Cracking Mrs. Croaker

"Cracking Mrs. Croaker" is the second segment of the fourteenth episode of the first season of Amphibia, and the twenty eighth episode overall.

It premiered on July 9, 2019 alongside "Snow Day".

Synopsis
In an effort to make Mrs. Croaker like him, Sprig digs up a secret from her past.

Plot
Sprig happily walks about town greeting everyone and getting jovial responses from them. When he tries getting a friendly greeting from Sadie Croaker, he is surprised to see that she does not return the compliment. He tries to get some kind of response only to be met with silence. He tells Anne, Polly and Hop Pop, but they all meet his sadness with indifference. Anne relates to how an acquaintance of her's named Jamie Kreiger had given her a similar treatment and that she had chosen to ignore her altogether. Sprig completely mishears Anne's suggestion and doubles down on trying to find some way for Croaker to like him.

He tells Anne that he will break into Croaker's house and find her "hopes and dreams" and make them come true. He successfully gets inside her house after she leaves with Anne and Polly following him. They discover a chest of old photos of a surprisingly young and attractive Croaker along with photos of a man named Jonah. Believing that he is her lost love, Sprig decides to find him and reunite them. He easily locates Jonah who eagerly prepares to meet with Croaker. They head back to her house, but much to Sprig, Polly and Anne's surprise, Jonah had come to kill Croaker rather then being her long lost love.

Croaker reveals hidden fighting skills and fights back before finally getting Archie, her pet spider, to web up Jonah. She then tells the kids to not tell anyone about what just happened. Sprig breaks down and reveals that he just wanted to get her to like him. Croaker however finds his goal foolish as he cannot please everyone. She admits that the only reason she does not like him is because his "big eyes and goofy smile rub [her] the wrong way". Croaker adds that she does appreciate him going through all the trouble and that she can learn to like him. Sprig then happily dances around proclaiming that Croaker likes him, much to her annoyance.

Cast

 * Brenda Song as Anne Boonchuy
 * Justin Felbinger as Sprig Plantar
 * Bill Farmer as Hop Pop Plantar, Frog Carrying Groceries (credited as additional voices)
 * Amanda Leighton as Polly Plantar
 * Jeff Bergman as Jonah, French Frog (credited as additional voices)
 * Laila Berzins as Sadie Croaker
 * Kaitlyn Robrock as Felicia Sundew
 * Brian Maillard as Leopold Loggle
 * Kevin Michael Richardson as Mr. Flour (voice only)
 * John DiMaggio as Stumpy
 * Jill Bartlett as Maddie Flour

Additional voices

 * James Patrick Stuart as Jerry
 * Sam Riegel as Patrick

Trivia

 * This episode and "Snow Day" use the same credits but with a winter-themed version, even though it aired in the summer.
 * Morals:
 * It's okay if some people don't like you sometimes.
 * You can't force everyone to like you.
 * Irony: At the end of the episode, Sprig cheers that Mrs. Croaker likes him, making it hard for her to get rid of him now.

Revelations & significant events

 * This episode reveals a few things about Sadie Croaker:
 * She smells like wet leaves and fungus.
 * She uses her fighting skills to take down bad guys.
 * She owns a book called "In the Heat of the Swamp".
 * She has a rival named Jonah who has been searching for her for 30 years.
 * A girl named Jamie Kreiger ignored Anne all the time back on Earth.
 * Sprig is the town favorite to Wartwood because his big eyes and goofy smile are hard to resist.
 * The only person who doesn't like Sprig is Sadie Croaker until the end of the episode.
 * The walls in the Plantar Farm are thin, and therefore not soundproof.
 * Hop Pop yodels himself to sleep every night.

Allusions

 *  - The title "Cracking Mrs. Croaker" is a reference to the movie Driving Miss Daisy.
 *  - The Saw Cleaver is seen among the weapons inside Jonah's jacket.