Michigan J Frog in the short One Froggy Evening.

Michigan J. Frog is an animated cartoon character who debuted in the Looney Tunes cartoon One Froggy Evening (December 31, 1955), written by Michael Maltese and directed by Chuck Jones. In this cartoon Michigan is a male frog who occasionally wears a top hat, carries a cane, sings pop music, ragtime, Tin Pan Alley hits, and other songs from the late 19th and early 20th century while dancing and performing acrobatics in the style of early 20th century vaudeville. The character appeared in a later cartoon entitled Another Froggy Evening which was released on October 6, 1995. Image File history File links Michigan J. Frog in the Looney Tunes short One Froggy Evening. ... Image File history File links Michigan J. Frog in the Looney Tunes short One Froggy Evening. ... Michigan J. Frog One Froggy Evening is an approximately seven-minute long Technicolor animated short film written by Michael Maltese and directed by Chuck Jones. ... An animated cartoon is a short, hand-drawn (or made with computers to look similar to something hand-drawn) film for the cinema, television or computer screen, featuring some kind of story or plot (even if it is a very short one). ... Looney Tunes opening title Looney Tunes is a Warner Brothers animated cartoon series which ran in many movie theatres from 1930 to 1969. ... Michigan J. Frog One Froggy Evening is an approximately seven-minute long Technicolor animated short film written by Michael Maltese and directed by Chuck Jones. ... is the 365th day of the year (366th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar). ... Michael Maltese (February 6, 1908 - February 22, 1981) was born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York. ... Chuck Jones in 1976 Charles Martin Chuck Jones (September 21, 1912 – February 22, 2002) was an American animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, producer, and director of animated films, most memorably of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts for the Warner Bros. ... Distribution of frogs (in black) Suborders Archaeobatrachia Mesobatrachia Neobatrachia - List of Anuran families The frogness babe is an amphibian in the order Anura (meaning tail-less from Greek an-, without + oura, tail), formerly referred to as Salientia (Latin saltare, to jump). ... Duke Ellington wearing a top hat. ... For other uses, see Pop music (disambiguation). ... Look up ragtime in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Tin Pan Alley is the name given to the collection of New York City-centered music publishers and songwriters who dominated the popular music of the United States in the late 19th century and early 20th century. ... High wire act Acrobatics (from Greek Akros, high and bat, walking) is one of the performing arts, and is also practiced as a sport. ... This article is about the musical variety theatre. ... is the 279th day of the year (280th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ...

His name comes from the song "The Michigan Rag" (an original song written by Jones, Maltese, and musical director Milt Franklyn), which he sings in the cartoon. In a clip from a DVD special, Jones stated that he had come up with the name "Michigan Frog" during the 1970s and was inspired to add the "J." as a middle initial while being interviewed by a writer named Jay Cox. Milt Franklyn was a musical composer and arranger who worked on the Warner Bros. ...

The gag in both cartoons is that Michigan's undeniable talent is discovered by some hapless (and greedy) person, who has visions of making a fortune by finding this great entertainer an audience and profiting from it. He invests all his time, money and eventually his sanity in that cause. He catches on too late that the frog will perform for him and him alone; in front of anyone else, Michigan will turn back into a normal frog and thwart the man's dreams of wealth. The man tosses Michigan and the suitcase in which he came into the time capsule for a soon-to-be dedicated skyscraper. In 2056, a century later, when a construction company consisting of men in spacesuits razes the decrepit building with ray guns, another person discovers the suitcase, with Michigan still alive inside, and the process repeats. For other uses, see Time capsule (disambiguation). ...

Michigan has also made cameos in episodes of Tiny Toon Adventures, The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries, Animaniacs, and, most recently, as a talent show emcee in an episode of Duck Dodgers. The character can also be seen in Space Jam, Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Looney Tunes: Back in Action. Steven Spielberg Presents Tiny Toon Adventures (also known as Tiny Toon Adventures or Tiny Toons) is an American animated television series created and produced as a collaborative effort between Steven Spielberg and Warner Bros. ... The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries is an animated television series which aired from 1995 to 2002 on Kids WB and was later re-run on Cartoon Network. ... This article is about the television series. ... Duck Dodgers is the fictional star of a series of cartoons produced by Warner Bros. ... This article is about the motion picture. ... Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a 1988 film produced by Amblin Entertainment and The Walt Disney Company (released on its Touchstone Pictures banner), which blends traditional animation and live action. ... Looney Tunes: Back in Action was a 2003 Warner Bros. ...

The identity of the singer who voiced Michigan Frog's original story was unclear and has been shrouded in some degree of mystery. He was definitely not done by Warner's primary voice artist, Mel Blanc. Some identified him as Terrence Monck. The 1998 Rhino compilation Warner Bros. 75 Years of Film Music identified him as Richard Beavers. However, the Looney Tunes Golden Collection unequivocally credits the vocals to Bill Roberts, a nightclub entertainer in Los Angeles in the 1950s who had done voice work for an MGM cartoon earlier. Information in the Internet Movie Database restates what the DVD covered and adds some details.^[1] Melvin Jerome Blanc (May 30, 1908 – July 10, 1989) was a prolific American voice actor. ... The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is an online database of information about movies, actors, television shows, production crew personnel, and video games. ...

In Another Froggy Evening, his voice was provided by Jeff McCarthy. Jeff McCarthy is an American character actor who has appeared in television, theatre and films. ...

As WB mascot

Michigan J. Frog from 1995 - 2001

Watch The Frog. Michigan J. Frog from 2001 - 2005

Michigan J. Frog, as in gold, from 2003 - 2004. It was taken from The WB 2003 Image Campaign

Michigan J. Frog, again voiced by McCarthy, was the official mascot of The WB Television Network from its inception in 1995 until 2006. The network's first night of programming on January 11, 1995 began with a debate between Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck over who the network should select as a mascot. The camera then panned over to Chuck Jones drawing Michigan on an easel. When Jones finished, Michigan leapt from the drawing to formally launch the WB. Millie, once mascot of the City of Brampton, is now the Brampton Arts Councils representative. ... The Warner Bros. ... is the 11th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ... Bugs Bunny is an animated hare who appears in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animated films produced by Warner Bros. ... Daffy Duck is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Brothers Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. ... Chuck Jones in 1976 Charles Martin Chuck Jones (September 21, 1912 – February 22, 2002) was an American animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, producer, and director of animated films, most memorably of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts for the Warner Bros. ...

On July 22, 2005, Michigan's "death" was announced by WB Network Chairman Garth Ancier at a fall season preview with the terse statement "The frog is dead and buried." The head of programming for the WB Network, David Janollari, jokingly announced services will be held for Mr. Frog, but failed to give details. Janollari stated that "[Michigan] was a symbol that perpetuated the young teen feel of the network. That's not the image we [now] want to put out to our audience." is the 203rd day of the year (204th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Garth Ancier (born September 3, 1957 in New Jersey) is an American television executive. ...

Various humorous obituaries for the mascot were published with details on Michigan's life and death. His dates were given as December 31, 1955 - July 22, 2005. Despite the announcement by Ancier, Michigan still appeared in some WB affiliate logos and in TV spots, such as KWBF in Little Rock, Arkansas (whose early slogan was "The Frog"; the "F" in KWBF is supposedly for "frog"), during 2006, and WBRL in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Also, WMJF, a small student-run television station at Towson University just outside Baltimore, Maryland, still uses the same call letters (WMJF -Michigan J. Frog) from when the station was a WB affiliate. is the 365th day of the year (366th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar). ... is the 203rd day of the year (204th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... KWBF, Arkansas WB42, is The WB Television Network affiliate based in Little Rock, Arkansas. ... Little Rock redirects here. ... WBRL-CA is a class A television station in Baton Rouge, Louisiana affiliated with The WB network. ... For the Canadian restaurant, see Baton Rouge (restaurant). ... WMJF-LP is low powered terrestrial television station broadcasting on channel 16 UHF in the Baltimore, Maryland area. ... Towson University, often referred to as TU or simply Towson for short, is an American public university located in Towson in Baltimore County, Maryland, USA. It is part of the University System of Maryland. ... Baltimore redirects here. ...

When the WB signed off the air for the final time on September 17, 2006, the shadow of the mascot appeared at the end of a montage of stars that appeared on the network during its 11-year history. When the montage ended with "Thank You", Michigan's shadow is shown removing his top hat and bowing to the viewer. is the 260th day of the year (261st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... The year 2006 in television involved some significant events. ...

Other references to Michigan

• On Hoyts movie "License to Wed", "Hearts in Atlantis" and "Cats and Dogs" People is watching The WB, and Michigan J. Frog is on screen singing "We're proud to present on the WB, another good show that no one will see! (Disgustedly walking off) Ah I need a drink."
• Near the end of the 1987 science fiction parody film Spaceballs, there is a scene which parodies both One Froggy Evening and the movie Alien. When Lone Starr (Bill Pullman) and Barf (John Candy) stop at a diner, one of the other patrons collapses and a creature which looks like a Xenomorph from Alien bursts out of his chest, exactly as in that movie. (John Hurt plays the character as this happens to him in both Alien and Spaceballs.) It then hops onto the counter, produces a straw boater hat and bamboo cane, in the manner of Michigan J's top hat and cane, and sings an excerpt from "Hello! Ma Baby" while dancing exactly like him.
• Michigan appeared in two 1990 episodes of Tiny Toon Adventures. In "Class Cut-up" he plays the frog that Hamton J. Pig has to dissect for biology class. Every time teacher Foghorn Leghorn turns his back, Hamton's frog gets up singing and dancing, then flops over dead when he tries to bring it to Foghorn's attention. In the second episode, "Turtle Hurdle", he taunts a baby turtle trying to cross the road by hopping back and forth with ease while singing and dancing, but is captured by Elmyra Duff by the end.
• The character appears in the 1998 live-action film City of Angels, starring Nicolas Cage and Meg Ryan.
• In an episode of South Park called "Cancelled", a shapeshifting alien in the form of Saddam Hussein imitates Michigan's "Hello! Ma Baby" routine.
• In the 2005 movie, Son of the Mask, the baby mimics Michigan after seeing him on television.
• On an episode of Chappelle's Show, after a segment supposedly previewing Dave's new prank show on the WB, a crudely animated version of the frog (complete with exaggerated lips ala Sambo )appears next to Dave, singing a stylized "Mammy". When the show reverts to the studio, Dave imitates the frog and accuses the WB of minstrelsy and racism. This incident was not a joke or part of the act. Chappelle has said publicly that the frog is a racist depiction.
• Michigan's "Hello! Ma Baby" routine was imitated by Damon Wayans on an episode of My Wife and Kids.
• In the MMORPG World of Warcraft, a limited-edition pet given to the attendees of BlizzCon is Murky the Murloc, a fish/froglike creature that on occasion bursts into dance in the style of Michigan. A second limited-edition pet murloc also dances in the same style.
• In the 1993 episode of Animaniacs called "Moon Over Minerva", various male forest creatures react to the ultra sexy Minerva Mink. When the frog reacts, he imitates Michigan J. Frog's dancing with a cane as an instrumental version of "Hello! Ma Baby" plays in the background.
• In the video game of Looney Tunes: Back in Action, there is a collectible known as a 'Michigan J. Frog Oscar'. At the end of the game, the monkey with the top hat turns back into Michigan and then he sings and dances away. It is a gold statue of him with a leg in the air. In the movie of the same name, Michigan dances and sings in his post-recorded voice.

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Trivia

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• Chuck Jones stated that Michigan J. Frog was his favorite creation.^{[citation needed]}
• Michigan J. Frog makes a cameo appearance in episode "Flush, Flush, Sweet Helga" of the The Oblongs, when Helga gets trapped in a sewer, he can be seen trapped in a spider web.
• Barbershop quartet Michigan Jake based their name on that of Michigan J. Frog when they formed in 1995. They went on to win the international championship of the Barbershop Harmony Society in 2001.
• Appears on the cover of Leon Redbone's 1975 debut On the Track.^[2]
• Bill Roberts, the Warner Brothers contract singer who provided the original voice of Michigan J. Frog, can be seen as the singing trapeze artist in the short film "Let's Sing An Old Time Song." link
• the Michigan J. Frog story is based on Ol' Rip the Horned Toad^[3]

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References

1. ^ Bill Roberts (VIII)
2. ^ On The Track
3. ^ Texas Twisted | Old Rip

External links

• "Frog Croaks; WB Suits Squeal" - Washington Post "obituary"
• Images of Michigan J. Frog
• WB mascot Michigan J. Frog croaks
• Michigan J. Frog and The Songs of One Froggy Evening
• Quotes to One Froggy Evening

Other sources

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