OK, I'll admit I was half-snoozing during a late-afternoon session for ABC's remake of "The Ten Commandments" from Robert Halmi Sr., the man whose last Biblical epic, on Noah, I mostly recall for having included pirates.

I've been assured there are no pirates in Halmi's version of the Moses story, but there are apparently frogs, and something about this exchange woke me right up:

Reporter: "Mr. Halmi, I'm sorry to revisit the issue of frogs. I'm just trying to get this straight. I think you first said, 'I had a thousand real frogs, no CGI frogs.'

"And then you said later, 'I have CGI people in it' -- 'I have no CGI people in it. I have CGI frogs.' "

Robert Halmi Sr.: "OK. The facts, I had a thousand live frogs."

Reporter: "OK."

Robert Halmi Sr.: "In the background, when the frogs hopped away and created that hole, I had to put some CGI frogs in there to fill -- because I cannot train frogs. All I can do is dump them on the set in big buckets and then they hop wherever they want to hop."