The Spirit of Christmas. Jesus vs. Frosty 720p South Park - (1992 Lang: English)

Must see for South Park fans!!

This is pretty funny considering it looks and sounds terrible. It's really interesting to see how Trey Parker and Matt Stone started out with South Park, and they created a very demented and vulgar short film. Within this short, we see a switch of characters: the fat kid, better known as Cartman on the TV series, is named Kenny and is the first to get killed. The hood-wearing kid, who is known as Kenny on the TV series, is the second killed and is not given a name. And the other two (Stan and Kyle) also remain nameless in this short. You'll never look at snowmen wearing top hats the same ever again.

Jesus vs. Frosty begins with four boys building a snowman and, in the vein of Frosty the Snowman, putting a magic hat on it to make it come to life. Unfortunately, Frosty turns out to be evil and deranged, sprouting huge tentacles and killing the Kenny-named, Cartman-resembling boy by throwing him. This leads one of the boys to utter the first version of a line which recurs in countless South Park episodes: "Oh my God! Frosty killed Kenny!"

The boys go to Santa for help, but he turns out merely to be Frosty in disguise. This time, he kills the Kenny-resembling boy, again by throwing him. The two remaining boys run away, and come across a nativity scene with a baby Jesus, who flies over to the evil snowman and defeats it by slicing off the magic hat with a hurl of his halo. One of the boys says another recurring line from the South Park series: "You know, I learned something today", and he and his friend realize the purported "true" meaning of Christmas: that is, presents. As a deer nibbles on Kenny's corpse they go to their homes to find presents hidden by their parents.

Four young boys are building a snowman, while singing "Frosty the Snowman". Then the boy in the yellow hat presents a magic hat that will go atop Frosty's head. The boy in the red hat warns him not to put the hat on Frosty, because he will come to life and kill them. Apparently a similar situation happened to his sister in Minnesota. They choose not to listen to him and put the hat on Frosty anyway. And he does come to life. He sprouts tentacles and turns into a snowman monster. Right away, Frosty kills Kenny, the fat kid with the blue hat. The remaining boys run for help and run into jolly old St. Nick himself. But it didn't take them long to realize this wasn't the real Santa Claus. What gave it away was Santa sprouted tentacles and turned into Frosty. He kills Cartman, the boy in the orange parka. Red hat kid and yellow hat kid are left. Red hat kid blames his friend for what happened because now there would be no Christmas and there was nobody left to help them. "Oh Christ", exclaims his friend. That was the answer! Jesus! They race to the Nativity Scene and ask Jesus Christ for help. The yellow hat kid accidentally says the F-word in front of Him, but Jesus jumped from the manger and headed to face the killer snowman. He removed His halo and tossed it at Frosty, knocking off the magic hat, rendering Frosty lifeless. He falls apart and is nothing more than three big balls of snow. Jesus returns to the manger. The two boys are glad that whole ordeal was over. The yellow hat kid had really learned the true spirit of Christmas that day: Christmas wasn't about Frosty or Santa, or even Jesus. It was about presents. So they decided to go home and search their parents' rooms for their presents.

Well, The Spirit of Christmas, a.k.a Jesus vs. Frosty, the very first animated short in the cannon of South Park. The four kids from South Park are present here, except here Kenny is Cartman and Cartman is Kenny, and Kyle has a yellow beenie rather than his more familiar green hat. I saw the 1995 Spirit of Christmas last year where Jesus fought Santa Claus, and I always wondered what the earlier one where Jesus fought Frosty was like, so I downloaded it today. The animation quality was pretty poor and the cartoon on the whole was pretty disturbing, but it all depends on what your tastes are. I thought it was alright. It was about what I expected. I think I liked the 1995 Spirit of Christmas better, but this one was okay too. Trey Parker is the voice of the red hat kid, the kid in the orange parka, and Santa Claus. Matt Stone is the kid in the yellow hat and the fat kid in the blue hat. Trey and Matt made this back in 1992, I'm not sure why, probably just for fun, and then they were asked three years later to remake it as a Christmas card for celebrities. But anyway, in conclusion, if you'd like to see how South Park really began and if you can find it, I recommend you check out The Spirit of Christmas: Jesus vs. Frosty. It's not for everyone, but if you like South Park, then this is for you! See it today! And, Merry Christmas!