In 1992, Trey Parker, Matt Stone, and students at the University of Colorado, made Jesus vs. Frosty, under the "Avenging Conscience Films" moniker. Parker and Stone animated the film using only construction paper, glue, and a very old 8 mm film camera, and premiered the film at the December 1992 student film screening. The movie features four kids who are very similar of the four main characters of South Park, including a character resembling Cartman, but called "Kenny", and three nameless boys resembling Kyle, Stan, and Kenny. The film also includes some classical South Park ingredients, including a hilarious story-line, strong language, graphic violence and a 'moral' at the end. The story is about how the four kids build a snowman and, in the vein of "Frosty the Snowman," put a magic silk hat on it to make it come to life. Unfortunately Frosty turns out to be evil and deranged, sprouting huge tentacles and kills Kenny (the Cartman-resembling boy). This leads Kyle to be the first to utter the famous line "Oh, my God! Frosty killed Kenny!". The boys go to Santa Claus for help, but it is Frosty in disguise, and he kills the character who resembles Kenny (as we know him from the TV-series). The two remaining kids run away, and then find a nativity scene with a baby Jesus, who flies to the evil snowman and kills it by slicing off the magic hat with his halo. After seeing this, one of the boys says another known line: "You know, I learned something today". The two kids realize the true meaning of Christmas: presents. So, as a deer nibbles on the Cartman-resembling boy, they go to their homes to find the presents hidden by their parents. This film has been referenced in South Park episodes, such as "The Simpsons Already Did It", where at the very beginning Stan says "Ok, now put the nose on it, Tweek" and Tweek replies "But what if by putting on the nose, the snowman comes to life and kills me?" to which Stan says, "Tweek, when has that ever happened except for that one time?" It was also referenced in the season six Christmas special: "Red Sleigh Down", where in the middle of the episode the four boys say "Jesus!" and shake their heads side-to-side in exactly the same way that the Stan and Kyle-resembling boys did in the short film. On an SBS 2 report , Matt and Trey had stated that they forgot to credit themselves in the process of making the video, so nobody really knew who exactly made the short. When it gained popularity, a friend of theirs (who had not known they had made it) had shown it to the duo, stating that is was something really funny and was worth seeing, resulting with Trey Parker and Matt Stone realizing that the thing their friend had shown was actually something they made.
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