Matt Groening is thrilled Hypnotoad, the mind-controlling frog featured on the TV series 'Futurama,' helped fuel the TCU Horned Frogs' CFP run.
The mind-controlling amphibian now appears in videos created by the TCU production team where his image is accompanied by a bunch of random clips from movies and TV shows and he is always at the center of attention causing the chaos.
“Hypnotoad and rabid football fans make make a perfect symbiotic partnership. I’ve seen the giant video boards at games and have to say they’re very impressive, I think it’s a great secret weapon for TCU. If I were Georgia, I’d give up.”TCU receiver Quentin Johnston didn’t take note of the meme overload videos until a few games into the season, but when he did, he couldn’t help but take in the toad’s powers.
Offensive lineman Steve Avila said that it’s always exciting to catch the Hypnotoad on TV or on fan merchandise, adding that his pervasiveness is “definitely something to be proud of.”College football’s national championship game between top-ranked Georgia and a never-give-up TCU squad will provide plenty of L.A.-caliber entertainment.
Similar to TCU, Groening tried to employ intimidation tactics during his playing career, but never quite got the response he wanted from his opponents.“To intimidate the other team, I put a piece of masking tape on my helmet that said ‘Mad Dog.’ They just laughed,” he said. “I was intrigued by the notion of a being that could control what people believed and thought,” he said. “We were doing an episode where there was a futuristic pet show and I thought it’d be funny if the reason why one animal won was because it had the ability to hypnotize judges.”
“I created Hypnotoad and he hypnotizes people, and he’s really hypnotizing people in real life. So it’s almost like the boundary between the world of imagination and the world of reality has become porous and permeable,” Kaplan said.
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