Anne and the Plantars invite some old adversaries over for dinner to try to bury the hatchet.
Full Recap
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Tropes:
- Accidental Misnaming: Grime refers to Marcy as "... I want to say, Marsha.note "
- Ahem: Both Sasha and Grime do this mixed with coughing when the former tries to take Sprig's spot in the dinner table. It's enough to make Hop Pop ask if anyone needs a cough drop.
- Beyond the Impossible: It should not only be impossible for Sasha to fit that many daggers into her boot, but as Grime asks, she would have extreme difficulty walking, including the risk of hurting herself.
- Big "NO!": After Grimes explains how the "vol-cake-no" is a common dessert for toadkind, which includes molten chocolate and battling angry giant hornets, he asks if frogs don't do that, with everyone else (including Sasha and Marcy, who have spent the least time among frogs) shouting "No!" at him in response.
- Both Sides Have a Point: Sasha is not wrong when she points out the Plantars are being rude and borderline hostile to her. However, as Anne points out, Sasha literally tried to kill them a few weeks ago. The fact that they're even attempting to act civil and let her into their home for a meal is already rather magnanimous of them.
- Call-Back: Marcy and Anne compare Grime's poor drawing to the barberiants they fought outside of Newtopia in "Marcy at the Gates". Sasha, who wasn't there, is left a bit in the dark.
- The Cameo: Felicia is seen outside her tea shop where Sasha and Grime are staying.
- Cringe Comedy: The whole episode is Sasha and Grime awkwardly trying to get along with the Plantars (and vice versa).
- Culture Clash: The Plantars misinterpret Grime's Vol-cake-no as payback for Wartwood's destroying of Toad Tower, but according to him, it's a common dessert for toads. The partygoers are usually meant to kill the hornets inside and let them fall in the molten chocolate, so that once it cools they can eat the chocolate coated hornets. Nobody, not even Sasha, knew this was normal for toads until he explains just as the cake begins pouring out chocolate.
- Devious Daggers: Grime tells Sasha to leave behind her knives, after protesting she might need them. She removes several from various parts of her clothing before dumping an entire pile from her boot. And she still has one to fight the hornets hidden in her scrunchie.
- Dunce Cap: As punishment for no one guessing the drawing correctly in Draws-a-Doodle, the drawer must sit in the corner and wear a dunce cap.
- Extended Disarming: Grime orders Sasha to leave behind her sword and "the hidden daggers", which include ones hidden under her cloak, in her hair, and a bunch somehow hidden in her right boot.Grime: [incredulously] How did you even walk?
- Fantastic Racism: Both Grime and Hop Pop show off a lot of casual racism toward each others' species.
- Freeze-Frame Bonus: When Grime excitedly smashed the dinner table from news of Draw-A-Doodle, he sends everyone else flying off of their seats. While most of them look shocked, Sasha is briefly seen just looking at Grime with a quizzical raised eyebrow.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: The hornets have tough hides that can only be pierced by their own stingers. The girls work together to collect and fire them back using Marcy's crossbow.
- Hourglass Plot: At the start of their relationship, Grime saw little to no benefit in social pleasantries and Sasha had to convince him that niceties were a strategic advantage to controlling the toads. In the present, Grime easily charms Hop Pop with his newfound social skills, while Sasha struggles to reign in her temper and frustration that her friends/troops aren't interested in being controlled anymore.
- Hyperspace Arsenal: Before they can attend the dinner party, Grime asks Sasha to remove her sword as well as her hidden daggers. While the first two are hidden in her cloak and hair, the rest are stored within one of her boots. Grime even questions how it's even possible to store that many daggers in there without them crippling her movement.
- Ironic Echo Cut: Anne tells Marcy and the Plantars that Sasha has changed. Cut to Sasha at the guest house (AKA Felicia's tea shop):Sasha: I haven't changed!
- Jerkass Ball: Even though the Plantars were Right for the Wrong Reasons to be skeptical about Sasha and Grime's Heel–Face Turn, and their experience with the two in Reunion making things justifiably tense between both groups. However, the Plantars end up going too far when they remind Sasha of her near suicide attempt after her falling out with Anne. Sprig especially goes out of his way to antagonize Sasha whenever given the opportunity to the point of callously pointing out how she nearly fell to her death, despite Anne telling him to be on his best behavior.
- Lampshade Hanging: How Grime reacts to Sasha emptying out all the daggers she kept hidden in her boot.Grime: How do you even walk?
- Laser-Guided Karma:
- The Plantars assume Grime intended to do this by using his vol-cake-no to destroy them and their house as payback for them blowing up Toad Tower. The toad assures them that he meant no ill will and that the dessert is a common delicacy for toadkind. However, he was the only victim of the hornets' stinger.
- The Plantars did get some karma for the way they treated Sasha when their house gets destroyed by the vol-cake-no.
- Lightbulb Joke: Hop Pop tries to lighten the mood with a "How many toads does it take to screw in a mushroom-light?" joke. The nature of the punchline (That toads wouldn't screw in a light because they prefer utter darkness and the smell of blood) just makes things more awkward until Grime forces himself to laugh at it.
- Masochist's Meal: The dessert Grime brought turns out to be a "vol-cake-no", a toad dessert that grows to enormous size before spewing molten chocolate and angry giant hornets. Assuming you survive both, you get chocolate-covered, cooked hornets for dessert after the chocolate cools.
- Nigh-Invulnerability: The hornets are so strong that no blade can pierce them. The only thing that can defeat them is their own stingers.
- The Paralyzer: The hornet stingers carry a potent toxin that paralyzes whoever it hits.
- Playing Pictionary: Hop Pop gets the gang playing an Amphibian game called "Draws-a-Doodle". He's the only one able to guess Grime's crude drawing of "Sergeant Campbell Bilgewater and the Horsefly Rebellion of '48".
- Power Trio: When they actually manage to put their differences aside and work together, Anne, Sasha and Marcy are a force to be reckoned with.
- Rage Quit: Sasha throws the "Draws-a-Doodle" drawing pad after no one guesses her drawing of a tree.
- Spike Shooter: The hornets can fire their stingers like darts and immediately regrow them.
- Squee: Anne, Sasha, and Marcy do this with so much enthusiasm after the three are properly reunited, much to the annoyance of the Plantars and Grime.Polly: (covering her non-existent ears) Human friendships are loud!
- Tears of Joy: Shed by both Marcy and (begrudgingly) Sprig when Anne and Sasha agree to give their friendship another shot.
- Visible Silence: Appears on top of the screen after Hop Pop's joke.
- Wicked Wasps: Grime's vol-cake-no is filled with giant hornets the diners have to fight in order to eat.
- You Are a Credit to Your Race: Grime's idea of complimenting Hop Pop for getting his Draws-a-Doodle drawing right is, "For a frog, you're actually pretty smart." Hop Pop clearly doesn't see it as a compliment, but thanks him anyway to avoid an awkward situation.
