Something I just can't get enough of in amphibia is that more than anything the show know how to do connections.
I trust this show that everything matters, sure it's fifteen minute episodes, a lot of them have classic and obvious morals/lessons behind them and on the face of it it looks really episodic. But everything, every peice of world building is worth having, jokes are jokes in universe and that mean that they also tell you things about the characters that make them, and of episode spooks that the moster of the week isn't dead mean that it matters that the monster isn't dead and will be back later.
The backstory episode is what sintched it for me. It's a massive explanation of the world, not just about the character that we know(Andreas) but about the entire world, the history of a thousand years is told.
But I never felt like I was being force fed things that don't feel like they matter or being told simple exposition.
I trust this show that things aren't just put in for jokes or one offs, the moss man, why the planters have secrets about the calamity box, the most powerful thing in the world that hasn't been seen in a thousand years, in their family book. Who the ancient frog was, why there's a single moss man left in the wild, hell even barrel's Warhammer and it's magic makes perfect sense as a relic of advanced tech, why the olms survived the fall if old amphibia, and that the mother says "there hasn't been a frog here for 1000 years"! It's just some if the most satisfying story telling I've ever seen.
