CBS Goes Too Far With Inappropriate Frosty Videos and Has Parents Outraged

CBS's Frosty the Inappropriate SnowmanA current ad campaign for the two well known and beloved children's Christmas classics, Frosty The Snowman and Frosty Returns that is being pushed by the CBS network has many parents and other groups outraged for its voiced over content, and rightly so.

The offensive videos featured by CBS include clips from the original Frosty the Snowman and the sequel Frosty Returns voiced over by actors from the already controversial shows, How I Met Your Mother and Two and Half Men. In the voiced over clips “Frosty” is advocating pornography, violence, and other disturbing displays from a children's character including punching babies, public sex in front of children, and telling children that they need to purchase domination gear and go to strip bars. The dialogue is sexist, crude, offensive, and completely inappropriate. The voice overs are reported as being from CBS actors such as Neil Patrick Harris and others including Charlie Sheen.

The videos were created as an effort to promote CBS's airing of the two Frosty Christmas movies whose primary audience is, of course, young children which makes the ads even more offensive. This perversion of the holiday season and the children's movies has many up in arms and out raged at those at CBS responsible for the objectionable ads including the One Million Mom's campaign.

CBS's reputation has already came under fire as of late not only for the poor choices in offensive and non-family friendly programming but with the anger and controversy raised around David Letterman's insulting sexual remarks joking about the statutory rape in which he targeted Sarah Pallin's 14 year old daughter when he “joked” about her getting knocked up at the Yankees game by one of the players (which would be considered rape by state law), comments which have angered many who know that rape and child abuse is no joking matter and further adding to the sentiment that the minor children of political figures should be entirely off limits from pundits and comedians alike.

Now adding to the fuel of women's rights and children advocate groups who are already at odds with the network, this latest campaign from CBS is cutting at the heart of not only families but of Christmas itself. At a time when we are supposed to be reminded of the better side of human nature and of peace and good will, this corruption of a children's story displays only the worse and most offensive part of our current culture.

The content chosen by CBS executives up to this point has been questionable in some cases, derogatory and belittling and even right out offensive in others; but to taint the innocence of a child's wonder at Christmas is going too far and there are many who are making a point to let the network, and their advertisers know it.