Temple Frogs

Amphibia
"Temple Frogs"

Season 3

Number 4B

Episode information

Written by

Gloria Shen

Storyboards by

Inbal Breda
Cassie Zwart

Directed by

Jenn Strickland

Original airdate

October 23, 2021

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"Temple Frogs" is the second segment of the forty-fourth episode of Amphibia.

Synopsis[]

The Boonchuys take the Plantars to the Thai Temple, but Anne tries to sneak out of the temple so she can meet up with Dr. Jan. Meanwhile, a dangerous enemy plots a surprise attack.

Plot[]

Anne gets a message from Dr. Jan about her discovery and prepares to drag the Plantars to the museum to find out what it is. However, her parents stop her to inform her that they will be heading to the Thai Temple to exchange food, as well as return some dishes. Anne refuses to go, but she is not given any option whatsoever, especially when the Plantars appear to be more interested in wanting to go to the temple to see what they have to offer. This is especially difficult, given Anne's five month absence and her fellow classmates trying to snap photos of her. Mrs. Boonchuy tells her that she simply needs to stay for one hour and then she can go to the museum.

At the temple, Anne believes that the Plantars will grow bored, but allows them to roam. She starts offering food samples and gets hounded by acquaintances and friends who have not seen her. In the meantime, Polly enters a Thai language class and is revealed to be very fluent for the other kids; Hop Pop discovers khon dance and finally gets appreciation for his own dance moves while Sprig comes across a game of Sepak takraw (kick volleyball) and is shown to be a natural. Anne grows frustrated with the time and sneaks away. As she prepares to get the Plantars, she is surprised at how much they enjoy being involved with Thai culture and decides to leave them be while she steps out.

Anne runs into her mother who scolds her for sneaking away. It is revealed that the dishes she was returning were from their neighbors who were comforting her after Anne's disappearance. Realizing she was being a jerk, Anne apologizes, only for the temple to be attacked by dragonfly drones from the Cloak-Bot. Anne, claiming that they are from her middle school, fights them off with the Plantars, but are joined by the rest of the community who help her. They too, see the Plantars' true self, but agree to keep it a secret. Anne decides to stay, when Dr. Jan arrives with the jar and hidden message. Using Marcy's journal, they learn the message says "Seek the Mother of Olms she will guide you to your destiny", but they do not know what it means.

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
Eden Riegel as Thai Kid Student, Orange Shirt Female Customer, Anne Impersonator
Sumalee Montano as Banee
Quincy Surasmith as Red Team Sepaktakraw Male Player, Glasses Male Customer
Matt Braly as Thai Dancer Leader, Impressed Thai Dancer, White Team Sepaktakraw Player
Alisa Allapach as Thai Teacher, Red Team Sepaktakraw Female Player
Lakkhana Naksiri as Papu, Purple Dress Old Lady

Additional voices[]

Stephanie Sheh
Courtenay Taylor
Steve Blum
Patrick Seitz
Georgia Kidder
Jennifer Hale

Trivia[]

This episode continues immediately after the previous one.
Polly is revealed to have easily picked up Thai language from watching Thai romance films.
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
Anne can understand Thai fluently, but has trouble speaking it aloud. This is called Receptive Bilingualism.
One of the children in the Thai class who coughed out "Show Off" is wearing a t-shirt featuring the Mickey Mouse icon.
The message on the museum jar translates as: "Seek the Mother of Olms she will guide you to your destiny".
The Thai temple is based off of a real location in L.A. called the Wat Thai of Los Angeles.
The Thai community learns the Plantars’ true self but agree to keep it a secret, the second person(s) to know and become an ally to the Plantars like Dr. Jan in the previous episode.
The close-up of the Plantars was almost realistic. The close-up of Sprig looks like one of the frogs from the animated Netflix show Kulipari.
Anne is seen with Marcy's notebook, but how or when she ended up with it has yet to be revealed. However, in "Marcy's Journal: A Field Guide to Amphibia", Marcy put the journal in her backpack. Even though Marcy was in a coma & healing in the rejuvenation tank back in Amphibia, her journal was able to help Anne & the Plantars solve something.

Goofs[]

In the credits, Lakkhana Naksiri's last name is misspelled as Narksiri.
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 chases him.