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When an entire town in [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkState upstate New York]] is [[SnowedIn closed down by an unexpected snowfall]], a "snow day" begins when a group of elementary school kids, led by Natalie Brandston, try to ensure that the schools stay closed by stopping a mechanical snowplow driver by trying to hijack his plow truck. Meanwhile, Natalie's big brother Hal is using this day to try to win the affections of Claire Bonner, the most popular girl in his high school, while Hal and Natalie's father Tom, a TV meteorologist, faces off against [[SitcomArchNemesis a rival meteorologist]] for weather coverage of the day's events.

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When an entire town in [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkState upstate New York]] is [[SnowedIn closed down by an unexpected snowfall]], a "snow day" begins when a group of elementary school kids, led by Natalie Brandston, try decide to spend their day trying to ensure that the schools stay closed for an unprecedented two days in a row by stopping hijacking the plow truck of a mechanical maniacal child-hating snowplow driver by trying to hijack his plow truck.driver. Meanwhile, Natalie's big brother Hal is using this day to try to win the affections of Claire Bonner, the most popular girl in his high school, while Hal and Natalie's father Tom, a TV meteorologist, faces off against [[SitcomArchNemesis a rival meteorologist]] for weather coverage of the day's events.
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* DysfunctionalFamily: Tom is the father working as an unsuccessful meteorologist at a local news station, Laura is the workaholic mother who is out of touch with her kids, Hal is the lovestruck and lovesick older brother who obsessively fawns over a girl he barely knows, Natalie is the feisty and adventurous younger sister who wants to save the world (one snow day at a time), and Randy is the bratty baby brother who could really use some ritalin (either that, or a stun gun as Laura's coworker Wynonna points out). They do mature over the course of the day, however.

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* DysfunctionalFamily: Tom is the father working as an unsuccessful meteorologist at a local news station, Laura is the workaholic mother who is out of touch with her kids, Hal is the lovestruck and lovesick older brother who obsessively fawns over a girl he barely knows, Natalie is the feisty and adventurous younger sister who wants to save the world (one snow day at a time), and Randy is the bratty baby brother who could really use some ritalin Ritalin (either that, or a stun gun as Laura's coworker Wynonna points out). They do mature over the course of the day, however.
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I don't think left him for dead, I think they intended to release him after they put it back.


** The kids are seen as the good guys as they are awarded for their selfish desire to want another snow day by getting another snow day even though they tied up the snow plow man, left him for dead, and stole his truck in order to get their second snow day.

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** The kids are seen as the good guys as they are awarded for their selfish desire to want another snow day by getting another snow day even though they tied up the snow plow man, left him for dead, man and stole his truck in order to get their second snow day.
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* ICallItVera: The Snowplow Man's snow plow truck is named "Clementine", with nose art and everything.


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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: The Snowplow Man has a name (Roger Stubblefield), but it's mentioned only twice through the film (the Snowplow Man asks Mrs. Brandston to call him Roger at one point and he does a "nobody screws with Roger Stubblefield!" rant after the kids take his bird) and the kids keep calling him the "Snowplow Man".
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Chuck really does seems to be able to compute that his girlfriend is through with him.

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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Chuck really does seems to be able unable to compute that his girlfriend is through with him.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Chuck really does seems to be able to compute that his girlfriend is through with him.


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* ChildHater: It is made obvious that the Snowplow Man loves to destroy children's fun and it's rumored amongst the children that he ran over one.


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** The RunningGag of children relentlessly pelting Principal Weaver all day long with snowballs is painted as LaserGuidedKarma for him being a very heavily implied DeanBitterman, regardless of the fact that breaking into his house to do so is a crime.

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In 2022, Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} released a straight-to-TV remake of the film, reimagined as a musical.

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In 2022, Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} released a straight-to-TV remake of the film, reimagined as a musical.
musical and [[SettingUpdate now set in 2022]].



* CanadaEh: Despite being set in upstate New York, much of this movie was actually filmed in Alberta, Canada. You know, 'cause they got lots of snow up in Canada. The 2022 musical remake would be shot in Montreal.

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* CanadaEh: Despite being set in upstate New York, much of this movie was actually filmed in Alberta, Canada. You know, 'cause they got lots of snow up in Canada. The 2022 musical remake would be shot filmed in Montreal.



* MechanicalAnimals: Trudy, Snowplowman's pet bird, goes from a real bird in the original film to a robotic raven with a Siri-esque AI for the 2022 film.



** Hal. He admits to counting the amount of times Claire blinks per minute, he knows a lot about a girl he barely knows, he sniffs her whale bracelet when he gets a hold of it, and he has many behaviors that could count as downright stalking.

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** Hal. He admits to counting the amount number of times Claire blinks per minute, he knows a lot about a girl he barely knows, he sniffs her whale bracelet when he gets a hold of it, and he has many behaviors that could count as downright stalking.
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* CanadaEh: Despite being set in upstate New York, much of this movie was actually filmed in Alberta, Canada. You know, 'cause they got lots of snow up in Canada.

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* CanadaEh: Despite being set in upstate New York, much of this movie was actually filmed in Alberta, Canada. You know, 'cause they got lots of snow up in Canada. The 2022 musical remake would be shot in Montreal.
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* WouldHurtAChild: Implied with Snowplowman. Aside from the rumors that he's run over kids for years, he nearly does so to the trio and then pretends to look innocent when he thinks he got them. Also, while it's to get his bird Trudy back, he outright abducts Wayne and straps him to the front of his truck—meaning it's probably implied far more than it seems to be because of that.
* WroteTheBook:

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* WouldHurtAChild: Implied with Snowplowman. Aside from the rumors that he's run over kids for years, he nearly does so to the trio and then pretends to look innocent when he thinks he got them. Also, while it's to get his bird Trudy back, he outright abducts Wayne and straps him to the front of his truck—meaning it's probably implied far more than it seems to be because of that.
that. When he and Natalie confront each other in the last unplowed street, he makes clear that he will run over her if she does not gets out of his way.
* WroteTheBook:WroteTheBook: Principal Weaver says the line below as an attempted BadassBoast. He [[RunningGag spends the rest of the day]] trying his damnedest to run away from an endless barrage of snowballs to no avail, [[HumiliationConga eating his words]].
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* SerialKiller: The kids all believe that Snowplowman has heartlessly [[ChildKiller run over kids with his truck for years]] and given he nearly kills the trip without a second thought and also kidnaps and threatens Wayne, it's not hard to believe it's true.

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* SerialKiller: The kids all believe that Snowplowman has heartlessly [[ChildKiller run over kids with his truck for years]] years and given he nearly kills the trip without a second thought and also kidnaps and threatens Wayne, it's not hard to believe it's true.
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* SerialKiller: The kids all believe that Snowplowman has heartlessly [[ChildKiller run over kids with his truck for years]] and given he nearly kills the trip without a second thought and also kidnaps and threatens Wayne, it's not hard to believe it's true.
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* WouldHurtAChild: Implied with Snowplowman. Aside from the rumors that he's run over kids for years, he nearly does so to the trio and then pretends to look innocent when he thinks he got them. Also, while it's to get his bird Trudy back, he outright abducts Wayne and straps him to the front of his truck—meaning it's probably implied far more than it seems to be because of that.
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* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: The principal is pelted by an endless barrage of thousands of snowballs through his entire subplot - the kids even break into his home to give him a barrage when he thought he was safe.
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In 2022, Nickelodeon released a straight-to-TV remake of the film, reimagined as a musical.

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In 2022, Nickelodeon Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} released a straight-to-TV remake of the film, reimagined as a musical.

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* DeanBitterman: Principal Weaver is never shown doing his work, but his entire subplot revolves around how much he is loathed by the entire student body, who want to pay him back every way they can, which of course leads to him getting pelted with snowballs every winter and thus he [[LargeHam very gleefully celebrates every winter day kids have to go to school]] - which of course leads to him being ''[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill assaulted]]'' with snowballs all snow day long (he really does not helps himself by yelling at the kids to BringIt).



* PhoneaholicTeenager: Age-inverted with Mrs. Brandston, who is completely unable to let go of her cell phone and take [[{{Workaholic}} work-related calls]] at all hours of the day, and it takes her losing it in the middle of a ton of snow for her to finally learn that she should let it go and be a mother more often.



** All of Claire's suitors could count, while they aren't as vocal about it as Hal, they do show up on her property in herds asking her to go out with them.

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** All of Claire's suitors could count, while they aren't as vocal about it as Hal, they do show up on her property in herds asking her to go out with them. That includes her ex-boyfriend Chuck Whealer, who doesn't understands the words "we're through" even when Claire tells them to his face.
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In 2022, Nickelodeon released a straight-to-TV remake of the film, reimagined as a musical.
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The film was originally written as and intended to be a [[TheMovie spin-off movie]] of ''Series/TheAdventuresOfPeteAndPete''. The idea however was abandoned and eventually reworked into its own thing with a new cast hired to play similar but different characters as well. Despite that, it kept the same surreal and exaggerated tone of the show even if that wasn't abundantly clear to those who were unaware.
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* BrainlessBeauty: Chad Simmons manages to get high ratings in the meteorologist time slot because he's very handsome (Chevy Chase vs. [[Series/TheDukesOfHazzard John Schneider?]] No contest) and charming, but he doesn't understand jack of how the science works and can't even pronounce the terminology right (at one point, pronouncing "Doppler" as "DOPE-ler" on-air). Tom finally manages to expose him as a fraud by asking him to explain how snow is made for a crowd and Simmons tries to do so by saying it's magic in a way that even the kids in said crowd believe is stupid.

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* BrainlessBeauty: Chad Simmons manages to get high ratings in the meteorologist time slot because he's very handsome (Chevy Chase vs. [[Series/TheDukesOfHazzard John Schneider?]] No contest) and charming, but he doesn't understand jack of how the science works and can't even pronounce the terminology right (at one point, (like pronouncing "Doppler" as "DOPE-ler" on-air)."DOPE-ler"). Tom finally manages to expose him as a fraud by asking him to explain how snow is made for a crowd and Simmons tries to do so by saying it's magic in a way that even the kids in said crowd believe is stupid.
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* BrainlessBeauty: Chad Simmons manages to get high ratings in the meteorologist time slot because he's very handsome (Chevy Chase vs. [[Series/TheDukesOfHazzard John Schneider?]] No contest) and charming, but he doesn't understand jack of how the science works and can't even pronounce the terminology right (pronouncing "Doppler" as "DOPE-ler"). Tom finally manages to expose him as a fraud by asking him to explain how snow is made for a crowd and Simmons tries to do so by saying it's magic in a way that even the kids in said crowd believe is stupid.

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* BrainlessBeauty: Chad Simmons manages to get high ratings in the meteorologist time slot because he's very handsome (Chevy Chase vs. [[Series/TheDukesOfHazzard John Schneider?]] No contest) and charming, but he doesn't understand jack of how the science works and can't even pronounce the terminology right (pronouncing (at one point, pronouncing "Doppler" as "DOPE-ler")."DOPE-ler" on-air). Tom finally manages to expose him as a fraud by asking him to explain how snow is made for a crowd and Simmons tries to do so by saying it's magic in a way that even the kids in said crowd believe is stupid.
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* BrainlessBeauty: Chad Simmons manages to get high ratings in the meteorologist time slot because he's very handsome (Chevy Chase vs. [[Series/TheDukesOfHazzard John Schneider?]] No contest) and charming, but he doesn't understand jack of how the science works and can't even pronounce the terminology right. Tom finally manages to expose him as a fraud by asking him to explain how snow is made for a crowd and Simmons tries to do so by saying it's magic in a way that even the kids in said crowd believe is stupid.

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* BrainlessBeauty: Chad Simmons manages to get high ratings in the meteorologist time slot because he's very handsome (Chevy Chase vs. [[Series/TheDukesOfHazzard John Schneider?]] No contest) and charming, but he doesn't understand jack of how the science works and can't even pronounce the terminology right.right (pronouncing "Doppler" as "DOPE-ler"). Tom finally manages to expose him as a fraud by asking him to explain how snow is made for a crowd and Simmons tries to do so by saying it's magic in a way that even the kids in said crowd believe is stupid.

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-->"The bird!"
-->"The Wayne!"
-->"The bird!"
-->"The Wayne!"…

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-->"The -->'''Snow Plow Man:''' "The bird!"
-->"The -->'''Natalie:''' "The Wayne!"
-->"The -->'''Snow Plow Man:''' "The bird!"
-->"The -->'''Natalie:''' "The Wayne!"…



** "It's like… Clairestock"

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** "It's like… Clairestock"Clairestock."



* StalkerWithACrush: Hal. He admits to counting the amount of times Claire blinks per minute, he knows a lot about a girl he barely knows, he sniffs her whale bracelet when he gets a hold of it, and he has many behaviors that could count as downright stalking.

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* StalkerWithACrush: StalkerWithACrush:
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Hal. He admits to counting the amount of times Claire blinks per minute, he knows a lot about a girl he barely knows, he sniffs her whale bracelet when he gets a hold of it, and he has many behaviors that could count as downright stalking.

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