The Frog Prince
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The Frog Prince (German: Der Froschkönig) is a fairy tale, popularized by the Brothers Grimm's written version, of a spoiled princess who reluctantly befriends a frog, who magically transforms into a handsome prince. Although in modern versions the transformation is invariably triggered by the princess kissing the frog, in the original Grimm version of the story, the frog's spell was broken when princess threw it against a wall in disgust, and in other early versions it was sufficient for the frog to spend the night on the princess's pillow. Some variations of the story have used a toad instead of a frog, but with the same storyline. A fairy tale is a story, either told to children or as if told to children, concerning the adventures of mythical characters such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, giants, and others. ... Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm The Brothers Grimm (Brüder Grimm) are Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm and were well known for publishing collections of German fairy tales, as Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Childrens and Household Tales), in 1812, with a second volume in 1814 (1815 on the title page), as... Pobblebonk, Australia Frogs are amphibians in the Order Anura, which includes frogs and toads. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...
A popular phrase related to this story is: You have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find your handsome prince. It is used to encourage females with romance troubles.
A version of this character exists in the Fables comic book, known as "Flycatcher." He is first seen as the quasi-permanent janitor of the main building of the New York City Fabletown, the Woodland Apartments. He has this job because he is always on community service for the offense of eating flies---this violates Fabletown law because it might draw the attention of the "mundys" (non-Fables) to the presence of the Fables among them. Flycatcher left a wife and children back in the "Homelands" from which the Fables escaped, and when released from community service in the wake of Prince Charming's election as mayor of Fabletown, vice King Cole, he immediately starts trying to find an open gate back to the Homelands. Fables is a Vertigo comic book series created and written by Bill Willingham. ...
A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ...
Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the United States, the most densely populated major city in North America, and is at the center of international finance, politics, entertainment, and culture. ...
Fabletown is the clandestine community of Fables resident in New York in the Fables comic book universe. ...
Community service refers to service that a person performs for the benefit of his or her local community. ...
Fly can refer to any of the following things: A fly (plural flies) is any species of insect of the order Diptera. ...
Prince Charming meets Cinderella in a 1912 book of fairy tales. ...
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1950's American TV Comic Ernie Kovacs, as his character Pierre Ragout, told this story on his show one night. He employed the version of frog spending the night on the princess' pillow and the princess waking up the next morning "to find a handsome prince lying in her bed". He then concluded with the punch-line, "And you know something, boys and girls? To this very day, her parents don't believe a word of it."
