Frosty Returns

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Frosty Returns is a 1992 half-hour long animated television special featuring the character Frosty the Snowman. The special is not a direct sequel to the original 1969 special, and the two were produced by different networks, and feature different characters, setting and voice actors. Regardless, Frosty Returns is often aired on television alongside the 1969 original, as well as having been coupled with the original on DVD.

Jonathan Winters - in anthropomorphic cartoon form - narrates and John Goodman provides the voice of Frosty. The special was directed by Lorne Michaels.

Frosty (voiced by John Goodman) arrives in the town of Beansboro and meets young Holly DeCarlo (voiced by Elisabeth Moss). Meanwhile, evil Mr. Twitchell (the mayor) (voiced by Brian Doyle-Murray) is the inventor of "Summer Wheeze", an aerosol spray that instantly melts snow. When one of the members of the town council opposes the idea, Mr. Twitchell tells his cat Bones to press a button, which makes the council member's chair fall into a hole. The town of Beansboro falls head over heels for it. Frosty is concerned about his safety and Holly is concerned about the environmental impact of the untested product. The use of aerosol cans hints to the use of fluorocarbons, which were used as propellants for decades before their potential to deplete the ozone layer was discovered in the 1970s. Holly gets Frosty to appear at the annual Beansboro Winter Carnival to persuade the townspeople to rethink their newfound hatred of snow. Explaining the joy of winter to the town, Frosty is declared king of the carnival, a title that Mr. Twitchell had hoped to win thanks to Summer Wheeze. Holly and Frosty, however, allow Mr. Twitchell to still wear the cape and ride the sled of the carnival king.

The plot of this particular special is markedly more political than its predecessors and successors, alluding to climate change, environmentalism, and corporate enterprise. The program also uses more political correctness than the other Frosty specials; for instance, instead of a Christmas celebration, the term "winter carnival" is used.

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