Michigan J. Frog -        Warbling cartoon frog and mascot for the WB (Warner Brothers) cable network launched January 11, 1995. Michigan J. Frog first appeared in the 1955 animated cartoon One Froggy Evening about a disheveled construction worker who found a box in a cornerstone of a 1892 building that is being demolished. When he opened the box out popped a green frog who produced a top hat and cane and began to dance and sing "Hello My Baby" at the top of his lungs. Seeing the potential for an instant fortune, the construction worker took the frog to the Acme Theatrical Agency but the frog refused to perform for anyone except the construction worker. Frustrated and driven nearly mad at his inability to get the frog to sing for anyone else, the construction worker redeposited the frog back into the cornerstone of a new building (which was found by another construction worker years later who also saw dollar signs when the frog began to sing). Other songs in the frogs repertoire included "I'm Just Wild About Harry," "Come Back to Erin," "Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone," and an original tune written by Chuck Jones and Michael Maltese called "The Michigan Rag" which began "Everybody's doing the Michigan Rag." Baritone Terrence Monck provided the frog's voice. Artist Chuck Jones later named the frog Michigan J. Frog. In 1973 film critic Jay Cocks proclaimed that this animated short "comes as close as any cartoon ever has to perfection.