Frosty’s Winter Wonderland

🎄 Happy birthday! The Advent Calendar House kicks off a countdown to Christmas in July by setting the table for Rankin/Bass’s eventual epic crossover, starting with “Frosty’s Winter Wonderland,” the “Weird Science” of Christmas specials.  🎙️ Brandon Medley belly-whops in to salute this snowy sequel from 1976 starring a strange, tall goblin claiming to be Andy Griffith.  ****  💬 Topics & Tangents:  A brief guide to finding obsure things on Disney+, like “Melody Time,” starring Dennis Day, (Parson Brown) as Johnny Appleseed.  Barbara Jo Ewing voiced one of the kids in her only known credit, but somehow IMDb knows her height.  We do the math to figure out how far the wind carried a newspaper from Frosty’s hometown to the North Pole.  Frosty beat “The Santa Clause 2” to the “gotta get a wife” plot point by more than 20 years.  Frosty’s “specifications” for his ideal woman are the same as Sir Mix-a-Lot’s.  At what point do snow people become self-aware?  Jack Frost’s “winter that almost didn’t end” foreshadowed the real-life Blizzard of 1977.  ****  📼 Commercials:  Freezy Freakies (1984)  Christmas Clatter.  ****  “Frosty’s Winter Wonderland” © 1976 Rankin/Bass Productions, Inc.  Find us at adventcalendar.house.  #s4 #1970s #rankinbass #frosty