“Give the frog a loan.”

Bank counter

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The artwork

Norm Macdonald in Norm Macdonald: A frog asks a bank for a loan for a lily pad. The teller is Patty Whack, and the frog presents a shiny pink elephant trinket as collateral. The teller does not know what to make of it and consults the manager; the manager recognizes a knick-knack and authorizes the loan in the rhyming payoff. Performance-page automatic captions retrieved in the earlier source review establish these story elements; manually listened audio is not claimed. The printed line is the user-approved short excerpt, not the full rhyme. A green frog at a wooden bank counter beside a pink elephant trinket, with cream serif lettering above.

The scene

Norm Macdonald Live with David Spade — frog loan joke

A frog asks a bank for a loan for a lily pad. The teller is Patty Whack, and the frog presents a shiny pink elephant trinket as collateral. The teller does not know what to make of it and consults the manager; the manager recognizes a knick-knack and authorizes the loan in the rhyming payoff. Performance-page automatic captions retrieved in the earlier source review establish these story elements; manually listened audio is not claimed. The printed line is the user-approved short excerpt, not the full rhyme.

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Materials and dimensions

Print dimensions: 40.6 × 61 cm
Finish: Unframed print
Paper: Enhanced matte paper
Frame: Ayous wood · 1.9 cm profile
Included: Acrylite protector & hanging hardware

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