Anne Vs. Wild

"Anne Vs. Wild" is the second segment of the seventh episode of the first season of Amphibia, and the fourteenth episode overall.

It premiered on June 26, 2019 alongside "Dating Season".

Synopsis
Anne pretends to like camping, which is fine until she goes dangerously overboard.

Plot
While digging through her backpack, Anne finds a bath bomb that she unknowingly brought from home. She runs outside to tell the Plantars and discovers them leaving to Camp Phlemington to enjoy the great outdoors. Due to Anne being "soft", they felt that it was unnecessary to invite her as the outdoors are tough. Not wanting to feel like a buzzkill, Anne claims that she does enjoy the outdoors and does not mind leaving the comforts of home to hang out with them. Hop Pop and Polly are skeptical, but Sprig happily invites her. Once they arrive at the camp, it becomes very obvious that Anne is out of her element, lacking the skills for fishing and setting up a tent, and being bitten by large spiders. During the night, she even rolls down a hill in her sleeping bag and lands in a thorn patch.

Hop Pop tells Anne that she can take Bessie and go home, but she refuses by blaming the fact that the camping at Phlemington was too easy for her and that she was used to something more extreme. They are approached by Soggy Joe who overhears them and offers to take them to the more dangerous part of the woods for some real camping. After reaching the campsite where giant spiders, poisonous centipedes and skeletons are present, Joe tells the family a tale of the infamous Mudmen who are mythical creatures that live in this very bog and only fear two things, being clean and sunlight before Joe goes off to call nature in the bushes leaving the terrified family alone. Sprig asks Anne if she likes this more extreme camping to which she replies she does. Joe then arrives back and groans before falling over, an axe embedded on his back. The campfire goes suddenly out and Hop Pop lights it up again with his handy copper matches, to reveal Mudmen ascending from the murky mud pools armed with tools and knives. They then turn to the family and start attacking them while Anne commands them to grab sticks with fire and ward the creatures off. This doesn't work as the Mudmen throw balls of mud at them, taking out the fire as they are cornered, trembling in fear. Anne remembers that they hate to be clean, so she throws her bath bomb she had in her bag causing a massive pink explosion, and the Mudmen are revealed to be wimpy frogs who hide in the swamp to eat trespassers and briefly run away.

Anne then tells the Plantar's the truth and that she didn't want to be left out which is why she agreed to camp with them, to which the Plantar's happily say they will include her from now on wherever they go whether she likes it or not. Joe then rises from the ground and flexes his jacket causing the axe to pop out, stating it was a good thing he brought his axe proof jacket and as a treat takes the family for some pancakes.

In the last scene, later at home, Anne shows the Plantars the music box, which Hop Pop says he had never seen before, and everyone goes to bed. Late at night, Hop Pop is in his study and reading through an old book and arrives at a page with the music box Anne had showed him on it, revealing it is a relic called the "Calamity Box", which was extremely dangerous and thought to have been destroyed previously.

Cast

 * Brenda Song as Anne Boonchuy
 * Justin Felbinger as Sprig Plantar
 * Bill Farmer as Hop Pop Plantar, Mudmen (credited as additional voices)
 * Amanda Leighton as Polly Plantar
 * Fred Tatasciore as Soggy Joe, Axe Thrower Frog (credited as additional voices)

Additional voices

 * James Patrick Stuart as Beetle Catcher Frog

Character revelations

 * The Plantars are hardcore campers, according to themselves.
 * The Plantars think that Anne is soft.
 * Anne has felt kind of left out lately by the Plantars and other frogs before the events of this episode.
 * Anne shares and shows her love and affection to the Plantar family members.
 * Hop-Pop lies about the origins of the Calamity Box or that he has seen the box before.

Series continuity

 * The Plantars mention Anne's hatred and fear for Amphibia's nature and dislike for discomfort.
 * The Mudmen from the theme song make an appearance in this episode.
 * The music box that transported Anne to Amphibia is seen again when Anne reveals it to the Plantars. It is revealed in Hop Pop's book that it's called the "Calamity Box".

Trivia

 * This episode marks the debut of Soggy Joe.
 * This episode breaks the fourth wall, with the Plantars, Anne, and Soggy Joe looking at the audience.
 * This is the third episode to have Anne's name in the title, after "Anne or Beast?" and "Anne Theft Auto".
 * Anne shows the Plantars the magic music box that transported her to Amphibia.
 * According to Hop Pop's book, it's actually called the Calamity Box.
 * This scene is similar to a moment in Gravity Falls when Dipper shows Journal 3 to Grunkle Stan. It later reveals that Grunkle Stan has knowledge about the Journals and keeps that secret hidden, similar to how Hop Pop realizes that the Calamity Box is actually dangerous does not reveal it until "After the Rain."
 * One of the sounds a Mudman makes is a zombie noise from the game Minecraft.
 * A cutout scene features Anne's father.

Edits

 * In the Southeast Asia broadcast, "Will you die alone?", "old man", "heck", and "dang" were cut.

Allusions

 *  - The title is a reference to the TV show Man vs. Wild.