Letter Factory

**Letter Factory**, known in the title card as **The Letter Factory** is the first in the LeapFrog video series. It was released on December 9, 2003 by Warner Home Video and later on May 12, 2009 by Lionsgate Home Entertainment.

## Plot

The Frog Family goes to the Letter Factory to work on their presentation of letters and their sounds. Mrs. Frog writes a song about the letters while Mr. Frog tours Mr. Websley around the factory. Shortly after Mr. Websley barges in, Mr. Frog reminds Leap and Lily to keep an eye on Tad as a favor for him. While he was gone, Leap finds some old letters: E, F, G, and H. Tad is so sad he thinks he's too small to learn the alphabet and sadly walks off to learn about letters and their sounds.

A professor named Professor Quigley checks with his ruler thinking he's just perfect for learning letters and convinces Tad to do it with him. He gives Tad his card, and hands the little frog his talking license so that he can meet the professor. He takes Tad to the A room where the A letters scream their sound with Tad when scared by Professor Quigley winking, exiting, and returning to the room dressed as a purple monster, who goes "Ooga, ooga, ooga!" scaring them, and after that, he was proud of themselves. When Professor Quigley takes his monster head off and gets his suit cleaned, the A letters bray their sound like donkeys. The next room is the B room where the B letters sing their sound to the tune of Ludwig Von Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Even the Ludwig von Beethoven bust sings too. Professor Quigley then shouts at the B letters to stop and tells them that they AREN’T cannons and they are the letter B letters. One of the B letters blows on a tuba with a very strong wind which makes Tad and Professor Quigley fly to the C room where it's very c-c-c-cold in here. Then a snowball rolls them to the D room where the D letters play bongos.

In the auditorium, Leap directs the first four letters, A, B, C and D. Then he turns on his remote control stoplight, causing the letters A, B, C and D to bump into each other and damage the set.

At the next room, Professor Quigley allows Tad to ask if this is the E room. Whenever Tad asks, an elderly E trainer with a beard answers with an "eh", which is the right sound for the letter E. Professor Quigley accidentally breaks the egg when trying to clap. Professor Quigley looks at the egg yolk on his hands sadly manages to clean up the mess on his hands with a napkin. They then go to the F room, where the F letters flap their wings and fly as they say their sound. The fan turns on and strong winds blow the F letters, Professor Quigley, and Tad around the room like a tornado making it too windy for the F letters, Tad and Professor Quigley to fly. The G room is where the strong G letters are lifting weights. Professor Quigley tries to deadlift a 2000 pound barbell while he says, "This thing weighs a ton!". In the H room, the H letters are hot and water makes them happy. The H room looks a lot like Hawaii!

In the tour, Mr. Frog shows Mr. Websley where he double-checks each letter to make sure to looks and sounds absolutely perfect. He shows him the first seven letters on the machine followed by a blob named Burfder, which Mr. Frog thinks this is why he double-checks each letter. He removes Burfder and calls an H at checkpoint three.

On the door to the next room, a dot above the lowercase "i" is missing. Professor Quigley tries to fix it with a pen, but it's empty. When he taps it, his face is inked and the dot gets above the lowercase "i". Inside the I room, the I letters say their sound when the playground slime guns shoot green slime on them. In the J room, the J letters jump on trampolines. In the K room, the K letters do karate kicks, leaving a K-shaped hole in the wall. In the L room, the lime colored L letters sing their sound to the tune of Johann Strauss's Blue Danube Waltz while l-l-licking l-l-lollipops.

In the auditorium, Lily directs this time on the letters I with an inverted pirouette, J with a jump split, K with a kick-turn, and L a lunge. But Leap tells her that they are not dancers.

Tad and Professor Quigley next come to the tastiest room (also known as the M room) in the factory where the M letters rub their tummies, eat muffins, and say their sound. Tad eats them and burps and says "Excuse me." Later on, Professor Quigley knocks on the N letters' boarded-up door and yells. A naughty N comes toward the door and sadly glances at two visitors. After the Professor asks him if he could come in and teach Tad the sound of the letter N, the N rudely shouts "NO!" and slams the door for the first time. He later convinced them to go away at noon, near 9:00, or next November by saying "Nope!", "Nuh-uh!" and "NO, NO, NO! NOT NOON! NOT NEAR 9:00, NOR NEXT NOVEMBER! NOT NOW! NOT EVER! NEVER!!!", and slams the door for the second and final time and a mosquito banging on the wall helps the situation either. Professor Quigley had bad news and temporarily tells Tad that they'll have to come back to the N's room soon. But Tad noticed that the N says "N!!" So now that it is good news, the N letters arrive and join them singing the N song. In the O room which is both the big jungle and a big pond, the O letters say their sound as they swing on vines and yell like Tarzan sound as they swing over the octopus in the tropical jungle tub. In the P room, the P letters turn into popcorn as they say their sound.

In the auditorium, Mrs. Frog practices on a piano as the letters M, N, O and P sing.

In the Q room, two guest speakers Dicky Duck and Molly Mallard have a quacking debate. In the R room, there is a race track where the red colored R letters ride on. In the S room, the Guest Speaker Snake's tongue forms the shape of an S as he hisses to the S sound onstage, while the other sound sayings, as the S letters, cheer and applaud with Tad. In the T room, Tad and the English Professor Quigley drink English tea and watch the T letters tap-dance to their sound.

Smoke called smog fills the auditorium. Lily directs on the letters Q, R, S and T. But Leap and Lily have just remembered what their Dad said earlier: they need to keep an eye on Tad!

The U room features the U letters floating up with umbrellas, the V room features the violet-colored V letters vibrating to their sound, the W room features the W letters rapping to their sound, the X room has an X-ray machine where the X letters get their bones seen, and for the Y room, the Y letters hold pompoms and cheer to their sound.

Leap and Lily have searched through almost all the letter rooms from A through X and they haven't found Tad yet, and Mr. Frog is almost done with the tour.

Finally, Leap and Lily find Tad in the Z room where he's snoring with the Z letters, whom they snore to their sound. Lily wakes him up and tells him he has a problem: Leap's lost his voice. But Tad knows how to do it.

After Mr. Frog's tour finally ends, he is concerned about Leap and Lily, while Mr. Websley is excited for the presentation to start. In the auditorium, the letters A to Z appear on the stage and their sounds and sing the letter song. Mr. Frog is very happy and Professor Quigley rewards the Frog Kids for learning the letters not with T-shirts, but with Alpha-Z-shirts. The Frog Kids thank Professor Quigley with a cheer, while Leap thanks Tad for the special presentation.

## Characters

* Leap (voiced by Candi Milo)
* Lily (voiced by Sandy Fox)
* Tad (voiced by Debi Derryberry)
* Mr. Frog (voiced by Kevin Schon)
* Mrs. Frog (voiced by Sheryl Bernstein)
* Mr. Websley (voiced by Kevin Schon)
* Professor Quigley (voiced by Tony Pope)
* Letters (voiced by Candi Milo, Debi Derryberry, Joe Lala, Kevin Schon, Michael Mendelsohn, Ogie Banks, Roger Rose, Sandy Fox, Sheryl Bernstein, Tony Pope)
* Burfder (voiced by Joe Lala)
* Guest Speaker Snake
* Dicky Duck (voiced by Joe Lala)
* Molly Mallard (voiced by Sheryl Bernstein)

## Trivia

* All of the voice actors, aside from Michael Mendelsohn (whose last name was spelled as Mendelson), are credited under pseudonyms as the video was not approved by the Screen Actors Guild.
	+ Kevin Schon -> Reed Waxman
	+ Sandy Fox -> Marie Danielle
	+ Joe Lala -> Mark Cacciatore
	+ Tony Pope -> Anthony Mozdy
	+ Roger Rose -> Loren Manda
	+ Debi Derryberry -> Dee Dee Green
	+ Ogie Banks -> Henry Futterman
	+ Sheryl Bernstein -> Rachel Adams
	+ Candi Milo -> Mary Jo Rogers