This is a jaunty, acoustic ragtime-style novelty track built around bouncy guitar strumming and piano chugging along in a cheerful, light 2/4 rhythm. The singer delivers a whimsical story in a conversational British accent about taking a bullfrog out for afternoon tea, offering jam sandwiches only to be told that frogs prefer flies or Irish stew. The music maintains a steady, foot-tapping pace throughout, driven by straightforward chord progressions and a music-hall delivery that relies on character performance and comedic storytelling.
Visually, the video begins with a sequence of static cartoon frog drawings and web images (including a black-and-white sketch at 0:11 featuring a fly-catching tongue), but around 1:40 it suddenly pivots away from frogs entirely into a montage of vintage viral internet clips. We watch a gibbon repeatedly harassing a dog at 1:40, Conan O'Brien performing his signature string dance at 2:10, and a bedroom dance video at 2:40. The contrast between the quaint English novelty song and the random meme video clips gives the clip an intentionally absurd, surreal flavor.
While the character performance is charming, the track stays strictly within its comfort zone, repeating the same rhythm and chord pattern across its entire three-minute runtime without a melodic bridge or dynamic shift to break things up. The video montage helps maintain visual momentum in the second half, but adding an instrumental breakdown or a sudden tempo shift would give the arrangement a much stronger sense of musical progression.