Anne Boonchuy: Defender of Wartwood.
When a winter cold snap freezes all the frogs in Wartwood, Anne must protect the townspeople.
This episode has examples of:
- Aliens Love Human Food: Polly and Hop Pop immediately love the omelettes that Anne makes for them, and Sprig says that they look good upon seeing his sister and their grandfather eating them—the weasel that Anne encounters also loves it.
- All-Loving Hero: Anne fights the weasel to save Polly, but once she learns that the weasel is ultimately just trying to protect/provide for her babies, Anne gives the omelette she had been saving to her as an alternative to eating frogs.
- Artistic License – Biology: The amphibians are said to "hibernate" by freezing. In real life, the proper term for cold-blooded animals going dormant due to cold weather is "brumation." It also happens comically fast; they turn into solid blocks of ice in the matter of seconds.
- Bait-and-Switch: When the frogs freeze earlier than expected, it seems like the episode's plot is going to focus on Anne trying to protect them while spread all over Wartwood. But Anne immediately discovers how light the frozen citizens are and is able to gather them up fairly easily and quickly, putting them all in the town square as originally planned.
- Bizarre Seasons: Rather than a proper winter lasting for several months, Wartwood gets three chilly days followed by a single snowy day when everyone flash freezes and hibernates. When that day's over, the temperature rises again and everything goes back to normal.
- Calling Me a Logarithm: When Anne says that she's warm-blooded, Sprig assumes it's some kind of Double Entendre and says "That's gross, Anne" until she explains to him and the rest of Wartwood what that means.
- Chekhov's Gun: Anne prepares an omelet at the start of the episode; in the end, she uses the omelet to feed the mother-weasel and her babies, so they won't have to starve or kidnap another villager.
- Cloud Cuckoolander: When Anne thaws Sprig out early, he's stuck for the remainder of the wintertime in a muddled, foggy-headed daze.
- Declaration of Protection: When Anne learns that a citizen of Wartwood always disappears while everyone is frozen, she promises that she will be their protector, as she is warm blooded and will not freeze, so no one will be lost. While she falters halfway through due to boredom, she keeps her promise in the end.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: Sprig's dazed state makes it look like he's had a hangover.
- Double Take: During roll call, Anne doesn't realize Polly is missing until she's already checked her.
- Eats Babies: The weasel takes Polly (a tadpole) as food for its young.
- Furry Reminder: In a bit of Irony, it's the human Anne who gets one of these. As a mammal, she's endothermic and thus, resistant to the cold.
- Harmless Freezing: Freezing does not damage the frogs' bodies at all, and when they thaw out they feel fresh and rejuvenated. This is Truth in Television for frogs who brumate for the winter, surviving sub-zero temperatures — although, of course, it does not happen as instantly as here.
- Human Popsicle: Hiber Day causes the frogs to freeze alive.
- Instant Ice: Just Add Cold!: As the cold arrives, the frogs freeze into blocks of ice in a matter of seconds. This seems to be just a visual, as Anne has no trouble lifting them despite how much weight so much ice would add.
- Monster Is a Mommy: As Anne discovers, the weasel was only kidnapping frogs to feed her babies.
- Oh, Crap!: Anne has this reaction when Sprig, still exhausted, starts to show off the photos Anne took of how they had fun with everyone’s frozen bodies to the townsfolk.
- Sleep Deprivation: Anne thaws Sprig out early, causing him to appear exhausted the rest of the episode.
- Snow Means Cold: Within moments of the temperature going below freezing, a thick blanket of snow falls at once over Wartwood.
- Special Edition Title: The end credit sequence is changed slightly to have snow falling, as well as sleigh bells added to the credits music.
- Wicked Weasel: From the frogs' point of view, the weasel is a dangerous predator that abducts one frog every winter while they are frozen and cannot fight back.
