One Froggy Evening - Funniest Moment

 

If you were going to choose what Looney Tunes director I choose best, it'll be a hard shot. Because I love Bob Clampett's expressively drawn characters. Robert McKimson was best for the acting department and Friz Freleng made some solid concepts.

Now who am I missing? Oh yeah. Chuck Jones. While I do have some praise for his cartoons, their all not enjoyable. Heck I feel like that with Clampett and McKimson too. But when Jones makes good, he makes it REALLY good. 

That's how I feel about One Froggy Evening. This short had more laughs outta me more than any other Looney Tunes cartoon because of one moment. 

It starts with a man trying to budge a cornerstone to find a singing frog inside the box.

This frog is a legend. Definitely the more memorable one-shot characters.

What I like about Chuck Jones's cartoons nowadays is that we relate to some of the characters. The realistic and cynical expressions they give off. It's quite an outstanding experiment of animation for the 50s.

My outlook on Chuck Jones is that he was quite talented for the golden age of animation, but I don't really decide where to begin with his later shorts as he made Tom and Jerry cartoons that were more boring than the Hanna Barbera ones and he was pushing boundaries by making too many Pepe Le Pew and Roadrunner shorts that it became tiring to me. 

My favorite era for Jones is from 1950-55. Excluding the Pepe's and Coyote's. This was when he was like McKimson with the acting and amazing human characters. They barely even talk too which is why I have mixed feelings towards some of the other films featuring humans like with Reitherman's Sword In The Stone. 

I learned once that no dialogue still has a point. And I stand by that corrected. Sometimes it doesn't work like with some of Fantasia's segments or the Pink Panther shorts but I think when your going for a complete narrative. This is the right way to do it.

What made me laugh at this sequence is that despite the frog having a talented singing voice, he can only entertain it by the man who freed him. He surpringly can't affect it by other beings which is just so creative. 

While putting these shots together, I was still chuckling at these. They feel like they needed to become memes or something. 

I love the extra detail when the man is trying to make the frog smile. 

70 years later we would still be as uninterested as this guy.

I think the key to having more fun drawing in the world of animation is just letting your heart out instead of leaving it and making a sell-out. This picture you see here is one of my favorite frames in film history right alongside this frame from Rabbit Of Seville.

I think if Michigan J Frog would've been more amusing he would have potential to become a classic character but I don't mind his dead look he gives to us. It's hilarious.

This short has amazing stiff poses like when the owner shows the frog again while he stops singing, and more funny expressions.

The rest of the cartoon is solid too. I definitely love this sketchy house. It reminds me of One Hundred One Dalmatians. 

However it's definitely not the most flawless. In the final scene, where everything is futuristic, there's this final scene involving another man using disintegration to demolish the cornerstone.

Then this happens.

Yeah, their was this continuity error of Michigan J Frog singing, the backgrounds don't fit in. They re-used the animation from earlier and still you can see the detail of some of the junk piles from the first scene of the picture, there is barely any mess involved. Yeah, I didn't catch it when I first watched it but yeah that was distracting.