Headscratchers / Frosty the Snowman

• Why are the kids in school on Christmas Eve?
  • Makeup days from heavy September rains, that the school decided not to do at the end of the school year?
  • Apparently in the ‘60s and prior, some schools would have class on Christmas Eve - usually just a half day - with Christmas Day itself as the start of winter vacation.
• How did Hinkle catch up to Frosty and the kids at the train station? For that matter, how'd he know they'd even be there?
  • He was bound to notice his hat was missing sooner or later (Hocus Pocus did replace it with a wreath after all). Plus, Frosty and the kids did make a pretty big scene when parading through town, and nobody wouldn't have noticed a talking snowman walking in the middle of the street. If anything, the townsfolk would have been talking about it nonstop, and an already incensed Hinkle would have learned about what happened to his prized hat. Since the weather was starting to get warmer, and since the kids were scene taking Frosty up towards the train station, he would have put two and two together and ran after them. It just took him longer to realize this seeing as he is a major idiot.
• If Frosty doesn't know about things like traffic lights or how to count, how does he know that Karen sneezing means she's cold?
  • He is made of a cold substance. He's an idiot at this point, but he does know enough to at least get by alright.
• For that matter, how can Frosty know what a thermometer is when he doesn't know what a traffic light or a lamppost are? Does being made of snow give him innate knowledge of temperature-related things, but nothing else?
• Many remember the scene where Professor Hinkle is told by Santa that he has to write an apology "a hundred zillion times" to receive any goods, but the dialogue originally began as a threat that if he touches the hat he'll never receive another Christmas present again. Hinkle then names examples of things he would want. If there was continuity to the discussion, after he said that he had to make a living too, Santa would have said something like "Well you'd better not touch that hat, then".
  • Santa specifically says that if Hinkle writes the apology, he'll find something in his stocking tomorrow morning. So maybe the apology was just for if he wanted presents that specific year. He certainly had done enough to make it onto the naughty list.
  • Father Christmas does say the threat to Hinkle, and Hinkle does say that he relied on Christmas presents to make a living.
• Why does Frosty always say "Happy Birthday" when he gains consciousness? Whose birthday does he think it is? He can't be referring to himself, you don't say "happy birthday" when it's your own birthday!
  • I always was under impression that by saying this he meant "I'm alive!". Plus, him not knowing what certain sentences mean suits his personality.

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