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On radio and the early TV shows, Froggy's voice was frequently supplied by Arch ("Archie") Presby, who was also the program's announcer. He appeared on screen in a puff of smoke with the catchphrase, "Hiya, kids! Hiya hiya hiya hiya!" The human host had another catchphrase, directed to Froggy, "Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy!"
A popular segment was the visit from the green puppet Froggy the Gremlin, who would appear in a puff of smoke ("Hiya, kids! Hiya, hiya, hiya!") when McConnell yelled the catchphrase "Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy!" The same phrase was later used by Andy Devine. Froggy was always interrupting the story and causing trouble.
An interesting side element is that the aforementioned rubber toy referred to simply as "Froggy" (and much abused by the Ghoul) was a toy dating from 1948 by a company named Rempel and featured often in comedic skits on the 1955 television show Andy's Gang where he was named Froggy the Gremlin. The Ghoul's oft-uttered catch phrases "Hiya, gang.
A drawing of Smilin' Ed and the cast of Smilin' Ed's Buster Brown Gang, 1947.. Smilin' Ed McConnell (born James McConnell; 1882 – July 23, 1954) was a radio personality, best known as the host of the children's radio and television series, Smilin' Ed's Gang, closely identified with its sponsor, Buster Brown shoes, and also known as The Buster Brown Program. [1]
He is best known for playing the character Froggy in the Our Gang short films from 1940 to 1944, the films′ final years of production. Early life
Froggy the Gremlin, on the Buster Brown Gang radio show and Andy's Gang TV show in the 1940s and 1950s; Froggy, an Our Gang film character played by Billy Laughlin; Froggy, in Russell Banks's novel Rule of the Bone "Froggy" LeSueur, in The Foreigner; Froggy (Sonic the Hedgehog character), a frog in the Sonic the Hedgehog series of video games
Buster and Tige, cropped from a 1906 political cartoon ("Hoist" refers to William Randolph Hearst in rustic New York accent.). Buster Brown is a comic-strip character created in 1902 by Richard F. Outcault.
Fergus or Feargus Gwynplaine MacIntyre (born Paul Grant Jeffery; 9 March 1956 – 25 June 2010), [3] also known as Froggy, [4] was a New York City-based journalist, novelist, poet and illustrator. Overview