Dancing Frog

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Familiar number: 118
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Dancing Frog
Hello, my baby I'm a singing, dancing frog! Croaker meets crooner.

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Ability: Has the properties of both a Leprechaun and a Baby Gravy Fairy

Throne/Bjorn: +20% Meat from Monsters, sometimes delevels opponent

Hatchling: perfectly ordinary frog

Familiar-Specific Equipment: miniature tophat, amphibious tophat

	Ultimate Cage Match	Scavenger Hunt	Obstacle Course	Hide and Seek

Mumming Trunk Abilities:

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Cannot breathe underwater

Combat Messages

• Regular messages:

  <name> does a little tap-dance while he sings, "by a waterfall, I'm calling you-hoo-hoo-hoo." You remind him not to go chasing waterfalls, and he winks at you.

  <name> dances while singing, "what else could I be? It's all a ball of cheese!" then he drops back into a squat, ribbits, and winks at you.

  <name> does a little soft shoe and sings, "hello, my baby, hello, my honey, hello, my ragtime gal!" Then he winks at you. It's the best song about PMS you've ever heard.

• Enthroned in the Crown of Thrones:

  <Name> sings a sad song about how hard it is to be green. Your opponent sobs and looks less willing to fight.

• With lucky Tam O'Shanter equipped:

  <Name> winks one of its nictitating membranes from beneath the Tam O'Shanter.

• With miniature gravy-covered maypole equipped:

  <Name> does a series of impressive high-kicks around the Maypole with his delicious, delicious legs.

• With wax lips equipped:

  <Name> sticks his tongue through the Wax Lips and snags a fly.

Arena Message

• None. This familiar has no weaknesses.

References

• A fairly strong comparison might be drawn between this familiar and Michigan J. Frog, but it's purely a coincidence. Really.
• One of his combat messages refers to the classic tune penned by Irving Kahal and Sammy Fain and the TLC song Waterfalls.
• The message "what else could I be? It's all a ball of cheese!" is a misheard lyric from Nirvana's All Apologies, with "all a ball of cheese" replacing the title.
• The message "hello, my baby, hello, my honey, hello, my ragtime gal!" is from the Arthur Collin's song "Hello! Ma Baby" (written by J. Howard and I Emerson) and is part of the cartoon One Froggy Evening.
• Ragtime is a style of music which became popular in the United States in the 1890s, usually characterized by its syncopation (or 'ragged' use) of various styles and rhythms.
• The Crown of Thrones message of singing a song about how it is to be green is a reference to the the Frog