50 Fun Facts About Amphibia

Who created Amphibia?

The Thai-American animator had been a storyboard artist and director on Gravity Falls.

On which network did Amphibia air from 2019 to 2022?

It premiered on 17 June 2019 and ended on 14 May 2022.

How many seasons of Amphibia were made?

The run totalled 58 episodes, or 106 segments.

Anne is transported to Amphibia on which birthday?

She is peer-pressured into stealing the Calamity Box, and it takes her and her two friends away.

What is the magical object that sends Anne, Sasha and Marcy to Amphibia?

The music box holds three gems whose power drives the whole story.

Anne Boonchuy is of which heritage?

Creator Matt Braly wanted more Thai characters on television and loosely based her on his grandmother.

Who voices Anne?

The Suite Life star was announced in the role in March 2019.

The frog family that takes Anne in shares what surname?

Sprig, Polly and Hop Pop live on a farm in the town of Wartwood.

In which town do the Plantars live?

The swamp town is run by the corrupt Mayor Toadstool.

What species is Sprig, Anne's best friend?

He is ten at the start of the show and turns eleven in 'Sprig's Birthday'.

Polly, Sprig's sister, is what at the start of the series?

She eventually grows tiny legs and joins Anne on Earth.

What is Hop Pop's full first name?

The orange poison dart frog is Sprig and Polly's grandfather and Anne's adoptive one.

Which veteran Disney voice actor, best known as Goofy, voices Hop Pop?

Amanda Leighton joined the cast at the same time as Polly.

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

The gastropod later gets a fair amount of character development of her own.

Sasha allies with Captain Grime, who leads what?

The warfaring toads seek control of Frog Valley, and Sasha becomes Grime's lieutenant.

Captain Grime is what kind of amphibian?

His full name is Grimothy, and he was the ruler of Toad Tower.

Where do Anne and the Plantars road-trip to in season two?

They go to learn the secrets of the Calamity Box from the king.

Where did Marcy land when she arrived in Amphibia?

She fell down a flight of stairs on arrival and became King Andrias's chief advisor and ranger.

What kind of amphibian is King Andrias?

The towering monarch is voiced by Keith David.

Who voices King Andrias?

The Thing and Gargoyles actor gives the king his velvet menace.

What does King Andrias do to Marcy in the season two finale 'True Colors'?

The shocking scene got the episode an Annie nomination for Best TV/Media - Children.

Which of the three girls knew about the box's power all along?

The revelation reframes the whole first two seasons.

Where are the heroes transported at the start of season three?

The suburbs of downtown LA are a culture shock for the frogs.

What is the Core?

Andrias uses Marcy as a host for it.

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

The former villains become the rebellion's leaders.

Which gem's power is Sasha imbued with to fight the Core?

Marcy gets the green gem and Anne the blue.

Marcy is imbued with the power of which gem?

The three friends each carry one colour into the final battle.

How is the Core finally destroyed?

The cost of that power is the emotional centre of the finale.

In the epilogue set ten years later, what has Sasha become?

She earned a psychology degree, a long way from Toad Tower.

Ten years on, Marcy has become what?

She is still clumsy and uncoordinated, the epilogue notes.

Which pair got together in the epilogue and discussed settling down in the frogs' town?

The scene is set nine months after the Core's defeat.

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

She is the daughter of Felicia Sundew.

Where did Frobo, the robot who joins the Plantars, originally rest?

The enigmatic Frobot becomes Polly's loyal companion.

One-Eyed Wally, the resident vagrant of the frogs' town, has what full name?

The accordion-playing frog has secrets of his own.

The creator based the show partly on childhood trips to which city?

He spent his summers with his mother's family there.

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

The episode was 'Northwest Mansion Mystery'; he later directed on Big City Greens too.

Amphibia won a 2021 Annie Award in which category?

It was also Emmy-nominated for Outstanding Children's Animated Program but lost to Hilda.

Which show beat Amphibia to the Emmy for Outstanding Children's Animated Program?

The Netflix series about a blue-haired girl took the prize.

The 2022 companion book to the series was presented as whose journal?

Marcy's Journal: A Guide to Amphibia came out in December 2022 from Disney Books and TokyoPop.

Which actresses voice Anne's friends Sasha and Marcy?

Both had auditioned for Anne before Braly cast them as the friends instead.

What was the show's working title during early development in 2015?

Back then the story was set deep in a forest rather than a town, and Sprig was written as anxious, then mischievous, before becoming the bubbly kid brother figure.

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

Both came with 20-episode orders. The creator said he had already been working on the show for almost two years by then.

Which Muppet made an appearance in the season two episode 'Swamp and Sensibility'?

Performer Matt Vogel did the voice, but the character himself was credited in the promotion, having already fronted two web videos and a D23 panel for the show.

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

Her character is a museum curator and conspiracy theorist, a neat wink at an actress best known for a frog-themed Disney film.

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

The creator said he listened to it constantly while developing the friendship between the three girls, so it was the obvious pick for the cliff scene.

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

The Steven Universe creator returned a favour of sorts: Amphibia's creator had written and boarded the Steven Universe episode 'Lars and the Cool Kids'.

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

It is one of the few licensed pop songs in the series; the show's own EP, Battle of the Bands, came out in April 2021 with 'Heartstomper' and 'No Big Deal'.

Which illustrator, known for designing Pokémon, provided artwork in the show's earliest stages?

He was art director for Pokémon Sword and Shield. The show's look also borrowed from The Dark Crystal and the 1977 animated Hobbit.

Anne, Sasha and Marcy were originally written as what age before being made younger?

The team wanted a high-school feel, which is why the aged-down trio still do things like drive and hold part-time jobs.

The show's visuals were inspired by which 1982 Jim Henson fantasy film?

Rough Draft Korea, Sunmin Image Pictures and Saerom animated the show because they still work in hand-drawn animation, each episode taking about nine months.