![]() ![]() ![]() We can’t deny anyone that meaning to them, as far as these characters go. ![]() “For people, a lot of readers of a certain age, Frog and Toad as characters seen through a queer lens is hugely important to them. “What we wanted to do here is create a faithful adaptation of the books,” he continued. “It is part of the books, it’s part of the legacy.” ![]() “You can’t deny it,” Hoegee said of the books’ queerness. Showrunner Rob Hoegee said that he wanted to keep the inherent queerness in the stories and that a “significant number” of his cast and crew were LGBTQ+. As LGBTQNation points out, “the show is wall-to-wall moments of Frog and Toad doing wonderful, lovely things for each other.” While the two never kiss, don’t live together, and never explicitly state their romantic love for each other, it’s hard to see them as anything other than a couple. Sometimes you need to take a break from the real world, and Frog and Toad is the perfect calming, queer cartoon to help you do that.įrog and Toad follows in the tradition of the beloved children’s books, as well as Bert and Ernie from Sesame Street, in that it centers around a “friendship” between two male characters that is very obviously more than a friendship to anyone who is watching. ![]()
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