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Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny (1972) - FROSTY FAILURE REVIEW

December 4, 2025·1 hr 3 min·10 clips

Michael E. Cullen II and Sesame open by naming Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny with very little mercy. They frame it as the start of holiday month and treat the pick like a punishment they are oddly glad to share. The conversation quickly settles into a steady roast of the film. A big stretch of the episode is spent on the Thumbelina section inside the movie, where they describe a child who grows from a planted seed into a fully grown teenager almost immediately. That strange leap becomes one of the episode's main targets. The hosts keep circling back to how much the movie skips over and how little it cares to explain itself. They also fixate on the odd, emotionless delivery that runs through the whole thing. The performances sound so flat that even simple declarations feel accidental. Michael and Sesame treat that deadpan tone as part of the joke. They laugh at the supposed tenderness of the story while pointing out how little warmth the movie actually has. Each time one plot problem gets unpacked, another one shows up right behind it. That gives the episode a loose, back-and-forth rhythm. The hosts correct themselves, double back, and keep adding to the pile of complaints. Their chemistry works because neither one tries to rescue the film. Instead, they let the mess stay messy and keep pulling jokes out of it. The discussion feels conversational rather than formal. Even when they are being mean, they stay rooted in what is actually on screen. They focus on the movie's tone, its pacing, and its baffling storytelling choices. The result is a long stare at one of the strangest holiday relics in the room. It works best as a shared exasperation session with two hosts who know exactly how broken the material is.

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A holiday roast of a Christmas oddity so broken that the jokes do half the work.

All Too Real 2 treats Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny like a broken holiday relic and spends the run picking it apart in real time. Michael E. Cullen II and Sesame keep the pace moving with disbelief, corrections, and jokes, and the Thumbelina detour gives them plenty to chew on…

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You want a holiday disaster you can laugh at.

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