Frosty the Pervert
Some memories that still define the warmest moments of American
television are the long-running animated Christmas specials. There's
"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" (first aired in 1964), "A Charlie
Brown Christmas" (1965) and "Frosty the Snowman" (1969). Many grown-ups
remember all of those shows once aired just on CBS. So somehow
it's still shocking that the soulless, cynical people running CBS today
would find a way to trash that memory. An online video has surfaced
called "Frosty the Inappropriate Snowman," a mash-up of classic
"Frosty" scenes (and clips from the less-than-classic 1992 cartoon
"Frosty Returns") along with a collection of audio graffiti - smutty
sex lines voiced over by actor Neil Patrick Harris, a star of the CBS
sitcom "How I Met Your Mother."
At first, it might seem like
other YouTube travesties where strangers crudely degrade Disney
cartoons like "Aladdin" with dirty talk. But then sadly, it quickly
becomes clear that this one was a corporate advertisement made by CBS
itself in a cheap attempt to create a "viral video" sensation promoting
its Monday night adult comedies.
Never has the "viral" in "viral video" seemed more of a perfect word. It is sick.
It
turns out the Harris lines are actual quotes from the CBS show. The
video begins with Frosty saying to a little girl, "We got to have a
bros' night at a strip club, and both of our ladies are totally cool
with it. Because they understand that it's healthy for us to do that
from time to time. Because it's harmless." The little girl then asks
"Did one of your whores tell you that?"
Then, in a scene where
Frosty's coterie of children gather around a train car, we hear "Open
it! Open it! Open it! Open it!" The train car opens, and Frosty
proclaims, "It's my porn collection!...I'm giving you my porn." In the
next scene, he tells children, "That, my friend, is the Dominator 8000,
the best bullwhip on the market! According to my whip guide. Yeah, I
have a whip guide!"
Welcome to the Christmas cartoon "Frosty the Pervert."
Well-known
scenes of the classic Frosty delighting children by coming to life are
ruined by Frosty saying, "I have been with a lot of women. Blondes.
Brunettes. Redheads. Big boobs. Small boobs. Medium boobs. (We see a
clip of Santa Claus.) Some boobs that were big, but kind of in a bad
way."
The newly crude snowman also encourages the little white
rabbit in the cartoon to indulge his sexual fantasies: "You should have
hit that. Dude, your pants were already off. You had a classroom full
of people to cheer you on. And you can't knock her up because it's a
dream."
The Frosty-trashing lines were not limited to sex. The snowman was willing to
punch anyone: "Come on, that's my thing. I'm always punching guys. Girls. I'll
punch a baby. I don't care." Riding in Santa's sleigh and waving, Frosty says
"My guy at the DA's office scored us front row seats to a lethal injection!" Why
these lines are followed by a laugh track is a mystery.
CBS ends this awful promo with the on-screen line "Some Holiday Classics Are
Better Left Untouched," as if the irony gives them a free pass. Graphics promote
the airing of the original "Frosty" cartoons on December 18, along with the racy
"How I Met Your Mother" on Mondays.
That was bad enough. But wait, there's more. CBS also made another video with
Charlie Sheen ruining "Frosty" clips with lines from another CBS Monday night
smutcom, "Two and a Half Men." We are once more treated to revolting dialogue,
with Sheen's fractured Frosty discussing the rash on his private parts; how he
just had to pass gas; how the ancient Romans were great for their orgies and
bulimia; and how he liked to pick up "do-able grandmas" and single mothers in
the parking lot of Chuck E. Cheese restaurants.
Why do the sickos in Hollywood have to put their whips and chains and sordid
brains all over every last acre of innocence? Why wage a war on childhood
happiness, as if it was something that must be destroyed?
