# Was Frosty the Snowman a hypochondriac?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-frosty-the-snowman-a-hypochondriac/547145
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [July 18, 2010, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-frosty-the-snowman-a-hypochondriac/547145 "2010-07-18T19:11:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2010, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-frosty-the-snowman-a-hypochondriac/547145/21 "2010-07-19T16:45:48Z")
Hmm. Clearly, he’s only playing dumb and his idiotic antics mask a staggering intellect. The only question–why hide it? I smell a government conspiracy!
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### Author:  [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2010, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-frosty-the-snowman-a-hypochondriac/547145/22 "2010-07-19T17:15:39Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#):
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> But you’re talking about a kid’s movie. You’re seeing cartoon logic in effect and then proceeding to jump to the totally wrong conclusion. “When the thermometer turns red” is a visual shorthand for “the temperature has gone up.” No more, no less.
But it’s not just what it _shows_, it’s what he _actually says_
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### Author:  [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2010, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-frosty-the-snowman-a-hypochondriac/547145/23 "2010-07-19T18:38:30Z")
> [@Mister\_Rik](#):
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> Now that you mention it, he _does_ put on a hat every time he goes outdoors, regardless of the weather, even if he’s just stepping out to fetch the mail from the mailbox that’s nailed to the front porch.
There must be some magic in it.
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### Author:  [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2010, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-frosty-the-snowman-a-hypochondriac/547145/24 "2010-07-19T19:41:41Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#):
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> Hmm. Clearly, he’s only playing dumb and his idiotic antics mask a staggering intellect. The only question–why hide it? I smell a government conspiracy!
Or Frosty is hiding homicidal tendencies.
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELxeSadruMI](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELxeSadruMI)
**Caution: NSFW!**
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2010, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-frosty-the-snowman-a-hypochondriac/547145/25 "2010-07-19T19:48:22Z")
> [@Wile\_E](#):
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> You rang?
> He may not be a hypochondriac but there was definitely something wrong with Frosty. I think he was a little brain damaged, why was he always saying “Happy Birthday”? I think he might have had some yellow snow\* mixed in his head.
> \*[sub]From a crack addict[/sub]
Or he was smoking some serious shit in that corncob pipe.
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### Author:  [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2010, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-frosty-the-snowman-a-hypochondriac/547145/26 "2010-07-19T20:02:37Z")
And don’t forget the stupid magician. And the fact that they kept the kids all day at school on Christmas Eve. To see an incompetent magician.
I can’t stand that show. And I have it on VHS (so thankfully I don’t have to watch it any more). I would get irritated every time Frosty invites Karen to go to the North Pole with him in the refrigerated boxcar. “I don’t think my mother will mind,” says Karen, “as long as I’m back by supper.” To the North Pole. And back by supper.
I must say I do enjoy the fact that Frosty is a champion belly whopper, though. It’s the show’s one redeeming feature.
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### Author:  [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2010, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-frosty-the-snowman-a-hypochondriac/547145/27 "2010-07-19T20:18:37Z")
**Ellen Cherry** , going back and rewatching it on YouTube did effectively remind me what a wasteland '70s cartoons were.
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