Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for May 15, 2021

Subsequential, consequential, amphibiquential.

What is Star Wars?

Marsha, Marsha, Marsha.

And frog sticks out his tongue, picks the guy and says, “Just a prequel before I eat you”. CHOMP.

I don’t like requels, too boring !

Within a week, the toads had entirely taken over.

…William Shatner has turned himself into an AI…

…so when he dies family, friends & fans can still sit and talk to him…

…well…

…not really him…

…his requel…

…and while I’m at it…

…every near future space novel or movie has suspended animation as a main way to travel…

…like it’s a given…

…2001…

…The 500…

…The Three Body Problem…

…except…

…it can not be done…

…we hardly can mimic it for a couple of hours for surgeries…

…requel…

Nothing can quel the hilarity.

After their failure to revive the Indiana Jones genre, combining it with popular video game memes, with Mario and the Plumber’s Crack of Doom, the studio tried turning Mr. Toads Wild Ride into a live action series, beginning at the middle of the ride, planning to flesh it out with further releases.

Dark Shadows the batter is a Bullfrog.

And here is Prequel, the gold medal winner this year at Calaveras County.

4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9 … up, up, and awaaay …!

Cycle

A great frog performance. Let’s give him a round of applause!

Have I toad you about our delicious frog legs?

Quel quel? The quell you say…

You can see why that frog is celebrated.

It’s a regular Hollywood trope. Make a moderately successful “popular” movie, then make sequel after requel until the original (more or less) idea has been milked so dry that it crumbles to dust.

They call them “franchises,” and make bazillions of extra dollars from franchise marketing of DVDs (or whatever current format), action figures (J, Thaddeus Toad is a guaranteed Best Seller!), graphic novels and/or comic books, kitchen knickknacks and other tchotchkes, tee-shirts, etc.

The Frog Applause Entertainment Company (a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Froglandia Bath Mat Factory LLC) is now seeking financing (“executive producers”) for the projected Adventures of J. Thaddeus Toad Through Space and Time franchise, having engaged a famous but anonymous science-fiction and fantasy author to produce a script for installment one, tentatively titled “Toad on the Road Again!”….

Spork: when the next phaser is tuned to stuna not piano.

Fork is in the middle…

Spoon is outer limits.

Where man has not ever gone? Somewhere to Mercury.

…frogs…

…it had to be frogs…

…like the Frog and you will receive a big reward within 24 hours…

…side affects(effects?) include warts on the tongue…

…the dawning of the age of Aquarius…

…lame car wash coupons…

…cat memes…

…and shame on Facebook…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64Qq31ucGy0

Hold applause till Fat Lady Frog sings. Mama Cass is the only one getting fat. She comes back as fat lady frog going whole hog on pizza.

Day 2. Filming had to be be postponed because the slippery star slipped off the wagon again….

Who let the frogs out (cro, cro, cro, Croak) …? And you thought herding cats was a challenge …!

Frog Bert got caught, again.

That is one bad mother—.

What’s with all the Front Loops?

The Butler did it.

I’m sorry, this caption doesn’t seem to have legs.

Unless, of course, we have a grasp of the situation