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Films - Animated
  • Frogger and Glenn make brief cameos in Wreck-It Ralph. Frogger is shown hopping away from Ralph upon seeing him at Game Central Station, while Glenn appears as a guest at Fix-it Felix Jr.'s 30th Anniversary party.

Literature

  • The Tuning Station: As a teenager, Ted times his movements while he walks down the hallway to avoid waves of students. Adult Ted compares it to a game of Frogger.
  • Lily and Dunkin: When Dunkin's dad went off his bipolar meds, he leapt back and forth in a way that reminded Dunkin of Frogger.

Live-Action TV

  • Big Wolf on Campus: In "Commie Dawkins", Tommy and Merton travel back in time to the year 1989 through a wormhole. Tommy suggests they go to the Factory (a recurring place in the series that's a teen hangout) and see what video games they had, leading to this exchange:
    Merton: Tommy, I for one didn't just leap over the single most significant astrophysical hurdle in the history of mankind (gasp) to play a game of Donkey Kong!
    Tommy: Well maybe they have Frogger.
  • An episode of Seinfeld is titled "The Frogger". In the episode, George decides that he wants to buy the Frogger arcade game from his old hangout after he sees that he still has the high score, and he has to figure out a way to get it to his place without erasing the game's memory. The episode ends with a sequence where George tries to move the machine across a busy street in a manner similar to a game of Frogger, complete with the game's music, sound effects, and a top-down perspective. Unfortunately, George couldn't get the game over the curb on the other side of the road, and then a truck smashes the machine into pieces.
    Jerry: Game over.

Video Games

  • In Infinite Craft, "Frogger" is a possible crafting recipe.
  • Looney Tunes has a flash game called PepĂ© Le Pew's Love Run that plays similarly to Frogger. In this game, you play as Pepe, and hop across the road, avoiding getting hit by traffic, also hopping across boats to get across the river and catch Penelope Pussycat.
  • In The Muppets: On the Go! for the Sega Pico, one of the mini-games is very similar to Frogger, involving Kermit hopping across logs, lily pads, and turtles from one side of the pond to the other without falling into the water.
  • Uncle Albert's Magical Album has a mini-game where a frog must cross a river by jumping on platforms. Basically a mini-Frogger.

Web Animation

  • Animator vs. Animation: In Animation vs. Arcade Games, Frogger is among the many arcade games Yellow creates when he uses his laptop to transfer the games into his arcade cabinet allowing his friends to play, as well as becoming disrupted by Q*bert who's messing with the arcade games. It also has the titular character, Frogger, fight against the main protagonists when he's being mind controlled by Q*bert.
  • Dorkly Bits: In "The Frogger Menace", the people driving the cars stop and freak out at the sight of Frogger, who starts killing them. Frogger eventually gets run over by a truck, much to one person's relief, only for Frogger to start a new life.
  • In Sonic Shorts: Volume 2, one sketch (pictured above) has Froggy in between a busy highway and a pond. When Big the Cat runs across the highway to try to catch Froggy, he causes a wreck. Froggy then hops onto a log while Big is washed away by the water.

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Western Animation

  • Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: In "Cookie Dough", when Bloo becomes rich after selling Madame Foster's cookies, one of the things he buys with the money he makes is a Leap Froggin' arcade machine.
  • In the Gravity Falls episode "Fight Fighters", Soos says that FrogTime, a thinly-veiled parody of Frogger, taught him how to cross the street.
  • MAD:
    • In "Pirates of the Neverland: At Wit's End / Batman Family Feud", Frogger gets spoofed alongside Dog the Bounty Hunter in the sketch "Frog the Bounty Hunter".
    • In "ArTHOR / The Big Fang Theory", Frogger gets spoofed as "Blogger" in the sketch "Rejected Video Games".
  • Muppet Babies (1984): In "It's Only Pretendo", Baby Kermit plays Frogger. He greets the titular protagonist, who is crippled as a result of spending months trying to cross the road, and surmises his own solution to the problem: posing as a crossing guard and using the walk signal to stop traffic.
  • Robot Chicken: A sketch from "The Sack" features Frogger causing the cars on the highway to swerve into each other and create a wreck. Frogger then calls his friends to him, who hop across the wreck.
  • The Simpsons: In "Pulpit Friction", when Bart leads a herd of frogs into Springfield, they hop across the road and over the river (with a drunk Barney floating alongside the logs) with 8-bit sound effects and an overhead view.
  • Tiny Toon Adventures: In "Turtle Hurdle" (part of "The Wide World of Elmyra"), Michigan J. Frog hops across a busy highway to Tyrone the Turtle's pond.

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