"The Dinner" is the first segment of the nineteenth episode of the second season of Amphibia, and the seventy-third overall.[4]
It premiered on April 24, 2021, alongside "Battle of the Bands".
Synopsis
Anne and the Plantars invite some old adversaries over for dinner to try to bury the hatchet.
Plot
Sasha assuring Grime that she can pull it off.
One evening, the Plantars busy themselves setting up a nice dinner to welcome Sasha back (along with Grime), but are still hesitant because of her trying to killing them. Anne insists that she and Marcy trust Sasha and they believe she truly has changed.
Polly: Human friendships are loud!
At Felicia's tea shop, where they're staying, Grime instructs Sasha to keep up the nice act for their plan to gain her friends' trust so they can get into Newtopia to enact their plan of rebellion; Sasha is confident that she already has Anne and Marcy in the palm of her hands after the third temple and once they conquer Amphibia, she can get her friendship with the girls under her control once again. When they arrive for the dinner, Anne, Sasha and Marcy are all elated to be together again. Grime has brought a devastatingly delicious dessert, an exploding chocolate vol-cake-no, which will result in a cataclysmic explosion of chocolatey goodness.
Everyone enjoying their dinner.
Over dinner, there are a few Amphibia cultural faux pas, with Grime asking what frogs the Plantars (who are frogs themselves) extort for their delicious produce, and Hop Pop's toad-based jokes (though Grime actually finds it quite funny). During dinner, Sasha is actually impressed by Hop Pop's cooking, then she and the girls reminisce about the time they skipped theater rehearsal to throw a wild party on the school roof, but things get awkward for Sasha when she's reminded that Anne took the blame and got punished when they got caught.
Sasha with her hair down.
Hop Pop suggests the group play a rousing game of Drawsidoodle (which is basically Pictionary with a different name). While playing, we see Grime and Hop Pop getting along rather well, while Sasha buckles under the pressure of seeing how well Marcy and Anne were getting on without her presence. When it's her turn to draw, we get a rapid-fire succession of memories about the fall of Toad Tower, each hitting nerves with Sasha and even Grime, but it turns out that her drawing was of a simple tree.
Just then the vol-cake-no Grime brought over grows to epic proportions and hot chocolate lava comes pouring out everywhere. As a result, Grime explains that toads have a grand battle during dessert and gets stung and paralyzed by giant hornets that start flying out of the cake. As the hornets begin swarming all around everyone, the human girls work together when they discover they can penetrate the insects' hard exoskeletons with their own stingers. After they defeat the hornets and toss them all into the chocolate just before it hardens, Sasha apologizes and explains she is not sure she wants to change because she likes the way she is. Anne then tells Sasha that while she knows it is difficult for her to change, she needs to accept the fact that Anne has done so. Sasha does see the truth in what Anne is saying and hugs her.
Grime awakens after his paralysis wears off and he introduces everyone to the chocolate covered hornets and find that they are quite delicious.
Cast
- Brenda Song as Anne Boonchuy
- Justin Felbinger as Sprig Plantar
- Bill Farmer as Hop Pop Plantar
- Amanda Leighton as Polly Plantar
- Haley Tju as Marcy Wu
- Troy Baker as Captain Grime
- Anna Akana as Sasha Waybright
Non-speaking cameo
Mentioned
Title in other languages
| Language | Title | Translation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
 Latin American Spanish
|
La cena | The Dinner | |
 Bulgarian
|
Вечерята | The Dinner | |
 German
|
Das Dinner | The dinner | |
 European Spanish
|
La cena | The Dinner | |
 Italian
|
La Cena | The Dinner | |
 Japanese
|
ディナー | Dinner | |
 Korean
|
저녁 식사 | Dinner | |
 Dutch
|
Het Etentje | The Dinner | |
 European Portuguese
|
O Jantar | The Dinner | |
 Polish
|
Kolacja | The Dinner | |
 Russian
|
Званый ужин | Dinner party | |
 Thai
|
มื้อค่ำ | ||
 Vietnamese
|
Bữa Tối | The Dinner |
Transcript
| For a full transcript of "The Dinner", click here. |
Gallery
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Trivia
- Viewership: This episode was watched by 0.37 million viewers on its premiere.[2]
- This is the first time Sasha is shown with her hair down.
- This episode (along with "Battle of the Bands") was later uploaded to YouTube on September 6, 2021,[5][6] making these the third episodes (following "Anne or Beast?"/"Best Fronds" and "Prison Break") to later be uploaded in full to YouTube.
- However, the video has since been made private.
- This, "New Wartwood" and "Battle of the Bands" are the only episodes in which Marcy enters the Plantar Farm.
- This episode marks Marcy's last speaking appearance in the first segment of an episode.
- This is Marcy's penultimate appearance in such an episode at all, followed only by "Fixing Frobo".
- This is the last episode in which the South Tower is mentioned, although it appears in a flashback in "True Colors" and the credits sequence for "The Hardest Thing".
- "No Big Deal" is heard briefly during the hornet battle before it is introduced properly in the following episode.
- According to the footnotes of Marcy's Journal: A Guide to Amphibia, Chuck rebuilt the Plantar home following the aftermath of the battle.
Revelations and significant events
- Sasha and Grime are now living with Felicia in her Tea Shoppe while staying in Wartwood.
- Sasha keeps several daggers in her armor.
- Sasha once made Anne and Marcy have a party on the school roof which Anne took the blame for and got grounded for a month.
- The Saint James Middle School band once got stuck under a stage at a pep rally.
Continuity
- Sasha mentions the events of the previous episode.
- The Plantars constantly remind Sasha and Grime about the assassination attempt against Hop Pop, the destruction of the South Tower and Sasha's suicide attempt in "Reunion".
- Anne and Marcy mention the ant queen from "Marcy at the Gates".
- Anne wears the same dress as in "Lily Pad Thai", albeit in different colors and with flats.
- Marcy tries to stop Anne and Sasha's fight by stating that they are "supposed to be friends for life" who "don't split up," foreshadowing Marcy's true intentions with the Calamity Box that would be exposed at the end of the season.
Errors
- When Sasha and Grime get ready for the dinner and Sasha sits on a chair, the red lines on her boots are missing.
- The darker spot on Sprig's head is missing for the entirety of the episode.
- Continuity error: Although Polly mentions that Hop Pop knows his way around the kitchen, "Hop Luck" and "Amphibia Food!" show that he is in fact bad at cooking. Although it is possible he's improved his cooking skills since then.
Memorable quotes
References
- ↑ Garner-Flexner, Andy. "Color design's file names". Andy Garner-Flexner's website.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Metcalf, Mitch (April 27, 2021). Top 150 Saturday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 4.24.2021. Showbuzz Daily. Archived from the original on 2021-04-27.
- ↑ https://twitter.com/disneychanneljp/status/1485862498179764236
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Radrappy/status/1342200463882522624
- ↑ Disney Channel (September 6, 2021). "The Dinner / Battle of the Bands | S2 E19 | Full Episode | Amphibia | Disney Channel Animation" (Video) (English). YouTube. Disney Channel YouTube channel.
- ↑ Disney Animation Promos [@DisneyAPromos] (September 6, 2021). "The 'AMPHIBIA' episode "The Dinner/ Battle of the Bands" is now available on YouTube for free.
Watch: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ExAKiS4t3Kc" (Tweet). Twitter. Archived from the original on 2021-09-06. Retrieved on 2022-05-04.