Charlie Strap and Froggy Ball is a 1987 Swedish animated short film directed by Jan Gissberg

Jan Gissberg

Jan Gissberg is a Swedish cartoonist, animator and film director. After studying at Konstfack in Stockholm he started working as an animator under Stig Lasseby, and later went on to direct by himself...

 about the two eponymous

Eponym

An eponym is the name of a person or thing, whether real or fictitious, after which a particular place, tribe, era, discovery, or other item is named or thought to be named...

 characters created by Thomas Funck

Thomas Funck

Thomas Fredrik Georg Funck was a Swedish baron , author of children's literature, radio personality and voice artist, most famous for his stories about Charlie Strap and Froggy Ball .-Early career:Funck, who started out writing literature aimed for adults, has claimed to never have had...

. Funck also provides all voices.

It was followed in 1991 by the feature-length film Charlie Strap and Froggy Ball Flying High

Charlie Strap and Froggy Ball Flying High

Charlie Strap and Froggy Ball Flying High is a 1991 Swedish animated feature film directed by Jan Gissberg after an original script by Thomas Funck, using Funck's already well-established characters. It follows a shorter film made by the same team in 1987, Charlie Strap and Froggy Ball...

, made by the same team in the same style.

Plot

One day Charlie Strap's good friend The Hen is kidnapped by two crooks called Pudding and Kalson. Charlie Strap, who has just been invited by Froggy Ball to participate in the virgin ride of his new car, constructed by Plåt-Niklas and himself mainly out of an old shoe and a well-shaken soda bottle, begins the chase. But the start is miserable as their other friend The Parrot also ends up being kidnapped. It turns out, though, that the kidnappers might not be purely evil after all: they work as stage magicians and just happen to need a hen for a trick they are performing. Charlie Strap and the others continue to chase the kidnappers through air, on the ground and on water skis until the final showndown. Maybe they can find another trick.

Cast

• Thomas Funck
  Thomas Funck
  Thomas Fredrik Georg Funck was a Swedish baron , author of children's literature, radio personality and voice artist, most famous for his stories about Charlie Strap and Froggy Ball .-Early career:Funck, who started out writing literature aimed for adults, has claimed to never have had...
  
  -Charlie Strap,Froggy Ball,Plåt-Niklas,The Parrot,The Fox,Pudding,Karlsson,The Chicken