This vid has been out of commission for ages due to copyright - still a popular one though and after last week's Blobbymania, it felt appropriate to bring back the Frog and relive a nightmare. Patreon/PayPal links in the description - they're the most consistent way of supporting the channel, all is welcome. Cheers!
The moped sound was actually added to a flash video of a badly pictured F1 car before the Frog model. Can't verify this though, but I remember the flash video doing the rounds before the frog model appeared.
Garthdon I remember downloading a PowerPoint presentation forever ago which had a picture of a F1 car and two buttons: Italian F1 car and Indian F1 car, where the Italian button played some typical F1 car noises and the Indian button played the moped impression.
Scratch that, it's the Insanity Test. Hope that rings a little nostalgic bell in your head. It certainly does for me, I spent hours and hours on that site. It's barely changed.
If i remember correctly the annoying engine sounds were on the internet a few years before. It was titled "try not to laugh" and had a static picture of 2 formula 1 cars racing with that "waaa bbaaa baa wwaaa" annoying noise in the background. Surprisingly without the frog at the time it was funny....
I very clearly remember this too. I first saw it around 2000, possibly 2001. Then later I couldn't believe they'd made a "character" out of what was originally just a vaguely amusing email attachment.
I also had it. I think it was supposed to be the engine sound of Trabant because, well the car actually did sound like that. The .de in the name of the site does make it more probable.
I have never understood way that Ugly Thing was so poplar hell even back in the day I never knew anyone who had the Ring tone or even liked the Bloody Frog @ all :P
Here's an interesting bit of useless info. The first time I saw this frog was actually in a 3d software I was using at the time for character animation called Alias Motion Builder. Today, it's owned by Autodesk(along with Maya) but at the time, the frog character rig came as a part of character sample set that helped you learn the software and his official name was "Zac". Years later I saw it in the infamous music video and I was like, "Hey, that's the frog from Motion Builder!". Here's an old thread about it: forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=204448 Here's an early 2003 thread on the making of the character by the modeler(images missing, but comments are hilarious): forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=5&t=71177&page=1&pp=15&highlight=frog
You made crazy frog a joy to watch for 23 minutes and 19 seconds... well done sir, an achievement that if on paper nobody would believe, yet you did it Kim... you did it!!! *crowd erupts with rapturous applause
Not gonna lie; when I saw this video in my suggestion folder, I pretty much went "Oh God, why?!" And it's been around for years too. Talk about the past coming back to haunt me again.
One of those "attempted sequels" is my favourite piece of evidence of the fact that you simply can't control what becomes a meme and what doesn't. Holly Dolly is the one thing I still remember Jamba (as they were called here) trying to sell us Swedes (and presumably the rest of the universe as well) after Crazy Frog died down, and consisted of a fat CGI hippo dancing to the song Ievan Polkka. AFAIK it came and went and nobody cared. Around the same time, someone put Ievan Polkka over a short anime loop of a girl twirling a leek and suddenly Leekspin is a viral meme and nobody really knows why. Just goes to show, no amount of money and marketing can force a meme into existence and nobody can really say for sure what will turn into a meme until it just does.
hahahaha! When the "relax not yet" sign showed up I literally had my finger on top of the Right key about to skip forward. Also thanks for the subsequent warning and keeping the sfx volume low
My wife used to play this abomination for our 1-year old son. Is was also very close to calling the authorities and report it as a serious case of child abuse. I also had to go to the bathroom and wipe myself with a pine cone to numb the pain.
Born in 93', I remember that little fuck all too well, I was at the worst possible age in 2003 when I first saw that creature, and I went out and bought axel f on cd (Back when cd singles were still a thing), looking back on it I wish I wasn't so impressionable.
Nice little Julia Serano cameo under your stack of PS2 games! 😉 That Crazy Frog was even ubiquitous over in the U.S. -- I ended up with two of the music albums, and never could quite decide if my hatred or love for that sound was the stronger emotion while listening... which I did. A lot. *shudder*
Well, every country has a darker history than you'd think. I remember the axel f cover but I don't think any of the other ones aired over here in sweden. That live dance show is hilarious.
Alianger I seem to remember TV ads for Popcorn (or perhaps it was one of the albums but using the Popcorn cover as the big draw) and We Are The Champions (no idea what they were actually selling that time, I don't remember and I don't really want to).
I like ya, Kim Jutice. You're a blody good egg. I don't know how old you are, but we share a lot of cultural touchstones. More PC than Amiga for me, but lots of overlap, and your episode on Mr Blobby was glorious. Took me on a stoned 2 hour Noel Edmonds-athon. Ended up catching a 1992 episode (I think the series final) of Telly Addicts. Then I ended up listening to a sitcom from 1992 that nearly had me in tears. I cant for the life of me remember the name. Haunting themetune and had scousers in it. Not bread! Anyway, nearly had me crying and I blame you. Anyway, you know what, I have a soft spot for Edmonds. Seems a thoroughly good and playful chap. And best of all? No Yewtree. Keep up the lovely work!
I first heard the audio as part of a comedy email that just featured a pic of a formula 1 car and the silly audio. It was a couple of years after that i started seeing it associated with the frog.
Omg i've been looking for that Frosties kid for 15 years, thought it was a Haribo ad or something, my friends daughter used to cringe when he came on and would scream to turn the channel over, she was 9.
So I work for a major cellular carrier in the USA that lost a major lawsuit because of billing practices from this time. Jamster and all those other services were cash cows. This was well before smartphones and getting content onto a feature phone was difficult. Wallpapers, ringtones, music clips, Java games. Does anyone else miss Symbian and Windows Mobile? Haha maybe not as nostalgic about those days. But yeah these services marketed heavily and this stuff made millions and millions for the cell carriers and services.
As an american....I am horrified. Although, I do remember that the PS2 game came out here. It would show up used at gamestops I worked at occasionally but seemingly barely sold enough to even get traded in much.
I wake up every morning with dumb random thoughts. My thought this morning was: what the hell is Crazy Frog anyway? The Wikipedia page left me with questions. Questions that were answered by your documentary! Thank you - I feel so much wiser this afternoon than I did this morning.
I had no idea it went so far, i thought it died after the first single. Maybe i just repressed those memory's. Maybe the government destroyed the memory's to stop society falling apart. It must have been in the water. They put something in it to make you forget, i don't even remember how i got here.
Did the annoying thing have its appendage removed in later adverts? And didn't a lot of it stop when Jamster / Jamba / mBlox got into trouble from the naughty weekly subscription text messaging hell once parents worked it out and started complaining to ICSTIS?
Honestly, those Jamster ads annoyed me when I was about 7. Random pop music playing for about 5 seconds and a far too energetic announcer, not to mention the copycats.
Axel F: the number one Dance Hit for Australia in 2005, maybe for all the wrong reasons. I'd say this artist's stigma and rep are so bad, you would have to be an idiot to include any of their tracks in a mix or playlist. Which I have, but as the Instrumental Club Mix of Axel F. =] While some of their more popular tracks are kind of sucky, the album Crazy Hits at least has a few catchy tracks, like Get Ready For This or From The 80's. I could even write an album review for this...!
That's from a spoof Jamster advert called "Crazy Twat" -- rooted in reality though, because Jamster would often sell ringtones that consisted of stereotypical impressions and the like.
You re-uploaded it... I was lucky enough to miss it the first time, but you re-uploaded it. I had to watch it, you know. I learned nothing new. The frog was drawn by a Swede. Yeah, well, didn't know that, but it didn't surprise me at all. Not at all. That's what they do over there: drawing nude animals on theire computers with annoying voice overs.
Maybe We Bowring Scandinavians shot com and Plunder u,r Home Kim and then Berne it down after ??? ;[ ] u now like in the old-days UK ;D ;P :D any way omg I hated that frog :) but I kinder miss hem now? odd lol :)
