History WesternAnimation / FrostyTheSnowman

* VerbalTic Being voiced by Billy DeWolfe, Hinkle repeats, repeats, repeats things three times and talk in a persnickety, fussy way.

** When Karen goes to the train station to ask for a ticket to the North Pole, the stationmaster quickly scrounges up a route with multiple transfers. The only problem is that there is no such route; the North Pole is a lifeless ball of ice in real life with only a shrinking handful of arctic critters and no actual humans, so no railroad could sustain itself up there, let alone keep up operations on a constantly-changing landscape. The northernmost rail station in North America is Fairbanks, 1738 miles from the North Pole, and the world's northernmost point attainable by public transport at the time was Hammerfest, Norway, 1336 miles from the Pole, so Karen wouldn't have any way of getting Frosty up there by train anyway.

** When Karen goes to the train station to ask for a ticket to the North Pole, the stationmaster quickly scrounges up a route with multiple transfers. The only problem is that there is no such route; the North Pole is a lifeless ball of ice in real life with only a shrinking handful of arctic critters and no actual humans, so no railroad could sustain itself up there, let alone keep up operations on a constantly-changing landscape. The northernmost rail station in North America is Fairbanks, 1738 miles from the North Pole, and the world's northernmost point attainable by public transport is Hammerfest, Norway, 1336 miles from the Pole, so Karen wouldn't have any way of getting Frosty up there by train anyway.

** When Karen goes to the train station to ask for a ticket to the North Pole, the stationmaster quickly scrounges up a route with multiple transfers. The only problem is that there is no such route; the North Pole is a lifeless ball of ice in real life with only a shrinking handful of arctic critters and no actual humans, so no railroad could sustain itself up there, let alone keep up operations on a constantly-changing landscape. Even Canada's northernmost railroad lines don't go up that far, so Karen wouldn't have any way of getting Frosty up there by train anyway.

* NoNameGiven: None of the kids except for Karen in the first special are referred to by name. The narrator in ''Winter Wonderland'' off-handedly refers to one kid as Elsie, but none of the kids in that special are directly named.

''Frosty the Snowman'' is a ChristmasSpecial, produced by [[Creator/RankinBassProductions Rankin/Bass]] and first aired on Creator/{{CBS}} in 1969, telling the story of how a snowman was brought to life by a magic top hat. ''Frosty the Snowman'' is unusual among the Rankin/Bass ''œuvre'' in that it features hand-drawn animation (Courtesy of Creator/MushiProductions, under the [[UncreditedRole uncredited]] direction of Creator/OsamuDezaki) and designed by Paul Coker Jr. who is also well-known for his artwork in ''Magazine/{{Mad}} Magazine'', instead of Rankin/Bass's usual "Animagic" StopMotion puppet process.

It is notable that in the audio album version of this special, Creator/JuneForay voices Karen, and indeed all the children's parts, whereas the televised version uses the voices of actual (uncredited) children.

-->'''Frosty''' [''in the greenhouse'']: Whew! Stay in here much longer and I'll really make a splash in the world!\\

* SecondaryCharacterTitle: Even though Frosty is the star, the protagonist is really Karen, since it revolves around her trying to get Frosty to the North Pole.

In the 1969 original, it's christmas and Jimmy Durante's telling us of what's going on. After showing a gag or so
involving snow falling on a few characters, we get to the traditional little red schoolhouse where our female
teacher is presenting Professor Hinkle, a sketchy, sketchcy, sketchy looking character whose "Verbal tic" is repeating thing three times (done with other characters from the goose in "Charlotte's Web" to even a character in PBS's "Franklin"!), and who (The Schnozzolla so informs us) is the worst magician in the world, shown by his trying to get doves out of eggs into a hat, another old trick, but they turn into messy eggs.. the rabbit he owns, Hocus Pocus hops out..the bell rings and the children (and this is still before the credits) run outside.

One gets the magician's hat and makes a snowman, whom, after one boy suggests calling him "Oatmeal", the children all agree on calling Frosty when Hinkle shows up to grab the hat. The kids point out that he can't anymore, with Frosaty now owning it. Professor Hinkle tries some chicanery by scolding one of the girls,Karen, who will became a central character herself, calling her naughty,naughty.little girl. He then leaves--"Snowman come to LIFE?" Silly, Silly, Silly!" when the open credits start.

Professor Hinkle walks on, with Hocus Pocus hopping off with the magic hat, unbeknownst to the professor, hopping to the children and to Frosty, whom the rabbit puts the hat on, bringing the snowman to life for the very first
time, causing him to (also for the very first time) say his catchphrase, "Happy Birthday". The kids now dance circles around as Durante as himself sing the already proven theme "Frosty the Snowman". But the sun's out, which makes snowmen "all wishy washy", so kids actually decide to take our hero to the North Pole, if they only have a way.

They march down the street as the familiar theme playhs. They decide to go to the north pole against time,and what their parents think. At the same time, Professor Hinkle's discovered Hocus Pocus hopping,hopping off and runs,seeing the kids, who are still trying to get a ticket to the North Pole. The rather grumpy ticket seller goes all around but when no one can pony up, they're seen out with. "No MONEY, No TICKET!" Karen from before now becomes the only kid till the end, and she decides to jump on with Hocus Pocus and Frosty, as the train goes north while Professor Hinkle is hanging on..saying "think nasty, thinky, think nasty!"

Going up the hill, the good guys jump off, Professor himself falls down as Frosty, Karen and Hocus Pocus build a fire. Hinkle then sees them and blows it out. Undaunted, the snowman takes the rabbit and little girl on his back and slides like a toboggan downhill!

This lands them by a greenhouse where Frosty, Karen, and Hocus Pocus, due to the little girl freezing hide out where P.Hinkle now spies them and gleefully shuts the door, hoping to see Frosty melt so Hinkle can grab the magic hat and run, as happens for the first. Karen, understandably is unhappy, and Santa Claus finally arrives as Jimmy Durantes sings a sad version of "Frosty, the Snowman". Professor Hinkle tries sneaking out as Santa then catches him. Attempting to confront Saint Nicholas, Hinkle asks what Santa plans to do. Santa's plan is no more magical hats or anything nice! One way out..write a zillion times "I am very sorry after what I did to Frosty"!

Happy as a kid again himself, the now-reformed Professor Hinkle Skips off "Busy, busy, busy!"

So at the wrap-up,as everyone, Frosty, Karen, Professor Hinkle, Hocus Pocus, and Santa all appreciate christmas, Santa takes the rest home .

The credits show all the characters marching behind the end credits.