"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".[3]
Synopsis
When Anne breaks Hop Pop's favorite cane, she, Sprig, and Polly set out to replace it.[4]
Plot
One morning when Hop Pop serves breakfast, Anne decides not to eat since the food he prepared seems nasty and gruesome. Hop Pop asks if the food isn't good enough for the "princess", and Anne replies by roasting Hop Pop, which Sprig and Polly enjoy. He becomes angry and frustrated at Anne and goes off to take a nap, stating that if this keeps up he'll "throw her out". 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 himself. As a result, Anne requests Sprig and Polly's help to fix it. Sprig agrees, but Polly turns down the request, on the feeble grounds that she barely knows Anne. She quickly relents when Anne bribes her with candy from Earth.
Anne, Sprig, and Polly meeting with Leopold Loggle.
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 doesn'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.
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.
Anne, Sprig, and Polly being chased by a giant walking stick insect.
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 as punishment for breaking his cane 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
Title in other languages
| Language | Title | Translation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
 Latin American Spanish
|
Un Bastón Especial | A Special Stick | |
 Bulgarian
|
Бастунът | The cane | |
 Czech
|
Tajemná húl | Mysterious Stick | |
 German
|
Der schräge Schreiner | The weird Carpenter | |
 European Spanish
|
Locura de Bastón | Madness of Stick | |
 French
|
La canne sacrée et l'arbre maudit | The sacred cane and the cursed tree | |
 Indonesian
|
Gila Tongkat | Being Crazy of Cane | |
 Hebrew
|
קנה רצוץ | Broken Cane | |
 Italian
|
Il Bastone di Hop Pop | The Cane of Hop Pop | |
 Japanese
|
だいじなつえ | Cane Crazy | |
 Korean
|
지팡이 대소동 | Cane Turmoil | |
 Dutch
|
Stokje steken | Sticking a Cane | |
 European Portuguese
|
Bengala Louca | Crazy Cane | |
 Polish
|
Laska | Cane | |
 Russian
|
Погоня за тростью | Сane Сhase | |
 Thai
|
ไม้เท้าบ้าบอ | Crazy Wand | |
 Vietnamese
|
Tìm Gậy Thay Thế | Find Replacement Stick |
Transcript
| For a full transcript of "Cane Crazy", click here. |
Gallery
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Trivia
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Due to a scheduling shift, “True Colors” will not premiere this Saturday. Stay tuned for the new date and time! #Amphibia Apr 30, 2021[5] |
- Viewership: This episode was watched by 0.46 million viewers on its premiere.[1]
- A screenshot from this episode was used alongside a tweet from Disney Television Animation about the postponement of the airdate of "True Colors".
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.
- It's mentioned and established 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 has been passed down for 3 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 smithing 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?". 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.
- In the original script published on the Amphibi-crew Tumblr blog, the scene in Loggle's store was different from the final draft.[6]
- In the original script, Loggle wouldn't have talked about his smithing accident, and his current way of talking would have come from sawdust in his thorat.
- Loggle wouldn't have wanted to give the map not because of money, but because of the dangers of the journey.
- After Anne, Sprig and Polly leave the store, Loggle would have found a cane that was an exact copy of the one that Anne broke.
Allusions
- "Plain Crazy" - The title "Cane Crazy" is a reference to the phrase "Plain Crazy".
- Mickey Mouse - It is also a reference to "Plane Crazy", the first Mickey Mouse short ever produced (though it was the fourth one released).
- Snickers - The candy bar Snackers is a reference to the popular candy brand Snickers.
- Pokémon - The Doom Tree is very similar to the Imitation Pokémon Sudowoodo; a monster that disguises itself as a tree, but comes to life and attacks once disturbed.
Errors
- After Sprig inspects 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.
Some shading appearing on Anne's chest for a few frames.
- 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.
Polly is missing her arms.
- 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.
The lock on the chest 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.
Memorable quotes
Videos
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Metcalf, Mitch (June 19, 2019). SHOWBUZZDAILY's Top 150 Tuesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 6.18.2019. Showbuzz Daily. Archived from the original on June 19, 2019.
- ↑ https://twitter.com/AmphibiaWikia/status/1156663615463809026
- ↑ DTVA News [@DisneyTVANews] (May 22, 2019). "Anne or Beast?/Best Fronds 17/6/19 Cane Crazy/Flood, Sweat & Tears 18/6/19 Hop Luck/Stakeout 19/6/19 The Domino Effect/Taking Charge 20/6/19" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ↑ June 2019 Programming Highlights. Disney Television Animation. Archived from the original on June 1, 2019.
- ↑ Disney TVA [@DisneyTVA] (Apr 30, 2021). "Due to a scheduling shift, “True Colors” will not premiere this Saturday. Stay tuned for the new date and time! #Amphibia" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 2021-04-30 – via Twitter.
- ↑ Braly, Matt (July 7, 2019). "03 - Cane Crazy" (Post). Tumblr. Amphibi-crew Tumblr blog.