Cane Crazy

"Cane Crazy" is the first segment of the second episode of the first season of Amphibia, and the third episode overall.

It premiered on June 18, 2019 alongside "Flood, Sweat & Tears".

Synopsis
When Anne breaks Hop Pop's favorite cane, she, Sprig and Polly set out to replace it.

Plot
While being served breakfast by Hop Pop, Anne decides to pass, since the food prepared by Hop Pop seemed nasty and gruesome. Hop Pop jokes, stating the food wasn't good enough for the "princess", to which Anne replies with a roast on Hop Pop. He becomes frustrated and angry at Anne and goes off to take a nap, stating if this keeps up then one day he'll "throw her out", before slamming the door. Anne then impersonates Hop Pop, much to Sprig and Polly's amusement, but she takes it too far when she accidentally breaks Hop Pop's favorite cane. Anne is confused by Sprig and Polly's horrified expressions and says it's just a cane. Sprig tells Anne how this special cane had been in the family for centuries, passed down from Hop Pop's grandfather to Hop Pop's father, and then to Hop Pop. Anne requests Sprig and Polly's help to which Sprig agrees, but Polly turns down the offer claiming she barely knows Anne. She relents when Anne bribes her with candy "from another world", which causes Polly to assist her as well.

She, along with Sprig and Polly first try and repair it using the "slop" Hop Pop made as glue and tying it up with Polly's bow, but it didn't work out. They then visit the town's wood-smith, Leopold Loggle, so he can fix it. After telling them he can't, Loggle tells them that the cane comes from the extremely dangerous Doom Tree and shows them a map to it, of which Anne takes a photo of.

Anne, Sprig and Polly find the tree after travelling through a dense jungle and break a branch from it, but then find out that it's actually a giant walking stick insect rather than a tree. After a chase back through the jungle, they arrive back at Leopold's shop and lock the door behind them, which the stick insect easily manages to rip open along with the wall itself. After a brief fight with Polly and Anne using wooden limbs as weapons and Sprig using sandpaper, Anne finds a jar of termites and launches it at the stick insect, causing the wood to disappear and revealing a thin, green alien-like creature which quickly leaves the shop.

They celebrate only to have the cane taken by Leopold, who states that this wouldn't even begin to cover the damages to his shop. Sprig then gives him Anne's click-pen, which Leopold finds fascinating and decides to let them go. Returning back home to a just woken Hop Pop, Anne gives Hop Pop back his cane and makes her way to the door, causing Sprig and Polly to cry. Hop Pop then states that he was just bluffing about letting Anne go and just wanted to see more respect from her. Anne rejoices and drops her bag on the floor, but Hop Pop says that Anne must be on dish-duty for a month to which Anne agrees. After that's settled, Hop Pop reads out a list of comebacks he made while they were gone, to which no one laughs.

Cast

 * Brenda Song as Anne Boonchuy
 * Justin Felbinger as Sprig Plantar
 * Bill Farmer as Hop Pop Plantar
 * Amanda Leighton as Polly Plantar
 * Brian Maillard as Leopold Loggle

Additional voices

 * Dee Bradley Baker as Doom Tree

Revelations and significant events

 * Anne slept and lived in a cave before moving in with the Plantars.
 * The frogs are unfamiliar with items as toenail clippers, air pumps, and mechanical pencils.
 * This is the first time that it's mentioned that Hop-Pop isn't a good cook.
 * The names of Hop-Pop's father and grandfather are revealed and they are shown.
 * Hop-Pop's cane is an old family relic that is passed down generations.
 * Polly still isn't really fond of Anne but by the end of the episode, she starts liking her.
 * Loggle reveals that he has a old smiting accident when he once tripped on an anvil, landed neck-first on a metal pipe that pierced his voice box clean through, which is why he now works with wood instead.
 * Loggle is close to bankruptcy.
 * Hop-Pop reveals that he was like Anne, rough around the edges, in his youth.

Continuity

 * This episode takes place one day after the events of "Best Fronds", and two days after the events of "Anne or Beast?". Anne references the events before the events of the very first episode, and it is unknown that Sprig had just waken up in the basement/Anne's temporary room.
 * Polly still isn't really fond of Anne.
 * Polly's addiction to candy is mentioned again when Anne offers her a candy bar.

Production notes

 * Despite being the first episode produced in production order, it alongside "Flood, Sweat & Tears" are not the first episodes to air.

Allusions

 * "Plain Crazy" - The title "Cane Crazy" is a reference to the phrase "Plain Crazy".
 *  - It is also a reference to "Plane Crazy", the first Mickey Mouse short ever produced (thought it was the fourth one released).
 * "" - The candy bar "Snackers" is a reference to the popular candy brand, "Snickers".

Errors

 * After Sprig inspected the bicycle pump and the toenail clipper, they disappear from the scene.
 * When Anne says she is going to pass on the food, a bit of shading suddenly appears on her chest.
 * When Anne is making fun of Hop Pop, the color of the caterpillar in her soup is different from the previous scene.
 * When Sprig and Polly gasp after Anne broke the cane, Polly's arms are missing.
 * When Anne is holding a Snackers bar, she is holding the Plantar cane in her right hand, although in previous scenes, she was holding it in her left hand.
 * When Sprig says the kids can go to Leopold Loggle's, the bottom left side of his head changes in shape for 2 frames.
 * The line on the button on Sprig's hat disappears as well.
 * Anne says Hop Pop could wake up at any second, and when Sprig and Polly respond, Polly's tail has a dark stripe around the dark purple part of it.
 * When a map is shown with the kids' heads as icons, Sprig's icon is missing the lighter skin color.
 * Also, the map does not match with the one from Leopold Loggle's book.
 * After Anne, Sprig and Polly bump Loggle into his store and close the door, the 'closed' sign on the door is a lot darker for a few frames when the door gets slammed, before changing back to its normal design.
 * The cane Anne put in her skirt is missing during the whole battle with the doom tree.
 * When Polly uses wooden legs, she should not be able to use them, as she does not have any legs of her own yet.
 * When Anne is holding a jar with termites, the lock on the chest Loggle is hiding in is missing.
 * Hop Pop says he wrote a list with comebacks to get Anne back, even though he said earlier that he woke up from the nap he took at the beginning of the episode. However, it could be that he wrote the list before taking a nap.

Edits

 * In the Southeast Asia broadcast, the line "Oh, dang it!" has been cut out.