Season Three of the Ribbeting Animated Comedy Series 'Amphibia' Premieres Saturday, Oct. 2, on Disney Channel
24 Juli 2021 - 10:00PM
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Hop to your screens this fall when season three of the popular
frog-out-of-water animated comedy "Amphibia" premieres Saturday,
Oct. 2, at (9:30 a.m. EDT) on Disney Channel and DisneyNOW with a
special extended-length episode. Created and executive produced by
Matt Braly ("Gravity Falls"), season three of the Emmy®
Award-nominated series finds Anne and the Plantars transported from
Amphibia to her hometown of Los Angeles, where the Frog Family must
learn to navigate the complexities of this modern-day world,
conceal their identities as talking frog people and search for a
way home. Season three will also include a 22-minute Christmas
special featuring a song written by Rebecca Sugar ("Steven
Universe"). Since its premiere in June 2019, "Amphibia" has
garnered over 107 million views across Disney Channel's YouTube and
currently ranks among the top three cable series with Kids
6-11.
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PHOTO CREDIT: DISNEY CHANNEL Hop to your
screens this fall when season three of the popular
frog-out-of-water animated comedy "Amphibia" premieres Saturday,
Oct. 2, at (9:30 a.m. EDT) on Disney Channel and DisneyNOW with a
special extended-length episode. Created and executive produced by
Matt Braly ("Gravity Falls"), season three of the Emmy®
Award-nominated series finds Anne and the Plantars transported from
Amphibia to her hometown of Los Angeles, where the Frog Family must
learn to navigate the complexities of this modern-day world,
conceal their identities as talking frog people and search for a
way home. Season three will also include a 22-minute Christmas
special featuring a song written by Rebecca Sugar ("Steven
Universe").
A season three sneak peek clip of "Amphibia" was revealed today
during a combined virtual Comic-Con@Home panel with "The Owl
House." At the beginning of the panel, Disney Television Animation
also shared an exclusive clip from the premiere episode of "The
Ghost and Molly McGee," an upcoming animated buddy-comedy series
about tween optimist Molly and her unlikely friendship with grumpy
ghost Scratch, which premieres this October.
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Click HERE to view the season three sneak peek
from "Amphibia."
Click HERE to view the exclusive clip from "The
Ghost of Molly McGee."
Guest stars for season three include Whoopi Goldberg ("The
View"), RuPaul Charles ("RuPaul's Drag Race"), Kate Micucci
("DuckTales"), Brad Garrett ("Everybody Loves Raymond"), Anika Noni
Rose ("The Princess and the Frog"), Archie Yates ("Jojo Rabbit"),
Wallace Shawn ("Young Sheldon"), Wayne Knight ("Seinfeld"), Jason
Ritter ("Gravity Falls"), Dana Davis ("Craig of the Creek") and
Melissa Villaseñor ("Saturday Night Live").
Following the season three premiere, new episodes of "Amphibia"
will debut every Saturday through Nov. 27 on Disney Channel and in
DisneyNOW. This Fall, "Amphibia" will also debut its third "Disney
Theme Song Takeover" on Disney Channel YouTube, which spotlights
popular animated characters doing their own unique take on their
series' popular theme songs complete with new lyrics. In this new
short, Anne's best friend Marcy (voiced by actress Haley Tju)
reveals to Hop Pop and Polly her adventures in Newtopia while Anne
was living in Wartwood and Sasha took charge of Toad Tower. Seasons
one and two of "Amphibia" are now available to stream on Disney+,
and season three episodes will become available beginning Fall
2021. "Amphibia" apparel and PopSockets PopGrip are also available
at Amazon.com/DisneyChannel.
"Amphibia" stars popular actress and longtime Disney Channel
star Brenda Song ("Dollface") as Anne Boonchuy; Justin Felbinger
(Disney Junior's "Miles From Tomorrowland") as Sprig Plantar, who
forges a once-in-a-lifetime friendship with Anne; Amanda Leighton
("This Is Us") as unpredictable pollywog (aka tadpole) Polly
Plantar, the youngest member of the Plantar family; and Disney
Legend Bill Farmer (the voice of Goofy) as overprotective and
traditional grandfather Hop Pop. "Amphibia" is a production of
Disney Television Animation and carries a TV-Y7 parental
guideline.
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