Trivia / One Froggy Evening

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  • The Deadly Experiments of Dr. Eeek have a scenario where you find a singing, dancing frog, but nobody believes you.
  • The diner scene at the end of Spaceballs has a gag that is equal parts this and Alien.
  • An episode of the sitcom Newsradio has Beth the secretary (played by Vicki Lewis) complain that her situation with a temp (played by Bebe Neuwirth) as just like dealing with, "...a slutty version of that singing frog."
  • The man appeared in an Animaniacs short, where he is shown to be married and have a son. And they're still with him despite what he did.
  • In a 1997 cartoon short, "From Hare to Eternity", while Yosemite Sam (as a pirate again) is digging up a buried treasure, he first finds the same metal box with Michigan in it. The frog starts to sing (offscreen), so Sam immediately shuts the box and tosses it away yelling, "Not in my picture!"
• Technology Marches On: A younger viewer might wonder why the man doesn't just rent a camera and film the frog. 1950s movie cameras were expensive, needed a lot of supplemental lighting, and only gave good results in the hands of a skilled operator. And sound had to be recorded separately.

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