a good example of the unique style of the saunders brothers show is bar hopper, a vietnamese carved wooden frog that appears at many saunders brothers shows. bar hopper has a series of carved ridges on its back, and when the band plays the song "old black toad", ed saunders (and guests from the audience) scrape a hollow wooden rod across these ridges to produce a crackling toad noise. other weapons of audience musical talent include the ugly stick, washboard tie, tamboreens, drums, spoons, and various costumes of wigs or wiggyness!