Frosty the Snowman Review

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beyond your wildest imagination. I suppose it

all started with the snow. You see, it is a very

special kind of snow. A snow to make the happy

happy and the giddy even fiddly. A snow to make

a homecoming holier and natural enemy friends.

Natural. For it was the first snow of the season.

And as any child can tell you, there's a certain

magic to the very first snow. Especially when

it falls on the day before Christmas. For when

the first snow is also a Christmas snow, well,

something wonderful is bound to happen. Merry

Christmas. It is Christmas Eve here on Tooncast

Beyond. The 25 days of Tooncast Beyond Christmas.

This is the penultimate episode for the first

annual 25 days of Tooncast Beyond Christmas.

I'm, of course, TFU and Mike. Joining me in his

own ghetto cast radio is Doug Able from Talking

About My Generation. You ass. Hello And of course

joining us via the interwebs is that snowed -in

snowman himself Steve Megatron I'm feeling a

little frosty And it is Christmas Eve folks and

of course, what would Christmas Eve be without

frosty the snowman the classic rankin bass special

featuring Jimmy Durante and a bunch of other

people that Doug will list off from his phone.

Oh yes, Jackie Vernon, Billy DeWolf, Paul Freeze,

my god, the indomitable Paul Freeze, and of course,

June Perret. Of course, of course. And Frosty

the Snowman, for those of you who have been living

under a rock for the last god knows how long,

is basically about a bunch of school kids and

the snowman They brought to life one day, uh

with a magic hat and is it it's mr. Hinkle, isn't

it? Uh The magician yeah, I don't think they

actually ever say I could have sworn his name

was hinkle Might have been might have been and

I don't know um So, let me see here i'm gonna

have to edit all this out because i'm just gonna

look here. Let's see Yeah, professor yeah, I

was right Billy DeWolf professor Hinkle. I was

right. All right, okay So yes, professor Finkel

Finkel Wow fuck Laces out asshole The Jim Carrey

joke spectacular Yes, mr. Hinkle is the magician

voiced by Billy DeWolf and it's about him and

his quest for a new Magic hat and he has hocus

pocus the rabbit with him in his current magic

hat in this magic hat Helps Karen and her other

schoolmates build frosty the snowman Doug when

did you first see this? Do you remember what

age you were when you first saw this? Oh geez

I would probably say you know seven eight years

old right around the same time that I saw with

the Grinch and Rudolph and all the other specials

because this was one of those ones that CBS again

would show every year and so my parents would

sit me down and say Here's a lovely Christmas

episode for you to watch Absolutely, what about

you Steve? Do you remember when you first saw

this? Yeah, I remember it. I wouldn't say that

it's like one of my Absolute favorites. I know

that's blasphemy, but I Blasphemer! What's sad

is I prefer the newer one Just because I've watched

it more times with my kid. I I don't I don't

find this one like I enjoy it like the first

few times I see it but with the proximity of

of amount of times that my kid is Had me watch

these films. I'd never care to watch it again,

but that's just personal preference I'm not saying

that it's not a good film because I know that

it is Yeah, you know i'll give Mike the i'll

give him this mike is that you know, gray griffin

does voice one of the characters in the new frosty

So it can't be that bad. That's the voice cast

is spectacular in the new one Not saying anything

about the old Yeah, yeah, I just remember for

me I what I remember about frosty the snowman

the Jimmy Durante Paul Fries one the one that

we're talking mainly talking about here is that

It was the quintessential Snowman cartoon for

Christmas. It was you know, the whole thing going

along with the song and everything else and and

then they had friggin Dan Roseanne's husband

John Goodman. I don't know. I love John Goodman,

but wow, they had him come back and do frosty

returns Are you friggin kidding me? I have a

third one that got Bill Fagerbacke. That works,

you know. Which actually isn't that bad. Yeah.

Now all you need is a sponge for a magician.

No way, that's Peter Griffin. You screwed the

pooch on that. Yeah, I don't like SpongeBob,

so I just know that they sound annoying equally.

Yeah. um yeah frosty is like i said a pretty

a pretty simple tale he he's got to get to the

uh to the north pole because it's too it's not

cold enough for him and hiding in a refrigerated

boxcar is a good idea for snowmen but not for

little girls apparently uh what i love about

this outside of frosty and the kids and the way

hinkle uh reacts and acts during the whole thing

I love me the rabbit hocus pocus. I had a rabbit

as a as a kid. She wasn't named hocus pocus,

but hocus is one of those just absolutely funny

cartoon characters. I just anything that that

rabbit did, I just absolutely loved as a kid

and even now. And I mean, you got Jimmy Durante

narrating. How how awesome is that? Yeah, the

fact that he was singing along with with the

song and. There's just something classic about

hearing, you know a classic movies in a black

-and -white film era Singer like that, you know,

I mean, you know Danny K or Frank Sinatra or

no tap dancing No, no, I'm just saying, you know

cuz you had all of them doing all the specials

for like the ranking And bass stuff and now you've

got Jimmy Durante coming in for this rank and

bass episode for this, you know this one It was

classic. It's great. I loved it Yeah, it really

really is Steve what are some of your other thoughts

on frosty as far as the plot the characters and

the animation style No, I enjoyed the animation

style It was I Liked the fact that it was it

was a little bit different. It was a lot brighter

and There really weren't any animation defects

with it which We're kind of prone a Little bit

and some of that older animation, but it wasn't

really present there and then I loved the you

know how they they did things with frosty or

you know the the kids and Just the overall premise

of it wasn't really that bad. I I Enjoyed how

the hat brought him to life and be in the the

magician thought you know this hat sucks It's

it's not any good There's no good magic tricks

left in it, and then he, you know, discards it,

and then come to find out he's a moron. And then

he wants it back because, you know, creepy him.

Oh, it works. I must have it. And then Santa's

like, I must have that hat. I must have it. And

then, you know, Santa puts him in his place,

like, hey, dude, you're a thief. And you're...

You know, I know Steve's not gonna have a connection

to this, but do you think about it Doug? Santa

Claus is car Yeah, he's this Paul freeze for

those that don't know Paul freeze returned as

the night automated roving a robot and Knight

Rider After Peter Cullen did it the first time

and I'm just like I remember as a kid after watching

that night Rider episode watching this special

Car as Santa Claus what's going on here? Well

What tripped me out? Okay, is that if anybody

had ever been to Disneyland and went on the Haunted

Mansion ride? There's an introduction that goes

through and it talks about the 99 ghosts and

how there's always room for a hundred Paul Fries

was the original narrator for that and so for

me to hear Paul Fries as Santa Claus I kept thinking

Wow, Santa Clauses is the guy who's at the haunted

mansion leading the way. Mm -hmm. Okay, whatever

Yeah, it was it was just so fun it really really

was I absolutely love the frosty special and

and like I've said folks over the last, you know

Three days here between 20 and all four between

20 and 24 now these specials for a lack of a

better word are just special to me they really

are yes last year I may have had like a little

bit of a my own Grinch thing of not wanting to

watch them luckily Jennifer picked me up out

of that but it's just one of those things where

I can't see the holidays without Charlie Brown

the Grinch grandma Mickey and Pluto's Christmas

tree and Mickey's Christmas Carol and this and

what we'll talk about tomorrow Rudolph I just

can't see Christmas without them. It's just like

a lot of people You know don't see Christmas

without it's a wonderful life for me. I just

couldn't get past the title and Christmas vacation

a lot of people can't see can't you know get

into the Christmas spirit without at least watching

that once and Now looking at this Rankin best

special with frosty I know this will never happen

because Rankin -Bass is no longer a thing, but

this would have been amazing. This, the frosty

animation style, Doug's gonna jump up and punch

me when I say this. I know he is. This would

have been awesome if they would have made a Christmas

story animated version like this. I can see it,

but at the same time... I mean, just this, just

the frosty specific animation, the bright colors

and everything else, especially with the whole...

I triple dog dare. You know, they could work

in the temperature thing and everything else.

I just think that was so cool. Yeah, I'm not

going to say it would be a bad thing, but at

the same time, it's not something that I'd necessarily

seek out. Anything's better than Christmas. A

Christmas story, too. You know, you shut up or

I'm going to make you watch it. I have it right

up there behind me. I know you and your leg.

You should do it. Torture him. Do it. You have

a limited time offer. Offer expires while you're

right. Operators are standing by. No one's going

to get that. Frosty between Jimmy Durante, Paul

Freeze, the story, all the characters. Just absolutely

love it. know from some of the people who may

or may not be listening to this is what do you

think of frosty comment on on this post on kestrel

.com and and let us know do you just watch this

original frosty do you watch frosty returns have

you seen the new frosty i have not i didn't even

know there wasn't new frosty until steve mentioned

it it's on netflix for those wanting to watch

it my son loves that film Cool. We've watched

it probably four times already. Wow. This year.

Wow. This week. This day. Yeah, this day. Yeah.

Poor Steve. What would you give zero to five,

Steve, for the original Frosty? I guess I'll

give it a four. I mean, I love the premise overall.

Like, you know, the kids helping Frosty and then

Frosty ending up having to sacrifice himself

to save the kids. Mm -hmm. What about you Doug?

I would probably give it about the same. It's

not one of my absolute favorite films You know,

it's not something that I actually seek out every

year to watch but I still like it So I'm gonna

give it that for I gotta give it five it's just

one of those ones that i have to seek out every

single year because it's the only and i will

give the legend of frosty a try i'm not saying

i won't but until steve told me about that the

only other sequel we had was frosty returns and

as i'm as i said i'm sorry i think it's not continuity

yeah i know thank god You got Andy Griffith narrating

the damn thing. So it's like he was still alive

back then. Yes. He was my god Why yes, he was

You know, you keep waiting for it be Ian Barney

to pop out Lord Yeah, or um or Tyler Connor from

Matlock for crap sake. Yeah. Oh my god. All right,

folks. That's day 24 So we got two fours and

a five for frosty Doug we're gonna people find

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day folks. It'll be the final wrap -up of 25

days to cast beyond Christmas come on back and

here Steve Doug and I talk about Rudolph the

red -nosed reindeer because we ain't gonna be

playing no reindeer games Ben Affleck go away

and Turn those blue lights off. Damn it I'll

give you a blue Christmas. joining any reindeer

game then one foggy Christmas Eve Santa came

to say Rudolph with your nose so bright won't

you guide my sleigh tonight then how the reindeer

loved him as they shouted out with glee Rudolph

the red -nosed reindeer you go down in history