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Frosty Returns

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Frosty Returns is a 1992 Christmas Special and semi-sequel to Frosty the Snowman. It is co-produced by Bill Meléndez, made famous for animating the Peanuts specials. It features narration from Jonathan Winters, and features the voice talents of Andrea Martin, Brian Doyle-Murray, Jan Hooks, Elisabeth Moss, Michael Patrick-Carter, and John Goodman as Frosty himself.Frosty visits the town of Beansboro, where he meets lonely kid magician Holly DeCarlo who only has one friend. The two soon discover the town has a dislike against snow and winter, and the power-hungry tycoon Mr. Twitchell invents Summer Wheeze, an aerosol spray which makes snow disappear upon contact. Frosty and Holly must work together to convince the town that winter is a special season and everyone should do their part in keeping it alive.CBS airs it several times every holiday season in tandem with the original Frosty.
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Right-Hand Cat
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Right-Hand Cat: Mr. Twitchell has one.
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Defeat Means Friendship
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Defeat Means Friendship: After Mr. Twitchell fails to destroy Frosty, he accepts the offer to wear the Carnival King's cape and crown, riding in the float.
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Villain Song
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Villain Song: Mr. Twitchell has a part of the "Let There Be Snow" song where he sings "There's No More Snow" and brags about how nothing can stop his plan to eliminate the snow and become king of the Winter Carnival.
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Hollywood Tone-Deaf
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Hollywood Tone-Deaf: Holly's friend Charles. Frosty and Holly even cringe when he sings part of the "Let There Be Snow" song.
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The Complainer Is Always Wrong
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The Complainer Is Always Wrong: When one of the board members raises environmental objections, she gets dropped through a trapdoor.
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Reused Character Design
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Reused Character Design: Because Bill Melendez worked on this special, some of the character designs resemble many Peanuts characters, such as Charles resembling Marcie.
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Bald of Evil
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Bald of Evil: Mr. Twitchell has no head hair and is the main villain who wants to take over the world after he takes over the town.
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This Is a Song
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This Is a Song: A line from "Let There Be Snow" goes, "I found that I get much further when I turn my thoughts to song."
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Smart People Wear Glasses
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Smart People Wear Glasses: Charles wears glasses and is shown to have an obsession with science.
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2D Visuals, 3D Effects
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2D Visuals, 3D Effects: Jonathan Winters sits on a CGI snowflake at the start and end of Frosty Returns. This was later removed completely on later airings, instead just showing an empty blue night sky background with Winters' disembodied voice.
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Green Aesop
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Green Aesop: And a particularly heavy-handed one at that. One of the main criticisms for this special.
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Triumphant Reprise
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Triumphant Reprise: "Let There Be Snow" returns in the climax as Frosty encourages Beansboro to appreciate winter.
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Only Friend
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Only Friend: Charles is Holly's only friend at the beginning of the special.
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Heel–Face Turn
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Heel–Face Turn: After Holly and Frosty convince everyone that snow is important after all, she offers Mr. Twitchell a ride in the toboggan and Frosty gives him the crown and cape even though he was elected the Carnival King. The narrator also mentions that Mr. Twitchell ceased the production of Summer Wheeze and starts making sleds instead.
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Cannot Spit It Out
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Cannot Spit It Out: Holly says this to Frosty upon meeting him outside the amusement park:
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Understatement
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Understatement: This happens when Holly and Frosty see Mr. Twitchell's Summer Wheeze cars melting nearly all the snow on the entire block.
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Creepy Changing Painting
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Creepy Changing Painting: When the camera shows a close-up of a Summer Wheeze bottle and we hear Mr. Twitchell's voiceover, his face on the can changes from a Slasher Smile to a more exaggerated happy one.
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Freak Out
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Freak Out: By Frosty as he and Holly watch snow melt everywhere with thanks to Summer Wheeze becoming popular.
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Ms. Carbunkle on snow while digging it to Holly.
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Where the Hell Is Springfield?
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Where the Hell Is Springfield?: The location of Beansboro is not disclosed.
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Agent Scully
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Agent Scully: Charles is set up as one, although when he does meet Frosty, it seemingly only takes a quick failure to find batteries to convince him that talking snowmen are real in his universe.
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Ecocidal Antagonist
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Ecocidal Antagonist: Mr. Twitchell is a business man who sells Summer Wheeze, a product that can instantly remove snow. He doesn't really care about the consequences of the environment, he's only in it for the money.
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Art-Shifted Sequel
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Art-Shifted Sequel: The animation style is different than that of the original. As is often noted, it resembles the Peanuts specials, which is handily explained by the fact that the animation was done by Bill Melendez Productions.
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Big Bad
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Big Bad: Mr. Twitchell wants to take over the world after selling his product and being honored the King at the Winter Carnival.
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Secondary Character Title
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Secondary Character Title: Like the original special, Frosty has more of a supporting role and it’s Holly who’s the main star here.
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Canon Discontinuity
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Canon Discontinuity: Universal's acquisition of Classic Media allowed the former to formally push this into a different continuity from Frosty the Snowman, when they omitted it from the older special's 2018 Deluxe Edition DVD and Blu-ray.
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Contrasting Sequel Antagonist
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Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: Unlike Winterbolt who is an irredeemable wizard and wants to cover the world in snow and ice, Mr. Twitchell is an immoral businessman who wants to get rid of snow but redeems at the end.
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Award-Bait Song
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Award-Bait Song: "Let There Be Snow".
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Don't Touch It, You Idiot!
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Don't Touch It, You Idiot!: When Holly first sees Frosty wearing her magician's hat, he promptly stops her.
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Soundtrack Dissonance
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Soundtrack Dissonance: It's very unusual to hear Mark Mothersbaugh's Rugrats-esque music (complete with "buh buh" effects) playing underneath Bill Melendez's Peanuts-esque animation instead of something by Klasky-Csupo for the former or Vince Guaraldi-styled jazz music for the latter.
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Digital Destruction
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Digital Destruction: Current airings use an HD remaster that was seemingly created by re-scanning the film negative like any other Classic Media Christmas special, which normally wouldn't be a problem if it weren't for all the digital effects that weren't part of the film but rather added directly to tape. As a result, current airings lack the beginning/ending sequence of Jonathan Winters' character riding on a CGI snowflake (leaving only a barren night sky in its place,) and snowfall is missing from numerous other shots. The only digital effect they restored was the credits (but even those are a little different; closer to the traditional 1980s/90s Peanuts-style credit scroll.) The 2014 video release also adds two commercial fade-ins where there weren't any before.
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Political Overcorrectness
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Political Overcorrectness: Yet another criticism aimed at this special is that Christmas is never mentioned in any capacity and is replaced by the town celebrating a Winter Carnival.
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Ink-Suit Actor
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Ink-Suit Actor: Jonathan Winters as the narrator, and Bryan Doyle-Murray as Mr. Twitchell.
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You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!
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You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: Frosty says this when Holly suggests hiding him in the fridge.
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And Starring
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And Starring: The opening cast roll ends with "and John Goodman as 'Frosty the Snowman'".
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Piss-Take Rap
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Piss-Take Rap: Mr. Twitchell's segment of "Let There Be Snow".
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Corrupt Corporate Executive
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Corrupt Corporate Executive: Mr. Twitchell, who wants to use his product Summer Wheeze to eliminate snow without a care about how this would affect the environment; he even drops a board member through a trap door when she raises concerns about the environmental impact the product will have.
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A God Am I
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A God Am I: During Mr. Twitchell's Piss-Take Rap, he directly challenges Mother Nature to try and stop him from using Summer Wheeze to render snow extinct.
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Continuity Snarl
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Continuity Snarl: A few scenes feature Frosty either taking off his hat or without it without him reverting back into an inanimate snowman.
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Space Whale Aesop
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Space Whale Aesop: "Save the environment because without snow there will be no place for magical, talking snowmen!"
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One-Steve Limit
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One-Steve Limit: It's implied there's another person somewhere who shares Holly's full name, as Frosty thought of when he first met her.
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But Now I Must Go
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But Now I Must Go: Frosty tells Holly he has to leave after saving winter (for no particular reason), though he does keep the promise he'll be back.
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