"Cursed!" is the first segment of the seventeenth episode of the first season of Amphibia, and the thirty third episode overall.
It premiered on July 15, 2019 alongside "Fiddle Me This".[2]
Synopsis
After Anne helps Sprig break up with Maddie, strange things start happening to them as they find out they've been cursed.[2]
Plot
Anne and Sprig are at the farmer's market when the former takes notice of Maddie who is once again acting creepy. Sprig, who is still engaged to her, refuses to talk to her because of how weird she is (and presumably because of his closeness with Ivy). Anne tells Sprig to just break up with her, but he refuses. Anne tries to do it, but she gets creeped out as well. As they plan, they accidentally knock over a pot of blue moon berries belonging to Barry, the friendly candy maker who tells them not to think of it. Anne writes a note (from Sprig) to Maddie and sends it to her. As she reads it, she gives an annoyed glare and leaves. Anne and Sprig are convinced that their problems are finally solved. In a shed in a forest, someone boils a cauldron using the essences belonging to Sprig and Anne where smoke comes out of the cauldron, taking on the form of an evil grin on a frog's face.
The next morning, Sprig awakens to discover that his eyebrows are big and bushy and Anne has feathers growing out of her while she continuously squawks like a bird. Hop Pop deduces that they have been cursed and ask if they made anyone upset at the market yesterday. This causes Anne and Sprig to deduce that Maddie is behind it, thinking she cursed them due to being heartbroken over her breakup with Sprig. Anne suggests they go confront Maddie, but Sprig, too scared to face Maddie, decides to uncurse them himself, but fails every attempt as Sprig slowly becomes an fluffy, hairy orange ball and Anne transforms into a humanoid bird. Having enough, Anne gets Sprig to go along with confronting Maddie and having her break the curse. Just as they are about to leave, Maddie suddenly arrives, being in the middle of her bakery deliveries, and Sprig apologizes for not being direct with her about breaking up. Maddie forgives him, but says that she cannot remove the curse, because she did not cast it. Using her charms, she creates a trail and she, Sprig and Anne follow it.
On the way there, Maddie informs Sprig that just because she gives off a weird vibe does not mean she is bad and that she uses her magic to help others. They find the shed and learn that it belongs to Barry who cursed Anne and Sprig because they spilled his blue moon berries, saying "he may look nice, but he's petty and vengeful on the inside." Barry refuses to lift the curse even after Sprig apologizes for himself and Anne which offends Maddie and they proceed to fight one another, ending with Maddie turning Barry's curse on himself and curing Anne and Sprig. Maddie changes him back after she, Sprig and Anne clean out his candy stock. Afterwards, Sprig and Maddie make up and stay friends. Later that night, Sprig catches Anne eating ants off the floor (from a running gag where she was getting used to eating like a bird).
Cast
- Brenda Song as Anne Boonchuy
- Justin Felbinger as Sprig Plantar
- Bill Farmer as Hop Pop Plantar
- Amanda Leighton as Polly Plantar
- Keith Silverstein as Barry
- Jill Bartlett as Maddie
- Laila Berzins as Sadie Croaker
Additional voices
- Sam Riegel as Kurt
Mentioned
- Sasha Waybright (indirectly)
- Marcy Wu (indirectly)
Title in other languages
| Language | Title | Translation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
 Latin American Spanish
|
¡Hechizados! | Bewitch! | |
 Bulgarian
|
Прокълнати! | Cursed! | |
 German
|
Der Fluch | The Curse | |
 European Spanish
|
¡Malditos! | Cursed! | |
 French
|
Maudits ! | Cursed! | |
 Indonesian
|
Dikutuk! | Cursed! | |
 Italian
|
Sotto l'effetto di un sortilegio | Under the effect of a sorcery | |
 Japanese
|
のろわれたふたり | Two cursed | |
 Korean
|
저주받은 스프랜! | Cursed Spranne! | |
 Dutch
|
Vervloekt! | Cursed! | |
 European Portuguese
|
Amaldiçoados! | Cursed! | |
 Polish
|
Klątwa | The curse | |
 Thai
|
ถูกสาป! | ||
 Vietnamese
|
Bị Nguyền Rủa | Cursed! |
Transcript
| For a full transcript of "Cursed!", click here. |
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Trivia
- Viewership: This episode was watched by 0.47 million viewers on its premiere.[1]
- Sasha and Marcy are mentioned in Anne's lines, "Look, breakups are no big deal. I used to do it for my friends all the time. They called me the breakup queen."
Revelations and significant events
- Anne admits to Sprig that when she was on Earth, breakups were no big deal as she used to do them for Sasha and Marcy all the time and that they would give her nicknames such as the "Breakup Queen" and the "Angel of Death."
- Sprig ends his engagement with Maddie.
- Barry the "Candy Man" practices witchcraft.
- Maddie uses her witchcraft only to help others.
- Barry is turned into a chicken by Maddie.
- He would later return to his normal form.[3]
Continuity
- The Plantar family's stand from "Hop-Popular" reappears.
- Sprig and Maddie up until this episode still had the engagement from "Hop Luck".
Allusions
- Alice in Wonderland - Barry's appearance and mannerisms are reminiscent of the Mad Hatter.
- Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory - Barry bears a resemblance to Willy Wonka, specifically the Gene Wilder version.
- Goosebumps - The plot of the episode is similar to the Goosebumps book Chicken Chicken, where both the characters bump into a person, who puts a curse on the kids for just bumping into him/her.
Errors
- When Anne tells Sprig to go talk to Maddie, Sprig is covered in smoke, but in the next shot, he's clean.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Metcalf, Mitch (July 16, 2019). SHOWBUZZDAILY's Top 150 Monday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 7.15.2019. Showbuzz Daily. Archived from the original on 2019-07-16.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://www.wdtvpress.com/disneychannel/shows/amphibia/episodes/
- ↑ Jenava Mie (writer) and Jenn Strickland (director) (April 2, 2022). "Sasha's Angels". Amphibia. Season 3. Episode 12A. Disney Channel.