Toons You Might've Missed: Flip the Frog in Soda Squirt (1933)

 Before signing on with Disney, Ub Iwerks was already developing a reputation in the animation industry.

Iwerks created Flip The Frog, whose shorts were distributed by MGM from 1930-3. The Iwerks estate owns the rights to Flip, which is why we haven't seen him on TV over the years.

The series finale, "Soda Squirt", from 1933, follows the familiar pattern of using established Hollywood stars such as Laurel & Hardy, the Marx Brothers (all four in this case), Mae West, Joe E. Brown, Jimmy Durante, and Lionel Barrymore. Coincidentally, all of them, I believe, were under contract to MGM at the time, except the Marx Brothers, who were with Paramount, and would sign with MGM later in their careers.

Rating: B-.