Personally, I think it’s funnier than “all your base.”
Poor kid lost his McDonald’s promo toy and put up a flyer for it. Let me say now, that the young man’s condition is not at issue here and I don’t mean to make light of it. But his flyer exploded in the same way that “AYBABTU” did, and… damn.
I wouldn’t put this and AYBABTU in the same category, though. The latter persists because it lets North Americans chuckle at the goofiness of the Japanese (in sharp contrast to the Masters-of-the-Universe image which had suggested that by the late nineties they’d be running every corporation in the U.S. with their inscrutable robotlike efficiency) whereas the back story behind “lost frog” is just… sad.
According to a site linked to in the comments of the site that explains the backstory, Terry’s family is aware of the site (I’m not sure what their opinion is). The person who discovered the frog poster in Seattle called Terry to apologize for making it a Web phenomenon, and Terry has a new frog.
I don’t think the pictures (which are pretty darn funny) are making fun of the kid and his condition (in fact, no one knew the origin of the poster until it was researched), but, like “All your base…” just taking a funny and unusual phrase and putting it in unexpected places for comic results. And it also seems that they unintentionally tell a story about the entire world searching for a frog that’s name am hopkin green frog. I think this might be the next SDMB cliche.
Wait a minute, she was little girl child actress just a while ago, and now she’s’s got cleavage? That’s just wrong … well not really… but you don’t want to go fishing around in a little_girl_now_ grown_up_ with_ boobies_ cleavage cause that would be …well… confusing, and potentially jail inducing.