The folks at CBS are learning that you don't mess with Frosty. Parents are all up in arms about the two new Frosty the Inappropriate Snowman online ads that mash up classic scenes from "Frosty the Snowman" and "Frost Returns" with dialogue from the CBS sitcoms "How I Met Your Mother" and "Two and a Half Men."
Apparently making one of Christmas's most beloved icons tell inappropriate, adult-oriented jokes just takes things TOO FAR.As one woman quoted in the article states, "The ad introduces children to the idea of strippers and pornography ... It really drives home the idea that nothing is sacred anymore." Not even Frosty, it seems...
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Thursday, December 10, 2009
Frosty the Inappropriate Snowman Gets CBS in Hot Water
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