the brand was parodied as "Vudweiser" and its slogan "King of Beers" was parodied as "Prince of Beers"; thus with the frog "Bud" changed to "Vud". Vud sticks his tongue to the back of a passing beer truck in a manner similar to the Budweiser commercial. Vud then flies through the air attached to the truck but the frog's "Yee-Haw" startles the driver, who then brakes suddenly. This causes the frog to fatally collide with the truck's back door. In 1996, a rap song called Motivators by A Tribe Called Quest samples the frogs. In the January 12, 1997 The Simpsons episode "The Springfield Files", the three frogs say their names, and are then eaten by an alligator who growls "Coors." In the September 9, 1997 direct-to-video film Casper: A Spirited Beginning the Ghostly Trio parodied the frogs taking on a green appearance and saying Bull... doze... er before possessing a bulldozer. An incorrect computer virus report exists, in which downloading a screensaver of the Frogs destroys your computer. While it is claimed this is a virus hoax it is based on the misunderstanding. If the computer was defragmenting the harddrive at the same time, the screensaver interfered with the writing or verification of the data, resulting in overwritten and destroyed data. The assumption was a virus, which is not correct; it was the result of a poorly written program. A 2001 rap song called Terrorwrist (Beneath the Under) by Mix Master Mike samples the frogs. A 2011 episode of SportsNation on ESPN2 briefly parodied this commercial, where one of the three was sportscaster Michelle Beadle in a frog suit. A bumper for the Sirius XM satellite radio station '90s on 9 parodies this ad. An episode of Robot Chicken from the seventh season titled "Link's Sausages" contains a sketch featuring the Bud Frogs, where Bud laments that he has a drinking problem and has contracted cirrhosis of the liver as a result. See also Budweiser (Anheuser-Busch) References External links Article about the Budweiser Frogs Web page describing the build and shoot of several of the Bud Frogs ads Budweiser Frogs at TVAcres.com Modern Ferret Magazine chooses the Budweiser Ferret as Ferret Of The Century Frog mascots Anheuser-Busch advertising Corporate mascots Drink advertising characters