History Recap / AmphibiaS3E08FixingFrobo

--->'''Anne''': I can't believe you guys prefer the prequels.

* IgnoredEpiphany: At the end of the episode, Hop Pop suggests to Anne and Sprig that maybe they should use the internet for more constructive purposes instead of watching cat videos all the time. They end up doing the latter instead.

'''Sprig:''' (''whips out Anne's Phone'') [[IgnoredEpiphany Did someone say cat videos!?]] \\

* CompanyCrossReferences: In Anne's garage, there is a head that looks like [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls Stan Pines]].

* {{Facepalm}}: Mr. Boonchuy does a double facepalm after Polly last attempt to fix Frobo, caused a blackout that costed him 10 hours for boss fight.
* HeroicSacrifice: When Frobo's haphazard body proves incapable of arresting his fall, he shoves Polly in his chest compartment to protect her from the crash.

* IgnoredExpert: The IT Girls advise Polly against turning Frobo on in her garage, citing safety concerns, but she ignores them. Fortunately, they tracked down her location, and came knowing that she was probably going to blow up the house.

* TheInternetIsForCats: Zigzagged. Anne shows Hop Pop and Sprig that the internet is full of cat videos, with the three of them getting hooked on them, but Polly's focus on finding a way to repair Frobo asap means she actually uses internet access for ''learning'' robotics and engineering, with the episode's end noting how much more capable she's become from her efforts.

'''Sprig:''' (''Whips out Anne's Phone'') [[IgnoredEpiphany Did someone say cat videos!?]] \\
'''Hop Pop:''' (''As the trio start watching and dancing along to a goofy cat dance video'') Ain't that cute?
* InstantExpert: PlayedWith. Polly's haphazard attempts to fix Frobo don't succeed at first, but receiving instruction on robotics from online Youtube videos give her a better understanding of how his internal systems and electronics fit together, and at the end of the episode she's able to have a {{Technobabble}} discussion with the IT girls over Frobo's systems, with Anne {{Lampshading}} how fast she's learned engineering.

*** While Polly is browsing [=YouTube=], one of the videos she scrolls past is a Best of [[WebVideo/GameGrumps Angry Gamers]] Compilation video, complete with a similarly styled logo.

* TakeThat: Anne is watching, along with Sprig and Hop Pop, a Star Wars {{Expy}} prequel. Anne complains how they can like them when compared to the originals.

* ThisIsReality: The IT girls say that because of how big Frobo is, he can't be activated in a garage. Otherwise, he'll set the whole place on fire. Polly brushes them off, but finds out too late that they were right-- if anything, the damage [[DoAnythingRobot Frobo]] is capable of, even in his junked state, ''far'' outstrips what the girls assumed
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The season 3 promotional poster prominently showcases an active Frobo, with his usual eyes instead of his [[UhOhEyes blue factory default]] peepers, showing that Polly will be successful in restoring Frobo to his old self, even after he appears to have been killed once more by episode's end. Furthermore, it also shows Frobo's going to be reconfigured into an RC-car esque form, spoiling that Polly's attempts to restore him to his original look wouldn't be fully successful, and that his remaining amphibia-robot parts they managed to drag through the portal with them would also be scrapped somehow.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: The IT girls offhandedly comment that they noticed Polly had a tail in their video chat, but they apparently end up overlooking it in favour of the life-threatening danger she gets herself into and getting to geek out over Frobo's technology.

* AbsenteeActor: This is the the first episode in Season 3 where Mrs. Boonchuy doesn't appear.

** Polly's Zoom with the IT Girls uses Anna's account of "[[Recap/AmphibiaS2E11MarcyAtTheGates Anna_Banana]]".

* VerbalBackspace: To cheer Polly up when she first can't revive Frobo, Anne shows her Teddy Lumpkins, a creepy doll that used to be ''her'' robot friend. It creepily says, "I eat eyes." This freaks the others out, until the toy clarifies, "I eat ice cream."