It’s a tradition for a lot of folks to watch Rankin/Bass stop-motion holiday specials every Christmas season. From Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer to The Year Without a Santa Claus, there are several classic films in their library. There is one, however, that is absolutely bonkers. That bizarre stop-motion TV special is none other than Jack Frost.

The movie has Punxsutawney Phil tell the story of Jack Frost, how they came to strike a deal to make sure Phil sees his shadow on Groundhog Day, and how Jack Frost fell in love with a human. It’s rather unique and charming with memorable characters and some catchy songs. However, it’s also completely insane at times.

Early on, we’re told how the world of winter is run and the roles of everyone who ensures the winter season operates correctly. We see the folks who make the hale, deliver the snow, and tasks of that nature. There’s apparently one guy, Snip, who makes ALL of the snow for the entire planet for the whole winter season. He takes the time to carefully trim each snowflake, too. Meanwhile, there’s dozens of people whose only job is to hand off each individual snowflake until the last one tosses it down to Earth. None of these people can help Snip? It would have made way more sense if Snip was in charge of several workers who make the snow, rather than this one old guy working his butt off while everyone else does a lot of nothing.

The townsfolk in the movie are struggling financially except for when winter comes. That’s because they make currency out of ice. This is a comically terrible idea. It would just melt in the coin bags they carry them in. When spring comes, any ice coins they have gained would be completely useless, so they would have sold their goods for no gain whatsoever. On top of that, everyone would be absolutely loaded since they’d have access to all the ice they want, so they wouldn’t even need to sell their goods to gain profit. This ice-currency idea leads to some obvious problems.

When Father Winter turns Jack Frost into a human, he sends down a couple of his friends to keep an eye on him and help him out. This makes sense, but he sends down Snip, the only person who can make the snow for the winter. If he’s down on Earth, who’s making the snow? This probably wasn’t the best play on Father Winter’s part.

The prerequisites that Father Winter gives Jack in order to become human are arbitrary and ridiculous. To remain human, he must obtain gold, a horse, a house, and a wife. Why? There are real humans, even in the movie, who don’t have these things. It’s like he came up with random requirements on the spot.

It’s hard to talk about Jack Frost without mentioning the wacky villain, Kubla Kraus. He’s an evil ruler who built a robotic knight army since his previous soldiers abandoned him. He also has a mechanical horse and talks to a metal puppet named Dommie. He has full conversations with this puppet even though it’s just himself he’s speaking with. Kubla also sings a song about how he could have a different title if he lived in a different country. This is odd and out of place. It’s all irrelevant information about how world politics works. It’s also worth noting that his pasta dinner is just a single, extremely long noodle.

Perhaps the most bizarre element of the film is its ending. Elisa, the woman who Jack fell in love with and the reason he wanted to become human, marries a golden knight instead of him. Despite him being heartbroken and sad, rather chipper music begins to play. He then just flies back to Winter Land as if nothing ever happens, and then the movie just sort of ends there. Sad endings are allowed to exist, but this one feels incredibly unsatisfying and anticlimactic. They could have had Elisa and Jack get married, and since Jack Frost is still needed, they could have had both of them return to Winter Land and given her an important role there. This ending is just the icing on the already bonkers cake that is Rankin/Bass’s Jack Frost.

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