"Truck Stop Polly" is the first segment of the third episode of the second season of Amphibia, and the forty-fourth episode overall.[3]
It premiered on July 25, 2020, alongside "A Caravan Named Desire".
Synopsis
Feeling unappreciated, Polly hatches a plan to make the family pay attention to her.[4]
Plot
It's nighttime on the road to Newtopia. In the fwagon, Polly begins feeling homesick upon realizing the long journey ahead, mistaking a lump of wood for Mrs. Croaker and getting scared when a giant eel hits the window. To make herself feel better, she tries to initiate family activities with the others like story-time. However, Hop Pop falls asleep while reading her a bedtime story. She then tries to get Sprig's attention while he and Anne are driving, but her distraction causes Sprig to lose the map and Anne to nearly crash off the side. After Hop Pop sends the kids inside to check on their rations, their food supply withers when Polly floods the fwagon with bath water. Anne and Sprig are drenched, and Hop Pop bursts inside wondering what the noise is. Hearing Hop Pop complain that he's too tired, Polly tries to wake him up with a game of zap tag, but because the fwagon's interior is covered in water, she accidentally zaps Anne and Sprig as well. With everyone in bad spirits, they decide to make a pit stop to rest and refuel.
At the truck stop, Polly overhears her family talking about how unruly she's being, with Hop Pop even stating he should have left Polly home. Offended, Polly runs off, not staying to hear the rest of them agreeing they're being too hard on Polly. She decides to get back at them using a pink stone reminiscent of her and switches places with it. Instead of the family freaking out, however, they instead leave immediately, believing that the fake Polly's asleep and don't want to wake her. At the truck stop diner, Polly voices her frustrations to the trucker venue, where said truckers provide an accurate diagnosis of Polly's familial troubles in a mature way, much to Polly's surprise who was hoping for more rough and tough truckers. Just then, another trucker enters inquiring about the pink stone, as the stone is actually the egg of a roc, a colossal bird that devours Amphibians. Realizing the family is in danger, Polly and Soggy Joe race off to rescue them.
Back at the fwagon, Anne, Sprig, and Hop Pop discover the fake and that Polly has been left behind, but at that moment, the egg hatches into a giant roc that destroys their fwagon. Soggy Joe and Polly arrive in time to witness the roc ascend. Polly rubs herself on Soggy Joe's bee fur seating to create electricity and launches herself at the roc, electrocuting it, and driving it away. Reunited with her family, Polly apologizes for her actions and Anne, Sprig, and Hop Pop also apologize for the way they treated her, as they also miss home and they need to stick together. Soggy Joe offers to tow them the next stop to repair their fwagon. On the ride, the family sits in the fwagon reading a bedtime story together for Polly.
Cast
- Brenda Song as Anne Boonchuy
- Justin Felbinger as Sprig Plantar
- Bill Farmer as Hop Pop Plantar
- Amanda Leighton as Polly Plantar
- Fred Tatasciore as Soggy Joe
Additional voices
- Dee Bradley Baker as Bessie & Green male trucker
- Eden Riegel as Female Trucker
- Sam Riegel as Bird Seller Trucker
- Fred Tatasciore as Bartender
Mentioned
Title in other languages
| Language | Title | Translation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
 Latin American Spanish
|
Rescatando a Polly | Rescuing Polly | |
 Bulgarian
|
Опасната Поли | The dangerous Polly | |
 German
|
Wo ist Polly? | Where is Polly? | |
 European Spanish
|
Polly y el área de descanso | Polly and the rest area | |
 French
|
Camion Stop Polly | Truck Stop Polly | |
 Italian
|
Polly e la stazione di servizio | Polly and the service station | |
 Japanese
|
ポリーの嘆き | Polly's lament | |
 Korean
|
폴리의 홀로서기 | Polly Stands Alone | |
 Dutch
|
Trucker Polly | Trucker Polly | |
 European Portuguese
|
Polly Camionista | Trucker Polly | |
 Polish
|
Polcia na gigancie | Polly on the run | |
 Thai
|
แวะทิ้งพอลลี่ | ||
 Vietnamese
|
Trạm Dừng Polly | Truck Stop Polly |
Transcript
| For a full transcript of "Truck Stop Polly", click here. |
Gallery
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Trivia
- Viewership: This episode was watched by 0.44 million viewers on its premiere.[2]
- The map Sprig and Anne used while driving the wagon is smaller than the one Polly looks at inside the wagon.
- This is the only episode in which Amphibia's moon is in a gibbous phase.
- At the beginning of the episode, Polly sits at the window of the family wagon, as she does during the Season 2 credits sequence.
- Newtopia is mentioned on a sign at the truck stop.
Revelations and significant events
- Polly's middle name is revealed to be Petunia.
- The book Fergus Frog Finds a Friend has a message on the first page saying "For Sprig, ♡ mom."
- This is the first mention of Sprig and Polly's mother.
- Everyone except Polly gets electrocuted just like back in "Taking Charge".
Continuity
- The Plantars still call their family wagon a "fwagon."
- Anne calls it a "fwagon" too, even though she disliked doing so in "Handy Anne".
- The map seen at the episode's start features many locations from past episodes, such as the South Tower, the underground factories from "Fort in the Road" and the desert seen in "The Ballad of Hopediah Plantar".
- Notably, the South Tower is shown to be to the northeast of Wartwood, on this map, but both the maps of the Valley shown in "Anne or Beast?" and "Reunion" (the latter of which had a compass rose) depict the tower to the northwest of Wartwood.
Allusions
- War and Peace - One of the books is named Wart and Peace, after the 1869 historical novel by Leo Tolstoy.
- The Great Gatsby - Another book is named The Great Gnatsby, after the 1925 tragedy novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
- Fergus Finds a Friend - The book Polly wants to read is named Fergus Frog Finds a Friend, after the 2010 children book, but its story is based on crime drama.
References
- ↑ Garner-Flexner, Andy. "Color design's file names". Andy Garner-Flexner's website.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Metcalf, Mitch (July 28, 2020). Top 150 Saturday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 7.25.2020. Showbuzz Daily. Archived from the original on 2020-07-28.
- ↑ https://twitter.com/DisneyTVA/status/1275473688796844032/photo/1
- ↑ [1]