Amphibia Main Theme

The Amphibia Main Theme is an instrumental theme that is used for the opening of Amphibia. It was composed by Doug Petty and TJ Hill.

Original
The original theme consists of originally animated footage which introduces us to the characters. Studio Yotta handled the animation.


 * Anne Boonchuy, Sasha Waybright, and Marcy Wu glance at the Calamity Box while Anne opens it on Earth. The chest bursts open with flashes of light, which transport the girls to Amphibia.
 * Anne is seen face first in a puddle, then she stands up to realize she is not home. The cam pans out to show a lily-pad shaped island, Amphibia.
 * Creatures, Amphibians, and more are seen as the cam passes to Anne ducking under the Plantar family house's small door and standing straight up with her hands on her hips. She is interrupted by a bunch of dragonflies zooming over her head.
 * The cam follows the dragonflies to an upper window which opens and introduces Sprig Plantar, who trips out the window when looking through a handheld telescope. The cam enters a room where Hop Pop Plantar is reading and looks out the window to see Sprig falling for his life. Sprig lands in a wooden bucket then hit in the air by Polly Plantar who uses the bucket to stay cool in her water.
 * Sprig joins Anne and points the way. Anne and Sprig travel to various locations in Amphibia and meeting different characters. Hop Pop and Polly appear in some scenes.
 * An old printed image appears of the same three human girls from the first shots with the image being subtitled with "BFFs!!" and a heart. It appears to be stuck in the branch of a tree while the wind blows it as it storms. Lightning flashes and reveals an ominous-looking tower in the background.
 * The main characters meet in front of a pond located at Wartwood, joined by other supporting characters, joined by random background Amphibians who appear closer to the screen.
 * The Amphibia logo appears, then a shine streaks across it with nature background sounds. The theme ends there. The short version also revolves around this, though the nature sounds are absent, and the camera pans differently. Behind the logo is a stone carving of Anne, Sasha, and Marcy all armed with weapons fighting against a giant toad-like creature with flames in his hands.

Season 2

 * The scene where the family is fishing is shortened.
 * Some sound effects are placed earlier.
 * A scene of Anne and Sasha sword fighting at Newtopia on a tower, which transitions out to Marcy holding the Calamity Box behind the silhouette of Anne and Sasha. It replaces the scene where Anne and Sprig high five and the BFFs image stuck in a tree branch.

Halloween version
A Halloween-themed version of the theme song was made for "The Shut-In!", which has the entire theme song purple and red, with random flashes of scary images appearing on-screen.

Season 3
To reflect the events after "True Colors", such as the Plantars being transported to Anne's home, Los Angeles, California, USA on Earth, an entirely new theme was made for Season 3. As such, most of the theme song has new scenes that are set in Anne's home and as such introduce new characters as well. This time, Saerom Animation handled the animation, making the artstyle more consistent with the show.


 * The theme was remixed with a more percussion, bassy, techno, acoustic, and rock heavy theme that fit LA.
 * First time to have Anne's parents and Domino with their residence from the outside and inside of their house is shown during the daytime.
 * A girl is walking her dog, birds are flying away, and construction workers are fixing an area.
 * Anne opens the front door to let Hop Pop, Sprig and Polly inside her house.
 * Hop Pop and Polly run inside Anne's house while Sprig hops inside.
 * Sprig falls out of the freezer with a mint chocolate chip ice cream cone like he used a handheld telescope from the previous intro, which then lands on his head. Anne's parents, and Hop Pop all look over at him.
 * Jeff Boonchuy is at the sink while his wife is holding dishes to put them away inside the opened cabinets.
 * Anne's Phone is seen used by Hop Pop at the residence's kitchen area.
 * In the living room of the house, Polly jumps on the sleeping Domino, which upsets the cat. She then chases Polly as Anne laughs. Then Sprig jumps on Anne's head and points the way, like the Season 1 and 2 theme song.
 * Anne and Sprig jumping on umbrellas and other items during day time located at some beach in LA is the same exact way that both of them are jumping on glowing mushrooms shown in both opening themes of season one and season two.
 * Anne holding Polly by her right arm with Sprig by her left arm as the 3 escapes from the Cloak-Bot that's chasing them in a 'No Parking' alley way at night. This alley appears to have Sasha's graffiti with Anne's little splodge on the "a" back during the flashback of the episode "Reunion".
 * The Plantars disguise themselves as visitors while evading a male night guard inside the Museum of Natural History at an area showing different dinosaurs.
 * The Wat Thai of Los Angeles in Coldwater Canyon being seen in the video inspired Thai Temple shows 3 shocked elderly women looking up to see lots of metallic color dragonfly UAV drones already unleashed by the Cloak-Bot in formation up in the daytime sky of LA.
 * Anne with her blue helmet on riding her dad's red scooter while she and the Plantars being pursued by 2 police cars alongside 2 police helicopters from the LAPD and a fake ice cream van disguised as a surveillance van driven by Mr. X alongside Jenny from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on a street during the broad daylight.
 * Characters like King Andrias and his Frobot military force include the Giant model are now depicted.
 * Scenes of Sasha's right arm holding her pink heron sword and Captain Grime holding the Barrel's Warhammer in Wartwood alongside its citizens ready to fight are shown.
 * A scene of Mr. Boonchuy, Mrs. Boonchuy, Jess, Ally, Dr. Jan, Terri, Humphrey Westwood, Mr. X (character) and Jenny from Los Angeles are shown.
 * Andrias pulling out his sword and swinging it, while Marcy is shown in a comatose state who has wires attached to her body inside the rejuvenation tank after Andrias stabbed her from behind at the near end of the episode "True Colors" and she's in front of The Core from the episode, "The First Temple".
 * Starting with "Hollywood Hop Pop", following the events of "Olivia & Yunan", the Core-possessed Marcy is now depicted while the Core itself is still shown behind.
 * 3 Frobots from the air fired their missiles at Anne (wearing her "armor" combined with her SJMS school uniform) and the Plantars on the ground who were behind destroyed cars stacked up like bricks at a junkyard under the LA night sky. So Anne uses her Calamity Box gem power to destroy some incoming missiles while catching one then slinging it back at one of the Frobots, which means her powers are now shown in action, implying that, after the events of "True Colors", she can now call upon and properly use her powers at will without much side effects.
 * Anne is wearing her "armored" outfit from "Bessie & MicroAngelo", "The Third Temple", "True Colors" and "The New Normal" then lands in an open road with the background of LA's night sky scene while returning to ordinary state after not using her powers and behind her is the supporting cast as well as her parents with Domino and King Andrias.
 * Same as "Hollywood Hop Pop", possessed Marcy is now shown, with King Andrias being smaller.

Christmas version
A Christmas-themed version of the theme song was made for "Froggy Little Christmas", which has a Christmas lights border, lens flares, and Christmas-themed decorations and setpieces. It appears to be a blend between the Season 1/2 and the Season 3 theme.

Trivia

 * The pilot version of the opening uses an instrumental version of the song "Rather Be" before the main theme replaces it in the series version.
 * The Plantar Farm door and window effects, as well as the yellow terrain and the boulder effects of the original theme, are animated in CGI.
 * The 2 scenes where Anne and Sprig are surrounded by mudmen and where Anne and Sprig are running from a boulder in a temple are based on Amphibia's pilot, Amphibiland.
 * In a video where Kermit the Frog reacts to the intro, the panned-out shot of Amphibia is longer to allow Kermit to comment on the island's lily-pad shape.
 * Footage of the beginning of the original theme was used in "Best Fronds".
 * A short version of the intro is used in "Toad Tax", "Prison Break", "Reunion", "The First Temple", "True Colors", and "The New Normal".
 * Sprig's violin song, Flight Of The Moth, is similar to the theme song.
 * In several airings, the song was shortened during marathons.
 * In Season 1 of the French dub, the "BFFs" caption is removed from the picture of Anne, Sasha, and Marcy.
 * The beginning melody of Welcome to Amphibia is used for the Halloween intro.
 * The stone behind the show's logo is shown inside the first temple.
 * In the Season 3 intro, when Sprig comes out of the freezer door, he is holding a mint chocolate chip ice cream cone. According to Matt Braly's pre-show, mint chocolate chip is Marcy's favorite ice cream flavor.
 * The Boonchuy family's WIFI password is shown on the freezer door before Sprig opens the door from the inside. The password is Boonc-1567.
 * In the season 3 intro, a Li'l Gideon plush can be seen near a trash bin when Anne and the Plantars are running from the Silver Frobot at the 'No Parking' alley way.

Original
An early, partially completed version of the original theme was used when the intro was first revealed at San-Diego Comic-Con 2018. As such, the instrumentation is incomplete and sound effects not being presents present.


 * The Disney text at the end of the intro is much smaller compared to the final version.
 * The first half of the music is completely different, although an identical portion of it is reused for the Halloween intro. Ironically, it is used for the behind the scenes of the title card.

Season 3 original
There are several minor differences between the initial version of the intro that aired at the end of "True Colors", and the final version actually used for season 3. These differences include:


 * The sound effects for the vehicles, jackhammer, and Andrias' sword are absent from the initial version.
 * A Li'l Gideon doll was added as a background item in the final version of the alley scene.
 * Marcy's rejuvenation tank was changed from blue to green in the final version to color-match her Calamity gem.
 * Marcy is present in the initial version of the group shot at the end of the intro. However, she is absent in the final version of the group shot, with Domino being moved to take her place.

Errors

 * When Sprig passes by Hop Pop's window, Hop Pop's button on his outfit changes color.
 * When the lily pad shoots up from the water as a giant monster emerges, the colors of the characters' mouths are off.
 * In the season 3 theme during the bird's eye pan, the right side helicopter transitions a second late, causing it to quickly snap into the paused scene.
 * Although Anne's mother having the golden ring on her right ring finger looks fine, Season 3 shows her ring on her left ring finger means the right ring finger might be an error.