"Commander Anne" is the first segment of the fifty-first episode of the Disney Channel animated series, Amphibia.
Synopsis
Anne is made leader of the Wartwood Resistance, even though she's not good at the job.
Plot
Following their return to Amphibia, Anne and the Plantars are shocked to see the land in disarray. They immediately flee back to Wartwood Swamp and are attacked by a giant mind controlled centipede. However, they are rescued by the Wartwood Resistance, specifically One-Eyed Wally, Mrs. Croaker and an unusually buff Leopold Loggle. Sasha reveals herself, having formed the resistance since Anne and the Plantars left and reveals that they used the Plantar family catacombs as their base of operations. Everyone celebrates Anne and the Plantars' return and Sasha opts to have Anne take command, despite her reluctance. Grime privately questions Sasha's decision to give up command to Anne, but she tells him that it is "complicated".
The resistance's first mission is to destroy a factory where mind control necklaces are being produced, but it quickly becomes apparent that Sasha is better prepared for the job than Anne who keeps making various mistakes throughout the day. They finally manage to find the factory which is surrounded by a spiky gorge. Rather than do the obvious such as using a rope to get across, Anne has everyone stack on top of each other and make a bridge. The plan fails, but Sasha uses her skills to save everyone in the nick of time. At that moment, a giant snake with a mind control collar comes up and attacks the group. Anne tries to direct their attacks, but everyone gets swallowed whole.
Anne begs Sasha to take control, but she refuses as the last time she took control, she nearly ruined their friendship with her selfishness. Anne allows herself to be swallowed; urging Sasha to take control once again and direct everyone to widen themselves in the snake's throat so that it can cough them out. They break off its collar and freeing the snake where it slithers away and proceed to blow up the factory. Anne finally convinces Sasha to take command again as she is better at it and she does so; Sasha agrees to take the lead but assurers Anne that leading the resistance is a partnership. Anne is happy to be back with Sasha and furthermore is confident that they will rescue Marcy. She becomes very annoyed however when Hop Pop points out that Anne lost her shoe again.
Cast
- Brenda Song as Anne Boonchuy
- Justin Felbinger as Sprig Plantar
- Bill Farmer as Hop Pop Plantar
- Amanda Leighton as Polly Plantar
- Laila Berzins as Mrs. Croaker
- Anna Akana as Sasha Waybright
- Brian Maillard as Leopold Loggle
- Troy Baker as Captain Grime
- James Patrick Stuart as One-Eyed Wally
Additional Voices
- Matt Braly as Chuck
Trivia
- Anne says that she got her idea to cross the gorge from watching a movie featuring rats doing the same thing to get ingredients in a kitchen. While no such scene happens, she is likely referencing Ratatouille.
- Additionally, the heads of the rats in Anne's drawings resemble Mickey Mouse's.
- Leopold Loggle is now incredibly buff. This was foreshadowed in "Cane Crazy" where he is shown to possess a wooden statue of himself with a buff body; something which Sprig was quick to comment on.
- The episode references the events of "Children of the Spore", when Hop Pop turned Sprig, Anne, and Polly into zombies.
- Andrias has additionally incorporated Apothecary Gary's spores to create mind control collars to control the local wildlife.
- The mind control collars are similar to Catfish Booray's magic powder Gris-gris to mind controlling the swamp animals by created a collar to control them and making their eyes are glowing purple from the Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja episode "Swampy Seconds".
- Also the scene where Mrs. Croaker and One-Eyed Wally are destroyed the mind-control collar to free the snake and Wartwood Resistance destroying the factory is just like Randy Cunningham is destroying Booray's Gris-gris and the collars to freed the animals.
- Despite the show shifting back to Amphibia, the theme song does not change.
- Anne loses yet another shoe and also gets leaves and twigs stuck in her hair again, similar to her arrival in Amphibia.
- During the montage between rescuing the Plantars from the quicksand and misusing the telescope.
- The basement from "Family Shrub" is now the Wartwood resistance underground base.
- This also not the first time two main characters (Anne and Sasha) are co-leaders of a Resistance. The first are (Finn and Poe) from Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Who led the Resistance after Leia's death.
- The premise of the episode was similiar to "Marcy at the Gates" as Anne and the Plantars were at Amphibia where she was reunited with one of her friends (Sasha and Marcy). However, they were at odds with each other during their mission until one of them confesses their problems, which they later trusts each other at the end (Sasha appointed Anne as a new commander due to her fear of their friendship began to crumble until Anne puts her faith on her to retake her position; Anne doesn't trust Marcy on doing it on her own due to her fear of losing her just like Sasha until Marcy convinced her to trust her).
- Also, the scene where Anne runs up to a mind-controlled snake and got herself devoured just to put her faith in Sasha and made her retake back her position is similiar to what Marcy got to the Barbari-Ant Queen to save Sprig.
International Premieres
- March 27, 2022 (Canada)
- April 20, 2022 (France)
- May 27, 2022 (Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand)
- June 6, 2022 (Spain)
- June 23, 2022 (Portugal)
Gallery
Promotional
Screenshots
External Links
- Commander Anne at the Amphibia Wiki
