History WesternAnimation / FlipTheFrog

Flip the Frog cartoons are almost the defining example of animation from the pre-censorship era. An angry Flip often reacts to trouble with a shout of "Damn!" Nude or scantily-clad women often appear, usually to place Flip in compromising positions. Innuendo is everywhere; in "The Office Boy," a sexy office clerk unwittingly walks around with a "private" sign hanging from her backside. Finally, typical cartoon violence has consequences: in "Puddle Pranks," a character is eaten by a monstrous bird and appears to die permanently (being chewed up and swallowed).

* BagOfKidnapping: In "The Phoney Express" Flip's unnamed human girlfriend is kidnapped this way by the villain of the short Bronx Cheerio, stuffing her into the same sack with his stolen goods as he makes is getaway.

* CardboardPrison: In "Jail Bird"

* EyeScream: "Room Runners" --the bathing lady doesn't take kindly to being spied on.

* HauntedHouse: Haunted house is the main location in "Spooks."

* WorkingOnTheChainGang: In "Jail Birds"

* PublicDomainAnimation: All shorts in the series had entered the public domain, since the copyrights are not renewed. However, two shorts in particular, "Little Orphan Willie" and "Puddle Pranks", don’t have copyright notices and thus are in the public domain from the start.

* BellyDancer:
** Flip dressed up as a harem belly-dancer in "Movie Mad" and "Coo Coo the Magician".
** "Circus" had a belly-dancer at the beginning.

* LiteralAssKicking: Sometimes happens. In "Soup Song" , even self-asskicking can be seen.

* VagueAge: Allows Flip to be a schoolboy in one episode to a car driving adult in another.

* YellowPeril: "Chinaman's Chance."

* BedsheetLaddder: "Room Runners" has Flip attempt to escape his angry landlady using a ladder made of bedsheets.

* DistressedDamsel: May be ChainedToARailway now and then. The damsel, or a male victim of Flip's spinster boss.

* HauntedHouse: In "Spooks."

* DistressedDamsel: May be ChainedToARailway now and then. The damsel, or a male victim of Flip's spinster boss, may also face DeathBySex (i. e. in "Paleface" or "Funny Face"), sometimes played for laughs.

Not to be confused with [[FlippingTheBird Flip the Bird]], nor a completely unrelated web cartoon series by [[WebComic/SabrinaOnline Eric W. Schwartz]] [[NamesTheSame also called]] Flip the Frog, which, by WordOfGod, is directly inspired by Iwerks' tadpole.

* CatchPhrase: "Damn!"

Not to be confused with [[FlippingTheBird Flip the Bird]], nor a completely unrelated web cartoon series by [[WebComic/SabrinaOnline Eric W. Schwartz]] [[NamesTheSame also called]] Flip the Frog , which by WordOfGod, is directly inspired by Iwerks' tadpole.

* AnimateInanimateObject: Lots of them. Some of them just come to live. Some of them move to music.

* {{Adorkable}}: Flip is probably one of the most socially-awkward characters to ever appear on a movie screen.

* MimeAndMusicOnlyCartoon

* EarlyInstalmentWeirdness: In the first handful of cartoons, Flip was not only more frog-like in appearance, [[FunnyAnimal but in role]], with a WoodlandCritters cast and setting. In later shorts, Flip is nearly always in a human suburbia and occupation.

Not to be confused with [[FlippingTheBird Flip the Bird]], nor a completely unrelated web cartoon series [[NamesTheSame also called]] Flip the Frog, which by WordOfGod, is directly inspired by Iwerks' tadpole.