GC13 and David discuss Hop Luck and Stakeout from Amphibia.

Yep, it’s official: Amphibia is a cynical show. And yet everything is so bright and colorful, so fun and funny. Anne may be missing a shoe, but for better or worse she’s with her family, and she is taking a firm stand on the evils of pineapples on pizza.

We may not know how she had any energy drink left for her stakeout, we just know that Sprig’s plan was as poorly thought out as it was brilliantly executed.

GC13, Soren, and David discuss I Was A Teenage Abomination from The Owl House.

Well, we’re finally here: SCHOOL. Is school in the Burning Isles as horrifying as it is in our world? It looks like it. At the very least it’s headed up by a principal who may or may not have murderous intentions towards our teenage abomination, Luz.

But it’s okay! She’s banned from school, so surely she will be completely safe from both murder and the corrupting influence of standardized education. Surely.

GC13 and David discuss the Barb and the Spotted Bears arc from the fifth season of Summer Camp Island.

What starts out as a cute bedtime story (about putting spotted bears to bed, oddly enough) turns into a very important-feeling story about a pair of interlopers coming to the island to eat a jelly pool. With the spotted bears asleep on the job, the task of defending the island falls on Barb and her newly created elves.

And maybe, just maybe, there was a retcon involving the striped horse and bearded sheep. You be the judge.

GC13 and David discuss Cane Crazy and Flood, Sweat and Tears from Amphibia.

Anne is trapped in a frog world, and while we do have our cartoony fun (let’s stop and admire the craftmanship on this clock before we throw it at a monster), Anne is becoming part of a frog family as well.

It’s just that, with her warm-blooded body, she might not be the best roommate for a cold-blooded frog. Well, you learn lessons every day. Especially when you’re trapped in a frog world.

GC13, Soren, and David discuss Witches Before Wizards from The Owl House.

Right in the second episode The Owl House decides to rip off the chosen one bandaid. Not everything can be Fallout 2, we guess… It’s just as well, since Luz would have been a pretty bad bad girl chosen one.

So, whether we ever see a wizard again or not, I think we all learned a valuable lesson today: never trust a man in casual drapery. And maybe be suspicious whenever someone starts telling you exactly what you want to hear. Especially if he’s wearing casual drapery.

GC13 and David discuss Amphibia’s first two episodes: Anne or Beast? and Best Fronds.

Well if The Owl House started off a little oddly, Amphibia seems to start off like it intends to continue—and that might just include a lot of jokes based on fakeouts.

So Anne has been whisked off to another world for a magical adventure, with nothing but her trusty cellphone by her side? No, this isn’t Infinity Train, but we’re here for it anyway.

GC13, Soren, and David discuss A Lying Witch and a Warden from The Owl House.

Yes, The Owl House has finally come to the Lunar Sea Spire podcast. This is the first GC13 has ever seen of The Owl House, but David and Soren are quite familiar with the series.

So come with us into this magical world. Stay out of the conformatorium (do you guys get it? It’s like her summer camp!) but otherwise, make sure you have fun! Being weird rocks.

GC13 and David discuss Pepper and the Fog, the (very bizarre) finish to the fourth season of Summer Camp Island.

Yeah, did you understand any of that? There’s a lot to unpack. Pepper and the Fog doesn’t just feature a new voice actor for Pepper, it features a new outlook too. Now he really likes Susie, and wants to read a poem to her. When did all of that happen?

At least we got to hear Aimee Mann and Keith David; it’s nice to hear some familiar voices.

GC13 and David discuss BITT Prime from Glitch Techs, the last episode of the second season (and probably the series).

We’re sad to see Glitch Techs go, but we’ve heard the story over and over again—this sort of thing happens a lot, and it hurts when it happens to such an ambitious and well-received show.

We can hope for Glitch Techs: Enter the Florpus to happen in fifteen years though, but unfortunately it’s too late for Glitch Techs: Endless Summer.

GC13 and David discuss Hall of Mooms from Summer Camp Island.

This episode told us so much, but it was great seeing all of the witches in Hedgehog’s ancestry (and one very mysterious ancestor you may or may not have seen!). It even told us that, at one time, there were witch hunters!

Still, Summer Camp Island isn’t the kind of show to put our characters into mortal danger from witch hunters. It will be interesting if they even come up at all in the future—as will plenty of Hedgehog’s mooms!