Trivia / Crazy Frog

• Creator Backlash: Erik Wernquist immediately regretted selling the character to Jamster once he saw that they had chosen to rename it Crazy Frog.
  "If I had known that this was going to be such a big thing I would not have allowed them to use that stupid name. It has nothing to do with the character. It's not a frog and it's not particularly crazy either."
• One-Hit Wonder: The Frog's cover of "Axel F" was popular enough to keep Coldplay off the #1 spot on the UK Singles Chart and reach #50 on the Billboard Hot 100 while his cover of the synthpop classic "Popcorn" enjoyed limited success in Europe, but to the surprise of no one, the gimmick couldn't sustain many more hit songs after that, though as a slight subversion, it did lead to Crazy Frog releasing 2 songs for the Christmas Chart in successive years, and one for the World Cup, all of which made the U.K. top 20, though these are largely forgotten.
• Orphaned Reference: As a result of some versions removing the explosion from the end of the "Axel F" video, Crazy Frog suddenly appears covered in ash at the end for no reason.
• Recycled Script: The music video for A Ring Ding Ding Ding has the same premise as ''Popcorn with the beginning and end being the main differences. In both videos, The Annoying Thing stumbles upon the main villain's Drone army by chance and ends up having to avoid them only for the Big Bad to lose when their project goes out of control.
• Series Hiatus: Before "Tricky" was released, Crazy Frog had been out of commission for 3 years. For those who only knew about them during their heyday, it seems like The Annoying Thing had been gone for a decade.
• What Could Have Been: An animated series and full-length film was planned but was canceled for unknown reasons.

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