Episode 9: Family Shrub

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At the Plantar house Clover, Anne and the Plantar children are hard at work making the " Family Shrub" as Hop pop calls it. Flowey is there too but he ain't accomplishing much with his root hands.

Anne: You know, Hop Pop, back home we call this a family tree.

Clover: It makes sense though, since frogs only normally can't get to trees.

Hop Pop: That's 'cause everyone in your world is crazy. Now, where was I? Oh, yes, Great Aunt Gertrude. She was a masterful dirt tiller. I mean, how cool is that?

All: [unimpressed] Eh.

Hop Pop: Oh, and you can't forget second cousin Alfred. He was the king!

All: [gasp] A king?

Hop Pop: Yeah! The king of single-tiered irrigation systems.

All: [groaning]

Clover: Don't make it sound like you dropped a bombshell on us Hop pop!

Anne: Yep, you lost me.

Polly: Our ancestors were boring!

Sprig: Were they really all just farm frogs? Where are the artists? The poets? The dreamers?

Hop Pop: Just farm frogs? Kids, the point of the shrub is to give you an appreciation for your past. The Plantar family has layers. You just have to know where to look.

Anne: Layers, huh? Okay, then. Well, what's so special about her?

Hop Pop: Polli Anna? Oh, brace yourselves. She wasn't just any farmer. She was a turnip farmer!

All: [groans]

Anne: Welp, as much as I'd love to help, not gonna find any of my ancestors on your shrub, so...

[Anne kicks back on the couch and starts playing a game on her phone. Clover looks at Hop pop and shrugs before pulling out a comic.]

Hop Pop: Don't have to be blood to be a Plantar, Anne.

Anne: No, but you do have to be a master stacker to get to level 46. If I can just...[groans] Curse you, sudden death round! Why you so hard?

Hop Pop: Anne, this is based on nothing at all, but I'm almost certain that game will rot your brain! Uh-oh, looks like we're out of glue!

Flowey: Does that mean we have to stop?

Polly: Can we do something fun now?

Hop Pop: No fun till the shrub's done. Just gonna run to the store real quick and get more glue. Be back in a jiffy. [hums] Don't go anywhere!

[Hop pop leaves the house as Clover reads his comic while the others talk.]

Polly: Ah! You're lucky you're an outsider, Anne and you too Clover. Our family history is weak!

Sprig: They didn't do anything weird. Or different. Or fun. I mean, look at this. Even this painting's making me feel depressed. 

Sprig's hand pushes the painting making a passagway.

Sprig: What the... [shelf falls] Whoa!

Polly: Sprig! You broke the house.

Anne: Whoa. 

[They all look down the creepy tunnel filled with Cobwebs and roots running through the soil.]

Clover: Oh, wow. This looks unsafe.

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