Jack Frost (animation)

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A 1979 Rankin Bass winter special about the tale of Jack Frost, the winter sprite, and his adventures as a human.

Not to be confused with either of the movies, especially the horror one.

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Tropes used in Jack Frost (animation) include:

• Alliteration: Kubla Krauss, Raveneau Rightfellow
• Adorkable: Jack as a human. Pardon-Me Pete himself would also qualify.
• Bittersweet Ending: On the one hand, January Junction is saved and Elisa gets to marry her knight. On the other, Jack loses out on love, although he seems to get over it.
• Bishounen: Jack.
• Bling of War: Sir Raveneau's golden armor
• Curse Escape Clause: Not really a curse, but the same sort of thing. To remain as a human, Jack needs a house, horse, bag of gold, and wife before winter ends.
• Did Not Get the Girl
• Friend to All Living Things: Inverted with the villain, Kubla Krauss. No living creature can bear to be around him, so, to quote the narrator, "he had his horse Clangstomper, who ran by steam, and Fetch-Kvetch the butler, who ran by clockwork. Even the mice were mechanical!"
• Florence Nightingale Effect: Elisa and Sir Raveneau fall in love over the winter while she nurses him back to health from the injuries he sustained during her rescue.
• Frictionless Ice: In the real world, falling down a hill and landing on a suddenly frozen lake surface would probably hurt a lot; but when Elisa does it, she just glides across the lake on her bottom, laughing.
• Hair of Gold: Elisa, her knight, and Jack as a human.
• An Ice Person: Jack and the others in charge of ice and snow.
• Interacting with Shadow: Pardon-Me Pete the groundhog is briefly seen interacting with his shadow.
• Knight in Shining Armor: Sir Raveneau Rightfellow, Elisa's rescuer and eventual husband
• Line-of-Sight Name: Jack chooses "Snip" as a surname for himself when he glances at his scissors.
• Literal Ass-Kicking: Jack does this to Pardon-Me Pete, in an attempt to scare him back into his hole.
• Micro Monarchy: The setting.
• Overly Long Name: Snip's alias.
• Race Against the Clock: Jack Frost has until the end of winter to get a house, horse, bag of gold, and wife, for a heroic example. Also to stop the metal man army.
• Winter Royal Lady: Holly's as close as the show gets; she's a snowflake-making sprite, but on earth they disguise her as a "gypsy princess." Father Winter could be considered a male example, as he is the sovereign over all things winter.