. Boonchuy
 * Keith David as King Andrias
 * Troy Baker as Cloak-Bot

Additional voices

 * Matt Braly as Fumigator 4 Narrator
 * Silver Paul as LAPD Police Officer, FBI Agent
 * Eden Riegel as Dog Walker

Non-speaking cameo

 * Frobo

Mentioned

 * Mr. X

Trivia

 * The title is a portmanteau of Anne and "exterminator".
 * The female dog walker is also seen in the season 3 intro, although the dog is different.
 * Anne and the Plantars have been on Earth for about 2 weeks.
 * Anne's Racket reappears during the episode.

Revelations and significant events

 * Mrs. Boonchuy wears a pair of brown bear slippers when inside the Boonchuy residence.
 * Upon entering the workout room (Mrs Boonchuy's), a note on the wall reads "89 days that Anne has been gone", implying that Mrs. Boonchuy managed to emotionally overcome Anne's disappearance after 2 and a half months.
 * Mrs. Boonchuy is shown to wear a pair of reading glasses when finding the preferred path to escape from the Cloak-Bot inside the red van.
 * Anne's middle name is Savisa as being said by Mrs Boonchuy when getting hunted by the Cloak-Bot.
 * Anne's parents learn about King Andrias, the Cloak-Bot, and Anne's abilities.
 * Cloak-Bot is finally destroyed, though its right arm after getting separated by Anne's right foot kick seem to be still intact.
 * The FBI finds out about the Plantars and Anne from the traffic camera and also due to Cloak Bot's desperate, reckless and non-discreet attacks on Anne and the Plantars.

Continuity

 * King Andrias reminds Cloak-Bot of its mission to eliminate Anne and getting the second Cynthia Coven novel, which he specified in "The New Normal".
 * The events of "True Colors" and "The New Normal" are mentioned by Anne, Sprig and Hop Pop.

Allusions

 *  - The title of the episode, in addition to deriving from "exterminator", and plot are based on the 1984 live-action film of the same name. The plot of the Cloak-Bot persistently hunting down Anne also parallels the T-800 model Terminator's role in the film.
 *  - The Cloak-Bot's menacing laughter before it is about to self-destruct as a last resort to destroy Anne references the film's climax when the titular creature initiates its self-destruct and laughs maniacally. Which the explosion by the Cloak-Bot is almost like a nuclear explosion.
 *  - The hammer Anne's mom uses looks almost like the Super Mario Bros. Hammer used in the SSB series power up.
 *  - The style also looks like Thor's hammer from the Marvel character of the same name.

Errors

 * When the dog walker is crossing the road, she is walking from right to left. However, during the over the shoulder shot, when the dog barks at the robot, she is suddenly walking in the opposite direction.
 * When Mr. Boonchuy reacts to the Cloak-Bot's self-destruct initiation, his ring is missing.