Flip the Frog

Flip the Frog was a cartoon character created by animator Ub Iwerks upon leaving Walt Disney to form his own studio. In his debut, the two-tone technicolor short Fiddlesticks (1930), Flip was green and resembled a frog in a bow-tie (and coincidentally wound up in conflict with a very Mickey-esque rodent). In subsequent entries, Flip lost his flippers and identifiable frog's head, becoming a more generic creature in short pants and a hat, but still retaining the "Flip the Frog" moniker. The series ended in 1933, the studio folded in 1936, and Iwerks eventually returned to Disney on a more long-term basis as an expert on special effects. 
Flip's escapades occasionally resurface on public domain DVDs and in volumes of Image Entertainment's The Cartoons That Time Forgot series. 
==References==
*In the second season Muppet Babies episode "The Great Muppet Cartoon Show," Flip the Frog footage from the 1932 short Funny Face appears during the song montage "We Love Cartoons."
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