Frosty the… Puddle

December 20, 2009

So on Friday night, Frosty the Snowman was on TV. The hat is put on him, he comes to life and says “Happy Birthday” for some reason, they dance around and have fun, but then they realize he’ll be gone once the snow melts.

So they figure the best way to remedy this is to stow away on a train that’s heading for the North Pole for some reason. Stuff happens and they end up off the train short of reaching the point where every direction is south, so Frosty and the little girl Karen are lost in the woods and Karen is freezing to death, so they somehow end up finding a greenhouse full of poinsettias. What luck!

Frosty, being the dumbass you’d expect of someone who says “Happy Birthday” when he wakes up and who, well, is made of snow, walks into the greenhouse with Karen for some reason. It’s not even clear why he goes in. Karen points out that he’ll melt if he goes in, but he says he’ll only melt a little and goes the fuck in there anyway. Sure, don’t just let her go in on her own and you wait outside. Go in and risk melting when the whole goddamn point of your trip was to keep that exact thing from happening!

Sure enough, the second they walk in there, the evil magician shows up out of nowhere and slams the greenhouse door shut, locking them in there because the door doesn’t have an inside lock for some reason.

The rabbit they were friends with managed to go find Santa, and they found their way to the greenhouse. The door of which Santa just opens right up without unlocking it or anything, so this is either one ridiculous greenhouse where the door can only be opened from the outside, or Karen and Frosty were so immensely stupid that they didn’t bother to try opening the door that was apparently unlocked. Or maybe Santa magically unlocked it by touching it. In any case, he walks in to a dreadful sight… Frosty has completely melted and is just a puddle on the floor next to a crying Karen, his hat and pipe sitting sadly in the puddle.

Now here’s where things get morbid. You see them get trapped in the greenhouse, and next time you see them, Frosty has totally melted. Which makes you wonder how that all played out in between. A sentient snowman whose body is slowly degrading into a water puddle, before the eyes of a terrified little girl. And the snowman himself terrified and possibly in pain through the ordeal, though maybe no pain unless the snow that makes him up has formed a nervous system. Sure, they don’t actually show this happening, but you know it did. And that’s just terrible! 🙁

Okay, okay, Santa makes his little Christmas snow speech and Frosty gets magically rebuilt, but still! Talk about a traumatic experience!