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''Spirit of Christmas'' is the name of two different animated short films made by Trey Parker and Matt Stone. They are precursors to the animated series ''South Park''. To differentiate the two, they are often referred to as ''Jesus vs. Frosty'' (1992) and ''Jesus vs. Santa'' (1995). == ''Jesus vs. Frosty'' == ''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. ===Production=== In 1992, Trey Parker and Matt Stone made ''The Spirit of Christmas'' (aka ''Jesus vs. Frosty'') while they were students at the University of Colorado under the "Avenging Conscience Films" moniker. They animated the film using only construction paper, glue and a very old 8 mm film camera, and premiered it at the December 1992 student film screening. The film features four children very similar in appearance to three of the four main characters of ''South Park'', including a character resembling Cartman but called "Kenny", a hooded boy resembling Kenny (who remains unnamed) and two other boys similar in appearance and voice to Stan and Kyle. This film is later referenced in a season six ''South Park'' episode entitled "Simpsons Already Did It". In this episode, Stan, Kyle, and Tweek are building a snowman, and Tweek is reluctant to put the nose on the snowman and says that this is because he thinks it will come to life and kill him, to which Stan replies, "Dude, when has that ever happened, except for that one time?" == ''Jesus vs. Santa'' == ''Jesus vs. Santa'' opens with the four boys singing "We Wish You a Merry Christmas", when suddenly Stan stops to tell Kyle he should sing Hanukkah songs instead, since "Jewish people don't celebrate Christmas!" Cartman insults the song ("I Have a Little Dreidel") that Kyle begins singing, and they start to argue. They are interrupted, however, when Jesus appears, asking them to take him to the mall, where they find Santa Claus. Jesus is angry with "Kringle" because, in his opinion, he diminishes the memory of Jesus's birthday with his presents. Santa, insistent that Christmas is a time for giving, and not merely remembering Jesus's birthday, claims that "this time" they will "finish it", and that "there can be only one". They fight in a style reminiscent of such games as ''Mortal Kombat'', accidentally killing various bystanders, including Kenny (thus eliciting Stan and Kyle's catchphrase), in the process. Jesus pins Santa down, and each of them asks the boys to help him. Stan hesitates: "What would Brian Boitano do?" (this joke is referenced in the 1999 feature film ''South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut'' via the song "What Would Brian Boitano Do?"). The figure skater miraculously appears and delivers a speech about how Christmas should be about being good to one another. The boys, enlightened, transmit the message to the fighters, who apologize to each other in shame. They thank the boys for helping and decide to bury the hatchet over an orange smoothie. The boys then marvel that they got to meet Brian Boitano (as opposed to either Jesus or Santa) As in ''Jesus vs. Frosty'', the boys come to realize the "true" meaning of Christmas: that is, presents. Kyle remarks that, if one is Jewish, one receives presents for eight days rather than on only one. The others decide as a result to become Jewish, too, and, while rats gnaw on Kenny's corpse, leave the scene singing the "Dreidel Song". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Spirit of Christmas (short film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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