They are pretty cute together...
Anne and Hop Pop learn that Sprig may like Ivy Sundew, so they attempt to set them up.
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This episode has examples of:
- Admiring the Abomination: Most frogs can't help but marvel at the love doves' natural grace, beauty, and affection for each other, even as the doves try to hunt them down and eat them.
- Artifact of Doom: The engagement ring Maddie gave Sprig certainly LOOKS the part: creepily skull-shaped with hellish light shining within the eye sockets. Knowing Maddie, it might or might not actually be cursed.
- Continuity Nod: Sprig points out that he couldn't pursue a relationship with Ivy if he wanted to because he's still engaged to Maddie.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: Anne suggestively says "You know what that means" upon Sprig and Ivy sneaking off into the woods, and upon following them, the group finds a trail of discarded clothes.
- Early-Bird Cameo: Albus Duckweed emcees the Firefly Formal four episodes before he gets a name and a proper introduction in “Lily Pad Thai”.
- Feathered Fiend: The love doves. Like most of the wildlife, they try and eat frogs.
- Freeze-Frame Bonus: In a rather surprising example for a Disney show, one frame early in the episode reveals Anne wears grey shorts underneath her skirt as seen on the right of this picture
◊. - Jerkass Has a Point: Polly, who is normally the most aggressive of the main cast, makes several sensible arguments throughout the episode:
- She correctly points out that Hop Pop's desire for Sprig to be in a relationship with Ivy is downright selfish and greedy, as Hop Pop makes clear that a union between their family and the Sundews will make them wealthy without giving much thought about Sprig's opinion over the matter.
- When Sprig and Ivy decide to abandon the mating ceremony and run off into the forest, she argues that the two should just be left alone to enjoy each other's company as friends instead of being pressured into a romantic relationship against their wills, which unfortunately is dismissed by Anne, Hop Pop, and Felicia.
- As they are being prepared to be eaten by the love doves and Hop Pop and Felicia start blaming each other's offspring for their current predicament while Anne tries looking back at her magazine for solutions, Polly finally gets fed up with their behavior and being brushed off throughout the episode and lividly calls the three out for getting them into the mess they're in due to their respective greed and over-reliance on dating articles driving them to push Sprig and Ivy into a relationship for their own selfish reasons.
- Just Friends: Sprig insists that he and Ivy are just friends and don't want to date each other yet. By the end, though, he admits to being in love with her.
- Here We Go Again!: This and Aesop Amnesia, as after Hop Pop decides to leave Sprig alone until he's ready for relationships, he decides to focus on finding love for Polly.
- Marriage of Convenience: Felicia and Hop Pop try to pair Ivy and Sprig together so, in exchange for getting Sprig as an employee at her restaurant, Sylvia agrees to let Hop Pop have some seeds to her family's vegetables.Hop Pop: The Sundews have secret proprietary crops! Do you have any idea what that means?!
Sprig: Uhhhhh....
Hop Pop: If our families merge... WE'LL BE RICH!!!! - The Matchmaker: Anne, Hop Pop, and Felicia Sundew become this in order to set Sprig up with Ivy.
- Mix-and-Match Critters: One of Anne's magazines has a cat-bat hybrid on its cover.
- Only Sane Man: Polly is the one taking up this role for the episode; she's the only one suggesting that they should leave Ivy and Sprig alone instead of forcing them into a romantic relationship.
- Perfectly Arranged Marriage: Ivy and Sprig shows signs of romantic interest in each other, which inspires their families to drive them to getting engaged, but rushing it threatens to keep the kids from even being friends. Sprig only realizes he loves Ivy after the arrangement is called off.
- Portmanteau Couple Name: In-Universe; Anne tries to come up with one for Sprig and Ivy. The ones she comes up with (eg. Sprigivy) she decides are horrible.
- Rage Breaking Point: Polly ends up reaching hers when the nonsense from Hop Pop, Felicia and Anne playing matchmakers gets the four of them captured by love doves for consumption and they start blaming one another for their situation, upon which she snaps like a twig and call the three out for their selfishness and naivety.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Polly angrily tells off Hop Pop, Anne, and Felicia for setting up Ivy and Sprig for their own selfish reasons and not caring about what they think.
- Repeated for Emphasis: Anne does this every time she quotes her magazines. Every Time!
- Shipper on Deck: Anne, so much.
- Shout-Out: The centerfold in one of Anne’s magazines reads “kiss kiss fall in love” referencing the theme song for Ouran High School Host Club
- Strange Minds Think Alike: Sprig and Ivy playfully enjoy a little combat training as though it were but a game of tag or hide-and-seek.
- Take That!: "It says [in the dating magazine] our relationships define us and nothing else. Nothing ELSE!"
- Unholy Matrimony: The love doves.Hop Pop: [whispering] Love doves! Don't move or we're dead!
Anne: What? I thought they were all romantic and mate for life!
Hop Pop: Yeah! And they spend that life massacring all living things!
