History Recap / AmphibiaS3E05AdventuresInCatsitting

* AnAesop: Asking for help and freeloading are not the same thing. Never be afraid to ask for help when you ''really'' need it, especially when something goes wrong, and especially if you're unfamiliar with a situation.

* CompanyCrossReferences: One of the dogs at the vet's looks very similar to [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory1 Sid Philips' dog, Scud.

* DemotedToExtra: Anne only appears at the beginning and the end of the episode, due to her having to go to the dentist.

* NotHelpingYourCase: As her mother is pulling her to the car to take her to the dentist, Anne protests that her teeth ''only hurt a little bit''.

* SuddenlyAlwaysKnewThat: Polly somehow knows what a burner phone is when offered Mr. Boonchuy's flip phone. Given that "Thai Feud" showed she and Hop Pop were enjoying Earth movies and series around the house, it's possible she's picked up a partial understanding of aspects of Earth life through the media.

** Polly has a silent version as she sees a chihuahua in the vets gnawing on a chew toy that resembles her, realizing that the much-larger canines that are in the same room could potentially give her a worse mauling if their attention is turn to her than Domino gave the three Plantars all at once.

* FireAlarmDistraction: The Plantars find Domino in a shwarma stand filled with customers, and they need to get him out of there without exposing themselves to the humans. Hop Pop gets the brilliant idea of [[VoiceChangeling mimicking the sound of a fire alarm]] to draw the people out of the stand thinking that there's a fire in the building.

* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: After learning they've been with the Boonchuys for a week, Hop Pop worries about becoming a "freeloader" like "Cousin Stanley", a (probably phony) distant relative who stayed with him for months on end until he, Sprig, and Polly got fed up and threw him into the swamp from a second-story window. {{Subverted|Trope}} in regards to the Plantars themselves, as Anne's parents are more than happy to care for them after [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe they cared for Anne in their own world]].

Anne is looking for some article about interdimensional portals on the internet, while the Plantars are happy to be living in the lap of luxury, with Hop Pop commenting on the two days they've been on Earth, only to be reminded by Sprig that they've been there for a week. Hop Pop declares themselves a "freeloader" and compares themselves to Cousin Stanley, a "relative" who had long ago been a freeloader on their farm and who they ended up literally throwing out the window. Mrs. Boonchuy arrives to tell Anne that they are going to the dentist to have her teeth checked, but this coincides with a vet appointment Anne had made for her cat, Domino. Mr. Boonchuy can't take the cat, because he has to work at the Restaurant. So the Plantars, in an attempt not to look like freeloaders, offer to help by taking Domino to the vet.

So, the Plantars try and round up the cat and get her into a travel case, which proves to be more difficult than they originally thought. The group puts on their disguises and ventures forth to take her to the vet with the help of a few tools from the Boonchuys, like a cell phone. They watch the local humans take the bus and follow the same actions they observe and climb aboard, but when the bus takes off, Hop Pop tries to latch on to something by shooting his tongue but ends up accidentally licking everyone on board, getting the group kicked off the bus.

Their quest continues and they finally end up at the vet's office, full of suspecting animals barking and hissing at them while they are disguised. Sprig also notices someone's pet frog and has a brief moment of connection with his brethren.

Domino is seen, but the Vet himself is bombarded with questions from the Plantars about back pain and frogs and their abilities, puzzling the doctor. As they leave, Domino unlatches her travel carrier and sneaks away, inevitably causing the frog family to panic to a point where Sprig calls Mr. Boonchuy and tells him they lost the cat, much to Hop Pop's chagrin.

Mr. Boonchuy tell them to go to the nearest Shawarma restaurant, as it is her favorite food. That's where they find her, to the delight of all the customers inside, where the owner of the restaurant says aloud that the cat is a customer magnet and he's never getting rid of her. The family sees a smoke detector inside the restaurant and Hop Pop replicates the high pitched alarm, evacuating the restaurant. Polly rolls around, pretending to be a ball of yarn to entice the cat back into her travel carrier, and as the fire department approaches, so does Mr. Boonchuy, who says he'll drop the group back at home on his way to the restaurant.

Hop Pop feels bad that he has to go out of his way again for the Plantars, calling himself a freeloader. Mr. Boonchuy stops the scooter and says to them that they took his daughter into their home when she was most in need, and kept her safe and fed her for five months. The Plantars will never be freeloaders.

They get back home just before Anne and her Mom show up, with Anne clearly under the influence of some pretty strong dentist medication, dreamily babbling complete nonsense while squeezing Hop Pop's cheeks. Mrs. Boonchuy explains that Anne had "eight cavities and a whole lot of cricket legs". The Boonchuys leave the loopy Anne with the Plantars as Hop Pop begs the human girl to let go of his face while Domino is seen casually licking herself.

-->'''Anne''': Listen. Domino is not just a cat. She's the alpha and omega. An inter-dimensional being beyond all time and space.

* DestinationDefenestration: When the Plantars hand enough of Cousin Stanley, they throw him out a second story window, and into the swamp.