Temple Frogs

"Temple Frogs" is the second segment of the fourth episode of the third season of Amphibia, and the eighty-second episode overall.

It premiered on October 23, 2021, alongside "Fight at the Museum".

Synopsis
The Boonchuys take the Plantars to the Thai Temple.

Plot
The episode begins in the morning with Anne telling the Plantars that she got a message from Dr. Jan, but as they just left the house to go to the museum, she is told by her parents that they will go to the Thai Temple, much to Anne's disappointment, but Mrs. Boonchuy makes a deal with her that if Anne stays for at least an hour, she could go to see Dr. Jan. Anne reluctantly agrees, then chases away 2 SJMS vloggers Desi and Rico who are curious about where she was for 5 months. Mr. Boonchuy then explains to Hop Pop about Market Day and at the Thai Temple and what they do there.

When they arrived, everyone greeted Anne warmly and were overjoyed to see her again. Anne then tells the Plantars that can go explore the Temple and they take an intent in Thai Culture; Polly impresses everyone with how fluently she can speak Thai Language, Hop Pop falls in love with a traditional Khon Dance and Sprig turns out to be a natural at the Sepak Takraw.

After getting impatient. Anne uses her phone to call Dr. Jan to tell her she is on the way as she decided to sneak away and offers a lady that looks like her 5 bucks to be her, not knowing that Andrias' Cloak-Bot intercepted her call and sends a bunch of dragonfly-like UAV drones to her location. Anne sees how much the frogs are enjoying themselves and gets caught trying to leave by Mrs. Boonchuy and then reveals that she was returning dishes to the neighbors who were comforting her during her disappearance which fills Anne with guilt.

Just then the UAVs attack; Anne lies and says they were sent by Vloggers to spy on her as she and the Plantars engage in battle. To their surprise, everyone helps them fight the mechanical dragonfly swarm and even after seeing the frogs without their disguises, they still accepted them and promise to keep their secret.

After cleaning up, Anne sees Dr. Jan who just arrived by her truck at the Thai Temple to give the hidden message that was on the vase. Anne, using Marcy's journal, translates the message from Amphibian Alphabet to English "Seek the Mother of Olms she will guide you to your destiny", but nobody knows what that means as the episode ends.

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
 * Anika Noni Rose as Dr. Jan
 * Troy Baker as Cloak-Bot

Additional voices

 * Eden Riegel as Thai Kid Student, Orange Shirt Female Customer, Anne Impersonator
 * Sumalee Montano as Nee
 * Quincy Surasmith as Red Team Sepak Takraw Male Player, Glasses Male Customer
 * Matt Braly as Thai Dancer Leader 1, Impressed Thai 2, White Team Sepak Takraw Player
 * Alisa Allapach as Red Team Sepak Takraw Female Player
 * Lakkhana Narksiri as Thai Teacher, Pu, Purple Dress Old Lady

Non-speaking

 * Desi
 * Rico

Mentioned

 * Marcy Wu

Trivia

 * Lakkhana Narksiri (ลักขณา นาคศิริ), who voices Polly in the Thai dub of Amphibia, guided Amanda Leighton how to pronounce words in Thai. She is also the person who wrote up the Thai lines appearing in the episode.
 * The series is available in Thailand in Thai.

Revelations and significant events

 * Polly has learned the Thai language (she speaks it with surprising fluency) by watching Mrs. Boonchuy's Thai romantic soap operas.
 * The people of the Thai Temple were cooking for Mrs. Boonchuy and Mr. Boonchuy as a consolation after Anne's disappearance during those five months.
 * Everyone at the Thai Temple learns that the Plantars are actually sentient, anthropomorphic frogs.
 * Anne has Marcy's journal (it was not revealed yet when Marcy gave it to her).
 * This is the first time Anne has memorized the amphibian letters on Marcy's journal.
 * The message on the museum jar translates as: "Seek the Mother of Olms she will guide you to your destiny".
 * The Cloak-Bot can deploy small robots for scouting and attack, just like the Giant Frobot from "Turning Point."

Continuity

 * This episode takes place immediately the day after the previous episode.

Allusions

 * - In the beginning of the episode Anne says "Plantars Assemble" a parody of the famous quote "Avengers Assemble"
 * - One of the children in the Thai class wears a T-shirt with the icon of the famous character.
 * - In the Thai classroom, there is a poster of the Thai animated film in the background.

Errors
Mr. Boonchuy was using his left hand to carry some food, however, he was swiping the phone with his left hand, but carries the food again when Anne was chasing him.