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1* Really, the premise itself (though [[SoBadItsGood not by intention]])! Just say it out loud with a straight face: a magical prince in a medieval kingdom gets turned into a frog by his evil aunt, who wants to rule the world. [[AssPull Then]] the prince is saved by the Loch Ness Monster and [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext grows up to be an anthropomorphic human-sized frog who becomes a French secret agent with a sentient car in the early 1990s and confronts a hammy cult leader voiced by BRIAN BLESSED who, assisted by the protagonist's seemingly-ageless aunt and a troop of cyborgs, Nazi SS officers and Klansmen, is scheming to shrink and purloin British landmarks and unleash a sleeping virus on Britain from his snake-shaped airship enabling him to achieve world domination]]. It almost feels like [[ClicheStorm a]] ''[[ClicheStorm parody]]'' of [[UsefulNotes/TheRenaissanceAgeOfAnimation late '80s/early '90s animated family features]] with its cookie-cutter fairy tale plot, stock sidekick characters and AwardBait music, and yet the experience is just so indescribably bizarre. It's up there with films like ''Film/PinkFlamingos'' or ''Film/TheRoom2003'' who's mere ''existence'' is hilarious in and of itself!
2* The RunningGag involving the Brigadier and the telephone. The third variation actually involved ALL of the members getting tangled in the telephone cords! It's one of the few intentionally funny jokes in the film that works.
3** In fact, right after the disappearance of Canterbury Cathedral was announced by the BBC, a telephone made a distorted, very hilarious-sounding ring while shaking uncontrollably, and its final one got it to shake violently enough to go flying right off the pillar it hung from before the Brigadier caught it.
4* Near the end when Freddie is in a coma and his comrades are captured by El Supreme begins to monologue how Freddie is too late in stopping his plan with his sword unsheathed. This is a rather serious scene and makes El Supremo a little menacing...and then he lightly bends his sword resulting in it make a "Boing" sound.

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