... Do not get me wrong, this is an absolutely brilliant Looney Tunes cartoon! It's sweet and can make anyone cheerful. Michigan J Frog is a very sweet little character (and I personally think he should have appeared in more cartoons) and his singing actor is very good. However, the remake, "Another Froggy Evening", is a cartoon I prefer. I personally think it is more my sort of cartoon, as it has dozens of sweet surprises, which this cartoon does not have. If "Another Froggy Evening" did not exist, it would be my second favourite Looney Tunes cartoon. As it is, it is my third favourite, which is certainly saying something huge. I have watched about a hundred Looney Tunes cartoons in my time, so saying this is my third favourite of them all is saying something. The plot and theme of this episode is one of the reasons I love it so much. In "One Froggy Evening", an old building is about to be taken down to build a modern skyscraper, when one of the builders finds a huge stone box. Inside is a smaller green box, where Michigan J Frog lives! The reason why this frog is so special is because he can sing! The builder can see a great amount of dollars in front of him because of the frog and sets off to earn his fortune. Will the frog prove great success for him..?Here are the things I like about this cartoon which are not in/changed in the remake:1. I prefer Michigan's animation in this version to the other version. 2. I thought the man with Michigan in this cartoon was better than all of the men in "Another Froggy Evening". 3. There was very little slapstick in this cartoon, as in the remake there is quite a lot. Here are the things which I like about the remake which are not in/different in the original:1. I love the surprises in the remake. 2. I love the historical settings, which create excitement for me. 3. Unlike in this cartoon, there is a cameo appearance in the remake (which I include as one of the surprises), which is delightful.I recommend this lovely cartoon to anyone who likes a different, cheery, not so slapsticky Looney Tunes. Enjoy "One Froggy Evening"! :-)

***SPOILER WARNING!!!*** "One Froggy Evening" was a cartoon made in 1955 by Chuck Jones of the Warner Bros. fame. It's about a poor man who's working in a construction lot one day and finds a box with a singing frog inside. The man decides to exploit the frog's talents for his own financial gain, but ends in failure because the frog only sings for its discoverer.This short is very unique because the only dialogue coming out of this film is the frog's beautiful singing voice. It's very beautifully animated with a good story developed as well. Apparently, it's called the "Citizen Kane of Animated shorts" by Steven Spielberg because it was so funny and vivid, it clearly would deserve the title! Well worth tracking down. It's on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection, Volume 2 DVD, so grab it and watch this cartoon! 5/5 stars.

This is the single greatest animated short ever made. The uncut version is perfect. The songs are great, the art direction is terrific, and above all the story is priceless.Spoiler: A construction worker demolishing a building finds a frog in a box in the cornerstone. The frog sings and dances. The man tries to cash in on the miraculous frog, but it will only sing for him. After wasting his life's savings and even spending time in an insane asylum, he hides the frog in the corner stone of a new building...I don't know why anyone would possibly another film with the frog character. It would be a travesty to use him in another flick. Besides, he's still in the box, waiting for the next poor schmuck to find him.

During the early 18th Century there was an incident in which an enterprising impresario rented a theater in London, and then publicized a notice that on a specific day he would present a man of only eighteen inches in height, who would be perfectly formed, but living underwater in a bottle, and who would sing for two hours, and dance for two hours, for the audience. The theater was packed when a troubled looking theater owner came out to explain that everyone had been fooled and the impresario was a liar who had fled with the box office. There was no little entertainer in a bottle, and there was no way to reimburse the swindled audience. The audience started hooting and throwing things, and finally wrecked the theater.I don't know if that incident influenced the creation of ONE FROGGY EVENING, but it sounds like it could have. As for movies the closest that I can think of to this cartoon gem of Chuck Jones is a Cary Grant film ONCE UPON A TIME, wherein an opportunistic producer seizes upon a dancing caterpillar. But Grant finds humility in that film. That is not the case in ONE FROGGY EVENING. The protagonist, a construction worker who thinks he hit the mother load, never realizes that the "asset" he has acquired is no asset at all but a piece of living hell.Michigan J. Frog was the star of only this cartoon, but he has since reappeared as "spokes - frog" for Channel 11, and even in one of the Tiny - Tunes that were made in the 1990s, trying to encourage another character to sing. But for his one starring role, Michigan did splendidly. He comes across as a lively singer, dancer, juggler, and acrobat. One appreciates his warbling of "My Ragtime Gal", "The Great McCloskey Fight" (it is while performing this that his juggling and acrobatics are demonstrated - behind a stuck curtain), and the specially written, bouncy "Michigan Rag". The movie audience fully appreciates that Michigan would be the world's greatest performer, but for one habit (one can't call it a failing): he only entertains his owner.It is the owner's descent into despair, poverty, even madness that occupies the bulk of the action. He knows that Michigan is the world's greatest performer...but he can't prove it to anyone. In the course of the cartoon only one other person hears Michigan (prior to the ironic conclusion): a police officer passing behind a fence hears Michigan's excellent, but loud voice, and arrests the surprised owner whom he believes was disturbing the peace! It is like the fates are totally against the construction worker. He has only two moments of genius in the cartoon: when he finds Michigan and runs off with him, and when he finally gets rid of Michigan. One hopes his later life was more stable and pleasant. And one hopes his futuristic replacement comes to his senses in the end too.The cartoon has had influence beyond it's own seven minutes of running time. Mel Brooks used it's situation in a typical twist in SPACEBALLS, when John Hurt suffers a situation similar to what happened to him in ALIEN, when an alien space organism that got into his body burst out killing him. With Brooks' touch it turned comic. The alien jumps out of Hurt's chest (Hurt looks upset, and says, "Not again!") and proceeds to pull out a hat and cane and sing "My Ragtime Gal!" I think Chuck Jones would have been proud.