Looney Tunes Database

1995

Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries
Release date: 1995-09-09
Plot: In 1995, Sylvester and Tweety embarked on a new adventure alongside Granny and Hector in a series that ran for an impressive five seasons called Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries. Almost every 20-minute episode is split into two separate shorts, each revolving around a mystery plot. While Granny solves the crimes, her pets spend most of the time clobbering each other, sometimes even stumbling upon the solution purely by accident. It's also the series with the highest number of obscure cameos in Looney Tunes history that I've ever seen.

Another Froggy Evening
Release date: 1995-10-06
Plot: The short follows Michigan J. Frog through various historical eras, from prehistoric times to a futuristic space age, showing how his presence either influences or completely ruins the life of whoever finds him. In every segment, someone discovers the frog and tries to exploit his singing talent for personal gain, only to end up in disaster when the frog stubbornly refuses to perform in front of an audience.
Name and role: The story culminates with the arrival of Marvin the Martian, who interprets the frog's croaking as a cue to sing, leading to a one-of-a-kind duet in space featuring The Michigan Rag.
Trivia and other appearances: This marks the first and only historic appearance of Marvin alongside the singing frog. However, Michigan J. Frog has had other duets in his quirky career, including with Giovanni Jones and with Tweety and Hector in the Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries episodes "One Froggy Throat" and "Froggone It."

Another Froggy Evening
Release date: 1995-10-06
Plot: The short follows Michigan J. Frog through various historical eras, from prehistoric times to a futuristic space age, showing how his presence either influences or completely ruins the life of whoever finds him. In every segment, someone discovers the frog and tries to exploit his singing talent for personal gain, only to end up in disaster when the frog stubbornly refuses to perform in front of an audience.
Name and role: The caveman in the prehistoric segment is clearly an "ancestor" of the infamous One Froggy Evening Guy, that poor soul. The short never gives him an official name, neither in 1955 nor in 1995. Among fans, he's commonly referred from fans as Froggy Guy, Frog Victim, or simply Ernie. Seeing him in the Stone Age makes it safe to say he's the first in a long ancestral line of unlucky saps doomed to discover the frog and suffer for their greed.
Trivia and other appearances: This unlucky fellow also appears in One Froggy Evening (1955), and makes a brief cameo in the restaurant scene of Looney Tunes: Back in Action, where he captures Michigan J. Frog only to vanish from the film, as mysteriously as he entered.

Another Froggy Evening
Release date: 1995-10-06
Plot: The short follows Michigan J. Frog through various historical eras, from prehistoric times to a futuristic space age, showing how his presence either influences or completely ruins the life of whoever finds him. In every segment, someone discovers the frog and tries to exploit his singing talent for personal gain, only to end up in disaster when the frog stubbornly refuses to perform in front of an audience.
Name and role: Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert were two of the most influential (and famously argumentative!) film critics of the 20th century. With their iconic TV show At the Movies, they popularized a brilliantly simple review system: thumbs up or thumbs down. In the ancient Rome segment, we see them among the audience, using that very same gesture to decide the fate of the Froggy Guy. Classic drama meets pop culture critique.
Trivia and other appearances: Siskel and Ebert make a few more cameo-style appearances in the Looney universe: they pop up in one of the segment in Night Ghoulery from Tiny Toons, as passengers in Animaniacs' "Plane Pals," and most notably, they star in a full parody episode titled Critical Condition, where their signature style gets the full animated tribute treatment.