>Maybe, but I took it as a reference to Crunchy Frog. I may be wrong :)

No, I was indeed quoting (actually, as the transcript linked below reveals, paraphrasing from very old memory) a Saturday Night Live sketch, "Consumer Probe", featuring Jane Curtin as TV consumer advocate Joan Face and Dan Akyroyd as sleazy toy magnate Irwin Mainway. Mainway's company produces Halloween costumes such as Johnny Human Torch (described above), Invisible Pedestrian (basically a ninja costume; has a warning on the package specifying that it is NOT FOR BLIND KIDS), and Johnny Combat Action Costume (a working M-1 rifle, ammunition - as Mainway piously points out - not included). As you might imagine, Ms. Face is not too impressed.

The sketch dates to 1977, so may well have been inspired in part by "Crunchy Frog". (There were several Irwin Mainway sketches; another featured holiday toy ideas such as "Bag O' Glass", a plastic bag filled with shards of razor-sharp broken glass, which Mainway defends as a toy intended for creative children.)

I can't find the Halloween sketch online offhand, but here is a transcript.

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