Best Cartoons Ever - One Froggy Evening

One Froggy Evening is a six-minute, 1955 Warner Brothers' Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Chuck Jones.

In One Froggy Evening, A construction worker involved in the demolition of a building finds a box inside a cornerstone. He opens it to reveal a singing, dancing frog, complete with top hat and cane. The man tries exploiting the frog's talents, but the frog will not perform in front of anyone else.

The man frantically tries to demonstrate the frog's abilities to the outside world, but all to no avail. After his stay in an asylum, we see the haggard man dejectedly hiding the box in a building that's under construction. One hundred years later, the building is demolished by futuristic ray guns, and the box with the frog is discovered yet again, starting the process all over.

This cartoon is great because there is no spoken dialog, only the frog singing. In the original cartoon, the frog and the constuction worker were not named. All of the songs that the frog sings are real songs, except "The Michigan Rag", which was written specifically for the cartoon.

Later, after the cartoon became so popular, Chuck Jones named the frog "Michigan J. Frog" after the original song. The character became the mascot of The WB television network in the 1990s.

Steven Spielberg once called One Froggy Evening "the Citizen Kane of animated film".

You know I am going to sing it.