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* FourthDateMarriage: Thumbelina protests marrying a frog and Mr. Digger because they've only known each other for a day, but then has no problem with immediately marrying Tom Thumb. Sure, there's species to consider, but species is barely even brought up. Her main reason for agreeing to marry Tom Thumb seems to be that he wasn't as pushy as her other suitors.
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** The Prince at the end is the same actor as the young woman's boyfriend.
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* NonIndicativeName: As pointed out below, no explanation is given for why he's called the Ice Cream Bunny. He's not made of ice cream, nor is he shown handing out or eating ice cream. The filmmakers seem to have assumed that the Ice Cream Bunny was so well known that, like Santa, he required no introduction. This is apparent when Santa's reaction to seeing him come to the rescue is "The Ice Cream Bunny! Of course!"
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* HeyItsThatGuy: The girl throwing the frisbee is Kim Nicholas, best known by ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' from ''{{Laserblast}}''.
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* TheDanza: All of the child actors are called by their real first name.
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* {{Padding}}: Dear God, yes. If you took out the Thumbelina segment and all the unnecessarily long shots, the movie would be about 5 minutes long.
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* MindScrew: To say that the movie has a tendency to be random, bizarre and nonsensical is an understatement.
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* ShowDontTell: [[AvertedTrope Averted]], as crucial story moments are skipped over [[{{Infodump}} and described by the narrator or characters]].
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* BreakingTheFourthWall: When Thumbelina is lost in the words, woods, she starts singing, "Fiddle-dee-dee!" She explains through the song that it's her way to cope with frightening situations, and advises to "give it a try and you’ll agree".
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: During the climax, the Ice Cream Bunny drives through the Pirates World theme park, and the people at the park pay no mind to an anthropomorphic rabbit driving through in an antique fire truck carrying kids and a dog.
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* NoNameGiven: While summoning the kids, Santa calls each one out by name, except for the three girls jumping rope, to whom he simply calls out, "Girls!"
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* ThoseTwoGuys: Tom and Huck, who were just paddling around in a lake when they hear the commotion of the kids being summoned by Santa. They swim to shore and run after the group, then spend the rest of the movie standing behind a bush watching everything unfold without getting involved.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: When Thumbelina is lost in the words, she starts singing, "Fiddle-dee-dee!" She explains through the song that it's her way to cope with frightening situations, and advises to "give it a try and you’ll agree".
* IWantSong: Thumbelina's "Flower Child" song, in which she expresses her desire to enjoy the outside world which her marriage to Mr. Digger will deny her.
* PairTheSpares: After Thumbelina doesn't go through with marrying Mr. Digger, he settles on Mrs. Mole instead.
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* AmusementParkOfDoom: That steeplechase ride near the beginning and end -- No safety belts, plenty of sudden turns, and dangerously fast. Have fun, kiddies!
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* BrokenAesop: Before and after the Thumbelina story, Santa repeatedly tells the kids they must never, ever give up...right after he's ''repeatedly'' given up trying to move the sleigh and swears up and down that nothing will work. Most glaringly, he gives up after trying to dig the sleigh out himself even though it's ''working'' (he clears about half of one of the runners in less than a minute).
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Read Website/TheAgonyBooth's recap [[http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Santa_and_the_Ice_Cream_Bunny_1972.aspx here]]. Also available as a RiffTrax [[http://www.rifftrax.com/ondemand/santa-and-ice-cream-bunny video download.]]
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'''''Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny''''' is a 1974 Christmas film directed by Barry Mahon and R. Winer that aired as a weekend afternoon kiddie matinee. It stars Jay Clark as SantaClaus [[AmateurCast and "Kids" from Ruth Foreman's Pied Piper Playhouse]].
Actually, no, that description doesn't nearly do it justice.
It's actually a complete and utter MindScrew from start to finish. Standard movie-watching logic does not apply to this film. In fact, any attempt to apply basic storytelling logic to the film will probably give you a brain aneurysm. It ignores every basic dramatic convention. The final episode of ''ThePrisoner'' was less of a brainrape than this movie.
Santa and his sleigh are stranded on a beach somewhere in Florida in inch-deep sand, his reindeer having flown back to the North Pole to cool off. Several kids (including [[Literature/TheAdventuresOfTomSawyer Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn]]) try to help him out with a variety of farm animals (and a guy dressed in a gorilla suit!), but to no avail. Just when all hope is given up, Santa is reminded of the story of "Literature/{{Thumbelina}}", where the film sidetracks us to said plot. The eponymous Ice Cream Bunny doesn't show up to help Santa until the very end, where the two drive off in his old fire truck.
Did we mention that the "Thumbelina" segment is actually an entirely different film, complete with its own opening and closing credits left intact? Yep, Santa's story to the children includes detailed descriptions of who the executive producer was. By now you should start to understand why this film is basically a LogicBomb for humans.
The "Thumbelina" segment was shot at the long-defunct Pirates World theme park in Florida in 1970, and stars Shay Garner as the title character. It is a re-telling of said story done in the style of a museum exhibit, complete with models of the sets. [[NestedStory So, that makes the theme park itself a Framing Device, too!]]
Oddly enough, depending on where the film was shown, certain prints substituted the story of "Literature/JackAndTheBeanstalk" for "Thumbelina", also shot at Pirates World, with Mitchell Poulos as the boy hero. This was no improvement, especially as the Giant (Renato Boracherro) offered such lines as, "Wife, bring me my creepy-crawlies! Mmmm-mmmmmm!".
Barry Mahon, one of the directors, was actually a fugitive from the true story of ''TheGreatEscape''. What did ThoseWackyNazis ''do'' to him that caused him to produce ''this''?
Read Website/TheAgonyBooth's recap [[http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Santa_and_the_Ice_Cream_Bunny_1972.aspx here]]. Also available as a RiffTrax [[http://www.rifftrax.com/ondemand/santa-and-ice-cream-bunny video download.]]
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!!''Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny'' contains examples of:
* AmateurCast: The kids are actually billed as "'Kids' from Ruth Foreman's Pied Piper Playhouse".
* CanineCompanion: Rebel the dog.
* TheDanza: All of the child actors are called by their real first name.
* DeusExMachina: The Ice Cream Bunny and his fire truck. Though, that doesn't explain how Santa can return to the North Pole...
** It's strongly implied that the Bunny ''drives'' Santa to the North Pole on the fire truck. Santa's sled teleports back to the North Pole as a failsafe, should it and Santa ever be separated. (Of course, there's no explanation why that failsafe can't be implemented while Santa is ''in'' the sled. Perhaps in order to teleport [[TheNudifier you must be naked]], which would be the reason why Santa and the rest of the world wouldn't want ''that'' to happen.)
*** Stop! You're making this film make sense!
* FramingDevice: The whole bit with Santa was just one of these for "Literature/{{Thumbelina}}", along with the theme park for said segment.
* HeyItsThatGuy: The girl throwing the frisbee is Kim Nicholas.
* {{Mondegreen}}: Santa calling out "Kim!" is often misheard as "Kid!"
* NestedStory: The "Thumbelina" short...which even has its own ''credits''.
* NoEnding: The film doesn't end. It just sort of stops.
* OnlyInFlorida: Where else could a film like this be made? Or take place?
* OutOfGenreExperience: From Santa's sleigh predicament to a cheap theme park adaptation of "Thumbelina".
* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: The Ice Cream Bunny supplies no ice cream whatsoever.
* ProductPlacement: For Pirates World theme park. The internal evidence suggests this film was created to double-dip off pre-existing movies previously funded by the park's owners for the kiddie matinée circuit.
** If you sense desperation, it's because Disney opened [[DisneyThemeParks Walt Disney World]] the year before. A year after the film was released, Pirates World was bankrupt. By 1975, the place was closed. Not long after, the park was razed and condos built in its place.
* PublicDomainCharacter: Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, who serve no purpose to the plot other than extra {{Padding}}. It also stars SantaClaus who gets stuck in Florida.
* StockFootage: One of the elves peers outside the workshop to view a clip of some reindeer on a [[TheyJustDidntCare ''green'' landscape of the North Pole]].
!!The "Thumbelina" adaptation contains examples of:
* ActingForTwo: Shay Garner plays both the title character and the young woman who stumbles upon the exhibit.
* AmusementParkOfDoom: That steeplechase ride near the beginning and end -- No safety belts, plenty of sudden turns, and dangerously fast. Have fun, kiddies!
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Thumbelina's dress never gets messed up, even during many months spent in the outdoors. Her hair is always flawlessly combed.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: The witch certainly needs to reiterate the price of her services after singing about it for five minutes!
* HappilyEverAfter
* MindScrew: Given the {{Acting For Two}} above, you've got to wonder if the girl listening to the story is hearing her own voice whenever Thumbelina talks.
* NarratorAllAlong: The narrator from the drive thru-looking speaker in the exhibit throughout the film is actually Mrs. Mole, who lets Thumbelina into her home during the winter.
* NestedStory
* [[RecapEpisode Recap Film]]: Utilized in the ending for some reason other than more padding.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: It's never stated what happened to Thumbelina's mother after her kidnapping. The last we see of her, she's sobbing over the kidnapping of her daughter.
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'''''Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny''''' is a 1974 Christmas film directed by Barry Mahon and R. Winer that aired as a weekend afternoon kiddie matinee. It stars Jay Clark as SantaClaus [[AmateurCast and "Kids" from Ruth Foreman's Pied Piper Playhouse]].
Actually, no, that description doesn't nearly do it justice.
It's actually a complete and utter MindScrew from start to finish. Standard movie-watching logic does not apply to this film. In fact, any attempt to apply basic storytelling logic to the film will probably give you a brain aneurysm. It ignores every basic dramatic convention. The final episode of ''ThePrisoner'' was less of a brainrape than this movie.
Santa and his sleigh are stranded on a beach somewhere in Florida in inch-deep sand, his reindeer having flown back to the North Pole to cool off. Several kids (including [[Literature/TheAdventuresOfTomSawyer Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn]]) try to help him out with a variety of farm animals (and a guy dressed in a gorilla suit!), but to no avail. Just when all hope is given up, Santa is reminded of the story of "Literature/{{Thumbelina}}", where the film sidetracks us to said plot. The eponymous Ice Cream Bunny doesn't show up to help Santa until the very end, where the two drive off in his old fire truck.
Did we mention that the "Thumbelina" segment is actually an entirely different film, complete with its own opening and closing credits left intact? Yep, Santa's story to the children includes detailed descriptions of who the executive producer was. By now you should start to understand why this film is basically a LogicBomb for humans.
The "Thumbelina" segment was shot at the long-defunct Pirates World theme park in Florida in 1970, and stars Shay Garner as the title character. It is a re-telling of said story done in the style of a museum exhibit, complete with models of the sets. [[NestedStory So, that makes the theme park itself a Framing Device, too!]]
Oddly enough, depending on where the film was shown, certain prints substituted the story of "Literature/JackAndTheBeanstalk" for "Thumbelina", also shot at Pirates World, with Mitchell Poulos as the boy hero. This was no improvement, especially as the Giant (Renato Boracherro) offered such lines as, "Wife, bring me my creepy-crawlies! Mmmm-mmmmmm!".
Barry Mahon, one of the directors, was actually a fugitive from the true story of ''TheGreatEscape''. What did ThoseWackyNazis ''do'' to him that caused him to produce ''this''?
Read Website/TheAgonyBooth's recap [[http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Santa_and_the_Ice_Cream_Bunny_1972.aspx here]]. Also available as a RiffTrax [[http://www.rifftrax.com/ondemand/santa-and-ice-cream-bunny video download.]]
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!!''Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny'' contains examples of:
* AmateurCast: The kids are actually billed as "'Kids' from Ruth Foreman's Pied Piper Playhouse".
* CanineCompanion: Rebel the dog.
* TheDanza: All of the child actors are called by their real first name.
* DeusExMachina: The Ice Cream Bunny and his fire truck. Though, that doesn't explain how Santa can return to the North Pole...
** It's strongly implied that the Bunny ''drives'' Santa to the North Pole on the fire truck. Santa's sled teleports back to the North Pole as a failsafe, should it and Santa ever be separated. (Of course, there's no explanation why that failsafe can't be implemented while Santa is ''in'' the sled. Perhaps in order to teleport [[TheNudifier you must be naked]], which would be the reason why Santa and the rest of the world wouldn't want ''that'' to happen.)
*** Stop! You're making this film make sense!
* FramingDevice: The whole bit with Santa was just one of these for "Literature/{{Thumbelina}}", along with the theme park for said segment.
* HeyItsThatGuy: The girl throwing the frisbee is Kim Nicholas.
* {{Mondegreen}}: Santa calling out "Kim!" is often misheard as "Kid!"
* NestedStory: The "Thumbelina" short...which even has its own ''credits''.
* NoEnding: The film doesn't end. It just sort of stops.
* OnlyInFlorida: Where else could a film like this be made? Or take place?
* OutOfGenreExperience: From Santa's sleigh predicament to a cheap theme park adaptation of "Thumbelina".
* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: The Ice Cream Bunny supplies no ice cream whatsoever.
* ProductPlacement: For Pirates World theme park. The internal evidence suggests this film was created to double-dip off pre-existing movies previously funded by the park's owners for the kiddie matinée circuit.
** If you sense desperation, it's because Disney opened [[DisneyThemeParks Walt Disney World]] the year before. A year after the film was released, Pirates World was bankrupt. By 1975, the place was closed. Not long after, the park was razed and condos built in its place.
* PublicDomainCharacter: Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, who serve no purpose to the plot other than extra {{Padding}}. It also stars SantaClaus who gets stuck in Florida.
* StockFootage: One of the elves peers outside the workshop to view a clip of some reindeer on a [[TheyJustDidntCare ''green'' landscape of the North Pole]].
!!The "Thumbelina" adaptation contains examples of:
* ActingForTwo: Shay Garner plays both the title character and the young woman who stumbles upon the exhibit.
* AmusementParkOfDoom: That steeplechase ride near the beginning and end -- No safety belts, plenty of sudden turns, and dangerously fast. Have fun, kiddies!
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Thumbelina's dress never gets messed up, even during many months spent in the outdoors. Her hair is always flawlessly combed.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: The witch certainly needs to reiterate the price of her services after singing about it for five minutes!
* HappilyEverAfter
* MindScrew: Given the {{Acting For Two}} above, you've got to wonder if the girl listening to the story is hearing her own voice whenever Thumbelina talks.
* NarratorAllAlong: The narrator from the drive thru-looking speaker in the exhibit throughout the film is actually Mrs. Mole, who lets Thumbelina into her home during the winter.
* NestedStory
* [[RecapEpisode Recap Film]]: Utilized in the ending for some reason other than more padding.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: It's never stated what happened to Thumbelina's mother after her kidnapping. The last we see of her, she's sobbing over the kidnapping of her daughter.
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