Amphibiland (pilot)

## Amphibiland

**"Amphibiland"** is the pilot of *Amphibia*.

While never officially released, a sizzle reel for it was leaked on August 6, 2014 on YouTube.

## Cast

* Brenda Song as Anne Boonchuy
* Bill Farmer as Hop Pop Plantar and Captain Grime
* Thurop Van Orman as Weed (Sprig Plantar)

## Trivia

* The pilot's script was later rewritten into the episode "Best Fronds".
* It was confirmed that Polly did in fact exist in the pilot, she just didn't make it to the reel.
* The scene where Sprig's prototype fights Grime was later used for "True Colors".
* Amphibiland is referenced in "The New Normal" when Mr. Boonchuy mistakenly refers to Amphibia as "Amphibiland" when asking about Anne's adventure.
* Anne originally retained both shoes (although one had a damaged roof), carried a photo that only had Sasha and Marcy on it, and wrote in a diary during her time in Amphibiland.
* According to Matt Braly, the fantasy elements shown here were toned down for the series in response to the success of the Nickelodeon series *The Loud House*.
* The song "Rather Be" performed by Clean Bandit is heard in the pilot.
	+ This is one of the only pieces of *Amphibia* media to use a licensed song, the others being the episode "Reunion" which used the Bill Withers song "Lean on Me" and the episode "All In" which used the Blackpink song "As If It's Your Last."
* The European Spanish and European Portuguese dubs of *Amphibia* use the old title.
	+ This also happened with *The Ghost and Molly McGee*, both of these dubs using the original name of the series "*The Curse of Molly McGee*."
* Weed, the prototype of Sprig, was voiced by Thurop Van Orman in the pilot, he is known for being the creator of the Cartoon Network series *The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack* (as well as voicing the titlular character) and providing the voice of the *Gravity Falls* character Gideon Gleeful.
* Some of the shots from the pilot were reanimated for the Amphibia Main Title Theme.

## References

1. ↑ Braly, Matt (August 22, 2020). I'm Matt Braly, creator and executive producer of Amphibia - Ask me anything!!! (Post) (English). *Reddit*. u/Matt\_Braly. Archived from the original on 2021-10-21. Retrieved on 2022-03-14. “3. The pilot really deserves its own discussion but the only thing I miss is how grimey and mystical that version of Amphibia seemed. In development, I got explicit notes that the studio was no longer interested in adventure or magic so we tried to tilt away from that stuff a bit. Or at least...saved it for later :)”
2. ↑ MovieFan222 (August 22, 2020). I'm Matt Braly, creator and executive producer of Amphibia - Ask me anything!!! (Post) (English). *Reddit*. u/Krusty901. Archived from the original on 2021-10-19. Retrieved on 2022-03-13. “3.) Maybe Disney was worried it would be too similar to Owl House.”
3. ↑ Braly, Matt (August 22, 2020). I'm Matt Braly, creator and executive producer of Amphibia - Ask me anything!!! (Post) (English). *Reddit*. u/Matt\_Braly. Archived from the original on 2022-03-13. Retrieved on 2022-03-13. “OH hadn't even been pitched to Disney when we were dealing with this note. It had more to do with Loud House being successful ironically.”