History Main / LetThereBeSnow

* The made-for-TV movie ''[[Series/DrakeAndJosh Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh]]'' subverts this. A little girl wishes for snow at Christmas in her tropical home and Drake and Josh deliver on this via a wood chipper... eventually. It wasn't working until "Crazy Steve" loaded it up with hard cheese instead of Drake and Josh's original plan, ice, which didn't go to well for them - smashing windows and causing other massive property damage.

* This is half the plot of ''WesternAnimation/TheYearWithoutASantaClaus'': the mayor of Southtown, U.S.A. will help SantaClaus get a year off only if [[ChristmasElves Jingle and Jangle]] can make it snow. They, Iggy and MrsClaus have to go to [[AnIcePerson Snow Miser]], but he can only help if his brother [[PlayingWithFire Heat Miser]] allows him, and the two despise each other.
* Another one of Creator/RankinBassProductions, ''The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow,'' is similar. A shepherd boy named Lucas is blinded by lightning and is taken to an abbey, where one of the nuns, Sister Teresa, reminisces at length about the white Christmases of her youth. Lucas admits to his friend Louisa that his greatest wish is to have it snow. It happens at the end while the two are in a Nativity play, and he says her description is so nice that he can practically see it. [[spoiler:[[TemporaryBlindness Then he realizes he actually is getting his sight back]]]].

* Used in ''Series/LasVegas'', even though nobody'd actually wished for snow.

* Music/ArianaGrande's "Snow in California" is about Ariana asking for snow so her man's flight back home gets cancelled and he can stay with her for Christmas.
* Music/HilaryDuff's "When the Snow Comes Down in Tinseltown".

* While it wasn't exactly ''asked'' for, during Duke's time as the Governor of American Samoa back in the '70s in ''ComicStrip/{{Doonesbury}}'', he's standing on a beach dictating a letter to Washington listing the various natural disasters that have hit the island, with a note wondering what could happen next. Which leads to this exchange:
-->'''Duke:''' I'm a reasonable man, Macarthur, so I know this isn't snow.\\
'''Macarthur:''' Don't worry, sir. It never sticks.

* There's a film called ''Film/WideAwake'', which is about a young boy named Josh who is struggling with his Christian faith. One of the more mind-boggling elements of the film is the fact that whether it snows or not (when he wants it to) is one of the biggest factors in regards to whether or not he believes God exists.

* Similarly, at the end of the Creator/KelseyGrammer vehicle ''Film/MrStNick'', his assumption of his Santa Claus powers causes it to snow in Miami.
* The first present that the new Santa Claus gives at the end of ''Film/ErnestSavesChristmas'' is to let a man who'd moved to Florida for work related reasons have snow on Christmas for the first time in years.

* Happens in "The Land of Decoration" by Grace [=McLeen=] where Judith makes it snow by using an artificial version on her model landscape, to avoid having to go to school and face the local bully. [[spoiler: Things get much more sinister after that, though.]]

*** In the original script, even the "Waters of Mars" snow was fake -- it was a "carbon wash" cleaning up pollution, and Doctor's mistaking it for snow made the surviving humans even more suspicious of him. But apparently the creators felt that a fourth installment of the most macabre RunningGag ever would be a little much on top of the events of the episode.

* There's no specific request for it, but a miraculous snowstorm saves Angel's life in a 3rd season episode of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer.'' Seasons later, during Angel's spin-off, [[spoiler: Jasmine]] takes credit for it.

* In ''Series/{{Thunderbirds}}'', the TechnoWizard Brains makes it snow ''on their tropical island home'' for Christmas.

* ''[[Series/DrakeAndJosh Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh]]'' subverts this, a little girl wishes for snow at Christmas in her tropical home and Drake and Josh deliver on this via a wood chipper... eventually. It wasn't working until "Crazy Steve" loaded it up with hard cheese instead of Drake and Josh's original plan, ice, which didn't go to well for them - smashing windows and causing other massive property damage.
* In the Disney Channel Original Movie ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0256466/ The Ultimate Christmas Present]]'' Allie Thompson needs a snow day to complete a homework assignment, so she and her friend ride their bikes through the woods, steal Santa Claus' weather making machine, and use it to create a snowstorm in Los Angeles. [[spoiler: But the machine malfunctions and causes an out-of-control snowstorm that threatens to cancel Christmas for everyone in Los Angeles.]]
* It always snows in ''[[Series/BarneyAndFriends Barney]]'' Christmas specials, always, and it's made all the funnier by the show having been produced in Texas. The town in the series [[EverytownAmerica could be anywhere in America]], but the young viewers don't know that, and the show makes references to cowboys and the like just a bit more often than your average children's show. Combine all that, and it seems like Barney makes it snow in Texas every Christmas [[AWizardDidIt just because he can]].

* Used in ''Series/LasVegas'', even though nobody'd actually wished for snow.
* In the ABC sitcom ''You Wish!'', the genie allows his master's kids one free wish for Christmas Day. The daughter asks for a light snow to celebrate, which he grants as the wishes would wear off once Christmas was over. Then the boy makes the old "Christmas every day" wish...
* ''Series/{{Adventures in Wonderland}}'''s Christmas special has the Queen of Hearts pining nostalgically for the one white Christmas she experienced as a little girl and the other characters going to wacky, unsuccessful lengths to try to make it snow for her. Naturally, it does snow in the end.

* ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'': In "The Great Bookala Escape", the Rangers help an alien called Bookala repair his ship so he can return to his planet. Billy mentions that it does not snow in Angel Grove. When Bookala leaves, he uses either his powers or technology to make it snow as a parting gift.

* In ''WesternAnimation/ScaryGodmother: The Revenge of Jimmy'', Jimmy's efforts to prevent Halloween from coming cause all sorts of odd things to happen, including snowfall.
-->'''Bug-a-Boo:''' Winter's coming early this year? I gotta start making my Christmas cards!
-->'''Scary Godmother:''' That's not Jack Frost nipping at our noses. Something's wrong!

* SantaClaus himself does this in ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas''.
* Parodied in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', in which Bart asks God for some extra time to study for his finals so he can pass his grade. The next morning, school is canceled for a freak snowstorm in late spring. And then he [[spoiler:''[[OOCIsSeriousBusiness actually studies]]'']]. Well, he was originally going to go play outside, except Lisa heard his prayer and guilts him out of it.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'', the adults set up to take their Christmas pictures in the middle of July or something because they never get it right, and the babies start worrying that since they didn't know it was Christmas, Santa wouldn't know, either. They end up trying to ask the weatherman on TV to make it snow (because he controls the weather, right?). It does end up "snowing", but it's a washer with too much laundry soap.
* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' ChristmasEpisode begins with the characters mentioning how warm it is for the time of year. Guess what the weather is by the end...

* Happens on ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'' in "A Cold Day in Miseryville", in which Heloise is inspired by Jimmy telling her and Beezy about snow to give Miseryville its first ever winter. Since Miseryville is essentially FireAndBrimstoneHell by another name, this quite an accomplishment.
* The ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' Christmas episode features an elf trying to make it snow in O-Town, where it hadn't snowed in decades (O-Town is almost certainly based on Orlando, Florida).

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'' episode, "A Christmas Carol", it becomes 104 degrees in Bugs and Daffy's neighborhood, so the episode's B-plot has Foghorn Leghorn build a giant fan in the North Pole so it can spread snow to the rest of the world, and have Daffy Duck assist him. When they get to the North Pole, they are unable to find a place to plug the fan in, [[spoiler: but fortunately for them, Santa Claus was able to help them out]].