40 Fun Facts About Amphibia

Who created Amphibia?

Matt Braly created Amphibia and put family into it: Anne's wild hair and fierce look come from an old photo of his grandmother as a little girl.

Anne spends her time in Amphibia missing which of her belongings, lost on arrival?

Her shoe, a yellow sneaker: the toad captain who finds it shows it to the human he is interrogating and tells her he now knows there are more of her kind.

Which episode ended Amphibia's run?

The Hardest Thing is the goodbye itself: the last gem shards offer only a one-way trip home, so the three girls leave their amphibian friends for good.

Where does Anne steal the music box?

A thrift store: Sasha pushed Anne to ditch her own birthday celebration at home and shoplift the box for her friends instead.

What is the name of the pet cat Anne misses back home?

Domino is missed so badly that Anne adopts a cat-like caterpillar and names it Domino 2; it spins a cocoon and emerges as a monster that attacks the family.

Who voices Anne in Amphibia?

Brenda Song won the part at once: the show's creator said her audition embodied the Anne he had in his head, and she went on to improvise laugh-out-loud moments in the recording booth.

The frog family that takes Anne in shares what surname?

Plantar is the name of Sprig, Polly and their grandfather Hop Pop. Sprig set out to capture the beast scaring the town, found it was Anne, and befriended her instead.

In which town does Anne's adoptive frog family live?

Wartwood warms to Anne slowly: its frogs begin by tying her down and planning to kill her, and by the series finale they have raised a statue of her in the town.

Polly starts Amphibia getting around in what?

A bucket of water, since Polly is a tadpole: she sprouts legs only in the season two finale, moments before she is swept to Earth with Anne.

What is Hop Pop's full first name?

Hopediah is Hop Pop's full first name. He secretly buried Anne's music box in his own front yard and told her he had sent it away, fearing the danger it could bring his family.

Which longtime voice of Goofy also plays Hop Pop in Amphibia?

Bill Farmer found his voices early: as a teenager in Kansas he would pull into a drive-in and order in the voice of John Wayne or Jimmy Stewart, to strange looks from the staff.

Bessie, the family's mode of transport in Amphibia, is what animal?

A giant snail, and a hard-won one: Hop Pop got Bessie at an auction, raising his bid to keep her out of a rival buyer's hands.

Near the end of season one, Anne's adopted town votes her what?

Frog of the Year goes to a human: when her thank-you party ends in disaster, Hop Pop tells her they voted for how much she had grown, not for being flawless.

What is Marcy's surname in Amphibia?

Marcy Wu made a clumsy entrance: dropped into the newt capital, she promptly fell down a flight of stairs and landed in hospital, yet she rose to be the king's chief ranger.

Who voices King Andrias in Amphibia?

Keith David plays the king as a jovial giant who loves riddles and greets the girls with fist bumps, which is what makes his betrayal of them land so hard.

What does King Andrias do to Marcy in Amphibia's season two finale, 'True Colors'?

Andrias stabs her through the torso, a scene so dark for the channel that the episode was pulled the day before it was due and later aired uncut behind a warning card.

Why did Marcy knowingly use the music box to take her friends to Amphibia?

Her family was moving away, and she chose a magic box over losing her two best friends. It is the king who tells Anne and Sasha, moments after revealing his own plans.

Which city do Anne and the frogs land in when season two's portal sends them to Earth?

Los Angeles is Anne's home town: the frogs move in with her astonished parents and go out only in disguise while they look for a way back.

What is the Core in Amphibia?

The Core is a multi-eyed AI that Andrias serves, not the other way round: it holds the preserved minds of Amphibia's past rulers, his own father among them, and takes Marcy as its host.

When Anne returns to Amphibia, who has formed a resistance in the frogs' home town?

Sasha and Grime, once the toad army's commanders, rally the frogs into a resistance against Andrias's invasion while Anne is away on Earth.

In Amphibia, which gem's power is Sasha imbued with to fight the Core?

Pink is the gem tied to Sasha: she recharges it at the third temple, inside a volcano, by taking on a giant stone monster while Anne urges her on.

Which TV star voices Mr. X, the FBI agent hunting the frogs in Amphibia's third season?

RuPaul voices Mr. X: the agent hunts the frogs as aliens while they hide on Earth, then turns up in the finale fighting beside Anne's parents.

How is the Core finally destroyed in Amphibia's finale?

Anne absorbs all three gems' power and the blast kills the Core and her with it. The gems' Guardian offers her its job, she says she has a life to live, and it sends her back.

In Amphibia's epilogue, set ten years later, what has Sasha become?

A peer counselor for children: the girl who bossed her friends and commanded a toad army earns a psychology degree and helps kids work through their own baggage.

In Amphibia's epilogue, what has Marcy become ten years on?

A webcomic author: she flies in ten years on, Sasha meets her at the airport, and the pair turn up with birthday gifts for Anne.

In Amphibia's epilogue, which couple talk about settling down in the frogs' town?

Lady Olivia and General Yunan, once the king's adviser and his top general, end the series together as the newts' delegates in Amphibia's new government.

In Amphibia, Sprig's childhood friend and love interest is which character?

Ivy Sundew hated her mother's tea lessons and wanted adventures of her own; she ends the series setting off with Sprig to explore unmapped land.

Where does Frobo, the robot Polly adopts in Amphibia, come from?

The Ruins of Despair: after the family's road-trip stop there, Frobo climbs out, follows them across Amphibia and ends up as Polly's devoted companion.

One-Eyed Wally, the vagrant of Amphibia's frog town, has what full name?

Walliam Ribbiton comes from a rich family in Ribbitvale and leads a double life, choosing to sleep rough and play his accordion as the frog town's vagrant.

Amphibia's creator based the show partly on childhood trips to which city?

Bangkok overwhelmed the show's creator at the start of each summer visit to his mother's family, and by the end of every trip he did not want to leave.

Before Amphibia, its creator won a 2016 Annie Award for directing an episode of which show?

Gravity Falls was his schooling: he has said he learned more on it than in four years of art school, and its creator was the one who pushed him to pitch a show of his own.

In Amphibia's finale, the Core tries to destroy the frogs' world by crashing what into it?

The moon: the Core's helmet blasts off and takes control of it, and the king admits it was one of the Core's old projects, rigged long ago as a doomsday device.

In Amphibia's epilogue, what is the grown-up Anne's job?

A herpetologist: Anne works at the Aquarium of the Pacific, where she has rebuilt the amphibian hall to look like Amphibia and named a small frog Sprig.

Which actresses voice Anne's friends Sasha and Marcy in Amphibia?

Anna Akana and Haley Tju both read for Anne first: the show's creator heard some 50 auditions for the lead, and that is where he found his Sasha and Marcy.

Amphibia was greenlit in February 2018 alongside which other Disney Channel series?

The Owl House was announced the same day, with both shows promised for 2019. Amphibia arrived that June, while its stablemate slipped to January 2020.

Which Muppet appears in Amphibia's season two episode 'Swamp and Sensibility'?

Kermit the Frog is billed as himself playing a part: Crumpet the Frog, the Beast Polo announcer, who is drawn to look just like him.

Anika Noni Rose, the voice of Tiana, plays which recurring character in Amphibia?

Dr. Jan, a museum curator obsessed with aliens and cryptids, is thrilled rather than scared to meet talking frogs and helps Anne look for a way to send them home.

Which Bill Withers song plays during Sasha's sacrifice in 'Reunion', Amphibia's season one finale?

Lean on Me was on repeat for the show's creator while he wrote the three girls' friendship, so he saved it for the moment Sasha lets go of Anne's hand.

Who wrote 'Our Special Time of Year' for Amphibia's season three Christmas special?

Rebecca Sugar, creator of Steven Universe, wrote it for an old colleague: Amphibia's creator had storyboarded an early episode of her show years before.

Amphibia's season three episode 'All In' features 'As If It's Your Last' by which K-pop group?

Blackpink's hit scores the opening flashback, where Anne, Sasha and Marcy prank their school with a K-pop dance party and land in the principal's office.