created by Michael Shawn McKinnon, Tehachapi, CA
created by Eric Skiff (Co-Host of the Alternative Music Show), Queens, NY
created by Michael Shack (aka “puppymeat“), Tucson, AZ (click for full sizes)
“You know it can never work out in the end, but you can’t help hoping it does anyway.”
created by Annie Sanders (before Fluff Radio existed!), Brooklyn, NY
To the Proprietors of FluffinBrooklyn.com:
I came across your website a few weeks ago and was delighted to find that Derby the Frog was featured so prominently in its pages. As a child, I was a huge fan of Super Tadpole, almost bordering on the fanatical. I had every single playset, the commemorative Super Tadpole Gigging Kit, a complete collection of Super Tadpole Trading Cards (including the ultra-rare Edna St. Vincent Melee, Poetess of Destruction Card from the “Super Tadpole vs. Literacy” Episode) and ate nothing but Super Tasty Tadpole Bog-Flavoured Ice Cream from the time they first started producing it until the class-action lawsuit forced them to remove it from the shelves.
I also just so happen to have a recording of the original Super Tadpole Theme Song, composed and performed by the late great Roberto Rigatoni. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have. Please pass on my good wishes and expressions of admiration to Mr. the Frog. For my money, he’s still the greatest superhero ever to grace the Saturday morning cartoon landscape!
Sincerely,
Mason Brown
CLICK HERE to Listen or Download the SUPER TADPOLE THEME SONG
Lyrics:
Child: Wow, poppa that looks like the tadpole we saw the other day!
Poppa: That’s no ordinary tadpole it’s a super hero.
Fighting for justice and amphibian freedom
the world’s greatest hero is SUPER TADPOLE.
He’ll battle the Evil Robot Monkey Ninja Gang
for that is the mission of SUPER TADPOLE.
Concerned Citizen: Super Tadpole you’ve got to help us!
The evil Robot Monkey Ninja Gang
has kidnapped the world’s greatest scientist, Professor Rocco Ravioli,
and they’re gonna force him to combine the DNA
from the 9 most powerful dali-llamas
to create a Super Robot Monkey Llama Lazer
which will control the weather
and cause mutant fishheads to drink cappochinos
in Italian restaurants with Oriental women,
which they never do,
which will set off a chain reaction
that’ll blow up all the coffee on the moooooon! (heavy breathing)
Foiling the over-complicated plots
of his ridiculously inept arch-villain foes.
Arch villain: You’ve spoiled my plans for the last time Super Tadpole.
By my villainous cleft chin, I shall defeat you!
We seriously doubt it, it’s like we just said
you’re a ridiculously inept arch-villain foe.
Arch villain: Ridiculously inept!? Why I!
Oh, that’s it.
It’s not enough to be constantly harassed
by some two-bit pollywog in a cape
but now I’m getting guff from a theme song chorus?
Prepare to suffer unspeakable agonies.
I unleash my Moustache of Doom.
Sweet Jesus, the PAIN
it tastes like burning.
It really, really hurts
(my spleeeen, my spleeeeen!)
(Evil villainous Laughter)
Announcer guy: Once again it’s the hottest show of the 1983 fall season line-up,
the continuing adventures of SUPER TADPOLE.
With special guest Spuds Mackenzie.
Remember kids, this Bud’s for you.
created by Mason Brown, Brooklyn, NY
