Frosty the Inappropriate Snowman

[BizzaroStormy]

I was glancing at my ISP's website to check the temp in my area, when I saw this tagline. The following video is not safe for work, nor is it safe for those without a sense of humor.

http://www.comcast.net/video/-frosty-the-snowman-ad-controversy/1353377387/Comcast/1353263646/

Edit: Found the whole ad on YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIHUz6-ASjo

[daggaz]

Serious meh. :smallsigh:

[Parra]

Not that funny an ad really. Not because of anything it says, just that the ad itself is kinda crap. Certainly not enough to get your knickers in a twist about.

[BizzaroStormy]

Good thing I dont wear any. And of course it's a crappy ad, all advertiemets are crappy. Thats why it helps to not look at it like a commercial.

[Parra]

I wouldt say all ad's are crap, the vast bulk of them certainly are but I've seen some rather crafty ones over the years

[daggaz]

Good thing I dont wear any. And of course it's a crappy ad, all advertiemets are crappy. Thats why it helps to not look at it like a commercial.

Thats funny, cuz I couldnt see at all what they were advertising, and just looked at it like an attempt at humor. A skit, if you will. Still think they failed miserably, trite, sophomoric, unoriginal (or blatant plagarists), and the canned laugh track certainly didnt help.

[BizzaroStormy]

Well it was pretty clear they were using the old frosty cartoon for the animation, they weren't trying to hide it. Plus I think CBS owns the rights to it anyway, meaning that wouldn't be plagarism.

As for being "sophomoric", the core demographic of most sitcoms here in the US is the 17-24 range, so it actually fits. People in that range were around to see the old Frosty cartoon and had brains developed enough to remember it.

And how could it be viewed as trite? I can't think of anyone using frosty the snowman for something like that before, not even Robot Chicken has used it in that fashion yet.

Plus, who else were they going to use this year? The only other options were santa and Rudolph and they've been used more times than a copy of Fable 2.

*Captain Obvious Report* The above joke is a play on the fact that most people will purchase a used copy of Fable 2 rather than a new one because it isnt worth anywhere near $60

[Serpentine]

I kinda liked it :smallsmile:

[TheSummoner]

Eh, I thought it was kinda funny.

[The Dark Fiddler]

Oh dear, it seems the TV stations are becoming the internet.

I was a bit worried when Cartoon Network did a very YTPMV-esqu (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrO9kjbzNRA) StupidStatementDanceRemix (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StupidStatementDanceMix)*, but this? What's next, a 4chan channel?

*Sorry for the tropes link. :smalltongue:

[The Vorpal Tribble]

Hmm, I'm 26, so just out of their viewing range... which may be why though I'm all for inappropriate humor is anyone, I didn't get much out of that.

[Dienekes]

I actually like the show, except when it actually tries to develop the plot (I really don't care who's dating who or if/when Ted ever gets married, doesn't interest me at all) which I know is one of the oddest comments about any media.

But this was ehh, jokes didn't flow or anything. Though hearing Frosty claim he'd punch a baby did make me chuckle.

[darkblade]

Oh dear, it seems the TV stations are becoming the internet.

I was a bit worried when Cartoon Network did a very YTPMV-esqu (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrO9kjbzNRA) StupidStatementDanceRemix (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StupidStatementDanceMix)*, but this? What's next, a 4chan channel?

*Sorry for the tropes link. :smalltongue:

Thats not that much different compared to the old groovies. :smallconfused:

[The Dark Fiddler]

Thats not that much different compared to the old groovies. :smallconfused:

If we're thinking of the same things here, then the difference is that the one I linked to remixed audio from the show, while the groovies were just songs.

Just to make sure we are, Groovies like this? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqVC1w-2Cy0)

Edit: Nevermind, and I found a few more, and yeah, some of them were like that.

But I'm not old enough to remember those, so my point of reference is the Chowder one.

[Mewtarthio]

Well it was pretty clear they were using the old frosty cartoon for the animation, they weren't trying to hide it. Plus I think CBS owns the rights to it anyway, meaning that wouldn't be plagarism.

A lot of that's actually from Frosty Returns (in which Frosty battles the forces of Industrialism and Technological Advancement and shows us how making our roads and sidewalks safer is doubleplusungood if it means killing poor, innocent snow*). Still, I'm pretty sure that CBS has even more of a claim to the intellectual control over that.

*Actually, it wasn't the moral that bothered me so much as those stupid kids thinking that they'd get ten months of summer vacation if snow melted early. As a native of Texas, which is lucky to get five non-consecutive days of half-inch deep snow, I could immediately spot a problem there. Also, most American schools have summer vacation in, y'know, the summer, which is the season that comes after snow-melting spring.