Adventures in Catsitting

"Adventures in Catsitting" is the second segment of the third episode of the third season of Amphibia, and the eightieth episode overall.

It premiered on October 16, 2021, alongside "Thai Feud".

Synopsis
The Plantars volunteer to take Domino to the vet.

Plot
Anne is looking for articles about interdimensional portals on the internet, while the Plantars are happy to be living in the lap of luxury. Hop Pop comments on the two days they've been on Earth, only to be reminded by Sprig that they've been there for a week. Hop Pop declares themselves freeloaders and compares themselves to Cousin Stanley, a "relative" who had long ago been a freeloader on their farm and who they ended up literally throwing out the window. Mrs. Boonchuy arrives to tell Anne that they are going to the dentist to have her teeth checked, but this coincides with a vet appointment Anne had made for her cat, Domino. Mr. Boonchuy can't take the cat, because he has to work at the Restaurant. So the Plantars, in an attempt not to look like freeloaders, offer to help by taking Domino to the vet.

So, the Plantars try and round up the cat and get her into a travel case, which proves to be more difficult than they originally thought. The group puts on their disguises and ventures forth to take her to the vet with the help of a few tools from the Boonchuys, like a cell phone. They watch the local humans take the bus and follow the same actions they observe and climb aboard, but when the bus takes off, Hop Pop tries to latch on to something by shooting his tongue but ends up accidentally licking everyone on board, getting the group kicked off the bus.

Their quest continues and they finally end up at the vet's office, full of suspecting animals barking and hissing at them while they are disguised. Sprig also notices someone's pet frog and has a brief moment of connection with his brethren.

Domino is seen, but the Vet himself is bombarded with questions from the Plantars about back pain and frogs and their abilities, puzzling the doctor. As they leave, Domino unlatches her travel carrier and sneaks away, inevitably causing the frog family to panic to a point where Sprig calls Mr. Boonchuy and tells him they lost the cat, much to Hop Pop's chagrin.

Mr. Boonchuy tell them to go to the nearest Shawarma restaurant, as it is her favorite food. That's where they find her, to the delight of all the customers inside, where the owner of the restaurant says aloud that the cat is a customer magnet and he's never getting rid of her. The family sees a smoke detector inside the restaurant and Hop Pop replicates the high pitched alarm, evacuating the restaurant. Polly rolls around, pretending to be a ball of yarn to entice the cat back into her travel carrier, and as the fire department approaches, so does Mr. Boonchuy, who says he'll drop the group back at home on his way to the restaurant.

Hop Pop feels bad that he has to go out of his way again for the Plantars, calling himself a freeloader. Mr. Boonchuy stops the scooter and says to them that they took his daughter into their home when she was most in need, and kept her safe and fed her for five months. The Plantars will never be freeloaders.

They get back home just before Anne and her Mom show up, with Anne clearly under the influence of some pretty strong dentist medication. Mrs. Boonchuy explains that Anne had "eight cavities and a whole lot of cricket legs". The Boonchuys leave the loopy Anne with the Plantars as Hop Pop begs the human girl to let go of his face while Domino is seen casually licking herself.

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
 * Kevin Michael Richardson as Vet, Shawarma Restaurant Owner (credited as additional voices), Bearded Cap Bus Passenger (credited as additional voices), Cheering Customer (credited as addtional voices)

Additional voices

 * Eden Riegel as Emily, Frog Owner
 * Sam Riegel as Bearded Tough Guy Bus Passenger, Glasses Customer
 * Jenn Strickland as Snake Owner

Other characters

 * Domino

Mentioned

 * Domino 2

Trivia

 * A poster of the second season of Suspicion Island is shown when the Plantars are waiting for the bus.
 * The Boonchuy family not only own a red minivan, but also has a red motor scooter that Mr. Boonchuy rides.
 * The look on Domino's face when being checked "there" is an expression that cats who usually don't like being checked use in real life.
 * Emily (the orange-haired girl in Sherm's Shawarma wearing a pink cat shirt and blue hat, who Sherm referred to as "Karen") is seen earlier in the episode on a local bus when Hop Pop licks her face.

Revelations and significant events

 * It is revealed that the Plantars once housed someone pretending to be a cousin of the family named Stanley, who was a freeloader who was eventually kicked out of the Plantar Farm.
 * Domino's favorite food is.
 * Hop Pop has the ability to mimic the sound of a fire alarm. This is based on the fact that some frogs, such as the male concave-eared torrent frog, have the ability to emit ultra-frequency sounds that sound like fire alarms.
 * Anne did not brush nor floss her teeth in Amphibia for 5 months, resulting in her receiving 8 cavities and a bunch of cricket legs inside her teeth.
 * However, Anne was seen brushing her teeth during "Best Fronds" and about to brush her teeth at her home's bathroom in "The New Normal" before her mom scared her, so it can be assumed she rarely brushed her teeth for a while or had limited toothpaste to clean her teeth which caused those 8 cavities in her teeth.

Continuity

 * This episode takes place a week to 7 days after the events of "The New Normal".
 * Anne and the Plantars continue to search for a way to return to Amphibia through portals, as seen in the previous episode, though with not much success.
 * Sprig mentions Domino 2 from "The Domino Effect" because of Domino's appearance.
 * Mr. Boonchuy references "Anne or Beast?" when he says that the Plantars took Anne to their home when she needed it the most.
 * The snake (possibly a boa) owner that appears in the veterinarian is the same person as the alligator store owner from "Hop 'Til You Drop".
 * Emily reappears from the previous episode where Sprig nearly tongued her.
 * Sprig mentions being part of the Boonchuy family from "Thai Feud."

Allusions

 *  - The episode’s title is a reference to the 1987 American comedy film and the 2016 movie remake, with the 2016 one, first aired on the same channel during that year.
 * - Hop Pop's phrase about guests being like noxious swamp gas is similar to Benjamin Franklin's comment comparing them to fish.
 * - One of the science journals Anne is looking through has "CRISP-Y" on the cover, referencing the gene sequencing method used for detecting gene irregularities.
 * /Dunkin'  - Before the planters get on the bus, behind Hop Pop, is a donut shop called Dunkin Dunce. The shop's logo also resembles the Dunkin' Donuts logo from 1960 to 1976.
 * - A man on the bus is wearing a shirt that says "Bibsy World" with a cartoon rabbit on it, a parody of the theme park in Florida. The text also utilizes a font similar to that of the park's logo.
 * - The cartoon rabbit on the shirt could be a nod to Oswald, one of Walt Disney's earliest creations and Mickey Mouse's predecessor.
 *  - When the Plantars arrive at the vet, they do a dance similar to Kirby's level clear dance, accompanied by 8-bit music.
 *  - When Hop Pop and Polly do a spit-take at each other and repeatedly spit out the lemonade at each other's faces, this is a possible allusion to a scene in Gravity Falls in the episode "Headhunters" when Sheriff Blubs and Deputy Durland do the exact same thing to their coffee when they discover Dipper had proved them wrong about being able to solve the case.
 *  - When Polly lures Domino out of the shawarma restaurant via transforming into a ball, she does a spin roll technique similar to the Spin Dash.
 * /SUS- The Suspicion Island poster is called Suspicion Island 2 sus, the reference of the title is a play on the meme of the game, Among Us. The sus is also a wording, saying and meme when someone in the game votes someone off and replies "sus!"
 *  - The remote Domino knocks over is a ROKU remote, probably

Errors

 * Continuity errors:
 * While it is mentioned that Anne had not brushed her teeth during her time in Amphibia, she was actually seen brushing her teeth in "Best Fronds", as well as about to brush her teeth at her home's bathroom in "The New Normal" before her mom scared her.
 * However, it could be possible that in "Best Fronds" this was the only time she brushed her teeth during her time there.
 * It's also possible that, when Anne was teleported to Amphibia, she did not have enough toothpaste with her, which ran out within a few days, affecting her dental hygiene.
 * Anne's hoodie tied around her waist disappears after the Plantars tell her about Cousin Stanley.