One Froggy Evening: Difference between revisions

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and tell me I'm your owwwwwwwwwwn!"'' }}

Referred to by [[Steven Spielberg]] as "the ''[[~~Citizen Kane (Film)|~~Citizen Kane]]'' of animated film", this [[The Golden Age of Animation|1955]] [[Chuck Jones]] ''[[Merrie Melodies]]'' short featured none of the regular [[Warner Bros]] stable, instead telling a standalone story about a construction worker who discovers a live frog inside the cornerstone of a building he's helping to demolish. To his amazement, the frog pulls out a little top hat and cane and starts to sing and dance. The construction worker naturally expects to strike it rich from his discovery. Unfortunately, the frog [[Not-So-Imaginary Friend|refuses to perform in front of anybody else]]. At the end, after becoming destitute and homeless, the man puts the frog into the cornerstone of a new building, and a flash forward reveals that a man of the future will soon suffer the same fate.

Referred to by [[Steven Spielberg]] as "the ''[[Citizen Kane]]'' of animated film", this [[The Golden Age of Animation|1955]] [[Chuck Jones]] ''[[Merrie Melodies]]'' short featured none of the regular [[Warner Bros]] stable, instead telling a standalone story about a construction worker who discovers a live frog inside the cornerstone of a building he's helping to demolish. To his amazement, the frog pulls out a little top hat and cane and starts to sing and dance. The construction worker naturally expects to strike it rich from his discovery. Unfortunately, the frog [[Not-So-Imaginary Friend|refuses to perform in front of anybody else]]. At the end, after becoming destitute and homeless, the man puts the frog into the cornerstone of a new building, and a flash forward reveals that a man of the future will soon suffer the same fate.

Told entirely without dialogue (not including the singing). The frog would later be named Michigan J. Frog, after the only original song from the short, "The Michigan Rag", and become the mascot for [[The WB|the WB network]].

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** [[Truth in Television]]: Frogs really have done this. As in the living for centuries part, not the singing and dancing part.

* [[Retraux]]: "The Michigan Rag" is an original composition which imitates the 1890s style.

* [[Sealed Evil in A Can]]/[[Sealed Good in A Can]]: The Frog, although it's debatable how "good" or "evil" it is, or whether it's solely the man bringing his own woe on himself for trying to take advantage of the frog.

* [[Sealed Evil in a Can]]/[[Sealed Good in a Can]]: The Frog, although it's debatable how "good" or "evil" it is, or whether it's solely the man bringing his own woe on himself for trying to take advantage of the frog.

* [[Shout-Out]]: At the end, the frog is sealed inside the foundation of the "Tregoweth Brown Building", a reference to sound effects editor Treg Brown. Such crew shout outs were very common in all the [[Looney Tunes]] shorts.

* [[Space Whale Aesop]]: Don't be greedy and try to take advantage of someone else for your own gain or your life will go downhill as a result--or in this case, don't take advantage of a singing frog to get rich or your life will be ruined.