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.
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!”….
Superfrog over 3 years ago
Subsequential, consequential, amphibiquential.
Pickled Pete over 3 years ago
What is Star Wars?
Ninette over 3 years ago
Marsha, Marsha, Marsha.
katina.cooper over 3 years ago
And frog sticks out his tongue, picks the guy and says, “Just a prequel before I eat you”. CHOMP.
Zebrastripes over 3 years ago
I don’t like requels, too boring !
Brass Orchid Premium Member over 3 years ago
Within a week, the toads had entirely taken over.
3hourtour Premium Member over 3 years ago
…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…
Kaputnik over 3 years ago
Nothing can quel the hilarity.
Brass Orchid Premium Member over 3 years ago
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.
*Hot Rod* over 3 years ago
Dark Shadows the batter is a Bullfrog.
coltish1 over 3 years ago
And here is Prequel, the gold medal winner this year at Calaveras County.
Howard'sMyHero over 3 years ago
4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9 … up, up, and awaaay …!
*Hot Rod* over 3 years ago
Cycle
Ray*C over 3 years ago
A great frog performance. Let’s give him a round of applause!
Radish the wordsmith over 3 years ago
Have I toad you about our delicious frog legs?
6turtle9 over 3 years ago
Quel quel? The quell you say…
willie_mctell over 3 years ago
You can see why that frog is celebrated.
Sisyphos over 3 years ago
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!”….
*Hot Rod* over 3 years ago
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.
3hourtour Premium Member over 3 years ago
…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…
Brass Orchid Premium Member over 3 years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64Qq31ucGy0
*Hot Rod* over 3 years ago
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.
Sisyphos over 3 years ago
Day 2. Filming had to be be postponed because the slippery star slipped off the wagon again….
Howard'sMyHero over 3 years ago
Who let the frogs out (cro, cro, cro, Croak) …? And you thought herding cats was a challenge …!
Radish the wordsmith over 3 years ago
Frog Bert got caught, again.
ransomknotts over 3 years ago
That is one bad mother—.
ransomknotts over 3 years ago
What’s with all the Front Loops?
*Hot Rod* over 3 years ago
The Butler did it.
David OBrien over 3 years ago
I’m sorry, this caption doesn’t seem to have legs.
David OBrien over 3 years ago
Unless, of course, we have a grasp of the situation