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Michigan Jackson [1] Frog is an animated cartoon character from the Warner Bros.' Merrie Melodies film series. Originally a one-shot character, his only appearance during the original run of the Merrie Melodies series was as the star of the One Froggy Evening short film (December 31, 1955), written by Michael Maltese and directed by Chuck Jones. [2]
The frog had no name when the cartoon was made, but Chuck Jones later named him Michigan J. Frog after the song "The Michigan Rag", which was written for the cartoon. Jones and his animators studied real-life frogs to achieve the successful transition from an ordinary frog to a high-stepping entertainer. [ 6 ]
Michigan J. Frog (voiced by John Hillner in the original series, Fred Tatasciore in Tiny Toons Looniversity) – He made appearances in "The Wide World of Elmyra" and "Psychic Fun-omenon Day". In Tiny Toons Looniversity , he appears in the episode "Souffle, Girl Hey" as the host of a cooking show "Top Hat Chef", a parody of Top Chef .
The WB Television Network (shortened to The WB, stylized as "THE WB", and nicknamed the "Frog Network" and/or "The Frog" for its former mascot Michigan J. Frog [3]) was an American television network launched on broadcast television on January 11, 1995, [4] as a joint venture amongst the Warner Bros. Entertainment division of Time Warner, the Tribune Broadcasting subsidiary of the Tribune ...
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McCarthy was chosen by Chuck Jones to be the voice of Michigan J. Frog in his 1995 Another Froggy Evening, a sequel to the original 1955 cartoon One Froggy Evening. McCarthy went on to voice Michigan J. Frog, "spokesphibian" for the WB Television Network .